#Spotted at a Vintage Christmas Market in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A woman (50s?) in a floral dress wraps her arm around her friend's waist, grinning cheekily: "Shall we go in the shop over there and gasp at the prices?"
Her friend laughs: "Yes!"
They wander off, heads bowed together.

A dapper young human (11?) is promenading along in a bowler hat, waistcoat, tie, suit jacket, ironed jeans and shiny black shoes.
He's got a walking stick in one hand and his other is looped through Nan's arm.
Her pretty polka dot dress fluttering in the breeze.
Charm personified.

A small human (4?) is perusing bouquets of flowers with a critical eye.
Finally she chooses one, pays from an embroidered change purse, then kisses it with great ceremony before handing it to her farm gear and gumboot wearing Dad.
Dad taken off guard, eyes watering, picks her up for a big hug.

A small human (3?) is walking across a paddock carpark towards the market, holding Mum's hand.
Speaking in careful, optimistic tones he says: "Mum, when we get there do you want an ice cream or a pancake? I think you should have the ice cream."

A woman (70s?) reaches over a fence to pat a very hairy black yak. In return she gets a generous lick on the hand and laughs, saying to her friend. "Look at all that snot! Oh well, it'll wash off." She gives the yak an affectionate look and they wander off. (Continued Below)

🇩🇪✅ GESCHAFFT: Verpflichtende #Chatkontrolle durch die Hintertür verhindert!🎉 Ein Riesenerfolg & DANKE an alle! 🙏

Aber ⚠️: Geplant sind weiter anonymitätszerstörende Alterskontrollen & freiwillige Massenscans. Der Kampf geht nächstes Jahr weiter!

chatkontrolle.de

Kanaďani jsou hrdí uživatelé metrického systému...teda krom výjimek, kterých je tak půlka.

Takže ve skutečnosti žiju ve vtipu (to je asi z toho, jak jsem se celý život vyhýbal Brnu)

Good lord. This is right out of a scene from North Korea.

This is tonight, Friday, November 14, 2025

#Fascism #Resist #Revolution #USPOL

Wizard of the Other Oz (ft. Pierson) - Studio C

"Dorothy (Pierson) finds herself in the wrong Oz, one where the wizard (Dalton) and witch (Aleta) only speak in Aussie slang."

youtube.com/watch?v=1nRC9Cpi43…

Wizard of the Other Oz (ft. Pierson) - Studio C

Dorothy (Pierson) finds herself in the wrong Oz, one where the wizard (Dalton) and witch (Aleta) only speak in Aussie slang.Please enjoy this sneak peek sket...

^YouTube

LES PETITS TRACAS DE PIERRE-ÉDOUARD STÉRIN : DETTES, NUL EN AFFAIRE, DÉTESTÉ DU GRAND PUBLIC, SON EMPIRE RÉACTIONNAIRE S'EFFONDRE

La rentrée 2025 est rude pour Pierre-Édouard, qui voit ses Nuits du Bien commun chahutées, sa villa envahie, et son business en grande difficulté.

Notre article à lire ici : contre-attaque.net/2025/11/14/…

#PPOD: This new JWST picture features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 — the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars. Planetary nebulae like the Red Spider Nebula form when ordinary stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives. Credit: ESA, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)

#space #science

I live in a house with large open spaces carved up by some alcoves, columns and protrusions. I'm told on occasions that it looks quite attractive.

but as I, a #blind person, miscalculate while bending down to pick something up and yet again catch my head on another bit of pointless wall, I'm reminded how truly subjective design preferences are.

🐓 Vstávej! Je krásná sobota, škoda ji prospat! 😊

Už jsi vzhůru? Tak hezký víkend. 😍

"The Gentrifiers of Cattan"

Sounds like a funny table top game.

I remember my own experiments with “AI” a long time ago. It could be fun (AI Dungeon, anyone?) even if it couldn’t produce reliable results. But it was also extremely inefficient. Like: even on a GPU, producing a single moderately long response would occupy the entire GPU for seconds! Meanwhile my web server can handle thousands of parallel requests on much cheaper hardware and with a fraction of the power usage. So surely nobody would attempt this at scale…

I clearly underestimated the industry’s dedication to burning money and resources (often enough literally) while chasing the newest fad. investor.nexteraenergy.com/new…

NextEra Energy and Google Announce New Collaboration to Accelerate Nuclear Energy Deployment in the U.S.

Duane Arnold Energy Center restart to strengthen American energy grid resilience; Iowa's only nuclear facility is targeted to be fully operational by the first quarter of 2029 Project expected to create approximately 400 direct, high-quality full-tim…

^{www.investor.nexteraenergy.com}

I just donate to the @gnome project / foundation. This time I could only manage 10USD! But please if you can spare some money! Support one or more #opensource projects! It does actually make a difference!

#gnome #foss #moneyinopensource

"Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn't get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away.

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.

Yes, really.

As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy by targeting VPNs in the name of “protecting children” in A.B. 105/S.B. 130. It’s an age verification bill that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivably be deemed “sexual content” to both implement an age verification system and also to block the access of users connected via VPN. The bill seeks to broadly expand the definition of materials that are “harmful to minors” beyond the type of speech that states can prohibit minors from accessing—potentially encompassing things like depictions and discussions of human anatomy, sexuality, and reproduction.

This follows a notable pattern: As we’ve explained previously, lawmakers, prosecutors, and activists in conservative states have worked for years to aggressively expand the definition of “harmful to minors” to censor a broad swath of content: diverse educational materials, sex education resources, art, and even award-winning literature."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawm…

#VPNs #AgeVerification #CyberSecurity #Privacy #DigitalRights

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and…

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.