Well, this is embarrassing. Looks like I finally cursed at Starlink enough that I finally opened up some kind of portal in VLEO right over my barn. Sorry everybody! I promise I'll help clean up.

I think this means most corporate and private jets can't use LAX...or a bunch of the major airports in the US today. #avgeek? https://nasstatus.faa.gov/ #uspol #avgeek

@stacey_campbell And now half of southeastern Melbourne is now basically named in honour of John Monash. A major university, a freeway, several hospitals, libraries, a whole city council, and more...

It's Remembrance Day in Australia. Likely not well known is that Australia's participation in hostilities in the Great War ended over a month before that, on 5 October 1918, with the Battle of Montbrehain. My grandmother's older brother, William Griffin, died of his wounds that day. Lt Gen […]

Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. #uspol #democrats #senate

Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. #uspol #democrats #senate

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/115519732891300907 'And so, after consulting with friends a little more media-seasoned than I, and exchanging some emails with the [New York Times] reporter laying out what I was and wasn’t interested in speaking about, I agreed to an interview. I did this […]

This map of EV adoption is not market share of vehicle sales. It shows what proportion of vehicles on the state's roads are EVs. More than one out of every twenty on California's roads is already an EV and that is only going to go up as more and more Americans decarbonize their lives.

I just went to see if the Sam Merrill Trail was back open after the Eaton Fire. It isn't, and there's a enraging banner on the US Forest web page along with that status. I'll be glad to see the end of the Trump regime, and all the grifters and idiots that have glommed on to it. #trump #uspol […]

RE: https://aus.social/@stacey_campbell/115137471467286109 Re-upping my delicious meal in Washington DC from back in September. It's a bit late for National Sandwich Day (3 Nov 2025), but it feels like we should kick it up to National Sandwich Month.

Gotta love The Guardian for those quotes from Europeans on #mamdani's win in NYC: "Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal." “Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his […]

One of the officials attending the GLP-1 announcement collapses in the Oval Office and the press pool is hastily ushered out of the room.

Things are starting to get gnarly in US airspace. https://nasstatus.faa.gov/

@ai6yr This is heartbreaking. It just made me cry. #makeamerica1929again

I'm getting the vibe that the Trump-tanic has hit the iceberg and is slowly taking on water. Prepare for the rats to start abandoning ship. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/senate-vote-trump-brazil-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.9I37.jmA1aSSHKk5W&smid=url-share #uspol […]

Every time I get yet another unsolicited credit card application in the snail mail I'm reminded of Rob Cockerham's adventure with a ripped up credit card application as documented at his Web 1.0 site. It's an absolute classic in the genre of credit card fuckery in the United States. [Yes, I'm […]

Rode from Bordeaux to the coast yesterday, then back again today. Very good bike paths here, well maintained & they're building more.

Everyone who was around in 2000 watching the current tech stock situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Bursting_the_bubble #nvidia #tesla

The Stevenson Ranch Davidians - No Tomorrow https://thedavidians.bandcamp.com/track/no-tomorrow

Oh dear, the New York Times is having conniptions about this Mamdami situation. So much pearl clutching. The end is nigh! lol #uspol #zohranmamdani #brokentimes #nytimes

A bit of green fuzz on the morning walk thanks to that big storm a few weeks ago.

Candy all gone at 7:45pm. Porch light off. #halloween

Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Nosedive Under President Trump https://consequence.net/2025/10/kennedy-center-ticket-sales-nosedive-trump/ #ettd #trump #uspol

[Halloween boomer outburst] [Long rant about the absence of Halloween in Australia through the 20th Century deleted.]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@KatCopseyGreens/115455914502696087 Replace the horses with their millionaire and billionaire owners. Jockey on the back with a whip. Strict limits on the number of whippings the owner can receive during a race, say 50, we're not animals. Same 3,200m distance […]

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the […]

I'm getting the vibe that the Trump-tanic has hit the iceberg and is slowly taking on water. Prepare for the rats to start abandoning ship. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/senate-vote-trump-brazil-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.9I37.jmA1aSSHKk5W&smid=url-share #uspol […]

Eight years ago today, while in the Trump motorcade, I saw a bicyclist give the bird to the president’s vehicle. I tweeted an AFP photographer’s picture of Juli Briskman. It went viral. She got fired. Then she got elected […] [Original post on journa.host]

This Celebrini kid seems to know what he's doing. #hnom #sjsharks

Pentangeli: I don't like this C-note, Rosato. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE8.v6kl.AMh07zceThdr&smid=url-share

@aj @stacey_campbell They’re apparently working on pedestrianising the entirety of Oxford St. Since congestion charging a decade or two ago, car traffic in central London has decreased sharply. They had a plan a few mayors ago for trams going between somewhere around Trafalgar Square and King’s […]

@stacey_campbell Westminster Bridge should be closed to car traffic, given the massive number of tourists on foot in the area. London in general would be better served bringing back trams and closing many streets to cars.

RE: https://aus.social/@stacey_campbell/115282888022231191 Trump’s Tantrum Over Accurate Reagan Quotes Backfires: Millions Learn Reagan Opposed His Tariff Policy […]

[President "Deal" Trump] Just a quick reminder, the standard outcome of any Trump "deal" is for everything to go to shit. #uspol

UK korma is full of sugar, like ice cream. Americans, you have been warned.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115417448900001464 Everywhere this nonsense caught on ...

Yes, I know it's not #caturday, but this is going on outside on a Tuesday. Every now and then a hand briefly appears at that window and tosses out a chip.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danielbowen/115410752520374806 Daniel Bowen has linked to an annual snapshot of how residents of Melbourne, Australia feel about their city and its future. It's a fascinating and frustrating read for me as a resident of Los Angeles. Especially the sections on […]

[President "Deal" Trump] RE: https://aus.social/@stacey_campbell/115401682486055851 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly9kvrdk2xo

It's International Smug Self-Hosters Day! Best wishes to all who celebrate.

[President "Deal" Trump] Just a quick reminder, the standard outcome of any Trump "deal" is for everything to go to shit. #uspol

Remember when Bolton sniffed around for a job in Trump's first term, shut down the Global Health Security pandemic team in 2018, and urged Trump to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Agreement? Yeah, me too. #uspol #trump #johnbolton #bolton

Out on the wily, windy moors We'd roll and fall in green...

Sharkies snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, two in a row. #sjsharks #hnom

[Prop 50 Trump uspol] A bunch of Republican, Republican-lite, and centrists Dems have told me to vote NO on Prop 50. Prop 50 is unseemly they say. Unseemly is disappearing parents when they're picking up their kids from school. Unseemly is taking a giant bribe 747 from Qatar. Unseemly is a […]

My grandfather signed up for the Australian anti-fascist effort in 1942. He was 38 years old and had a young family at home. His job had been as a boiler attendant at the local repatriation hospital, and as a result he got transferred to the Australian Army […] [Original post on aus.social]

Microsoft just emailed their $30 offer to keep patching security holes in Windows 10, otherwise I get cut loose. Yahoo directed that message to the spam folder for my ye-olde yahoo dot com email account. Good times.

Fall is happening so hard here. Gotta enjoy it, the colours will probably be mostly gone within a week!

[Fascism, Chicago] Chicago Sun Times: "Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed" […]