The wild geese are back at 55°N, 4°W! I love it when they return. #climatediary

How to fight fascists online: https://youtu.be/XeHviTKEqSo?si=s939NDV5jC8On-hp&t=2505 "If you're for fighting Nazis, that's it. Keep focused on the anti-Nazi message, which is still really popular. You don't have to work only with groups that you agree with on everything. You can always work […]

Når det nylig har vært russiske droner i Romania og Polen, så er det jo ubehagelig at det nå kommer droner så tett på flyplassen både i København og Oslo samtidig at de stenges ned. @funkel skulle vært i Oslo nå, men flyet ble sendt til Bergen isteden. Litt for nervepirrende måte å avslutte […]

[Autism bullshit, enraged] Where the fuck did these fucking morons get the idea that Tylenol causes Autism?! What, they spin a fucking wheel and land on Tylenol?!?! They couldn't come up with a more plausible lie?! Oh the Amish have no Autism?! I beg to fucken differ! It's not like they're […]

Back to doing 4clojure problems. It was interesting to explore update, and also to find out that class names can totally serve as keys in maps in #clojure

I've six gate posts, each twelve years old, that are rotted through at ground level and need replaced. I could replace them with posts from my wood, which would be free, but would rot very quickly; or with commercial wooden gate posts like the ones I'm […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

So Larry Ellison, the 2nd richest man in the world... is now the owner of TikTokUSA. It's fine... everything is fine. #fascism #billionnaires #eattherich #democracy #larryellison […]

I'm going to introduce a new to me concept: #enfascisisation, to rhyme, rather bitterly, with @pluralistic's #enshittification. Enfascisisation is the process of making a society more vulnerable to #fascism#enshittification#enfascisisationespecially by spreading the belief that the triumph of fascism is inevitable. Thus when […]

@simon_brooke It was shocking and shameful.

"This week Britain has been dragged into a baffling display of pomp and pageantry, a celebration of military might and unimaginable wealth, staged in honour of the most heinous and half-witted leader in the Western world since the Second World War" […]

More true than ever. 💸

Just a reminder that the Washington Post fired its last black opinion columnist for criticizing bigotry and the news cycle barely lasted an afternoon

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."

"while the pen might be mightier than the sword, the wallet is mightier than the pen." — Ain't that the truth. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/20/journalist-40-years-forces-profession-power

With the help of wonderful people on this platform (thank you!), I've included a list in this article of some of the new outlets which are building a media that belongs to us and speaks for us. Something pretty exciting is happening, which could be transformative.

@christineburns This article by Toby Buckle us exceptionally good. Toby does a great job of describing the steep descent from the cross-party pro-trans consensus in 2017 to the Labour—Tory anti-trans consensus of 2025. Bridget Philipson is now set to create the UK's first overtly fascist legal […]

Idea: When talking to other programmers, when for some discussion some list-like data, try to casually use CAR and CDR. #lisp

Sawmilling in the rain. #Crofting #thejoyofcrofting

At a time when there is precious little reporting at all, this long read provides a deep dive into what our unexpectedly repressive Labour government is about to inflict on trans people. If accurate, the EHRC’s wet dream will create a state in which people who operate toilets for use by staff […]

@simon_brooke @juergen_hubert This is still a US-based service, but it is an anti capitalist cooperative. It may be useful for folks based in the USA: https://comradery.co/

OK, a sidequest on the #tricycle project: I'm going to have to do data capture, storage and display. I need to log speed, cadence, battery voltage, and some indicator of power consumption. I need to display at least speed, cadence, and projected range. I can do speed and cadence off hall effect […]

when you stare into the (void*)cat; and the void stares back

"Nearly a quarter of MPs and half of the House of Lords were privately educated, and that was also true of half of newspaper columnists – up 7 percentage points since 2019 – 47% of political commentators and 45% of podcasters" […]

The UK is (still) going backwards. "Since 2019, the number of privately educated elites has barely changed and in some fields is growing, the report found. The social mobility charity said it was a “disgrace” that most of the country’s top jobs were still dominated by privileged people" But of […]

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

It is essential for everyone to recognize that ABC didn't just fire Kimmel for daring to speak things that the Trump regime and its cult don't want spoken out loud. It was DISNEY that fired Kimmel. Disney owns ABC. The principal cowardice in this butchery of free speech belongs to Bob Iger, CEO.

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control. It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

PS⁴ and last thing about #Disney… for now: they make hand-over-fist money with #espn. you wanna boycott them? boycott ESPN ―including NBA.com and MLB.com, of which they also get a slice. y’all know how much i like my sports; but they know the last thing people will give up is their live […]

Question: Are there any services similar to #patreon that are based in the EU? I am increasingly uncomfortable with having such a huge chunk of my side income being reliant on a US-based company.

The four people who projected this #LedByDonkeys #Trump-#Epstein-#PrinceAndrew video on #WindsorCastle were arrested for it. The police said it was '"malicious communications". Fascist #rapist enabler of #genocide gets a state visit. But lads with a video […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Peter Mandelson is a man with a very long history of doing dodgy deals with the rich and infamous. He 'borrowed' £373,000 from someone he was supposed to be investigating for wrongdoing in 1996. He tried to fix a British passport for an Indian #billionaire in 2001. He hung out passim with […]

So, at last I have a rendering of the #Tricycle which includes a (so far fairly crude) model of the hull. This makes the whole thing much easier to visualise. Progress is being made. I'd like to get the CAD model a little more complete, but actually this is […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

I'll be speaking at the Stop Trump demo in Parliament Square today. A fascist autocratic clearly itching to declare martial law is not welcome here. share.google/sWEe8YGl3euj...

I haven't actually written a new blog post about the #Tricycle project, but I have greatly amended and extended the last one. #biketooter#tricycle https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2025-09-10-learning-from-cad/

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Advice please: what are the new local journalism outlets sticking it to power? I'm thinking of publications like the Bristol Cable, Inside Croydon and West Country Voices. Which others should be on the list? Thanks.

@simon_brooke But also. We lied to them that Covid was just a cold and did nothing to help them. They got infected repeatedly, with no vax. And they all know they're not the same person they were in the before times. And then there's Brexit. They didn't even get a vote but they still have to […]

I keep finding vapes chucked on the ground as I cycle around. I pick them up because they're toxic if left to degrade. I suppose this is one recycling option to consider: https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

@waldo.net Nuclear waste disposal not withstanding, the reason I think it makes no sense to build nuclear power plants is that wind & solar with batteries can be deployed at scale in a fraction of the time at lower cost (that's still decreasing) with far lower maintenance costs. There's no […]

#OMG... Elon Musk Delivers Ominous Message: "Violence is Coming".... GET READY FOR CIVIL WAR: Elon Musk sent a chilling message at a far-right rally in the UK on Saturday — warning the crowd that “violence is coming” and “you either fight back, or you die.” […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Why is is so hard for people to say these words?: Lough Neagh, the UK's biggest lake, is being killed by *livestock farms*.

#silentsunday in northern Scotland/Ecosse

All corruption, all the time in Trump world -- billions and billions of dollars of crytpocurrency "value" flowing into family wallets. Latest newsletter from the brilliant Molly White: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-92/

regardless of how you feel about EITHER "AI" or piracy, if they are successful in making it legal for facebook to pirate every book ever written to build an enormous company-stakes product, but illegal for me to pirate anything, that would be an unambiguous, unmistakable sign that everything in […]

Today I have been sharing my suspension rig with some rope friends. Here I'm doing a single Jesus Sandal suspension; I'm using natural hemp rope for the main wrap, for comfort, but using a synthetic strop to supplement the lift rope, for strength. #bdsm

I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing folk who received immense wealth working on web technologies over the last decades that have caused all sorts of harms lecturing others about using LLMs honestly