David Penfold :verified:

EN DIRECT, budget 2026 : la suspension de la réforme des retraites approuvée par l’Assemblée nationale Sur les 505 députés votants, 401 se sont exprimés : 255 ont voté pour, et 146 ont voté contre. Se disant « très fier » de ce vote, Olivier Faure (PS) a parlé d’« une victoire importante, d’étape », critiquant à nouveau LFI, qui a voté contre la suspension.

Yay! I can retire with a full pension at maybe 66 years rather than 67!

https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2025/11/12/en-direct-budget-2026-la-suspension-de-la-reforme-des-retraites-debattue-a-l-assemblee-a-partir-de-15-heures_6653093_823448.html

@sundogplanets

- to a bunch of journalists

+ to a bunch of hitmen

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Yay! Arrivederci PayPal.

The image shows a vibrant display of the aurora borealis, featuring vivid red and green lights against a dark sky. Below, a landscape is visible with scattered city lights, suggesting it is an aerial view taken from an aircraft.

#Aurora ribbons from cockpit of a flight heading to Fort MacMurray #Alberta as major solar storm hits earth.

Today I'll be mostly stacking firewood and waiting for the X-Trail to get fixed. Luckily it's a lovely day.

There is a cardboard box with a half full wine glass standing on a IKEA-style drawing on the box - of a wine glass, followed by the steps 1 + 2 + 3 = a drawing of a bookshelf. On top, there is a text saying "If I'm reading the instructions correctly, after 3 glasses of wine, the bookshelf assembles itself.

Follow the #instructions

A graph showing incidents of elective wild wheel-running by species (mice is the vast majority, then slugs, rat, shrew, frog, snail" and photos of a mouse, a frog and a slug wheel running

Breaking news (to me): "If wheel running is indeed caused by captive housing, wild mice are not expected to use a running wheel in nature. This however, to our knowledge, has never been tested. Here, we show that when running wheels are placed in nature […]

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Old photograph of Robert Smalls, wearing a formal suit and what appears to be a bow tie. Its black and white, head and shoulders against an abstract background.

I think about this guy sometimes. His name is Robert Smalls. He escaped from slavery, with his family and with his escaped-slave crew, stole a warship filled with weapons from under the confederate's noses, turned it over, with intelligence to the US Navy […]

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@potterybyosa I got a pair of progressives where the main focal area was for the computer. Not recommended at all. You're best off just getting a cheaper pair for your computer work.

Apparently other types are more useful.

Much has been said about Musk's appalling social media posts. Joyce Carol Oates takes a moment to notice what he *doesn't* post.

FFTir Information aux licenciés - Incident FEDERATION FRANGAISE DE TIR Chéres licenciées, chers licenciés, Depuis l'incident concernant notre systéme d’'informations et notre premier message en date du 23 octobre, vous étes nombreux a nous avoir fait part de vos interrogations et adressé des demandes d'information. Beaucoup d’entre vous souhaitent connaitre la nature exacte des données qui ont pu étre compromises et savoir s'ils sont personnellement concernés. Nous le comprenons tout a fait et tenons encore une fois a nous excuser pour la géne gu'occasionne cette situation.

Oh, great. The French shooting federation has been hacked. What could possibly go wrong?

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is

"From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

How A Former Ukrainian TV Producer Built A Drone Unit That Destroyed $12 Billion Of Russian Equipment The exclusive story of how Pavlo Yelizarov went from TV talk-show producer to the creator of Ukraine’s premier military drone unit.

Article on the drone unit mentioned in the discussion

www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

@ZoidbergForPresident It's not about making you feel guilty or something like that, it's about freeing yourself from fossil fuels and the anti-renewables propaganda (if you've got a roof, for this specific example).

@ZoidbergForPresident Try reading some of the responses where I replied to less rude responses that were of the same vein. There are other options and even poor rural areas in Africa are getting solar plus storage. But, obviously, it's not an option for 100% of people.

@ZoidbergForPresident I screenshotted a pithy post, you massive helmet.

@aroundthehills their, there, they're.

@A_Minion Excellent 🎯

@davep || Big Oil is afraid that we can build our own power generation for individuals, towns and cities. It's processed on site, it requires no huge facilities, Doesn't require shipping and centralization of manufacture. Not to mention cheaper and getting more so. Many of the PV systems are […]

A TP-Link WiFi 6 AX1800 Smart WiFi Router (Archer AX20). The router is black, completely flat, with a very low profile, and six green lit lights in the front. There are four black antennas sticking straight up out of the back.

Wrote up some thoughts about the proposed ban on the sale of TP-Link devices in the US.

The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an […]

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the classic photo of me cradling baby Odin like I’m the mother saint of a new religion

me and Odin (bigger than me) at the dinner table

how it started / how it’s going

“someone called security” edition

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

@jonburkeUK You can’t afford a coal mine. You can’t afford a gas turbine. You can’t afford an oil rig. Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can. But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.

Vietnam deluge close to world record for highest daily rainfall

https://vietnam-aujourdhui.info/2025/11/09/vietnam-deluge-close-to-world-record-for-highest-daily-rainfall/

#VietnamNews #Climate #Flood #Typhoon #Vietnam

@DarthAstrius There are ways of slowly building up from a low base, such as the inexpensive two panel apartment ones.

@lednaBM Ooh, get the preppers onboard! You can take my panels from my cold dead hands... 🤪

@davep Seize the means of generation.

@jonburkeUK You can’t afford a coal mine. You can’t afford a gas turbine. You can’t afford an oil rig. Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can. But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.

"I asked chatgpt and..." without wishing to be rude, I cannot now take anything else you say remotely seriously

@LordCaramac @futurebird Indeed.

@futurebird if including a vector or something