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Wall Street Journal: "Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement."

All of that very important work is not being done, because Trump diverted all of those law enforcement […]

I've been enjoying a few good Polish TV programs this past year, and finished another good one last night: Murderesses.

Good characters, tight action sequences, baddies, corruption, a dysfunctional family mystery. Excellent […]

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It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

painted picture of the Egyptian cat headed goddess Bastet sittng cross legged at a pot with burning incense

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The Offing by Benjamin Myers. An illustration of a seaside bay on a summer's day in a kind of mid-century style that I forget the name of.

Ahhh Benjamin Myers is really good. Beautifully written book about the friendship between a young man from a mining village and an older bohemian woman who broadens his horizons (not like that). Exemplary characterisation and beautiful language. Also quite a lot […]

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Tolkien writing the moral decay of kingdoms and their eventual decline: they destroyed the forests and cut down our trees.

Tolkien writing the moral decay of male characters specifically and their eventual decline: He stopped listening to his wife.

#LordOfTheRIngs #Bookstodon #ListenToMelian […]

I love it that everyone loves a #supermoon. Tonight is the night so #DoLookUp!

Fine print: this astronomical event comes with a expectation-management disclaimer:
*The Supermoon is only 15% brighter than a normal full moon and I personally can not tell the difference 🤔
*Every moon is SUPER🔭🥳

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid - I absolutely love this for him. Good job my dude

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/07/nobel-committee-unable-to-reach-medicine-prize-winner-hiking-off-grid

Hollywood Burbank Airport without air traffic controllers Monday night due to staffing shortages The Hollywood Burbank Airport will be operating without air traffic controllers on Monday night, which could create considerable delays for travelers.

California’s governor says Hollywood-Burbank airport has no air traffic controllers this evening due to the federal government shutdown. https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/hollywood-burbank-airport-without-air-traffic-controllers-government-shutdown/

Like the flu shot, the Covid vaccine doesn't necessarily stop a person from getting infected with the virus. But it does reduce the chances of severe illness, hospitalization or death.

Get your COVID-19 and flu shots. I got mine. Protect yourself, and others. It's the right thing to do.

Photo of me standing in front of myki gates under a sign that reads "State Library Station"

Obligatory photo at the myki gates in the brand new State Library Station just before heading down to the platforms

#MelbourneTrains #Melbourne #PublicTransport #Transit

Machine Pun Kelly F— @kellyscaletta.bsky.social Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary. October 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM © Everybody can reply 3.5K reposts 216 quotes 11K likes 99 saves

#ShamelesslyStolenFromBlueSky

https[:]//bsky.app/profile/kellyscaletta.bsky[.]social/post/3m2drr6fsvc2i

Journalists taking Trump at face value are too gullible for words Gullible journalism helped Trump turn Project 2025 into a living nightmare for America.

Journalists taking Trump at face value are too gullible for words https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/journalists-taking-trump-at-face-value-are-too-gullible-for-words,20240?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #Auspol

Publisher of famous Soviet newspaper Pravda falls to his death from a seventh-floor window

why do the window designers in #russia keep creating such dangerous products?

#defenestration #defenestrate #putin #vladimirputin #windows #window #ukraine #ukrainewar #oligarch #oligarchs #sadoligarch #pravda #VyacheslavLeontyev #Leontyev

Photo of press release titled "the metro tunnel will open in December - one year early".

Photo of second page of press release

Photo of information sheet called "The Metro Tunnel is opening in early December"

Photo of Summer Start timetable for the Metro Tunnel

Lots of new Metro Tunnel announcements from the Premier and Minister for Public Transport at today's media launch!

Partial launch in early December (pending rail safety regulator signoff) with full service starting 10 February 2026. This includes changes to train […]

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The US Administration is now pressuring News organizations to actively change news articles written by reporters.... including ones that own *Canadian* newspapers (including my own Alberni Valley News!)

This is a cancer that has to be stopped!

Thank goodness for independent sources like the […]

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

You can’t get anti-institutionalists to trust an institution
https://www.pbump.net/o/you-cant-get-anti-institutionalists-to-trust-an-institution/

Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.

Discovered that www.ecosia.org search gives results that are more like the mid-2000s when the internet still worked. I've started using it as my main search, not for the tree planting thing but because it's the best search.

“we will not publish content created solely by AI, and we disclose any public-facing use of AI.”

This is a good policy for the new MSNBC newsroom (they are migrating away from shared news gathering with NBC).

They are still willing to use AI “when they can improve our journalism” but use is […]

I wonder if the potential exists for a service that manually fact checks professional reports for AI hallucinations?

Losing Streak Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

Watching 4 Corners on Gambling endemic in AUS.

I am ashamed of the Albanese Gov for not implementing the Peta Murphy Report ‼️‼️‼️

#auspol #StopGamblingAdvertising
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Intimidating behaviour towards bookshop owners on the rise – BA survey More than half of bookshop owners responding to a survey by the Booksellers Association say they have noticed an increase in intimidating behaviour towards themselves or their staff.

"We get it from both sides." UK booksellers are facing increased intimidation & harassment. We spoke to bookshops about their experience, coinciding with the launch of an eye-opening survey by the Booksellers Association:
www.thebookseller.com/news/intimid... #BannedBooksWeekUK @thebookseller.com

String of Correctly Spelled Texts from Trump Fuels Speculation That he is Dead The texts were the work of someone with at least a seventh-grade education.

😜 String of Correctly Spelled Texts from Trump Fuels Speculation That he is Dead

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/string-of-correctly-spelled-texts

Melusine in her bath. Thüring von Ringoltingen, Melusine, Germany 1468. Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs 4028, fol. 50r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Melusine in her bath. Thüring von Ringoltingen, Melusine, Germany 1468. Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs 4028, fol. 50r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

Josh Crowley (sp?) @jdcrowley If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.