Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

From @pbump: “Musk didn’t really want Twitter. That is, he didn’t want the site as it was, the tool that hundreds of millions of people had signed up for and installed on their phones. He didn’t like that tool! But he did like those millions of users, so he decided to gut the company and build a new one on that user base.” Dead on. He bought a glorified mailing list. Gift link: https://wapo.st/46julPW

David McCallum and Diana Rigg, 1989.

Art Prints here: https://joseph-giacalone.pixels.com/featured/snow-covered-in-yellowstone-national-park-joseph-s-giacalone.html

Nature's magic at Yellowstone National Park!

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Autumn Impressions

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It's like we all know he has the impulse control of a toddler. But even so I'd still have given him more credit than ROUTINELY behaving like a two-year-old in a high chair.

Just to make absolutely sure they are destroying any chance the U.K. has of entering the 21st century, the government are now selling off all the land where the HS2 high speed rail link was planned.

This used to be a serious country.

#UKPolitics
#HS2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67015663

Vibrant red lantana petals glisten in sunlight, intricate details and warm hues creating a stunning, sun-kissed floral portrait.

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'Would break liberal brains': Trump mulls trip to D.C. to discuss entering speaker race https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2665805451/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Mastodon pilot has a chance to win open source award

At the beginning of this year, SURF and its members started the pilot project social.edu.nl. There is a growing need for a social community platform of and for the whole of Dutch education and research. At the same time, we want this platform to be based on the public values we ourselves advocate.

https://www.surf.nl/en/news/mastodon-pilot-has-a-chance-to-win-open-source-award

Vote:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/osor-community-award-2023-voting#vote

Twitter/X is now removing headlines from links and Threads/Meta is prohibiting searches of public health terms like Covid and vaccines.

Billionaires are dangerously restricting people’s access to news.

Look, if you're going to hook up your customer support to a robot, don't bother. Just put a big image of a middle finger on your customer support page. You'll piss off fewer customers.

Amazon and Microsoft to face cloud computing competition probe - The competition watchdog is investigating the tech giants' cloud computing dominance. - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67006359?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

The High Court has granted Liberty permission to take legal action against Suella Braverman for unlawfully introducing new anti-protest legislation which had been democratically rejected by Parliament.
#news #humanrights

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/court-grants-permission-for-liberty-legal-action-against-home-secretary/

FIFA has lifted lifted its ban on players from the Russian terrorist state.

After a brief respite, victims of Russian aggression will once again have to compete as peers with their tormentors.

FIFA is wholly corrupt and evil.

I love photographing abandoned buildings. There is always so much character and beauty if you can see behind the dilapidation. I loved the colors and textures in this shot.

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Everyone posting this title, and it's excellent, but alas we especially need to heed the last paragraph of the article. #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/05/gobsmackingly-bananas-scientists-stunned-by-planets-record-september-heat