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  1. Free open-source collection of web utilities for color conversion, image editing, typography, calculators and QR codes, with no login, registration or intrusive ads alternativeto.net/software/del

  2. The key components of #RFKJr's push to "study" injuries from #vaccines are "built in a way that will increase the number of recorded injuries whether or not actual injuries rise." In other words, it's another #antivax scam.
    cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vacci

  3. "Media in the time of genocide" - Francesca Albanese

    Israel uses 3 media patterns:

    1 Systematic ­killing of ­Palestinian journalists

    2 Its regime of ­propaganda & censorship

    3 Complicity from global media that amplify Israeli narratives & silence Palestinians

    Re 3, the BBC, eg, wrongly calls Gaza "disputed territory" & obscures Palestinian suffering by repeating unverified Israeli claims, omitting historical context, etc

    israelpalestinenews.org/damnin

    #USPol #EUPol #UN #news #Palestine #Gaza .

  4. Discover the serenity of Lan Ha Bay with a cruise! Kayak through hidden lagoons & towering karst islands. Located right near popular . backpackandsnorkel.com/Vietnam

  5. Microsoft offers a quarter of its global workforce (60k) voluntary buyouts as AI spending accelerates:

    apnews.com/article/microsoft-b

  6. The Federal Bureau of Investigation announces they have arrested nine people as part of an international operation targeting cybercrime scam centers in and identifies $11 million in funds across multiple countries.

    newsasfacts.com/news/163266

  7. Trump is profiting off of your gas pump misery

    Honestly, it really isn’t surprising at this point to learn that President Donald Trump is making mad money off of his dumb war with Iran, because Trump doesn’t do anything right now that doesn’t line his pockets.

    dailykos.com/stories/2026/10/2

  8. The role of the scientist is to search for the truth, not attempt to prove a belief. In Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, the young wanderer, Govinda, is cautioned not to go looking for something but rather to find what is there ("... as a result of your seeking you cannot find"). Science has strict processes for judging what constitutes knowledge. An individual's musings constitute only the beginning, the creation of hypotheses. Testing of hypotheses, followed by peers' careful evaluation and rigorous critiques, may ultimately lead to theories. A scientific theory is not "just" a theory; it represents a very high level of knowledge acquisition. Religious belief is different.
    -- Philip B. Carter (American Scientist (May 2007))

    ⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PhilipBCarter #Belief #Religion #Science #Truth

    ⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #Canoe #Minnesota

  9. 📍 91 km ENE of Pamandzi, Mayotte
    🕐 Mon 26 Oct 2026 22:33 UTC
    🌍 M4.5 Earthquake 🟢 Light
    📊 Magnitude: 4.5
    📏 Depth: 10 km — Shallow
    🗺️ -12.4943, 46.0676

    🔗 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake

    #Earthquake #Seismic #EarthAlerts #DisasterAlert #BreakingNews #Environment #Nature #Science #Survival #Pamandzi #Mayotte

  10. A cyberattack forced University of New Mexico Health to divert ambulances and cancel appointments at more than 30 clinics across New Mexico, disrupting care at the state's only Level I trauma center. The system advised people with emergencies to call emergency services and asked patients to delay nonemergency care until further notice.

    UNM says officials are working to resolve the issue, but it has not announced a timetable for restoring normal patient services. Its public notice does not establish whether systems were encrypted or patient information was accessed.

    #UNMHealth #Cyberattack #AmbulanceDiversion #HealthCare #NewMexico #ServiceDisruption

    dysruptionhub.com/unm-health-n

  11. #PennedPossibilities 1166: Would any of your characters actually survive a “zombie” apocalypse?

    In-universe, zombie (🧟 🧟‍♀️ 🧟‍♂️) would be defined as ordinary humans infected by a saliva-vector communicative disease akin to a rabies-leprosy on steroids that turns people into shambling demented cannibals with rotting skin and a taste for uncured head cheese? That kind of describes most depictions of zombies, doesn't it?

    First factor: None of the characters would be statistically likely to be near the initial outbreak where the spread begins.

    Second factor: Health Services is a big agency that oversees the health and safety of the entire population. With modern communication, outbreaks would be caught and understood in days.

    Third factor: The climate is extremely hot, night and day. Without available water and the intelligence to drink it and find shelter during deadly heat, zombies become mummies pretty quickly, limiting the outbreak automatically.

    Fourth factor: Shambling by definition isn't flying, so angel zombies aren't spreading the disease worldwide. Rabies-like symptoms will prevent daemonic zombies from performing miracle-work (not explaining) that could negate their shambling disability.

    The characters all live in the city, have it on the ball, and, for factors above, the apocalypse will either exhaust itself or become a "controlled outbreak" quickly. I suspect the constabulary would work to contain it, with whistles being distributed to civilians and day angels patrolling the skies. The characters would all avoid being bitten or being chewed up. Daemons can make zombie capture completely hands-free.

    The reporter SC and the MC, who is also a photographer working with him, would be in the most danger since they would be reporting on the outbreak.

    [Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

    #BoostingIsSharing

    #gender #fiction #writer #author
    #cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
    #writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
    #RSdiscussion
    #RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

  12. I was unaware of the Wrocław Dwarves; it was a nice surprise to learn of them when we arrived in #Wrocław. We didn’t attempt to find them all, but we had fun. Usually I post to pixey.org/, which is down temporarily; enjoy the last 13 dwarves of the series. Posted using my Fediverse tool Vedfolnir, vedfolnir.org/.
    📍 Wroclaw, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
    📅 2026-09-13

    #BronzeStatue #Firefighters #PublicArt #UrbanScene #GreenWall

  13. How a ”friend of Putin” strengthened his influence after Bosnia and Herzegovina’s elections and what to expect byteseu.com/2478451/ #Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #BosniaHerzegovina #Herzegovina

  14. Just consuming this bit of tasty #BBCmicro history, in which two uni students create the first "true" #3D game (defined in the video as "xyz tracking for player and all objects," differentiating from contemporaries like Battlezone and the arcade Star Wars, which were 3D vector graphics, but gameplay was "on rails").

    Just as fascinating to me, an 8-bit kid but not from the UK, is the short history of the BBC Micro itself. True public service. Good job, 1970s BBC.

    But having spent considerable time in the 90s playing Xwing, Tie Fighter, etc, this story of what was done on a system with the same CPU as the C64, at the time, is really quite mindblowing.

    I will probably have more thoughts about this but gotta get chorin'

    youtube.com/watch?v=lC4YLMLar5I

    edit: ok two quick thoughts

    First off, this video includes the line "that resistor simulates an engineer's finger on the board - it wouldn't boot without it, and to this day nobody knows exactly what it does."

    Also, I find the graphics, particularly the edges, fascinating. This machine didn't have "fuzzy logic" about whether to light a pixel or not, and I think the edges of objects, the weird details, reveal some kind of extremely lean rendering routines.

  15. 📣 New release of @responsive-image/solid adds support for the upcoming new major release 2.0 of
    SolidJS!

    Despite the breaking changes, the same stable package supports both majors. Use it now in your v1 app, with no additional work needed when you migrate to v2. ✨

    Thanks to @jaroel for this contribution! 🙏

    responsive-image.dev/

  16. 🏒🥅 🇨🇦 Arpon Basu of The Athletic, on the Habs v Jets Heritage Classic, Danault, and more.

    ps. Basu is becoming a favourite Habs pundit for this fan.

    #podcast #Habs #hnom #nhl #hockey #Canadiens #montreal @hnom

    podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/

  17. 📍 20 km NNW of La Ligua, Chile
    🕐 Mon 26 Oct 2026 20:52 UTC
    🌍 M4.6 Earthquake 🟢 Light
    📊 Magnitude: 4.6
    📏 Depth: 47.7 km — Shallow
    🗺️ -32.2811, -71.3014

    🔗 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake

    #Earthquake #Seismic #EarthAlerts #DisasterAlert #BreakingNews #Environment #Nature #Science #Survival #LaLigua #Chile

  18. 📍 89 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines
    🕐 Mon 26 Oct 2026 20:41 UTC
    🌍 M4.5 Earthquake 🟢 Light
    📊 Magnitude: 4.5
    📏 Depth: 75.1 km — Intermediate depth
    🗺️ 5.6361, 126.5418

    🔗 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake

    #Earthquake #Seismic #EarthAlerts #DisasterAlert #BreakingNews #Environment #Nature #Science #Prepping #Pondaguitan #Philippines

  19. Finished season 4 of the Diplomat. This show loves cliffhangers and leaves us with a good one at the end of Season 4. This show is still going strong and is amoung the shows I'm most looking forward to for the next season.

    #Diplomat #Netflix

  20. "The state of Israel is committed to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. These are facts. The question now is, so what do we do those facts?" - Tareq Baconi, author

    "There is no good version of the project. Like there was no good slavery. Just like there was no good segregation." - Ta-Nehisi Coates, author

    Landmark conversation between Coates, Baconi and Nesrine Malik at London's Southbank Centre last week.

    Full event: youtube.com/watch?v=652EVCK1UoQ

    #Palestine #Israel #Zionism

  21. There is no principle of anarchy that denies the right of free contract, and have I not a right to contract with others to live with them under the principles of communism?
    -- Joseph Labadie

    #anarchism #quote #bot

  22. 📍 98 km S of Encounter Bay, Australia
    🕐 Mon 26 Oct 2026 21:18 UTC
    🌍 M4.7 Earthquake 🟢 Light
    📊 Magnitude: 4.7
    📏 Depth: 10 km — Shallow
    🗺️ -36.4594, 138.5321

    🔗 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake

    #Earthquake #Seismic #EarthAlerts #DisasterAlert #BreakingNews #Environment #Nature #Science #OffGrid #EncounterBay #Australia

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