It's Friday! Woohoo!
Got caught up in unexpected work today, so this is a quick 'n' cheeky tweak to an existing dance, spookified in keeping with the season.
As ever, have a good weekend if you possibly can :HumphStomp:
And the winner of today's you park like an arse hole is...
This guy regularly parks like this is the same place
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/117450794612602277
Fascists will always try to debate things that aren't up for debate for people with a sense of humanity.
Accepting to debate with them is accepting there's a magical middle way between genocide and non-genocide that somehow wouldn't just be genocide but slower.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/117451795021248101
Something I've noticed when in the UK is the amount of products that list "Not for EU" on the packaging, those almost immediately go back on the shelves.
British food and drink exports to EU collapse by more than a third since Brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/16/british-food-drink-exports-to-eu-collapse-brexit
NFU analysis of official data shows falls in exports to UK’s largest trading partner since 2019 include 70% for sugar and 74% for egg products
Meta AI Admits and Explains Pro-Bolsonaro Manipulation
https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ai-admits-and-explains-pro-bolsonaro
“Trump and the Bolsonaros are the global political shield for big tech companies against the advance of European regulation and the Latin American left,” Meta AI chatbot tells Brazilian grad student
#OtD 16 Oct 1951 firefighters in Britain ignited an unofficial "spit and polish" strike against attacks on pay and conditions. The @FBU national dispute continued until the death of 3 firefighters assured full public support and authorities caved in https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8830/spit-and-polish-action
A container-full
New Drug Protects People With Celiac Disease From Gluten Damage in Clinical Trial
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-drug-protects-people-with-celiac-disease-from-gluten-damage-in-clinical-trial
#eleicoes2026 : “This week Laura Morgado, a graduate student at #Pernambuco Federal University #UFPE asked a #MetaAIchatbot to explain why the Meta corporation favors far right candidate #FlávioBolsonaro in Brazil’s October 25, second round presidential election election. Here is a translation of her analysis and the conversation as shared on Instagram.”
https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-ai-admits-and-explains-pro-bolsonaro
16 October is World Food Day, & 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘐𝘮𝘱 invites you to an all-you-can-eat literary feast of Scottish literature – from medieval health food to vegetarianism in contemporary fiction, via gender, folklore, oysters, cocktails & more!
May contain nuts.
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Delighted to add the St Magnus Way pilgrim route on Orkney to our app. Together with rewalked and rewritten guides to 25 other routes in the archipelago.
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/orkney/st-ma...
"My son killed himself after falling victim to an online scam. I heard it happen – and vowed to protect other children"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/14/brandon-guffey-gavin-killed-himelf-online-scam-sextortionist
Gavin Guffey was 17 when he was targeted by a ‘sextortionist’ on Instagram. His father Brandon has spent four years fighting for justice, and for social media companies to do more to safeguard young users
Big Tech has to be held to account!
These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead
https://www.propublica.org/article/domestic-violence-immigrant-victims-ice-detention
As a Canadian-British dual citizen, I am begging #Albertans to take my word for this.
The same forces who brainwashed so many people into voting for Brexit are drooling at the prospect of #Alberta voting for separation.
This is what they do: it's called divide and conquer. And while you might have many legitimate reasons to feel agrieved, isolation doesn't solve your problems. It exacerbates them greatly.
Brexit diminished the UK beyond imagining.
ROGUE AI
AI models under test broke into Indian organisations' live systems and read confidential records undetected, India's cybersecurity agency said, the country's first such official account after similar incidents of rogue AI behavior worldwide — Reuters
#AureFreePress #News #ai #india
Hungary’s Magyar meets Zelenskyy in bid to reset strained ties
https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/16/hungarys-magyar-meets-zelenskyy-in-bid-to-reset-strained-ties
Hungarian PM Péter Magyar held talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the European Council, seeking to normalise ties after Kyiv passed a minority-rights law and Budapest dropped objections to EU accession clusters.
BBC licence fee could extend to streaming services under ‘YouTube tax’ – report
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-10-16/bbc-licence-fee-could-extend-to-streaming-services-under-youtube-tax-report
The BBC licence fee will be extended to online streaming services such as YouTube and Netflix under new Government plans, it has been reported.
Humm, but won't Google and Netflix want their cut too...
crikey people. I know I _used_ to be a BSD and Mac sysadmin, back when I was saving up the money to turn into an academic, and learned how to use TeX in four Himalayan languages, and eventually became a real professor, and then not, and dumped Macs, and then became a gov't anthropologist, and I'm cleaning the Linux stains off everything now. So I kept the habit of running my own servers and all that, though with attitudes that are about 30 years out of date, and I would much rather learn a new script than scripting language these days. And I wrote and thought a lot about ethics, sentient beings, and technology along the way.
But seriously, I wake up and find that #NetBSD is now the only safe harbour? Whaaat? I really hope the idiots who are trying to poison FreeBSD go find their personal Epstein island or whatever they want really; it would be good to have a choice. Thank goodness for NetBSD at least but ungggh it's going to be a lot of work moving all the tools over.