It's poker night on the Enterprise! Take your seat at the table.

Does Green Day Do Weddings?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TrO0elgCNB4&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Video @video-WIRED

So in my home state in Germany there is a forest on fire, the largest wildfire in the history of North Rhine-Westfalia.
Size wise nothing compared to what we see here in the US, but there is a little quirk: firefighters have to be extra cautious and can't access all areas, because of WWII ammunition, mines and grenades that still are in the soil.
I remember hiking that general area with my parents in the 1980s and occasionally finding rifle rounds.
Wars have long lasting consequences.

@maxleibman Just going to leave this here

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/study-remote-work-narcissism-9.7275176

New Yorkers are a cheap date. All you need to do is say you love our terrible sports teams, fill some potholes, clean some graffiti and say someone will help with the kids and everyone goes nuts.

Anyway this is communism. I hope you are all happy.

I hate it when I try to sleep but it’s still 2026

@sunumbral it's like Twin Peaks but with happy trees

Friend sent me this screenshot of one of our favorite beaches, the colors are crazy.

On the wall of my office; the thing I'm proudest of helping build at Wikimedia Foundation. <3

Surprising good news from 🇫🇷 !

"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"

🔗 : https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/08/14/france-s-constitutional-council-strikes-down-ban-on-social-media-for-under-15s_6756507_13.html

"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."

Wow! I was not expecting this at all.

#privacy #AgeVerification #France

@MaddieM4 @troy_frizzell I dug in a little more and found a few other interesting factoids about Playboy / Hugh Hefner:
1. The first short story he ran in the magazine was a SFF that had been refused elsewhere about a straight man constantly discriminated against by a homosexual society. When readers complained that it was wrong to portray a heterosexual being discriminated against, he responded that it's exactly as wrong in reverse – ie, he was a very early advocate for gay rights.
2. Someone recommended he call his centerfolds "Playthings." He replied that women weren't things, but equal partners, including in bed, and so named them "Playmates."
3. Playboy was the first mainstream men's magazine to feature a trans female centerfold.
4. The foundation Hefner started funded the distribution of the newly invented "rape kit" that made it easier for women to identify and convict their male assailants.

Again, I'm not saying he wasn't a creepy weirdo by the end of his life, but definitely a more interesting and less terrible guy than I realized!

@msbellows @troy_frizzell This is a *fascinating* read. Playboy was a bit before my time and always something I wrote off as being for a different demographic than me, so it's surprising to see how much political common ground I have with Hef of all people. Certainly not all, but I think there are really important positive aspects of the Playboy Philosophy that came true in mainstream culture beyond the formal political victories like abortion rights and support for single mothers.

It's something I consider important for my politics that I present myself as a package deal of traits that aren't constrained by puritanism. I write software, and about software. I was raised in a cult. I take a lot of nature photos. I'm too disabled to work, but getting fit at the same time in ways I didn't think I could. And I'm a pansexual lesbian dominatrix in a polycule. That intentional framing isn't actually that different from the multidimensional humanized framing of Playmates, which I just... did not know.

After getting robbed of his $4 by the desperate child of deported immigrants, #IHopeJohnRoberts continues walking back in the direction of his hotel, hungry after not having eaten anything all day, and then two blocks later comes across a tiny lunch joint advertising brisket sandwiches for $4, but he doesn't have his $4 anymore so he just keeps trudging along being hungry.

I don't follow UK politics, but who the heck is "Count Binface", who apparently was a close contender in an election?!?!?

Count Binface to perform at Fringe after by-election defeat

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx71zwyyd9o

#ukpol

The professor is absolutely correct 🔥

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

how is it you are an adult and yet you do not know to mute yourself on Teams

After getting robbed of his $4 by the desperate child of deported immigrants, #IHopeJohnRoberts continues walking back in the direction of his hotel, hungry after not having eaten anything all day, and then two blocks later comes across a tiny lunch joint advertising brisket sandwiches for $4, but he doesn't have his $4 anymore so he just keeps trudging along being hungry.

It's not just young Democrats who like lefty candidates (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-14-dem-party-divide-young-old
http://www.memeorandum.com/260814/p17#a260814p17

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#owncast #streaming #music #musicVideos #indieMusic #indie #TheIndieBeat #TIBtv

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