Teju Cole on reading Dickinson:

The Variorum Edition of her poems, by [Ralph W.] Franklin, comes in three volumes, and there are 1,800 poems. It was a solid six weeks of my life reading every single one of them. What that particular enterprise gave me was a sense that we think we know Emily Dickinson’s poems because we know 100 of them, the most anthologized ones. For many of us, it’s because we know ten of them. But meanwhile, there’s 1,800 poems. It means we have been at the mercy of anthologists. When you go through all the poems, well, first of all, what you feel is rage. You think: I’ve been lied to, because there’s some really good shit in here that never gets into anthologies!

https://sueden.social/@gdchill/117554830023571160

#EmilyDickinson #Poetry #TejuCole

It arrived too late for Halloween, but never mind!

“India’s renewable power capacity has almost quadrupled over the past decade, surpassing 300 gigawatts (GW) in 2026.

The country is now the world’s second-fastest-growing renewables market and second-largest manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules.

India also reached its target of 50% non-fossil installed power capacity in 2025, five years ahead of schedule.”

https://www.iea.org/news/indias-rapid-renewables-growth-is-strengthening-its-role-in-global-energy-markets-iea-report-finds

#India #Renewables #Solar #Climate #Energy #GoodNews

People across the US are heading to the polls. This election is already setting records. Early voting has reached an all-time high, while campaign spending is expected to hit $11.6 billion, making it the most expensive midterm election in American history and even topping the 2024 election.

Below the 50 biggest donors. Democracy may be one person, one vote, but some people have more than one vote's worth of influence to spend. Make of it what you will.

#midterms

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-50-biggest-donors-to-the-2026-u-s-midterm-elections/

Five years of care, and then it just stopped. No letter, no reason, no plan. A 16-year-old boy in Minnesota lost his gender-affirming care along with every other young patient at Essentia Health, and he and his mother are taking them to court under the Minnesota Human Rights…
https://www.helenwebberley.com/news/essentia-health-lawsuit-gender-affirming-care-teen?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news&utm_content=news_761&utm_term=1891 #TransRights #GenderAffirmingCare #Minnesota

'With What Money?': Britons Respond To Government Stockpiling Advice
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brits-respond-government-stockpiling-advice_uk_6ae9ef23e4b086126ce9898d?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-huffpostuk

RE: https://mas.to/@Rue89Strasbourg/117552971204870472

All
Cyclists
Are
Beautiful

#Rothar #BikeTooter #Strasbourg #France

If you're not someone who understands why I mentioned heat pumps in a question about refrigeration, you are not the intended audience for this question.

Lots of people are talking about network security. That is not my lane. I am asking about the hardware

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@wavesculptor/117532094783926211

The "ghoulish" #carBrain #SUV driver ⬇️ got Life with minimum of 25 years. Already subject to a ban, and numerous other convictions.

I thought about a rare (for me) content warning for this. Just don't read the articles if you feel sensitive.

Sentencing:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/02/driver-simon-richardson-jailed-life-murder-michael-mullins-manchester

#cycling

This is a deliberately stupid question, but why are we making fridges that can heat things up to 50°C?

Pretend you're responding to someone with an engineering degree who understands how heat pumps work

CATzilla. 🦖

#Cats #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath

Some costs are savings.

Untitled Billionaire Game

It's a lovely day in the world and you are a horrible billionaire.

✅ Cause a limited supply of DRAM.
✅ Buy a social media platform and unban all the Nazis.
✅ Secretly fund a professional wrestler's lawsuit to destroy a newspaper.
✅ Evict everyone from a Hawaiian island.
✅ Reverse fifteen years of global emissions reductions.
✅ Kill numerous children.
✅ Deprive vulnerable minorities of human rights.
✅✅✅✅✅ Interfere with elections.

#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #coding #programming #programminghumor #codinghumor #vibecoding #aicoding #AI #aicodingtools #Meme #memes #Humor #humour

happy november

please make sure you are not vembering during this month

tzag, fellow humans.

found this, made me both giggle and angry at the same time, deemed it repostable.

(credit: Jim Elliott @jimelliotcomedy )

#AIbubble #AIcultists #HousingFirst #LateCapitalism

Our appeal

*£0*
Thoughts and prayers.

*One 8 GB DIMM*
Keeps a small language model hallucinating for several precious milliseconds.

*One 32 GB DIMM*
Could help generate thousands of LinkedIn posts explaining that AI isn't going to replace you, but someone using AI will.

*One 128 GB DIMM*
Could give an AI agent enough memory to book a meeting with another AI agent to discuss whether a meeting is necessary.

*An entire decommissioned server rack*
Sam will personally name a cooling tower after you.

Farewell the voice of K9 for so many generations of children & adults alike. And let’s not forget the original Bungle from Rainbow.
#DoctorWho #K9 #JohnLeeson

A few years ago I was at a Doctor Who event at Manchester Metropolitan University. I'd been having a bit of a difficult time. It was a really lovely event but sometimes being in a room full of people who are having a good time, and having expected you would be having one too, can leave you feeling a bit deflated.

From across the room, a man spoke to me. He called me over and we chatted for a minute or two. Not about anything in particular, no sage life advice was imparted, but I started to feel better. There was no reason for him to have even noticed me. It was a busy event. He saw someone feeling sad, and without making a fuss he let them know they weren't alone.

At the end of our conversation, he handed me this and wished me well. It was just a brief meeting, but such a kind and thoughtful thing to do.

He will be missed.

#DoctorWho #JohnLeeson