Ahhhh #Iceland.
Somewhere I wouldn't mind visiting during the next European heatwave...

But did you know that Iceland is planning a referendum this summer about Joining the #EU?
What do you think? Should they join?
What are your favourite facts about Iceland? And do you have any questions about Iceland joining the EU, or any about Iceland at all?

#Referendum #Europe #MadeInEurope

Good question!

We'd be happy to sell it back to you, too!

S7: 'we'll be glad to provide you access to your Personal Information. Sometimes, there may be a small processing fee'

S3: 'You can opt out of the use of your Personal Information for marketing purposes by contacting us using the information in Section 10 (Accountable to you).'

How, exactly, is for you to figure out, chump.

S10: [silent re opt-out; presumably one is to email or snail mail to make a request.]

2/2

Just got highway 407ETR's 'revised privacy policy' (privately-run via 99-year lease signed by Harris's Tories in 1999).

It's a doozy.

S1: 1. 'Your privacy is paramount', but

S3: [by default] 'we may disclose Personal Information to third-party service providers such as marketing and communications agencies, digital or social media marketing and analytics vendors, communications service providers, and consulting firms'

So, what do we share?

1/2

@pluralistic #ontario #privacy #technology

Only just now realising that the wish fulfilment of having a dedicated slave or polite servant might play a bigger role in the popularity of chatbots than I expected

I can be slow sometimes, but I also always thought the constant signals of servility these systems are made to exude were obviously distasteful, even when experienced second-hand through other people's reports

‘Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India, a BBC Eye investigation has found. (…)

Ads on Instagram are only published after first being approved by its moderation technology.
When the BBC reported one of the ads to Instagram, the social media platform responded 24 hours later saying the post did not violate its "community guidelines".’

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo #law #tech

Looking out the window

#photo #photography #photos #london #foto

"Aujourd’hui, plus personne ne s’attend à ce qu’un objet lui survive.

On se contente de presque-rebuts. On ne s’attache pas. Aussitôt décédés, aussitôt remplacés ; payables en 36 versements.

Ce délire consumériste qui nous pousse à racheter continuellement les mêmes biens mal faits m’écœure au point que je ne désire à peu près plus rien de ce que le commerce produit, désormais."

No. 110 - Consommer ne m’intéresse plus - https://anglemortsp.substack.com/p/no-110-consommer-ne-minteresse-plus

My #wildfire #safety protocol (assuming you have done all the wildfire pre-prep earlier in the season). 1. Applies to RED FLAG or near RED FLAG (ie. windy, dry) conditions ONLY. I pay attention other times, but not as much. 2. Pay attention to National Weather Service forecasts, and READ THE NOTES. You want to be aware of direction of wind, timing, and where the biggest threats are. If it's not a RED FLAG, I am not as worried, at least in SoCal (lots of firefighting resources). (cont)

#OTD July 4, 1845, author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau went to live in a cabin in the woods for two years, inspiring his book 'Life in the Woods'.

During this time, he also spent a night in jail for refusing to pay taxes because of his opposition to the Mexican–American War and slavery, which would lead to him to write his essay 'Civil Disobedience'.

Can you find on a #map where this cabin is? Click the link to find out:
https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=167&type=q

#history #books #nature

Ukraine hits oil and military facilities near Russia’s St Petersburg

Kyiv's drones disrupt St Petersburg internet and flights as Russian strikes halt a gas facility in central Ukraine.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/4/ukraine-hits-oil-and-military-facilities-near-russias-st-petersburg

#aljazeera

Accurate enough for web work.

'The dissenters also dismissed the English-common-law history of birthright citizenship as a “feudal principle,” a “medieval rule,” and a remnant of “the darkness of the middle ages,” having more “to do with being a subject than a citizen.” Legal traditions from hundreds of years ago are apparently vitally important if one wants to ban abortion or strike down restrictions on firearms, but they become barbaric anachronisms the second they diverge from the policy goals of the Republican Party.'

I would kill or die for Larry the cat.

Shocking European Perspective

How much warmer was it in these countries

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e2j0j87reo

#ClimateDiary #Europe #ClimateCatastrophe

As seen over at the Nazi bar, Kylie Jane Kremer, who still has her "cavalry" post from Jan6 posted, claiming that someone geoengineered DC to be the hottest place on earth for July 4.

"The rapid global shift toward electric vehicles (EVs) is accelerating the transition to cleaner transport but experts warn that battery waste management and governance are failing to keep pace, creating growing environmental and health risks, particularly in developing countries."

https://cambodianess.com/article/rapid-ev-growth-exposes-global-battery-waste-governance-gap-raising-concerns-for-developing-nations

So, clean and green energy is dirty and toxic. Now, who would have guessed?

The most horrible thing about world cup (apart from the greed, politics and environmental waste it represents) is being deluged with so much autotuned self-stim shit music from one day to the next.

Yes, I'm a curmudgeon -- and proud of it.

#worldcup2026 #climate #environment

It's not new and it's not just toady's cheaply-purchased far right justices. It's a white racist tradition.

'In the Insular Cases, a series of decisions related to the territories wrested from Spain after the Spanish-American War, the justices ruled that the people living in American imperial possessions were “alien races” and “savage tribes” unfit for self-rule but not for American domination.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/birthright-citizenship-dissents/687799/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAKwhChYj624ZmwCg2iUbPpj4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#uspol #scotus #trump #rapist #epstein

Quote: "I do not salute the United States flag because although it is true that you are a symbol of a free and sovereign homeland, in Puerto Rico you represent piracy and pillage" -- Don Pedro Albizu Campos, 1930.

#YankeeGoHome #July4th #4thOfJuly

From the NYT:

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation is assigning an army of 260 investigative analysts to a “priority” investigation related to the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., a reflection of President Trump’s ongoing push to prove his baseless claims that the 2020 election there was rigged."

"The effort is outlined in an internal memo obtained by The New York Times and confirmed by a person familiar with the investigation. The memo says that the surge is part of a “priority” effort by Kash Patel, the director of the F.B.I. The analysts will work to complete “approximately 708 records checks,” according to the memo. The type of records being checked is unknown."

"....an unsealed affidavit that was used to obtain the search warrant for that raid relied heavily on debunked claims about ballot anomalies in 2020. Those claims have been revived inside the White House by Kurt Olsen, an election denier who works in the Trump administration and who set off the current investigation, according to the affidavit."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/fbi-georgia-fulton-county-2020-election.html

Good thing the POTUS has half the FBI chasing suspected undocumented immigrants and long-ago debunked election fraud claims. It's not like we just bombed the crap out of the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism or anything.