A story for gardeners to start us off this weekend:

Many years ago on the British radio staple, Gardeners Question Time, one of the guests was a rich landed estate owner (and aristocrat).

From the audience came the Q.: what would you recommend planting in a small garden... the answer:

'Even in the smallest garden one should endeavour to have at least an acre of woodland'.

And there you have it: the rich have little idea about the lives of the rest of us.

#gardening #class #politics #radio

Every now and then a photo appears in my notifications as someone spots the potential for Something Silly.

Sometimes the photographers are very kind and say "go for it". Thanks to @cheriecreationstruck for this one.

#sillyScribbles #googlyEyes

Also promised to put some googly eyes on something days ago and got distracted by goose related nonsense, so finally... :googlyEyeAntiClockwise: :googlyEyeClockwise:

#sillyScribbles #googlyEyes

- Afternoon
- Mmmmppphhhh
- Well, aye. Indeed.

#sillyScribbles #googlyEyes

More than 200k users said NO!

More than 70 organisations signed a letter saying NO!

#FDroid wrote posts on why NOT!

We've talked with you and your representatives, around the world.

We've made the #KeepAndroidOpen website to explain it.

If you read the #Android tech news, you saw it.

If you use a search engine, you found it.

If you've asked their own #Gemini, you got the summary.

But who didn't see, hear or read anything from above? Yes, #Google

For your saftety? https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html

Night sky timelapse on one of the shortest nights of the year.

Count the satellites… #nightsky #astrophotography

If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do.
https://xkcd.com/3266/

Green thumbs. #grickledoodle #gardening #horror #husbands #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands
https://theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/01/boffins-peg-narcissistic-leadership-as-the-real-driver-behind-return-to-office-demands/5264222 via
@theregister & @sjvn

The real reason bosses want to kill working from home is that they're insecure jerks who want you to worship them at their corner office.

New in PN: A vote away from undoing the civil war

"The only role for a functional Supreme Court would have been to deny a cert request from the Trump administration by saying, basically, 'Did the lower court stutter?' Instead, we came within one vote of letting the very worst people in the country run roughshod over one of America's sacred compacts." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/birthright-citizenship-ruling

The Wizard had learned over the years that if the Witch began levitating the argument was no longer worth trying to win. #grickledoodle #witch #wizard #couples #argument #love #cartoon #art #fantasy #drawing #funny #humor

I lack words to explain just how fucking stupid this is. I just ... there are no words. Your existing multi-billion-dollar Mars mission needs this thing, you clown. On this planet, not on the moon.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/nasa-may-send-a-backup-nuclear-powered-mars-rover-to-the-moon/

(comic) Lowering attrition https://www.workchronicles.com/p/comic-lowering-attrition

Another Cassandra moment for many privacy professionals.

What we have been warning about for a while now is finally happening: whatever remained of the legal framework for sending personal data to the United States is in shambles due to a recent Supreme Court decision.

Companies, if you haven't cut ties with US-based services by now, brace yourselves for trouble and a great deal of uncertainty.

P.S.: We told you so!
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #DataPrivacyFramework

For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors.

AI has made the problem much worse.

That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors:

#godotengine
https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

Starmer will be remembered by his horrible policies against freedoms and immigrants.

He could have been so, so much better and has proven a massive failure and disappointment.

Will his replacement be any better? I don't have delusions, but I guess I can hope. In any way the bar is very low.

RT: @implausibleblog Left: Outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the increase in defence spending is his legacy

Right: His actual legacy is proscribing a protest group which saw an 83 year old retired priest - one of over a thousand people - arrested for holding a sign

➡️ Labour's Baron Hain in the House of Lords called the proscription shameful for conflating protest with terrorism

➡️ Geoffrey Robertson who recruited Starmer and was one of his earliest mentors criticised the way Starmer, Cooper and now Mahmood have abused the law

➡️ And never forget how on 29 April 2026 a man in hospital supported psychiatric accommodation attacked three men, the first was a Muslim, the second two were Jewish. Starmer spent days standing up for the British Jewish community (which he rightly did), but not once did he stand up for the British Muslim community. Starmer's two-tier island of strangers inequality

In opposition I liked Starmer for standing up to 14 years of Conservative chaos, and in his early months fully supported him. But then came the poor policy roll-outs, the u-turns, and then the escalation to full on authoritarianism

Defence is not your legacy @Keir_Starmer - even though we desperately do need to improve our defence capabilities. Your legacy is how you as a former human rights lawyer sunk into authoritarianism. Instead of leadership you created an environment where an 83 year old retired priest would be arrested. And as Baron Hain said, that is indeed shameful

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