Found a little sunbeam inspector in training this morning! That curious little nose and those bright eyes are impossible to resist. He's clearly taking his job of looking adorable very seriously. ☀️
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#CatsOfMastodon #PetPhotography #GingerKitten #CutePets #FelineFriends

Iceland orders expulsion and re-entry ban on 21 anti-whaling activists, police say
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/05/iceland-orders-expulsion-and-re-entry-ban-on-21-anti-whaling-activists-police-say?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Europe News @europe-news-euronews

Time Traveler Causes of Death

xkcd.com/2976/

“I will not stand beside someone who has allowed distinctly anti-American sentiment to enter our public dialogue,” Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-Mich.

1. I guess "vote blue no matter who" only applies if the blue is white
2. The irony is one candidate got $60M in foreign dark money PAC spending, but its the brown guy Scholten calls anti-American
3. A reminder yet again that Dr. King called white moderates "worse than the KKK" and he did not lie

The delusion is strong in this one…

I love finding a little forest of lichens.

#lichen #lichensubscribe #macro #cladonia

One of last year’s photos. Still a favorite.

The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear

https://theonion.com/about-us/

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Our July POTM looks at the life of Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who lived most of her adult life with rheumatoid arthritis.

by Elizabeth Wood

https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/dorothy-crowfoot-hodgkin?mcid=81301bd1cc&utm_source=AIP_newsletter&utm_source=email

Quoted by Dorothy Hodgkin during her 1964 Nobel Prize Lecture, W. H. Bragg's "Concerning the Nature of Things" (Bragg's work influenced a young Dorothy Crowfoot to pursue science) is available on PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79146

#books #cristallography #WomenInStem

"Half the order book of one of America’s flagship enterprise-software companies [Oracle] now depends on a single money-losing startup [OpenAI] honoring a $300 billion contract." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-house-of-ellison-is-on-the-brink

Really good omens in really hard times.

Modi is India's trump, in racism, corruption, hatred as the organising force, powerful billionaire and corporate backed leader of the worlds largest democracy. All the papers and TV burping his message.

But a new generation has erupted, mockingly calling themselves the "cockroach party."

In weeks they have grown larger than Modi's party online, forced a Minister to resign and helped defeat Modi in a stronghold by election.

#goodNews #india #cockroach

Very kindly @newscientist.com@bsky.brid.gy have listed the new book in their "best new popular science books of August 2026" list. The summary made me chuckle - I suppose I kind of always have been a "go big or go home" type of girl. 😂

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ok3ms3dzop7gcwejp7lswhpi/post/3ms4hxgqjns2v

Really cool remote tech for good job alert! Signal is hiring an android dev:
- Global remote working US timezones
- Working in Kotlin and Java
- Working on open source privacy preserving product
- $160,000 - $260,000
https://jobs.lever.co/signal/9a3ac9b5-1b59-4bdf-a0a9-fd008fd55d40
#FediHire

"exposed him to HIV during multiple sexual encounters"

Florida Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2026/08/florida-pastor-arrested-on-child-sex-charges-video/

Did you know the original name for Linux was "Freax" (free + freak + Unix). When Linus uploaded the code to his university's FTP, admin Ari Lemmke didn't like that name and renamed the directory "Linux" without asking. The rest is history.

https://www.howtogeek.com/how-linux-got-its-name/

#Linux35

so if you know any nonprofits in the north bay (California) who need an admin manager. 😭 or hell ill do admin assistant work if it pays a living wage.

Interesting story about a neutron flipping a bit in the flight control system and almost crashing a plane. Matthew Ingram for the find.

https://archive.ph/eYmzt

#Meme #Humour

me irl

#cats #cat #catsofmastodon

You could just not connect it to your network... This is such a 2026 (and onward) article. https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-avoid-installing-malware-on-your-smart-tv