The Challenger disaster was a horrible tragedy, but I remember it was so shocking because catastrophe under NASA was so rare. This never-ending procession of privatised space rockets exploding every other week is making it mundane. Privatisation is shit.
Today I found out that thanks to the success of the HPV vaccine, from now on if you get a clear smear test you are called back after 5 years rather than 3. Vaccines are brilliant.
Breaking - Israel murdered another 8+ people today in Khan Younis, Gaza, Palestine.
codeberg, the german nonprofit-run github-alternative that runs on open-source software, has banned a.i.-generated projects from their platform
(whose name is preserved for the aliased.
Kerberos service ticket.
codeberg.org
If, like me, you love 1990s Web sites, back when the internet wasn't enshittified by Big Tech yet, have a look at Wiby, a Web 1.0 search engine. Click on "Surprise me…" for random discoveries, often personal Web pages about obscure niche subjects, but sometimes you find a hidden gem… wiby.org
Wiby - Search Engine for the Classic Web
Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.
wiby.org
Why the Authoritarianism bullshit is here.
The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
youtu.be
A fast, native Photoshop alternative for Mac with PSD and RAW support, full layers, masks, live adjustments, content-aware fill, and open-format exports
Free and open-source browser extension to save complete web pages with images, styles, fonts, and frames as a single offline HTML file
Just need to shout out something that I've only just discovered. superhivemarket.com/products/ada... This is super useful to make more optimised cables...
Adaptive Curve
Tangent adaptive curve modifier for Blender done with Geometry Nodes.
superhivemarket.com
Did you know this about Mark Cuban, I was not aware of this interesting fact 😏
Arcomade released BlendCap, a Blender addon that captures body, hand, and face motion from video and retargets it directly onto your rig, fully offline. 🎬 www.reddit.com/r/blender/co... #blender3d #animation #gamedev #b3d
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
Sorry about the AI. Lyrics and original line drawing mine.
Dirty Hippie
Listen and make your own on Suno.
suno.com
I wonder which Zionist coalition cooked this up?
ICC prosecutor Khan removed over sexual misconduct allegations: Sources
This is a breaking news story.
aljazeera.com
LibreOffice 26.2.5 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 20 Bug Fixes 9to5linux.com/libreoffice-... @libreoffice.bsky.social #OpenSource #Linux
LibreOffice 26.2.5 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 20 Bug Fixes - 9to5Linux
LibreOffice 26.2.5 is now available for download as the fifth point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 21 bug fixes.
9to5linux.com
Codeberg has updated its Terms of Use to ban repositories mainly created with generative AI tools, following a community vote with 71% support alternativeto.net/news/2026/7...
Libre Office is the way Microsoft Word was 20 years ago, with icons on the tool bar and more. Also, Word kept resetting my keyboard to UK settings when all I wanted was UK grammar/spell check. Libre doesn't lose the plot and keeps them separate. So far, I am really happy having dumped Micro Office.
somehow I only recently learned that LLMs need the whole conversation fed back to them on each prompt so their i/o cost scales as O(n^2), something that would be considered completely unacceptable in almost any other production network-accessible software
🤩🤩🤩 This is so cool! A possible new single dose treatment for colon cancer that also acts as an immunization from getting it again. It uses bacteria from tree frogs. Short video if you don’t wanna read the article. youtube.com/shorts/VGvuE... www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose
A naturally occurring bacterium from amphibian intestines completely eliminated colorectal tumors in mice with a single treatment by both attacking cancer cells and activating the immune system. The f...
sciencedaily.com
On effective HIV treatment there is ZERO risk of sexual transmission. How amazing is that? The fear and ignorance that still surrounds HIV creates barriers to testing and the treatment that saves our lives AND prevents sexual transmission. End HIV stigma to end the epidemic. #ZeroHIVStigmaDay
Sorry, this just fell out of my brain
John Kiriakou and the Pomeranian Puppies
Listen and make your own on Suno.
suno.com
@johnkiriakou.bsky.social Thankyou for closing down the US honeypotting program. If it wasn’t for you, many foreign men would would be enduring long term Mormon relationships now. A true hero.
