Allen but one of the good ones
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Excerpt from a book I'm reading, Slow Poison, by Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zorhan Mamdani.
"FBI agents knocked on
my door...they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had
never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl
Marx […]
[Original post on mograph.social]
"FBI agents knocked on
my door...they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had
never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl
Marx […]
[Original post on mograph.social]
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Excerpt from a book I'm reading, Slow Poison, by Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zorhan Mamdani.
"FBI agents knocked on
my door...they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had
never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl
Marx […]
[Original post on mograph.social]
"FBI agents knocked on
my door...they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had
never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl
Marx […]
[Original post on mograph.social]
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LeoLabs says they see hundreds of debris objects from the Starlink failure event
December 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
LeoLabs says they see hundreds of debris objects from the Starlink failure event
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Decentralized YouTube Alternative PeerTube Adds Creator Mode
“PeerTube is a free and open source video hosting platform that serves as an alternative to YouTube. Unlike centralized platforms, it allows anyone to create their own video hosting instance while connecting with others through […]
“PeerTube is a free and open source video hosting platform that serves as an alternative to YouTube. Unlike centralized platforms, it allows anyone to create their own video hosting instance while connecting with others through […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Decentralized YouTube Alternative PeerTube Adds Creator Mode
“PeerTube is a free and open source video hosting platform that serves as an alternative to YouTube. Unlike centralized platforms, it allows anyone to create their own video hosting instance while connecting with others through […]
“PeerTube is a free and open source video hosting platform that serves as an alternative to YouTube. Unlike centralized platforms, it allows anyone to create their own video hosting instance while connecting with others through […]
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Hmm - this is odd. After the ONE data point showing S-35956 in a lower orbit, Space Force is now showing it back in the original orbit. Suggests that the low orbit was a mistake - perhaps a debris object and not the main body of the satellite.
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Hmm - this is odd. After the ONE data point showing S-35956 in a lower orbit, Space Force is now showing it back in the original orbit. Suggests that the low orbit was a mistake - perhaps a debris object and not the main body of the satellite.
So, Takealot remains significantly better than Amazon South Africa, but it has still gotten consistently worse in one specific area:
Delivery times are becoming more and more meaningless.
Order something as a Christmas gift. For reasons of being an actual human being with a budget and having […]
Delivery times are becoming more and more meaningless.
Order something as a Christmas gift. For reasons of being an actual human being with a budget and having […]
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mastodon.monoceros.co.za
December 19, 2025 at 6:30 AM
So, Takealot remains significantly better than Amazon South Africa, but it has still gotten consistently worse in one specific area:
Delivery times are becoming more and more meaningless.
Order something as a Christmas gift. For reasons of being an actual human being with a budget and having […]
Delivery times are becoming more and more meaningless.
Order something as a Christmas gift. For reasons of being an actual human being with a budget and having […]
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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Oh hey look, a Starlink satellite "experienced an anomaly" and ejected a bunch of debris. Explosion? Debris hit? Either way, not good..
https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-satellite-malfunctions-ejects-debris-fragments
https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-satellite-malfunctions-ejects-debris-fragments
Starlink Satellite Malfunctions, Ejects Debris Fragments
SpaceX expects the tumbling satellite to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up.
www.pcmag.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Oh hey look, a Starlink satellite "experienced an anomaly" and ejected a bunch of debris. Explosion? Debris hit? Either way, not good..
https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-satellite-malfunctions-ejects-debris-fragments
https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-satellite-malfunctions-ejects-debris-fragments
One of the most formative moments in my career (although I didn't realise it for many, many years) was one of my first ever IT jobs, where I and some of my friends were hired by my dad's company on a temp student gig to help install the equipment at a major sporting event that they were […]
Original post on mastodon.monoceros.co.za
mastodon.monoceros.co.za
December 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One of the most formative moments in my career (although I didn't realise it for many, many years) was one of my first ever IT jobs, where I and some of my friends were hired by my dad's company on a temp student gig to help install the equipment at a major sporting event that they were […]
Had a good laugh at the news yesterday that the Department of Home Affairs (they handle stuff like immigration, passports, birth registrations) raided the office where American government officials were processing refugee applications from wealthy white Afrikaners.
lots of "YOU CAN'T COME IN […]
lots of "YOU CAN'T COME IN […]
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mastodon.monoceros.co.za
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Had a good laugh at the news yesterday that the Department of Home Affairs (they handle stuff like immigration, passports, birth registrations) raided the office where American government officials were processing refugee applications from wealthy white Afrikaners.
lots of "YOU CAN'T COME IN […]
lots of "YOU CAN'T COME IN […]
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The Guardian: China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/18/china-to-raise-tax-condoms-boost-birth-rate
The Guardian: China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/18/china-to-raise-tax-condoms-boost-birth-rate
China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate
From 1 January, contraceptives will be subject to a 13% VAT rate – part of a carrot-and-stick approach by the government to increase births
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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The Guardian: China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/18/china-to-raise-tax-condoms-boost-birth-rate
The Guardian: China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/18/china-to-raise-tax-condoms-boost-birth-rate
Weird thing about the kids in this part of the world is that when they're upset or whining, they have a unique thing they do to add emphasis to whatever they're saying.
Some people stamp their foot. Some drop their lip. These kids? They add a very emphatic vowel to the end of the sentence. The […]
Some people stamp their foot. Some drop their lip. These kids? They add a very emphatic vowel to the end of the sentence. The […]
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mastodon.monoceros.co.za
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Weird thing about the kids in this part of the world is that when they're upset or whining, they have a unique thing they do to add emphasis to whatever they're saying.
Some people stamp their foot. Some drop their lip. These kids? They add a very emphatic vowel to the end of the sentence. The […]
Some people stamp their foot. Some drop their lip. These kids? They add a very emphatic vowel to the end of the sentence. The […]
Chaotic idea of the day: Collect a folder full of excerpts from that old OSS simple sabotage field manual, and strategically drop them in teams meetings when people do things that look like recommendations from the book.
Somebody says something like "I don't think we should rush this, we need […]
Somebody says something like "I don't think we should rush this, we need […]
Original post on mastodon.monoceros.co.za
mastodon.monoceros.co.za
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Chaotic idea of the day: Collect a folder full of excerpts from that old OSS simple sabotage field manual, and strategically drop them in teams meetings when people do things that look like recommendations from the book.
Somebody says something like "I don't think we should rush this, we need […]
Somebody says something like "I don't think we should rush this, we need […]
Non-voters: "I cannot vote for a candidate I don't support. If you offer me two sandwiches, one filled entirely with shit and the other with no more than 50% shit, I am going to choose neither"
Fair point. But this isn't a lunch buffet. It's an election. Unless you emigrate, you're going to be […]
Fair point. But this isn't a lunch buffet. It's an election. Unless you emigrate, you're going to be […]
Original post on mastodon.monoceros.co.za
mastodon.monoceros.co.za
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Non-voters: "I cannot vote for a candidate I don't support. If you offer me two sandwiches, one filled entirely with shit and the other with no more than 50% shit, I am going to choose neither"
Fair point. But this isn't a lunch buffet. It's an election. Unless you emigrate, you're going to be […]
Fair point. But this isn't a lunch buffet. It's an election. Unless you emigrate, you're going to be […]
Genuinely curious to know wtf people are doing with their firefox installs that the AI features keep turning back on. Never happened to me on any of my computers, linux and Windows alike.
December 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Genuinely curious to know wtf people are doing with their firefox installs that the AI features keep turning back on. Never happened to me on any of my computers, linux and Windows alike.
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All national cuisines are myths:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/15/myth-traditional-italian-cuisine-food
The “Italian” cuisine that conquered the world was not the one Italians carried with them when they emigrated. They had no such cuisine to carry. Those who left Italy […]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/15/myth-traditional-italian-cuisine-food
The “Italian” cuisine that conquered the world was not the one Italians carried with them when they emigrated. They had no such cuisine to carry. Those who left Italy […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
December 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM
All national cuisines are myths:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/15/myth-traditional-italian-cuisine-food
The “Italian” cuisine that conquered the world was not the one Italians carried with them when they emigrated. They had no such cuisine to carry. Those who left Italy […]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/15/myth-traditional-italian-cuisine-food
The “Italian” cuisine that conquered the world was not the one Italians carried with them when they emigrated. They had no such cuisine to carry. Those who left Italy […]
It's just so sad that there are men out there having sex with other men who have had to redefine the word "gay" to mean something other than what they do so that they can keep their standing with the other right-wing bro's who also sleep with men but it's not gay because those Peak Western […]
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mastodon.monoceros.co.za
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It's just so sad that there are men out there having sex with other men who have had to redefine the word "gay" to mean something other than what they do so that they can keep their standing with the other right-wing bro's who also sleep with men but it's not gay because those Peak Western […]
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Thing every democracy needs to understand right now is that standing up to Trump will be expensive, but not standing up to him will be a hell of a lot more expensive
February 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Thing every democracy needs to understand right now is that standing up to Trump will be expensive, but not standing up to him will be a hell of a lot more expensive
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As someone who runs my own blog, email, social media, backup system, home automation, business site, etc...
I feel like self-hosting digital services is a lot like backyard chickens. Rewarding, lots of control, independence from Big Egg, and a great reminder of why distribution of labor and […]
I feel like self-hosting digital services is a lot like backyard chickens. Rewarding, lots of control, independence from Big Egg, and a great reminder of why distribution of labor and […]
Original post on woof.group
woof.group
December 16, 2025 at 6:09 AM
As someone who runs my own blog, email, social media, backup system, home automation, business site, etc...
I feel like self-hosting digital services is a lot like backyard chickens. Rewarding, lots of control, independence from Big Egg, and a great reminder of why distribution of labor and […]
I feel like self-hosting digital services is a lot like backyard chickens. Rewarding, lots of control, independence from Big Egg, and a great reminder of why distribution of labor and […]
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2.8 Days to Disaster - Why We Are Running Out of Time in Low Earth Orbit
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/28-days-to-disaster-why-we-are-running-out-of-time-in-low-earth-orbit
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/28-days-to-disaster-why-we-are-running-out-of-time-in-low-earth-orbit
2.8 Days to Disaster - Why We Are Running Out of Time in Low Earth Orbit
A “House of Cards” is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable. It’s also the term Sarah Thiele, originally a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, and now at Princeton, and her co-authors used to describe our current satellite mega-constellation system in a new paper available in pre-print on arXiv.
www.universetoday.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
2.8 Days to Disaster - Why We Are Running Out of Time in Low Earth Orbit
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/28-days-to-disaster-why-we-are-running-out-of-time-in-low-earth-orbit
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/28-days-to-disaster-why-we-are-running-out-of-time-in-low-earth-orbit
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I’m 2 years older than Danny Glover was when he said “I’m too old for this shit.” That’s how it’s goin.
December 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I’m 2 years older than Danny Glover was when he said “I’m too old for this shit.” That’s how it’s goin.
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Seems the FBI is not yet ready to take in surrendering forces from fictional terrorist organizations. No word on whether or not they could take surrendering Nazgul, Decepticons or Cobra from GI Joe either.
#uspol #antifacsist #fictional
#uspol #antifacsist #fictional
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Seems the FBI is not yet ready to take in surrendering forces from fictional terrorist organizations. No word on whether or not they could take surrendering Nazgul, Decepticons or Cobra from GI Joe either.
#uspol #antifacsist #fictional
#uspol #antifacsist #fictional
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Mr. Sandman
Sand me a man
Make him the smoothest
That I've ever seen
Sand me a man
Make him the smoothest
That I've ever seen
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Mr. Sandman
Sand me a man
Make him the smoothest
That I've ever seen
Sand me a man
Make him the smoothest
That I've ever seen
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The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates:
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates:
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"Every Activity Pub server duplicates content. Without it there'd be no seeing posts from anybody on servers other than their home server. It's literally the thing that makes the protocol work. If being on a protocol that specifically is designed to duplicate content isn't permission enough to […]
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mastodon.nzoss.nz
December 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
"Every Activity Pub server duplicates content. Without it there'd be no seeing posts from anybody on servers other than their home server. It's literally the thing that makes the protocol work. If being on a protocol that specifically is designed to duplicate content isn't permission enough to […]
I love how M365 likes to send me emails telling me that some people I shared a file with are about to lose their access, but it won't tell me which files.
Then I have to click a link because "Don't click strange links" only applied to emails from bad guys, if it looks like it came from […]
Then I have to click a link because "Don't click strange links" only applied to emails from bad guys, if it looks like it came from […]
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mastodon.monoceros.co.za
December 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I love how M365 likes to send me emails telling me that some people I shared a file with are about to lose their access, but it won't tell me which files.
Then I have to click a link because "Don't click strange links" only applied to emails from bad guys, if it looks like it came from […]
Then I have to click a link because "Don't click strange links" only applied to emails from bad guys, if it looks like it came from […]