Lorax Horne

Good news from Gaza: Mohammed Abu Matar managed to get a 3D printer back up and running, and he has resumed the work he was doing before the war, of printing medical devices to supply local paramedics and hospitals. See photo: chuffed.org/project/1163... Donations are (always, still) appreciated.

"Torture, reproductive violence, rape & other forms of sexual violence form part of the broader attack directed against the civilian population in the West Bank. Sexual violence has been used with the intent to displace, subjugate & destabilize the Palestinian people." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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lol this guy got 59 million votes. I’m pretty sure he’s just going to run again, and win, after this Lula term. There’s a lot of road to travel to root fascism out of Brazil …

Canada’s dangerous C-22 surveillance bill is now before the Senate. It will force tech companies to build surveillance into their products, threatening everyone’s security and privacy. There’s still time to speak out.

#nspol If Premier Tim Houston asked people to democraticaly help him design the most recent budget yourbudget.novascotia.ca, he can let the people democraticallty write the terms of use for any data centers in NS. The time has come: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Fortress internet, splinternets and vast intranets is what we have in store for us.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Petronationalism as an answer to US threats is surreal given that the US is dominated by petronationalists. You know what reduces your dependence on the US? The fucking sun. Renewables would make Canada actually independent. The worsening climate crisis will make the US threat look like a joke.

The unhinged internet kids and middle aged corporate white hats crossover we didn’t know we needed

How do you spend $600,000 on hair plugs and still end up looking like this

ok i think the moral of the movie is that humans cannot be trusted to draw accurate conclusions from visual media

A sophisticated organized crime gang hacked into Staples, issued millions of dollars worth of gift cards, and went on a spending spree across the U.S.

If a U.S. president is going to die in every season of The Diplomat, it's a better show than The West Wing, I don't make the rules.

occasionally briefly annoying a cis person is a price i am happy to pay to help rescue someone from the suicidal death spiral that is trans denial

ik it’s a popular truism to say that trying to clock ppl as eggs is problematic or whatever, but i can tell you from experience there are a lot of trans people who will lose decades of their lives to denial unless you have an honest conversation with them and tell them you think they are trans

Want to emphasize this point. One of the big "efficiencies" users of LLMs get is generating communications and other artifacts quickly, but with no thought or quality, pushing all the effort of interpreting the slop onto others. This is the same efficiency as a chemical plant dumping in a river.

Are there literally no human rights lawyers in the UK with any self-respect?

Bruh

It’s all about education. Learning is not about rote repetition, it is about playful experimenting.

It’s an unpalatable truth, but Meta, TikTok, and hopefully it goes without saying, X, aren’t sustainable to rely on for political amplification, cultural promotion/marketing or community organizing. It’s long past time for new platforms/means and to move on.

I am hoping @lillywachowski.bsky.social donates to this GoFundMe for my friend River, because River is basically Nomi Marks if instead of going to prison, Nomi had left San Francisco and moved to Berlin to get away from her shitty family. www.gofundme.com/f/river-get-...

Let’s connect our appliances to the internet, they said. Nothing could go wrong, they said.

Every story has a villain, but not every villain has a story.

spent a little time thinking about what will happen with the live-streamed footage of a firing squad execution on this internet we have and I don’t think a society comes back from it

To be a billionaire is to live a life unthwarted, above the power of your workers, your neighbors, or your government and its laws. It is the right to get high on your own supply. It is the right to live a life in which no one ever calls you on your bullshit.

The hackers who stole Denmark's citizens' data accessed the database via an account using the 123456 password politiken.dk/danmark/art1...

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

New: The US government lobbied allies to cut ties to an anti-disinformation conference over a panel critical of Washington, sources tell me and @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social. Canada and the European Union yanked their branding. Lithuania canceled its participation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

It's like the Associate Membership has already made Canada as spineless as European leadership.

Just goes to show how important that conference is. Major threat to US foreign policy.

2) Canada talks a lot of game in terms of elbows up, but folds in the face of demands from the new free speech censor from the US which is seriously disappointing.

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Ola Bini’s rights are again at stake. Yesterday, the digital security expert was retained by Ecuadorean immigration authorities which ordered his immediate deportation under obscure accusations of being a risk to the country’s security. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

After British Columbia’s Labour Relations Board awarded union certification to Unifor at Amazon’s warehouse outside Vancouver, the union have been turning over documents they are getting in discovery to the public: truthout.org/articles/ama... We are learning a lot!

América Latina repite como la región más letal para defender el ambiente y la tierra: reportó el 85% de los casos en 2025 dozz.es/vu_qqae

The transcribed zine (in US Letter & A4 for printing) of the interview with @sabot.media & @CrimethInc on the implications of the sanctioning of #AutisticiInventati by the Trump administration, some history of the hosts of NoBlogs and some paths forward Check it out at tfsr.media/zines/#Septe...

Today, charges against DULF's founders were tossed out by a BC Supreme Court decision Yesterday, we covered how docs in trial evidence show Vancouver police pushed to bring those charges — even when a Crown prosecutor questioned whether it was in the public interest

Canada’s drug policy violates its Charter, BC Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray ruled on Tuesday, by making it de facto illegal to run a compassion club providing tested illicit drugs. Read the full breakdown of her decision, by @godfrey.work: www.defactomedia.ca/breaking-dul...

Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich