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For Halloween, we’re offering 20% off on all our “mask” items in our e-store! The illustrations draw from vertep, a Ukrainian holiday puppet theater tradition dating back to the 16th century. Order here: store.kyivindependent.com/

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[2025/10/31 06:21]



⚡️’Zeroing out’ — Russian troops carry out torture, executions in own ranks, media investigation finds. “You know, what’s happening there is that… You never know where the bullet will come from: from your own side or from the Ukrainians.” kyivindependent.com/zeroing-ou…

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[2025/10/31 04:30]



⚡️Drone strike damages Russian power plant in Oryol Oblast, governor says. Drones hit the Oryol Thermal Power Plant (TPP), “causing damage to power supply equipment,” Governor Andrey Klychkov claimed. kyivindependent.com/drone-stri…

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[2025/10/31 01:03]



⚡️Russia renews military flights to Syria as it rebuilds relations with Damascus. Recent flight data showed Russian planes arriving at the Khmeimim air base in Syria, as Moscow tries to maintain its military presence in the country, Bloomberg reported. kyivindependent.com/russia-ren…

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[2025/10/31 00:05]



⚡️Update: Ukraine strikes energy infrastructure in multiple Russian regions, officials, media report. Attacks were reported on a power plant in Russia’s Oryol Oblast, a major electrical substation in Vladimir Oblast, and an oil refinery in Yaroslavl. kyivindependent.com/drone-stri…

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[2025/10/31 03:06]



If middle aged wankers were to stop buying vinyl copies of albums they already own in four different formats - including the original vinyl - then all the problems of plastic straws would be offset and we could ditch those paper shites that have been forced on us
in reply to Anon Opin

Vinyl records are a drop in the bucket and an item that is much less likely to end in a landfill. Crab bucket mentality.


Two soldiers working at a draft office in the city of Kremenchuk in Poltava Oblast have been injured, after a man shot them while being mobilized, the regional recruitment center said on Oct. 30. kyivindependent.com/shooting-a…

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[2025/10/30 18:16]



⚡️ Ukraine war latest live: ‘Normal people don’t fight like this’ — Russia bombs power plant in Donetsk Oblast, Zelensky says. “This is exclusively terror,” he said. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-wa…

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[2025/10/30 18:04]



⚡️ Thermal power plant on fire in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast, widespread power outage reported. The accident at the power plant in the city of Shchastia reportedly led to the shutdown of boiler rooms and pumping stations. kyivindependent.com/fire-break…

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[2025/10/30 17:36]



⚡️Explosion at Kyiv postal office injures five people. A parcel exploded at a postal office in Kyiv’s Solomyanskyi District on Oct. 30, injuring five employees, Kyiv police reported. The Ukrainian media outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing a law enforcement source, that the explosion took place at an office of Ukrposhta, the state-owned postal service. The source attributed the explosion to someone trying to send a part of a grenade launcher by mail. kyivindependent.com/explosion-…

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[2025/10/30 16:41]



RT by @KyivIndependent: 🇺🇸 Trump’s Ukraine U-turns: a week of surprises

The US President has been hot and cold on Ukraine over the past weeks. Why? A potentially defining meeting with Xi Jinping in 🇰🇷 South Korea is looming… 🧵👇

#UkraineUpdate #USUA #USChina Photo: Kyodo News Stills via Getty Images

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[2025/10/30 15:09]



⚡️After US sanctions, Lukoil to sell assets to firm founded by Putin ally. Russian oil company Lukoil said on Oct. 30 that it had reached a deal to sell its foreign assets to Gunvor, a company founded by an ally of President Vladimir Putin. Lukoil attributed the sale to the U.S. sanctions introduced against Lukoil on Oct. 22. Gunvor was founded in 1997 by Gennady Timchenko, a close associate of Putin, and Swedish billionaire Torbjörn Törnqvist. kyivindependent.com/after-us-s…

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[2025/10/30 14:15]



⚡️ Polish jets intercept Russian reconnaissance plane for second time this week. kyivindependent.com/polish-jet…

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[2025/10/30 13:51]



Snailfight. Institutes of Justinian, France 15th century. Montpellier, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire. Section Médecine, H 418, fol. 107v.
#medieval #MedievalArt


'House of Stairs' by Dave Mennenoh

blenderartists.org/t/house-of-…

#b3d #blender3d #blenderart #blenderrender #blendercommunity





Any #Wordpress experts able to help me figure out how to change the og:image for the IFTAS blog? I'm using the Nook theme, I have a Site Logo set in the site editor, Jetpack is enabled (.com business plan).

I have a 1200x630 image ready to use, but nowhere to set it - looks like instead there's a pre-determined auto-created image from s0.wp.com and nowhere to change it.

I cannot not edit the theme nor functions directly (hosted service), and I prefer not using a bloated plugin...

in reply to Matthias Pfefferle

@pfefferle I'm on mobile, but can check tomorrow too. If the OG tags are coming from Jetpack, this filter is likely a fair place to start. developer.jetpack.com/hooks/je…


Hauptprobe
Item date: ca. 1915.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
highres: oa.letterformarchive.org/item?…


I'm a model & actress. A few years ago I was hired by an elderly gentleman who was terminally ill to attend his funeral and stand around looking bereft and hot and mysterious. I took the fee but didn't bother going. Hasn't asked for his money back so far.




Cock on stilts and dancing dog. Roman d’Alexandre, Tournai 1338-1344. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 91r.
#medieval #MedievalArt


Amazing Stories vol. 4, no. 6 (September 1929)

I assume that the craft bottom right is "us" and the Evil TV Remote Craft are invading aliens? Even the "us" one is pretty futuristic, and its weapon for some reason is mounted at the rear, firing forward.

Back then there were no conventions for this kind of thing.

Original magazine: archive.org/details/Amazing_St…

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration



Arched back. ‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506. BL, Add 18852, fol. 62v.
#medieval #MedievalArt


My daughter got suspended for booting the school bully in the bollocks, so obviously had to "punish" her. But having gone to school with the prick's parents I'm actually really proud of her for potentially ending the bloodline.



Managed to introduce "synergistic frictivation" into the company lexicon after using it in a strategy document to test if anyone reads them. Now, senior management uses it in presentations as if it's gospel. Last week, someone suggested we "frictivate our verticals".


Our cat dragged back a baby rabbit earlier this year. It started a competition with my neighbour. Her cat has accumulated 114 points to my cat's 121. The cats don't know they're competing but we do coo at their kills.


Barnfattigdomen i Sverige ökar igen: ”Alarmerande” -> dn.se/sverige/barnfattigdomen-…


A laser pointer at 2B FPS

[video]Link: youtube.com/watch?v=o4TdHrMi6d…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



Bonfire Open Science is now @ORCID_Org certified as a Manuscript Submission System provider 🎉

This opens new possibilities for turning conversations into citable, #FAIR and permanent research objects. But what should be archived? How does this affect scientific discourse?

More details: openscience.network/blog/scien…
We also updated the website to investigate such questions together: openscience.network

Interested in setting up an instance for your collective or at your institution? Get in touch!





Practical effects in films are always, always better than CGI. Even the crappy shark in jaws would have been worse as CGI.


Was heavily into the whole no-branding thing in the 2000s. Never wore clothes with slogans or logos. Eschewed big brands. Bought a dog. Refused to name him. After six months, succumbed to peer pressure and called it Ian. Never responded to it. Just came and went as it pleased.


From @indivisibleteam and the ACLU: Good organizing training this Wed:

"To prepare, join the ACLU's Protest Safety, Know Your Rights and De-Escalation Training on October 15 at 7 PM ET. This training will give you the tools to take action safely, confidently, and with key de-escalation strategies in hand. Whether you're marching, rallying, or supporting from the sidelines, you'll learn how to protect yourself, your community, and stand up for your rights."

#NoKings act.aclu.org/a/no-kings-kyr-en…



TOMORROW is it! The #nokings protest is almost here! Here’s the plan:
1. Share / boost this post to grow account - help us grow to largest social reach by 18th ✅ 2. Amp and boost all Nokings posts leading up to 18th. We will, too. ✅ 3. On protest day take pics and share posts from you local protest w/ #nokings tag… join us in boosting every single one! Lets go build community show up in numbers never seen before, and organize the open social web to fight for democracy!
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Russia has hit the Odessa region with drones. The city of Belgorod-Dnestrovskyi is partially de-energized, there is no water in houses meduza.io/news/2025/10/12/ross…








『ドラクエ』和風な「スライム湯のみ」が可愛い!青海波と花小紋、2つの柄を風流にデザイン
animeanime.jp/article/2025/10/…

#animeanime



















🔬 With Bonfire's upcoming Open Science Network 1.0, you can archive fediverse conversations to #zenodo (and compatible repositories like works.hcommons.org from @hello) and obtain a #DOI.

Every participant becomes a credited co-author, and @ORCID_Org integration can automatically publish it to your profile as well.

Join in co-designing community-owned infrastructure for open science! 🔥

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Portici di carta ha invaso di libri e bellezza il centro di Torino quotidianopiemontese.it/2025/1…


🔥 RSS/Atom support opens up data portability beyond the fediverse.
You can now subscribe to user feeds, thread comments, posts, articles, events, media feeds, or custom feeds directly in your RSS client.

Demo: tella.tv/video/cmg57fu7u00050b…

Read more about 1.0 RC3: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonf…

#enshittification #release #dataportability



German government comes out against Chat Control

Link: xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/statu…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



🔥 Consent-based quoting has arrived in Bonfire!

The latest Bonfire Social release implements Mastodon's FEP-044f, enabling you to:
✨ Use boundaries to define who can quote your post, who must request first, or who cannot request at all.
✨ Quote — or request consent to quote — someone else’s post.
✨ Give or withdraw consent at any time.

A first step toward making quoting work smoothly and respectfully across the fediverse.

Read more about 1.0 RC3: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonf…

#quote



🔥 More anti-enshittification features now live in Bonfire

✨ Complete data portability: Export/import now supports circles/lists, bookmarks, likes, and boosts alongside follows, blocks, and posts.

✨ Transparency by design: A dedicated real-time dashboard to monitor migration progress in detail and troubleshoot issues.

Read more about 1.0 RC3: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonf…
#enshittification #release

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Astounding vol. 43, no. 6 (August 1949)

There is a lot going on here, isn't there? This actually looks like a guy I know so it's even weirder for me, but … is he medieval? Why does he have an artist's palette on his, I want to say "tabard"? Is he wearing a wristwatch? And of course what does his ominous shadow tell us?

Original magazine: archive.org/details/Astounding…

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration




🔥 Did you know you can fully customize your Bonfire sidebar?
Pick the feeds you want, reorder everything, move sections around. Don't let the power of the default dictate your experience, make the interface adapt to your needs!
See the video: tella.tv/video/ivans-video-063…
And see you at #Fediforum later today!
#enshittification #UX #defaults




🔥 Bonfire now supports post imports when migrating instances

You can bring your posts (+ optionally replies) with you when moving to a Bonfire instance from another instance or platform. Imported posts keep their original dates and URIs. Threads are preserved, as are like/boost counts. It works by "boosting" all your old posts (without flooding others' feeds with old activities).

Demo: tella.tv/video/cmg57she8000b0b…

Read more about 1.0 RC3: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonf…

#dataportability #enshittification

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📣 Bonfire Social 1.0rc3 just dropped!
This latest release puts data portability and anti-enshittification front and center.
Read what's new: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonf…



Истории призывников, которые собирались пойти на АГС, но столкнулись с уголовным преследованием

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Germania, l’ultradestra non sfonda a ovest: in Nordreno-Westfalia bocciati i sindaci Afd

www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/09/28/news/germania_nordreno-westfalia_afd_comunali-424876855

Alle comunali regge il cordone sanitario del popolare Hendrik Wuest della Cdu e della leader regionale della Spd Sarah Philipp contro l’avanzata del partito di estrema destra



Presidente Mattarella,
La prego di usare la sua autorità ed il suo peso politico, che oggi è quello di un Paese intero col cuore in frantumi, per chiedere ad Israele di fermare il massacro, invece che alla Flotilla, la nostra fiaccola di umanità in movimento, di fermarsi.



Amazing Stories vol. 8, no. 6 (October 1933)

Somehow this monster thing is made less monstrous by the fact that it has hair?

Original magazine: archive.org/details/amazing-st…

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration



Quote from ADAM (@AdameMedia):

BREAKING:

Tucker Carlson accuses Trump of using Charlie Kirk's murder to revoke the 1st Amendment:

"If they can tell you what to say, and they're telling you what to think, there is nothing they can't do to you."

So many people need to hear this 👏🏼

#CharlieKirk

in reply to ZEITGEIST ⚡

It's a strange world when a poster child for conservatism turns against a conservative government.



#3143 - Question Mark
#3143
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in reply to XKCD Bot

Oh, so this is a thing in other languages as well? We had a colleague in our company who often ended his sentences with "Fragezeichen" (the German word for "question mark") and I found it really weird.

Is there any logical reason doing so?





With less than a week to go, let's see which platforms are responding to the Annual Fediverse Survey

To help make the graph readable, Mastodon, with 59 entries, is not included in the visual. Any platforms with only one response have been excluded (13 total).

Data in alt text.

Not participated yet? The survey takes 5 to 10 minutes, jump in:

cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view…

If the above link doesn't work (CryptPad links sometimes break) try

about.iftas.org/moderator-need…



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Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.

Sourced from archive.org, where you can read the original magazines.

[Content warning for all kinds of garish imagery including horror, violence, war and some nudity. Racial stereotypes crop up from time to time.]

#FollowFriday #Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration




SFs most gallant "gator celebrates 30 years since his hatch day

48hills.org/2025/09/sfs-most-g…

... and California Academy of Sciences is giving you an entire month to applaud Claude.

#48Hills #News VIA #MPAQ #English September 4, 2025




NEXTA Live [TRANSLATED MESSAGE] 🔥 Heavy fire in occupied Luhansk after a series of explosions A local oil depot is reported to have been hit. @nexta_live t.me/nexta_live/102412 ↩

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title: Melton
source: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
notes: Research in Progress
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
collection.cooperhewitt.org/vi…


'Panthera spelaea' by Joanna Kobierska

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#b3d #blender3d #blenderart #blenderrender #blendercommunity




'Vintage Spaceship' by Nico Buzeki

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#b3d #blender3d #blenderart #blenderrender #blendercommunity



'Mini Metropolis' by Sysina

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#b3d #blender3d #blenderart #blenderrender #blendercommunity



Fantastic Adventures vol. 2, no. 3 (March 1940)

Wow, pretty violent. That's an old-fashioned ink pen, one you need to dip into ink? Gruesome. Maybe a coin wasn't the best shield. That monocled, sinister figure is actually right there watching them? The lighting makes it seem like maybe he's superimposed, not actually present.

Original magazine: archive.org/details/Fantastic_…

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration




'Platform In The Skies' by Henrik Debner

blenderartists.org/t/platform-…

#b3d #blender3d #blenderart #blenderrender #blendercommunity



Hitzewelle: Besonders heiß war’s im Südwesten – jetzt drohen bis zu 39 Grad - Heiß, heißer, am heißesten: An vielen Orten Deutschlands stöhnen die Menschen unter der Hitze. Besonders viel Abkühlung war in zwei Bundesländern nötig. sn-online.de/panorama/hitzewel…


BREAKING: we have just completely removed all ads from OSNews. The ad industry sucks, so I've put my money where my mouth is. OSNews is now entirely ad-free, for everyone.

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'Autumn Canal' by Daniel Lee

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#b3d #blender3d #blenderart #blenderrender #blendercommunity


in reply to Bart Veldhuizen 🚀

@BartV That is not a terrified cat. What are you judging on? The ears? This is normal if there's noise coming from behind him. A terrified cat would not sit still like that.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron yes: ears, eyes, thehunched posture. It all reads as scared to me, which makes sense if you dress it up - cats tend to hate that. I hope I’m mistaken!


🚨 Achtung, blinder Passagier! 🪲
In Hessen wurde zum ersten Mal ein Japankäfer entdeckt – genauer gesagt im Raum Trebur (Kreis Groß-Gerau).
➡️ Warum das wichtig ist?
Der Japankäfer ist eine invasive Art und kann richtig großen Schaden in Natur, Landwirtschaft und Gärten anrichten. Er frisst sich durch über 300 Pflanzenarten – von Weinreben bis Obstbäume! 😳🌿🍇Deshalb heißt es jetzt: Augen auf! 👀

Funde könnt ihr dem RP Gießen zusammen mit einem Foto melden:
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New executive order puts all grants under political control

Link: arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…




A pioneering Colorado pilot program that opens the door to large scale rainwater harvesting likely to end next year

coloradosun.com/2025/08/07/col…

The Colorado rainwater harvesting pilot program generated little interest, with only one Douglas County district participating

#TheColoradoSun #News VIA #MPAQ #English #Colorado August 7, 2025






Alcune compagnie aeree continuano a controllare le carte di identità al gate
Non rispettando le nuove regole imposte dall’ENAC, che nelle prossime settimane farà ispezioni e sanzioni
ilpost.it/2025/08/02/alcune-co…
in reply to Il Post (Bot)

Controllare i documenti rallenta le procedure di imbarco. Le compagnie aeree continuano a verificarli per placare gli animi di alcuni viaggiatori che si sentono meno sicuri per via di questo cambiamento. @quinta che ne pensi potrebbe essere questa la ragione?
in reply to Buccia

@BucciaBuccia

@ilpost_bot

Penso potrebbe essere un deterrente a un mercato secondario dei biglietti: uno potrebbe comprare biglietti a poco e rivenderli a tanto a terzi. sarebbe una violazione contrattuale. controllando i documenti si assicurano che non avvenga

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