Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

This post is awesome, and I predict aftermarket shops offering to remove car surveillance to spring up in the next few years.

It shouldn't be necessary, but it is.

https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/

Ukraine Unleashes Devastating Overnight Strikes Across Russia
@jayinkyiv
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XueZGkU71MY

Ukraine has launched another massive long-range strike wave, reportedly hitting 23 targets across Russia overnight — including oil infrastructure, aircraft, helicopters, ships, and military facilities.

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Jay is an American living in Kyiv since before the start of the full-scale invasion, reporting on the war in #Ukraine

#JayinKyiv
#russia
#Ukrainerussiawar
#NAFO

You fucking morons.

#ScribesAndMakers May 15. What's going well with your creative work so far this month?

Two things, both huge!

1) Short story published! It—and many other very excellent works—can be found here -> https://www.loathsomenomore.com/

2) I've "found my voice" as they say. It was masked behind a million deadeners. Now here's the crazy part: that unmasking has trickled into everyday life. Like being myself in writing has helped me be myself IRL.

#writing #amWriting #writingCommunity

U.S. President Donald Trump's blustery negotiating style seems to have hit a wall with Iran and may be undermining his own efforts to end a war that has shaken the global economy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/16/world/politics/trump-brinkmanship-iran-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #iran #middleeast #oil #donaldtrump #israel #us #usmilitary

#OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

I used to work for a leader who allowed “5 minutes to complain” before expecting folks to get behind the initiative. I thought it was a great idea, until I realized they dismissed anything said during that time.

I've been taking on more work since Samwise passed away and I find myself in my 3rd weekend in a row with work to do that I couldn't finish during the week. I am mad about this but also not really that mad about it :)

As more men in boats are killed by US air strikes in the oceans around the Caribbean & South America, its ever clearer that these attacks are doing nothing to degrade drug supply networks into the USA (their professed reason) but rather are disrupting poor fishing communities & killing seafarers where there is little (o no) evidence that they are in someway complicit with or working for drug cartels.

This looks like little more that brutal target practice.

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/us-military-airstrikes-caribbean-pacific-victim-identities

#News #Racism #USA #Podcasts #JesseDollemore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXhT-kzwVhY

#Schiffssamstag heute mal an den #Landungsbrücken in #Hamburg

Make of this what you will, but it will be no surprise that politicians, journalists & business-people rank pretty low on those we expect to tell the truth....

Of course, the fact that nurses rank so highly is an echo of the secular religion that of the NHS that remains in place despite the engineered crisis of the last decade(s).

Overall, it indicates a major problem of trust with our political class; we think they are essentially a bunch of liars! It does little for democracy!

#politics

I saw a headline today about the Trump/Xi meet, and it spoke of two superpowers in talks.

I don't think the US is a superpower any more, and I don't think it will ever be one again. Certainly not in our lifetimes, anyway.