Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

I saw this on a Finnish post, so let me reformulate it a bit and post it in English.

Finnish universities 1996:

"Here's an operating system we created for you. Here's a chat network we created you can use with the operating system."

Finnish universities 2026:

"We don't know how to replace Facebook for public communications."

Learned helplessness.

#Linux #IRC #Finland #Suomi

"Want to stop Trump bullying your country? Retaliate"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/08/want-to-stop-trump-bullying-your-country-retaliate

This is "must read" for every foreign leader dealing with MAGAmoron. Now that most EU citizens are angry at a common enemy, EU leaders must use the leverage to create a strategy to pivot away from the US as both an export market and an import source. If the EU can cut off the legs of US farmers and destroy even more manufacturing, MAGAmoron will lose even his dumbest supporters. Strength is the only language he fears.

Meet your squad of tiny troublemakers! The Red Midget Crew Miniatures Pack is here to steal the scene and your heart. Ready for adventure? 🎲👾 #MiniaturePainting

Trump Is Pushing To Include Risky Assets Like Crypto and Private Equity in 401(k)s https://portside.org/2026-02-07/trump-pushing-include-risky-assets-crypto-and-private-equity-401ks

https://open.substack.com/pub/ojaiohana/p/smoking-gun-death-announcement-before?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Concrete contractor expressed surprise that business never really turned around in 2025.

It’s hard to get financing for big projects when people are being laid off, interest rates are staying high (and at times going up), materials are taxed with tariffs, and grant money dried up. Or as Trump’s fuckheads like to point out: elections matter.

@benbrown
"Now, with PicoCalc, you can write BASIC code like the pioneers anytime, anywhere"

I feel very old.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thehalfwaycafe/p/jokes-about-mitch-mcconnell-before?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

As tear gas engulfed the protest witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs;

a video posted on social media recorded eight,

as well as countless smaller pops.

At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads,
as though aimed at the back of the crowd.

“I know they would do anything,
that they would hurt people,
that they’ve murdered people and shot them in the back 10 times,”
said Cassie Broeker, a Portland resident who came to protest with friends.
“I know that intellectually.
But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest
full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.”
https://www.theverge.com/policy/872783/tear-gas-children-portland-ice-labor

8 February 1942 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Eliezer Hirsh, was born in Szatmárnémeti.

In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

💯

Analysis: "Trump’s 'Board of Peace' Grift: Con of the Century"

"What we have here is a 'Board of Peace' composed of sycophants, global toadies & war criminals, with a failure to communicate."

"It’s a lame attempt to:

"a) supplant the UN as the governing umbrella; &

"b) raise cash for & stoke the ego for Trump."

~H. Scott Prosterman

https://www.juancole.com/2026/02/donald-trumps-century.html

#BoardOfPeace #USPol #EUPol #CdnPoli #racism #palestine #colonialism #GazaGenocide .

Amalia was given a nebulizer and a respiratory medication upon her discharge from the hospital, but these were taken away by detention center staff upon her return, according to the lawsuit. The girl has lost 10% of her body weight and was given nutritional drinks to help her regain it, but these were also confiscated by authorities, according to the lawsuit. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/toddler-was-returned-ice-custody-denied-medication-after-hospitalization-lawsuit-2026-02-08/

#ICE #Immigration

Hegseth: Pentagon to end Harvard partnership over 'woke' ideology - UPI.com

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/02/07/hegseth-pentagon-harvard-end-academic-partnership/9591770496498/

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon would end its academic partnership with Harvard University over what he called a "woke" institution that is not welcoming to the U.S. military.

#Hegseth #Harvard #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press

White supremacy is evolving into Jenga with Cheetos.

It doesn't take much to bring the whole thing down.

So let them do it themselves.

A little work might do 'em good.

Some say other protocols have bigger budgets and are better at marketing.

I say: the Fediverse - by the people, for the people - has passionate advocates who use their talents to promote it, often without any financial incentives. It comes from the heart.

Before FOSDEM I asked my friend @sturmsucht - a super talented photographer - if he'd consider bringing his professional camera to take photos of speakers in the Social Web devroom. He did... and so did I.

A mini (pictorial) thread 📸

Speech That Plays It Safe Does Not Remain Free for Long https://www.liberalcurrents.com/s/ #Fascism