tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

My mum once caught me with a dumbell weight tied with string to my willy, in a naive, dangerous and fruitless attempt to lengthen it. I've never heard her laugh so hard for so long, and I still cringe whenever I remember it 30 years later. I hope she never told anyone.

A powerful and heartbreaking interactive article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead. Thanks to the @guardian for putting it out there.

#dataviz #journalism

”Nu krävs repressiva åtgärder för att skydda demokratin” skriver Muf, och ekar därmed vad alla auktoritära ledare alltid sagt. ”Beteendet härrör från andra kulturer”, fortsätter Muf-ledaren och tar därigenom av sig masken och blottar rasismens ansikte www.dn.se/debatt/pales...

DN Debatt. ”Palestinademonstra...

Fullständigt bisarr historia. Men 100% i linje med hur vår säkerhetspolitik har utvecklats på senare år. www.svt.se/nyheter/gran...

Bilderna från mötet med Säpo: ...

Petter Berg vid Handels i Stockholm forskar om hur livet påverkas av vilket gymnasium man gått på: Man förlorar 200 000 kr i livslön på att välja en vinstdriven gymnasieskola, det är svårare att klara gymnasieexamen i tid och att komma in på högskolan. tankesmedjanbalans.se/forskare-pa-...

This was very good on the difference between simplification and de-regulation. www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...

The fine line between simplifi...

They did the Monster Slash

A few days ago Oracle, via the media, blamed their own customers for not installing a July security update.. then when the media coverage stopped, quietly released a new security update for the actual exploited vulnerability. 🥴

Lecornu après avoir nommé son gouvernement

Tråd: Som @vitkor.bsky.social påpekat finns en mycket intressant parallell till Ukraina vad gäller Gazakonvojen. Regeringen kör ju all in på linjen ”det råder reseavrådan, de borde inte ha åkt”. I en intervju med SVT säger Kristersson att aktivisterna inte kan förvänta sig någon hjälp.

How randomisation has changed the British Academy’s approach to research funding
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/04/16/how-randomisation-has-changed-the-british-academys-approach-to-research-funding/
Another funding org exploring randomization of awards among proposal exceeding a certain threshold.
The pool of applicants and recipients was more diverse after the policy change 1/

“‘They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,’ the Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.

Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was ‘wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy’ – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/greta-thunberg-israel-gaza-sweden

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #Palestine #GretaThunberg #GlobalSumudFlotilla #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

NY OECD-RAPPORT OM SVENSK LOBBYISM! Sverige släpar efter i regler mot lobbyism och partifinansiering. OECD föreslår reformer för starkare transparens, bättre kontroll av pengar i politiken och hårdare regler för övergångar till privat sektor. *kort tråd* www.oecd.org/content/dam/...

https://crookedtimber.org/2024/11/11/occasional-paper-four-hidden-species-of-portuguese-man-o-war/

Det här blogg-inlägget var väldigt roligt. Världen är verkligen mysko.

Hur en flykt kan se ut.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4q2cv6gywrk2jw2lohgt7rae/post/3m2ebu3k3u22u

CWA just shared their research into the lives of the US-based data workers responsible for training and maintaining modern “AI” platforms. The findings are, in a word, grim: https://cwa-union.org/ghost-workers-ai-machine

Solar is a superior substitute for fossil fuels in several ways. One example, solar not needing constant replenishment of more stuff to burn.

Decarbonization at a distance @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/02/there-goes-the-sun/

A survey finds only 28% of US adults overall and 8% of Republicans have a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in newspapers, radio, and TV news, a new low (Megan Brenan/Gallup)

https://news.gallup.com/poll/695762/trust-media-new-low.aspx
http://mediagazer.com/251002/p9#a251002p9

This photo from the Perseverance rover captured in early March, may be my favorite Mars image from this year.

It shows Mars' smaller moon Deimos over the hills of the Nili Planum region in the dark skies before dawn. 🔭

Full res: https://flic.kr/p/2rwUwV7

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

#Perseverance #NASA #Mars #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Deimos #twilight