Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Hello mapstodon.space!

My old server (historians.social) is closing down, so I'm joining you all.

I do mostly map history and related things, some sci-fi nerdery and the occasional funny.

Glad to be here!

Flag shagger caught trying to burn down a hotel housing asylum seekers, again.

Man arrested after fire at London asylum seeker hotel | UK News | Sky News

https://news.sky.com/story/man-arrested-after-fire-at-london-asylum-seeker-hotel-13438929

Scientists Finally Reveal Why 'Hobbits' Were So Small. Via @sciencealert #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology

Scientists Finally Reveal Why ...

The removal of educational abortion content from Meta platforms with little transparency or communication with users is unacceptable. Read the story of the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline’s censorship on Instagram in the latest installment of our #StopCensoringAbortion blog series. https://www.eff.org/pages/silencing-abortion-providers-meta

Numerologists take note: tomorrow, 27th September 2025, is a square date in both US and Everywhere Else notation.

5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025

This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years! (except trivial dates where the US and Everywhere Else forms are the same)

(from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)

Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta: https://system76.com/pop/pop-beta/
#linux #linuxgaming #update #release #popos #distro #stable #beta #cosmic

Time to get vocal. This petition has well over 500,000 signatures already. If you're in the UK and don't want a compulsory digital ID you can add your name:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

#UKPolitics
#NoDigitalID

Saturn seen in ultraviolet light -- a very different look for the ringed planet.

In this Hubble image, the bright middle zone shows that Saturn's rings are heating up the planet's atmosphere.

How does that work? Scientists haven't figured it out yet...

https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-009 #space #astronomy #science #art

I have noted from time to time that my broadband service is provided by a community broadband initiative called Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN); Full disclosure: early on I was on the management committee.

If you're interested in how B4RN delivered world class broadband to a rural community over a decade ago, there is now a massive on-line book of history & implementation tips for you to have a look at.

Headline: we did it ourselves!

#broadband #technology

https://book.b4rn.community/b4rn-the-early-years/

US President Donald Trump has said that he will not allow Israel to annex the occupied West Bank, which will come as a blow to Netanyahu, who has been signalling that his administration would do so.

Speaking at the Oval Office, Trump said: “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. I will not allow it. Not going to happen.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJwIqVuSRlA

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Anti Fascist protest this Saturday, 27th September Folkestone

Hope to see you there

Xx

#antifa

Tony Blair ‘offers to lead interim governing body of postwar Gaza’

It might be flippant, but haven’t people ion the Middle East suffer enough from Blair’s interference?

His ‘long standing interest’ refers to money making and power.

http://archive.today/2025.09.25-232934/https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/sir-tony-blair-offers-to-lead-interim-governing-body-of-postwar-gaza-wrm87gtc5

#Blair #Gaza #SupremeLeader

The Fascists just needed an excuse to start their genocide...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/25/transgender-americans-are-seeing-a-wave-of-hate-unleashed-by-charlie-kirks-killing

#CharlieKirk #TransRightsAreHumanRights #USPOL #LGBTQIA

RFK Jr cancelled mRNA research — but the US military is still funding it
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03093-6
The [US] Department of Defense is continuing to bankroll projects to develop vaccines against deadly pathogens.

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1039528/ #LWN