Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

L'Italia è in finale ai Mondiali maschili di pallavolo - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/09/27/italia-polonia-finale-mondiali-maschili-pallavolo/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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While Denmark is experiencing continued drone attacks against airports, Danish medium EB flies a helicopter south between the islands of Lolland and Langeland, and discovers the Russian Navy vessel Aleksandr Shabalin 110 covertly sailing near the Danish seas with its AIS transponder turned off.

This ship can carry 340 soldiers, 10 main battle tanks, and a crew of 98 sailors, and the speculation now is that the vessel could have had a coordinating role in the attacks.

https://ekstrabladet.dk/krimi/afsloeret-midt-i-drone-kaos-putins-krigsskib-i-skjul-ved-langeland/10956645

A bipartisan group of former Treasury secretaries, Federal Reserve chairs and other experts urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to let President Donald Trump fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/26/economy/fed-independence-legal-battle/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #federalreserve #economicindicators #us #lisacook #donaldtrump

After #spotify donated millions to Trump I can no longer stay on that platform. I want my subscription money to go to the artists, not to any politician.

I realized the change was a good thing for several reasons. The other streaming services available are so much better. They have superior sound quality, uncluttered UI. And maybe the best of all, they pay the artists better.

If you really love music, give #tidal , #qobuz or any other service a try. Just #quitspotify

Democrats in Congress are breaking with Israel like never before https://t.co/DqcmejYH6Q

"Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All these powerful people trying to save their own skin have multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility":
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/freedom-trump-threats-kimmel/684358/?gift=7deeCsgE8m50UsuOnXueiZ2IwFeRjpo5POI_7ITzhlA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Musicians Don't Feel Pain Like The Rest of Us, Surprising Study Reveals
https://www.sciencealert.com/musicians-dont-feel-pain-like-the-rest-of-us-surprising-study-reveals?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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According to the agency, “more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards” were discovered at multiple locations within the New York City area. Photos of the seized gear show what appear to be “SIM boxes” bristling with antennas and stuffed with SIM cards, then stacked on six-shelf racks. (SIM boxes are often used for fraud.) One photo even shows neatly stacked towers of punched-out SIM card packaging, suggesting that whoever assembled the system invested some quality time in just getting the whole thing set up.

The gear was identified as part of a Secret Service investigation into “anonymous telephonic threats” made against several high-ranking US government officials, but the setup seems designed for something larger than just making a few threats. The Secret Service believes that the system could have been capable of activities like “disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of services attacks, and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises.”

Joe Biden Accuser Thanks Russian Spy in Bonkers Announcement
https://newrepublic.com/post/200814/joe-biden-accuser-tara-reade-russian-spy-citizenship?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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#tokyocameraclub

Elena Kagan Tears Into Supreme Court for Letting Trump Run Amok
https://newrepublic.com/post/200761/elena-kagan-supreme-court-donald-trump-ftc?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Youth will save the world. These old fascist fuckers, billionaires, oligarchs, criminals, corrupt "neutrals" etc... they will all be swept away by their own children. No nation can fight against their own youth and win.

I​t’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence
https://newrepublic.com/article/200580/charlie-kirk-broaden-definition-political-violence?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-thenewrepublic

Toasted grasshoppers, called chapulines, have been a seasonal treat for thousands of years in Oaxaca, Mexico. Anthropology professor Jeffrey H. Cohen, author of “Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women who Sell Them,” dives into the history of eating insects:

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MeetMeTonight sono giornate in cui la ricerca milanese invita la citadinanza a partecipare nella ricerca scientifica.

Come parte di questo evento con i miei colleghi stiamo organizzando un incontro per giovani (età 13-18 anni) per conoscere la storia della lingua, in questo caso la lingua dei tempi di Shakespeare. La nostra attività dura un’ora e ci sono sessioni alle 11:00 e 12:00. Sabato, 27 settembre, Via Festa del Perdono, 7, aula 104. Accesso gratuito.

On a dry late August afternoon, we stood outside Silivri — the high-security prison west of Istanbul, where Ekrem İmamoğlu, the elected leader of Europe’s largest city, has been detained for months.

Behind us, Turkish civil society leaders held aloft banners; beside us were colleagues from his municipal team; and around us were a quiet but resolute crowd of supporters, including six other local leaders from large cities across Europe.

It wasn’t the visit we had planned, but it was powerful all the same.

In that moment, what struck us most wasn’t just the absence of the man we had traveled to see — and to whom national authorities had denied us access. It was the presence of his values echoing from every voice that spoke.

Hope, we realized, isn’t incarcerated by prison walls. And everything we witnessed only deepened our resolve to stand by our fellow city leaders and defend local democracy.

What we heard in Istanbul wasn’t despair but moral strength. İmamoğlu’s colleagues told us of how he remains engaged even behind bars, how he still asks about city projects and encourages his team to stay the course, insisting that the work of building a more inclusive, sustainable Istanbul continues.

P.S.: The data collection is massive. We can't consistently simulate accounts that aren't based in the EU. Data collection isn't as massive for EU accounts. Our entire team is currently in the EU, which makes recording a demo capturing the massive data collection difficult. Our time is limited. It would be great if researchers outside the EU investigated this. We're happy to help.