Commentry by a typeface nerd. 😊👍

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/full_text_of_marco_rubio_state_dept_directive_times_new_roman

✨ c a t ✨ #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences
#mortgagefraud

Russian Aircraft Accidentally Bombs Own Power Station in Belgorod—Causes Black Out
Source: Altitude Post
Russian Aircraft Accidentally Bombs Own Power Station in Belgorod—Causes Black Out
Source: Altitude Post
https://share.newsbreak.com/g893ojw4

Why don’t we (#AUKUS) get these subs rather than begging the USA?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=knOnCewBrj4&si=pWg2_7Hlw_p8dX-D

@anne_twain I used it as a search engine to provide references. The complete text is too long to post. You can do your own search for the same answers.

@anne_twain from
Google Gemini: Yes, the primary goal of using cloud seeding for hail suppression is to reduce the size of hailstones, thereby mitigating potential damage. 
🌬️ How Cloud Seeding Reduces Hail Size
Cloud seeding is a weather modification technique that introduces artificial ice nuclei (like silver iodide) into potential hail-producing clouds. The main mechanism proposed for reducing hailstone size is called beneficial competition: 
• Introducing More Nuclei: The seeding agents significantly increase the number of ice crystals (or hail embryos) present in the cloud's supercooled liquid water zone .
• Competition for Water: This larger number of embryos then compete for the limited amount of supercooled liquid water available in the cloud. 
• Smaller Growth: Because the water is distributed among many more particles, each individual hailstone grows less, resulting in a larger number of smaller hailstones instead of a few large, damaging ones.
• Earlier Precipitation: The increased number of particles can also potentially overload the cloud's updrafts (updraft loading), causing the smaller hailstones to fall out of the cloud earlier, before they can grow to a damaging size. The smaller stones are also more likely to melt partially or completely before reaching the ground. 
🔬 Effectiveness and Research
While the theory suggests that cloud seeding should reduce hailstone size, the effectiveness is a subject of ongoing research and debate:
• Mixed Results: Some studies and operational projects (like those in parts of the US, Canada, and Europe) have reported a statistically significant reduction in the frequency of larger hailstones and a decrease in overall hail damage claims (sometimes by 10% to 50%). 
• Inconsistent Findings: Other studies have yielded mixed or inconclusive results, making it difficult to definitively and universally prove the effectiveness due to the highly variable nature of hailstorms. 
• Model Validation: Some analyses comparing observed hail sizes in seeded versus unseeded storms have found that the observed hail sizes were consistently smaller than forecasted in seeded cases, lending support to the hypothesis. 
Cloud seeding for hail suppression is generally targeted to cause more, but smaller, pieces of precipitation.
To see a short video on cloud seeding to lessen hail damage, check out Cloud seeding to mitigate hail damage in Alberta.

With climate change increasing the moisture content of the atmosphere we should be using drones to cloud seed storms to prevent hail damage. Insurance companies should collaborate with councils and the BOM. #climateChange #auspol

I finally found where the nice warm gray box is now at my new house. 🔥😸💤 #cat #CatsOfMastodon

Most economists agree that by age 50, you should:
- own at least one magic sword
- get advice from an enchanted bear skull
- be covered by a thin layer of moss & lichen
- disappear into a malevolent fog once a month
- become a creature of myth & legend in the old forest

There was a story tonight on the ABC News about African lovegrass impacting Australian pastures. This should be a great AI/robotic solution with a drone scanning the pastures for the weed and signal location for an automated wheeled sprayer to later visit and spray. The main AI component is simply identifying the weed. Route planning for the sprayer would be an already solved problem.
This sort of system could be a community owned system used throughout the shires affected. #australia #rural

Twenty streets of Paris before and after in one minute

Puffin says "I see you have a snack; did you know that I also like snacks?"

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

Worth noting with Mastodon - one of the reasons for no cookie consent popup is.. there are no tracking cookies. At all.

Similar with official mobile apps, there's no privacy agreements etc in the app stores as there's no third party tracking.

Why is this notable? Try doing the same check on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky or basically anywhere or anything else online. It's basically unheard of in 2025, as everybody else is selling you.

Donald Trump publicly calls for the execution of Democratic congressmen, and Republicans don’t bat an eye. But as soon as you make a joke about Charlie Kirk’s views, all hell breaks loose.

This is the face of a nazi. His name is Kevin Lunday. He is the fascist boot licker forcibly tasked to take over the U.S. Coast Guard after Donald fired Admiral Linda Fagan on his first day in office.

He has just removed classification of the swastika as a hate symbol. Yeah. It’s now classified as “potentially divisive.”

DIVISIVE! 🤬

If it acts like a nazi, it’s a nazi.

https://archive.ph/7xuit

#Nazi #Fascism #Swastika #HateSpeech #HateSymbol #KevinLunday #USCoastGuard #AntiSemitism

The Sun has officially set in Barrow, Alaska, and it won't rise again until January 22, 2026.

Ignore the Nationals.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/transmission-line-projects-faces-massive-challenges/106029214?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

King of UK, to his own brother: "That does it, you're not a prince any more. Out you go."

US, now that Trump is clearly implicated: "Technically it's not really pedophilia if the girl is 14."

The freaking *British royal family* is doing a better job cleaning house than we are.