Congressman Jamie Raskin just said that he was able to view the full and unredacted Epstein Files, and searching Donald Trump's name resulted in "MORE THAN A MILLION" results.

We knew of 38,000 mentions. That means we know of only ~3% of Trump's involvement with a convicted child sexual abuser and sex trafficker.

Anyone still not ready to impeach and remove him is complicit. Period.

Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0

@hzulla

hang on, gotta fix this.

"...once a year"

OK. That's better.

@pluralistic

I love this!

“This 21-Year-Old Bagpiper Plays Through Tear Gas to ‘Fire Up’ Anti-ICE Protesters.
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.”

https://lataco.com/protest-bagpiper

A headline you write when you are definitely, undeniably winning

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/02/dont-be-a-panican-were-winning-and-were-not-slowing-down/

#USPol

"When members of the U.S. women's cross-country ski team walked into a news conference in a packed room at the start of the Olympics, each of them wore a mask. Jessie Diggins, the team's top athlete, said the same rules apply if she's inside with her husband, who's staying not with Diggins at the Olympics, but with family."

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/09/nx-s1-5702394/olympic-covid-restrictions-are-gone-but-some-athletes-still-self-quarantining

#PublicHealth #olympics #covid #masking #prevention

@leeloo that went over my head too.

@leeloo ah! OK, now I've got the opposite question. If they're doing it like this because of the chemistry, how do the ones that don't use 6 AAAA batteries do it? Are they just making 6 flat cells packed into a rectangle instead of cylinders?

@mattdm @kwayk42

@nettings it's packed really tightly in there. The question I have is how it even makes sense economically to do that.

@astrid @kwayk42

@mattdm I'm not sure what I was supposed to be seeing in that article. Would it make more sense if I had a subscription to read the full article?

@kwayk42

@nettings I've taken one apart and I've seen it myself.

https://www.rfcafe.com/references/electrical/aaaa-cells-inside-a-9volt-battery.htm

@astrid @kwayk42

@mattdm yeah that brings up so many questions. So few things use AAAA batteries that most people don't even know they exist.

On the other hand, 9V batteries aren't at all uncommon yet manufacturers will often make 6 AAAA batteries first and then use those to make a single 9V? Wouldn't it be more efficient to make the 9V directly and make fewer AAAA's?

This has been bugging me ever since I learned this.

@kwayk42

@jalager OK, I had no idea the single A battery was a thing.

Also, it's really funny that this battery is apparently so uncommon that they didn't have an actual photo to use on the Wikipedia page for battery sizes so they just drew a 2D representation of it on a piece of graph paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes#/media/File:A-concept.jpg

@kwayk42 @astrid

@astrid is there any easy way to tell which ones are or aren't without ripping apart a 9V battery?

I actually didn't even know AAAA batteries existed before I learned about this. I found an old 9V and tore into it as soon as I read about it and that one was indeed made from 6 AAAA batteries.

@kwayk42

@peter yeah, I'm totally on board with this. Virtual has benefits for sure and at this point in my career, I prefer it, but earlier I really wish I had a team and someone senior to show me how stuff worked. Granted, this would only be true if you have a good team, but all things being equal it would have been nice to not need to learn everything the hard way.

@ProfundumPhoto it's "Happy February". Look at the way the A is written in "thank you".

It's confusing because it's not actually cursive. It just looks like cursive because it's a quirky way of printing.

Finished 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million Pounds' by John Higgs a few days ago, and been thinking about it ever since.

Utterly compelling and a lot of fun, I cannot recommend it highly enough - with the caveat it's not a straight bio but more an exploration of intersections of the band with Discordianism, the Illuminatus! trilogy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Alan Moore, Situationists, Doctor Who, global economics, the number 23, magical thinking, synchronicity and more. #books

@kwayk42 that little factoid about 9V batteries (usually) being nothing more than six AAAA batteries in a trench coat will never not be mind blowing to me.

@astrid

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116045124696588727

Stuff like this reminds me of the days when seeing a really well done pixelated drawing on your monitor blew your mind.