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  1. Brigading Against Women - Part XVI - When Your Own Colleagues Complain About You Maybe the Problem is You
    "if 2 people tell you that you're drunk, you go to sleep"
  2. Brigading Against Women - Part XV - Trying to Put Women in Prisons
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  3. Teaser/Taster
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  4. Gemini Links 03/10/2026: Book Swaps and Book Crossing, Hidden Figures (2016), Apps and Tools for Research and Writing
    Links for the day
  5. Michael Catanzaro Seems to be Missing the Point
    Calling people you disagree with "Ostriches" is lazy name-calling
  6. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 41
    People who want humans and communities to maintain their software chains (and by extension their digital life) will back GNU
  7. Links 03/10/2026: "Banned Books Week 2026" and "American Journalist Imprisoned as a Spy in Russia"
    Links for the day
  8. In Case Anybody Still Believes Microsoft Lunduke Cares About GNU/Linux...
    GNU/Linux users aren't bots
  9. Gemini Links 03/10/2026: Speculative Realism, Paper2SlopBot, Joplin, and Offline Experiment
    Links for the day
  10. Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF) Tries to Compel the European Patent Office (EPO) to Actually Function Properly
    We'll be covering the EPO a lot more soon
  11. Links 03/10/2026: Slop-Generated War Songs and "Privatisation Has Failed"
    Links for the day
  12. Proprietary Software Giant Microsoft is Quietly Laying Off Lots of Employees, Insider Explains How It's Done
    about Microsoft exits
  13. United States: More Than One in Ten Using GNU/Linux on Laptop/Desktop
    Clownflare Radar seems to show a similar trend
  14. A Leap in GNU/Linux Usage, Japan's Share in Particular
    One thing that merits attention right now is Japan. It looks like it's adopting GNU/Linux instead of GAFAM.
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 02, 2026
    IRC logs for Friday, October 02, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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