Richmond Council U-turn on £150 fine for coffee poured in drain

Burcu Yesilyurt, who poured coffee down a drain in Richmond, welcomed the cancellation of the "disproportionate" fine.

I checked: Kew, London has a combined sewer system. So on top of this being absolutely absurd, coffee poured into the street drains goes into the sanitary sewers anyway (in normal conditions). Meanwhile, during high rain events, Kew dumps raw sewage into waterways... A cup of coffee is utterly irrelevant.

Ukrainian drone strike on a refinery in Dagestan, Russia. You gotta wonder where is air defense... 😂

Gas plant in Orenburg, Russia. “I just saw a plane land there. Did the plane crash” 😂😂😂

Dublin: Teenager charged with murder of Vadym Davydenko

Vadym Davydenko died on Wednesday after being stabbed during an altercation at an emergency accommodation centre.

Another Ukrainian refugee murdered by a black psychopath. This time the victim was a 17 year old, and the attacker was a 17 year old Somali who won't be named for legal reasons; we're lucky they even admitted he was Somali. Why are we allowing Somali's into our countries? The fact is they are on average a lot less smart and far more violent than the white and asian population.

I convinced another Ukrainian military division to accept Bitcoin donations, the Wild Division, of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade. I visited them at their training camp this summer. They urgently need $1445 to replace a broken drone signal repeater.

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bc1qnjedusjssqt2efcfszh2sywek9eavf0dsreyyg You might ask, why am I dressed in green, like a soldier? Because that training camp is ~50km from the front line. Russia knows where it is, and periodically sends drones to observe it. Since Russia actively targets journalists, we were better off blending in rather than following the usual rules of identifying ourselves clearly as press.

Computers used to be really slow.

Your homework problem: figure out how this can be used to DoS attack Bitcoin Knots nodes.

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bitcoin/doc/man/bitcoind.1 at 29.x-knots · bitcoinknots/bitcoin

Bitcoin Knots enhanced Bitcoin node/wallet software - bitcoinknots/bitcoin

We're halfway there to raising 42,000sats for the btc++ OpenTimestamps prize!

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NATO vs Ukraine The interceptor drones that Ukraine has been using to take out ~$50,000 shaheds cost ~$2000 Poland used $250,000 missiles to take them out... and didn't even come close to getting them all.

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Ryssland trappade upp sin drönarterror – här är Ukrainas svar

Ny ukrainsk försvarsdrönare har redan skjutit ned 600 ryska Shahed-drönare.

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At the btc++ Berlin Hackathon we're doing a new award: The Most Unnecessary Use of OpenTimestamps In An Otherwise Serious Entry, with a 42,000sat prize. With your donations we hope to guide a young hitchhiker to an entire galaxy of OpenTimestamps use-cases...

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/30/situatsiya-kriticheskaya-rossii-gotovitsya-zakupat-benzin-zagranitsei-iz-za-defitsita-a175876 Enough Russian oil refining capacity has been taken out that Russia is preparing to import gasoline and diesel. 😁😁😁

Footage of a recent Ukrainian attack on the power grid in Belgorod, Russia: The sound is really interesting: that sounds like a fast cruise missile. Possibly one of Ukraine's new Flamingo cruise missiles. Based on time delay, the actual hit was about 1km away. Also, another video from earlier in the attack (it took hours from what I've read): Funny enough I was recently in Kharkiv, Ukraine, during a drone attack that caused a large blackout in the city. Good to see Ukraine returning the favor...

A Ukrainian naval drones successfully hitting the oil exports terminal at the Russian port of Tuapse yesterday. The Kyiv War Museum has four of those naval drones. The one outside saw actual combat and returned home with damages that weren't economical to repair.: But the three inside are shiny display models, as though they're being presented to potential buyers at a big sales conference. 😂

It's trippy how beautiful downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine is. Just 30km from the front lines, in range of artillery. Yet my hometown Toronto has nothing as nice as its busy parks and European buildings. As I left Russia attacked the electric grid, causing a city-wide blackout. WTF.

Safelite image of the massive drone cages Russia has built around the oil refinery in Salavat, 1300km from Ukraine: It didn't work:

The sound of air raid sirens in Poland due to yet another Russian drone visit. An extraordinarily cowardly sound. All Poland has to do is shoot down these drones and you wouldn't need the sirens. But they just can't bring themselves to take action.

I created a @Geyser fundraiser goal for Libre Relay v30.0:

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I've already finished Libre Relay v30.0rc1, based on Bitcoin Core v30.0rc1:

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GitHub - petertodd/bitcoin at libre-relay-v30.0rc1

Bitcoin integration/staging tree. Contribute to petertodd/bitcoin development by creating an account on GitHub.

The goal should be enough to pay for my hours of work so far, and a few more hours for the rest of the rc's and the final release.