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Jón Frímann

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Writer, Science, volcanoes, earthquakes, technology, radio communications. - Unfriendly to fascism and nazi of all types. English - Icelandic | Europe | AI is a scam https://icelandgeology.net - https://eldstod.com

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Jón Frímann @jonfr500.bsky.social · 23d

Strong earthquake in Hamarinn volcano in Iceland.

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Strong earthquake in Hamarinn volcano – Iceland geology

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 1h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 30m

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7m

Illinois State Police issue a final warning to disperse from in front of the Broadview ICE facility, a full 20 minutes before the protest curfew time.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 4h

This Is Definitely Fascism!

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Jón Frímann @jonfr500.bsky.social · 51m

Lessons on why people should not use the cloud for anything.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

tom_watts • 3d
According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Hot new item. Flying off the shelves.

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

A member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee praises Putin.

The Trump Cult has driven Republicans mad.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
@RepLuna
X.com
The @NobelPrize commission has LOST all credibility.
@realDonaldTrump has ended 8 wars in 9 months and he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
Thank you @KremlinRussia_E for backing
@POTUS!

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Paul L. @paul9876.bsky.social · 1h

Watching the UK and Australia go all psycho-American at the same time as the US goes super-psycho is surreal.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 3h

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1h

SCOTUS has announced it will review a Hawaii law that forbids gun owners from bringing firearms on private property without the property owner’s explicit permission.

If it falls, the court could make it harder for states and cities to keep guns out of everyday life. trib.al/XP9fwpZ

The Supreme Court Could Make It Easier to Bring a Gun Everywhere

The justices just took up a challenge to a Hawaii law that bars people from carrying guns on private property against the owner’s wishes.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 5h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Jón Frímann @jonfr500.bsky.social · 2h

Fascism has arrived in the United Kingdom

youtu.be/kFcIQ2-GKp0?...

Oops, We're all Terrorists

YouTube video by Emma Thorne

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 22h

imagine overhearing your 12-year-old threaten to fuck their opponent’s mom over Xbox live and they are speaking to Bashar al-Assad

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 7h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 19h

Troll account that also makes veiled threats for your blocking consideration

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 6h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19h

This is not a man who is having an easy time staying awake

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 2h

According to Formula TV, citing three sources, Georgia’s former State Security chief Grigol Liluashvili acted as a double agent — giving assurances to Oct 4 rally organizers (e.g. that police wouldn’t disperse protesters), only to vanish on the day of the protest.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 3h

This is often said. I might've even said it at some times.

But honestly it's not true.

They win because they cheat. If we had free and fair elections without barriers

It'd be a different world. IMO.

Mayor of Crazy Town @sunmonkey23.bsky.social · 3h

You know why the Republicans continue to win? They’re loyal to their party. None of this kind of circular firing squad purity testing. It will continue to sink us. Save those conversations for after we wrestle control from the fascists. I’m just saying. It’s go time and we need a solid line! ✌️☮️🕊️

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Jón Frímann @jonfr500.bsky.social · 3h

India doing the mistake by servicing the extremist taliban. No good is going to happen because of this.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anger after female journalists excluded from Afghan embassy event in India

Female reporters were excluded from an event at the Taliban government's embassy in New Delhi.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 3h

“We’ve observed large, heavily armed groups engaging in suspicious activity. These are clearly not border guards, and the situation poses a real threat,” Estonian border officials stated.

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