Tomorrow is the day. VMUG Connect 2026 is here and ITQ is ready 👋

Let’s connect with the community and exchange ideas. See you tomorrow!

#itq #vmug #vcf9 #privateai #community #whatnext

"People love a panda!" - MARY HARRIS, Wait, China’s Taking Our Pandas Back?, What Next #WhatNext #NationalPandaDay #MaryHarris

From my favorite labor historian
Will we ever learn?
#FarmLabor #WhatNext #TheGrapesOfWrath

Between the Table & the News A short story written by Matt Gardner with PlotWeaver: Cards of Creation, a storytelling game made by Mod Hob Cooperative.

A reflective story about sitting safely at home while loved ones face conflict far away.

Between the Table & the News explores the quiet tension between everyday life and global crises.

#storytelling #writing #peace #ambiguity #whatnext #endwar #newstories

open.substack.com/pub/plotweav...

Teaching a robot dog new tricks sounds fun. Doing it with Private AI on VCF9 makes it serious business 🤖

Curious how this works in practice? Join the demo and see it live in Amsterdam!

#itq #vmug #vcf9 #privateai #community #whatnext

VCF9 upgrades are rarely one size fits all. Understanding your options makes all the difference 🚀

Next week at VMUG Connect 2026, Dirk-Jan Alken will break down the upgrade paths to VCF9 and explain how to assess your current environment!

#vmug #vcf9 #privatecloud #sessions #community #whatnext

One week to go until VMUG Connect 2026. We are almost there 🚀

Come by for the sessions, the conversations or simply to connect. See you next week in Amsterdam!

#itq #vmug #vcf9 #privateai #sessions #whatnext

"And the gist of what happened in Arkansas was that it was a complete disaster!" - PAMELA HERD, Do Work Requirements Work?, What Next #WhatNext #PamelaHerd

Night street scene in Lisbon with cafés and colorful umbrellas lining a narrow street. A man walking with a cane moves along a bright pink pavement while people dine and gather along both sides of the street.

Some walks are quieter than the world around them.

#Stunday
#StreetScape
#UrbanGaze
#NightPhotography
#CityLife
#PhotographyOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
#WhatNext

Black and white close frame of a planter riddled with grass, leaves and spent cigar ends.

Luxury

#ScapeDay #StreetScape #UrbanScape #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #StreetPhotography #PhotographyOfBlueSky #WhatNext #EastCoastKin
#Travel #NYC #Cigar #Scape #Luxury #Photo #City #Art #Life #Dirt #ClassicMono

This is Q9 in action 👀

Do you want to see Q9 in real life? Come visit us at VMUG Connect 2026 in Amsterdam!

#itq #vcf9 #privateai #vmug #community #whatnext

A black-and-white photograph of a long arched corridor in Lisbon with repeating stone arches and hanging lanterns forming strong symmetry. A single person walks away through the passage toward a bright opening in the distance.

Some places guide you forward.

#ScapeDay #StreetScape #UrbanScape #Architecture #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #StreetPhotography #PhotographyOfBlueSky #WhatNext #EastCoastKin

‘There is no shame in being vain’: the relentless rise of impossible male beauty standards Men’s faces are under scrutiny as never before, with more opting for cosmetic procedures than ever. What is behind this sudden and significant shift?

White male neocon vanity rules male "beauty" standards
"... we judge every day who is trustworthy and who is not, based on accepted markers that are often fundamentally racist."
#WhatNext
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

America is Experiencing the Age of the Dominus: Our Moment of Truth Discover the concept of 'Dominus' in the context of Trump's presidency and its implications for democracy in the United States.

"And in that moment, I realized how much of our political crisis is also a crisis of language."
#WhatNext
seattlemedium.com/america-stru...

VMUG Connect 2026 is getting closer and we are getting ready 👀

Join the conversation and exchange ideas with the community in Amsterdam! See you there?

#itq #vmug #vcf9 #privateai #innovation #whatnext

Upgrading to VCF9 often looks simpler on paper than it is in reality. That is exactly the challenge Dirk-Jan Alken will address during VMUG Connect 2026 👀

Will we see you there?

#itq #vmug #vcf9 #privatecloud #community #whatnext

I'm starting to think all the swimsuits and inflatables I see on my feed are subliminally influencing me...

Isn't it great?

#Kigurumi #HighlySusceptible #WhatNext

Meet Q9, our newest ITQ’er! 🤖

Want to see Q9 in real life? Come say hi at VMUG Connect 2026 in Amsterdam!

#itq #vcf9 #privateai #vmug #whatnext

JFC, looks like the end of online course work might be coming, thanks to #aislop Companies are offering free hook the students trails.

It will impersonate a student and log into the LMS and submit assignments for them. #worsttimeline #llm #whatnext

The Wrong Way To Deal With Anxiety The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.

How to deal with anxiety. Each time you push through, you gain strength
#WhatNext

curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Again many neo-Nazis at "Day of Honour": Budapest police suppress anti-fascist protest and record personal details | Matthias Monroy At the annual “Day of Honour” in Budapest, thousands of neo-Nazis once again took part in an “escape march”. One counter-protest was able to take place, while another, including a press conference, wa...

Hungary, our beacon in Europe, according to Rubio and Trump!
#Fascism #Orban #Hungary #WhatNext

digit.site36.net/2026/02/16/a...

A photographer’s quest to document native bees includes an annual search along the California-Oregon border Since 2021, she’s traveled annually to the Oregon-California border to look for a critically endangered bee last seen in 2006 – Bombus franklini, or Franklin’s bumblebee.

"Hickman is on a quest to document hundreds of species of native bees, which are under threat by climate change and habitat loss, some of it caused by the more recognizable and agriculturally valued honey bee — an invasive species."
#WhatNext #Conservation

www.opb.org/article/2026...

A Question Of Balance — ELLIOT ROSS STUDIO In the Navajo Nation–a sweeping landscape of red-rock canyons and desert that takes in the Four Corners–water is not taken for granted. Here, more than one in three Diné, as Navajo people call themsel...

h/t @triptych.oxus.net.web.brid.gy
A poignant photo essay about how, here in the United States, the Diné suffer from lack of water while the nearby town has golf courses and swimming pools
#HumanRigts #WhatNext
elliotstudio.com/a-question-o...

Local Lawmakers Are Finally Moving Against ICE Impeding ICE with the combined powers of the city, county and the port.

Impede ICE with state and local legislation
#Immigration #WhatNext
www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...

The Emotional Toll of Living With Institutional Betrayal - Dame Magazine What happens to us when institutions protect power instead of people? From Epstein to ICE, institutional betrayal is inflicting trauma and moral injury.

Being betrayed by the institutions that are supposed to make you safer is traumatic.
#Politics #WeThePeople #WhatNext

www.damemagazine.com/2026/02/12/i...

‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions? Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal

“It’s good that we reduced greenhouse emissions... "said Petrescu, who runs Pur si Simplu Verde... “But the transition was brutal for a lot of people.”
We need to make the transition less brutal. And we need to do it PDQ
#Ecology #Sustainability #WhatNext

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Two Words Giving Me Hope — Even As the Trump Administration Dismantles More Climate Regulations • The Revelator There’s a lot going on to distract us from progress. But if you look through the noise, you’ll find encouraging patterns.

"There’s a lot going on to distract us from progress. But if you look through the noise, you’ll find encouraging patterns."
#WhatNext #FutureHope

therevelator.org/despite-trump/

Becoming a US citizen is very difficult and very expensive. It's surprising how many actually manage it. I could not, I am not a punctilious paperwork keeper.
#Immigration #WhatNext

pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/d...

Top US Chemical Weapons Company Selling Lethal Smoke as Non-Hazardous Safariland—a chemical weapons company that boasts annual sales of over $850 million—has removed vital safety information from its hexachloroethane (HC) smoke grenades, each of which is capable of kill...

The US Armed Forces quit using them because they were toxic to soldiers. But ICE uses them for crowd control...which is bad both for ICE agents and crowd people.
#ICE #Cruelty #WhatNext

blog.ucs.org/science-blog...

"They still know who Elmo is!" - DAVID KAMP, Is this the End of Sesame Street?, What Next #WhatNext #HappyBirthdayElmo #Elmo #ElmoBirthday #DavidKamp