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Ach, wie läuft es eigentlich bei den rechten Nationalliberalen der FDP? Oh, no, oh jesus. What the fuck?



Baby #wombat-snatching US influencer at risk of losing Australian visa - theguardian.com/australia-news… confirms that "influencer" == idiot



‘80 years of lies and deception’: is this film proof of #alien life on Earth? - theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/… "The Age of Disclosure, a provocative new documentary that argues for the existence of #extraterrestrials, has drawn gasps and criticism at the SXSW film festival"


#Texas #measles outbreak spills into third state as cases reach 258 - arstechnica.com/health/2025/03… it's coming...
in reply to Glyn Moody

there should be a human rights case made against whoever is not actively promoting the vaccination for this



Trump says he will label violence against #Tesla as domestic #terrorism - techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/trum… #perfectly reasonable behaviour...
in reply to Glyn Moody

Time for Tesla owners to check if their car insurance covers acts of terrorism, or they might suddenly find their claims refused. That would be a shame...



How whale urine benefits the ocean ecosystem - arstechnica.com/science/2025/0… "Great whales can transport 4,000 tons of nitrogen annually to tropical coastal areas." clever old #whales




A 4WD tour through the rugged interior of #Tahiti in French #Polynesia with its #rainforests is a wonderful experience. We saw more than 100 #waterfalls after it had rained the day before. Did you do this tour? backpackandsnorkel.com/Tahiti/…




Forgot to connect a resistor to pin 7 so this 555 didn’t oscillate. There is now a resistor hidden under the 555, as well as me having to lift the leg of another and run a bodge wire.



Want to be more productive by being less alone? Join our co-working day this friday at the hackerspace! We'll all be in our own little worlds, but at least we'll be in them together. Paradoxical productivity awaits! #coworking #hackerspace #bruxelles #HSBXL hsbxl.be/events/open-coding-da…
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Gnome Team should be made aware that gitlab.gnome.org anti AI bot does not impact Meta.

People share links to there, and the previews work just fine, which means, you guessed it.

#Gnome #Meta




Billionaires should not exist.
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Cory Doctorow reshared this.






Here's the web page and registration form for the "Safe place for science" program from Aix-Marseille University, directed towards US scientists who would want to come work here for 3 years:

univ-amu.fr/en/public/actualit…

#standup4science #amu



Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for these Plants vs. Zombies Plush Toys. I'm rooting for plants, they provide me with delicious watermelons and limes. Zombies haven't done anything for me since Rick stopped yelling "Carrrrrlllll" on The Walking Dead.
amazon.com/dp/B0B6QW3LVK?ref=t…
in reply to Low Quality Facts

Why does the second one have 4... uh.. heightening tools in their uh... what even is that, is it its mouth or what..




I can’t pretend to be a lover of death metal but I love this story of the lovely @markwyner’s musical escapades.

markwrites.io/26-years-in-the-…

I particularly love the international underground postal system they developed to circumvent existing only at the mercy of the music industry bigwigs.

‘Everyone distributed for everyone else. It was a giant “f*** you” to the record industry and a giant “f*** yeah” for everyone who wanted to promote their own work.’

#BeYourOwnPlatform #music #DIY



:blender: Please test the release candidate of Blender 4.4! Especially with the transition to Slotted Actions, see if your old animations are still good when you load them. Give it a good shake, do weird stuff.

Grab the RC: builder.blender.org/download/d…

Docs about slotted actions: developer.blender.org/docs/rel…

#b3d #blender3d #devfund #animation

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in reply to Sybren A. Stüvel

When you test, make sure you download the latest build! Fixes are coming in fast, and of course any change in the code has the risk of introducing another bug. I fixed a few, and hope I didn't introduce new ones. Let me know 💙🧡

#b3d #blender3d #devfund #testing







Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for the Hydroserenity Smart Bird Feeder, on sale for 38% off.
I just hope it's smart enough to differentiate friend from foe. I don't trust robins. They're up to something.
amazon.com/dp/B0DPZNJT57?ref=t…





Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/…
in reply to Evan Hensleigh

@futuraprime I've been trying Claude Projects for that recently - their new GitHub integration means you can configure Claude to read all (or some) of your GitHub repository as part of every prompt, it works really well: support.anthropic.com/en/artic…