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Which OS Is Best: Windows, macOS, Linux, or ChromeOS? We take a close look, weighing the pros and cons of each: pcmag.com/picks/windows-vs-mac…

Which OS Is Best: Windows, macOS, Linux, or ChromeOS?

Not sure which desktop operating system is best for you? We help you choose by comparing the top options based on app compatibility, ease of use, hardware availability, interface design, gaming support, and more.
Michael Muchmore (PCMag)

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Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future
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For years, Washington, D.C., was insulated from many of the economic forces that decimated many older U.S. cities. Now, as Elon Musk’s mass layoffs shake everything from employment to real estate, the region faces the prospect of decline.
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#News #DOGE #WashingtonDC #Economy #Government #Labor

Amid Trump, Musk Cutbacks, D.C. Faces Gloomy Future

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#news #Doge #government #labor #economy #WashingtonDC

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Joplin website

Joplin, the open source note-taking application
joplinapp.org
#OpenSource #europeanalternatives #notetaking #buyfromeu @Joplin
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#ScribesAndMakers Mar 13: Shameless self-promotion day

Books! I've got lots of books. Kobo and Kindle should have all of my ebooks.

For paperback, pretty much any place that sells books should be able to get them for you.

There aren't a lot of people named Steve DeGroof in the world, so searching for my name at a book vendor should point you in the right direction.

Or, y'know, google "steve degroof books" if you want.

#scribesandmakers

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Kash Patel's appointment as #FBI director draws parallels to William J. Burns, a 1920s FBI head known for targeting his political enemies. An FBI historian examines the similarities and potential implications for the bureau's independence. theconversation.com/the-parall…
#politics

The parallels between Kash Patel and William J. Burns, a scandal-mongering 1920s FBI director — an FBI historian explains

Some observers compare FBI Director Kash Patel to J. Edgar Hoover. A better historical match is the politically motivated William J. Burns.
The Conversation
#politics #fbi

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Republicans Want to Make Hating Elon Musk a Crime

The MAGA wing of the Republican party wants to use the DOJ to bite back against Musk protesters.

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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #elonmusk #nazi #corruption #doge #firemusk

Republicans Want to Make Hating Elon Musk a Crime

Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)
#news #uspolitics #uspol #politics #elonmusk #Doge #nazi #corruption #firemusk

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trambaix under the sunset

i don't know what i've done to this but it looks pretty cool ngl

#photography #urbanphotography #rail #train #trainspotting #tram #barcelona #sunset

#photography #sunset #barcelona #tram #urbanphotography #rail #train #trainspotting

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"The sight of the dark presence caused the horrified gentleman to kick the seat in front of him as he screamed, trembled, and began to swallow his rosary beads."
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news boingboing.net/2025/03/12/man-…

Man sees demon and freaks out on American Airlines flight — screams, throws punches, and eats rosary beads - Boing Boing

An American Airlines passenger headed to Miami from Savannah flew into a frenzy just after takeoff Monday night when he realized who else was on board: a demonic spirit. Or…
Carla Sinclair (Happy Mutants, LLC.)
#news #weird #weirdnews #offbeat #odd
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► FunHouseRadio.com
Name a song, and/or post a link to a song that mentions ELECTRICTY. Then tune in to FunHouse Radio for more nerdy goofball music!

FunHouse Radio

Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.
FunHouse Radio

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Will the last small site turn off the lights?

The UK Online Safety Act imposes the same duties and penalties on blogs, forums and fedi instances as huge platforms.

Many small, safely moderated sites will shut down or block UK users.

Crushing competition is the last thing we need for a safer Internet!

Act now before 17 March ⬇️

#SaveOurSites 🌐

action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…

#fediverse #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #mastodon #activitypub #ukpolitics #ukpol #netplurality

Save our sites - Write to your MP

Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.
Open Rights Group
#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub #ukpol #ukpolitics #onlinesafetyact #saveoursites #netplurality #onlinesafety

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#art #mastoart #illustration #bd
Mastodon is short on #artists, so let's take good care of the ones we have 🥲🥲🥲

And add any suggestions below!

pixelfed.social/Manuele_Fior

socel.net/@TheSpaceshipper

mastodon.social/@Ullilust

mastodon.social/@warandpeas

hostux.social/@ghibligifs

mastodon.social/@gaxix

mastodon.art/@JohannaForster

socel.net/@heyheymomo

pixelfed.social/delphine.duran…

piaille.fr/@clairefauvel

pixelfed.fr/benoit_guillaume

mastodon.social/@gatignol

mastodon.social/@kerascoet

mastodon.art/@vmaderna

#MastoArt #art #illustration #artists #bd
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We know it feels like the world is burning down, but the good news is UK coal use is at its lowest since, um London burnt down in 1666.
Overall emissions are now at their lowest since 1872!

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Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666 - Carbon Brief

UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.6% in 2024 as coal use dropped to the lowest level since 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London
Carbon Brief Staff (Carbon Brief)

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World’s 10 Best Street Art Capitals for 2025: streetartutopia.com/2025/03/13…
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Photo: In Olsztyn, Poland. By Adam Okuciejewski and Szymon Czarnowski.

World's 10 Best Street Art Capitals for 2025 - STREET ART UTOPIA

A new study from travel company Slingo ranks the statistically most popular cities for street art in 2025, based on social media engagement, Google searches, and the number of documented murals and graffiti artworks.
Vidar (Street Art Utopia)

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Safehold Elite by Jesper Ejsing

Source: jesperejsing.com/card-art

#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart

Magic the Gathering — Jesper Ejsing Illustration

Magic the Gathering artwork by Jesper Ejsing
Jesper Ejsing Illustration
#ttrpg #DigitalArt #art #dnd #dungeonsAndDragons #character #characterart
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Altbot

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The image depicts a female elf with antlers in a forest. She is kneeling on a tree branch. She has long brown hair with pointed ears and is wearing green and gold armor. A sword is strapped to her back. She is holding a small pink flower in her hand. The background is a blurred forest with blue hues. There are small yellow lights scattered throughout the image.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Daniel Pinkwater's "Jules, Penny and the Rooster"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/11/klo…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Daniel Pinkwater’s “Jules, Penny and the Rooster” (11 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#Pluralistic
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There is no doubt about it, Grand Turk's main attractions are its fantastic white sand beaches! If you have some time to spare, go see the lighthouse and explore Cockburn's historic old town. What did you do in Grand Turk? backpackandsnorkel.com/Grand-T…

Travel Guide for Grand Turk - Grand Turk Purple Travel Guide

Grand Turk has some of the best white sand beaches on the planet and wonderfully turquoise waters with good snorkeling.
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides

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13 March 1922 | Józef Szajna was born in Rzeszów.

In ##Auschwitz from 25 July 1941
No. 18729)
In August 1943 he unsuccessfully tried to escape. In January 1944 transferred to KL Buchenwald. He survived; Scenographer, theater director, painter culture.pl/en/artist/jozef-sza…

Józef Szajna

Set designer, theatre director, playwright, theatre theoretician, painter and graphic artist. Born in 1922 in Rzeszów, he died on June 24, 2008.
Culture.pl
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I have made this... A zillion hours modeling, printing, modeling again, printing one more time... There is a wasteland of ATSTs in my workbench... 😄 But the final result is nice imo. What do you think guys? Printed in a @bambulab_official P1S #starwars #3dprinting
#StarWars #3dprinting @Bambu Lab

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#ScribesAndMakers for March 13:

It's self-promotion day.


That it is.

Did you know I've written and published most of an urban fantasy fiction trilogy featuring government corruption and answering that age-old question of "What if the cultists are actually in the right"? You do now! Teaser chapters and where-you can finds over at: sanityline.net

Also, while we're on "also", did you, personally, know that I make gizmos? It's true. The main one is PETI, a virtual pet with retro sensibilities running on modern hardware. You can learn about that and all my other writing and making projects over at arcanalabs.ca

Welcome to Arcana Labs

Arcana Labs - Puzzles and Proverbs
www.arcanalabs.ca
#scribesandmakers

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We finally got around to actually proving out a cursed idea for getting access to USB devices from *Firefox* (which refuses to support WebUSB)

this approach is horrible and inefficient, but it allows access to a device without requiring *any* user intervention or permission prompts (the device has to opt-in to this hack of course, it doesn't allow access to arbitrary things)

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Wave Case


Wave Case is a stylish, biodegradable phone case made from wheat straw – a unique solution to tackling the millions of plastic phone cases that are disposed of every year.

Growing up in a small seaside town in the North East of England, two friends witnessed first-hand the devastating effects plastic pollution has upon our oceans, and decided to take action by creating Wave Case.

Protecting both your phone and the planet Wave Case aim to provide eco-friendly, affordable products that have minimal impact upon the planet.

[Via Ethical Revolution]

Wave Case - Ethical Revolution

Wave Case is a stylish, biodegradable phone case made from wheat straw – a unique solution to tackling the millions of plastic phone cases that are disposed of every year.
Ethical Revolution

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This does not look like human behavior. Again today, my Mastodon account is followed by dozens of new anonymous accounts, and they all follow exactly 40 other accounts.

@renchap I do not want to be reading tea leaves here, but can you understand my concern that this could be a bot net system generating spam profiles in bulk?

Can you think of any technical explanation why I am seeing so many similar accounts following exactly 40 other accounts?

@Renaud Chaput
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Magnus Ahltorp

There are of course many bot accounts, so that could be the explanation for these, but if you are part of a starter pack you will get many accounts following you that follows the exact same list of people.

I can’t find a starter pack at fedidevs that contains you, and as far as I know they are the largest collections of starter packs, so it’s a less likely explanation in your case.

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