Waste, fraud, and abuse courtesy of Trump
ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/poli…
ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities
A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.Carol Rosenberg (The New York Times)
Profiles in Self-Censorship | David Cole | The New York Review of Books
Under pressure from the Trump administration, many universities are preemptively scaling back their DEI programs—even though no law requires them to.David Cole (The New York Review of Books)
✊ LEADING. RESISTING. SURVIVING. THRIVING 💜
Women are on the frontlines of environmental and social justice—leading movements, defending land and water, and fighting for their communities. Yet, they are among the first to suffer the consequences of climate chaos, war, and economic injustice.
While we celebrate progress and call to accelerate action, we must recognise the struggle. Women’s leadership in the fight for a just and liveable world must be supported and protected.
#WomensHistoryMonth
Practicing using poster paints for game and animation backgrounds.
#watercolor #gouache #aquarelle #maritimepainting #ships
Notes on Google’s Gemma 3
Google’s Gemma team released an impressive new model today (under their not-open-source Gemma license). Gemma 3 comes in four sizes—1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B—and while 1B is text-only the larger …Simon Willison’s Weblog
U.S.-made beer, bourbon, motorcycles and more on tariff list in Trump trade war with EU • Minnesota Reformer
The European Union released a lengthy list Wednesday of U.S. goods, from Kentucky bourbon to household appliances, slated for retaliatory tariffs.Minnesota Reformer
Contentious Republican town halls are going viral
Across the country, constituents are grilling their Republican members of Congress — and the heated exchanges are going viral online.
theverge.com/news/628284/repub…
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption
Contentious Republican town halls are going viral
In California, Georgia, Wisconsin, and elsewhere, constituents are grilling their Republican members of Congress at town halls — and the heated exchanges are going viral online.Mia Sato (The Verge)
Check out my #travel blog for the best things to see and do in #loscabos .
What are your favorite places? backpackandsnorkel.com/Los-Cab…
The best beaches and the best snorkeling spots in Los Cabos | Backpack and Snorkel Purple Travel Guides
Explore the best beaches and snorkeling beaches in Los Cabos: Lovers Beach & Divorce Beach & Medano Beach & Chileno Beach & Santa Maria Beach.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
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)
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.
propublica.org/article/washing…
#News #DOGE #WashingtonDC #Economy #Government #Labor
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Another night, another SniffiVerse™ walkies selfie 🐾 💜
📸 13/03/2025
#Labrador #DogsOfMastodon #Dog #DogsOfPixelfed #Labradorable #Dogs #PixelfedDogs #Selfie #EyeContact
#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.
#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
Putting an end to the debate regarding if it's ok to punch a Nazi or not.
From now on it's called "A Roman High Five"
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.
gizmodo.com/republicans-want-t…
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #elonmusk #nazi #corruption #doge #firemusk
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
#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.)
(...) To prevent damage to windows or cars, the team erected nets to catch them. But ultimately, things got so chaotic that windows were broken and cars were dented." petapixel.com/2025/03/12/that-…
That Time a Film Crew Let 250,000 Bouncy Balls Free Through San Francisco
In 2005, Sony Bravia filmed a striking ad for its televisions featuring a quarter of a million colorful bouncy balls hopping down SF streets.Matt Growcoot (PetaPixel)
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
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
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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!
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!
carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-em…
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 LondonCarbon Brief Staff (Carbon Brief)
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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)
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 EjsingJesper Ejsing Illustration
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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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Anyone who has given at least one of them an honest try, and then decided accordingly that tiling window managers do NOT work well with your specific workflow: Why don't they?
I mean this neither sarcastically nor rhetorically, nor do I intend to solicite any objectively bad takes any hotter than my own; I'm actually asking.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Daniel Pinkwater's "Jules, Penny and the Rooster"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/11/klo…
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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
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
Józef Szajna, I salute you.
We are grateful for your life. We remember what happened.
Daryl
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