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France’s European affairs minister, Benjamin Haddad, said on Wednesday that the EU could “go further” in its response to the US tariffs: “If it came to a situation where we had to go further, digital services or intellectual property could be included,” he said. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m… #trade #tariffs #IP #TRIPS #WTO #ecommerce #digitalservices

EU retaliates against Trump tariffs with €26bn ‘countermeasures’

US goods due to be affected from 1 April include bourbon whiskey, jeans and Harley-Davidson motorbikes
Jennifer Rankin (The Guardian)
#tariffs #digitalservices #ip #trade #Trips #wto #ecommerce

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'Sharktopus' - Octopus hitches a ride on a shark - the University of Auckland youtube.com/watch?v=3cYlBarkmD…
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One for @firstdogonthemoon's nature cartoons. #octopus #shark #newzealand

Marine mystery of octopus riding shark

A `sharktopus’ in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island – an octopus riding on a shark – was one of the strangest things University of Auckland marine scientist...
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#newzealand #octopus #shark @Firstdog Onthemoon

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As the U.S. under Donald Trump seeks to reset ties with Moscow and broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, Britain has been granted the status of Russia's public enemy number one. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/… #worldnews #politics #uk #us #donaldtrump #russiaukrainewar #russia #ukraine #keirstarmer

As Trump thaws ties, Russia has a new public enemy number one: Britain

For most of the war, Russia lambasted Washington for its role in supplying aid to Kyiv. With Donald Trump in office, that has changed.
Andrew Osborn (The Japan Times)
#russia #ukraine #us #uk #politics #donaldtrump #russiaukrainewar #worldnews #keirstarmer

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Another day, another lie.

Trump falsely claims that a large group of Ukrainian soldiers are surrounded in Kursk, this is completely false, even according to Russians themselves.

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#Ukraine #Russia #US #Trump #Kursk

Thread by @atrupar on Thread Reader App

@atrupar: Trump on Ukraine: "You don't want to pick on somebody that's a lot larger than you."
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#russia #ukraine #us #trump #kursk

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“No DEI” is a transparent code word for “white supremacy”. Because what other interpretation would even apply here?

When you remove black, Hispanic, and female names from the list, what are you left with? What do you call that?

“Arlington Cemetery scrubs info on famous Black, Hispanic, and female veterans to comply with Trump orders”

#racism #agentKrasnov

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Arlington Cemetery scrubs info on famous Black, Hispanic, and female veterans to comply with Trump orders

The purge follows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s declaration that ‘DEI is dead’ as he implements Trump’s agenda at the Pentagon
Rhian Lubin (The Independent)
#racism #agentkrasnov
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We have arrived #hackadayeurope
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trump chiede al dipartimento di giustizia di scatenare una ondata di indagini contro democratici e media

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a proposito di "weaponization of Justice"


Trump tells Justice Department his win gives ‘mandate’ for ‘far reaching investigation’ into Democrats and news organizations

Trump called for prosecutors to investigate multiple news organizations in a rabidly partisan speech at the justice department’s headquarters
Andrew Feinberg (The Independent)

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#USPolitics #EuropeanUnion #tariffs #LOLWUT
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#uspolitics #tariffs #europeanunion #lolwut
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I and my family were good friends with Greer's family when living in DC and have kept up a little bit since leaving 4 years ago. *sigh* When I learned that he had been nominated, I realized how he must have answered the administration's political purity tests. Then hearing this... I really believe the man is _not_ evil, but it's a dagger to the heart to hear such stupidity come from his lips.
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Australia will go to the polls in May.

Which means it's time to remind the young people in our lives they should enrol to vote.

aec.gov.au/enrol/

Voting is compulsory in Australia.

I believe that's a good thing, and I advocate everyone invest their time, attention, and critical judgement in making good use of their democratic right to vote.

It was hard won for some.
We should all revel in our collective power to decide who decides for all of us.


Enrol to vote

How to enrol to vote
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#BBCNews - Iran using drones and apps to enforce women's dress code
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Iran using drones and phone apps to monitor strict dress code for women

Iranian officials are encouraging people to report women who refuse to obey the Islamic republic's dress code, according to a UN report.
Imogen Foulkes (BBC News)
#bbcnews

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#BBCNews - Trump-Greenland row: Politicians unite against Trump's 'unacceptable behaviour'
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Trump-Greenland row: Politicians unite against Trump's 'unacceptable behaviour'

In an unusual show of unity, party leaders say they "cannot accept the repeated statements about the annexation of Greenland."
Tiffany Wertheimer (BBC News)
#bbcnews

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#BBCNews - Asylum seekers housed 'unlawfully' at air base
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#refugees

Wethersfield asylum seekers housed 'unlawfully' at air base

Three men took the government to court over what they described as "prison-like" conditions.
Aimee Dexter (BBC News)
#bbcnews #refugees

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Putin's global web of colonies and protectorates continues to unravel, despite the US still not getting the memo.

NOW is the time to knock down his regime, while it's weak, NOT prop him up by forcing Ukraine to a bad peace.

Belgrade, prepping for today's protests that will be the largest in the country's history.

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#BBCNews - Ex-Reform UK Wales leader to stand trial over Russia-linked bribes
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Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill to stand trial over Russia-linked bribery

Nathan Gill appears at the Old Bailey charged with nine counts related to alleged bribery.
David Deans (BBC News)
#bbcnews

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That’s almost a quarter of the world.

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Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries

A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.
Charlie Savage (The New York Times)

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a page from the filipino school of political drama: sakit-sakitan! every time a high ranking official is asked for accountability they show up in some neck brace or wheelchair, claim high blood pressure or a bad heart; at least we can all agree the last part is true.

#dutertearrested #duterteicc

Former President Rodrigo Duterte is facing "debilitating medical issues" and is not able to contribute to his hearing at the International Criminal Court, his lawyer said on Friday at the initial hearing in his case. Presiding judge Iulia Motoc, however, said the court doctor had found Duterte "fully mentally aware and fit.”
#dutertearrested #duterteicc

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#BBCNews - Germany is back, says Merz after historic deal on defence and spending
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Germany is back, says Merz after historic deal on defence and spending

Germany's conservative leader clinches an major financial agreement ahead of a crunch vote in parliament.
Paul Kirby (BBC News)
#bbcnews

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Probably The Simplest Sequencing Synth

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Probably The Simplest Sequencing Synth

With inexpensive microntrollers capable of the most impressive feats of sound synthesis, it’s not so often we see projects that return to an earlier style of electronic music project. The 1-b…
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Who are your "community leaders"?
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I wanted to see if I can recreate Ché Aimee Dorval's album cover for The Widow. I used my two Arri tungsten lights, one 300W with a blue gel, and one 650W with a red gel and a softbox.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

A beautiful woman with dark hair, wearing a dark coat and white shirt, standing in a pondering pose with her hand touching her chin, illuminated by blue light from one side, and red light from another. Her white shirt displays a pleasant purple gradient.
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #mediumformat

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The red bulb is clearly stronger making those reds go way up almost to white. I dont know if it could be fixed by putting the red light further away.

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Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a #Roman jug made of blue glass with splashed decoration in white, yellow and brown. The decoration was created by applying fragments of coloured glass to the surface of the vessel before it was fully blown.
The technique was fashionable in the first half of the 1st c. A.D. and may have been influenced by the production of cast mosaic glass.
Found in a burial at Kempten-Keckwiese, dating ca. 30 AD.

On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München

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A close-up of a glass jug with a rounded body, a narrow neck, and a curved handle. The jug has a deep blue base color with splashes of white and brown red, giving it a marbled appearance. Cracks and signs of aging are visible on the surface.
#glass #roman

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Extra captures of that cat's tongue jelly [Pseudohydnum gelatinosum](w.wiki/CDdN) I shared the other day. Not as happy with these as I am with the others, but still worth sharing for the cool colors and textures.

#PNW #USA #WA #SnohomishCounty #PilchuckRiverTrail #Outdoors #Nature #Moss #Fungi #JellyFungus #Photography #MobilePhotography #PowerShot

This image shows a white mushroom growing on a tree or log, surrounded by green moss. The mushroom has a textured surface, giving it a unique appearance. The surrounding moss adds a lush, natural setting to the scene.
The image shows a close-up of a type of jelly fungus growing among green moss. The fungus has a textured, cap-like structure with a soft, white appearance. The background is blurred, enhancing the focus on the fungus.

species of fungus

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#photography #usa #nature #fungi #pnw #moss #outdoors #WA #mobilephotography #jellyfungus #powershot #snohomishcounty #PilchuckRiverTrail

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Not everyone is appreciative of the physician's art, but few take their disapproval as far as this particular patient.

#Austria #folktale #folklore @austria @folklore
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German folk tale "How Doctor Theophrast Cured". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!
#folklore #austria #folktale @folklore group @austria group

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The government deploys manual workers to collect highway tolls.. [AsithaRT]
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You don't find this ominous??? What do you do when you run out of hash browns to keep them satiated?!!
Still from the video in which three of the razor beaked birds are peering into a crack in the car window.
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@futurebird Nah, the mouth's just another hand (they've got a pretty cool finger-tongue thing going on)! I've known a few cockies. They'll probably destroy the car, but we need fewer cars in the world.
@myrmepropagandist

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Good morning, my fellas.🐶
#dog #dachshund
#dog #dachshund

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U.K.'s Starmer convenes 'coalition of the willing' meeting to discuss Ukraine
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/g-s1-54079/coalition-of-the-willing-second-meeting?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@World News

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yellow background. front cover of Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Text is in gold foil, place diagonally across the top left and top right corners. there is a gold foil square with rounded edges. within the square is a green foil plantlike structure with four gold foil lines emerging from it.
yellow background. book spread open with two cut-out quotes in black boxes with straight black lines emerging from each quote on the left side of the open book. on the right is the first page of the introduction.
yellow background. book open to a page on the left with a heading in brown type, "OPTICAL NETWORKS" and a sub-section labeled "Flag Signaling". the image on the right side of the page is from Hannah Weiner's Signal Flag Poems.
yellow background. book spread open with a black and white photograph spanning both pages that shows Bill Bartlett and others experimenting with slow scan t equipment. overlaid on the photograph is a diagram showing how the group set up and conected their slow scan equipment.

Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.

Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Mexican Summer & Anthology
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Amanda Seyfried talks being a beat cop and getting drunk with grandma : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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#Landscape east of #Erlangen .
Meadows shaded by trees under a clear blue sky.
#landscape #erlangen

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simant, magazine screenshot (2004) archive.org/details/XboxNation…
user interface is down the left hand side of the screen, which shows a map button, a question mark, various icons that show ants and spiders, puase, scent, and health meters. to the right is brown earth and a prompt showing an ant hatching from an egg(?), text above reads: you are now a worker!

Xbox Nation 11 Jan 2004 : EtherealDragonz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Xbox Nation Magazine #11 Dec-Jan 2004
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15 March 1910 | A Pole, Karol Siwek, was born in Dubna. A painter, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, student of Prof. W. Jarocki.

In #Auschwitz 25 April 1942.
No. 33171
He was shot on 27 May 1942.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
#auschwitz

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Steal My Tesla stealmytesla.com/

Steal My Tesla

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Marco Rubio just PNGd (expelled) the ambassador from South Africa by tweet, apparently for the offense of being too woke. reuters.com/world/us-declares-…

Just to be clear, this is the ambassador FROM South Africa, the official representative of the South African government to the US. He works for the South African government, not the US government.

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That wasn’t the correct South African we need to get rid of…

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Tag yourself I'm
A "style" dropdown menu with options brachyaxis and macroaxis

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The Ides of March is tomorrow. Ahem.

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The only energy I want to see from Democrats for the rest of my life is what I’m seeing from Congressman Larson going after DOGE

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Originally established as a sacred burial site by the Zapotec, Mitla is unique, because of its elaborate and intricate mosaics and geometric designs that cannot be found elsewhere in Mexico. backpackandsnorkel.com/Oaxaca/…

Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for Day 3: Discovering Mitla and El Tule - Oaxaca Purple Travel Guide

Mitla and El Tule are two excellent destinations outside of Oaxaca. We provide detailed information and the best things to see and we show lots of photos so you know what you can expect.
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides

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'My wife asked why I carry a gun around the house.

I looked at her and said "Spyware". She laughed, I laughed, Alexa laughed, I shot Alexa, it was a good time."

#Amazon #spyware #Alexa #Echo #HomeAssistant
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…


Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
#amazon #echo #alexa #spyware #homeassistant
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"Amazon’s secure cloud"

Before I trust my stuff on someone else's storage, I need to trust them. The people who own Amazon are the real security threat.

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I'd have assumed everything used on any voice assistant was always sent to the "Mother ship" even if they claimed otherwise.

So Amazon is at least honest now?

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night night sleep tight

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Er... your big rig is NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT

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#wind #TXwx #duststorm

Big rig with the rear wheels off the ground, about to be flipped over due to wind.

03-14-2025 Amarillo, TX - EXTREME Winds Flip Semis on I40

***NOT FOR BROADCAST***Contact Brett Adair with Live Storms Media to license.brett@livestormsmedia.comAMARILLO, TEXAS: EXTREME Winds Flip Semis on Amarillo i...
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#wind #duststorm #txwx
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Gee, when NOAA warns people driving high profile vehicles to slow down, maybe they should heed the advice.

Better yet, just park it at the best angle and wait until the winds die down.

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