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Who is this D-bag and why would anyone decent in WI ever vote for him?
X post by PatriotTakes (@patriottta ...) with an American flag emoji and a verification badge. The post states, "Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Brad Schimel said he is personally against marriage equality." Below the text, there is an image of a person in a suit and tie, sitting at a desk with a white cup in front of them. The background features brown curtains, and a graphic at the bottom left reads "Eye on Oshkosh," indicating the source of the interview or segment.
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Pete Prodoehl 🍕
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On a bike ride yesterday I saw a few yard signs for him... mostly in the "upscale" neighborhoods. I saw easily 10-15 times more signs for his opponent, but sadly I've lived in Wisconsin long enough to know the signs don't vote. 😢
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

JimTheWhyGuy ❌👑
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The good news is there are plenty of us in neighboring states - especially south of the Cheddar Curtain - who are pouring $$$ and effort into making sure Schimel (I keep wanting to spell that as "schlemeil") never gets near the WI SC. 😈 And some of us are lawyers 😱

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16 March 1892 | Polish woman Paulina Dąbrowska was born in Skierbieszów. Expelled during the enthnic cleansing of the Zamość region.

In #Auschwitz from 13 December 1942
No. 26848
She perished in the camp on 18 March 1943.

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

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It's homemade pizza night at Casa del Ops tonight. As good a reason as any to enjoy a souvenir from Tuscany as we desperately cling to what's left of the weekend.
A bottle of Abazzia de Monte Oliveto Tuscan Red wine on a wooden surface.

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"No amount of normalisation & validation...can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that...is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful...they would be repelled by it."

Brilliant
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
New Socialist
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
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"Despite all (the right's) absurdist posturing, they struggle to come to terms with a contradictory world that does not conform to their pre-decided categories. They want to assert, simultaneously, that unambiguous laws govern all aspects of being, while acting as though ‘truth’ is whatever they want or need it to be at any given moment.
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
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"Calling them weird absolutely works, and telling them their sole artistic output looks like shit also works. Laughing at people who treat AI art as in any way legitimate works. Talking about AI’s environmental impact or its implications for the workforce will not work—they like that, it makes them feel dangerous. Instead of talking about taking money from artists, talk about how it makes them look cheap. If hurting &offending people is part of the point, then we can take that fun away"

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After many years we've just had the first chicks - born yesterday 🐣 and out and about for the first time today! 🐤

#FediChickens #FediverseChicks #SilentSunday

Four baby chickens, two yellow and two grey ones, are sitting inside a plastic crate in the garden. Three of them are huddled in a corner of the crate, while the fourth is in the front and looking at the camera with a seemingly curious expression.
#silentsunday #fedichickens #fediversechicks
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The #fediverse! :blobcoffee: :queercat_trans:
Joker meme! Top panel: Let me get this straight. You think your data is safer in the hands of some transgender furry than with the richest most powerful corporations in the world? Bottom panel: It is. And I'm tired of pretending it's not.
#fediverse

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"The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time."

"The internet was meant to belong to everyone. And it still fucking can."

By @Daojoan

joanwestenberg.com/the-fediver…


The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few m…
Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
@JA Westenberg

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Sunday finger gymnastics done. These will be the inductors for a diplexer filter I am building to make my ICOM IC-7100 work on 630m, according to a design by KB8U (with some modifications): kb8u.home.blog/a-diplexer-filt… #hamradio #mediumwave
Five red T130-2 iron powder toroids with 1.3 inch (3.3 cm) outer diameter on a table, with different numbers of turns (23..43) of magnet wire on them.

A diplexer filter for the Icom IC-7100

The North American version of the Icom IC-7100 can be easily modified to transmit in the 630 meter band by removing a couple of diodes on the bottom circuit board. See This modification will indeed…
KB8U ham radio
#hamradio #mediumwave
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Fabian Kurz, DJ5CW/SO5CW
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Shell out €35 to have a #PCB (or the minimum order quantity of three, of which I will only use one...) professionally done, or etch it myself? 🙂 #hamradio
A PCB of a diplexer, with capacitors and inductors.
#hamradio #pcb
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Michael K Johnson
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Professionally, and if you end up with more than you need, give/sell the others to local friends. 😀

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Great stuff! A thorough step-by-step guide for setting up a #chatmail server from @nerdvm
includes also considerations regarding firewall, setting up of ssh and some topics left out of the current main setup guide.

Note that even on a very small server you can easily host 10Ks of active chatmail addresses so if you succeed setting up a server don't be shy letting others know the domain 😀

blog.lifeupgraded.me/setup-a-c…

#chatmail @nerdvm
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divergency
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Is it feasible to setup an onion-only chatmail server for darknet comms?

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After Vernor’s breathing machine stopped working, a Lincare representative promised his mother a company respiratory therapist would stay in contact “until we get him a new machine.”

But she didn’t hear from Lincare until 7 days later, the same day Vernor died.
propublica.org/article/lincare…

#News #Health #Healthcare #Medicine #Law #SleepApnea


What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About Lincare, America’s Largest Oxygen Provider

When an at-risk sleep apnea patient needed his breathing machine replaced, Lincare, a $2.4 billion behemoth with a decadeslong history of regulatory and legal problems, acted slowly. The result was disastrous.
ProPublica
#news #healthcare #health #law #medicine #sleepapnea

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US state medium Voice of America has been transmitting radio news internationally since 1942, but Trump thinks they are “corrupt” and “illegal” and pulls the plug, sending 1300 employees on administrative leave.

83 years of US history gone overnight… because Trump felt like it.

Now Putin can finally get the international airwaves to himself and his propaganda news network RT.

aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/16/v…


‘Virtually’ all Voice of America staff put on leave after Trump order

Reporters Without Borders slammed the decision, saying it “threatens press freedom worldwide”.
Al Jazeera
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Stephen Elliott~Buckley
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Transmitting news? Sure, and American propaganda, for decades.

No one's pretending voa was an objective or impartial news source, right?

I'm surprised #BigHandd didn't just feed truth social content and dudebro podcasts into the network.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup

#Canada #fascism #cdnpoli #mexico #antifa #elbowsup #bighandd
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sheislaurence
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exactly. It's impossible not to see the hand of #Putin behind this when you know how influencial #VOA and Radio Free Europe were in the #coldwar era, and continued to play a role in Eastern Europe as Putin sought to revive the #USSR/the Russian empire/both.
Putin, labelled 'president usa' by the Swedish network STV2.
#Putin #coldwar #voa #ussr

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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Samsung 2TB Portable SSD, on sale for 52% off.
Do you know how many digital copies of Shrek 2 you can store on this bad boy? That is not a rhetorical question. Please tell me. I need to know.
amazon.com/dp/B0874XWW23/ref=c…
A grey Samsung SSD.
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ʙᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴇяɪʟʟ
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Think you sent the wrong link. Can’t buy it, it’s blue, it’s 1TB.
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GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
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Great disk, but would you consider not plugging Amazon? That's a Bezos outfit.

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Macron says Russia’s permission not needed to deploy troops in Ukraine - theguardian.com/world/2025/mar… "French president says France, UK and others could each deploy ‘a few thousand troops’ to key locations to show Ukraine ‘long-term support’" damn right

Macron says Russia’s permission not needed to deploy troops in Ukraine

Angelique Chrisafis (The Guardian)
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echopapa
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Has Putin ever asked someone if troops from North Korea are ok?

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Only 26% of adults 65+ are up to date on all recommended #vaccines. A geriatrics professor discusses how personalized vaccine guides and educational sessions were able to empower older adults to take control of their health. theconversation.com/simple-str… #VaccinesWork

Simple strategies can boost vaccination rates for adults over 65 − new study

Reading a pamphlet in the doctor’s office about which vaccines to get may help nudge older adults to get vaccinated.
The Conversation
#vaccines #vaccineswork

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Not enough Americans equate 100 years of Jim Crow Laws with fascism and that bothers me. Utilizing imagery of Anne Frank and the gestapo instead of lynchings, forces sterilizations (the Mississippi Appendectomies), internment camps, and sun down towns adds unnecessary layer of distance. It incorrectly asserts that fascism is this foreign thing that the US has never known, much less allowed. This could not be further from the truth. b.sharise

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He called it! comicsands.com/dropkick-murphy…

Dropkick Murphys Win Bet With Fan In MAGA Shirt: VIDEO

Koh Mochizuki (Comic Sands)

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5-panel comic by War and Peas Panel 1: The Grim Reaper stands before a rack of scythes, pondering, “So, which scythe am I in the mood for today?” Panel 2: Lord Nibbles – a smug-looking black cat lounges on an ornate chair, pointing with its claws and saying, “Ohh, take that one!” Panel 3: The Grim Reaper looks at a shiny red scythe, saying, “My ruby-crested reap of doom, haha. I take this one for reaping the really rich.” Panel 4: Then, while looking at a list, he adds, “But there are no billionaires on today’s list.” Panel 5: The cat, now gripping a golden dagger, grins mischievously and says, “That can be arranged.”

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𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕 𝑺𝒆𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒓

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#fractal #fractals #math #science #tech #technology #code #coding #dev #development #WebDev #graphics


Mandelbrot Set Explorer

Explore the infinite complexity of the Mandelbrot Set with this online fractal viewer. Zoom in and generate high resolution images.
mandelbrot.site
#science #technology #Tech #webdev #graphics #math #coding #code #fractal #dev #development #fractals
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Robee? Na! 🌈
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It’s ridiculous how fast that is on a webpage on a phone compared to a BBC Micro model B
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Metin Seven 🎨
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Metin Seven 🎨
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Yeah, times have changed considerably when it comes to computing power in small sizes.
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Someone reminded me today 9 years ago I submitted my first post on Mastodon—using curl on the command line, since there was no interface at the time. That's how the journey began! 9 years is a long time to be doing something. Those early years are still fresh in my mind though.

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Thank you for all your hard work! Also, thank you for giving us a alternative to X.
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Ibrahim Nowshad
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I have a dumb question or I may be bit data nerd, I will check Admin Docs.

How can I monitor how many new users joining in particular mastodon servers? I don’t own a server as of now. But I am thinking of hosting one. Can I export such data to my dashboard like Grafana for the servers I own and don’t own through any open API?

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Screenshot shows, I am using Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC.
#linux #OpenSource #windows #foss

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Day 6: I believe they have accepted me as one of their own, though I'm worried about Larry, who keeps asking: "Is it just me, or do I smell wet dog?"

#dog #dogs #otter #otters #humor #humour

wet border collie amongst a group of otters floating in the water
#dogs #Humor #dog #humour #otter #otters

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Eugen Rochko
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Very happy to see others have already pointed out that it's a photoshop.

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The latest Certification Round Up is now on @makemagazine and @hackster_io ! Check out three new certifications we love with @robotgrrl's Apisuru, @GreatScottGadgets 's Throwing Star LAN Tap and @amcewen 's My Bike's Got LED right here: makezine.com/article/technolog…
two images of a box beehive made of light wood, in the second a hand holds up a 3D printed hive frame

Open Source Hardware Certifications for February 2025 - Make:

February added boards for bikes, the Apisuru beehive frame, and a LAN tap throwing-star to OSHWA's certifications.
Sid Drmay (Make: Community)
@Hackster.io @Make: @Great Scott Gadgets @Adrian McEwen @erin robotzwrrl

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I cried when I got featured in Make Magazine yesterday. I've been working so hard to make this happen while in a real tough financial spot

makezine.com/article/maker-new…

The more social cred and eyes I can get fundraising the better! I know there's so so much going on right now, but this is not dependent on it causing a pang of stress & guilt. I'm doing it either way, I just want hella teammates and to be witnessed (ok, and money 😂)

Thank you @samdiyfreeman and @makemagazine
#maker #STEAM #STEM

🧵🧵

A screenshot of an article from Make Magazine titled "There U Glow Proves You Can Do Tech" with a colorful header photo of the camp it talks about.

There U Glow Proves You Can Do Tech - Make:

There U Glow is a rare women, trans, femme & queer technical educational space, enticing folks through the magic of glowing LED lights.
Sam Freeman (Make: Community)
#steam #stem #maker @Make: @Sam
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⛰️🌴🧘🏾 #silentsunday
Landscape photograph of the Wailua River on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A lush green forest envelopes the water, with cloud covered mountains in the background. Shot with a Fujifilm X-T30II + Sigma 56mm f1.4 lens.
#silentsunday

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“ #Trump admin has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling”
apnews.com/article/trump-venez…

Trump administration deports hundreds of migrants, despite judge's order stopping removal

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador despite a federal judge’s order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members.
Nicholas Riccardi (AP News)
#trump
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Paul Cantrell
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That’s wildly optimistic, and I hope against hope that it is true.

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Inside a “Budget” Current Probe

hackaday.com/2025/03/16/inside…


Inside A “Budget” Current Probe

Current measurements are not as handy as voltage measurements. You typically need to either measure the voltage across something and do some math or break the circuit so a known resistor in your in…
Hackaday

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Gonna miss seeing you around, Prime Minister. Sorry about our 47th. That’s on us.
X post by Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau ), featuring a verification badge. The text reads, "Thank you, Canada — for trusting in me, for challenging me, and for granting me the privilege to serve the best country, and the best people, on earth."

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Moss had a big adventure this morning going on a big beach walk. Snoozy this afternoon! #dogsofmastodon
Moss the brown collie puppy asleep under a very spotty blanket with her head on an embroidered cushion. Fast asleep with her ears stuck up.
#dogsofmastodon

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Tren de Aragua — all you need to know about the Venezuelan gang
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5329777/tren-de-aragua-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-venezuelan-gang?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-npr

@World News

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Up with @isziaui and a bunch of other brilliant pieces at QR SHOW NYC!! Running until 8PM today at Recurse Center if you're in the area!

qrshow.nyc/

angled selfie in front of a wall full of QR themed art.
@Christian Walther
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Democrats train fire on #Musk as unelected billionaire dips in popularity - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m… "Leaders on left bet on Musk’s bravado to pull party out of political weeds as CEO eyes social security and health cuts" well, at least that's something...

Democrats train fire on Musk as unelected billionaire dips in popularity

Lauren Gambino (The Guardian)
#musk

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can confirm

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Lovely Sunday.. this triptych of images is what I've been up too... some work on a scrappy Dahon Expresso project I picked up, some tinkering adding a neo6 gps to the #xiao #meshtastic setup interspersed with reading this fun book. #electronics #bookstodon #biketooter
The tiny Xiao esp32 meshtastic device wired to a classic NEO6-M GPS device
Photo of a hardback book. Titled "Nuts and Bolts, Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World". Written by Roma Agrawal.
A scruffy Dahon Expresso folding bike leaning on a wire fence in front of Welsh hillside.
#bookstodon #biketooter #electronics #meshtastic #xiao
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Fungifreund
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Got myself the #xiao modules plus the xiao Expansion Board thanks to your blogpost.
Allready running with temperature sensor on my balcony.
#xiao

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Advancement unlocked, project unblocked. I will never not have the right size steel ball for a project again. #maker
An assortment of metric steel balls in a plastic box
#maker

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Did some debugging on my crappy code from a few days ago and now it's behaving much better. I'm happy enough with this.

#GenArt #GenerativeArt #Processing #CreativeCoding

Algorithmic art. A large number of thin white curves on a black background. The ends of the curves form a rectangle, so it looks kind of like a box with smoke in it.
Algorithmic art. A large number of thin white curves on a black background. The ends of the curves form a rectangle, so it looks kind of like a box with smoke in it.
Algorithmic art. A large number of thin white curves on a black background. The ends of the curves form a rectangle, so it looks kind of like a box with smoke in it.
Algorithmic art. A large number of thin white curves on a black background. The ends of the curves form a rectangle, so it looks kind of like a box with smoke in it.
#generativeart #creativecoding #GenArt #processing

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Wow, you learn something new about dinosaurs every day.
Scientists believe that dinosaurs reproduced asexually.

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A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution) - balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-… "As scholars of constitutional law, administrative law, and antidiscrimination law who teach at #Columbia, we feel compelled to point out some of the most glaring legal problems" great stuff

Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
#columbia

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I'm with you 100% on this, Ian. comicsands.com/mckellen-lgbtq-…

Ian McKellen Urges LGBTQ+ Actors To Come Out

Koh Mochizuki (Comic Sands)
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Steve Butman
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And sports figures? Can we add sports figures, especially in football, basketball, baseball, and hockey?

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Late to this party but just in case someone else hasn't discovered this yet...

Someone just told me about Radio Garden and what a wonderful initiative.

radio.garden/

Try the Ballon Ride

radio.garden/balloon-ride

#RadioGarden #radio


Radio Garden

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
radio.garden
#radio #radiogarden
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Roofing is on the enclosure!

Did the guttering just now in the rain, which turned out to be somewhat helpful - could easily check the fall was right as I was installing. Who needs a level anyway 🤪 #diy

#diy
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