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I love sketching Kīrolisks, because it starts as an asemic mark and I have to look for the entity within it. 😌

(Borrowed from my Patreon where I post weekly sketches, notes, etc: patreon.com/helveticablanc )

A ribbon-like entity uses multiple arms to construct a sigil.

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creating mystic art
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Laurie managed to sneak into the greenhouse this morning.
He has his eyes closed so that we can't see him, which is his response any time we find him somewhere that he thinks he shouldn't be. Cute - but it doesn't work.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Black Cats #Rescue #Cats

A black cat is crouching in the greenhouse . He has his eyes closed so that we can't see him. It's his response to being discovered somewhere that he thinks he shouldn't be.
#caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #black #rescue

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PATH (2016)
Acrylic on Panel - 12" x 16"

This painting featuring my granddaughter Seren was done for the inaugural Leftovers and Palette Gremlins gallery. Every week I set out to complete a small piece inspired by paint marks or other found patterns. 1/3

#personalvisions #imaginativerealism #leftoversandpalettegremlins

A young girl wearing a blue sundress and white strappy sandals takes a step along a raised grassy path in what appears to be a gently flowing maze. Her hair is drawn back into short pigtails. At her side, she absently holds a daisy as her eyes—which seem to be pressed closed—focus downward. Long, soft shadows fall diagonally, deepening in the winding channels between adjacent tracks. In total, the walkways wind and swirl creating a pattern reminiscent of the folds of the cerebral cortex. Drawing attention to the wider gaps, shallow water reflects in highlights of blue. There are no walls or substantial barriers; it would be easy enough to hop across to another trail.
#personalvisions #imaginativerealism #leftoversandpalettegremlins

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Cats really are liquid. Alex, who usually presents as a monstrosity the size of a bulldog, can also transform himself into this version: baby Alex.
Happy #Caturday!
Black cat with reddish-brown undercoat highlighted by sunlight. He’s laying on his side on a yellow and white blanket on a blue couch. We are looking at him from above where he looks tiny and somehow the orange stripped pillow he’s got his front paws resting on looks giant.
#caturday

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Happy Friday btw
Calendar that says Wednesday: Not today Satan, Thursday: Not Today Satan, Friday: Hang out w/ Satan, Meet at the fiery pits, Burn Some Shit. And there's a stick figure drawing of someone with Satan, they look like they are having fun.

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This should chill everyone in this country to the bone. All she did was write an OpEd the administration didn’t like. This is fascistic suppression of free speech.
The image is a screenshot of a post on X by The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ ). The post reads: "Federal immigration authorities detained a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University. The government hasn’t filed any charges against Rumeysa Ozturk, who was in the U.S. on a student visa, her lawyer said. Read more: on.wsj.com/3E3AM0b." Below the text, there is an image showing a person in a hoodie detaining another person in a white coat and headscarf outside an apartment, with a car and another person in a cap nearby. The image caption reads: "off-campus apartment."

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Crab Cay (Cayo Cangrejo) was the highlight of our Providencia trip. The turquoise waters are simply beyond believe. It is great for swimming in crystal clear turquoise waters but there is also no beach. How did you like it? backpackandsnorkel.com/Provide…

Travel Guide For Providencia - Providencia Purple Guide

Our Backpack and Snorkel Providencia Travel Guide provides the best things to see in Providencia so that you can make memorable moments on a relaxing vacation in Providencia.
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This is an unprecedented attack on public universities and higher education. Every professor that signed an employment contract decades ago loses their tenure?! What an insane, stupid thing to do.
Morgan Trau Follow @morgantrau.bsky.social BREAKING: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed SB1, overhauling the higher education system - banning DEl, limiting how "controversial topics" can be taught, & ending tenure. It will go into effect in 90 days. @news5cleveland.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com www.news5cleveland.com/news/ politic... JUST SAY N (SB1 GOT-TOGO JERRY TEDDY CS' YOU OT TO GON ATLED SNE N SK 05G0 ASSY. ANY BIOLOS DINERSITY GOOD Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs WILLIAM SHRED

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Free one nightstand 😂 (sorry, I am easily amused).
Craigslist ad for free one nightstand used

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I have a rather sad #caturday post today. This sweet boy is no longer in the physical realm with us. His kitty cat dementia and other health issues just became too much for him.

He had an episode where it seemed like he didn't recognize any of us and he's been with us since he was a teeny kitten. He attacked our other cat and was growling at everyone, even his puppies who loved so much.

I'm not really a cat person... never have been but he sure did make it a lot easier to think about being a cat person.

Bye Moby.

Me cradling my tuxedo kitty Moby while i sit on my bed.
My tuxedo kitty Moby looking up at me trying to use the force to convince me to let him up on my bed.
Moby sitting with one of his puppies in the pet bed.
The only boy i'd ever let get on top of me. My tuxedo kitty Moby laying on my chest and belly as i lay on the ground.
#caturday

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Ich fotografiere nun schon eine ganze Weile und habe dabei manches ziemlich gut und manches ziemlich falsch gemacht. Heute mache ich mir mal den Spaß und schreibe meine Top-3-Fotofaul- und -dummheiten auf, über die ich mich tatsächlich zwischenzeitlich richtig ärgere. Platz 3: Die Fischaugen-Verfehlung Vor einigen Jahren waren mir Objektive nie weit genug. Nach einem […] … → ho1ger.de/2025/03/29/fotofaul-…

#fotografie


Fotofaul- und -dummheiten

Ich fotografiere nun schon eine ganze Weile und habe dabei manches ziemlich gut und manches ziemlich falsch gemacht. Heute mache ich mir mal den Spaß und schreibe meine Top-3-Fotofaul- und...
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#fotografie
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Dieses Highlight kann ich noch anbieten
@Boris Karnikowski

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Fresh Air Weekend: 'Shattered' author Hanif Kureishi; 'Red Scare' author Clay Risen
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5341451/hanif-kureishi-shattered-clay-risen-red-scare?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Fresh Air @fresh-air-npr

@fresh-air-npr

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Sometimes I wish computers had an OST beyond the ambient "hard drive noises".

P.S. Please do tell me you love my shitposts.

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yes, I definitely love your shitposts.

For me, the ultimate computer hacking music isn’t anything punk or techno, it is from this scene in the old 1992 movie “Sneakers,” youtu.be/F5bAa6gFvLs

I’ll bet Nina knows all about that film, but for those who don’t, it’s about a group of penetration testers who are hired to steal a computer chip that was developed by a mathematician who (unbeknownst to the pen tester) had figured out how to factor products of two primes in O(n) time and encoded his equation into a computer chip, thus letting them break any asymmetric key cryptography. This is the scene where they discover exactly what it is that they have stolen.

That is the OST for everything I do on a computer.

The guy who wrote the OST for “Sneakers” also did the music for “A Beautiful Mind.” youtu.be/ZF4d17PUb3M (warning, it is an American propaganda film).


Sneakers (4/9) Movie CLIP - No More Secrets (1992) HD

Sneakers movie clips: http://j.mp/1JbHk68BUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/w0imqBDon't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6prCLIP DESCRIPTION:The r...
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Have a great weekend everyone! Enjoy this pic of this beautiful tidal marsh that I saw on a walk near the ocean yesterday. This marsh is connected to the ocean (but not seen in this pic). I could hear the pounding of the surf from the ocean the entire walk! #ocean #hiking #CapeCod

#nature #NaturePhotography #walking #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #stream #streams #GetOutside #beach #weekend #sea #SeaScape #backpacking

Photo of marsh as viewed from edge. The water leads away from the camera toward the horizon where the ocean is (but the ocean is not seen). Tan and brown grasses line the edges of the water.
#photography #beach #hiking #landscape #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #ocean #getoutside #stream #capecod #weekend #walking #backpacking #streams #seascape #sea

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“But many more scientists had not planned on relocating, until Trump began gutting funding and firing researchers. ‘This is my home — I really love my country,’ says a graduate student at a top US university who works in plant genomics and agriculture. ‘But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now.’”

nature.com/articles/d41586-025…


75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
Witze, Alexandra

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Autobahnkirche (autobahn church), a catholic church at the Federal Motorway 5 in Baden-Baden

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Halp I'm being attacked by a slobbery land shark! SQUEEEEJMKY SQUEEEKY SQUEEK. OH, THE HUMANITY! 🤪#dog #slobber
Up close and personal with a creature with large predator teeth furiously chomping down on a red squeaky toy
#dog #slobber

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Along with my colleague and lead plaintiff Patsy Widakuswara, we will be discussing with Bill Whitaker on Sunday’s episode of CBS’ 60 Minutes the ramifications of the silencing of the Voice of America. instagram.com/reel/DHyWF-xRpsz…

60 Minutes on Instagram: "Voice of America, the U.S. government-funded international broadcaster with an 83-year history, is now off the air due to a Trump administration executive order. Bill Whitaker reports, Sunday."

4,887 likes, 296 comments - 60minutes on March 29, 2025: "Voice of America, the U.S. government-funded international broadcaster with an 83-year history, is now off the air due to a Trump administration executive order. Bill Whitaker reports, Sunday.
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I've developed an alternative to Bitcoin that is eight times as valuable. Bytecoin A picture of baby penguin.

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wait until you see my QWORDcoin or my experimental ZMMWORDcoin

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An Octopus hanging out at an #Oahu #Hawaii #reef . Your #sealife #photooftheday

Selling prints - DM me. #octopus #bighead #Saturday #creature #ocean #pacificocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #photo #photography #scuba #discover

An octopus stretches to the upper right to peer at its surroundings whilst its temporarily white head trails behind. Tentacles at bottom appear reddish brown mottled with white.
#photography #photo #environment #earth #nature #hawaii #animals #ocean #scuba #wildlife #photooftheday #saturday #discover #marinelife #outdoors #creature #pacificocean #explore #octopus #sealife #oahu #reef #bighead

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Así como veu, vaise.
Ata o ano que vén!
#eclipse
Imaxe do Sol tomada cun pequeno telescopio de 70mm con lámina solar Baader, ao final do eclipse parcial de 29/03/2025. Vese a Lúa a punto de saír totalmente do disco solar, e só se aprecia unha pequena porción oculta na parte superior dereita do mesmo.
#eclipse
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Swinhoe’s white-eye in my parents’ neighborhood.
A small yellow and white bird with a prominent white eye ring perches on a branch next to a cluster of white flowers against a soft blue sky.

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The chickens are our #homestead 's unsung heroes. Just getting on with their important business and leaving eggs. Here are 2/3 (Griddle and Mr. Flashy) of our aging, fox reduced, flock and their incoming reinforcements. I'm skeptical about geese, but they'll be here next week so I'll find out!
Griddle the mixed hen and Mr. Flashy the mixed rooster standing on wooden fencing. Behind them is a horse sacrifice area and grassy fenced in hill with woods and hills in the distance.
Many Australorp and silver laced Wyandotte chicks in a big dog crate there is hay bedding and a heat lamp
#homestead
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Yeah, chickens are so useful, and funny!

Curious how you'll cope with the geese. I hear they're trouble 😀

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It has been a crazy month so it is wonderful getting a chance to sit behind my loom again 🥰 #weaving #handmade #handweaving #vævning
A close up look at a handwoven teatowel in progress on a hand loom, woven in slate blue and robin’s egg blue blocks with rust overlay accents
#weaving #handmade #handweaving #vævning
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That orange accent at the intersection is so good 🤌

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The global mean surface air temperature anomaly (departure from average) so far this year now placed in historical context.

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 averaged over January to February.

Line graph time series of global mean surface temperature anomalies for each January-February period from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly averaged for January-February 2025 was 1.29°C for the global mean. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. Data from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0.

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This week’s #TheMuppets70 GIF of the Week celebrates Dr. Teeth!
#themuppets70
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Uh oh ... I lost my right-side up.

#Caturday #cats #saturday

Tabby cat on its back and curled into a confused ball.
#caturday #cats #saturday

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Mischief is putting in some cheery boxwork. The Opalcat is less amused so she is giving me a textbook classic #tortittude scowl.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon

Mischief, a young adult female medium longhair mackerel tabby cat, is loafing happily in a shallow box, in front of several stacks of larger boxes.
The Opalcat, a spicy adult tortie shorthair cat, is sitting in a shallow cardboard box, a textbook tortie scowl on her face.
#cats #catsofmastodon #tortittude

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OK so I made a video.

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Power isn't energy. The difference matters more than you may know.

Thinking is fun, actually!Links 'n stuff:HVAC system sizing:https://youtu.be/DTsQjiPlksATechnology Connextras (the second channel where I put stuff sometimes...
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Woot woot loved this video. I built a off grid shed once (and needed heat) a little math and the need to stay on budget results in some real time learning
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Hello, could you also explain in particular cooking efficiency (maybe in connextras)? I know you are not a cooking channel, but I see these claims that a pressure/electric cooker is more efficient than cooking rice on a pot. Why is that if energy to cook rice is indeed same? Is it simply heat losses from the top? Can you recover some loss by covering the pot? Or is it simply that pressure cookers are power efficient (i.e. takes less time to cook with equal energy?)

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Yes, let’s “Make it Fair” – by recognising that #copyright has failed to reward creators properly - walledculture.org/yes-lets-mak… but they never will, and the great lie continues #ai

Yes, let’s “Make it Fair” – by recognising that copyright has failed to reward creators properly

A few weeks ago, the UK’s regional and national daily news titles ran similar front covers, exhorting the government there to “Make it Fair”.

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#ai #copyright

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👌 Easter Stackable Rumi Blocks Toys • 3D files
➡️ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2860922
💡 Designed by rumi-rumi

Easter Stackable Rumi Blocks Toys

Easter Rumi Blocks Series Set – A Fun and Creative 3D Printable Toy Celebrate Easter with this delightful 3D printable Rumi Blocks set, designed for stacking, decorating, and sensory play.
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For a while now, whenever I read or watch news pieces and pundit discussions about “the economy” I always think of this…
A post by Master of Lillusions (@onyxaminedlife) has been placed over a background showing a beautiful pink sunset over a marina. An object in the foreground is a big yacht. The post is in black text over a white background superimposed on the marina shot. The text reads: Replacing the words “the economy” with “rich people’s yacht money” - How can we respond to COVID without sacrificing rich people’s yacht money? - Saving the environment sounds nice but what about rich people’s yacht money? - Medicare for all would destroy rich people’s yacht money

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Reading a random gemlog with cool ascii art always fills me with joy
linklink.flounder.online/

#geminiprotocol #GeminiSpace

Screenshot of Lagrange on iOS with a custom dark theme . Text says Davin’s planetary exploration and features an ascii art planet with little stars
Same Lagrange showing a spaceship leaving a trail of smoke in ASCII
#geminiprotocol #geminispace
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Doctor Faust taught at the University of Erfurt until the city kickted him out for practitioning the black arts.

#Germany #folktale #folklore @germany @folklore
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German folk tale "Doctor Faust in Erfurt". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!
#germany #folklore #folktale @folklore group @germany group

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#Turkish opposition rallies in defence of jailed Istanbul mayor in mass protest - theguardian.com/world/2025/mar… "Hundreds of thousands gather for Ekrem İmamoğlu outside Istanbul centre in move to keep momentum after clashes with police" huge, but is it huge enough?

Turkish opposition rallies in defence of jailed Istanbul mayor in mass protest

Ruth Michaelson (The Guardian)
#turkish

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ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.

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#News #Chicago #ICE #Immigration #Immigrants #Migrants #Trump


ICE Ramps Up Warrantless, Legally Dubious Arrests

In an effort to fulfill its deportation goals, the Trump administration is testing the limits of the law with a pattern of questionable roundups.
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#news #trump #immigrants #Chicago #ice #immigration #migrants
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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People are expected to carry proof of nationality around with them in the USA?

That's pretty much the definition of a police state.

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A chilled out Ellie, enjoying sunshine and scritches.

#cat #cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catsodon

A close up photo of the head of a black and white cat, her eyes closed while she's enjoying sunshine and fuss.
#caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #cat #catsodon

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29 March 1885 | French Jewish woman, Germaine Fleur, was born in Paris.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 28 October 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

A portrait of a face of a mature woman. She is wearing a pearl beads and pearl earrings. She has hair pinned in the back and a lock falling on her forehead. The head is photographed slightly diagonally.
#auschwitz

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This is incredibly sad. comicsands.com/texas-parents-m…

TX Parents Who Lost Child To Measles Still Anti-Vax: VIDEO

Koh Mochizuki (Comic Sands)
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