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The EU and Canada are specifically targeting US products which will primarily hurt pro-Trump areas, and are products where there are ample options to replace those now more expensive items. They’re using a scalpel while Trump uses a child’s plastic hammer. minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/…

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.
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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.

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#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)
#news #uspolitics #uspol #politics #trump #gopcult #corruption #ethics

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Under those amazing blue skies. ☀️

#BikeTooter #Colorado

A tall, bare-branched tree standing by itself in an open space meadow. Undulating mountains with bits of snow on their peaks in the distant background, and blue, blue skies above on a beautiful March afternoon.
A cluster of gnarly, bare-branched cottonwood trees standing tall in an open space meadow covered in dried grasses and scrub, a shallow creek running through the center. Distant mountains peeking through the trees, and clear blue skies above on a sunny afternoon.
#colorado #biketooter

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#CaboSanLucas white sand #beaches , its famous arch and almost guaranteed #sunshine make it a perfect #vacation #destination.
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
#travel #vacation #sunshine #beaches #cabosanlucas #destination #loscabos

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Door number 414 (request URI too long) has been found in the garden. At least the important part of it. Upside down. Acting as critter barrier.

It held up better than the piece of crap plastic panel next to it.

#Http414 #Doors

A part of a door panel cut down to size and stuffed into the ground near a garden fence to close a gap between fence and ground. It's painted green and has the (upside down) number 414 on it in white letters. A white plastic panel with pieces crumbling off extends further past a fence post.
#http414 #doors

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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

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

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Scene from the video game Prodigal with the potion shopkeeper Oakley saying to the player character "so, you want a witchy goth girlfriend? Okay what's your blood type?"

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A digital screenshot of Joplin, a note-taking app, displayed on both a laptop and a smartphone. The laptop screen shows a note titled "Vintage Piano Store idea" with a checklist, a table for "Meetings this week," and an image section labeled "Poster ideas" containing pictures of a colorful piano and a vinyl record player. The left sidebar contains sections for notebooks ("Personal" and "Work") and tags. The smartphone screen displays the same note in a mobile-friendly layout, showing the meeting schedule table and images. The interface has a dark theme sidebar and a light theme editor with rich text formatting and task management features.

Joplin website

Joplin, the open source note-taking application
joplinapp.org
#OpenSource #europeanalternatives #notetaking #buyfromeu @Joplin
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I also like Wekan. The main maintainer is coming from Finland.
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Another night, another SniffiVerse™ walkies selfie 🐾 💜

📸 13/03/2025

#Labrador #DogsOfMastodon #Dog #DogsOfPixelfed #Labradorable #Dogs #PixelfedDogs #Selfie #EyeContact

Night time selfie of a person and a chocolate brown Labrador with greying snout. The person is wearing a blue jacket, yellow safety harness, blue cap, silver headphones and blue-rimmed glasses. On their cap rests a headstrap torch in off position. Their free hand is around the dog's shoulders. Both are facing the camera. The dog is looking a bit bored...
#dogsofmastodon #dogs #dog #dogsofpixelfed #selfie #labrador #eyecontact #pixelfeddogs #labradorable

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That's crazy.
During a leap year, February has nine extra weeks.

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Waiting for Pixelfed to get up and running with their encrypted messaging.

Seems single source platforms can be too easily compromised.

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Signal no longer cooperating with Ukraine on Russian cyberthreats, official says

The encrypted messaging app Signal has stopped responding to requests from Ukrainian law enforcement regarding Russian cyberthreats, a Ukrainian official claimed, warning that the shift is aiding Moscow’s intelligence efforts.
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G. Gibson
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xmpp is pretty cool but I took up Matrix protocol as a replacement. All my ruby gems for xmpp are abandoned - but Matrix actively develops support for Ruby
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eliseo
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Matrix is a potential honeypot funded by the Israeli Mossad and multiple other western intel agencies, I'd rather keep a safe distance from anything that gets funded by a state intelligence agencies, specially a zionist one. That aside Matrix codebase is terrible, every single client is a clusterfuck mess and there's a total lack of a cohesive standard and agreement as to how a server and client should be implemented. XMPP is the antithesis of Matrix in that there's a standard first and then a reference implementation that developers can follow to make their own, XMPP also doesn't have influence of any government organization, unlike Matrix.
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eliseo
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As for why I avoid Signal. Other than the obvious things such as mandatory phone number requirements which is discriminatory against people that doesn't have phone number and also paradoxically very privacy unfriendly, the founder has a strong opinion in favor of centralization and has repeatedly showed an anti federation discourse over the years, given how Signal is designed it seems consistent with the kind of culture the project has as "convenient solution to a complex problem". I don't trust snake oil sellers, their clients being free software (which I doubt, requires investigation) means nothing if the server is in hands of a single company or organization.
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GNU/翠星石
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The mobile signal client is not free software - you cannot compile a working binary without authentication keys that the signal developers refuse to provide to f-droid for example.

It's only if you customize the server and client to no longer be signal, that you can actually compile it and it'll work, but you may as well use better chat software at that stage.

There is also a (somewhat broken) CLI library, but you can't use it without passing a "captcha" that requires a phone number and running proprietary JavaScript, so that's clearly not free either.

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eliseo
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So Signal is essentially a western Telegram on everything Telegram sucks.
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Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦
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Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦
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@eliseo01 @mistergibson

Thanks for the information. I suspected the fediverse is the best way to go. I anxiously await Pixilfed.

@G. Gibson @eliseo
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eliseo
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If I ever recommend Pixelfed to someone then I'm being impersonated. Pixelfed is absolutely proprietary and the developer behind it has been framed multiple times as a saboteur.
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@eliseo01 @mistergibson

Good to know. I was under the assumption that Pixelfed was federated and operated on independent servers.

@G. Gibson @eliseo

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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.

8 book covers by Steve DeGroof
#scribesandmakers

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Maraboo
#krickelkrakel #kleinekunstklasse #animalmarch #marabu #boo
zeichnung ein marabu sagt boo maraboo
#krickelkrakel #kleinekunstklasse #animalmarch #Marabu #boo

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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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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"

Indiana Jones punching a Nazi.

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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.

gizmodo.com/republicans-want-t…

#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

A tramway stationed at a tram stop in front of a tall and black skyscraper. The sky behind is bright orange. The rest of the image has desaturated colors.
#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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sweating the small stuff. Now that we have a custom LCD, I want to take advantage of it. 8erlin -> berlin, 0enver -> denver, +ehran -> tehran, plus some other cases. NYork -> NuYork isn't much, but I'll take it!
Code snippet, “handle tweaks for custom LCD”. Swapping the first character if it's D B or T, plus some “other edgier cases”.
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@eljojo ah that one would fit nicely! Alas, since Ottawa follows the same time zone rules as the east coast USA, so you'd be in NuYork as well.
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José Albornoz
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while correct in practice, with all due respect, I’d feel more comfortable using Canadian time zones 😀

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"With no CGI involved, there really were 250,000 bouncy balls running through SF.
(...) 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)

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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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We don’t need snarkers, we need warriors

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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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PhD level of intelligence from chatGPT. Pinguins are mammals, you heard it here first! #AI #LLM
Exercise 2: Ocean Creatures Your world has four creatures: shark, dolphin, octopus, penguin. Two are mammals (dolphin, penguin) Two have tentacles (octopus, squid)
#ai #llm

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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!

carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-em…

UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest level since 1872 Territorial greenhouse gas emissions, MtCO2e 800 600 400 General strikes 200 UK greenhouse gas emissions 1875 1900 1925 1950 0 1850 1975 2000 2025 Source: Jones et al. and Carbon Brief analysis CarbonBrief

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.
A creative street art piece in Olsztyn, Poland, by Adam Łokuciejewski. The artwork transforms two electrical boxes into a humorous scene, depicting them as anthropomorphized characters with expressive eyes and arms, appearing to embrace each other. The playful graffiti interacts with the urban landscape, bringing personality to an otherwise mundane piece of infrastructure.

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

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.

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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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.

#tilingwindowmanager #askfedi #foss #linux #unixporn

#linux #foss #askfedi #tilingwindowmanager #unixporn
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Sam
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I moved away from them when I got more into game development -- things like the godot editor or blender are very mouse-driven with lots of panels, which doesn't work well with a tiling wm. If I was doing heavy web programming or pure writing again though I'd probably go back.
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Grey
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the only workflow ive had an issue with using a window manager is recording music in Reaper. Windows are opened within that program a lot and not tiled, and there's no close button on it. The program is very mouse dominated when mixing, so going from the mouse to the keyboard to press the hotkey to close the window is frustrating. There may be a easy solution but I havent bothered looking it up. Using i3 btw.

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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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The cover for the Tachyon edition of Daniel Pinkwater's 'Jules, Penny and the Rooster.'

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

pluralistic.net
#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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Hello from London! I lived here 10 years ago and I wish I could be cool and say it was like I never left but I can safely report that I forgot almost everything about existing here including which way to look first when crossing the street 😅
Charming courtyard side street with colorful buildings and fairy lights
Asian woman in a beanie (me) taking a selfie ✌️
A flowering tree behind with a hedge and in front is a classic London street sign that says London Street, W2
Sunset over Camden Town
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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…

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.
Artwork by Józef Szajna featuring two panels with rows of fingerprint impressions, displayed on a grey background.
Black and white portrait of Józef Szajna sitting with chin resting on hands, looking intently at the camera.
Portrait of Józef Szajna, a prominent figure, wearing glasses and standing in front of an abstract painting.

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
#auschwitz
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the roamer
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Józef Szajna, I salute you.

We are grateful for your life. We remember what happened.

#Shoah #JózefSzajna

#shoah #jozefszajna

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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 3/13. Self-Promotion Day. Let's boost away.

There is nothing shameful about self-promotion.

All my books (and my wife's) are at taupress.com/books

There are also free books when signing up the newsletter (gosh).

#writing

Books | Tau Press 2020

taupress.com
#writing #scribesandmakers

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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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*Futurist AIs, wow, I bet these are fun

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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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R
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here you go, the sauce: github.com/ArcaneNibble/i-cant…

GitHub - ArcaneNibble/i-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox

Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox. Contribute to ArcaneNibble/i-cant-believe-its-not-webusb development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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🐕 "The Cone of Shame" Dog Lamp – Pet Lighting Decor • STL files
➡️ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2798476
💡 Designed by fabioferrari
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