Skip to main content

mastodon - Link to source

German parliament to debate radical borrowing rule changes to boost defence

Election winner Friedrich Merz also trying to seal €500bn fund to revive economy before new parliament convenes

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…

#news #politics #germany #economy #defense


Merz presses Greens to name their terms for German defence spending rise

‘What more do you want from us?’ asks chancellor-in-waiting as he seeks urgent support for fiscal rule changes
Kate Connolly (The Guardian)
#news #politics #defense #germany #economy
in reply to Frankie ✅

ManniCalavera
mastodon - Link to source
ManniCalavera
• •
Please note, everyone, that he ran on hardline no new debts claim, thumbed his nose at the last government trying to do something similar, and now relies on remnants of said gvmt to vote for this.
This is a corrupt, dishonest right wing guy with authoritarian streaks who held no political office before.
Sounds familiar?

mastodon - Link to source

As my musician friend Todd Harper says, a mind is a terrible thing.

From @heyokyay:
mastodon.social/@heyokyay/1141…


heyokyay (@heyokyay@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image
Mastodon
@heyokyay

pleroma - Link to source

There's something related to #homeassistant in the #mail !

#drunkshopping #drunkpurchase #drunkbuy #homeautomation

#mail #homeassistant #drunkbuy #drunkpurchase #drunkshopping #homeautomation
in reply to Daniele Verducci 🧉

Andy Warburton ❌❌❌
mastodon - Link to source
Andy Warburton ❌❌❌
• •
it’s a 3d printed enclosure that allows the use of a bigger 40mm speaker. It still sounds like ass but less ass than the stock speaker. makerworld.com/en/models/11288…

Home Assistant Voice PE - 40mm Speaker Enclosure by freeskier93

This is an alternative enclosure for the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition that utilizes a 40mm speaker to improve sound quality.  It also provides 360-degree sound, whereas the original enclosure only directs sound out the front.
makerworld.com

mastodon - Link to source
#Ukraine's mineral resources could play a crucial role in its postwar reconstruction, but outdated data and technology pose challenges for anyone to make a profit from them. A scholar highlights that many deposits are still unexplored or underutilized: buff.ly/ctTPnqs ⚒️

US-Ukraine deal highlights Ukraine’s wealth of critical minerals, but extracting them isn’t so simple

Critical minerals are in demand around the world for military, technology and other uses. A geoscientist shares what’s known about Ukraine’s reserves, which could help the country recover from war.
The Conversation
#ukraine

mastodon - Link to source

Trump Baselessly Suggests Fired Federal Workers Were Incompetent at Their Jobs
A multiyear survey finds that those working at federal jobs tend to be among the hardest working in the country.

truthout.org/articles/trump-ba…


Trump Baselessly Suggests Fired Federal Workers Were Incompetent at Their Jobs

Chris Walker (Truthout)

mastodon - Link to source

Pentagon 'cherry picked' studies to support transgender service member ban, judge says

abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/ju…

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA


Pentagon 'cherry picked' studies to support transgender service member ban, judge says

A judge on Wednesday signaled that she was deeply skeptical that the Pentagon's handling of transgender service members complies with federal law.
Peter Charalambous (ABC News)
#trans #lgbtqia #LGBTQ #transgender

mastodon - Link to source

Let's begin FOSSers 🔥

#linux

Drop a screenshot of your Linux setup!
#linux
in reply to rival

HHG²TG¼²°
mastodon - Link to source
HHG²TG¼²°
• •
@rival
..
i love icewm it's my absolute favorite wm since many years now with several osses.
ok, my puppylinuxes have jwm of course but then with zentile for tiling windows at startx.
but definetely icewm is my No 1. i still use my first configs with few changes depending on os and programs installed.
@rival
in reply to HHG²TG¼²°

rival
mastodon - Link to source
rival
• •
@toot Absolutely agree. 💯 #IceWM is the only one that being extremely lightweight also has system monitors (network, RAM, CPU) implemented by default at sight all the time in the taskbar. For some reason, that tool has become hard to find. It's really a perfect WM for the minimalist ones. ❤️
#icewm @HHG²TG¼²°

ActivityPub - Link to source

okay, so, Warner is the definition of a centrist squish. having him say he's voting no is good. this compulsive talking point about the 30 day extension is garbage though. just vote fucking no! let the GOP figure out a bill you can vote for.

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ri2qk…

in reply to Noah Berlatsky

Benjamin Lowe
ActivityPub - Link to source
Benjamin Lowe
• •
If it's "we won't vote for cloture on the main bill but we would on a 30-day extension to keep things going, and for some reason Republicans won't," it's a good talking point once the lights go out in a shutdown. If it's "we'll vote for cloture and ask realllly nicely for 30 days," that's a fail.

flipboard - Link to source

White House withdraws controversial pick to run the CDC
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5323926/cdc-weldon-withdrawn-vaccine?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr

@All Things Considered

mastodon - Link to source

"New Quinniac poll:

If there's a #shutdown...

32% blame Dems
31% blame Republicans
22% blame Trump

That's a majority blaming Trump and/or the GOP. Hang tough, Dems.

Note that only 22% of independents would blame Dems for a shutdown. 34% of them would blame the GOP and 22% would blame Trump, a total of 56%. A shutdown is clearly likely to be worse for Republicans.

In short, the vast majority of those who would blame Dems are Republicans already."
-G Sargent

#Republicans #Coup #Resist #USPol

The image displays survey data regarding public blame for a potential government shutdown. It includes percentages related to registered voters' opinions on blaming Republicans in Congress, Democrats in Congress, or President Trump, segmented by overall totals and demographics such as party affiliation and gender.
The image displays a survey question regarding blame for a potential government shutdown, including responses from registered voters. It lists percentages for blame attributed to Republicans in Congress, Democrats in Congress, and President Trump, segmented by party affiliation (Republicans, Democrats, Independ…
#uspol #resist #coup #shutdown #republicans
This entry was edited (3 months ago)

flipboard - Link to source

Thousands of fired federal workers must be offered reinstatement, a judge rules
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325959/federal-employees-court-firing?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr

@All Things Considered

flipboard - Link to source

Joe Pyne: America's first angry talk show host
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5324671/joe-pyne-shock-jock-talk-radio?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr

@All Things Considered

mastodon - Link to source

I know there’s a lot going on close to home, but if you can, keep half an eye on Syria which is in an incredibly fragile place of transformation right now.

Via @b9AcE, ht @hornet1936:
todon.eu/@b9AcE/11415676322313…

b9AcE

2025-03-13 19:26:10

mastodon - Link to source

The new Damascus-regime decreed a new "Constitutional Declaration" today
hawarnews.com/en/signing-of-co…

The grassroots democracy, feminist, pro-diversity, secular, etc Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES, a.k.a. "Rojava") strongly rejected it as a step backward "criticizing it as an exclusionary framework that fails to represent Syria’s diverse communities".
npasyria.com/en/123163/



Kurdish Region Rejects Syria’s New "Constitutional Declaration," Calling It a Step Backward

By Kardo RojQAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) strongly rejected the newly issued "Constitutional Declaration" announced in Damascus on Thursday, criticizing it as an exclusionary framework t
semav1 (North press agency)

@b9AcE @Jack Rosenquist

mastodon - Link to source

The new Damascus-regime decreed a new "Constitutional Declaration" today
hawarnews.com/en/signing-of-co…

The grassroots democracy, feminist, pro-diversity, secular, etc Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES, a.k.a. "Rojava") strongly rejected it as a step backward "criticizing it as an exclusionary framework that fails to represent Syria’s diverse communities".
npasyria.com/en/123163/


Kurdish Region Rejects Syria’s New "Constitutional Declaration," Calling It a Step Backward

By Kardo RojQAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) strongly rejected the newly issued "Constitutional Declaration" announced in Damascus on Thursday, criticizing it as an exclusionary framework t
semav1 (North press agency)

mastodon - Link to source
These #Musk protest ads going up around London were already good but the Maga fan fury they prompted took them to a whole new level - The Poke
thepoke.com/2025/03/13/these-m…

These Musk protest ads going up around London were already good but the Maga fan fury they prompted took them to a whole new level

We’ve got a lot of time – an awful lot of time – for the people behind these very funny and very clever protest ads about Elon Musk that you might have been lucky enough to spot around the place.
John Plunkett (The Poke)
#musk

flipboard - Link to source

What Cuts to U.S. Aid Mean in Africa : State of the World from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/1238261958/what-cuts-to-u-s-aid-mean-in-africa?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-npr

@World News

mastodon - Link to source
CURRENTLY IN ROTATION
Tune in to the #stream for more!
youtube.com/watch?v=-peWHO6pRn…

Boogie in Your Butt

Provided to YouTube by Legacy/ColumbiaBoogie in Your Butt · Eddie MurphyEddie Murphy℗ 1982 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music EntertainmentReleased o...
YouTube
#stream
This entry was edited (3 months ago)

threads - Link to source
‘Dirty Rain’ Falls Over Multiple States
theonion.com/dirty-rain-falls-…
Photo by The Onion on March 13, 2025. May be a meme of 1 person, condiment, onion and text that says 'G Just Just be grateful it's still raining at all. Fran Vikstrom Wildlife Pedicurist theONION the ONION'.

‘Dirty Rain’ Falls Over Multiple States

Rain showers following a massive Texas dust storm left buildings and vehicles from Missouri to West Virginia covered in a grimy film, a rare weather event known as “dirty rain.” What do you think?
The Onion Staff (The Onion)

mastodon - Link to source
#DnD #Dndmemes #funny #TTRPG #TTRPGMemes #DungeonsandDragons
Unsettled Tom Meme. Text reads "Me reading what some of you are putting up with just to play some dnd"
#ttrpg #funny #dnd #dungeonsAndDragons #dndmemes #ttrpgmemes

mastodon - Link to source
blog.codinghorror.com/what-if-…
Elon Musk to CNN: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it's they're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.” Empathy, he said, has been “weaponized.” Now read the attached, below: G.M. Gilbert was the chief psychologist who interviewed Nazis on trial at Nuremberg. His words are as valid today as they were in the 1940s. "I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, | think, is the the absence of empathy." -- G.M. Gilbert

What If We Could Weaponize Empathy?

One of my favorite insights on the subject of online community is from Tom Chick: Here is something I’ve never articulated because I thought, perhaps naively, it was understood: The priority for participating on this forum is not the quality of the…
Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)

reshared this

pixelfed - Link to source
I may have become a little obsessed with border patterns...
#DreamsOfAmarna
Sheet of border patterns inspired by ancient Egypt. They are all in turquoise and green, set on a diagonal.
#dreamsofamarna

mastodon - Link to source
Hi #makershour @makershour I’m Vicki and I had a lot of fun making this Clanger
Side view of knitted Tiny Clanger
#makershour @makershour group

makershour group reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

#history #SilkRoads #china

A study has ascertained that the domestic cat were traded along the Silk Roads to China. Cats arrived into China about 600CE, which was 1500 years after their introduction into Europe. Cats were given as gifts by merchants to wealthy Chinese.

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…

#history #china #SilkRoads

mastodon - Link to source

Have Li-ion Batteries Gone Too Far?

hackaday.com/2025/03/13/have-l…


Have Li-ion Batteries Gone Too Far?

The proliferation of affordable lithium batteries has made modern life convenient in a way we could only imagine in the 80s when everything was powered by squadrons of AAs, or has it? [Ian Bogost] …
Hackaday

mastodon - Link to source
#ThrowbackThursday to my first time playing Respectable Street "Punk On The Patio" 2025.02.21 #tbt (Vid description: a white guy with long hair DJing at a big table. The background has industrial looking power lines and then behind that is a high rise apartment building.)
#tbt #throwbackthursday

mastodon - Link to source
► FunHouseRadio.com
Like this #meme? Try the #stream!

FunHouse Radio

Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.
FunHouse Radio
#meme #stream

mastodon - Link to source

Kriminalitätsstatistik: Brandenburger Bericht wird in Teilen zurückgezogen

Erst am Montag hatte Innenministerin Lange die Kriminalitätsstatistik vorgestellt. Nun stellt sich ein Teil als fehlerhaft heraus.

"Es ist schon bemerkenswert: Erst wird mit großem Pathos eine Statistik präsentiert, die eine verzerrte Darstellung der Ausländerkriminalität liefert und dabei rechtspopulistische Narrative bedient - und dann stellt sich heraus, dass die Zahlen schlicht falsch sind“

tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/landes…


Kriminalitätsstatistik: Brandenburger Bericht wird in Teilen zurückgezogen

Der Tagesspiegel

mastodon - Link to source

#ScribesAndMakers Shameless Self-Promotion Day.

Behold! and click on my shiny self!
lydiavvinters.com/

And buy pretty prints and journals: redbubble.com/people/OddlyWitc…

(I know, I can never do a self promo without wielding a bit of ridiculous sarcasm.)

#writingcommunity #artist #illustration #fedigiftshop #design #mastoart

Loads of tiny pictures together on a black background. All fantasy illustrations.
Collection of posted spells.
Blogposts.
Product images of designed notebooks and journals.

Lydia Vvinters

Eclectic Witch
Lydia Vvinters
#writingcommunity #MastoArt #illustration #fedigiftshop #artist #scribesandmakers #design

mastodon - Link to source
TI's tiny #microcontroller is the world's smallest and costs less than 20 cents - zdnet.com/article/tis-tiny-mic… " This remarkable device is only a little larger than a pepper flake." insane

TI's tiny microcontroller is the world's smallest and costs less than 20 cents

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes (ZDNET)
#microcontroller

mastodon - Link to source

This is disgusting

taskandpurpose.com/news/arling…


Arlington Cemetery scrubs pages of Black, Hispanic, women vets

The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
Matt White (Task & Purpose)

mastodon - Link to source

Essen. Drei Unbekannte haben einen 33-Jährigen im Essener Westviertel hinterrücks angegriffen. Die Polizei hat Fotos der Männer veröffentlicht.

Nach einem hinterhältigen Angriff dreier Männer auf einen 33-Jährigen bei McDonald‘s an der Hans-Böckler-Straße im Essener Westviertel fahndet die Polizei mit Fotos einer Überwachungskamera nach den mutmaßlichen Schlägern.

waz.de/lokales/essen/article40…


Brutaler Angriff bei McDonald‘s: Wer sind diese Schläger?

Bei McDonald‘s im Essener Westviertel ist ein 33-Jähriger hinterrücks angegriffen worden.
Jörg Maibaum (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung)

mastodon - Link to source
Dry stone dyke nerds: what do you call the ridge of ragged stones on top of the wall? Here, on Sanday in Orkney (Scotland), they're Rag Stones. What do youse call them?
A ragged dry stone wall with awkwardly stacked rocks and a lot of lichen
in reply to Badger

@shezza_t
mastodon - Link to source
@shezza_t
• •
I don’t know what they’re called, but I do know @kristiedegaris knows a _lot_ about dry stone walling.
@Kristie
in reply to @shezza_t

Kristie
mastodon - Link to source
Kristie
• •
@shezza_t Copes here in Perthshire, boring I know. I've heard toppers from drystone wallers in England. Regional styles and regional lingo for Drystone is so interesting!
@@shezza_t
in reply to Kristie

@shezza_t
mastodon - Link to source
@shezza_t
• •

@kristiedegaris I’ve walked sections of our most famous Northern Irish dry stone wall, and wish the guides would give more details about the actual wall itself.

We hear about its length, and how many men were involved in building it; but nothing about why they built the different sections the way they did.

@BadgerandVole

A grey granite dry stone wall stretches across a scrubby heather covered plateau, climbing up the slope of the mountain in the distance.
A straight on look at the intricate construction of a granite dry stone wall, showing the seemingly random boulders that make up the main body of the wall. The top level of the wall is capped with much smaller stones. The grass of the field behind the wall can be seen in the gaps between the stones.
Looking along the Mourne Mountain wall at Hare’s Gap. The wall here looks like the stones have been shaped to make a much more closely knit structure. The top row of stones jut out over the wall.
Close up on the Hare’s Gap wall showing a large flat step stone jutting out from the face of the wall.
@Kristie @Badger
in reply to @shezza_t

Kristie
mastodon - Link to source
Kristie
• •
@shezza_t The stones jutting out might be through stones but hard to tell, and the stones on top are called coverbands where I'm from.
@@shezza_t
in reply to Kristie

Badger
mastodon - Link to source
Badger
• •
@kristiedegaris @shezza_t we'd call those through stones (steens, though), too! The rag(ged) stones on top of our dykes is to deter roaming livestock, although I've had to repair a few dykes where a bull has put all his weight on it to try to get to a grass verge! It seems much more peaceable to have a neat, flat layer. Also: we mainly have beach stone, so I'm envious of how neat these can get!!
@Kristie @@shezza_t
in reply to Badger

Kristie
mastodon - Link to source
Kristie
• •
@shezza_t They can indeed get very neat, but the core of the craft is doing what you can with what you have!
@@shezza_t
in reply to Kristie

Badger
mastodon - Link to source
Badger
• •
@kristiedegaris @shezza_t Indeed! And I can do a decent job with round stone and a rubble heart, I just really enjoy it when it's not quite such a balancing act! Still, it's very much early days for me, a little over a year apprenticed to an octogenarian expert, so I know I have a lot of learning to come!
@Kristie @@shezza_t
in reply to Badger

Kristie
mastodon - Link to source
Kristie
• •
@shezza_t I've been doing it for 4 years now and I'll be learning forever I think. We use a lot of fieldstone here in Perthshire so something like sandstone or slate is a treat.
@@shezza_t

mastodon - Link to source
Over a month of development went into this little guy! Can’t wait to share him with the world this weekend! #StarWars #Droid #PitDroid #Scifi #3dprinting #3dprinted #maker
My 3d printed Star Wars Pit Droid
#StarWars #SciFi #3dprinting #maker #3DPrinted #droid #pitdroid

Workshopshed reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

This is not AI:

Trump threatens to copy Putin’s Crimean invasion, by using existing US bases on Greenland as a bridgehead to invade the Island — just like Putin sent thousands of soldiers to his Sevastopol base on Crimea to start the invasion.

I am sorry, but I can only conclude the US is now an enemy of The Kingdom of Denmark.

Zaphod Beeblebrox reshared this.

in reply to Randahl Fink

NoBorg
mastodon - Link to source
NoBorg
• •

Many high politicians in France support the idea of sending troops to Greenland... if Denmark request them.

lejdd.fr/International/menaces…


Menaces de Trump contre le Groenland : Jean-Noël Barrot n’exclut pas l’envoi de militaires français

Le président des États-Unis n’a de cesse de réitérer sa volonté de mettre la main sur le Groenland, territoire semi-autonome du Danemark.
Tristan Cavert (Lejdd.fr)

mastodon - Link to source

The facts behind the 19 programs President Donald Trump described as ‘waste’

politifact.com/article/2025/ma…

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption


The facts behind the 19 programs Trump described as ‘waste’

Ten million dollars for male circumcision in Mozambique, $8 million to make "mice transgender," and $20 million for "the
@politifact
#news #uspolitics #uspol #politics #trump #gopcult #corruption #ethics
in reply to Frankie ✅

twosky2000
mastodon - Link to source
twosky2000
• •

some rumors and false understanding through starting in the middle of the conversation.

I be quite now, I'm follow because DnD.

This entry was edited (2 months ago)

threads - Link to source
Trump Announces New Visa Tier For Immigrants Who Will Be Friends With Barron
theonion.com/trump-announces-n…
Photo by The Onion on March 13, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of 2 people and text that says 'Trump Announces New Visa Tier For Immigrants Who Will Be Friends With Barron the ONION'.

Trump Announces New Visa Tier For Immigrants Who Will Be Friends With Barron

WASHINGTON—Extending an offer to immigrants hoping to relocate to the United States, President Donald Trump unveiled a new type of visa Thursday for any foreign citizen willing to move to America to be friends with his son Barron.
The Onion Staff (The Onion)

glitchsoc - Link to source
The cover art for Mars Needed Women. The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, sand, and a greenish sky. There is a triskelion image of Mars, which is a tattoo in the story. The back cover reads as follows: Shanghaied May Ri struggled when the EM goon clamped an aromatic wet rag over her nose and mouth... Waking weightless and nauseated—stuffy head pounding, being floated somewhere—despite grogginess, she eyes-closed punched someone, spinning away to bounce off a wall. The click of cartilage, the thump off a bulkhead, the blare of a warning horn, and "Rig for ring spin!" rang in her ears. A tech clapped a bag over her mouth before she vomited up her last putrified meal, while enduring the blonde's glare as blood beaded around her nose. May Ri glowered back. Sitting on the wall, dragged on her butt, her inner ear then her innards soon informed her the wall was becoming the floor. From the author: “A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist (@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe)

> 2503.01 — Women #Writever #Mars #SpaceOpera ## Mars needed women. May Ri bought into the hype and the spiel, not realizing it was the last gasp of a long dead oligarch's dream. When the money dried up, nobody would finance the supply missions.
Eldritch Café
#writingcommunity #writing #writer #author #sciencefiction #writersofmastodon #art #sff #artwork #alttext #writers #gender #scribesandmakers #fiction #boostingissharing #commentingiscool #sf #rsdiscussion #rsstory #rsmarsneededwomen #coverart
This entry was edited (3 months ago)

mastodon - Link to source

Crowd Supply is hosting: Hackaday Europe pre-event: Bring a Hack. Come hang with us if you are in Berlin!

crowdsupply.com/events/2025/3/…

Hackaday Europe pre-event: Bring a Hack | Crowd Supply

www.crowdsupply.com

mastodon - Link to source

Join the Crowd Supply team for Hackaday Europe 2025 at Motion.labs in Berlin. The event takes place on March 15th and 16th and will be filled with cool talks, badge hacking and workshops. This is a ticketed event.

crowdsupply.com/events/2025/3/…

Hackaday Europe | Crowd Supply

www.crowdsupply.com

mastodon - Link to source
Executing a “wind down” implemented in the final days of the Biden administration, the U.S. Treasury has now formally ended an exemption that allowed sanctioned Russian banks to process European payments for oil sales.
⇧