My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
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My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster
Nobody likes spam messages, but some of them contain rather fascinating scams. Case in point, [Ben Tasker] recently got a few romance scam emails that made him decide to take a poke at the scam beh…Hackaday
Travel Guide for Hokitika and Paparoa National Park, New Zealand - New Zealand Purple Travel Guide
Paparoa National Park is known for its limestone karst formations, caves, diverse flora and fauna, outdoor activities and the spectacular Charleston Glowworm Cave.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Marco Pavanello / Wolf Studio makes really cool CGI videos and animations with Blender:
➡️ @marco
There are already 23 videos uploaded, you can browse them all at makertube.net/a/marco/videos
You might particularly want to check out the short films "The Spark" (makertube.net/w/qPzyWiJPBhej8W…) and "Pebble" (makertube.net/w/tihdkkgvmKHsxk…).
You can also follow Pavanello's general social media account at @nacioss
#FeaturedPeerTube #Blender #CGI #Animation #3DGraphics #PeerTube #PeerTubers
A great writeup on why young men are being sucked into today's ultra-toxic masculinity.
Yes, it's more complex than this. But people with no hope and no future will grasp at anything.
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Séamas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons
Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealthIrishExaminer.com
I was looking for something else in my old photos and came across these pictures of violets taken in the NC wilderness, in Pisgah National Forest, a few years ago.
I still haven't gotten over the fact that we can carry in our pockets cameras capable of pictures like this.
Oh thank you!
I remember looking that up right after I took them, and then forgot it. 😳
I edited the OP to reflect your kind correction for the people who see it later.
I remember doing research and using microfiche* and occasionally archives on 35mm rolls . Some libraries even could print frames/pages, if you paid.
I believe the Bell & Howell readers still were being produced in the late 1980s!
[* For those that are too young to remember, the reader looked like a CRT, but was a back-projection screen. Purely optical / mechanical with a bright lamp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfor… ]
SpaceX's Crew-10 mission is on its way to the ISS
https://www.engadget.com/science/space/spacexs-crew-10-mission-is-on-its-way-to-the-iss-133045695.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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SpaceX's Crew-10 mission is on its way to the ISS
SpaceX's Crew-10 mission has launched from Florida, taking new crew members to the ISS and allowing Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to fly back home as soon ...Mariella Moon (Engadget)
Fear and resignation after ‘world’s most powerful company’ pays Trump a $100 billion ‘protection fee’
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#news #tech #technology #business #taiwan #politics #uspol #uspolitics #trump #ethics #corruption
‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds
Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisationsDalya Alberge (The Guardian)
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I'm enjoying working with this palette this week - feels refreshing! 🎨
Hopeful Sunrise, oil on Arches oil paper, 6"x4"
Original works on paper are available in my online shop:
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#MastoArt #FediArt #art #painting
It’s been a while since I posted a #caturday picture, but this one of Lilu holding on to her dreams seemed to good not to…
n00b trying to learn Pixelfed. It's the future. But finding accounts is a challenge. I found findmyfriends.online/ which is meant to locate Mastodon folks on Pixelfed, but that's not working for me.
Pixelfed made an announcement about creating accounts with your Mastodon info, but that also seems not to work.
What I *don't* want - and I'm sure most people don't want - is to follow Mastodon in Pixelfed and visa versa. It's a different kind of content, frankly.
Thoughts? 😀
I have a PF account at @graham.dunning
Designing geometric flowerpots comes with its own challenges—especially the corners of the upper rim. I started with a triangle-shaped pot, and getting those corners just right was tricky, but incredibly satisfying in the final design and print!
Take a look: printables.com/model/748599
Triangle Flower Pot in Various Sizes by Metikumi | Download free STL model | Printables.com
This is my design of a plain triangle flower pot with flat sides. | Download free 3D printable STL modelswww.printables.com
Here are 8 photography winners with disabilities who show the world their perspective
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/15/g-s1-51102/photo-contest-winners-people-with-disabilities?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#Trump’s threats especially on taking over #Canada, leave Canadian veterans that served alongside US troops particularly angry.
“Over more than a dozen years in #Afghanistan, 158 Canadian soldiers were killed, along with seven civilians.
An additional 2,000 troops were wounded.”
the issue: LCD autodetect works by twiddling a couple of LCD pins at boot, and then reading analog values on two adjacent pins to give us a hint at the connections on the glass. But when waking from sleep mode, I was mistakenly trying to run screen detection again — even though these pins were already being driven by the LCD controller! This means it was measuring values that didn't correlate with the thing we wanted to detect.
Solution: don't run autodetect if the display is already running.
Sullivan, a Republican Washington state Senator on radio after hearing trucks rolling thru BC from lower 49 US states may get tariffs imposed on them:
“Canada, you don't want to mess with #Alaska.
“And if you do, we are going to work hard on having our cruise ships bypass your ports, and that will help our economy tremendously.”
Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Starmer fordert weiteren Druck auf Putin ++
Der britische Premier Starmer hat dazu aufgerufen, bei Friedensverhandlungen den Druck auf Kremlchef Putin aufrechtzuerhalten. Im Gebiet Kursk werden weitere Gefechte zwischen russischen und ukrainischen Streitkräften gemeldet.
More of what the #Musk/Trump administration is doing to hurt people in #NorthCarolina
Canceling a program that paid for fresh food directly from farmers to go to food banks in our state. Good for everyone...
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USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the programs NC food banks participate in.Sharryse Piggott (Blue Ridge)
Indonesian court blocks palm oil expansion, but leaves Indigenous land rights in limbo
JAKARTA — The Indonesian Supreme Court has upheld a government decision to curb the expansion of a multibillion-dollar oil palm plantation project in the country’s easternmost region of Papua. In its Dec.Hayat Indriyatno (Conservation news)
"What kind of demented Trump reality do we live in that this even had to be said,"
- Aure
"We will never, ever, in any way, shape or form, be part of the United States"
- Canadian PM Mark Carney
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Canada #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
Brazil Supreme Court: Trial against Bolsonaro set for March 25
#politics #brazil #democracy
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Supreme Court: Trial against Bolsonaro set for March 25
Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the cases rapporteur, authorized the indictment for trial after the Attorney General’s Office endorsed charging the former president.Agência Brasil
1. Texas AG Ken Paxton is usurping the authority of Texas Courts in a brazen act of autocratic power. He's ordering court ordered gender changes void. He's demanding licenses and birth certificates revoked, with reverted replacements for trans people. Subscribe to support my journalism.
Texas AG Paxton Declares Court...
Texas AG Paxton Declares Court Orders "Void," Orders Gender Markers Reverted For Trans People
The Texas Attorney General says that all drivers licenses and birth certificates must be reverted for trans peopleErin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
ebola and dying in a fire are now roughly as popular as #Tesla in Germany.
electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla-i…
#eupol #uspol #TSLA #TSLAQ #TeslaTakedown #elonmusk
Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car
A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t bode well for the...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
'Sounds like censorship to me.' O cinema co-founder slams proposed eviction over film
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5328740/miami-beach-o-cinema-no-other-land?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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TikTok complies with Brazilian data authority ruling on minors
#politics #brazil #tiktok
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TikTok complies with Brazilian data authority ruling on minors
Users must now have an account to view content on the platformValor international
CNBC reports the U.S. stock market lost $5 trillion in value in three weeks. Is America 'great' again yet?
Given that this is the third German treated horribly by ICE, I think Germany should turn Elon's support for Neo-Nazis into a diplomatic issue. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
Green card holder from New Ham...
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.NHPR
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'Don't let your kids be on Roblox', Roblox CEO tells parents, before comparing himself to Walt Disney and declaring the platform 'the future of communication'
pcgamer.com/games/dont-let-you…
#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #gaming #roblox #wtf
'Don't let your kids be on Roblox', Roblox CEO tells parents, before comparing himself to Walt Disney and declaring the platform 'the future of communication'
"I would always trust parents to make their own decisions."Rich Stanton (PC Gamer)
Well, that type of quoting is maliciously misleading. It was the second part of an if-clause.
If you don't refrain from this kind of posts, I will block you! ☝️ See, I didn't just say: "I will block you!" 😉
But seems like I have to address my criticism to #PCGamer, as they did strip the context in their subheading in the first place. For clicks? So... nothing against you, @Some_Emo_Chick as you are "just" carelessly boosting bad journalism.
cameronbosch
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •Trump supporters waiting for the "budget to be balanced":
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See? Easy. I didn't even cross my fingers.
Jay
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Every one of these just rings a bell.
Strangely
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