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The meetings discussed the spaceport being built at SaxaVord on Shetland, using nuclear reactors in space and collaboration with the US, NATO and arms companies
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Star wars: alarm at space agency’s 130 meetings with MoD

Senior officials from the UK Space Agency held over 130 meetings with the Ministry of Defence in 2024, prompting concerns about the “weaponisation” of space.
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"Sometimes I wonder if there's more to life than just goofing around on my tyre swing. And then I remember that yes, yes there is. There are grapes, and apples and naps."
#RedPanda #RedPandas :redpanda4:
A red panda looks contemplative as it stands up holding onto the top of a small tyre on a rope made into a swing.
#redpanda #RedPandas

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The backlist bonanza rolls into its last phase, as the first of my Red Dragon series is rereleased. Watch out for the rest to follow soon and see how the relationship between Alyn Evans (space Welshman) and Jarvez Kashari (a man who's gone hundreds of light years to get away from his family) develops.
#Promo
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Backlist Bonanza - Red Dragon 1: The Company Man Out Now

The dragons have returned! Well the first one anyway. The first book of the Red Dragon series, an M/M space opera series, following Alyn Eva...
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Absolutely love the new Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 Air. Incredible lens. A few recent shots from it and my X-S20. #photography #Viltrox
#photography #Viltrox
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@betapixels thanks! Still quite new to photography, having a lot of fun though 😀
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Always an icon. comicsands.com/rihanna-deliver…

Rihanna Gave Birth In Pearls & Sunglasses: PHOTOS

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But not every circle is a square.
Every square is a circle.

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Lettuce is of the opinion that she would like to be petted, just as long as it doesn't involve being touched

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Ugggh there's a screening of Rashomon in town tonight and I was super excited to go because I've never seen it but it turns out there's a "expert Q&A" *before* the film and I feel like I already know a lot more about this movie than I'd have liked to going in. Also if this is the angle their Q&A is going to take it sounds… kind of facile

(If you want to use this post as a jumping off point for a reply which discusses things that happen in "Rashomon", I am begging you to use the spoiler tag)

Don’t Be So Political is a monthly film series that engages with films through a political lens. Each screening is preceded by an expert Q&A. Hosted by Zach Wortzman “If men don’t trust each other, this earth might as well be hell.” An assault. A murder. A samurais honour stolen. And the investigation into what happened reveals four stories, none of which overlap. Master director Akira Kurosawa puts the audience in the seat of judgement to untangle a web of lies in search of the truth. Philosophical quandaries steps the audience through the sequence of events ultimately indicting the lie as the greatest of humanity’s betrayals. With the proliferation of ‘fake news’, the demonization of ‘main stream media’, and accelerating rise of reality altering artificial intelligence, truth has never been more important. And more threatened.
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Not to dis the "expert," but honestly, having the Q&A *before* the film is giving me strong Anne Rice "Interview with the Vampire" vibes.

The first VHS release of that film had a ten minute sit-down with A.R. before the movie where she was basically like "Here's how to enjoy this film properly" and it *really* rubbed me the wrong way.

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I apologize, I was wrong. It was two minutes, not ten. And you can watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=vwfh27jdnE…

"A Message From Anne Rice" (w/ "Interview with the Vampire" soundtrack spot)

Anne Rice introduces the film "Interview with the Vampire" and throws her support behind the film, which starred Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, before plugging he...
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extremely mild spoilers related to the basic structure of the movie but not it's actual context

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McSweeney's weighs in
IT’S A SHAME WE HAVE TO BETRAY OUR ALLIES, STARVE THE POOR, HALT SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS, DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT, AND ELIMINATE THE FREEDOMS ENSHRINED IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS, BUT AT LEAST MY INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO IS ALSO TANKING by TALIA ARGONDEZZI

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WOW - The French government announced a new OSS project simply called Docs:

“A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentationZendisorm that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline."

It’s even offline-first, using the CRDTs under the hood (Y.js).

LOL, does this mean I get to roll out the

"Liberté, Egalité, CRDTé”

Dad joke?

I think it does. Link below:

docs.numerique.gouv.fr/

V interesting joint project between DINUM (🇫🇷) and Zendis (🇩🇪)

Docs

Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.
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“Consumer sentiment is declining rapidly for HHs

•Consumer worries about losing their jobs are at levels normally seen during recessions

•A record-high share of consumers think business conditions are worsening

•HH’s income expectations are declining

•Inflation expectations are rising at an unprecedented speed

The bottom line is that consumer sentiment is
🚨DETERIORATING AT AN ALARMING RATE.”
-T Slok, economist at Apollo

#Trumpcession #Stagflation #Economy #Jobs #USPol

A line graph depicting consumer sentiment over time for families with incomes greater than $100,000 per year (green line) and those with incomes less than $100,000 per year (blue line). The x-axis ranges from Jan 1990 to 2025
Graph displaying the percentage of consumers who expect business conditions to worsen over time, with key peaks noted. Source: University of Michigan, Haver Analytics, Apollo Chief Economist.
Line graph depicting inflation expectations over time from January 1990 to January 2025. Two lines show the median increase for 5-10 year (blue) and 12-month (green) inflation expectations, indicating a recent and notable rise.
Line graph showing the significant decline in household income expectations over time, with median expected change in income marked in green. Data spans from January 1999 to January 2025, including notable declines around early 2009 and 2020. Source
#uspol #economy #jobs #trumpcession #stagflation

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A couple more shots from Paris.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7, yellow filter
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Montmartre #Paris

A black and white picture of a Parisian road with cafés and restaurants on the side, with their awnings extended, and plants under the windows. The cobblestone is wet from the rain, there is light coming from light strips under the awnings, providing a quaint ambience.
A black and white photo of a Parisian road with cafés, restaurants, and little boutique stores on the sides. The cobblestone is wet from the rain, people are walking under umbrellas. The lights are on but it's not entirely dark out yet.
#monochromephotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #believeinfilm #paris #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #montmartre
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Really nice!!
I love how the rain mirrors on the street and between the cobble stones. 👌🏻

Great scenery!

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I am going to “yes-and” the core thought of this article (via @ianb):

❝Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth❞

Yes, and also by the pitch of •power• for nothing.

No matter how small of a person they are inside, no matter whose boot they’re under, patriarchy promises every man that they can have power over •someone•, that they are entitled to at least one sphere of their own life in which •they• are the tyrant.
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Ian Betteridge (@ianb@well.com)

This is a very good piece on the attraction of the "manosphere" to young men. https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41592826.html
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Racism makes a very similar promise, thus the famous LBJ quote:

❝If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.❞

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Feels like this is a significant aspect to all types of bigotry. No matter how high or low you are in the hierarchy the right wants to enforce, there's always someone you can be offered as a scapegoat to look down on.

This is very clear when you compare the manosphere to, for example, the ways the anti-trans movement tries to appeal to cis women. It's very clearly the same tactics, just with a different coat of paint.

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See upthread! Great minds…
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Noise: We are surrounded by an invisible killer. One so common that we barely notice it shortening our lives. It's causing heart attacks, type 2 diabetes, and studies now even link it to dementia..

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Noise: The invisible killer in all our lives

The BBC's James Gallagher investigates the invisible killer all around us.
James Gallagher (BBC News)

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The Education Department's 50% workforce cut includes major reductions to the Office for Civil Rights. Education professors explain why these changes will likely have a lasting impact on the most vulnerable public school students. buff.ly/rkXhqIC #CivilRights

Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come

The layoffs further complicate staffing shortages at the Office for Civil Rights, which plays a vital role in promoting a fair education for public school students.
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So much winning!
X post by Republicans against Trump (@RpublicansTrump ), posted 18 hours ago, featuring a verification badge. The text reads, "'The golden age of America has only just begun'" in quotation marks, followed by a graph titled "S&P 500 Since the Election." The graph, sourced from LSEG Data & Analytics and credited to The New York Times, shows the S&P 500 index performance from Election Day through March 2025. The index starts at approximately 5,800 on Election Day, rises to a peak above 6,200 in early 2025, and then declines sharply to around 5,500, marking a -10.1% drop from the peak.

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16 March 1932 | A Czech Jewish boy, Petr Löwenbach, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.

Vintage black and white portrait photo of a young boy with curly hair. He is wearing a sweater with a shirt underneeth - you can see the colllar of the shirt.
#auschwitz #theresienstadt

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The Trump administration isn’t stopping with undocumented immigrants.

They aren’t going to stop with •anyone• until there’s no one left — or until we stop them. No matter who we are, you and I and everyone are all in line to be targeted. That’s how fascism works.

#uspol 1/

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He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.

ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.
Lauren Villagran (USA TODAY)
#uspol
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There is of course always the chance that he does learn a much-needed lesson from this, but given that he already has a teenager from a previous relationship, went overseas to get himself a suitable wife, and then voted against her safety ... I am not optimistic 🤪
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@sindarina
Who knows. And per your original reply, I’m at least as concerned about what she thinks, what happens next for her. The whole thing is just so sad.
@Sindarina, Edge Case Detective

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Trump is looking for an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law. With his invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, he’s not even trying to conceal his intentions.
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For our sermon today, we will turn to the gospel of Bill Watterson…
Three panel Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The two friends are outside, hopping on stones to cross a small stream. In the first panel, Calvin asks, "Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?" Second panel, Hobbes says, "I'm not sure man needs the help." Third panel, Calvin looks toward us and says, "You just can't talk to animals about these things."

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This is a topic that I rarely cover, but I enjoy all fellow creatures on earth!

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Leaf-Tailed Gecko

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They've put Copilot right at the top of the GitHub dashboard, so it must be good by now, right?
RIGHT?
Of course not.
If it's not good at language inference, what is it FOR?!
a screenshot of copilot getting the question wrong: "alice has 3 brothers and also has 6 sisters, how many sisters does her brother have?"
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I adore that feature, and the fact you can see my edit history - keeps me honest but also allows me to fix mistakes 🎉

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Holy shit this dude just successfully argued that misgendering is a GDPR violation

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EDIT: If you are having trouble accessing evil cyber hacker dot net here is the underlying news article, it concerns an Iranian man seeking asylum in Hungary wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refug…

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2025-03-16 08:00:32

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A trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe

A landmark case at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday set a significant precedence for Trans+ rights across Europe.
Jamie Wareham (QueerAF)
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