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Gonna miss seeing you around, Prime Minister. Sorry about our 47th. That’s on us.
X post by Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau ), featuring a verification badge. The text reads, "Thank you, Canada β€” for trusting in me, for challenging me, and for granting me the privilege to serve the best country, and the best people, on earth."

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Moss had a big adventure this morning going on a big beach walk. Snoozy this afternoon! #dogsofmastodon
Moss the brown collie puppy asleep under a very spotty blanket with her head on an embroidered cushion. Fast asleep with her ears stuck up.
#dogsofmastodon

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Tren de Aragua β€” all you need to know about the Venezuelan gang
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5329777/tren-de-aragua-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-venezuelan-gang?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-npr

@World News

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Up with @isziaui and a bunch of other brilliant pieces at QR SHOW NYC!! Running until 8PM today at Recurse Center if you're in the area!

qrshow.nyc/

angled selfie in front of a wall full of QR themed art.
@Christian Walther
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Democrats train fire on #Musk as unelected billionaire dips in popularity - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m… "Leaders on left bet on Musk’s bravado to pull party out of political weeds as CEO eyes social security and health cuts" well, at least that's something...

Democrats train fire on Musk as unelected billionaire dips in popularity

Lauren Gambino (The Guardian)
#musk

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can confirm

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Lovely Sunday.. this triptych of images is what I've been up too... some work on a scrappy Dahon Expresso project I picked up, some tinkering adding a neo6 gps to the #xiao #meshtastic setup interspersed with reading this fun book. #electronics #bookstodon #biketooter
The tiny Xiao esp32 meshtastic device wired to a classic NEO6-M GPS device
Photo of a hardback book. Titled "Nuts and Bolts, Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World". Written by Roma Agrawal.
A scruffy Dahon Expresso folding bike leaning on a wire fence in front of Welsh hillside.
#bookstodon #biketooter #electronics #meshtastic #xiao
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Fungifreund
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Got myself the #xiao modules plus the xiao Expansion Board thanks to your blogpost.
Allready running with temperature sensor on my balcony.
#xiao

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Advancement unlocked, project unblocked. I will never not have the right size steel ball for a project again. #maker
An assortment of metric steel balls in a plastic box
#maker

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Did some debugging on my crappy code from a few days ago and now it's behaving much better. I'm happy enough with this.

#GenArt #GenerativeArt #Processing #CreativeCoding

Algorithmic art. A large number of thin white curves on a black background. The ends of the curves form a rectangle, so it looks kind of like a box with smoke in it.
Algorithmic art. A large number of thin white curves on a black background. The ends of the curves form a rectangle, so it looks kind of like a box with smoke in it.
Algorithmic art. A large number of thin white curves on a black background. The ends of the curves form a rectangle, so it looks kind of like a box with smoke in it.
Algorithmic art. A large number of thin white curves on a black background. The ends of the curves form a rectangle, so it looks kind of like a box with smoke in it.
#generativeart #creativecoding #GenArt #processing

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Wow, you learn something new about dinosaurs every day.
Scientists believe that dinosaurs reproduced asexually.

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A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution) - balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-… "As scholars of constitutional law, administrative law, and antidiscrimination law who teach at #Columbia, we feel compelled to point out some of the most glaring legal problems" great stuff

Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
#columbia

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I'm with you 100% on this, Ian. comicsands.com/mckellen-lgbtq-…

Ian McKellen Urges LGBTQ+ Actors To Come Out

Koh Mochizuki (Comic Sands)

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Late to this party but just in case someone else hasn't discovered this yet...

Someone just told me about Radio Garden and what a wonderful initiative.

radio.garden/

Try the Ballon Ride

radio.garden/balloon-ride

#RadioGarden #radio


Radio Garden

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
radio.garden
#radio #radiogarden
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Roofing is on the enclosure!

Did the guttering just now in the rain, which turned out to be somewhat helpful - could easily check the fall was right as I was installing. Who needs a level anyway πŸ€ͺ #diy

#diy

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Ya me he hecho correo en @Tutanota

A ver si dentro de poquito consigo cargame casi todo lo relacionado con Google.

Mola mucho recibir estas cosas en el correo de bienvenida :ablobcatheart:

Pantallazo del correo con este texto: Tuta sigue 4 principios para ofrecer una alternativa a las grandes empresas tecnolΓ³gicas y respetuosa con la privacidad Tuta no te rastrea. Tuta no puede escanear tus datos. Tuta cifra todo tu buzΓ³n, contactos y calendario. Tuta incorpora privacidad desde el diseΓ±o.
@Tuta

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What the fuck does this mean ??

#shitpost

screenshot of a tweet by @mnux5 "this must feel so good being a laptop mmmpfg.,......,," and a picture of a laptop with four usb ports plugged in, Ethernet and a smart card
#shitpost

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Happy 9th anniversary to the first Mastodon post!

Via stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…

#mastodon #fediverse #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay

A screenshot of a post from Eugen Rochko (@gargron), the creator of Mastodon. The post is from March 16, 2016, 10:44, and it says: "Hello world".

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

Attached: 1 image The search filters on Mastodon are pretty neat. Found the first post on Mastodon, or a "toot", as they were called back then. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1 #mastodon #fediverse #search #MastodonSearch #FirstToot #FirstPost
Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server
#fediverse #mastodon #otd #onthisday #anniversary

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CNN polling rates favorability of the Democratic Party at 29%.

NBC News polling rates them at 27%.

I’m surprised either one is that high.

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Study finds cheese made with raw milk may contain active bird flu virus

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"There's a variety of cheeses that are made with raw milk including Parmigiano Reggiano, comte and raclette"

#AvianInfluenza
#RawMilk
#Cheese


Study finds cheese made with raw milk may contain active bird flu virus

Scientists already discovered that raw milk can harbor the infectious H5N1 bird flu virus, but now there’s a new study on its capabilities that has health officials concerned.
Taylor O'Bier (Scripps News)
#avianinfluenza #cheese #rawmilk

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I assume a lot of these stories are not by design β€” not β€œhey go pursue the LPR-applicants married to Americans” β€” but just ICE going after the easiest things they can β€” whoever comes to their attention β€” without caring about actual dangerousness or priorities.

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f6hdx…

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The "are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president" game scene but it reads "I think we're going to let the ninjas win"

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πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ Witch King's Sword - LOTR β€’ 3D files
➑️ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2776689
πŸ’‘ Designed by Manniks

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How much would you be willing to risk for fashionable shoes?

#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil @germany @folklore
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Why Crakow Shoes fell out of Fashion: (See Hennenberger p. 279.) At the end of the 15th century, Prussia was very fond of high fashions. Crakow, or β€œbeaked” shoes with very long tips were especially popular. One had a tip with a length of one finger, another one with a length of a span, the tip of the third one was half an ell long, and so forth, however they pleased. At the time, at Marienburg, the son of the Hauptmann was possessed by the Devil. And when the Devil was banished at the gate in front of the image of the Virgin Mary, he said that he would be happy to leave, as long as it was permitted to him to hide in the beaks of the shoes. Then those beaks were removed entirely, for from that moment on no one wanted to wear shoes with pointed tips. Source: GrΓ€sse, J. G. T. Sagenbuch des preussischen Staats. Zweiter Band. 1869, p. 603f.
#germany #folklore #folktale #devil @folklore group @germany group

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Why all the Trump injunctions, Ms. Leavitt? It’s really not hard to grasp.
X post by The Tennessee Holler (@TheT ...), posted 1 hour ago, featuring a verification badge and a logo with the Tennessee state outline and "TN HOLLER." The text reads, "She's so close to getting it," accompanied by a quoted post from brittainforsenate (@brittainforsenate), posted 45 minutes ago. The quoted text states, "Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: 'In one month there have been 15 injunctions of this administration and our agenda, in 3 years under the Biden administration there were 14 injunctions.'" The attached image is a still from a C-SPAN broadcast showing a woman, identified as Karoline Leavitt, speaking to microphones outdoors in front of a building with a curved driveway and greenery
in reply to George Takei πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ––πŸ½

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Maybe go back to grade school American propaganda to freshen up on how the government is supposed to work? Hint: the President is NOT in charge.

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The US semiconductor industry faces a critical shortage of 300,000 engineers by 2030. Universities are launching specialized programs to train the next generation of chip designers and manufacturers. An engineering professor explains: buff.ly/983KEMU

The push to restore semiconductor manufacturing faces a labor crisis βˆ’ can the US train enough workers in time?

Bringing chip manufacturing back to America is a national security and economic priority, but a shortage of skilled workers threatens to derail the effort.
The Conversation
in reply to The Conversation U.S.

Lazarou Monkey Terror πŸš€πŸ’™πŸŒˆ
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Lazarou Monkey Terror πŸš€πŸ’™πŸŒˆ
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You can have an educated workforce in a Democracy or uneducated masses who are easy to dominate, you can't have both Gilead.

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"#Ukraine is a sovereign nation. If it requests allied forces to be stationed on its territory, it is not for #Russia to decide whether or not to accept it."

byteseu.com/834643/


Macron names key Ukrainian cities Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv as focus of European military presence. French President Emmanuel Macron says that European countries are already preparing for the post-war period

In an interview with regional daily newspapers, including Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France, Macron outlined the steps being taken.
BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
#russia #ukraine

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Book Cover for Careless People
The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. The term was coined by Mike Masnick after Barbra Streisand attempted in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drawing far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph. The effect exemplifies psychological reactance, in which the attempt to hide information instead makes it more interesting to seek out and propagate

a phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#uspol #facebook #meta #streisandeffect

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The woman who only revealed $200K in illicit campaign donations after she started working at the White House says she knows better than the DC Chief Judge who was confirmed unanimously.

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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
theferret.scot/space-agency-13…

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 β€œweaponisation” of space.
Rob Edwards (The Ferret)

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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...
beecyclingblog.blogspot.com
#Promo

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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
in reply to Betapixels

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@betapixels thanks! Still quite new to photography, having a lot of fun though πŸ˜€
@betapixels

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Powered by #OpenBSD
#openbsd

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Always an icon. comicsands.com/rihanna-deliver…

Rihanna Gave Birth In Pearls & Sunglasses: PHOTOS

Koh Mochizuki (Comic Sands)

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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 β€œIf 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 β€˜fake news’, the demonization of β€˜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

Sensitive content

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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:

β€œA 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

"LibertΓ©, EgalitΓ©, CRDTé”

Dad joke?

I think it does. Link below:

docs.numerique.gouv.fr/

V interesting joint project between DINUM (πŸ‡«πŸ‡·) and Zendis (πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ)

Docs

Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.
docs.numerique.gouv.fr
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