Marp — if you want to use Markdown to create presentations, this might be a good place to start
It's entirely open source, though you only get two tools: CLI MD -> HTML and VS Code extension. The CLI is pretty good at taking Markdown and turning in into an HTML slide deck. I much prefer iA Presenter though, which is not open source, but also not horribly expensive.
Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem
Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document.marp.app
Good News For Progressive Views The Week Of 3/7-3/13
The chaos ushered in by Donald Trump and Elon Musk these last 55 days hit a major setback this week as two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of improperly laid off workers.The Big Picture
What the US doesn’t need is passive aggressive posts telling people to wake up when clearly, it’s you just not paying attention. If you hate the US, just say that. It’s fine. I hate us too. But don’t make it look as if people are sitting idol. It’s intentional disrespect.
March for #MahmoudKhalil happening right now in Los Angeles. 20,000 deep. There have been protests about something every day. As Black Americans have been telling you… PAY ATTENTION.
From: @aproposnix
mastodon.social/@aproposnix/11…
‘A fundamental right’: UK high street chains and restaurants challenged over refusal to accept cash
As more of us reject tapping and swiping, campaigners and politicians say the law should force retailers to accept coins and notesJon Ungoed-Thomas (The Guardian)
Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (14 January 2025) | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
Figures that are yet-to-be verified by the UN are attributed to their source. Casualty numbers have been provided by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Israeli authorities.United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
Donate to Save The Vagina Museum, organized by Vagina Museum
The Vagina Museum is one month away from closing – forever The Vagina Museum will be forced t… Vagina Museum needs your support for Save The Vagina Museumgofundme.com
President Kamala Harris would not have done this.
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order:
bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gn…
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order
Their arrival comes less than 24 hours after a federal judge blocked a law Trump planned to use for the deportations.Brandon Drenon (BBC News)
![Comic by Stephen Collins for the Guardian. Script as follows:
Scene is a British WOODLAND by a RIVER. A NATURALIST is stood next to a cage, and TV NEWS REPORTERS are filming him and the cage.
1
NATURALIST:
And now It is my great honour
2
NATURALIST:
to reintroduce the first wild beaver
back into Britain
3
[Cut to the BEAVER’S CAGE. Its door is open and the Beaver is leaned nonchalantly up against the opening, smoking a cigarette.]
4
BEAVER:
Well, well, well.
5
BEAVER:
Look who's come crawling back.
6
BEAVER:
Got a rubbish ecosystem have ya?
7
BEAVER:
Not happy with the *critical anti-flood infrastructure* engineered by the flippin *badgers*?
8
BEAVER:
I almost didn't recognise you without one of my ancestors on your head…
9
BEAVER:
First you wipe us out… now you ask us to come back and build dams for free…
You actually expect me to be *pleased* don’t ya?
NATURALIST:
I'm so sorry I…I…
10
BEAVER:
“Ooh la la, the Brits have come crawling back…”
Do I look like *Michel flippin’ Barnier*?
11
NATURALIST:
I-if there’s some kind of… *remuneration* we could offer I-I’m sure…
12
BEAVER [throwing cigarette to the ground]:
Unlimited pond weed, two tickets to Abba Voyage.
NATURALIST:
Done.
[ends]](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/248363 "Comic by Stephen Collins for the Guardian. Script as follows:
Scene is a British WOODLAND by a RIVER. A NATURALIST is stood next to a cage, and TV NEWS REPORTERS are filming him and the cage.
1
NATURALIST:
And now It is my great honour
2
NATURALIST:
to reintroduce the first wild beaver
back into Britain
3
[Cut to the BEAVER’S CAGE. Its door is open and the Beaver is leaned nonchalantly up against the opening, smoking a cigarette.]
4
BEAVER:
Well, well, well.
5
BEAVER:
Look who's come crawling back.
6
BEAVER:
Got a rubbish ecosystem have ya?
7
BEAVER:
Not happy with the *critical anti-flood infrastructure* engineered by the flippin *badgers*?
8
BEAVER:
I almost didn't recognise you without one of my ancestors on your head…
9
BEAVER:
First you wipe us out… now you ask us to come back and build dams for free…
You actually expect me to be *pleased* don’t ya?
NATURALIST:
I'm so sorry I…I…
10
BEAVER:
“Ooh la la, the Brits have come crawling back…”
Do I look like *Michel flippin’ Barnier*?
11
NATURALIST:
I-if there’s some kind of… *remuneration* we could offer I-I’m sure…
12
BEAVER [throwing cigarette to the ground]:
Unlimited pond weed, two tickets to Abba Voyage.
NATURALIST:
Done.
[ends]")
As a fat human I’m not into fat shaming, however, this afternoon I think I found #WhoAteAllThePies 😀
#birds #birding #birdphotography #robin #puffed #beautiful #nature #wildlife #optoutside #goexplore
15 minutes until I go live - still time to get snacks, drinks and change your energy provider.
youtube.com/live/W0XTpyYJevg?f…
Is PyCharm worth the money?
Have you tried PyCharm yet? Is it worth the £7.90 per month? Did you know you might be able to get it for free? Let's compare it to VS Code and Thonny to see...YouTube
اکران - از زخمهای طبقه فقير تا سراب موفقیت: مرثیهای برای هیل بیلی
رمان "مرثیه هیلبیلی"، روایتی است از [والبته نقدی است بر] چرخه پایانناپذیر فقر، اعتیاد و بحران هویت در قلب آمریکا كه در کتاب جی.دی. ونس به مسیری برای رهایی از شکست تبدیل میشود.صدای آمریکا
And I'm sure Elmo will try to get out taken down because it shows just how bad the Tesla autopilot is
youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ
Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
Never underestimate the power of freakin' lasers! Have fun learning to think like an engineer and get 2 FREE boxes at: http://crunchlabs.com/LidarGet your Cr...YouTube
bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gn…
#usa #trump #ruleoflaw #courtorder #elsalvador
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order
Their arrival comes less than 24 hours after a federal judge blocked a law Trump planned to use for the deportations.Brandon Drenon (BBC News)
This has been going on for weeks
Surely, someone's got a page with a running list of the status of every judicial decision that #BigHands has ignored?
Textbook fascism, plus at one point he claimed that he and the AG were the only ones allowed to interpret laws regarding the executive.
Come on, Americans! Get it yet?
"Make Biking Dangerous Again" because obviously bikes are DEI woke programs meant to... I don't even fucking know but that one asshole owns a car company.
➡️ usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/12…
U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes — Streetsblog USA
Now U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is coming for our bike lanes!usa.streetsblog.org
I used to grow broccoli that'd go to really similar looking flowers* and pollinators loved them. If I cooked the broccoli when it'd partially gone to flower, it was awesome.
* thing that popped into my head: "Now you're Brassica olerecea that I used to know... BRASSSSICCAAAAA...."
Just came back from grocery shopping here in Toronto and this is consistent with my observations. Lots of USA products marked down and just sitting there rotting. Plenty of Canadian, Mexican and European alternatives available.
I knew I smelled CloudFlare machinations
"Nice website you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it."
"Nice browser you have there. Be a shame if it kept working."
This administration illegally denied hundreds of people due process, then deported them to a country they’ve never known, run by an authoritarian infamous for cruel treatment of prisoners. They then deceived a federal judge to buy time for the planes to land so he couldn’t do anything about it.
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Yesterday, Ukraine destroyed the bridge over the Konka river using a French 340 kg AASM Hammer missile.
This bridge is essential for Russia’s logistics in the occupied part of Kherson Oblast, and Russia will now find it more difficult to bring supplies to troops between the Konka river and the larger Dnipro river.
I did a search for something, found no definitive answer, so I wrote up a blog post that has the definitive answer (well, it worked for me) so that in the future others do not need to suffer as I have suffered...
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This, to me, highlights what blogs can do. They can share your own personal experience that might help others.
My blog has been running since 1997. How many forums and web sites have disappeared since then? With valuable information lost...
I don't serve up ads or even track the stats of my site, I just write to help myself and hopefully others.
To me that can be enough of a reason...
We can't trust media or corporations or the govt to publish things we want to know.
It's up to us!
#blog
"We can't trust media or corporations or the govt to publish things we want to know."
I think I meant to say that We can't trust media or corporations or the govt to make available the knowledge we want and need.
My little web site has outlasted media empires who crumbled and got deleted when the ROI wasn't there, or some corporate monster decided to kill some service.
We the people have to rely on we the people. Build community online, keep writing, keep sharing, never give up.
Archive, make copies, share links, don't put all your posts in one basket. Syndicate, make more backups, keep some offline.
We can win by not allowing our history to be erased.
@odmac Honestly if one person finds a post I wrote useful, that's great... and sometimes that one person is me!
But if someone posts about something and I can point them to a blog post with my own experience, I feel like I am actually helping the world.
It is always good to see AMD Radeon defeat Nvidia Graphics.
xda-developers.com/amd-rx-9700…
#Amd #Radeon #Nvidia #Gpu
AMD RX 9070 XT vs Nvidia RTX 5070: $600 GPU showdown
AMD's RX 9070 XT and Nvidia's RTX 5070 both come in at $600, but they offer radically different performance.Jacob Roach (XDA)
16 March 1892 | Polish woman Paulina Dąbrowska was born in Skierbieszów. Expelled during the enthnic cleansing of the Zamość region.
In #Auschwitz from 13 December 1942
No. 26848
She perished in the camp on 18 March 1943.
"No amount of normalisation & validation...can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that...is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful...they would be repelled by it."
Brilliant
newsocialist.org.uk/transmissi…
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.New Socialist
After many years we've just had the first chicks - born yesterday 🐣 and out and about for the first time today! 🐤
#FediChickens #FediverseChicks #SilentSunday
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Quick update on the chicks:
There are now 5 of them, and they just had their first lettuce (as a little treat in addition to their regular feed).
"The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time."
"The internet was meant to belong to everyone. And it still fucking can."
By @Daojoan
joanwestenberg.com/the-fediver…
The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.
For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few m…Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
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A diplexer filter for the Icom IC-7100
The North American version of the Icom IC-7100 can be easily modified to transmit in the 630 meter band by removing a couple of diodes on the bottom circuit board. See This modification will indeed…KB8U ham radio
Great stuff! A thorough step-by-step guide for setting up a #chatmail server from @nerdvm
includes also considerations regarding firewall, setting up of ssh and some topics left out of the current main setup guide.
Note that even on a very small server you can easily host 10Ks of active chatmail addresses so if you succeed setting up a server don't be shy letting others know the domain 😀
After Vernor’s breathing machine stopped working, a Lincare representative promised his mother a company respiratory therapist would stay in contact “until we get him a new machine.”
But she didn’t hear from Lincare until 7 days later, the same day Vernor died.
propublica.org/article/lincare…
#News #Health #Healthcare #Medicine #Law #SleepApnea
What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About Lincare, America’s Largest Oxygen Provider
When an at-risk sleep apnea patient needed his breathing machine replaced, Lincare, a $2.4 billion behemoth with a decadeslong history of regulatory and legal problems, acted slowly. The result was disastrous.ProPublica
US state medium Voice of America has been transmitting radio news internationally since 1942, but Trump thinks they are “corrupt” and “illegal” and pulls the plug, sending 1300 employees on administrative leave.
83 years of US history gone overnight… because Trump felt like it.
Now Putin can finally get the international airwaves to himself and his propaganda news network RT.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/16/v…
‘Virtually’ all Voice of America staff put on leave after Trump order
Reporters Without Borders slammed the decision, saying it “threatens press freedom worldwide”.Al Jazeera
Do you know how many digital copies of Shrek 2 you can store on this bad boy? That is not a rhetorical question. Please tell me. I need to know.
amazon.com/dp/B0874XWW23/ref=c…
Simple strategies can boost vaccination rates for adults over 65 − new study
Reading a pamphlet in the doctor’s office about which vaccines to get may help nudge older adults to get vaccinated.The Conversation
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