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theguardian.com/environment/20…. This is no surprise at all, & merely confirms Kemi Badenoch's status as a climate change denier. It is utterly irresponsible & destructive, @GeraldKutney.

Conservative party to ditch commitment to net zero in UK by 2050

Break in cross-party consensus on issue to be announced on Tuesday
Kiran Stacey (The Guardian)
@Gerald Kutney - #ClimateBrawl

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Just another rainy PDX Monday with 250 people outside of #teslatakedown
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"I told my mom 'I'm accidentally organizing a protest!'" Elizabeth didn't see a #teslatakedown planned in her community, so she stepped up to host one. Today, >100 folks came out in Grand Rapids on a Monday evening to participate in the 3rd action she's planned! www.wzzm13.com/video/news/m...

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Today on Morning+, we’re discussing nationwide protests at Tesla dealerships and seeing what local businesses have on tap for St. Patty’s Day.
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It really is that simple.
Text on a black background reads: "My whole political stance pretty much boils down to 'I care about other people and the planet' and wow does that make some people mad." There is a thinking face emoji at the end.

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Light Study #171 by Kittichai Rueangchaichan (Razaras)

Source: artstation.com/artwork/oJdyAk

#art #artwork #character #characterart #TTRPG #ttrpgart #dnd #dndart

The image depicts a woman seated on an ornate chair, dressed in a vibrant red tunic with long sleeves and a white undergarment. She wears a white head covering and holds a large sword with a cross-guard, resting it on her lap. Her right hand is raised, and her eyes are closed, suggesting a moment of rest or contemplation. She has a checkered pouch with tassels hanging from her waist. The woman's legs are crossed, and she wears brown boots. To her left, a partially visible figure in an orange and red tunic stands, holding a sword. The background features a banner with triangular flags in various colors, adding to the medieval ambiance. The overall scene is rich in detail, with a focus on the woman's attire and the surrounding elements.
#ttrpg #art #dnd #artwork #character #characterart #dndart #ttrpgart
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The image depicts a woman seated on an ornate chair, dressed in a vibrant red tunic with long sleeves and a white undergarment. She wears a white head covering and holds a large sword with a cross-guard, resting it on her lap. Her right hand is raised, and her eyes are closed, suggesting a moment of rest or contemplation. She has a checkered pouch with tassels hanging from her waist. The woman's legs are crossed, and she wears brown boots. To her left, a partially visible figure in an orange and red tunic stands, holding a sword. The background features a banner with triangular flags in various colors, adding to the medieval ambiance. The overall scene is rich in detail, with a focus on the woman's attire and the surrounding elements.

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Apologies in advance but... I'm going to post A LOT about the Magic University Kickstarter the next few weeks. I'll try to make up for it with more cat and food posts...? bit.ly/MUKSsocial
#indieauthor #fantasy #LGBTQ
Banner reads Welcome to Magic University on a blue background with gold filigree around the edges
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Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.
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We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.

Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.
Vivian Chenxue Lu (Slate)
#Tesla #musk #southafrica #apartheid #cybertruck #casspir

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Good read. Argues that renewable energy is expanding rapidly, especially in China, and less energy is needed for more modern devices such as LED bulbs. Fossil fuels are on the way out.

"The US is taking a big risk by doubling down on fossils and combustion cars. It may find in the 2030s that it has achieved the worst of all worlds: left on the sidelines of the global electro-tech economy, while at the same dependent again on imported oil and gas.

"Will Trump end up being the man who blew America’s energy independence?"

#USpol smh.com.au/business/the-econom…


Trump’s energy dream is set to blow up in his face

A conference in Houston last week gave us a revealing window into the mental world of Trumpism.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (The Sydney Morning Herald)
#uspol

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couldn't get this song out of my head so I made stuart little dancing to it. I used toonsquid on the ipad to draw and animate it all youtube.com/shorts/yGxVTssAjKk

music by @BillyMarchiafava #animation #stuartlittle

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On the late afternoon walk it started to lightly rain while the sun was out and setting in the west. I immediately looked east and was rewarded with a full rainbow that eventually morphed into a double. 🌈
#rainbows #photography
Picture look east down a street with the sun setting behind me. Over the street is a full rainbow in a clouded gray sky.
Picture look east down a street with the sun setting behind me. Over the street is seen half a rainbow with another fainter rainbow above it.
#photography #rainbows

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THE INTEGRAL TREES (1984)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 28" x 38"

Being suspended in space, floating unencumbered yet in control of one's flight, is as close to pure freedom as I can imagine. 1/4

#sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #illustration #larryniven

A woman with short blonde hair floats weightless in front of clumps of cloud shaped vegetation dotted with flowers. The figure looks very Peter Pan-esque posed with one knee raised wearing green capri-style pants and a vest with no shirt beneath. A harpoon rests across her shoulders with a rope line dangling loose. She holds a coil of it with her toes. An enormous tree trunk with a chrome engine firing off the side arcs past, diminishing back into the blue sky where it intersects clump. A diagonal line of light serves as a tilted horizon of sorts but there is no land, just sky occupied by clouds and clumps.
#sciencefiction #SciFi #illustration #scifiart #larryniven
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Very cool!

I remember reading a bunch of Niven books over a short period. This was one of them.

Sorry, I must now go “feed the tree”. 🤣

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@bplein I bought that in HB when it first came out. Probably now in a box because the bookshelf is too full. In any event, great cover.
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The image is a four-panel comic strip featuring two characters. In the first panel, a character in red armor with a hood is holding a device with a skull on it, and a larger armored figure stands behind them. The red-armored character says, "So many millennia has already passed... And yet its machine spirit still... SCREAMS!" In the second panel, the red-armored character repeats, "And yet its machine spirit still... SCREAMS!" The larger armored figure asks, "What does it sound like?" In the third panel, the larger armored figure's helmet is shown with a speech bubble saying, "RAGE." The final panel shows the red-armored character and the larger armored figure standing next to a large bulldozer with a speech bubble saying "RAGE." The background is a simple gradient, and the comic strip includes a Patreon link at the bottom right corner.
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The image is a four-panel comic strip featuring two characters. In the first panel, a character in red armor with a hood is holding a device with a skull on it, and a larger armored figure stands behind them. The red-armored character says, "So many millennia has already passed... And yet its machine spirit still... SCREAMS!" In the second panel, the red-armored character repeats, "And yet its machine spirit still... SCREAMS!" The larger armored figure asks, "What does it sound like?" In the third panel, the larger armored figure's helmet is shown with a speech bubble saying, "RAGE." The final panel shows the red-armored character and the larger armored figure standing next to a large bulldozer with a speech bubble saying "RAGE." The background is a simple gradient, and the comic strip includes a Patreon link at the bottom right corner.

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Colm Toibin's novel 'Long Island' follows a woman grappling with her husband's betrayal
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-4819107/colm-toibins-novel-long-island-follows-a-woman-grappling-with-her-husbands-betrayal?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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California AB 412 imposes impossible copyright disclosure rules, crushing innovation & handing power to big tech. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/cali…

California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly

California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this might sound like a reasonable step toward transparency.
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ffs... innovation builds in small companies, which try to excel by innovation, not by tweaking the bottom line.
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Wow, this is a pretty bootlicker position from the EFF, did you folks just get a whole bunch of openai funding or something?

Is your account compromised? Is there an intruder in the building? Respond "pineapple" and I'll send the authorities.

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Oh my word. The birds are returning.
A screenshot of the Merlin app showing that it identified the following birds: house sparrow, common grackle, European starling, Canada goose, Eurasian collared dove (unlikely this was correct), hairy woodpecker (I saw the woodpecker), mourning dove, house finch, and American robin.
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@mordoc Actually, I love them as well. They alert us and our chickens to the presence of birds of prey. I've chased off more than one hawk/falcon due to their alarm, and the chickens even know to seek shelter when they hear it.
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Need to know @futurebird 's opinion on this one
Tiktok still that says "do you guys think that city ants are built different than ants in the wild? Imagine an ant colony in the middle of the woods tasting red bull and red 40 taki crumbs for the first time. Do you think city ants evolved over time she to exposure"
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“Now what we’re seeing is a full-on assault on our state’s immunization program. Activists felt like they could take advantage of the [COVID-19 pandemic] and exploit it and start going after laws that have been on the books for decades.” texasobserver.org/measles-outb…

#health #HumanRights #politics #USpol #Texas #TXlege #healthcare #antivax #measles #news


Amid Texas Measles Outbreak, Conservatives Double Down on Anti-Vax Crusade

Spread of the virus is due to low immunization rates in certain communities. Meanwhile, some legislators are cheering for more “medical freedom.”
Joelle DiPaolo (The Texas Observer)
#news #Texas #uspol #txlege #politics #humanrights #healthcare #health #measles #antivax

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Joining the #European #propaganda team. Here you go: a short guide on how to become a digitally sovereign European citizen.

#BuyEuropean #BuyEU #BuyFromEU #BuyFromEuope #BoycottUSA #BoycottAmerica #BoycottTrump #BoycottMusk #Europe #politics #EUpolitics #customer #digital #browser #AI #Mistral #Qwant #Threema #Ecosia #Vivaldi #Linux #LinuxMint #digitalEurope #digitalSovereignty #Tariffs #stopMusk #stopTrump #trumpism #EU #browser #ChatGPT #searchEngine #FederaliseEurope #ViveLaEurope

#politics #tariffs #eu #linux #ai #european #europe #propaganda #linuxmint #boycottusa #chatgpt #Digital #digitalsovereignty #boycottmusk #vivaldi #browser #threema #stoptrump #boycottamerica #EUpolitics #buyeuropean #mistral #qwant #boycotttrump #buyfromeu #StopMusk #buyeu #buyfromeuope #customer #ecosia #DigitalEurope #trumpism #searchengine #federaliseeurope #ViveLaEurope
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Turning Down the Noise on SMPS

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Turning Down The Noise On SMPS

On paper, electricity behaves in easy-to-understand, predictable ways. That’s mostly because the wires on the page have zero resistance and the switching times are actually zero, whereas in real li…
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ha, well it's not like ai can do this, so we're saf... what?

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Free App Gem: UTM For Mac Runs Windows, Linux and More ! youtube.com/watch?v=_OKWWa_nEZ…

Free App Gem: UTM For Mac Runs Windows, Linux and More !

Find a low cost Mac at B&H : https://lon.tv/qvtrh (compensated affiliate link) - UTM is a free, open source virtualization and emulation application for the ...
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Text "i am no longer allowed to make cute genitalia nicknames" attached image is a screenshot from the game Ikenfell with a pink blob monster saying ""Snatcher", "Taker", "Underthief"... "The Pink Stink"...""

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This is helpful to know.
Rocks are only edible once they are boiled.

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So next time I see some hot lava, I should dip in a spoon and take a bite?
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I wish you had posted this before I broke my incisors and a molar.

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#capslockneo new feature drop! Now it can display alerts received over MQTT (in any colour I choose)

#hackerspace #makerspace #adafruit adafruit.com

#makerspace #hackerspace #Adafruit #capslockneo

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If you're a fan of Isochrone maps and US census data (and who isn't?) Dan Snow just released opentimes.org/ and it's spectacular - I published some notes about it here, there's some very clever data engineering going on under the hood simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/…

OpenTimes

Spectacular new open geospatial project by [Dan Snow](https://sno.ws/): > OpenTimes is a database of pre-computed, point-to-point travel times between United States Census geographies. It lets you download bulk travel time …
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A U.S. airman is charged in death of a South Dakota woman who had vanished in August
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330706/airman-south-dakota-sahela-sangrait-quinterius-chappelle?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Harvard will be free for students whose families make $100,000 or less
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A US House bill to buy and rename Greenland. This is absolutely nuts.

When will the citizens of the United States have had enough of this complete clown government?
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Ok…so despite the senile rantings and ravings by #Trump about acquiring Greenland either by purchase or force, I had not clocked the name of the bill on it… ‘Introduced in House (02/10/2025) Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025 This bill authorizes…
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what do you suggest we do?
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the Serbs had hundreds of thousands gathered in Belgrade this weekend. If Washington looked like this every Saturday, that would be a good start.

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Drone footage shows mass anti-government protest in Belgrade

More than 100,000 protesters gathered in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, on Saturday in one of the largest rallies in decades, as students and workers faced riot...
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@markrsmith We did that in Oregon, which is about the size of Serbia, is it not? This country is HUGE with gigantic information barriers. How would we organize this? How would it end any differently than the huge occupy protests? The huge Black Lives Matter protests? Let our leaders know. All they know how to do is gripe at the courts and drink with their "colleagues," our enemies.
@Mark Smith

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Sub-Saharan Africa reels from USAID cuts
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5323199/sub-saharan-africa-reels-from-usaid-cuts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Trump and Putin will talk Tuesday about the proposed ceasefire deal in Ukraine
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330810/trump-and-putin-will-talk-tuesday-about-the-proposed-ceasefire-deal-in-ukraine?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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A law professor weighs in on the White House's recent deportations
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Federal funding for mRNA vaccine research in jeopardy under RFK Jr.
"Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started," one researcher said.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/03…

Federal funding for mRNA vaccine research in jeopardy under RFK Jr.

“Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,” one researcher said.
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He actually *looks* evil! It's uncanny. Most of the others just look like raw meat.

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Insecure much, guys? comicsands.com/men-trimming-la…

Men Trim Eyelashes To Appear Less 'Feminine': VIDEOS

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Researchers are now putting AI into robots to to physical tasks
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5231022/researchers-are-now-putting-ai-into-robots-to-to-physical-tasks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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And here is one of the many reasons why I’ve never latched onto the idea of #AutonomousVehicles as being the revolutionary game-changer so many of my #blind friends think it is. There’s just way, way too much out of your control, and even now there are times when manual override is required. Really sorry but I will die on this hill if necessary. mas.to/@JorgeStolfi/1141794508…

Jorge Stolfi (@JorgeStolfi@mas.to)

The biggest problem with self-driving cars is that the driving itself is completely controlled by software, that can be updated through the net without knowledge of the owner.
mas.to
#blind #autonomousvehicles
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Fully agree. There are some things I will never be able to do. Driving a car, flying an aircraft, many things. I'm 100% ok with that. Believe it or not abled people can't do everything, either. Ugh. I also couldn't live with myself if my car killed someone's dog or their grandma. So... I won't be partaking in self driving cars.

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I’m sure Peter Hitchens writes vile stuff in the Daily Fail most weeks, but this has belatedly caught my eye from a few days ago.

He’s decided that #Dyslexia and #ADHD don’t exist.

He’s blaming parents and teachers for not teaching kids how to read.

A quick online search reveals he’s been spouting this pet theory since the mid noughties.

Zero evidence. Just spite.

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#adhd #dyslexia
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While reactionary dinosaurs like Hitchens seem to wonder why life didn’t just stay caught in the aspic of their blinkered 1950’s childhood…Cambridge researchers believe that #dyslexia actually played a key part in human survival, exploration, invention and creativity.

Having worked with many innovative dyslexics I know where my money is. And yes, one of those is my partner, a librarian.

cam.ac.uk/research/news/develo…


Developmental dyslexia essential to human adaptive success, study argues

Researchers say people with Developmental Dyslexia have specific strengths relating to exploring the unknown that have contributed to the successful adaptation
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#dyslexia
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For those like Hitchens who still think #Dyslexia has exploded in the 21st century because of lazy, woke, leftwing teachers…try reading this.

Then imagine you are a young child who cannot read..but desperately wants to read and catch up with their classmates:

geon.github.io/programming/201…

Dsxyliea

A friend who has dyslexia described to me how she experiences reading. She can read, but it takes a lot of concentration, and the letters seems to “jump around”.
Victor Widell (geon)
#dyslexia

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What was the first thing scientists discovered? A historian makes the case for Babylonian astronomy buff.ly/l2COz46

What was the first thing scientists discovered? A historian makes the case for Babylonian astronomy

Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built on.
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#lotr #lotrmemes #shitpost #funny #rpg #gaming
The image is a meme divided into two panels. The top panel shows a character lying on the ground, wearing a green cloak, with a solemn expression. The text overlay reads, "I would have followed you... my captain... my king..." The background consists of fallen leaves, suggesting an outdoor setting. The bottom panel features the same character, now with a bloodied face, looking distressed. To the right, there is a game interface displaying an item named "Boromir's Gauntlets," which provides +4 defense. The description humorously notes, "Daddy's gift to his favorite and only son. Offers no toe protection." The character's name, "Boromir," is visible at the bottom of the interface. The background is blurred, focusing attention on the character and the game interface.
#funny #gaming #rpg #lotr #shitpost #lotrmemes
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The image is a meme divided into two panels. The top panel shows a character lying on the ground, wearing a green cloak, with a solemn expression. The text overlay reads, "I would have followed you... my captain... my king..." The background consists of fallen leaves, suggesting an outdoor setting.

The bottom panel features the same character, now with a bloodied face, looking distressed. To the right, there is a game interface displaying an item named "Boromir's Gauntlets," which provides +4 defense. The description humorously notes, "Daddy's gift to his favorite and only son. Offers no toe protection." The character's name, "Boromir," is visible at the bottom of the interface. The background is blurred, focusing attention on the character and the game interface.

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