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Two astronauts are finally returning from an unexpectedly long stay at the ISS
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5331240/two-astronauts-are-finally-returning-from-an-unexpectedly-long-stay-at-the-iss?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Popular resistance in Trump's first term accomplished more than many realize. A history professor explores how quiet organizing in communities and workplaces had more impact than visible tactics like petitions and hashtags. buff.ly/FxJVTFk

Social movements constrained Trump in his first term – more than people realize

Pushback works.
The Conversation

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Speeding Up Your Projects With Direct Memory Access

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Speeding Up Your Projects With Direct Memory Access

Here’s the thing about coding. When you’re working on embedded projects, it’s quite easy to run into hardware limitations, and quite suddenly, too. You find yourself desperately t…
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☃️ In which I solve an elementary structural analysis problem assigned to me by John Siracusa.
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Simple phone bending

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It's nice to learn more about our planet's more obscure creatures!

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Southern elephant seal.

Males can be as large as 8,800 pounds and 19 feet long. The females can be 2,000 pounds and 9 1/2 feet. This is one of the largest cases of sexual dimorphism.

Males can be as large as 8,800 pounds and 19 feet long. The females can be 2,000 pounds and 9 1/2 feet. This is one of the largest cases of sexual dimorphism.

The male southern elephant seal’s nose or proboscis is an inflatable organ. It’s used to warn other males during mating season and roaring.

Southern elephant seals can hold their breath for two hours and dive nearly 7,000 feet, which is about the same depth as a sperm whale.

Southern elephant seals mostly eat squid, mollusks, krill, cephalopods, and algae but with their deep dives it’s hard to know for sure.

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PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/pc…

PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

Feels like Destiny.
Rich Stanton (PC Gamer)

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Cassowaries still remember they are dinosaurs!

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The Life Of A Mayfly

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Hungry little tenrecs

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenrec

family of mammals

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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Proboscis Monkey The Weirdest Nose In Nature!

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Damascus Goats

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Mudskippers (family Oxudercinae) are land-loving fish that can spend as much time, if not more, on land as they do in water.

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5 Facts About Mudskippers - Ocean Conservancy

The next time you step in some mud, keep an eye out for mudskippers: the fish that can walk. This creature has many wacky traits, read to learn more.
Jennifer Perez (Ocean Conservancy)

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Pink Fairy Armadillo The Sushi-Looking Creature!

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A maned wolf and its trainer.

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Welp. It was a good run.

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Silky Anteater - This Tiny Predator Is Adorable!

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I wouldn't know how to survive without my fax machine.
Fax is by far the most popular method of communication.
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Austria: Hold my beer … Hospital needs capability to send 60 faxes at the same time. In … checks calendar … 2025
I kid you not, news article is german: heise.de/news/Wiener-Spitaeler…

Wiener Spitäler brauchen neue Fax-Anlage

Mindestens 60 Fax-Übertragungen gleichzeitig sollen neue Fax-Server für Wiens Kliniken bewältigen. Die Open-Source-Strategie der Stadt wird vernachlässigt.
Daniel AJ Sokolov (heise online)

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African Wild Dog Cute Killers of the Savannah!

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An FTC commissioner was fired illegally by Trump, read his statement.
#trump #ftc
FTC commissioner fired illegally by Trump, his statement
#trump #FTC

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A viral video on TikTok shows the bizarrely flappy faces of muntjac deer in all their glandular wonder. While it might look like the facial anatomy dreamt up by James Cameron’s Avatar, they’re actually an adaptation these animals have evolved to be able to scent mark their way through the wilderness.

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What In The Avatar Is Going On With Muntjacs' Flaring Facial Flaps?

A life spent communicating through smell has left muntjac with a pretty peculiar facial anatomy.
Rachael Funnell (IFLScience)

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Saiga Antelope - Bizarrest Nose EVER

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Flowers on a paper bush, which is also known as Edgeworthia...

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I don't know, maybe? #Descartes
#descartes
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@swope I just googled Descartes and apparently he spent a lot of time in bars with horses, and then disappeared from time to time.
@swope

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Anyone know a good generic name for this style of connector? I tend to call them XLR but think that’s more specific to audio gear, found some similar labeled GX but those seem brand specific. What do you call these?
Picture of a circular 5 pin connector with a threaded barrel connector
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Either way, we use these M12 connectors all over the place in our stuff, in a variety of conductor counts.

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Yeah my carpenter ants need more space to explore… look at how they have slowly gnawed down this tube. So today I hooked up a new outworld for them. #antkeeping #happyants #ants #antposting
Clear vinyl tubing connected by fitting the smaller tube into the larger. over the past few months ants have chewed it back by a few mm a large black major continues the “Little Dig” project.
A big black carpenter ant explores a sandy area with an interesting rock.
A dozen black ants of various sizes explore their new space.
#ants #antkeeping #happyants #antposting

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Mmm. Microplastics!

I’m curious: How much space in your home do these ants occupy and how much more would you want them to have? How many levels (floor, eye level, ceiling, etc.)?

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@helianthropy

They have about half of a book shelf. (Three shelves on a book shelf with six.)

@Cecelia

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New sensitive breach: Lexipol had 672k email addresses breached last month by self-proclaimed "Puppygirl Hacker Polycule". Data included name, phone and MD5 or SHA-256 password hashes. 23% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: them.us/story/puppygirl-hacker…

“Puppygirl Hacker Polycule” Leaks Over 8,500 Privatized Police Files and Training Manuals

"We took matters into our own paws.”
Samantha Riedel (Them.)
@Have I Been Pwned
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cringe as fuck, holy hell (not that I don't agree with the leaks, but the name of the group is cringe as hell)
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TeflonTrout he/him
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1. I'm prolly in there, my work email that is
2. Don't care that I am. Get em/us, puppygirls

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Come test your skills at TOOOL's Lockpicking Village this Friday at Iffy Books! Whether you're a pro or a total newbie, we’ve got the picks, the locks, and the know-how to get you started. Drop by, learn a thing or two, and have some fun! 🔓 #Lockpicking #TOOOL

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Third Friday Open Pick Night

Come join us for our monthly Third Friday Open Pick Night at Iffy Books! Whether you're a novice who just stumbled upon LockpickingLawyer, a seasoned safec
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Federal judge blocks Trump effort to ban transgender troops from military service
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5332409/transgender-troops-ban-preliminary-injunction?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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“The Highway Patrol’s investigation into a November Cybertruck crash in Piedmont where three college kids died is finding two very Tesla problems: the vehicle immediately caught fire, and its doors would not open.” sfist.com/2025/03/11/testimony…

Testimony Reveals Doors Would Not Open on Cybertruck That Caught Fire in Piedmont, Killing Three

Joe Kukura (SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports)

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A @mntmn Reform Next next to an Apple PowerBook. True back to the future moment.
A aluminum Laptop with purple mechanical keyboard next to an old Apple PowerBook. The device form factors are very similar.
@lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

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Every thing I hear about Chinese electric cars makes me more curious about them

newsie.social/@servelan/114186…

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BYD Says It Can Now Charge An Electric Car In 5 Minutes https://gizmodo.com/byd-says-it-can-now-charge-an-electric-car-in-5-minutes-2000577651
Newsie
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crzwdjk ✅
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They're becoming increasingly common in Mexico, I even got to ride in a BYD Uber once. I think a big part of the appeal there is that they make cheaper/smaller models than Western companies do.
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mcc
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@crzwdjk why is the government of canada doing protectionism for uber 🙁
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The American tourist...
I've seen many of these...

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An Allen’s hummingbird on a rock with a water bubbler in the center of it. In the foreground, another hummingbird is blurred in flight as it approaches.

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Streaming Celtic folk for a Post Patrick's Day celebration, live on Radio Free Elsewhere!

(Sorry about an initial glitch. Software, can't live with it, and I'm not smart enough to fix the bugs in the code.)

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Radio Free Elsewhere

Something different. Somewhere else.
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