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🇩🇰 Denmark is allocating $130M in guarantees for its companies investing in Ukraine’s defense industry, including export credit guarantees, direct loans for Ukrainian buyers, and investment capital for operations in Ukraine, making investments in Ukrainian companies safer and more attractive for Danish businesses.




Waltz has the temerity to blame Jeffrey Goldberg?!? FIRE THEM ALL.

'Mike Waltz is a fucking idiot': Official blamed for revealing Trump team's texts saying they 'loathe bailing out' Europe's 'pathetic free-loaders' is 'not going to survive this' stunned White House insiders say
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

#LoserWaltz #WaltzRESIGN #USPol

in reply to Democracy Matters

Scenario: Hegseth told Waltz to include [redacted] in the chat. Waltz was not thinking, and did so. The problem was that Hegseth made a drunken typo.

#SignalGate #Opsec




Someone, somewhere, planned this based on requirements and specifications that will remain a mystery for all time.
(Yes I know it's likely a converted pool but that doesn't make the end result any less weird.)
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in reply to Weird Estate

I would've absolutely loved swinging on all those railings when I was five. 10/10 design.
in reply to Thepi

It seems likely that a lot of swinging has happened near those railings.


Wow, this Pixelfed bug is *nasty*. Allowed users to access private posts of remote users they're not following so long as another user on the same Pixelfed server legitimately followed that account.

If you're running a Pixelfed server, definitely upgrade immediately now that the vulnerability is publicly known.

fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed…



NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its 23rd close approach of the Sun tomorrow March 22, 2025 at 22:42 UTC.

At perihelion, it will be at a distance of just 6.1 million km from the solar surface, traveling at a speed of 692,000 km/h, matching its previous record set during perihelion 22 on Dec 24, 2024.

For comparison, the perihelion of planet Mercury is at 45.3 mil km.

parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_S…
#Parker #ParkerSolarProbe #NASA
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The NASA Parker Solar Probe, 6 days after its 23rd close approach of the Sun, is now transmitting detailed spacecraft status to Earth via the 34 meter antenna of station 35 at the DSN site in Canberra.

Transmit/Receive band: X (~8 GHz)
Downlink data rate: 160.2 bps

Science data will be downloaded in a few days over the higher rate Ka-band link using the 0.6-meter High Gain Antenna (HGA) dish, at data rates of 167 kbps and higher.

eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn…
#Parker #ParkerSolarProbe
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in reply to AkaSci 🛰️

Interestingly, the NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft is downloading data to Earth at the same 160 bps rate over X-band as the Parker Solar Probe, but using the larger 70m dish at DSN Madrid and a larger 3.7m antenna on the spacecraft.

However Voyager 1 is 24.9 billion km from Madrid, 157 times farther then the Parker Solar Probe.

Receive power = 10^-22 kW for both spacecraft.

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Komoot seems to be much better in Europe?!? I paid for and tried to use Komoot here in Vancouver, Canada and it wasn't great (bicycle routes were not good). Being bought by the Evernote acquirers doesn't bode well. dcrainmaker.com/2025/03/komoot…
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@mhoye does Trailforks work well for commuting in a city like Vancouver or Burnaby or Richmond ? I don’t mountain bike or go off road. Gravel is ok since I ride a 1946 45 pound “ladies” Schwinn with balloon tires as long as the gravel road is on the way to a Filipino or Korean restaurant or cafe with pourover coffee 😀


Writing Wed 26 Mar Cross Bailey Light and Colorverse Eclipse Silence

Todays key equipment

Cross Bailey Light <Medium> + Colorverse Eclipse Silence

youtube.com/garryeves

#edc #fountainpen #fountainpens #penoftheday #dailypen #CrossBaileyLight #Cross #Colorverse #ColorverseEclipseSilence



"The US Postal Service has been struggling for years" because the Post Master General appointed during Trump's first term, who Biden couldn't be assed to replace*, spent the last 5 years running it into the ground.

It's the classic GOP tactic of:
1. Ruin the thing
2. Yell about the ruined thing
3. Privatize the thing

* Yes, the PMG is appointed by a Board of Governors, not the POTUS, but Presidents find ways to make things happen when they want to.

apnews.com/article/us-postal-s…






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The image is a meme featuring two side-by-side panels of characters from the animated series "The Amazing World of Gumball." The left panel shows a pink character with large, expressive eyes and a wide, happy smile, with text above that reads: "LOOKING FOR PLAYERS! SYSTEM: THE ONE YOU WANT TO PLAY TIME OF SESSION: SPECIFICALLY WHEN YOU ARE AVAILABLE! PREMISE: SOMETHING THAT FITS ALL YOUR INTERESTS!" The right panel shows the same character with a red face, furrowed brows, and an angry expression, with text above that reads: "20$ PER SESSION." The meme humorously contrasts the enthusiasm of the left panel with the frustration of the right panel, likely commenting on the cost of joining a gaming session.

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it also doesn’t really work?

Even $20 per person will not give you a good per hour rate if you’ve done any prep whatsoever.

I do not understand the economics of paid GMs at this level.






Brazilian Modders Upgrade NVidia Geforce GTX 970 to 8 GB of VRAM

hackaday.com/2025/03/25/brazil…







in reply to Eugen Rochko

that is a comedy reference to the ominous Twitter unfollow bug that was disregard as myth for a long time.

Sorry if this was unclear



#Taupo in New Zealand has, as far as we know, the world's only #McDonald's that is (partially) located in an aircraft. Partially, because the plane is used as an additional dining room. We loved it. Have you been in there? #NewZealand backpackandsnorkel.com/Taupo/#…






Europeans ! Meta has settled a landmark legal case by campaigner Tanya O’Carroll just days before trial. The settlement reaffirms our right to object to personal data being used for direct marketing

Send a GDPR objection email to Meta to exercise your rights against unwanted direct marketing and data misuse. Here's how:

wwwdot.org/




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This could explain many things.
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@fraggle The milky way turns either clockwise or counterclockwise depending upon what your frame of reference is

If the frame of reference determines the facts (all galaxies turn CW from our FoR), is that a privileged frame of reference, or is there some way I’m not thinking of where all galaxies everywhere are predominantly turning CW no matter what the frame of reference is?

CW/CCW needs a reference frame, so how can all galaxies favor CW from everywhere

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@Extra_Special_Carbon as per the article, they're talking about direction of rotation relative to the direction of rotation of our Milky Way galaxy (more galaxies spin in the opposite direction)


Good evening Somerville! I plan to allow the nation to burn unsupervised for a couple hours this evening and instead bring you thoughts and screengrabs from MassDoT's update on "grounding" McGrath Higway. FYI, it is not yet "civics on my porch" weather, but SOON. www.mass.gov/event/somerv... 1/?

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