Inflation eased a touch in February -- but Trump's tariffs cloud outlook
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325264/inflation-consumer-prices-economy-trump-tariffs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-npr

Wrote and deleted several passive-aggressive email responses to an 'urgent' project request (minutes).

Ended up going with "Got it! No problem!"

Kill me.

#adulting

[13:42] Six mouse carcasses and rodent droppings among reasons seven food businesses served with enforcement orders last month

Seven enforcement orders were served on businesses last month for breaches of food safety legislation, including the discovery of six mouse carcasses on a warehouse floor in one premises.

independent.ie/irish-news/six-…

#Seven #lastmonth #six #one

Six mouse carcasses and rodent droppings among reasons seven food businesses served with enforcement orders la

^{Maeve McTaggart (Irish Independent)}

2-time Cy Young winner Kluber visits Guards' Spring Training

mlb.com/guardians/news/corey-k…

#guardians #baseball #ForTheLand

👋Hey everyone!

After spending some time at #datadog and #proton, I'm now looking for another job.
I'm looking for a #rust software engineer position.
Thanks a lot in advance!

#jobsearch #rustlang #france

[13:56] Man arrested in Sweden for Rotterdam murder in 2003

A 51-year-old man has been arrested in Sweden in connection with a cold case in Rotterdam dating back to 2003....

dutchnews.nl/2025/03/man-arres…

#51_year_old #Sweden #Rotterdam #2003

Man arrested in Sweden for Rotterdam murder in 2003 - DutchNews.nl

A 51-year-old man has been arrested in Sweden in connection with a cold case in Rotterdam dating back to 2003. The suspect is a Libyan national, and his alleged victim was from Tunisia.

^{Robin Pascoe (DutchNews.nl)}

Question/ask!

Some locals are organizing a community skillshare and I offered to help folks get set up with secure text messaging using Signal. Are there any tutorials/guides that you particularly recommend, or known issues with setup, maybe with other kinds of phones? (I've had no issues setting up on Android)

Also: is there anything else you'd recommend I share with folks in terms of communication security? Other helpful apps or tools? Looking for things I can quickly learn, then teach.

Florida Pastor & Educator Arrested for Child Sex Abuse Felonies

julieroys.com/florida-pastor-e…

To read about a weird twist on this story, see also:
baptistnews(dot com)/article/jimmy-carter-s-pastor-moving/

#CriminalClergy #PredatoryPastors

Florida Pastor & Educator Arrested for Child Sex Abuse Felonies

Jeffery Summers, a Florida pastor and support staff member at an elementary school has been arrested on charges of 2 child sex abuse felonies

^{Josh Shepherd (The Roys Report)}

[13:37] Bus met aanhanger knalt op N33 bij Veendam tegen auto Rijkswaterstaat. 'Collega is enorm geschrokken'

Op de N33, ter hoogte van de afrit Veendam-Noord, is woensdagmiddag een auto van Rijkswaterstaat aangereden. De medewerker van Rijkswaterstaat bleef ongedeerd, de andere bestuurder is uit voorzorg naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.

dvhn.nl/groningen/veendam/Bus-…

#N33 #Rijkswaterstaat

Bus met aanhanger knalt op N33 bij Veendam tegen auto Rijkswaterstaat. 'Collega is enorm geschrokken'

^{Matthijs Sorgdrager (Dagblad van het Noorden)}

France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision

Encryption is saved, but "we must keep fighting for privacy"

techradar.com/computing/cyber-…

#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #politics #france

France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision

^{Chiara Castro (TechRadar)}

Transcript of Special Briefing by MEA on Prime Minister's State Visit to Mauritius (March 12, 2025)

google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=…

[13:49] Acteur Sanne den Hartogh (43) vertrekt na ‘Nachtwacht’ naar ITA: ‘Het was een geweldige tijd in Groningen’

‘Nachtwacht’, dat zaterdag in première gaat, is de laatste voorstelling van Sanne den Hartogh bij het Groningse NITE. Hij stapt over naar ITA in Amsterdam. Ook geen beroerd gezelschap. En praktischer, met vriendin en zoontje daar.

dvhn.nl/cultuur/Acteur-Sanne-d…

#Nachtwacht’ #zaterdag #SannedenHartogh #Groningse #NITE #ITA #Amsterdam

Acteur Sanne den Hartogh (43) vertrekt na ‘Nachtwacht’ naar ITA: ‘Het was een geweldige tijd in Groningen’

^{Eric Nederkoorn (Dagblad van het Noorden)}

That's not a giant meteor. It's SPHEREx and PUNCH, two @nasa missions, being sent up into space via a Falcon 9 @spacex rocket!! SPHEREx is a mission that'll survey over 450 million galaxies to uncover the history of the universe and how it evolved. The PUNCH mission will study the outer atmosphere of the sun.

I am VERY EXCITED about SPHEREx and what it'll find about the period of cosmic inflation, a period when the universe grew by ~10³⁰ in size in a tiny fraction of a second!

[13:46] Brexit rules risk leaving 'gaps on shelves' in NI by July

New post-Brexit labelling rules could see "gaps on shelves" in Northern Ireland by July, a British parliamentary committee has heard.

rte.ie/news/ulster/2025/0312/1…

#post_Brexit #NorthernIreland #July #British

Brexit rules risk leaving 'gaps on shelves' in NI by July

^{RTÉ News (RTÉ)}

Charlie quote of the day:
From elbows up, we are transformed into arms linked. And that creates a force that can’t be beaten.

#CharlieAngus #elbowsupcanada #standthegaff

open.substack.com/pub/charliea…

MEMORY AND RESISTANCE: LESSONS FROM MY GRANNY

“Memory produces hope in the same way that amnesia produces despair.” - Walter Brueggemann, Hope in the Dark

^{Charlie Angus / The Resistance}

What are the alternatives to Cloudflare's free CDN plan (preferably not US-based)? So far, I've only found Gcore:

gcore.com/pricing/edge-network

#cdn #cloudflare #selfhosted

Global Hosting, CDN, Edge and Cloud Services | Gcore

Gcore provides powerful solutions that will help your business grow globally. Try our superior performance for free!

^gcore.com

Rising mental ill health behind higher welfare bill - report

google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=…

Worsening mental ill health behind rising welfare bill, report says

Rising levels of mental ill health are causing the UK welfare bill to balloon, new research suggests.

^{Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)}

A Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance.
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St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front.
propublica.org/article/st-luke…

#News #Idaho #Abortion #Health #Healthcare #Hospital #Medicine #Law

Idaho’s Largest Health System Is Taking on the State’s Abortion Ban

It’s not the first controversial stance for St. Luke’s, which was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines during the pandemic.

^ProPublica

#WritersCoffeeClub for March 12:

Happy Plant a Flower Day! What role does nature take in your stories?

Depends where we're going. If we're talking about The Voyageur, it's a key theme. If we're looking at something set in the Jovian Lunar Empire, it couldn't matter less.

In general, when nature does show up it tends to be aberrant from the actual condition. The bigger role nature plays in my stories is the role it plays in my creative process; the way the seasons govern my ratio of indoor to outdoor activity, the way the best ideas come to me directly from the sun, as filtered down through elm-leaves on my favourite trail down by the river.

To All USians who are angry when Canadians push back at your "just joking" about joining or annexing Canada, or when you say, "Invasion of Canada will never happen" think about this...

Obviously we are not the only country to feel justified with defending ourselves because NATO military chiefs had a closed door security summit in Paris and the US was not invited. Japan and Australia were there.

#USA

Education Department's major cuts to its staff. And, a proposed Ukraine peace deal

google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=…

日、冗談でしょう？

Appleの刻印サービスでは、変わった刻印も入れられるよという話 news.mynavi.jp/article/2025031…

#Apple #news #bot

Appleの刻印サービスでは、変わった刻印も入れられるよという話

筆者はAppleの刻印サービスをよく利用しています。その刻印はおよそ一般的とは言えず、ヘンテコであります。どんな風にヘンテコかと言うと……。

^{マイナビニュース}

#WordWeavers Does your MC love the spotlight or try to pass unnoticed?

If Lichuen gets into spotlight, something has gone wrong. Intelligence and espionage is not like in the James Bond movies - somebody known as a spy is an ex-spy.

Me considero una persona con bastante imaginación, pero ni en mis más febriles delirios hubiese imaginado ver al fokin presidente de los EEUU anunciando Teslas delante de toda la prensa porque la empresa de su co-presidente se hunde en ventas y en bolsa. El autoproclamado "líder del mundo libre" rebajado a un vendedor de coches.

Cada vez más convencido de que la relación de estos dos no es de amistad ni mutuo interés, y que Musk tiene mucha mierda sobre Trump y le está coaccionando.