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Seems like fors.fm is releasing a free Reverb plugin that works on Linux. Great to see!

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Fors Sala

Ceremonial reverb with a deep and colorful sound, zooming in and out of focus.
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@s_ol weird! glad you managed! did you give it a try already?
@s-ol

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Eastern monarch butterfly population nearly doubles in 2025

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#conservation
#Mexico
#MonarchButterflies

A swarm of Monarch Butterflies
#conservation #mexico #monarchbutterflies
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The government’s incompetence is leading to horrific acts of cruelty.
X post by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick that reads: "NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. THIS man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!" Below this, there is a text block that reads: "The U.S. government claims on Reyes Mota’s I-213 form, a document the Department of Homeland Security uses to support that someone is deportable, that he 'may be a Tren de Aragua associate.' But in those same documents, the government says he has no criminal records or immigration history in the United States. The government also uses someone else’s last name in several parts of the document, identifies him with female pronouns, and uses two different unique identification numbers that immigration authorities use to track individuals, raising questions about the reliability of Trump officials’ accusations against him."

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Arbitrariness begins where we accept that anyone at all can be sentenced without a fair trial and denied their basic rights to humane treatment.
The moment we begin to see such a procedure as anything other than a fundamental breach of civilization and only individual cases cause us to lose our temper for a moment because we feel they are unjust, we have already fallen into the trap of not fundamentally questioning the violent abuses.
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Got it backwards.

Cruelty leads to incompetence.

Hate addles the brain. On average, subscribing to bigotry costs a person a third of their cognitive capacity.

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#ScribesAndMakers for March 29:

What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?


Easily, the release of the PETI firmware version 0.5.0, which you can read about more here:

arcanalabs.ca/news/labnotes/pe…


Releasing PETI Version 0.5.0: The Hygine and Audio Update

Arcana Labs - Puzzles and Proverbs
www.arcanalabs.ca
#scribesandmakers

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That's fair.
If someone is locked in a mall overnight then they are legally allowed to steal as much as they can carry.

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I’m old enough to remember when Mozilla had a Mastodon instance.
mastodon.uno/@amministratore/1…

:mastodon: mastodon uno admin (@amministratore@mastodon.uno)

Allegato: 1 immagine mozilla come proton: ha tolto ogni collegamento a mastodon dal suo sito ufficiale, sostituendolo con bluesky. :firefox: https://www.mozilla.
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That's nothing, I'm old enough to remember when Mozilla promised to never sell my data.
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Seriously though, what does Mozilla the organization need to advertise a Spotify page for?

Who’s sitting around wondering what they are listening to?

Edit: oh it’s their podcast. Well that’s even more infuriating. If only there was an open standard that enabled that technology 🧐

Screenshot of the Mozilla social accounts
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"Yo, we're like Open Source n' shit, check out this long list of corporate monopoly platforms we support!"
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@slyborg "Expect we don't support Mastodon, those people criticized us like Proton, man."
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@shadow @slyborg the frustrating thing is Mozilla did indirectly support Mastodon for a short period, aside from running an instance. They funded a code security audit a couple of years ago — that’s probably wasn’t cheap.
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@shadow The dreaded pivot. Baker's gone now, and they loaded up with ex-corporate types that are thinking about how to do the OpenAI thing and monetize so they can cash out somehow. For all the vaunted "disruption culture" in Si Valley, it's been groupthink there for really decades, right now you make money with ads and AI training data (maybe crypto depending on where you are on the grift scale). It's more likely Mozilla will put in a crypto wallet than a federated social media interface.
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@mrcopilot yeah, and have a way to have clients subscribe to a feed of data and syndicate the data to them.

It’s too bad nothing like that was ever invented.

@MrCopilot

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Vermont Teddy Bear Company in Shelbourne, VT in known for handmade Teddy Bears with a lifetime warranty and you can tour their factory. Dr. Nancy, the Doctor on staff, can heal broken bears 99% of the time. backpackandsnorkel.com/USA/Ver…

Shelburne, Vermont

Shelburne, with its population is just short of 8,000, lies about 7 miles south of Burlington. Its major attractions are the fantastic Shelburne Museum, the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory and the Oakledge Park from which you can see the 3rd (!) of July …
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Props to whoever on this plane is advertising the WiFi network “Houthi PC small group”
Screen shot from iPhone showing a WiFi network called “Houthi PC small group”

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I saw a jar of black olives marked as “Product of #Canada” on a grocery website last night.

I somehow doubt that 98% of that product was made in our borders.

cbc.ca/news/marketplace/market…

#Canada
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@deshipu yup. My combo maple syrup/olive orchard.
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@deshipu if your tap the grafted branches you could have olive syrup. Delicious!
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Trump's changes to the Smithsonian are the latest in his takeover of the arts
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5333720/trumps-changes-to-the-smithsonian-are-the-latest-in-his-takeover-of-the-arts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Had a gig with a band of livecoding colleagues (plus bass, voice and some keyboard-played synths) yesterday and it went great!
long exposure photo of a colorfully lit basement with a long table filled with blinky laptops and music equipment, there is warped ghostly silhouettes of people moving around the space in the background
the same basement now filled with people standing or sitting all around the table that has performers standing on both sides. There is a small projection on one wall of the space.

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#TeslaTakedown

a white Tesla in front of me has stickers reading fuck Trump fuck president Musk

image shows the rear window of a Tesla with some anti-trump anti musk stickers on it as described in the post
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This one from the anti-Elon club "does not endorse" Musk yesterday parked next to me.

#TeslaTakedown is working.

A blue Tesla with MA plates has 2 bumper stickers on the car, parked in a parking lot space. One says "Anti-Elon Tesla Club" and the other says "This Tesla does not endorse Musk".
#teslatakedown

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FINALLY! I've uploaded and entered the Music Box competition at #bambulab #makerworld! The thing I've been striving away at all this time is...

ROTATING LIGHT-UP MUSICAL EGGS! *crowd goes "ooooo"*

Go here, download it, print it, rate it, thumbs it up, whatever! PLEASE! 😁 #makersHour #3dprinting #allTheHashtags
makerworld.com/en/models/12602…

A promo picture for my rotating musical eggs. In the middle is a big yellow and orange egg with white-and-yellow flowers on it with some nice grassy hills. A big arrow wraps round it suggesting it turns anticlockwise. Above it five random notes hang in the air. To the right, another egg with a black top smeared with a purple cloud and a metallic base with a ring of metallic and yellow... temples? going around it. Above it four random notes hang in the air and in the top right the text "ROTATING" has been crudely bent around the words "MUSICAL EGGS"
#3dprinting #makershour #bambulab #makerworld #allthehashtags

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Whilst personally I am not playing well, the competition is going okay #chess
Three rows of tables with chairs and chess sets setup in the starting position
#chess
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Robee? Na! 🌈
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New business card!

Now I just need some business 😀

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My famous multigrain spiked bread, which can only be created if the ingredients are mixed clockwise while chanting a mystical spell during a partial eclipse.

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Bought some schnapps glasses. They came with stuff inside that I have to remove with a spoon. And eat. It's hard work, but someone has to do it.

#Food #Snack #Coffee

A small glass next to a teaspoon. Inside the glass are layers of creamy looking brown and white foam. The top is covered with cocoa powder and crunchy coffee beans. The table has a coffee stain, too.
#food #coffee #snack
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If you need a hand just send me a dozen and I will do my best to assist you.

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Startup founder is convicted of defrauding JPMorgan of $175M by faking firm's success
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5344434/charlie-javice-convicted-defrauding-jpmorgan?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@U.S. News

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What are your thoughts on this, friends? comicsands.com/tina-fey-side-h…

Tina Fey Hates When Rich People Have 'Side Hustle': VIDEO

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In the 90's, everyone wore cheap Versace, Fendi, Gucci, and other logo covered tshirts and whatnot, to pretend they were somehow with the elite people who wear those brands' actually expensive items.

I think the celebs are riding that, and have actually overtaken that market.

Next comes it's part of the natural progression: Ivy Part by Beyonsee, Sausage x Fengy by Reeanna, C Label by Goon, Shrew House by Beeber, and so on.

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I'm not afraid of their side hustle I'm afraid when they are gutting programs that I need just to make it thru the month.

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daily #CalvinAndHobbes comic:
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#calvinandhobbes

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29 March 1908 | A Czech, Jan Rupert, was born in Třebechovice. A roofer.

In #Auschwitz from 29 April 1942.
No. 33779
He perished in the camp on 15 May 1942.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
#auschwitz

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Have some good news. We have 10x the piping plovers that we did in the 1980s. Things can get better and move in the right directions.

#Birdstodon

wbur.org/news/2025/03/28/pipin…


What to know about the perseverant piping plover, as they return to Mass. beaches this spring | WBUR News

Piping plovers return to Massachusetts' beaches to nest in early spring. Mass Audubon Coastal Waterbird Program Director Lyra Brennan explains why the small shorebirds "are some of the most determined parents" in the animal kingdom and how locals can…
Hanna Ali (WBUR)
#birdstodon

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: #RedForEd rides again in LA; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/29/jan…

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Four turn-of-the-century women strikers, bearing sashes reading PICKET STRIKERS. In the foreground is an extreme magnification of the top of Trump's hair.

Pluralistic: #RedForEd rides again in LA (29 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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March Madness is a season for betting, but help for problem gambling is hard to find
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5342574/gambling-addiction-march-madness-sportsbook-betting?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Meet Jerry Weinstein, the 81-year-old newest recruit of the Chicago Cubs
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5341730/meet-jerry-weinstein-the-81-year-old-newest-recruit-of-the-chicago-cubs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Connecticut's Utility Consumer Counsel Secures Customer Protections Following Verizon / Frontier Merger ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/03/29/ct…

CT Consumer Counsel Says Verizon-Frontier Settlement Is A Win For Consumers

A proposed settlement between state consumer protection authorities, Verizon, and Frontier is a win for consumers, according to the state Office of the Consumer Counsel.
Julie Martin Banks (CT News Junkie)

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The LA Teachers' Union is going on strike.

Fuck.

Yes.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Four turn-of-the-century women strikers, bearing sashes reading PICKET STRIKERS. In the foreground is an extreme magnification of the top of Trump's hair.

Pluralistic: #RedForEd rides again in LA (29 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#Myanmar's civil war enters its fourth year with 6,000+ killed, 29,000 arrested, and 3.3 million displaced. As global powers shift alliances, the balance of the conflict could change. A scholar explains: buff.ly/lRK1ygP
Tharaphi Than, Northern Illinois University

Myanmar’s civil war: How shifting US-Russia ties could tip balance and hand China a greater role

US cuts in overseas aid will hurt the myriad opposition groups that have been fighting the army in a complex and regionalized conflict.
The Conversation
#myanmar

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Canary in the coal mine
Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing from US to work in Canada

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Happy Saturday!

Have some nice...

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“Mr. Vance used a jocular and slightly vulgar epithet to describe the temperature, where he was wearing jeans and a parka, but no hat or gloves.”

The “Gray Lady” New York Times often seems to think it’s still 1955.

Fearful of offending blue-haired doyennes on The Upper East Side, it can’t bring itself to use a character-revealing direct quote from a Yale-educated faux “Everyman” who said, “It’s cold as shit here!”

nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/poli…


Visiting Greenland, Vance Finds the Weather and the Reception Chilly

The trip was both a reconnaissance mission and a passive-aggressive reminder of President Trump’s determination to fulfill his territorial ambitions, no matter the obstacles.
David E. Sanger (The New York Times)

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US ditched signed “mineral deal” with Ukraine, instead sent new document extending ownership to roads, factories, ports, pipes and placing 4% year interest on already allocated to Ukraine valuables since 2022

reuters.com/world/us-is-pushin…

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #russia #ukraine

#russia #ukraine #news #uspolitics #uspol #politics #trump #gopcult #corruption #ethics
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It’s like Trump has staffers whose only job is to figure out new and creative ways to make this administration into even bigger scumbags than they already are.

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Meanwhile. JD Vance and his wife spent only three hours in Greenland during a visit—entirely on a U.S. military base. Protests and a full business boycott forced them to leave, as locals refused to serve or admit them anywhere.

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Fox News: Annexing Greenland is fine because it is no different than dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan.

I am sad to see the US paving the way for war with Europe, and I hope the people of the US make it politically impossible for Trump to take the next step.

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#NATO will be physically attacked first by

  • ruZZia (0 votes)
  • usa (0 votes)
  • both simultaneously (0 votes)
Poll end: 6 months ago

#nato

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