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Donald Trump’s 100-day report card

Donald Trump’s second term began with a blitz of executive orders. Here’s what he’s done in 100 days.

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Published: 29 Apr 2025, 16:34




europesays.com/2037785/ Australia: Socialist Equality Party meeting attendees support party’s anti-war program #Conflicts #war


Wow, this is a rip-snorting interview with @pluralistic - you, sir, have got great metaphors. Well done. This needs to be on every single NZ MP's listing list: rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/…
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in reply to Dave Lane 🇳🇿

thank you for sharing this. I find it particularly amusing that he was allowed to say “enshittification” on RNZ repeatedly.
in reply to Dave Lane 🇳🇿

Mild quibble: Google did come up with Gmail on its own. Or at least through a 20% project (that is, it wasn't a management objective).

But other than that, novel product development has been quite poor.

in reply to Cory Doctorow

which, in turn, was a 'RocketMail' clone. (which became Yahoo! Mail after Yahoo! acquired them) Remember, too that Microsoft acquired Hotmail. BigTech isn't very innovative.
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in reply to Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

@dredmorbius I didn't hear that bit - will have to re-listen. Back in the early days, when Google was 'engineering-led' they did some impressive stuff - most of us thought they might be the exception to the rules (set by MS, Apple, Oracle, IBM, etc.)... sadly, though, in the intervening years, we've been well-and-truly disabused of that optimism.
in reply to Dave Lane 🇳🇿

Google definitely tweak the heck out of products. But in terms of either launching new game-changers, on the scale of Gmail, Maps (aquisition), Youtube (aquisition), Android (aquisition), or ... come to think of it, Chrome was also home-grown, no?, they've an awfully weak record.

(Gemini, Google Books, and Translate are some other successful launches, though they've had relatively limited reach. Gemini's still in early days, so it could prove a breakout yet.)

All the more so for revenue-generating products, of which Doubleclick / Adsense remains the sole cash machine.

List of products for those interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_….

@pluralistic



They're not going to fix things, they have no intention of making things right. What's happening is exactly what they want to happen.

What they're hoping is to destroy our country and lives beyond the point of no return before we stop them.

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Attorney General Bonta Urges Congress to Block Dismantling of EPA’s Office of Research and Development Integrated Risk Information System Program oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases…


Regis made to wait on Plibersek decision review

Regis Resources will wait until December for a review of a contentious ministerial decision to block the build of its McPhillamys goldmine in New South Wales.

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Published: 30 Apr 2025, 03:50



Popular US baker joins RecipeTin Eats founder in plagiarism allegations

A popular American cookbook author has joined Nagi Maehashi in claiming their recipes were copied in a book by Brisbane baker Brooke Bellamy.

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Published: 30 Apr 2025, 03:36



Soud nařídil Trumpově vládě doplatit Rádiu Svobodná Evropa dubnové finance.

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New Comic Found: Frazz by Jef Mallett for Tue, 29 Apr 2025 gocomics.com/frazz/2025/04/29

#comicstrip #frazzstrip



Popular US baker joins RecipeTin Eats founder in plagiarism allegations

A popular American cookbook author has joined Nagi Maehashi in claiming their recipes were copied in a book by Brisbane baker Brooke Bellamy.

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Published: 30 Apr 2025, 03:36




Выходные в мае 2025 года: будем ли отдыхать 1 и 8 мая news.liga.net/other/news/vyhod… #Russia #Ukraine


An Unpopular President Is a Weak President


The early reviews are in: Trump 2 is a box office disaster. The polls show President Trump's approval is deeply underwater: New York Times/Siena: 42% approve, 54% disapprove. Fox News: 44% approve, 55% disapprove. AP/NORC: 39% approve, 59% disapprove. Was

The early reviews are in: Trump 2 is a box office disaster.

The polls show President Trump’s approval is deeply underwater:

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This seat belongs to Labor, but on paper it shouldn't

Sydney's North Shore is the site of razor thin margins and some of this election's tightest contests.

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Published: 30 Apr 2025, 01:17



I really do not understand what Whitmer is doing. Trump's approval is cratering and likely to keep falling since he's single handedly created a recession. then there's the thing where he's trying to destroy the constitution.


Penny Wong admits Voice is 'gone' after hinting referendum could pass in future

Penny Wong has walked back her comments on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, saying Labor respects the view of the Australian people.

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Published: 30 Apr 2025, 01:42



Tech stocks, banks bolster ASX despite higher-than-expected inflation

The Australian sharemarket has trimmed some of its early gains after the inflation data, but is still up for a fifth consecutive day.

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Published: 30 Apr 2025, 03:26



India and Pakistan already sweltering in ‘new normal’ heatwave conditions

Temperatures south Asians dread each year arrive early as experts talk of ever shorter transition to summer-like heatThe summer conditions south Asian countries dread each year have arrived alarmingly early, and it’s only April. Much of India and Pakistan is already sweltering in heatwave conditions, in what...

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Published: 30 Apr 2025, 04:00



SHOCK ARREST of Judge STUNS Across the Globe twp.ai/4im9BG



OPINION: Major party housing policies part of the problem

OPINION: A hung parliament could be Australia's best chance of achieving sensible housing policy in the next term of government.

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Published: 30 Apr 2025, 02:12



30 April 1911 | Norwegian Jew, Herman Rafael Scharff, was born in Oslo.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942.
He did not survive.



Sorrow and fury among Vancouver's Filipinos after attack on festival

The community is reeling after 11 were killed and dozens injured by a car ramming attack on a street event.

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Published: 28 Apr 2025, 04:33



Трамп виступив з півторагодинною промовою з нагоди 100 днів на посаді. Основні тези newsua.one/news-world/111923.h… [Ukraine]


Swedish government seeks to curb migrant welfare access rules: The new measures would require non-EU citizens to have legally resided in Sweden for five consecutive years to qualify for social benefits. euractiv.com/section/politics/…


Portugal: PM announces independent commission to look into power outage.: The government will ask the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators to independently audit the affected countries' electricity systems. euractiv.com/section/politics/…

in reply to AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr thank you!
this was a stunning evening, i have a lot of photos of this sunset that were caught from different locations at the end of a road trip as i was getting back into Cape Town.


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current radness levels are 10%

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Very hectic couple of weeks but it's 22:00 on a work day and I think I've finally cleared enough higher priority stuff of my plate that I can work on Ethernet switch stuff again for the first time in... I don't even know how long it's been.



Wow. Interesting story, but fascinating for #psychology students and experts alike, I'm sure:
A pure clinical case study here, of #TrumpVirus / #WordSalad #psychopathology 101.

'Just say yes': Trump begs reporter to accept that doctored photo is real

Tom Grzybow reshared this.

in reply to Michael Fenichel

Eggs-Ackley. He's so simple, repetitive, transparent. Gee, and I chose you - though I have no idea who the F you are, loser - and you repay me HOW?! Sick.


Queensland respiratory surveillance report: 23 Apr to 29 Apr 2025

Reported cases:

🔹COVID: 303 (-12.9%)
🔹Influenza: 816 (-28.9%)
🔹RSV: 608 (-14.8%)

Hospitalisations:

🔸COVID: 51 (-20.3%)
🔸Influenza: 80 (-8.0%)
🔸RSV: 58 (unchanged)

Source: health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra…

@auscovid19

in reply to Denis - The COVID info guy -

Queensland: GENOMIC ANALYSIS REPORT - SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance: 28 April 2025

🔸XEC is the dominant lineage with approximately 46% of samples tested over the past 2 weeks

🔸KP.3.1.1 is the second highest lineage proportion with approximately 21%

Source: health.qld.gov.au/__data/asset…

@auscovid19

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Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia meets with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia byteseu.com/967836/ #Armenia #RepublicOfArmenia



Azerbaijan National Leader Remembrance Day 2025 – Heydar Aliyev – Malaysian Chess Federation byteseu.com/967834/ #Azerbaijan #RepublicOfAzerbaijan

in reply to Anthony 🐨🦘🪃🇦🇺🕯🌟🧙‍♂️🇺🇦🇨🇦

This one started off with the following rubbish "You don't need to be welcomed to your own country".

It's not my country anyway, it belongs to the Ngunawal / Ngambri people and there is nothing wrong with welcome to country!

🖤💛❤️

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