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Leaning Tower of Pisa in Philadelphia, USA.
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11 Times I Found Street Art Cleverly Using Its Surroundings: streetartutopia.com/2025/03/27…
A tilted street pole humorously painted to resemble the iconic Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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Plotting graphs like it's 1978...

#rc2014 #forth

three sine waves of a biorhythm plotted on an ASCII terminal of a WIP demo example.
#forth #rc2014

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Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report

Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts
Phoebe Weston (The Guardian)
#climatechange #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateEmergency #climatebreakdown #tippingpoint

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Morning news brief
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5338580/morning-news-brief?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@U.S. News

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Comforted by the projected returns she was being promised, which started at 12% and were forecast to increase to as much as 50% over time, she was convinced to invest more.
She bought another three casks for a total of £100,000.
bbc.com/news/articles/cx2r7enl…

Hundreds lose life savings in whisky barrel scam

Investors were duped into ploughing millions of pounds into casks that were overpriced or did not exist.
BBC News
in reply to Frank Sonderborg

BeeCycling
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FFS, people. If you're not experienced in this kind of alternative investment scheme, just stick with normal, regulated investing. If this stuff was actually legit and definitely gave such returns, everyone would be doing it. Martin Lewis would be telling everyone to do it.
in reply to BeeCycling

Larry
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@beecycling
Two economists were strolling along and the younger noticing a twenty laying on the path, and starts to pick it up. The elder advises him to not bother, if it were a real someone would have already taken it.
@BeeCycling

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I always heard that "touching Social Security was the third rail of politics". then why is #Musk
& #DOGE not being electrocuted?

I think part of it is how cuts are started, then stopped after a backlash, so people think the problem has been fixed. But it just let's them adapt their approach.

If I called my MAGA Rep to complain they could say, "Your Social Security benefits won't be cut." (What is not said is "yet." or never)
So we need to keep pressuring them.
digbysblog.net/2025/03/26/nobo…

#Doge #musk
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Charkiw, März 2025.

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Cando a oposición popular impediu a construción dunha celulosa nas Neves

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A new Utah law is Republicans' latest effort to limit mail ballot return
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5323797/utah-mail-voting-law?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@Politics

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Stay in the rainbow... "Capybara and the Storm" was painted to help me remember to find and stay in the rainbows despite all the storm raging around me. Hope it sparks some happiness in you, even it's just a little!

#capybara #rainbow #art #hope

Painting of a dark storm cloud in a black sky with a bright rainbow streaming down to the left. There is a small orange capybara standing on under the rainbow with his eyes closed. The artist's signature and watermark @joyousjoyfuljoyness are on the bottom right.
#capybara #art #hope #rainbow
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Tim
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I see. I wasn't sure if you had a program you had made or if you used something like Procreate because of your timelapse videos. You have very nice artwork.

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Sketching some of my favorite birds, ravens and crows! I used my favorite fude nib fountain pen, the Jinhao 159.

#fountainpen #corvid #raven #crow #bird #art #sketch

Sketchbook page of two drawings of crows/ravens in teal ink. On the left is the date 4-7-24. Both crows/ravens are looking to the left. The left one shows most of its body, and the right just the head and chest.
#bird #art #sketch #fountainpen #corvid #crow #raven

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Halyna Dovhopola turns 70, imprisoned in russia for remaining true to #Ukraine in occupied #Crimea

It is very likely that russia’s FSB came for Halyna because she had never concealed her opposition to russia’s invasion of Crimea

russia's occupation of Ukrainian territory violates international law, but it's not just about land, it's also about people.

That is why Ukraine is fighting for freedom, justice and sovereignty.

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Halyna Dovhopola turns 70, imprisoned in Russia for remaining true to Ukraine in occupied Crimea

It is very likely that Russia’s FSB came for Halyna because she had never concealed her opposition to Russia’s invasion of Crimea
Human Rights in Ukraine
#ukraine #crimea

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Pi Pico Turns Atari 2600 into a Lo-fi Photo Frame

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Pi Pico Turns Atari 2600 Into A Lo-fi Photo Frame

The cartridge based game consoles of decades ago had a relatively simple modus operandi — they would run a program stored in a ROM in the cartridge, and on the screen would be the game for th…
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FYI one can use #Wozamp on their #Apple2 as a photo-frame, too youtube.com/watch?v=Yk63krOz6V…

Best digital photo frame ever. #AppleII

Even though Wozamp is primarily a music player, it has - the ability to open files recursively in current directory and subdirectories- the ability to open i...
YouTube
#wozamp #apple2

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When Lebunius preached at the pagan Westphalians during one of their festivals, and admonished them to abandon their heathen ways, they rose up and tried to slay him.

Honestly, I do not condone this, but I DO understand.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #saint @germany @folklore
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German folk tale "The Holy Lebuinus". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!
#germany #folklore #saint #folktale @folklore group @germany group
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I had some dealings with a company called Westfalia recently, and can agree this is pretty much how it went

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(comic) Reward for Good Work workchronicles.substack.com/p/…

(comic) Reward for Good Work

Comics about work. Made with love and lots of coffee.
Work Chronicles

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It’s the cost

Today’s cartoon

#auspol #ClimateCrisis #costofliving

Single panel editorial cartoon titled It’s The Cost. PM Albanese stands angrily with his hands on hips looking down at at a young girl holding a sign that reads ‘save the planet’. In the background behind Albanese is OL Dutton, adopting the same stance. Albanese says to the girl, “You have no idea of the cost!”. The girls replies, “It’s the cost of living”.
#climatecrisis #auspol #CostOfLiving

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#ZXSpectrum experts; what was this provisional port for? Composite?

This is my 16k issue 2 model.

Photo of rear ports of my ZX Spectrum 16k. It shows cassette and TV sockets but also an intriguing outline of a port that's not cut out. 🤔 (pondering emoji)
#zxspectrum
in reply to electron.greg

RC2014
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There's an Aztek modulator behind there giving the PAL RF signal. The modulator for other markets can have the socket on the other side though. So potentially the case could be made with that cutout instead. Although I am not aware of any that were.

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“We’re the police,” members of the group are heard saying in the video.

A man is heard asking, “Why are you hiding your faces?”

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Masked government thugs snatching a student off the streets without even the hint she committed any crime. This is the US today.

apnews.com/article/tufts-stude…


Turkish student at Tufts University detained by Homeland Security, lawyer says

A lawyer for a Turkish national who is a doctoral student at Tufts University says she has been detained by federal agents without explanation.
Jake Offenhartz (AP News)

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Absurdity now has a logarithmic scale.

@signalapp has initially been funded by the @OpenTechFund
and is used by the #usgov to plan bombings in #jemen

#doge destroys the funding of the #otf while @TheAtlantic has been invited to this chat.

Signal (Open Whisper Systems) | OTF
opentech.fund/projects-we-supp…

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Going to lose the overview? 🤣


Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
#Doge #usgov #jemen #otf @Signal @The Atlantic @OpenTechFund

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The decision to shutter VOA “portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism in the United States.” - Jim Friedlich chicago.suntimes.com/other-vie…

Now that Trump has silenced Voice of America, could U.S. public media outlets be next?

The president's decision to shutter the global news organization portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism in the United States.
Jim Friedlich (Chicago Sun-Times)

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The #Sun and the #Moon. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 49v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
The #Sun and the #Moon. Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 49v. #medieval #MedievalArt
#moon #Sun #medieval #medievalart

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MEANWHILE, IN 1982...

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In Greenland, American representatives have been going around knocking on one door after another in recent days to ask if they would like to have a visit from the vice president's wife. Everywhere the answer was the same: "No, otherwise thank you,"

nyheder.tv2.dk/live/2025-01-06…

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Denmark #Greenland #US #Trump #Vance


Trump kan presse Danmark på flere måder, siger kommentator

Hvad sker der? USA's præsident, Donald Trump, har onsdag aften gentaget sine ambitioner om at få kontrol over Grønland. Det sker i kølvandet på, at den amerikanske vicepræsident, J.D.
Mie Haugaard (TV 2 DANMARK)
#russia #ukraine #us #trump #eu #greenland #vance #denmark

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Slight diversion yesterday. I #3dprinted this Judge Dredd ABC Warrior bust. Modified so the head is hollow because I want to add some electronics (LEDs for eyes and I have a spare M5 Stack Atom Echo knocking about so I might give him some voice functionality for shits and giggles).
Robot head
#3DPrinted
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BHAHAHAHAHAHA
Image description: 4 clowns with guns and one man in street clothes labeled „the guy from The Atlantic“. They all look to the right and crouch a bit, as if in a war zone. They appear to be outside, in front of the wall of a building.
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When discussing your war plans, always check who you add to the group chat.

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Back in the day, there were no excuses to own a robot controlled by your Spectrum
(from #yourspectrum magazine, 1984)

#zxspectrum #retrogaming #robotics

#retrogaming #zxspectrum #robotics #yourspectrum
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Funnily enough I just found this the other day...

pcbway.com/project/shareprojec…

And was thinking of giving it a go 😀


Datel Robotek (a robot control card for ZX Spectrum) re-created version - Share Project - PCBWay

This is a re-creation of an interface card called "Datel Robotek" for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer. This card is long lost in the history and very hard to find as original now. I have designed th...
www.pcbway.com

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An #UFO had landed in #Brocken #Mountain .

#Harz

The outline of a broadcasting tower with several concentric rings centered around its vertical axis and a blocky building are barely visible uphill in the fog.
#ufo #harz #mountain #Brocken

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soundcloud.com/djmtraxxx

so these are all pretty amazing

#house #chicagohouse #dj #classics


DJ M-TRAXXX

All Bookings: djmtraxxx@yahoo.com Manny Cuevas aka DJ M-TRAXXX is Florida's original house and techno DJ. That isn't to brag, it's simply the truth, a statement that sets the record straight: he not
SoundCloud
#dj #house #classics #chicagohouse

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How nonprofits get cash from your clunker : The Indicator from Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/1241163673/car-donations-texas-public-radio-npr?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@business-npr

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My Most Dangerous ER Experience and How My Advocate Saved My Life

A story of medical gaslighting, negligence and neglect that very nearly cost me my life - and how my accidental advocate (untrained and unprepared) saved me.
Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
#disability #womenshealth #ableism #discrimination #mybodymychoice #misogyny #endometriosis #medicalmisogyny #ObGYn #hysterectomy

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what the actual fuck? I *hate* that line of questioning so much.

> But what if you change your mind?
Then you can say "I told you so" 🤷🏼‍♀️

> What if your future spouse really wants kids?
Then they'll either respect my opinion or be my future ex 💁🏼‍♀️

> Maybe it was your appendix?
If you get those mixed up, then I'm glad you're not my surgeon 😅

I'm so sorry you have to put up with that bullshit 🫂
I got some of the same lines before my sterilization, but mostly from family.

in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)

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@alice Dropped in to add: even though you weren't refusing, in current political climate, everyone should be demanding freedom to refuse pregnancy tests. You do NOT want a positive pregnancy test on any official record; even if it's impossible to actually be pregnant, a false positive result is potentially life threatening.
@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)

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As Bangladesh gears up for election, a new political player emerges
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/g-s1-55611/bangladesh-student-activists-sheikh-hasina-nahid-islam?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@World News

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A comment by @Spark reminded me that I created this blacklight Haunter mirror art piece.

The Haunter is made from paper and craft foam painted purple and neon pink.

Using a large photo frame from the thrift store, I sprayed some special paint that turned the glass into a mirror. I also spray-painted the picture frame. (In my bathroom. (Because it was too cold. (Those "Gastly" fumes haunt me.)))

Finally, the drool is hot glue squegged across the front.

#pokemon #MastoArt #mixedmedia

A rectangular mirror with an ornate, dark brown frame. Across the mirror is a trail of "drool" leading up to a faint image in its corner.
A blacklight shining on the faint image reveals the ghostly Haunter. From its smiling mouth is a pink, cartoonish tongue the drool trail is connected to.
Haunter before it was attached to the mirror.
A blacklight shining on Haunter to highlight its neon pink eyes and tongue.
#MastoArt #pokemon #mixedmedia @Spark
in reply to VanGoYo

Spark
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That is a cool piece of art. I don’t know if I would install a black light in my bathroom, but I like the idea of hiding such a piece I plain sight in the house. 😁

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It's a good thing I never posted a single piece of content on #Pixelfed and its not going to stop now.

Major post leak issues are not going to help.

Yikes!

fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed…

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus

fokus.cool
#pixelfed

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Malware found on npm infecting local package with reverse shell reversinglabs.com/blog/malicio…

Malware found on npm infecting local package with reverse shell

For the first time, RL researchers discover malicious locally-installed npm packages infecting other legitimate packages.
ReversingLabs

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27 March 1897 | A Polish Jew, Ludwik Brinsztejn, was born in Warsaw. A warehouseman.

In #Auschwitz from 20 November 1941.
No. 22807
He perished in the camp on 12 February 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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A screenshot of a text message that reads "We had to throw out this keyboard... we didn't have the space for it". Above the message is an image of a black keyboard sitting on top of a green trash can lid, with a white box partially visible in the background. There is a grey download button on the right side of the screen. The sender is labeled as "ME" on the left side of the screen. The keyboard has no spacebar.
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This is TWO students they have abducted today....

thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/new…

#ICE #USPOL #AlirezaDoroudi


UA student reportedly detained by ICE

This is a breaking news story and will continue to be updated.  A UA student was reportedly detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement early Tuesday morning.
The Crimson White
#uspol #ice #alirezadoroudi

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Climate change and overfishing threaten Vietnam's tradition of making fish sauce
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342247/vietnam-fish-sauce-climate-change-overfishing?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@World News
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