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Female Galápagos birds flaunt their sexual partners. The males don’t seem to mind.
'Many of these female boobies are really freewheeling it when it comes to sexual behavior.’Andrew Paul (Popular Science)
¿Sabían que el personaje de M. Bison en Street Fighter encapsula los arquetipos clásicos del dictador latinoamericano y, a la vez, fue inspirado por una figura mítica japonesa?
M. Bison, conocido como "Vega, el dictador" en la versión japonesa del juego, es el líder de la organización criminal Shadaloo y un villano que busca el dominio global. Su apariencia —uniforme militar, gorra roja y una presencia imponente— evoca deliberadamente la iconografía de dictadores militares históricos de diversas partes del mundo, incluyendo sobre todo los de América Latina, que a menudo se caracterizaban por su culto a la personalidad, uniformes distintivos y un control absoluto del poder.
Sin embargo, la inspiración directa principal, según Fuentes oficiales, fue Yasunori Kato, el villano principal de la novela japonesa Teito Monogatari. Tanto Bison como Kato comparten similitudes en su vestimenta, su visión del mundo y el uso de poderes esotéricos, conocidos como Psycho Power en el caso de Bison, que se alimenta del miedo y el odio.
La ambigüedad de su nacionalidad (especulada como tailandesa en el juego, pero sin confirmación oficial) y su estética general permiten que el personaje funcione como un símbolo universal del poder corrupto y la tiranía, resonando con la historia política real de muchas naciones.
Pangolin 1.13, an open-source, zero-trust VPN, introduces Private Resources, user devices, and a new WireGuard-based networking model.
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Taylor Swift regala un super bonus allo staff dell’Eras Tour: «Un modo per dire grazie». La troupe in lacrime: quanto ha dato a ciascuno
https://www.open.online/2025/12/14/taylor-swift-regala-super-bonus-staff-eras-tour-grazie-quanto-ha-dato/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Taylor Swift regala un super bonus allo staff dell’Eras Tour: «Un modo per dire grazie». La troupe in lacrime: quanto ha dato a ciascuno
Dopo la tournée durata 21 mesi, che ha toccato 21 Paesi con 149 concerti e incassato circa 2 miliardi di dollari in biglietti venduti, la popstar ha deciso di ringraziare così tutto il suo teamCecilia Dardana (Open)
Conor McGregor si è sposato in Vaticano: le nozze segrete con la storica fidanzata Dee Devlin. Ma la Santa Sede non approva
https://www.open.online/2025/12/14/conor-mcgregor-matrimonio-vaticano-polemiche/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Conor McGregor si è sposato in Vaticano: le nozze segrete con la storica fidanzata Dee Devlin. Ma la Santa Sede non approva
Negli anni, il campione di Mma è stato oggetto di diverse polemiche per risse fuori dal ring e commenti sessisti e razzistiUgo Milano (Open)
Brown Sends Students Home, Australia Shooting Latest, More
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“Over the last year, President Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country,” Senator Chris Murphy said.
Dem Senator Slams Trump for Making U.S. More Prone to Gun Violence
After a deadly attack at Brown University, Senator Chris Murphy called out the president for weakening programs and laws that would prevent gun violence and mass shootings.The New Republic
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It could be that there aren't more storms, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc., it's just that technology has changed and now we have a greater ability to detect them.
It could be that there aren't more jerks in the world...
Baratro Fiorentina: Vanoli rischia, si valuta l'esonero
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Baratro Fiorentina: Vanoli rischia, si valuta l'esonero
In caso di conferma, le sfide di Conference contro il Losanna e di campionato contro l'Udinese saranno decisiveFrancesco Velluzzi (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
A person is seated at a wooden desk in a room with exposed brick walls, focused on a music production setup. The person has long, dark hair and is wearing headphones and a gray t-shirt with dark graphics. In front of them is a black keyboard synthesizer with red and orange accents, with a computer monitor to the right displaying a music editing interface with colorful waveforms. Various pieces of audio equipment, including speakers, smaller synthesizers, and audio interfaces, are visible on the desk and in the background. A poster on the brick wall reads "Cosmic Echoes."
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You might be thinking that this is some unusual incident, that the press is cherry-picking and dramatizing the most sensational events.
I live in Minneapolis. The location in this article is pretty close to me. And I am telling you:
The press is •under•-covering what’s happening here. ICE is doing absolutely batshit stuff all the time, every single day, all over the city.
It is exhausting.
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Illegal. Completely illegal. But everyone agrees: nobody’s allowed to stop ICE from breaking state and local laws, only issue citations afterwards.
To mismarked vehicles. With masked drivers who refuse to identify themselves. How do you cite •that•?!
ICE eats at restaurants I know and love, nice comfy meal before going back out there and destroying more lives.
It’s weird how much this enrages me. I hope the restaurant staff knows who they’re serving. I hope ICE knows they know. I hope ICE officers eat with nagging doubts about food safety.
I heard a rumor — this one not well-substantiated — that they ate at a restaurant and then come back and raided it the next day.
ICE assaulting a pregnant woman.
Covering their license plates with fake spray-on snow to hide the numbers.
Getting pelted with snowballs by the crowd and responding with pepper spray — which only increased the snowballs.
Just this afternoon’s local news.
Video of the snowballs (CW: person being assaulted, dragged)
(UPDATE: video attached in case FB blocks; source URL is facebook.com/share/r/1ZaUBtkGC…)
While at the ICE bldg in Portland we noticed that the same cars were going to and from the bldg with different plates. I think they have been trading out random plates at another location and driving in and out to avoid detection in their vehicles with their plates in public. In June they had just started taping their plates up or taking them off entirely but people started reporting them as driving with no plates
You’re valid in feeling enraged. Everyone should be enraged. I wish more people were because anger is a DOING emotion.
A request for everyone: please don’t be this person. We’re going through a miserable time here in MSP, and reply guy snot does not make it better.
A •lot• of replies I got are about what is illegal, or should be illegal, or must be illegal, and…yeah, we know, believe me, we know. If what you’re offering is commiseration — as with most replies — I welcome that wholeheartedly! This sucks, and it’s nice to hear people say, “Yeah, that sucks.”
But please don’t come into my mentions to argue. Wrong time, wrong target.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io I could lay all this out for you, and after a few thousand words you MIGHT start to understand it, but I'm frankly just put off by your smug attitude. Go be smugly wrong on someone else's time.WesDym (Mastodon)
What to know from NFL Week 15: Patrick Mahomes hurt as Chiefs are eliminated
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/12/14/nfl-week-15-chiefs-patrick-mahomes-eliminated-bills-josh-allen/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Final 10 minutes!
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Comunque, prima di perdere nuovamente il flusso pensierante, devo assolutamente fare una digressione che boh, sarà gnammy, lo sarà meno, ma è in ogni caso reale...
Io ho notato che, come dire... subito dopo i miei bei momenti epici, altri effetti eventuali a parte, finisco sempre per avere come una specie di sorrisino in faccia, che mi dura addirittura per minuti interi... come in un misto di soddisfazione e allegria, non lo so... 🙃
Cioè, oh, questa cosa è assurda, non me la spiego!!! Finisco di aprirmi la pelle e infliggermi dolore e boh, ridacchio... forse un po' inquietante persino per me, lol. 😚L'altra volta che ci ho fatto caso, e ho inviato perciò la mia foto, pensavo fosse un caso, dovuto allo specifico episodio... ma invece no, noto che la cosa è ricorrente. Per esempio, qui grazie al mio 3DS, una foto dell'altra sera (cioè, ne ho fatte varie a raffica, tra l'altro con un'energia che non avevo poco prima, ma questa forse è la più decente) dimostra il wow.
...In effetti, in foto questo sorrisino mi sembra non evidente tanto quanto me lo percepisco io, sia da dentro che allo specchio, però innegabilmente si vede; oggettivamente c'è. 💀
La cosa assurda sul serio, però, è che questo non mi succede mai con niente altro... Cioè, ok, ridacchio tranquillamente di varie cose durante la giornata, ma lì si tratta sempre di secondi... mai di minuti interi in cui mi sento proprio così ahh in seguito ad 1 cosa... Sono veramente così tanto cucinata??? 💔
Slowly coming to the conclusion that part of the reason many Americans have embraced anti-science and anti-vaccine beliefs is that healthcare is so expensive.
So there is an attractiveness to the idea of being able to opt out of the healthcare system by eating healthy, consuming supplements and detoxing.
Città della Pieve - Monastero di S. Lucia nel Parco della Rimembranza
#Pieve #StLucias #Italian #Italy #Umbria #Perugia #CittadellaPieve #photography #FerroCandilera
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FFC015875 Città della Pieve - Monastero di S. Lucia nel Parco della Rimembranza (fondo Ferro Candilera)fotografia.cultura.gov.it
Faraway, So Close: You Should Start a Blog Now (or Later). “There are a hundred ways to type into your computer or phone and have them appear on the internet. I’m going to recommend two right now, but either will work just fine. And thanks to fancy words like ‘data portability’, you can change to a different way of publishing words on the internet if you decide to later.”
From the r/nwi subreddit:
Someone asks why no one is talking about the health effects of living near data centers. Data centers are planned for various cities in Northwest Indiana.
Another poster relies sarcastically that they've lived in Northwest Indiana for 40 years and only suffered from cancer two times, so why worry.
#indiana #datacenters #ai #tech #health
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Beefy release of my Choria Configuration Management system, includes some things I've wanted for years like deeper resource monitoring.
Also a nice new docs site
Change log and release here github.com/choria-io/ccm/relea…
Release Release 0.0.2 · choria-io/ccm
## New documentation We have a new documentation site that should hopefully help see what's going on. Visit https://choria-io.github.io/ccm/. Monitoring Like other systems ccm will determine if a ...GitHub
#Linux Weekly Roundup for December 14th, 2025: #Firefox 146, #Cinnamon 6.6, #pearOS, #KDE Gear 25.12, KDE Plasma 6.5.4, KDE Frameworks 6.21, #COSMIC on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, #AMD ROCm on #Ubuntu, #Thunderbird 146, #Tails 7.3.1, #AerynOS 2025.12, #Parrot 7.0 Beta, #RaspberryPi Imager 2.0.2, #NVIDIA 580.119.02, Kali Linux 2025.4, #Grml 2025.12, Linux 6.19 RC, #Mixxx 2.5.4, and more 9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly…
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 14th, 2025 - 9to5Linux
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 14th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 146, Cinnamon 6.6. pearOS, COSMIC on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, and more.Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)
Megaherzzz
4ZZZ's feminist and social justice show covering local issues and events and showcasing women and fem-led music...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/megahe…
#AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Society #Culture #Music #Interviews #News #Commentary #Politics #Activism
Megaherzzz | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
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Technology, Energy and Warfare in Evolving Geopolitics by Sandeep Tripathi & Kirill Sablin, 2025
This book puts forward a new conceptual framework for emerging geopolitics through the lens of technology, energy, and warfare. Drawing on rich case studies from across the globe, it illuminates how power dynamics are being fundamentally reshaped across nations, governments, international organizations, and individuals.
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Trying to find a website by the artist that once made the political ideology catgirls comics.
Now I'm looking in my many, many bookmarks, I think this personal website is themed around the author being a game dev, artist and draws scifi type artwork as well too.
The background is purple, dark pink, and light blue with stars on the top and a road on the bottom, a planet as it's favicon.
I seriously wished I wrote down this person's website, and I did see the person's art in their pfp and I think it's the same artist that drew the discontinued Political ideology cat girls comic.
Please let me know of the website's name, I don't know if I have it in my bookmarks anymore.
Not sure if anyone else knows which website I'm speaking of.
If I successfully find this website I'm describing above, I'll link it here:
A video of this hospital: youtu.be/GI1J5bYOuuQ
Abandoned hospital (Johanniter Heilstätten) Germany Aug 2024
#urbex #photography #abandoned #hospital #germany #lostplace #YouTube
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Got everything set for the watch party in 14 minutes! We have the film on our Plex server, so no foolishness shall interrupt the viewing.
For my #HamRadio tunable elevated radial project, I want to isolate them from the earth and the mast, and I'm not finding an isolating mount that goes into a normal ½" "light stand". So I've come up with this design to build. (Yay, I can't just buy it, so I have an excuse to spend some shop time!)
From 1" 6061 aluminum stock and 1" POM:
- An aluminum stem/spigot that fits the tripod, with a 1" section above. In that section, an M14x1.5 threaded socket.
- A POM threaded bushing; M14x1.5 on the outside, M10x1.5 on the inside, with a 2mm flange on top
- An aluminum piece on top with M10x1.5 screw threads on both end, and six 4mm holes drilled around it to accept 4mm banana/bullet plugs. The M10x1.5 is to match the JPC-12 feed base.
I intend to raise only two radials, but six holes give me a chance to change my mind later, and even with just two they make it easy to line up the holes well enough with where I want the radials to run. (An elevated radial is worth about 8 ground-coupled radials.)
My idea is to machine the POM threads a little over-size, so that the whole thing is hard to screw together and locks together kind of like a nylon locknut. The larger diameter of the aluminum pieces will be knurled to facilitate this. It's meant to be strong enough to hold as much as 30 feet / 10m of loaded vertical, including JPC-12 riser sections, JPC-12 loading coil, and up to 25' whip.
Removed some obviously unnecessary metal from the design to make this lighter before I bother to make this.
It's so hard to sense scale, but this is 25mm OD. The flanges on the bottom are ½". The holes drilled into the side are 4mm to fit 4mm banana/bullet connectors. The yellow layer of insulation between the two metal parts is 2mm thick.
Looking forward to actually making this, so I can take a picture with a banana connector for scale. Maybe a banana too! 😉
#fyi
Use this amazingly understandable post when they ask "why is AI so bad? explain it like I was a 5 year old" for the umpteenth time.
"Don’t trust AI to offer you #facts. When it doesn’t know something, it will frequently offer you confidently-stated incorrect #information, because it’s a statistical engine, not a #fact checker."
#AI : A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another #Reason Not to #Trust It For Anything
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#tech #LLM #FuckAI #FactsMatter #IAmDB
“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…Whatever
A baker's dozen of digital black & white street photos shot at a wide open aperture a couple weekends back...
#Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #StreetPhotography #SanFrancisco
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Shooting Zone Wide Open in the Streets
Photography is a two-dimensional art form—whether printed or digital, images appear in a flat plane on an X and Y axis.Max Sidman
QUEEN - Who Wants To Live Forever (Cover by Marc Martel)
youtube.com/watch?v=HcZKtR0dze…
#NowPlaying #FediRadio #UnoRadio #Musica #Music #MarcMartel #Queen
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Schade, dass der Zug heute pünktlich war. Ich hätte gern weitergelesen im #Wackelkontakt #WolfHaas
Ich bin auch grad dabei. Hab vor kurzem Angefangen.
Großartig geschrieben, was ich bisher gelesen habe.
Tripped in the dark and ripped the thin wires out of their front-end housings and—surgically, much like, a surgeon—cut the hard plastic with a kitchen knife to put them back but …in, from the sides… I’m an Electrician now.
Tripped in the dark and ripped the thin wires out of their front-end housings and—surgically, much like, a surgeon—cut the hard plastic with a kitchen knife to put them back but …in, from the sides… I’m an Electrician now.

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Alt-text: Una imagen de un personaje de pie que mira directamente al espectador. Lleva un sombrero y un abrigo largo oscuro. El personaje lleva ropa roja y guantes oscuros. Su expresión es seria, y parece que está posando. El personaje lleva botas oscuras.
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