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"genocide is good, actually"
UK’s F-35 exports more important than stopping genocide, lawyers to argue
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Canadian SMR (small modular nuclear reactor) costs €11,000 per kW: just as expensive as France's Flamanville-3. But that's if you build 4 at the same place. One alone would have higher infrastructure cost. And it's just the initial budget, without overruns.
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Το νέο chatbot τεχνητής νοημοσύνης της Meta σε εφαρμογές όπως το Whatsapp προκαλεί αντιδράσεις
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»have you ever been to Spandau?« newsletter.handpickedberlin.co… #Berlin #Tech #Technews #Startups


#vatican #israel #palestine #ukraine : #religion / #war / #ceasefire / #nonviolence / #peace

»Pope Leo XIV called for a #ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the war in Ukraine on Sunday (…). He spoke from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica.

"I am deeply pained by what is happening," said Leo, referring to the war in Gaza. "Let the fighting cease immediately, let humanitarian aid be provided to the exhausted civilian population, and may all hostages be released.“«

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How to design EU #digital rules for proper #implementation?

"National #regulators get new powers and responsibilities, but may not have the funds or resources." 🤷

@MathildeAdjutor: "As a result, implementation is often uneven across the EU."

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Breitband: Digital Markets Act - Mitten im Handelskrieg: Hohe EU-Strafen gegen Apple und Meta
#dma #datenschutz #appel #meta #privatsphare #podcast #usa #eu

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Sinner Victorious At Italian Open Return Following Doping Ban
Men's tennis World number one, Jannik Sinner, was ecstatic after a victorious return following a three-month doping ban, with a 6–3 6–4 win over Argentina
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#doping #cleansport #antidoping #datajournalism


#DropSea: Topolino #3624: La leggenda della maglia rosa

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Do you use the kSuite/kDrive cloud productivity suite or migrated your Google data there? How do you like it? What about support? I'd appreciate your feedback on the product and your experience.

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#ksuite #kdrive #EuropeanAlternatives #google



Perfidious Albion up before the beak.

"In papers to the court, the UK has acknowledged that its supply of F-35 components for potential use in Israel is in breach of its own arms export control laws."

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Securing Europe means protecting the climate: New policy brief charts path for 1.5° lifestyles phys.org/news/2025-05-europe-c…

#Europe #environment #security #politics #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis



German police seized eXch crypto exchange
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*What would the world be like if this kind of sound-design was somehow legally mandated and enforced

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in reply to Bruce Sterling @bruces

We switched to a microwave that lets us mute all beeps a few years ago and it's so much better than the constant beeps. On the flip side, a bluetooth speaker we have has a very loud/elaborate tune (which definitely sounds engineered) that plays on power off that I really, really wish could be disabled. Why would "I want to stop making noise now" be the time to make more noise?
in reply to Bruce Sterling @bruces

We moved from a somewhat small craftsman house to a quite large (mostly) modern house a few years ago. The soundscape is hugely different. Now I am trying to sacrifice its clean lines for some soft audio instead: installing audio panels and rugs, and planning for other ways of breaking up the soundscape.

Man I wish more people thought about this stuff.

The endless thread podcast discusses a solid rant on this, too:

wbur.org/podcasts/endlessthrea…

Discussed rant is here, on how we’ve changed trends so now the soundscape of our spaces sucks:

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Trump Claims Lives: Migrant Deaths in US Custody on the Rise orinocotribune.com/trump-claim…



Danish newspaper @information.dk is running a series on people who have left social media, here the striking image of the shattered mirror from the snow queen, but where a piece lodged in the eye, rather shows reality than the curated perfection of Instagram... Worth a read

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Ruth_Mottram - "Hvis jeg mangler noget at lave, så må jeg kede mig. For tiden, som jeg nu bruger på at læse bøger og kigge op og ud, den får de aldrig tilbage. Den er min. Og den er hemmelig."
Glimrende serie fra @informeren om at forlade sociale medier...

information.dk/debat/2025/05/g…


"Hvis jeg mangler noget at lave, så må jeg kede mig. For tiden, som jeg nu bruger på at læse bøger og kigge op og ud, den får de aldrig tilbage. Den er min. Og den er hemmelig."
Glimrende serie fra @informeren om at forlade sociale medier...

information.dk/debat/2025/05/g…




Terminal Showdown: Bash vs Zsh vs Fish for Power Users Read more here tecmint.com/bash-vs-zsh-vs-fis…
#linux #opensource #tecmint

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#BBCNews - The rare disease in a remote town where 'almost everyone is a cousin'
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Build a Sentiment Analysis API in Java with Quarkus and Local LLMs
No cloud. No API keys. Learn how to classify text sentiment using Quarkus, Langchain4j, and Ollama.
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It may take a leadership election for the Greens to get some substantial coverage in the mainstream media, but nonetheless as Peter Walker argues, the party is being offered a choice between too different futures:

between a continued focus on the political party environment of Westminster or a shift (back?) to a more activist, popular movement aligned more clearly with activist groups.

Which is best? Green party members may have a difficult choice

#greens #politics

theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

as a #gpew member, I find this difficult. The electoral strategy to date has self-evidently worked well in its own terms & elected office brings important benefits beyond the obvious

But power increasingly sits outside traditional politics (broligarchy anyone?) &, as the executive arrogate ever power to itself, we must be clear of the limitations of electoral success

Also, we only beat Reform Ltd thro grassroots allyship, helping community solidarity networks take root 1/2

#gpew
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2/2

Electoral success may well help facilitate this and is complementary to it but being alongside our potential voters, helping tackle day-to-day challenges, enabling people feel there is a point in engaging because good stuff can & does happen are all crucial

I don’t accept the debate is binary but it’s one we really need to have to gain clarity about what we mean. Whether it will be helpful to have the discussion in the glare of a hostile media is another matter

in reply to Simon Johnson

@Simon318ppm

Yes, as a non GPEW member I appreciate your concerns about having this debate in the glare of publicity enraged by a hostile media.... but then, equally if the Greens are to gain more traction, quickly they need some strategy to break out of that media circus.... which in the end may be shifting focus (partly) away from parliamentarism?

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

I think they are currently being gifted a unique opportunity. If they play it right they could replace Labour as the main party of the left as the whole left has basically been abandoned by the other parties.

I doubt they’ve got it in them though.



#BBCNews - Why Burkina Faso's junta leader has captured hearts and minds
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"His messages reflect the age we are living in, when many Africans are questioning the relationship with the West, and why there is still so much poverty in such a resource-rich continent" says @beverly_ochieng

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Well I hope it is still there when I get back abc.net.au/news/2025-05-12/con…

What an incredible piece of artwork wow.

Also consensual BDSM isn't domestic violence and that framing by the NGO is making me think they're not exactly the best of voices.

in reply to Erica Briony.

> In a statement on social media, Collective Shout criticised the work as a "chilling image" that "eroticised violence against women".

I mean 1: no

2: Sorry how do they know it is a woman? Did they transvestigate the paint too? Did the artist leave a little plaque with such information?

in reply to Erica Briony.

Two story's down was a paint thing worth being outraged about abc.net.au/news/2025-05-12/vic…
in reply to Erica Briony.

It's a beautiful work, it seems to be somewhere that is really very low traffic, and my very brief looking into the NGO mentioned... They're not about "domestic violence," so much as being SWERFs and probably TERFs.

OK, a bit more research... They make the TERFs look reasonable... While some of the companies they've gone after, I think are utter shitty companies (often for similar reasons as they say) even those that I think should be, "burned off the planet" that they're lying harshly about how terrible they are. So, yeah, the campaign is right shitty, and not in a, "oh they don't understand" kind of way. In a very much "we're making the world better, by taking everyone's right away, and are proud to be fascist," type of way.




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Day #7 of my 61st #BirthdayWeek!!

Official birthday is TOMORROW (5/15)!!! 🎊🎉🎂

(Birth certificate error....long story.)

In lieu of birthday wishes, please help me get through this disability appeal situation I'm currently in.

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Image:Stratolaunch/JulianGuerraカリフォルニアのスタートアップ企業「ストラトローンチ・システムズ」が開発したTalon-A2(タロンA2)は、飛行した後でも滑走路に着陸し、再使用が可能な極超音速機。Talon-A2は、国防総省ミサイル防衛局のために一連の試験飛行を実施。これは、1968年に退役したX-15のような冷戦時代の取り組みを彷彿とさせる極超音速試験飛行です。同


Die letzten Jahren unseres Fortschritt und sozialen Errungenschaften werden zerstört und wir gehen wieder zurück.
Aktuell sind wir in 1950 gelandet und ich befürchte das wir 2029 ins Jahr 1933 landen werden.
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Asra Minerals starts 1,300m drill program at Leonora South Gold Project - published 11 May 2025 #Mining #Gold #Australia #media #ASX
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"There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent."

Remembering Ian Dury who was born 12th May 1942, today would have been his 83rd Birthday

#photooftheday #RockArt #IanDury #music #photography

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Maaßen fordert radikale Reform des Inlandsgeheimdienstes tichyseinblick.de/meinungen/ma… Der ehemalige Verfassungsschutzpräsident Hans-Georg Maaßen kritisiert in dem Interview scharf das Vorgehen des Bundesamts für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) gegenüber der AfD. Die öffentliche Einstufung der Partei als „gesichert rechtsextremistisch“ sei ein massiver Eingriff in den politischen Wettbewerb und habe der AfD immensen Schaden zugefügt. Maaßen,


8 Buildings That Look Like They’re From a Dream: streetartutopia.com/2025/05/12…
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Unzipped Building — Alex Chinneck in Milan, Italy

A building facade appears to peel open like a jacket, with an oversized zipper curling away the wall to reveal its inner structure. This public installation by Alex Chinneck uses stone, concrete, and illusion to challenge how we perceive architecture.


8 Buildings That Look Like They’re From a Dream


Side-by-side image of two surreal buildings: on the left, a building in Milan, Italy with a giant stone zipper peeling back the corner of its red-orange facade to reveal inner bricks; on the right, a tall, narrow brick tower with battlements and a pointed roof rising alone through thick fog in an open grassy area, resembling a structure from a fantasy world.

From a church in Iceland that looks like a spaceship preparing for launch, to a house zipped open on a street in Milan — this collection showcases architecture at its most imaginative. Included are cliffside wartime refuges, storybook cottages, optical illusions, and centuries-old constructions that defy gravity or blend perfectly into mountains. These aren’t digital renderings — they’re real places from around the world.

More: 8 Beautiful Artworks That Seem to Grow From Nature

Surreal building in Milan, Italy, designed to look like its corner has been unzipped, revealing the inner bricks beneath the peeled-back facade with a giant zipper sculpture.

1. Unzipped Building — Alex Chinneck in Milan, Italy


A building facade appears to peel open like a jacket, with an oversized zipper curling away the wall to reveal its inner structure. This public installation by Alex Chinneck uses stone, concrete, and illusion to challenge how we perceive architecture.


Fog-shrouded red-brick tower with a pointed roof and battlements, rising vertically from green grass into misty air, creating an isolated, fantasy-like atmosphere.

2. King Alfred’s Tower — England


This red-brick triangular tower rises dramatically from the fog in Somerset, England. Built in 1772, it commemorates Alfred the Great and reaches over 49 meters high with a narrow footprint that adds to its illusion of impossibility.


Camouflaged wooden cabin embedded into a rocky mountain cliff in the Italian Alps, blending almost invisibly with the stone surroundings.

3. Alpine Refuge — Monte Cristallo, Italy


Located at 2,760 meters in the Dolomites, this hidden wooden shelter from World War I is embedded directly into the rockface. Built for survival, it now appears like a dreamlike relic barely distinguishable from the mountain.


Symmetrical concrete church in Iceland with a soaring tower and stepped wings, glowing with warm lights against a deep blue evening sky.

4. Hallgrímskirkja Church — Reykjavík, Iceland


This iconic Lutheran church, inspired by basalt columns and volcanic formations, dominates the Reykjavík skyline. Designed in 1937 and completed in 1986, its symmetry and scale evoke science fiction architecture.


Tilted red-brick pub with angled windows and a sloping roof, the building visibly leaning to one side due to ground subsidence.

5. The House That Sank — The Crooked House, UK


Built in 1765 on top of a mine shaft, this British pub developed a pronounced tilt as the ground beneath it slowly gave way. Despite its slanting angles, it remained a local favorite for centuries.


House in Germany with an undulating slate roof and rounded beige walls, resembling a whimsical cottage from a storybook.

6. Organic Slate Roof House — Germany


This home with flowing lines and a wave-shaped slate roof blurs the line between fairy tale and high-end eco-architecture. Natural stone and soft curves give it a whimsical yet grounded appearance.


Historic timber house perched on stone supports with angled wooden braces, creating an overhang that looks precariously balanced.

7. Cliff House — France (Built 1347)


Balanced between eras and gravity, this timber-framed upper house sits atop massive medieval stonework. Located in France and completed in 1347, it seems to hover above the road with support beams stretching underneath.


Multi-story brown stone buildings in Sanaa, Yemen, with white geometric window detailing, built atop and integrated with natural rock formations.

8. Rock-Built Homes — Sanaa, Yemen


Traditional Yemeni tower houses in Sanaa rise directly from the rock, combining ancient stone masonry with ornate white geometric window frames. The buildings appear both sculpted by nature and intricately human-made.


These buildings bend our expectations of what architecture can be — not just structures, but expressions of ingenuity, adaptation, and creativity. Whether carved into mountains or dressed like zippers, they show that the line between surreal and real is thinner than it seems.

More: 30 Sculptures You (probably) Didn’t Know Existed

Which one is your favorite?


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"This public installation by Alex Chinneck uses stone, concrete, and illusion to [look weird]"

Enough with the shite about "challenging how we perceive" stuff. It doesn't: we don't think buildings can now have big zippers on them as an architectural norm, we know it's art. It wouldn't work as art if we did think it was just architecture.

The building looks weird in a humorous way, and it's OK for that to be the point of it, since it succeeds at that.

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I love this account's posts lately, very well curated brain-teasing pieces on here.


Light explosion in Tuscany, Italy

This image is featured in where I go: a photobook, a visual testimony of the positive emotions I experience walking in the natural reserve of the Migliarino Pisano forest, along the Tuscan coast.

the web site: bit.ly/_where_I_go

#whereIgo #nature #outdoors #forest #trees



Zelensky mette alla prova “l’onestà” di Putin e si dice pronto a incontrarlo in Turchia giovedì euractiv.it/section/mondo/news…


Decine di migliaia di persone partecipano a manifestazioni pro-UE a Bucarest e in altre città romene euractiv.it/section/capitali/n…

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 11th, 2025 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Hanno rivoluto Fontana a tutti i costi, perché completasse il lavoro.

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Niedersachsen gegen jährlichen Tüv für alte Autos dieniedersachsen.de/wirtschaft… #Verkehr #Niedersachsen #Automobilindustrie #EU #Hannover


»#GrownupsToWatch - 5 Dinge über das Unicorn Parloa, die alle wissen sollten« deutsche-startups.de/2025/05/1… #Berlin #Tech #Technews #Startups






"Networking is rubbish; have friends instead."

Happy 77th birthday to Steve Winwood, Born today 12th May 1948

#photooftheday #RockArt #photography #music



Copertine belle: Just Mustard – Wednesday


Just Mustard – Wednesday [Pizza Pizza, 2018]

Artwork by Just Mustard

Ascoltalo diocristo!
Su sfondo rosso intenso c'è una foto in bianco e nero e sfuocata che ritrae la band, inquadrata da un bordo nero. Quattro di loro sono in piedi e uno è seduto al centro di un divano di pelle che sta sul fondo. Il tipo sulla sinistra è piegato in avanti e ha una mano sulla testa. Quello che gli sta dietro ha una mano davanti alla faccia. Sulla destra c'è una ragazza con una maglietta bianca lunga che ritrae la copertina di «Windowlicker» di Aphex Twin (con il corpo di una donna in bikini che ha la testa di Aphex Twin), sembra guardare verso l'obiettivo. Dietro di lei c'è un tipo che sta allargando le braccia e sembra che abbia la bocca aperta. Quellə che sta sul divano non si capisce bene cosa stia facendo, è tutto sfuocato. La visione è leggermente inquietante. A terra c'è una moquette sopra la quale, sulla sinistra, corrono dei cavi. In fondo sulla sinistra e sulla destra ci sono quelli che sembrano degli amplificatori.
#AlbumCovers #copertineBelle #JustMustard #Wednesday

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Zwei Radfahrer stehen an einem sonnigen Tag an einer asphaltierten Straße. Der Radfahrer im Vordergrund trägt eine schwarze Radhose, ein schwarzes Radt-Shirt und einen weißen Helm, und hält eine grüne Flasche in der Hand. Sein Fahrrad, ein Specialized, steht im Gras neben ihm, mit zwei Wasserflaschen im Halter. Der zweite Radfahrer, in einem blauen Radt-Shirt und schwarzen Radshorts, steht etwas weiter entfernt auf der Straße. Beide tragen Sonnenbrillen und Helme. Im Hintergrund sind Häuser und grüne Felder zu sehen, und die Straße führt in die Ferne.

Das Bild zeigt zwei Radfahrer auf einem Radweg in einer Stadt. Der Radfahrer im Vordergrund trägt einen blauen Radfahreranzug, eine schwarze Radhose und einen Helm. Er fährt ein blau-weißes Fahrrad und hat eine Sonnenbrille auf. Der Radfahrer im Hintergrund trägt einen gelben Radfahreranzug mit schwarzen Details und einen Helm. Beide Radfahrer sind auf einem Radweg, der von einem Gehweg und einer Straße begrenzt wird. Der Gehweg ist mit Steinen gepflastert, und die Straße hat eine Parkbucht mit einem dunkelblauen Minivan. Im Hintergrund sind Bäume und Häuser zu sehen, die typisch für eine europäische Stadt sind. Der Radweg ist mit einem Radzeichnungszeichen gekennzeichnet.

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Apple sta preparando un anno monumentale per il 2027 con una rinascita dei suoi prodotti. Tra le novità: iPhone pieghevole, occhiali smart con chip personalizzato e AirPods con fotocamere 📱👓🎧 #Apple #Innovazione #Tecnologia


The world today is like Windows: it sucks, but because it’s the authoritative system used by a vast majority, most people just go with the flow or have no other choice because of their job. Then there’s a minority of nonconformist rebels who join the underground resistance called Linux. 😉

#tech #technology #windows #Linux #BigTech #world #politics

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Trump firmerà un ordine per ridurre i prezzi dei farmaci fino a 80%

Lo annuncia su Truth: 'Uno dei provvedimenti più importanti nella storia del Paese'

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“US-Israel Gaza ‘aid’ plan is an ethnic cleansing scam”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox
@palestine
@israel

“In short, Israel – which for more than two months has blocked enough food aid at the Gaza border to feed the #Palestinians for four months – is trying to have its PR cake while continuing to eat its genocidal Greater Israel expansion ambitions. No one should fall for the scam”

skwawkbox.org/2025/05/11/us-is…

#Press #US #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Starvation #Food #Aid #Scam #Mercenaries #Atrocities