artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
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Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (19/2025): Waking it up to wake you up
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Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (19/2025): Waking it up to wake you up
LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.LINux on MOBile
Reasons to be optimistic: European strengths in the global financial landscape #Analysis #EuropeanUnion
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Reasons to be optimistic: European strengths in the global financial landscape
Investors are demonstrating confidence in the European approach embodied in flagship initiatives from the EUEva Sanders (European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR))
Martial pride on parade
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/05/12/martial-pride-on-parade/459950/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Martial pride on parade
Trump's planned spectacle will look like amateur hour compared to what Russia, China, and North Korea routinely stage for their masses.Scott Taylor (The Hill Times)
Trump's greatest achievements are always when he stops doing whatever stupid stuff he started.
Sort of like Hitler's greatest achievement was killing Hitler.
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fucking moron.
"While it’s right to oppose Trump’s slash-and-burn approach, Democrats shouldn’t be defending a system that produces some of the worst outcomes in the world among high-income nations."
Read more from John Kitzhaber, former governor of Oregon: wapo.st/44tJYq6
The art of hedging a deal
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/05/12/the-art-of-hedging-a-deal/459888/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The art of hedging a deal
Those trapped in rigid binaries risk becoming collateral damage in a conflict that transcends borders, ideologies, and even economics itself.Wenran Jiang (The Hill Times)
Autora volta à vida para dar curso online
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We can be worse.
If you ask most people why they interact with news sources, you’ll hear some version of the same answer. We do it to stay informed. But some of us find that the price of staying informed is too high.
#news #media #MentalHealth #SelfCare #NewsMedia
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Finding Balance Between Staying Informed and Despair | Medium
The emotional toll of engaging with the national news in the Trump era is too high. There must be a way to stay informed without being overwhelmed.Jack Vance (Medium)
House Republicans released Trump’s “big beautiful bill” Sunday night.
It includes $880M in budget cuts, largely to Medicaid, to help cover the cost of $4.5 TRILLION in tax cuts.
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House Republicans Finally Unveil Their Deadly Medicaid Cuts
Millions of Americans will lose their health insurance under this plan.The New Republic
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Gazaの絵がきっかけとなって最近またやりとりの頻度が増えたフォトジャーナリスト Pierpaolo mittica の仕事を紹介します。
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原発事故の起きたチェルノブイリの記録写真を撮り続けているイタリア人の写真家で、英Trolley Booksよりその写真集が出ている。今は亡きTrolleyの創業者 Gigi Giannuzzi の繋いでくれた友人です。
福島第一原発（東京電力）の壊滅的な事故があってすぐに Pierpaolo のその本を柏書房に紹介した。原発事故のその後のことが事細かに分析され、記録されている本だから。
『原発事故２０年―チェルノブイリの現在』ピエルパオロ・ミッティカ（児島修 訳／柏書房）
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これは朝日新聞に載った上丸洋一による短評。
目を向ける、記録する、発信する、そういったことの大切さをフォトジャーナリズムは教えてくれます。写真の力はとても強い。チェックしてみてください。
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Fukushima "No-Go Zone"
FUKUSHIMA "NO-GO ZONE" (Japan 2011-2012)Pierpaolo Mittica Photographer/Videographer
‘Just wildly illegal’: top Democrats push to censure Trump’s plan to accept Qatar jet
Four senators, including Cory Booker, say they will press for vote against president’s plan to take $400m gift from QatarEd Pilkington (The Guardian)
Earthy Woman
Spring is here so it's the perfect time to draw more earthy/bright-coloured pieces! I may have started off my pixel art journey with Pixelrama but I think I prefer Libresprite tbh...
( I should also mention that I also post my art on Bluesky, I go by Angie-543
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Opinion | Trump needs that Qatari 747 — for all his evasive maneuvers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/12/trump-great-equalizer/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump Accepts Generous Gift Of Imperial-Class Star Destroyer From Emperor Palpatine
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House held a star-studded ceremony today to commemorate a historic occasion, as President Donald Trump accepted a generous gift of an Imperial-Class Star Destroyer from Emperor Palpatine.The Babylon Bee
#pixelart #pixel_dailies #displaystand #ドット絵 #aseprite #Procreate @pixel_dailies
⛔️🇪🇺🇬🇧News Pulse: European leaders in Kyiv: Will ceasefire threat be proven as a European feckless farce? (UATV News VIDEO) #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #Germany #Poland #Mastodon #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
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Coinbase to Join S&P 500 Next Week in Crypto-Market Milestone
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/coinbase-to-join-s-p-500-next-week-in-crypto-market-milestone?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“The damage [high #immigration] has done to our country is incalculable,” #KeirStarmer said.
…while the public expect the Reform UK leader to come out with anti-migrant rhetoric, whether they agree with it or not, it seems wholly out of place when uttered by Starmer.
There’s a good reason for this, of course. Because he is the same Keir Starmer who, when running to be #Labour leader at the start of 2020, pledged to “defend migrants’ rights” if he got the job.
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Analysis: Keir Starmer's Credibility Problem On Immigration Means He Can't Out-Farage Farage
The public will be understandably sceptical about the prime minister's determination to slash the number of people coming to Britain.Kevin Schofield (HuffPost UK)
I often have a feeling that Pareto principle works with modern #AI.
ChatGPT as an LLM is very good. But you can get kinda close with LLama or Gemma or Deepseek or whatnot. They might not be as precise, may not know as much. But still, they answer most common things you ask them. And they do it on a gaming laptop, while ChatGPT requires a billionaire infrastructure to run.
Same with #AIart. ChatGPT's generator is great, but with FLUX-dev running on home computer you can still get close.
Trump calls critics of his $400M Qatar jet gift “world class losers”—but even MAGA allies are alarmed. Democrats warn it’s “wildly illegal” & a national security risk. A foreign monarchy just bought influence over a former president.#Corruption #EmolumentsClause www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump Responds to Qatar Plane Backlash: 'World Class Losers'
The president responded to reports that the ruling family of Qatar is gifting him a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet.Khaleda Rahman (Newsweek)
A imagem mostra uma publicação no Instagram de Salena LeDonne, com a legenda: "Meu pai está escrevendo um romance de ficção científica inteiramente à mão. Sem telas, sem IA. Apenas alguns cadernos espiral e sua imaginação." A imagem é dividida em duas partes. À esquerda, há uma foto de um caderno espiral aberto, com anotações à mão, incluindo uma nota azul com a palavra "Love" e uma referência a "The Moon Palms Era." À direita, há uma pilha de cadernos espiral, com um par de óculos de armação roxa sobre o topo. A publicação recebeu 12.314 curtidas e 352 repostas.
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⚡️International Civil Aviation Organization rules Russia responsible for downing MH17.
The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) concluded on May 12 that Russia was responsible for downing flight MH17 in July 2014.
Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport en-route to Kuala Lumpur International Airport on July 17, 2014. Three hours into the flight, the Boeing-777 was shot down by Russian proxy forces using a Buk surface-to-air missile above Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
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Birthday breakfast
What a way to start the day
Hugz & xXx
Sorry, but more gross imagery
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Looks like a cake with a braised severed tongue on top...
As Elon Musk laid waste to the federal government, the Department of Transportation quietly met with and consulted his tunneling firm, the Boring Company, a $6 billion Amtrak tunnel project connecting Baltimore, DC and Virginia. Our latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/t...
Not great.
Republicans want to pass a $5 T budget.
#cnbc
#tariffs
#gap
#recession
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Tariff receipts topped $16 billion in April, a record that helped cut the budget deficit
Customs duties totaled $16.3 billion for the month, some 86% above the $8.75 billion collected during March.Jeff Cox (CNBC)
Work, Eat, Sleep, Repeat: Become a Human Tamagotchi
When [Terence Grover] set out to build a Tamagotchi-inspired simulator, he didn’t just add a few modern tweaks. He ditched the entire concept and rebuilt it from the ground up. Forget cute wide-eyed blobby animals and pixel-poop. This Raspberry Pi-powered project ditches nostalgia in favour of brutal realism: inflation, burnout, capitalism, and the occasional existential crisis. Think Sims meets cyberpunk, rendered charmingly in Python on a low-res RGB LED matrix.
Instead of hunger and poop meters, this dystopian pet juggles Maslow’s hierarchy: hunger, rest, safety, social life, esteem, and money. Players make real-life-inspired decisions like working, socialising, and going into education – each affecting the stats in logical (and often unfair) ways. No free lunch here: food requires money, money requires mind-numbing labour, and labour tanks your rest. You can even die of overwork à la Amazon warehouse. The UI and animation logic are all hand-coded, and there’s a working buzzer, pixel-perfect sprite movement, and even mini-games to simulate job repetition.
It’s equal parts social commentary and pixel art fever dream. While we have covered Tamagotchi recreations some time ago, this one makes you the needy survivor. Want your own dystopia in 64×32? Head over to [Terence Grover]’s Github and fork the full open source code. We’ll be watching. The Tamagotchi certainly is.
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Armed clashes erupt in #Libya's Tripoli after reported killing of armed group leader
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> Armed clashes erupted on Monday evening and gunfire has echoed in the city center and other parts of the Libyan capital #Tripoli following reports that an armed group leader was killed, three residents told Reuters by phone.
The leader, Abdulghani #Kikli, known as #Ghaniwa, is the commander of Support Force Apparatus SSA, one of Tripoli's powerful armed groups, based in the densely populated Abu Salim neighbourhood.
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‘My heart is so full’: Naomi Watts shares heartwarming pics of trans daughter Kai for Mother’s Day
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
‘My heart is so full’: Naomi Watts shares heartwarming pics of trans daughter Kai for Mother’s Day
Actor Naomi Watts shared pics of her daughter, trans model Kai Schrieber and son Sasha as a child on Mother's Day: "My heart is so full!"Emily Chudy (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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[G] Programming be like by Zeith
It do be like that!. . Blue avali © Zeitheron (me). Art © InfiniTea. . Please do not use any of my characters without permission.. This ...www.furaffinity.net
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Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
My life in Lines... In my web journal, I vehicled to the vets
#Art #MastoArt #DigitalArt #VisualJournal
Giving my “best man” speech.
Looking at this I can actually see my loss for the first time. Gives me a happy.
Although I’m a little annoyed you can’t see my gold nail varnish.
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Burgundy Diamond Mines share price
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The Secret AI Experiment That Sent Reddit Into a Frenzy
The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.Tom Bartlett (The Atlantic)
“Software signing – of code, of attestations, of bills of materials, and of all other aspects of consuming a software component – is a key technique in ensuring that supply chain artifacts have not been modified since they were authored by trusted parties.” In this issue of S&P, read about how cryptographic software signing enables provenance – the verification of component origin – in the software supply chain, and how next-generation software signing platforms have improved upon traditional approaches to increase usability.
Read more here: computer.org/csdl/magazine/sp/…
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Clean Seas Seafood share price
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Finished this sketchbook on a bright note 😁
#dailysketching #sketchbook #watercoloursketch #walktosee #sketchbookartist #mastoart
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Adams' 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Bullock, Finley, DeShong and Raven from New York - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
John Adams' 'Anthony and Cleopatra' is an opera in two acts with a libretto adapted by the composer from Shakespeare, with supplementary passages from Plutarch, Virgil, and other classical texts. Performers: Cleopatra: Julia Bullock.www.worldconcerthall.com
Light trails on Dalry Road after dark flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_g…
Improvised night shot walking home from the cinema this evening, simply settting the timer, then sitting the camera on top of the box that houses the button for the pedestrian crossing, and hoping.
#LongExposure
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #photographie #LightTrails #DalryRoad #tenement #immeuble #UrbanNight
Dalry Road After Dark
Light trails from late-night traffic on Dalry Road, Victorian tenements on the left, on the right the tall, stone wall of the old Dalry Cemetery.Flickr
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