Latin America's leftist leaders remember Uruguay's 'Pepe' Mujica as generous, charismatic leader
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A #BasketOfDeplorables was ‘defused’ in #Texas after a rare successful prevention of a #MassShooting in the biggest gun-loving state. #EnoughIsEnough soon?
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Mom Accused Of Buying Son Ammo, Tactical Gear For Planned 'Act Of Violence'
The Texas mother and her 13-year-old son were taken into custody after a family member found live ammunition and a make-shift explosive device, police said.Nina Golgowski (HuffPost)
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Streamplay Studio share price
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#naturephotography #nature #photo #photography #birds #birders #birdwatchers #birding #California #birdwatching #EchoPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdsOfMastodon #feral #pigeon #naturephotos #LAWildlife
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This confirms in my mind that #Qatar's bribe had nothing to do with helping #Gaza or #Palestinians... Lol
#Trump #DonaldTrump #Republican #Republicans #Palestine #GazaWar #Israel #US #USA #Reuters
ndia and Pakistan just fought a war in everything but name:
Drones
Missiles
Cyberattacks
City strikes
And then it stopped—suddenly.
But the crisis isn’t over.
The world’s first drone war between nuclear nations:
#India #Pakistan #Kashmir #Geopolitics ryanjhite.com/2025/05/15/india…
India and Pakistan: After the Firestorm – A Near-Nuclear Crisis in 2025
In May 2025, India and Pakistan came to the brink of nuclear war before abruptly agreeing to a ceasefire.Ryan Hite (Ryan J. Hite)
Dino acolhe posição da Câmara e deslegitima estratégia pró-anistia - Paulo Figueiredo
O deputado Sóstenes falou em romper o acordo com Hugo Motta sobre a repartição de emendas de comissão para pressionar pela anista.Suhely Bueno (Paulo Figueiredo)
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Trump singles out France over WWII victory celebrations as he addresses US troops stationed in Qatar
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/16/trump-singles-out-france-over-wwii-victory-celebrations-as-he-addresses-us-troops-statione?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump singles out France over WWII victory celebrations as he addresses US troops stationed in Qatar
In his visit, Trump also urged Qatari leadership to use its influence over Iran and help convince them to abandon their nuclear programme.Malek Fouda (Euronews.com)
The Superions: Your Ultimate Source for Celebrity Net Worth, Biography, and Entertainment News
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The site specializes in estimating and explaining the net worth of various celebrities. It includes breakdowns of income sources such as acting, endorsements, music, and business ventures.
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Each celebrity profile includes a detailed biography that outlines their early life, career journey, personal milestones, and achievements—making it a comprehensive resource for fans and researchers alike. - Entertainment News
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FDP-Parteitag: Neustart vom Abstellgleis?
Die FDP braucht nach der Niederlage bei der Bundestagswahl den Neustart - und muss sich dafür einmal mehr neu erfinden. Heute beginnt in Berlin der Parteitag, bei dem es nicht nur um die Zukunft der FDP geht. Von Lissy Kaufmann.
Ein Fall für den politischen Pfandautomaten
- YouTube
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
Acuren Agrees to Buy Engineering Firm NV5 for $1.7 Billion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/acuren-agrees-to-buy-engineering-firm-nv5-for-1-7-billion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ukraine-Gespräche: Die Welt schaut auf Istanbul
Es hätte ein Anfang werden können: Um guten Willen gegenüber US-Präsident Trump zu demonstrieren, lud Putin die Ukraine ein, in Istanbul direkte Gespräche zu führen - aber kam dann gar nicht. Nun soll die zweite Reihe verhandeln. Von S. Diettrich.
mother of all revolutionaries #AngelaDavis reminding us that this is the movement we have been working for and build up; the #solidarity between oppressed and abused people across the globe for the people of #palestine, who refuse to give up and stand firm.
#GifsArtidote: the ONLY effective antidote to narcissistic psychopathic behaviour of neo-liberal capitalism and its fascist leaders. #community, solidarity & #MilitantResistance
#press #BreakingNews #GlobalNews
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Here are the best Kindle deals right now
Whether it be the base Kindle, the Kindle Paperwhite, the note-taking Kindle Scribe, or the Kindle Colorsoft, we’ve rounded up the best Kindle deals.Sheena Vasani (The Verge)
My life in Lines... In my web journal, I nearly fainted at the fares
#Art #MastoArt #DigitalArt #VisualJournal
Ten French films to know me by: The Five Devils Ascenseur pour l'echafaud Paris, 13th District Full Time The Innocent La Belle et la Bête Last Year at Marienbad I Lost My Body Anatomy of a Fall and: Cache (derogatory)
Biannual pilgrimage to Superior Dairy in Hanford CA. Best ice cream (vs for example, gelato) anywhere. Shown in a 32oz Starbucks cup. This is a double! Maplenut and Mint Chip.
#Photo #Photography #Food #Icecream #SuperiorDairy
He wanted me to post a not goofy one.
#dogs #dog #rescuedog #AdoptDontShop #DogsOfMastodon #photography #dogsofpixelfed #fujifilm
Old Video Of Barbara Walters Needling Trump Has Everyone Saying The Same Thing
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Old Video Of Barbara Walters Needling Trump Has Everyone Saying The Same Thing
A short clip from a 1990 interview Walters did with Trump for ABC’s “20/20” made its way onto TikTok, and users say not much has changed.Elyse Wanshel (HuffPost)
Microsoft May Have Killed the Surface Laptop Studio - Slashdot
Microsoft has stopped production of the Surface Laptop Studio 2 and will mark it as end-of-life in June, with no successor currently planned.hardware.slashdot.org
Live from the 10 Years of Rust celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands, we are very happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.87.0!
See the blog post and release notes for all the details!
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Announcing Rust 1.87.0 and ten years of Rust! | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.blog.rust-lang.org
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It’s interesting how sketching the same thing over time helps to step away and spot the changes. These are all photos from today 😀 almost the same, but I thought to share a bit of the “process”; looking at this sketch, I see my approach getting more and more careless and loose, compared to even a few months ago.
#dailysketching #sketchbook #watercoloursketch #sketchbookartist #mastoart
Botões GL/GR do Nintendo Switch 2 terão muitas opções de mapeamento
https://canaltech.com.br/games/botoes-glgr-do-nintendo-switch-2-terao-muitas-opcoes-de-mapeamento/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#Ethiopia #Iran #Security #MiddleEast #Intelligence
Iran and Ethiopia have a security deal – here’s why they signed it
Addis Ababa’s willingness to work with regional rivals in the Middle East shows its practical approach to foreign relations.The Conversation
Microsoft is ending its search API in favor of a LLM-fueled "replacement," which they claim "better meets market demand for having AI solutions."
Nobody is asking for AI instead of search. Corpos who profit from the compute involved are asking us to accept it.
Remember kids: demand doesn't matter when you can control the supply of alternatives!
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"People want something that works better than search."
Why doesn't search work?
WHY DOESN'T SEARCH WORK M__________R??
New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Hypocritical Infrastructure @cathygellis.bsky.social guest hosts, and we talked about a whole bunch of hypocrisy. We start, though, with her concerns about the lack of 1st Amendment analysis in the Copyright Office's rushed AI report. podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...
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Hypocritical Infrastructure - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Cathy Gellis, an internet and First Amendment lawyer. Together, they cover:The Copyright Office Issues A Largely D...Buzzsprout
I definitely haven't been considering that pro bluesky people might read my stuff and how it could upset them. I guess I don't weigh the feelings of people working for peanuts with VC funded stuff equally. I should.
I do consider that all when I tag people and try to be nice. I'm aware of the hot take attention game and don't do that. I try to make a strong case for what social media should be and where I feel we are going wrong. I probably post too much.
I guess you're not gonna see this but I wrote that sentence to explain my thinking after you forced me to think about it and then said I will try to do better.
as I've said before, sometimes what one feels they need to say, can't be said in a way that won't upset others. it's why moderation needs to be more nuanced than it has tended to be here.
I wish you well too.
I mean most people working on AP related projects are not getting paid well for it, if at all.
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Unshelling the Origins: Where Did the Saying "Working for Peanuts" Come From? - TastesFood
The phrase "working for peanuts" is a common idiom used to describe a job that pays very little or is undervalued. It's a saying that has been around forThomas Taylor (TastesFood)
Stopped by a greenhouse on the way to my grandma's house I've always wanted to go to, but never had money during the short time they're open. I got me some herb babies. This African Blue Basil and its tiny purple flowers was way too beautiful to pass up.
Also got a holy basil, peppermint, ornamental mini mint, parsley, chives, rosemary, and a hot and spicy oregano.
Can't wait to plant everything at my house and my grandma's house this weekend.
Interview with Boaz Bismuth from the Israeli administration (Skip to 0:40, rest is in english)
The interview is pretty wild. The introduction the first 40 seconds is in Norwegian. He talks about how this interview is unprecedented and that he has never experienced anything like this (You will understand why).
The journalist is a respected renowned Norwegian journalist covering various wars and politics.
Highly recommended interview. Although a bit frustrating at times, as it was hard to get any straight answers.
Yama utfordrer
Israels høyre-ekstreme regjering anklages for folkemord. Yama utfordrer en av Netanyahus største forsvarere, Boaz Bismuth fra regjeringspartiet Likud.NRK
Trump says nuclear deal with Iran ‘getting close’
Washington has targeted several Iranian individuals and entities with sanctions since the conclusion of the latest round of nuclear talks with Tehranthecradle.co
Building software on top of Large Language Models
I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they …Simon Willison’s Weblog
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A good chunk of the United States is getting ground water with significant amounts of fluoride already in it.
Sometimes more than four times the recommended level, just from natural deposit erosion.
I wonder how Bobby Brainworms expects to "fix" that, especially considering that these deposits where it goes above the action level cover a lot of the Southwestern part of the United States.
Automatic Transmission For Manual Transportation
The drivetrain of most modern bicycles has remained relatively unchanged for nearly a century. There have been marginal upgrades here and there like electronic shifting but you’ll still mostly see a chain with a derailleur or two. [Matthew] is taking a swing at a major upgrade to this system by replacing the front derailleur with a torque converter, essentially adding an automatic transmission to his bicycle.
Most of us will come across a torque converter in passenger vehicles with automatic transmissions, but these use fluid coupling. [Matthew] has come up with a clever design that uses mechanical coupling instead using a ratchet and pawl mechanism. There are two gear ratios here, a 1:1 ratio like a normal bicycle crank and a 1.5:1 ratio that is automatically engaged if enough torque is applied to the pedals. This means that if a cyclist encounters a hill, the gear automatically shifts down to an easier gear and then will shift back once the strenuous section is finished.
[Matthew] machined all the parts for this build from scratch, and the heavy-duty solid metal parts are both impressive but also show why drivetrains like this haven’t caught on in the larger bicycling world since they’re so heavy. There have been some upgrades in internally geared hubs lately though, which do have a number advantages over traditional chain and derailleur-based bikes with the notable downside of high cost, and there have been some other interesting developments as well like this folding mechanical drivetrain and this all-electric one.
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Thanks to [Keith] for the tip!
Taking my dog…less seriously.
I look at some of the photographers I admire, like Takuma Nakahira and Saul Leiter and Vivien Maier and plenty of others.
I want to be like them. I want every photo to speak, to capture the essence of the moment. The zeitgeist. The Koan.
Scrolling back through my file of keepers, I mostly fall short. Every so often I approximate a little glimpse. Mostly by accident. The harder I try, the more I miss. The closer I focus, the more distant I expose.
Then I remember not to take the whole thing too seriously. It is perfectly OK, I say to myself, to just post the process. The journey.
Sometimes that journey is just a cute picture of your dog taken at home. On the couch. That’s all I got.
Its enough.
#blackAndWhite #dogs #meditation #photography
How Takuma Nakahira’s “Circulation” Breathed Life into Photography
During the 1971 Paris Biennale, Nakahira photographed, printed, and exhibited his daily images of the city—creating a landmark photo-installation that pushed the bounds of a "living" work.aperturewp (Aperture)
Granted, just because project 2025 wants this doesn't mean it will happen, but it's good to know where their head is at
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The Big Takeover: The secret plans to give Trump command of America’s police
For months, a Project 2025 subgroup drafted plans to place domestic law enforcement under Trump's thumb. We have their files.Beau Hodai (Phoenix New Times)
I must remind myself constantly not to take myself too seriously.
And not to try to be Tauma Nakahira.
And not to try to be Saul Leiter.
etc.
#photography #blackAndWhite #dogsOfMastodon #dogs #blueSkyDogs #monochrome
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Taking my dog…less seriously.
I look at some of the photographers I admire, like Takuma Nakahira and Saul Leiter and Vivien Maier and plenty of others. I want to be like them. I want every photo to speak, to capture the essence…shojiwax.com
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I was briefly a foster carer. The system is almost impossible for anyone to thrive in, for the kids and young people, the carers and the workers.
Even putting aside the systematic unfairness that sees certain kids (Aboriginal, Black, refugees) much more likely to be removed, it's a trainwreck.
These kids need our political attention. Please pay attention when fostering hits the news.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Katri Uibu (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
In Seattle we never actually defunded our police force but we still managed to reduce the total number of cops by a staggering amount with one simple hack: We were mean and rude to ALL cops for a year or two and they ACTUALLY just quit their jobs in droves.
The cop exit interviews were full of statements like:
"In 2020, where everyone hated us"
So to the Patrick Hanlon's of the world, be sure to tell that no good pig that he's a monster who should quit his job.
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#ACAB
'SPD is dying': What Seattle police officers say as they depart
When asked what had a negative effect on morale in their exit interviews, Seattle police officers were nearly united in their responses.Frank Sumrall (MyNorthwest.com)
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"The business of universities is to exemplify + create the conditions of liberty. There are reasons why tyrants come after universities first, + this is the main one."
—Timothy Snyder, the great scholar of 20th-century authoritarianism, on leaving Yale + Trump's America for Canada.
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SNYDER: On leaving Yale - Yale Daily News
I did not leave Yale because of Donald Trump, or because of Columbia, or because of threats to Yale — but that would be a reasonable thing to do and that is a decision that people will make.David Yaffe-Bellany (Yale Daily News)
The value of institutional memory
In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an easy day’s work. But what really had them stumped was a heavy iron chain on the canal bottom. After various attempts, they hooked the chain to their dredger. That did
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The value of institutional memory
In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an …Tim Harford
Tigray Genocide
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.dair-institute.org
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Social Media Platforms Are Spreading Violent Warmongering Content Encouraging All-Out War Between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Again
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.www.dair-institute.org
"At a hospital in the Ethiopian city of Adigrat, the second largest in the Tigrayan region, a nurse said she regularly treats women raped by Eritrean soldiers in the occupied areas."
"New cases of sexual violence are still coming to our medical facility, on average 15 to 20 cases daily including victims of gang rapes by three or more Eritrean soldiers," she told AFP by telephone.
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Life Under Eritrean 'Occupation' In Northern Ethiopia
From his home in the far north of Ethiopia, Hagos can see Eritrean soldiers positioned on the other side of his town, Alitena, and says all his neighbours fear a full occupation.Barrons
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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