Disability is the one marginalized group that any of us can join at any time and most of us will join as we age. As an organization practicing Inclusive Design, we will always be committed to improving access for everyone, regardless of ability ♿💙
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Carlyle Japan's Tomioka on Japan's PE Market
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Malaysia Committed to 2025 Petrol Subsidy Cut But No Fixed Date
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Hillhouse’s First Private Credit Fund to Raise Some $700 Million
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FAA investigating Denver air traffic control communications outage
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EFF STATEMENT ON THE 1ST QUARTERLY LABOUR FORCE SURVEY FOR 2025
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) notes the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey released on the 13th of May 2025 by Statistics Soeffonline.org
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Voyager 1’s Primary Thrusters Revived Before DSN Command Pause
As with all aging bodies, clogged tubes form an increasing issue. So too with the 47-year old Voyager 1 spacecraft and its hydrazine thrusters. Over the decades silicon dioxide from an aging rubber diaphragm in the fuel tank has been depositing on the inside of fuel tubes. By switching between primary, backup and trajectory thrusters the Voyager team has been managing this issue and kept the spacecraft oriented towards Earth. Now this team has performed another amazing feat by reviving the primary thrusters that had been deemed a loss since a heater failure back in 2004.
Unlike the backup thrusters, the trajectory thrusters do not provide roll control, so reviving the primary thrusters would buy the mission a precious Plan B if the backup thrusters were to fail. Back in 2004 engineers had determined that the heater failure was likely unfixable, but over twenty years later the team was willing to give it another shot. Analyzing the original failure data indicated that a glitch in the heater control circuit was likely to blame, so they might actually still work fine.
To test this theory, the team remotely jiggled the heater controls, enabled the primary thrusters and waited for the spacecraft’s star tracker to drift off course so that the thrusters would be engaged by the board computer. Making this extra exciting was scheduled maintenance on the Deep Space Network coming up in a matter of weeks, which would troubleshooting impossible for months.
To their relief the changes appears to have worked, with the heaters clearly working again, as are the primary thrusters. With this fix in place, it seems that Voyager 1 will be with us for a while longer, even as we face the inevitable end to the amazing Voyager program.
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Having all of your teeth left in your mouth in adulthood- too woke for Ron DeSantis.
Gov. DeSantis signs bill making Florida 2nd state to ban fluoride from its water system | PBS News
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Gov. DeSantis signs bill making Florida 2nd state to ban fluoride from its water system
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure Thursday prohibiting local governments from adding fluoride to their water systems, making it the second state in the country after Utah to implement a statewide ban on the mineral.PBS News
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India’s Jobless Rate at 5.1% in April, Government Data Shows
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"Thames Valley Water admitted this week that senior managers are in line for “substantial” bonuses linked to an emergency £3bn loan. Ministers now plan to use new powers to block bosses taking bonuses worth hundreds of thousands of pounds as the company fights for survival."
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Ministers to block Thames Water paying bosses bonuses out of emergency loan
Exclusive: Firm close to insolvency says using £3bn loan to pay ‘substantial’ bonuses is vital to retain senior managersHelena Horton (The Guardian)
Last post from my wander through the woods.
#autumn #fujifilm #fujifilmxt30ii #xt30ii #photography #naturephotography #nature
Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel's Gaza Assault: It's a Genocide | Common Dreams
Julia Conley
May 15, 2025
"Melanie O'Brien, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, told NRC that #Israel's deliberate blockade on "food, water, shelter, and sanitation" convinced her the #Netanyahu government was carrying out a #genocide, while Segal pointed to "openly genocidal statements" by #Israeli leaders.
"But for all it is about the sum of what would apply separately as 'ordinary' war crimes," NRC reported. "The picture as a whole makes it a genocide. That is how the term is meant, says [British professor Martin] Shaw: 'holistic.'""
Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel's Gaza Assault: It's a Genocide
"Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn't consider it genocide?" said one researcher. "No."julia-conley (Common Dreams)
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
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NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
: Failure could've triggered a small explosionBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
生活保護世帯の食事・入浴回数減少、物価高で生活状況の悪化浮き彫りに…山梨県が緊急調査
山梨県は８日、生活保護受給世帯の実態を把握するために実施した緊急調査の結果を発表した。物価の高止まりが続く中、食事や入浴回数の減少など生活状況が悪化している様子が浮き彫りとなっており、今後、生活基盤の保障に向けた対策を読売新聞オンライン
ロシア凍結資産、法的に可能なら西側は没収に動く＝ドイツ首相 | ロイター
５月１５日、ドイツのメルツ首相（写真）は同日付の独紙ツァイトのインタビューで、ドイツとその同盟国は法的に可能なら、凍結されているロシア資産の没収に動くとの見方を示した。ベルリンで１４日撮影（２０２５年 ロイター/Lisi Niesner） - ドイツのメルツ首相は１５日付の独紙ツァイトのインタビューで、ドイツとその同盟国は法的に可能なら、凍結されているロシア資産の没収に動くとの見方を示した。ロシア資産の没収について首相は「現在、明確化の作業が進んでいる」と説明。「法的に全く問題のない根拠に基づ…WALKNEWS (WALK NEWS)
COVID-19 cases are surging in Hong Kong and Singapore, with Hong Kong seeing its highest levels in a year.
Singapore reported a 28% rise in cases and a 30% jump in daily hospitalisations in the week through May 3, prompting health alerts in both cities.
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米政権のウィットコフ・ケロッグ特使、15日にトルコ訪問＝関係筋 | ロイター
米政権のウィットコフ中東担当特使は１４日、ロシアとウクライナの直接協議のため、１６日にルビオ米国務長官とトルコのイスタンブールに向かうと述べた。６日撮影（２０２５年 ロイター/Kent Nishimura） - トランプ政権のウィットコフ特使（中東担当）とケロッグ特使（ロシア・ウクライナ担当）が ロシア・ウクライナ戦争を終結させる方法について協議するため、１５日にトルコのイスタンブールを訪問する可能性があることが１３日、複数の関係筋の話で分かった。ただ、米政府高官は１５日にイスタンブールで予定さ…WALKNEWS (WALK NEWS)
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Super fun evening at @pluralistic Picks&Shovels book tour stop here in #Pittsburgh
I appreciated that it was an everybody masked event - and had a terrific if quick chat on old 🍏 computers in my office and Chemistry hacking too.
Sadly I couldn't find my old paperback of Down & Out... but Kid1 got Little Brother signed
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And thanks to @pluralistic I also found out yesterday about a computer museum a short drive away - I hope you make it there soon!
And since the pic of my office in the previous toot was an older one - here's the add on there taken today - my first computer a #ZXSpectrum (needs a TV to work - yes of course I have an old CRT at home...so kids know what color a dead channel is)
And while I'm showing off old junk some disks that persist after culls (don't ask why)
✨ Thanks to this post (☝️) TIL about Large Scale Systems Museum / Museum of Applied Computer Technology!
😎 Super cool and easily within driving distance!
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I happened to hear a song that in these days of US immigration awfulness makes me smile about my Canadian immigration experience 21 years ago. I came to Montreal to get a work permit (that eventually led to PR and citizenship). The agent read my birth certificate (No passport needed then!) and seeing the birth city, literally burst into song with this:
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Trump’s Regional Strategy is a Dangerous Game of Brinkmanship
Via Vanessa Beeley The following is a post on X, written by Yemeni analyst Mohamad Al Shami. I recommend everyone to follow him for insights that you will not find elsewhere. Trump’s Strategy…INTERNATIONALIST 360°
It's Friday already? That means it's #ValidationFriday again! 💙🧐💪
We still need your help verifying buildings 🏘, barriers 🚧 and roads 🛣!
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In addition, tomorrow, there will be #ValidationSaturdays for #MyanmarEarthquake2025 campaign!
📅 17 May at 12:00 UTC | 18:30 Myanmar time
Register: forms.gle/EwRYHaCAZcn5SfZo7
#UNMappers #mappingforpeace #Openstreetmap #opendata #openmapping #volunteering #UNvolunteering #helpmmearthquake #myOSM
Open Mapping Hub Training/Mapathon Registration Form
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トランプ氏、ＵＡＥと2000億ドル超の契約 ＡＩ協力深化で合意 | ロイター - WACOCA NEWS
トランプ米大統領は１５日、湾岸３カ国歴訪の３カ国目となるアラブ首長国連邦（ＵＡＥ）を訪問し、総額２０００億ドルを超える契約を獲得したと発表した。米ホワイトハウスによると、米ボーイングBA.NやＧＥエアロスペースなどが交わした１４５億ドルの契約も含まれている。WACOCA News Editor (WACOCA NEWS)
Dance at Katsucon 2020, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in the D.C. metro area.
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Cynata Therapeutics share price
Cynata Therapeutics (ASX:CYP) is an asset listed on the ASX, and part of the Health Care sector. Grafa’s asset page shows Cynata Therapeutics’s share price, chart, trading volume, earnings per share, dividends per share and P/E ratio.Cynata Therapeutics
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"Seagulls - stop it now"
Bad lip reading from #starwars
An old classic.
Figured we could all use some silly right now
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The fact that this is an old classic makes my joints ache
(Because I too am old)
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Ubuntu 25.10 is swapping its default image viewing and terminal apps for modern, more-featured ones.
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Ubuntu is Replacing its Image Viewer and Terminal Apps
Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' will ship Loupe and Ptyxis as default image viewer and terminal apps in the upcoming October release.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
How positively #retrofuturist it is to create a gas-powered AI. And dumb. Extraordinarily dumb.
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Airstrikes kill over 100 in Gaza as grief and hunger spreads – Channel 4 News www.channel4.com/news/airstri...#Gaza
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Airstrikes kill over 100 in Gaza as grief and hunger spreads
Once again there have been horrific images coming out of Gaza. More children among the dozens of dead following attacks by the Israeli military overnight.Channel 4 News
This will be great technology, once the bugs are worked out. I would go for this, but I will not be an early adopter.
Exclusive | Apple to Support Brain-Implant Control of Its Devices - WSJ
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Congressional Republicans are split over their spending bill. Instead, Jake Tapper and a bunch of idiots want you to keep talking about 2024.
This isn’t hard to figure out.
People should be on their phones to their House Representatives both Democrat and Republican and telling them this bill can’t go forward. We have an opportunity right now to stop it.
The latest roadblock for House Republicans' 'big beautiful bill': Senate Republicans : NPR
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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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Airstrikes kill over 100 in Gaza as grief and hunger spreads – Channel 4 News
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#Gaza
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in reply to elementary • • •I keep getting surprised just how bad the accessibility of most things are. Usually it's not that hard.
How hard is it really to change the font size? How hard is it to add alt text? How hard is it to not put your website full of fucking ads!