#TrumpIsDead. E la rete impazzisce
https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/08/30/news/trump_salute_morto_casa_bianca_live_interrotto-424816438/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#TrumpIsDead. E la rete impazzisce
La fake news sulla morte del presidente americano sta facendo agitare il web: tra chi crede sia vero, chi prova a smentire, chi ironizza e chi dice che non sar…la Repubblica
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I profumi croccanti e aciduli con note di rabarbaro
https://www.marieclaire.it/bellezza/profumi/g65663032/profumi-con-note-di-rabarbaro-novita/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I profumi croccanti e aciduli con note di rabarbaro
Scopri i migliori profumi con note di rabarbaro ovvero le fragranze più pungenti, verdi, croccanti e soavi che contengono questo ingrediente.Vanessa Perilli (Marie Claire)
Trump’s Revenge Summer Heats Up With Fed Ouster, Bolton Raid
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-30/trump-s-revenge-summer-heats-up-with-fed-ouster-bolton-raid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#CarolineDeGruyter : Lichtenštejnsko také hledá ochranu u Evropské unie : 🔒 nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/29/ook-l… : 🔓 archive.vn/ldA74 :
... když Amerika si nárokuje evropské území, vede obchodní válku proti evropským výrobkům a tento týden také zaútočila na digitální regulaci, „digitální daň“ a čipové společnosti v Evropě – a to nemluvíme o ruském nebo čínském šikanování. Tváří v tvář tomuto druhu siláckých výroků malé evropské země tvrdě počítají své síly. A hledají útočiště u Evropské unie. Poslední příklad: knížectví Lichtenštejnsko... právě zřídilo pracovní skupinu, která má za úkol zmapovat budoucí vztahy s EU. „Prozkoumáme všechny možnosti,“ oznámila premiérka Brigitte Haasová, „bez klapek na očích.“
Nikdo zatím Lichtenštejnsko neohrožuje. Zatímco Švýcarsko je v rozruchu, protože Trump oznámil 39% cla na švýcarské... výrobky.. Lichtenštejnsku bylo stejně jako EU uloženo „pouze” 15 %. Lichtenštejnsko je spolu s Islandem a Norskem (oba také 15 %) členem Evropského hospodářského prostoru (EHP)... Švýcarsko není členem EHP a nemá s EU uzavřenou dohodu o volném obchodu. Poučení: čím více se připojíte k většímu klubu, tím méně budete stát osamoceni proti tyranským velmocím...
Dánsko, které bylo po dlouhá léta selektivním členem EU a neúčastnilo se evropské obrany, justiční spolupráce ani eura, nyní prohlubuje své členství (Grónsko...). Island...brzy uspořádá referendum o přistoupení... po zářijových volbách by mohlo následovat Norsko...Malé země se najednou cítí zranitelné... EU... se stále více stává bezpečnostní mocností...
30(+) years ago I read Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg.
It's now been made into a 6 part TV series called Smilla's Sense of Snow.
The only thing I remember about the novel is that I really enjoyed it and then I read each of Hoeg's other novels that were available at the time.
Reading the synopsis of the show didn't ring any bells.
I'm now 5 EPs in on SBS OnDemand (final ep dropping next wed) and the story line is only very vaguely familiar.
I've still got my original copy of the novel and I'm looking forward to re-reading it once I've finished the TV series.
#LifeInMinneapolis #Leica #Q2M #Monochrome #blackandwhite #photography #streetphotography #street_photography #justlife
Alibaba sees strong consumer mindshare reviving e-commerce momentum
Alibaba also expects its cloud computing business to remain on an upwards trajectory in the coming quarters, CEO Eddie Wu says.Wency Chen (South China Morning Post)
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I Was A High School Teacher For Decades. This Is What Your Kids Will Lose If The Far Right Gets Its Way.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/high-school-teacher-student-health-far-right_n_689b7487e4b0196f49c51b69?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I Was A High School Teacher For Decades. This Is What Your Kids Will Lose If The Far Right Gets Its Way.
"Most people don’t see schools as life-saving institutions, but I sometimes witnessed life’s most fragile moments."Nancy Jorgensen (HuffPost)
The once great, but now a shadow of it's former self, image sharing site Imgur is having a bit of a moment. The site was recently sold to MediaLabs who have plastered the site in ads, replaced moderation with AI and fired most of the staff. This has resulted in some parts of the site failing to function e.g. the entire notifications system.
Media Labs performance has been so bad it has pushed the numerically small but devoted remaining users to realise their power. The users of Imgur have united in rebellion to protest and have covered the entire front page in images disparaging the company. The site is entirely dependent on the users posting things to generate its income. The site owners literally add nothing except ads.
This is an exemplar to the rest of our society, struggling as we are under the weight of parasites who only detract from our efforts for their own gain.
#Imgur #UserRebellion #Capitalism
Day three of the Imgur user rebellion. The site owners post about the rebellion. It is a wall of text that is not well received by the users. In it the company claims both that no one was fired but that there are "less of us here" to handle the workload. The company also claims to not be doing any of the things the users have documented that they are clearly doing. They claim no one was fired while statements by ex employees saying they were fired have been posted by users.
It is as if the company doesn't read its own site and doesn't think the users communicate with each other.
imgur.com/gallery/hey-s-busine… Full text of the company's reply.
@pluralistic Are you aware of this user rebellion?
Day four of the Imgur user rebellion. More media have noticed imgur.com/gallery/todays-episo…
Users are flooding the front page with "The gif" as it is known on Imgur. A pornographic Marvell gif which has previously been a guarantee of an instant ban and instant removal of the post. Many copies of the gif have been showing on the front page all day without being removed.
Sorry these posts are out of order. I was unable to post for a couple of days and am filling in the blanks.
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Macron ci tiene molto a portare a Londra questo arazzo che non si potrebbe trasportare - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/08/30/macron-arazzo-bayeux-regno-unito-intrasportabile/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Macron ci tiene molto a portare a Londra questo arazzo che non si potrebbe trasportare
Restauratori ed esperti sconsigliano che il fragile arazzo di Bayeux faccia lunghi viaggi, ma c'è di mezzo la diplomaziaIl Post
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The capitalism of fools
The capitalism of fools Trump’s mirror-world New Deal. The most enshittification-proof way to get the Enshittification audiobook, ebook and hardcover is to pre-order them on my Kickstarter! Help me …Cory Doctorow (Medium)
This Stunning Image of the Sun Could Unlock Mysterious Physics
The world’s best solar telescope snapped unprecedented shots of a solar flare, revealing new details of these mysterious explosions.Becky Ferreira (404 Media)
Good afternoon...
We have just had a lush lunch at Jacqueline's vegetarian and vegan café in #RossonWye.
We are now awaiting some lovely cake. 😄
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That would be a tough choice between the two, they both look delicious. And the cake, did it get a photo, too?
We had driven to 2 apple growers in the general area here (30+ miles away) only to find one empty, and the other one completely overrun with people, mostly children.
Realized as we escaped without stopping (or getting cider, or apple pie) that this weekend was the town's yearly Apple Festival and my gods did we pick the wrong day to visit.
I would enjoy vicarious cake in lieu of my missing pie.
"Enshittification" - so beschreibt @pluralistic die zunehmende Verschlechterung des Angebots digitaler Plattformen für alle Beteiligten. Jetzt hat er ein Buch dazu geschrieben, das man via Kickstarter-Kampagne unterstützen kann:
#DisruptComplicity in Genocide
@anarchia
28 agosto 2025 #DisruptComplicity in Genocide! Sanctions Now! | BDS Movement dal sito bdsmovement.net La società civile palestinese chiede un’intensificazione immediata delle azioni BDS contro stati, aziende e istituzioni complici, fino a provocare disordini di massa dal 18 al 21...
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#DisruptComplicity in Genocide
28 agosto 2025 #DisruptComplicity in Genocide! Sanctions Now! | BDS Movement dal sito bdsmovement.net La società civile palestinese chiede un’intensificazione immediata delle azioni BDS contro stati, aziende e istituzioni complici, fino a provocare d…Rete Italiana ISM (Rivoluzione Anarchica)
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Laëtitia Visse, la cheffe française à la pointe du combat MeToo en cuisine
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"Harcèlement, agressions et discriminations : le milieu de la restauration en France n’échappe pas à la “violence masculine”. Le journal britannique “The Times” est allé à la rencontre de Laëtitia Visse, l’une des cheffes qui a alerté sur ces “pratiques
Laëtitia Visse, la cheffe française à la pointe du combat MeToo en cuisine
Harcèlement, agressions et discriminations : le milieu de la restauration en France n’échappe pas à la “violence masculine”.Adam Sage (Courrier International)
4 reasons Q4OS is the best operating system to breathe some new life into your old laptop
Q4OS is an underrated distro for owners of dinosaur PCs and laptopsAyush Pande (XDA)
Fri., Aug 29, 6pm, EDT: Urgent press conference: DOC imperils Mumia Abu-Jamal’s eyesight - International Action Center
August 27, 2025 By Mobilization4Mumia Black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a world renown political prisoner, unjustly imprisoned for over four decades, is now incarcerated at SCI Mahanoy in Pennsylvania.Janet (International Action Center)
Hello from my shiny new profile on @mastoart.social #NewHere #introduction #welcome
My name is Rom|Tapas in the Sun. Many of you may know me from @photog.social. I am passionate about photography and have been documenting my travels and explorations of Spain since moving there in 2017.
I primarily post black and white photos shot on film using vintage cameras. I also have a darkroom and develop and print my photos.
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #filmisnotdead
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Giusto pochi giorni fa leggevo dell'arazzo su BBC History; chissà se prevarrà la ragione o la politica...
"Macron ci tiene molto a portare a Londra questo arazzo che non si potrebbe trasportare
Restauratori ed esperti sconsigliano che il fragile arazzo di Bayeux faccia lunghi viaggi, ma c'è di mezzo la diplomazia"
Leggi tutto: ilpost.link/jdpiyVUefc
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グラビアアイドル・コスプレイヤーの東雲うみが30日、自身のX(@sinonome_umi)を更新した。【画像】グラビアア…Playing Games
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I titani battono 11-6 la Fortitudo in garaquattro e raggiungono le Italian Baseball Series per la settima volta consecutiva scritto da Carlo Ravegnani per Baseball.itCarlo Ravegnani (Baseball.it)
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Gardening #Caturday
The amazing Watermelon Cat™️ (1) inspects each watermelon and (2) indicates the one that’s ripe and ready to be picked.
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Mocktail Perfect For Man Who Doesn’t Want To Drink, But Still Wants To Spend $18
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"ARLINGTON, Va. — Local restaurant the Green Garden began serving mocktails which are perfect for the person who doesn’t want to drink, but still wants…
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Mocktail Perfect For Man Who Doesn't Want To Drink, But Still Wants To Spend $18
Local restaurant the Green Garden began serving mocktails which are perfect for the person who doesn’t want to drink.Charles Bill (The Hard Times)
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(elite): Time for the Kuiper objects!
We start with Orcus and its satellite, Vanth.
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mmm, choco-vanilla space bodies
One more dirty snowball for the night: Quaoar
Remarkable for apparently having some small rings that defy theoretical explanation currently for a body of this size. Or something. Stellar!
It also has its own moon, but that isn't depicted in the game. (yet?)
Another dirty snowball for ya'll before I try to get some sleep: Makemake!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makemake
"Makemake shows signs of geothermal activity and thus may be capable of supporting active geology and harboring an active subsurface ocean."
Fantastic!
Ciao Mondo.
Spigola o Branzino che differenza c'è?
Ultimo #sketch sui pesci del #mediterraneo.
I giochi sono fatti si torna alla realtà.
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Ma Mo on Instagram: "🐟 Guardo il mare gonfiarsi per il vento di maestrale e mi chiedo quale pesce sia così pazzo da avventurarsi fuori dalla sua tana e affrontare tutto questo. 🐟 🐡 Ho sempre immaginato che un mare in burrasca sia come per noi un tempora
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Dark Nights: **“This is beyond our prediction, usually during a demonstration, protesters only threw rocks or burn a tyre in front of the office. They never stormed into the building or burned it.”**
This Stunning Image of the Sun Could Unlock Mysterious Physics
Welcome back to the Abstract! What an extreme week it has been in science. We’ve got extreme adaptations and observations to spare today, so get ready for a visually spectacular tour of deep seas, deep time, and deep space.
First up, a study with an instant dopamine hit of a title: “Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur.” Then, stories about two very different marine creatures that nonetheless share a penchant for brilliant outfits and toxic lifestyles; a baby picture that requires a 430-light-year zoom-in; and lastly, we must once again salute the Sun in all its roiling glory. Enjoy the peer-reviewed eye-candy!
Ankylosaurs: Swole from the start
Maidment, Susannah et al. “Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur.” Nature.
Paleontologists have discovered an ankylosaur that is epic even by the high standards set by this family of giant walking tanks. Partial remains of Spicomellus—the oldest known ankylosaur, dating back 165 million years—reveal that the dinosaur had much more elaborate body armor than later generations, including a collar of bony spikes up to three feet long, and fused tail vertebrae indicating an early tail weapon.
Ankylosaurs are known for their short-limbed frames, clubbed tail weapons, and thick-plated body armor that puts Batman to shame. These dinosaurs, which could reach 30 feet from beak to club, are mostly known from Late Cretaceous fossils. As a consequence “their early evolution in the Early–Middle Jurassic is shrouded in mystery due to a poor fossil record” and “the evolution of their unusual body plan is effectively undocumented,” according to a new study.
In October 2022, a local farmer in the Moroccan badlands discovered a partial skeleton that fills in this tantalizing gap. The fossils suggest that the plates, spikes, and weaponized tails were features of ankylosaurian anatomy from the Jurassic jump.
“The new specimen reveals extreme dermal armour modifications unlike those of any other vertebrate, extinct or extant,” said researchers led by Susannah Maidment of the National History Museum in London. “Given that Spicomellus is an early-diverging ankylosaur or ankylosaurid, this raises the possibility that ankylosaurs acquired this extravagant armour early in their evolutionary history, and this was reduced to a simpler arrangement in later forms.”
As you can see, this early ankylosaur was the living embodiment of the phrase “try me.” Two huge spikes, one of which is almost entirely preserved, flanked the “cervical half-ring” on the animal's neck. The fossils are so visually astonishing that at first glance, they almost look like an arsenal of spears, axes, and clubs from an ancient army.
The team doesn’t hide their amazement at the find, writing that “no known ankylosaur possesses any condition close to the extremely long pairs of spines on the cervical half-ring” and note that the fossils overturn “current understanding of tail club evolution in ankylosaurs, as these structures were previously thought to have evolved only in the Early Cretaceous.”
This incredible armor may have initially evolved as a sexual display that was adapted for defensive purposes by the rise of “multitonne predators” like T. rex. That might explain why the ornaments seemed to have simplified over time. Whatever the reason, the fossils demonstrate that ankylosaurs, as a lineage, were born ready for a fight.
In other news…
Now you sea(horse) me
We’ll move now from the extremely epic to the extremely twee. Pygmy seahorses, which measure no more than an inch, mimic the brightly-colored and venomous gorgonian corals that they symbiotically inhabit. Scientists have now discovered that these tiny animals achieved their extraordinary camouflage in part by discarding a host of genes involved in growth and immune response, perhaps because their protective coral habitats rendered those traits obsolete.
“We analyzed the tiny seahorse’s genome revealing the genomic bases of several adaptations to their mutualistic life,” said researchers led by Meng Qu of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The analysis suggests “that the protective function of corals may have permitted the pygmy seahorse to lose an exceptionally large number of immune genes.”
Living in a toxic environment can have its benefits, if you’re a seahorse. And that is the perfect segue to the next story…
When life hands you arsenic, make lemon-colored skin
After a long day, isn’t it nice to sink into a scalding bath of arsenic and hydrogen sulfide? That’s the self-care routine for Paralvinella hessleri, a deep sea worm that “is the only animal that colonizes the hottest part of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the west pacific,” according to a new study.
So, how are these weirdos surviving what should be lethally toxic waters that exceed temperatures of 120°F? The answer is a "distinctive strategy” of “fighting poison with poison,” said researchers led by Hao Wang of the Center of Deep-Sea Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The worm stores the arsenic in its skin cells and mixes it with the sulfide to make a dazzling mineral, called orpiment, that provides its bright yellow hue.
“This process represents a remarkable adaptation to extreme chemical environments,” the researchers said. “The yellow granules observed within P. hessleri’s epithelial cells, which are the site of arsenic detoxification, appear to be the key to this adaptation.”
My own hypothesis is that this worm offers an example of convergent evolution with Freddie Mercury’s yellow jacket from Queen’s legendary 1986 Wembley Stadium performance.
Mind the protoplanetary gap
Your baby photos are cute and all, but it’s going to be hard to top the pic that astronomers just snapped of a newborn planet 430 light years from Earth. This image marks the first time that a planet has been spotted forming within a protoplanetary disk, which is the dusty gassy material from which new worlds are born.
Our “images of 2025 April 13 and April 16 discovered an accreting protoplanet,” said researchers led by Laird Close of the University of Arizona. “The ‘protoplanet’ called WISPIT 2b “appears to be clearing a dust-free gap between the two bright rings of dust—as long predicted by theory.”
If Earth is the pale blue dot, then WISPIT 2b is the funky purple blob. Though stray baby planets have been imaged before in the cavity between their host stars and the young disks, this amazing image offers the first glimpse of the most common mode of planetary formation, which occurs inside the dusty maelstrom.
Welcome to the Arcade of Coronal Loops
We’ll close with yet another cosmic photoshoot—this time of everyone’s favorite star, the Sun. from the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawaii. The telescope captured unprecedented pictures of a decaying solar flare at a key hydrogen-alpha (Hα) wavelength of 656.28 nanometers.
The images show coronal loops—dramatic plasma arches that can spark flares and ejections—at resolutions of just 13 miles, making them the smallest loops that have ever been observationally resolved. The pictures are mesmerizing, filled with sharp features like the “Arcade of Coronal Loops” (and note that the scale is measured in planet Earths) But they also represent a new phase in unlocking the mysterious physics that fuels solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
“This is initial evidence that the DKIST may be capable of resolving the fundamental scale of coronal loops,” said researchers led by Cole Tamburri of the University of Colorado Boulder. “The resolving power of the DKIST represents a significant step toward advancing modern flare models and our understanding of fine structure in the coronal magnetic field.”
May your weekend be as energetic as a coronal loop, but hopefully not as destructive.
Thanks for reading! See you next week.
Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur - Nature
The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.Nature
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