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Maryland Senator Dalya Attar accused of blackmailing a political consultant. What does this mean for her career? shorturl.at/FsExX #Politics #Extortion #Maryland


Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them. eff.org/tools

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@caillou they are truly awful movies, but I’m at 1 left and at this point I will finish them 🤷‍♀️


did a podcast assignment about deepfakes for my information class! take a listen if interested - on.soundcloud.com/TTRPWVPuIKvo… #tech #deepfakes #info #college





Hey friends! What are some examples of very well-run open source organizations/foundations? What makes them good? Doesn't have to be a non-profit.

Share counterexamples if you must, but I'm primarily seeking positive sentiment

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I don't know a ton about them but I find the concept of @nivenly really compelling as a co-op developing open source apps. They make @pachli mastodon client among other things. I am a fan of co-ops in case you couldn't tell from my instance 😀
in reply to Eliot Lash

@Eliot_L @nivenly @pachli thanks everybody for agreeing on what not to bring up and also all the interesting pointers 😀 PSF is one I am acquainted with personally, also personally, and have experienced and supported the decades long push for diversity and inclusion. Very happy it grew into today's defiant stance even when sizable money is on the line.



Imagine believing in Intelligent Design… and then buying damn nose spray because your main air ducts like to close the moment you get sick or lie down.

Damn, you are sick? Guess you don't need that much oxygen! Prepare for your mouth to dry out and become a desert as you sleep.

in reply to Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

I think the intelligent design argument stems from the belief that God didn't make mistakes when making us.
I could argue that he didn't, he just didn't make us all at once, and he's still not done.

Not that I place much weight on my belief in him, however much I happen to, but it's a fun thought experiment.

in reply to Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

ah yes, the "this would be so much more tolerable with only a few small tweaks to the design of my meat computer" phase of being ill. I know it well and wish you well


CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom's VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools software, exploited by Chinese hackers since October 2024.

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6 Tricks for Introverts Who Want to Be More Social
https://www.self.com/story/how-to-be-more-social-introvert?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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A man with a heart vs a heartless man

#JBPritzker, gov of #Illinois, has urged the #Trump admin to suspend its #immigration crackdown in his state from Friday to Sunday, to allow #children to “spend #Halloween weekend without #fear”.

In a letter addressed to #DHS Secy, #KristiNoem [dog killer], & the heads of #ICE & #CBP, Pritzker said federal agents were “ignoring their duty to protect the public & uphold the #constitution”…

#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
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Democrat #JBPritzker said such raids had “endangered the lives of innocent community members & #traumatized #children”.

Pritzker’s letter, which was obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times & Politico, came as a federal appeals court blocked an order which would have required a senior border patrol official to give daily briefings to a judge about #immigration sweeps in #Chicago.

#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Illinois #Trump #children #Halloween
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@MakersHour Q1 Tell us a bit about yourself, an unusual creative fact or event in life maybe?

The name my parents chose for me can neither be spelt nor pronounced correctly by them. (Happens if you choose a foreign name and don't speak the language). I have two birthdays, one actual and one when I should have been born, they're almost 3 months apart. If you misspell my surname I have a famous artist for a name sake. I used to have an own pen for each writing project.

#MakersHour

in reply to Aurora

Crumbs, that is awkward.

I remember a contestant on a tv quiz show in the 80s who had to explain her name.
Her mum chose it but her dad, when he went to register it, didn't know how to spell it.
So she became 'Melony'.

#MakersHour

in reply to MakersHourQuestions

It was something like that with my parents, too. My mother doesn't even get the first syllable right and couldn't care less.

I'm one of the few people who have to show their passport to their own mother.



What to make of Trump's wild nuclear threat.

slate.com/news-and-politics/20…

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Q1: @MakersHour
Tell us a bit about yourself, an unusual creative fact or event in life maybe?

A1: Hello, I am Alfred, maker, carer, caretaker, and miniaturist story teller.
When I was about 7 years old I ‘borrowed’ some aluminium sheet from Dad’s work stash. I did my first bit of metal cutting and panel beating to make a knight’s armour gauntlet because I had seen one in a book. It was fitted around a rubber washing up glove and included all the movable joints hinged on copper wire ‘rivets’. I wore it to school, and the teachers took it off me until home time as I wasn’t allowed to play with it during the breaks. While wearing it, I could play at having a robot hand.

Tonight’s soundtrack is: The Essential Status Quo – Volume 3.

#MakersHour

in reply to Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

A1 #makershour hi Ropey here. I'm fascinated by anatomical art and I love working with fabrics because of the different textures. Ropes, strings and threads are very important to me. Even the linguistics of it all. Unusual?... Well I'm currently carving a swede (which is why im late) and it's REALLY TOUGH.


Dites-nous TOUT !
youtube.com/shorts/Pz4Be0CRTOQ…
#Sarkozy #connerieviraletv

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Un CRS alcoolisé tire «accidentellement» sur son collègue à la sortie d'un fast food contre-attaque.net/2025/10/30/…

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I've been playing around with Kimi K2 on Groq (with a Q) via TypingMind, and it's been an eye-opening experience to see just how much *truly fast* inference changes my perspective of LLMs for work.

Make sure to watch the video: macstories.net/notes/ai-experi…



"[S]enior British officers continued to travel to Israel well into 2025, meeting their counterparts even as accusations of war crimes mounted."

declassifieduk.org/uk-defence-…

#UKPolitics #LabourAgentsOfGenocide #GazaHolocaust

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Der #Journalist Dawit Isaak wurde 2001 in #Eritrea festgenommen. Er hatte sich beim Informationsministerium über die Schließung unabhängiger Medienkanäle beschwert. Seither wird er ohne Kontakt zur Außenwelt festgehalten. Die Behörden verweigern die Auskunft über seinen Aufenthaltsort oder seinen Gesundheitszustand.

Die Inhaftierung von #DawitIsaak und anderer #Journalisten ist rechtswidrig. Wir fordern ihre Freilassung!

#menschenrechte #acatdeutschland #acatessen #folter #Pressefreiheit





Re Carlo III avvia il processo per togliere i titoli ad Andrea - Europa - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/europa/2025/10/30/re-carlo-iii-avvia-il-processo-per-togliere-i-titoli-ad-andrea_514c885b-f4b2-43b6-bcc2-d07c2cbb9e31.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Moose, Antelope Flats, Grand Teton National Park. November, 2019.

🔗 allencompassingtrip.com/3173/m…
📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR
🎞 261 mm – 1/120″ – f/7.1 – ISO 12800

#Wildlife #Photography #Moose #NationalParks



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Ein grünes Spiel-Boy-Gerät wird von der Hand eines Benutzers gehalten. Der Bildschirm zeigt einen Text auf Schwarz an. Der Text lautet: "SUPER MARIO LAND". Darunter steht ein weiterer Text: "START". Ein weiteres Textfeld zeigt "1990" und darunter steht "Nintendo".

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in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

watch this persons very funny tutorial (there are more!)
youtu.be/dV_J8TRlBqE



How to Do a Bridge Exercise With an Exercise Ball (with Pictures) #howto #diy #Do
#diy #howto #do



1: Tell us a bit about yourself, an unusual creative fact or event in life maybe?
#MakersHour
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Q1: Tell us a bit about yourself, an unusual creative fact or event in life maybe?
#MakersHour

A1: US resident, embroidery and piecing are my crafts, or cutting up cardboard into stand-up figurines.

I started needlecraft as a non-media habit during graduate school. If I had finished my original graduate school programme, I might now be losing my civil service scientist job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena as a result of government malfeasance. But I could have been a Mars Rover Driver. I could have been Somebody!

in reply to Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

@jmeowmeow
Missing out on JPL, is very like me missing out on doing my engineering degree at Brunel or Imperial. I got offers from both, but parents wanted me to go somewhere closer to home.



New #photography blog post:
More of Rüdesheim
#filmphotography #blackandwhite #Germany #medieval
rosehlacroix.wordpress.com/202…


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“UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND UDIO ANNOUNCE UDIO’S FIRST STRATEGIC AGREEMENTS FOR NEW LICENSED AI MUSIC CREATION PLATFORM”

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I did a drum and bass set, and it's almost actually all entirely drum and bass 😁 I know, I am truly in rare form. mixcloud.com/irickcorwal/why-d…


You can cipher your scrolls into secret tongues and then store them in a remote redoubt. #cloud #cybersecurity cromwell-intl.com/cybersecurit…


Blackthorn. A local favourite for sweet liquors, but they have to "get frost" first. Nowadays it hardly ever gets cold enough while they are ripe, so you have no other options but to put them in the freezer.

I once tried eating one just like that, it was not a pleasant experience.

#photography #plants #europe




After some weeks (or months?) in which I had no time for maintaining my collection of media acocunts in the #Fediverse (fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview…) it seems like #Ghost has grown too big: They have federated so many sites 🤯

All their news-sites are here:
explore.ghost.org/news
Just search with "@" + URL here and you'll see one of them is federated.

And if you find one, why not tagging me here, so I can include them?

Oh and boosting this post, may also help 😁

#News #Media #SocialMedia



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Hey Thor, there are several other windows you could look out

#CatsOfMastodon

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in reply to Dr. LecTay 🫘🍷

Catting as intended 😻

Seriously, though, in case you are not familiar; unlike dogs, cats live in full 3D space, and higher up is always better in terms of observing anything. So expect him to spend more time up there. And on top of anything else you never expected him to be able to get onto 😂

Also, I have to compliment him on his choices; large window, good view of the approach angles, no dogs to bother him, AND a wall socket in case he ever needs to charge any of his personal devices.



I am going to eat a double cherry magnum while watching The Celebrity Traitors in my pyjamas. I bet you wish you were me.


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Brian Eno News (@dark-shark.bsky.social)

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> It's that time of year again so break out a Karlheinz Stockhausen Halloween mask!



Does anyone know how to fix the audio RSS issue that we have right now with PeerTube and podcasts platforms? #peertube #rss #podcast
in reply to FeloniousPunk

@FeloniousPunk at github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube…