Not wet but a gloomy day continues. Sunny days are forecast for Friday and Saturday. We need some blue sky and sunshine. Autumn is trying hard in our yard, while a rose is giving us perhaps the last spark. of the season. One more day.
Dinosaurs existed millions of years ago > They died and a certain percentage of them became part of the oil we use today > Some byproducts of that oil are used for plastic > Some of that plastic is used to make little plastic dinosaurs.
SEC filing: Meta says it is no longer facing a CFPB investigation over advertising for financial services on its platforms (Evan Weinberger/Bloomberg Law)
Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms Inc. said it is no longer facing potential penalties from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over advertising for financial services on its platforms.
Non so sinceramente, l'idea di un Xbox PC è quello che provò Steam anni fa. Non credo personalmente che un un Xbox PC avrà realmente un prezzo minore di un computer, non avrebbe molto senso, a meno di fornirgli un sistema bloccato. Boh vedremo
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🗨️ Translation: European diplomats say Israeli war criminals don't have to be afraid of any punishment, even it was a violation of int'l #law and the #GenevaConvention to bar the Red Cross from doing its job
"European diplomats in Tel Aviv said that Israeli Defense Minister Katz's decision to bar the International Committee of the Red Cross #ICRC from visiting Palestinian detainees in ISR prisons was a grave mistake and undermines international humanitarian law"
I will definitely be downloading #affinity and seeing if I can make the switch. Pretty certain I will have to keep using InDesign for work reasons but I'll be very happy to offload the rest of the #adobe suite if I can. So fed up with being treated as AI-fodder after years of loyalty.
@Nick_Stevens_graphics unfortunately they closed the forums at the start of the month and they are no longer accessible. Discord only now (and I guess possibly some part of whatever Canva use might appear).
I rewrote my little code minifier & pretty-printer from scratch, and released it today for freeee. I use it ALL the time to format weird json snippets from APIs and things, but it supports a bunch of formats. Give it a try.
Alchemize is a lightweight tool to minify and pretty-print your code snippets from around the web. v3 is now available with a refreshed interface and support for modern JS & CSS features.
Welp, I've stopped using Yahoo for search again. They started up with AI summaries. I was thumbs-downing them with nasty notes, but then the search results themselves started to suck as badly as anything else.
Searx was my co-go-to with Yahoo, but my top favorite instances started erroring out, then the next one I tried would only return results from a handful of sites. I got tired of constantly switching instances.
So I'm back on Qwant. I forgot why I stopped using that one. Either they fixed it, or I will be reminded soon enough.
A ver, y antes de que se me vuelva a olvidar: ¿habría por aquí chicharreres o gente de las islas occidentales interesada en una MastoKdd en Tenerife? 😃
A varies os tengo fichades pero no quiero forzar a nadie, así que, que hable quien le interese y miramos fechas 😃😃
Well this was a pleasant surprise. My fix for link preview images from The Guardian was accepted and merged by the #Mastodon team last night. So hopefully everything is all fixed in the next release. Anyway. You're welcome hahaha. github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…
For years this has been broken and really bugging me that Bluesky and every other site can easily get the og:images for The Guardian but Mastodon just gets a grey box. This is the easiest way I cou...
Roland Lescure, France’s third finance minister in just over a year, met this week with Wall Street executives to reassure investors that his country can get on track.
Yea, about the only one I have that doesn't is my Plex, and that's because years and years ago I paid for a lifetime Plex pass. Plex has had its issues since then, and I sometimes wonder if it's still something I should be running, but the price hasn't gone up on me yet.
@mike I think I got my lifetime about 10 or so years ago on a Black Friday deal. I've enjoyed it generally as a platform, but agree it's been going down hill. Its dependency on their services for even your own hosting, the random UI changes that seem to have no testing, the app updates that just straight up break the app entirely, and the recent complete redesign that makes old 1-2 taps now 8-10.
I've had Jellyfin running side-by-side for a while, and its a savior today with no internet.
Methinks ICE are about to get a taught tutorial on the Streisand effect: persecuting pretty white women won't play well in the news, going after a congressional candidate won't exactly make her voters stay home ...
A favourite isbjørn / polar bear photo from 2022. The square is a patch of ice with snow cleared away. It might have been a place for collecting ice cores, or light transmission measurements? It seems like the bear is looking up at us on the ship, pointing at our vandalism and asking 'what. are. you. doing. to. my. house?'
Tricked myself into a 90 minute treadmill sesh after all. First I set it up for 60 minutes, then I was in the middle of a game so I just kept adding on minutes.
The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”
A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.
Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.
“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.
DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’
The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”
A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.
Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.
“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.
"They're stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar to private sector employment," Sean Timmons said.
everyone loves sexworkers when they're getting their rocks off but they sure hate us when we ask for things like better working conditions and getting paid
Globally, trans people face staggering rates of violence - particularly trans women Data shows that in 2024, the number of trans people reported murdered surpassed 5,000
They are vilified for existing while we - cisgender women - face our greatest threats from men who face no such scrutiny.
Enough false feminism that abandons the most vulnerable women leaving all women at greater risk.
Average delay 172 mins due to low ceilings. Such a delay would give me bad feelings. Stuck in the terminal all day and night. All just waiting for a stupid flight. #LGA
SEOUL—In a historic trade agreement that President Donald Trump touted as a major win for an American farmer, China reportedly agreed Thursday to purchase 11 U.S. soybeans.
OCTOBERend. Gale warning overnight, 30s-50s for the weekend, brr but mostly dry sky. A roundup of shows & Halloween-adjacent events for Boston at the end of October 2025 - help your #BostonWeekend thread travel far around the #fediverse when *you* share it - Boost to build #Boston #Massachusetts community in non-bigcorp spaces. Enjoy, Enjoy! (1/?)
MGM Music Hall at Fenway tickets and upcoming 2025 event schedule. Find details for MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, MA, including venue info and seating charts.
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Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
These crazy religious nutjobs need to be forcibly dragged from their offices and kicked to the curb. They're everythjng wrong with my state my country. Dumb as shit, openly flaunting laws, and treating every kind of pushback as discrimination and all the while demonizing the public education that would otherwise expose them for the liars and idiots they are.
"Behind the closed door…he set aside decades of institutional precedent by not gathering the court’s seven justices to debate the legislature’s request in person, as chief justices had historically done…
…Justice Phil Berger Jr., Newby’s right-hand man and presumed heir on the court, circulated a draft of a special order agreeing to the rehearing…Berger’s accompanying message made clear there would be no debate…giving them just over 24 hours to respond."
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
I would make so much hay over that threat. I mean certainly whatever jihad should never be discussed because it’s totally outrageous, right? Honestly, if you can beat them into making a big public stink about it I think it would be hilarious.
I personally offered you my evidence of ongoing geoengineering over NYC and you declined to even look at it. So is this post simply a lie or something more nefarious?
ma boh niente è che ho visto in una RSA questa rivista per i nostri anni d'argento con questa copertina e il rimando in basso a destra all'intervista di Boosta e son rimasto tanto contento che anche lui ha ancora tanti interessi
A 15 x 30 acrylic original painting on canvas of snow and trees along a stone wall on the grounds of an upstate New York monastery, by Janet Dyer.
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This is pure insanity, and will make us much less safe. Salt Typhoon, you might recall, was a recent direct attack on US telecom infrastructure, probably by China, and probably exploiting "lawful access" wiretapping interfaces.
🟠 Derechos humanos y Bitcoin es un espacio de reflexión y acción para periodistas, activistas, disidencias y quienes entienden que la tecnología no es neutral.
La imagen es un cartel promocional para un evento. En la parte superior, dice "MUBIT" en letras grandes y en negrita, seguido de "Mujeres en Bitcoin". Más abajo, dice "Derechos Humanos y Bitcoin", en letras grandes.
En la parte inferior izquierda del cartel, se indica: "Jueves 30 de Julio, 17:30 a 19:30". En la parte inferior derecha, dice "Santa Fe 2955".
En el centro del cartel, hay una lista de oradores. El primer orador es "Leandro Wolkowicz", seguido de "Politólogo, CONICET, Mesa del Orgullo". El segundo orador es "Daiana Gómez", seguido de "CEO de MUBIT". El tercer orador es "Leo Klug", seguido de "Abogado, Coiners".
Hay iconos de una mano levantada, una señal de "orgullo", y un icono de ubicación en la parte superior izquierda del cartel. En la parte inferior derecha, hay el texto "Partners".
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That’s not standard issue anything, and the fact that federal agents now present themselves in this manner only highlights how little difference exists between this clique and the criminal narco-gangs they claim to oppose. journa.host/@theintercept/1154…
"Meritless, malicious prosecutions aimed at collective punishment and the chilling of dissent are now standard practice for Donald Trump’s Justice Department," writes Natasha Lennard. theintercept.com/2025/10/29/ka…
Steve Lewin (guitar, vocals), and the bassist, whose name I have unfortunately forgotten, of the band I Pinata, on stage at Jabez Clegg, Manchester, 11th November 2004.
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