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stux, 3 months ago to random

I kinda don't like the coffee they got over here so my solution..

Put the machine on espresso, strongest flavour, smallest cup and use that 5 times in a single cup :catblush: :coffee_hello:

After that it almost tastes like something :blobcatgiggle:

stux, 3 months ago to random

Tihi! Happy moment!

Found this massive screen at the house we’re staying in so I can work in Unreal while seeing all panels at once :ablobgrin:

A temporary game changer :ablobcatgooglymlemjumping:

sidereal, 3 months ago to random

If you haven’t seen any fediverse spam then thank the people who run your instance because they are doing a good job.

seanbala, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to chicago

A gloomy day in #Chicago today....

Here's what I need to bring some warmth: "The Folk Show" on BBC Radio 2 at Celtic Connections 2024 while sitting at "The Green Post" pub at Rockwell!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vcz7

#BBC #BBCRadio2 #Folk #FolkUK #FolkMusic #Celtic #CelticConnections2024 #Music #TraditionalMusic #Glasgow #BBCSounds #BBCRadio #Pub #ThePaulMcKennaBand #SarahJarosz #TheOutsideTrack #Bluegrass

stux, 3 months ago to Russia

Alexei #Navalny has been murdered

#Russia #Putin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgydMTmhs50

stux, 3 months ago to gamedev

I'm also working on my own GTA/Cyberpunk like game with a 'future distopia' theme as a side project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xsDQOXmlJ8

#GameDev

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to MIguns

⚠️Another day, another…

“Police are responding to a #shooting near Union Station in Kansas City, #Missouri, on Wednesday, where revelers gathered to celebrate with a parade and rally for the Chiefs' Super Bowl win.

Two armed people have been detained, according to Kansas City police.” #GunViolence

https://trib.al/4CtOdEz

w7voa, 3 months ago to random

"An independent US journalist, ex-Foxnews host Tucker Carlson arrived in Russia for the first time and has spent three days in Moscow already." - Sputnik

stux, 3 months ago to random

Cool, cool, cool :coolcat: Just saw that mstdn.social passed the 15 million posts :mastodon:

And only about 117K are mine :blobblush:

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/mstdn.social

cdarwin, 3 months ago to Ohio

How Ohio Republicans ignore voters – and the governor – in power grab to pass laws

In 2015, Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment to limit partisan gerrymandering.

Voting rights advocates and elections experts celebrated the measure’s passage as a major win.

But the state’s new redistricting commission still had a GOP majority, and as they drew legislative and congressional maps in 2021, they refused to abide by the constitutional amendment’s guidelines.

The state supreme court ruled their maps unconstitutional five different times.

But the commission refused to comply, repeatedly submitting to the court maps with minimal changes until the one Republican justice who opposed the gerrymandered maps retired from the court at the end of 2022.

The commission made some changes to the maps in 2023 that softened, but did not eliminate, the Republican advantage.

Crafting maps with a partisan advantage is only one of the ways Ohio Republicans have used the electoral process to cement their power in the state.

The GOP-controlled state legislature enacted in January 2023 one of the strictest voter identification laws in the country – which voting rights groups have decried as disproportionately impacting poor and disabled voters.

They have enacted voter purges, including one in 2019 that mistakenly removed about 40,000 eligible voters from the rolls.

Last year, they tried and failed to make it harder for voters to amend the constitution through a direct vote – attempting to raise the threshold for ballot measures from a simple majority to more than 60%, in an explicit bid to block an abortion rights amendment that voters passed overwhelmingly in November.

🔥Now, Ohio voters are trying again to create a fair redistricting process through a ballot initiative that would create an independent redistricting commission rather than one led by politicians. 🔥

The coalition has until July to collect more than 400,000 signatures for the question to appear on the November ballot.

According to Catherine Turcer, the executive director of the government watchdog group Common Cause Ohio, which is part of the Citizens Not Politicians coalition, the group has trained about 2,000 volunteers to collect petition signatures.

“It’s clear there’s this disconnect between what it is that ordinary Ohioans want, and what it is that the state legislature chooses to do,” said Turcer. “There is real interest in ensuring that we have accountable government.”

👍If voters choose to adopt the amendment in the Ohio constitution, an independent commission will draw the state’s electoral maps, with a panel of judges determining members’ eligibility to join the commission.
Guardrails will be in place to prevent politicians and lobbyists from sitting on the board, narrowing the possibility of partisan influence on the map-drawing process.

But unless and until those become law, Republican legislators can do just about anything they want.
#ohio #gerrymandering #independentredistrictingcommission

@ohio
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/02/ohio-republicans-anti-trans-bills?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

stux, 3 months ago to random

:nkoWave: Hello and a good meowing everyone! :cat_hug_triangle: Day 3 of feeling crap :flan_sick:

I’m gonna update our instances today and further not much I guess.. Have a most wonderful day and stay safe!♥️😸🐾

stux, 4 months ago to random

Just went to the supermarket and on my way there I saw an older woman fall down with her bike, ofc I turned around and helped her get up and with me 2 other people did also :blobcathearts:

Luckily, when I see such things happening there are always some people jumping in to help right away, like they should!

Sometimes I see videos where stuff happens in public and people are just walking by without a care in the world..

That makes me very angry, one should always help another human, period

brewsterkahle, 4 months ago to random

Lovely library pictures: Old Cincinnati Library before being demolished, 1874-1955. oh oh oh.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-old-cincinnati-library-demolition-1874-1955/

GottaLaff, 4 months ago to DaftPunk

#Toodles Rep Johnson! 👋🏼

Via Angry Staffer:

219 majority for the House GOP.

Inching closer and closer to a Speaker Jeffries 👀👀

................

[Here's the story]:
"Bill Johnson submitted his letter of resignation today to the U.S. #House of Representatives, effective Jan. 21, and will start the next day as Youngstown State University president." https://www.vindy.com/news/latest-news/2024/01/bill-johnson-to-resign-jan-21-from-congress-start-as-ysu-president-the-next-day/

deborahh, 5 months ago to random

What? 🤯

"1000 years ago, huge pyramids & earthen mounds stood where East St. Louis sprawls today in Illinois. This majestic urban architecture towered over the swampy Mississippi River floodplains … Word about the city spread throughout the southeast. Thousands visited for feasts & rituals, lured by the promise of a new kind of civilization … the population exploded to … 30,000 people, the largest pre-Columbian city in what became the US, > London or Paris at the time."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/theres-a-1000-year-old-lost-city-beneath-the-st-louis-suburbs/

Gargron, 5 months ago to random

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from this Jewish/Russian/Italian/Mexican household in Germany 🎄

Free_Press, 5 months ago to news

UKRAINIAN BISON

The largest herd of bison in Ukraine was spotted in the Lviv region

The bison settlement is based on the territory of the Brody forest fund of the Carpathian Forest Office. Most of them are of the Belovezhsky subspecies.

Animals were brought to the Lviv region back in the 80s. Then their number was 12 individuals, and now - 114.
#AureFreePress #News #Ukraine #Lviv

video/mp4

stux, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Just put together an early "Happy Holidays" online for you all 🎄 ❤️
https://holidays.stux.me

Not done yet but we still have a few days :blobcatgiggle:

Source, use however you like:
https://stux.xyz/stux/xmas