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stevesilberman, 3 days ago to random

The best postscripts to an invitation I've ever seen. [via Scott Ruplin]

vicgrinberg, 4 days ago to Bulgaria

Get into the car in the morning and drive through France into Belgium on the way to the Netherlands. And the only sign of change of country is a sign along the road that I almost missed. Nobody checked our (German) IDs and we did not need a passport.

Living in the #EU, we tend to take it for granted that we can easily cross borders. But it's an wonder, an achievement, something worth fighting for.

#Europa #Europe

jhilden, 3 days ago to random

Finnish landslide for Left, second-largest party in EU elections.

Also some small joy to be had in the fact that notorious climate change delayist Eija-Riitta Korhola didn't get elected.
#EUelections2024

https://mas.to/@nordicnews/112588059170658663

ai6yr, 4 days ago to id

CNN: ‘Catastrophic landslide’ closes critical mountain highway between Wyoming and Idaho #TetonPass #infrastructure #WY #ID

mcnees, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

William Anders, astronaut on the Apollo 8 mission, passed away earlier today.

Anders took the iconic Earthrise photo while orbiting the Moon with Borman and Lovell. No human had ever seen an Earthrise before.

On the transmission he says "Oh my God, look at that picture over there! It's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"

🌕

Image: NASA

NunavutBirder, 5 days ago to random

Eighty years ago today my namesake died in France. Murdered as a POW by elements of the 12th Panzer Hitlerjugend, probably on the orders of General William Mohnke.

This is the story of that day. https://kiggavik.typepad.com/the_house_other_arctic_mu/2010/06/and-now-you-die.html

A grave marker amongst other graves in a commonwealth war graves cemetery. It reads “H. 41150 L/Cpl. C.D. KINES The Royal Winnipeg Rifles 8th June 1944 Age 29 In thought, faith In deed, courage In life, service In death, victory”

googlyeyesonmagiccards, 4 days ago to mtg

A classic requested on my Tumblr

#ProdigalSorcerer #mtg #magicthegathering

mekkaokereke, 7 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

99.7% of Venture Capital money goes to people that are not Black women.

0.3% of Venture Capital goes to Black women.

The 11th circuit court cited civil rights law when it said that it is racist to stop anyone from having access to VC based on their race, and that setting aside VC for people of a given race is racist.

So they ruled against a group of Black women looking to give their own money to Black founders. For violating the civil rights. Of white men that want that 0.3% too.🙂🙃

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googlyeyesonmagiccards, 6 days ago to mtg

I've been getting into Dandan (AKA the forgetful fish) recently

#MemoryLapse #mtg #magicthegathering

mekkaokereke, 7 days ago to random

I'm still not ready to laugh at someone going to jail, but this gentleman never having had a driver's license, ever, is wild.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FiIY5B4a_-k

He seems to have significant difficulty navigating legal forms and executive function, and making judgement calls. I'm not going to speculate on why that might be in his case, but I've helped people in similar situations do the seemingly simple things needed to keep them out of jail.

His defender should have known about the bench warrant.

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simon, 8 days ago to random

I got a good quote in this story about that dumb Zoom Idea to have "digital twins" attend meetings in your place https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/zoom-ceo-envisions-ai-deepfakes-attending-meetings-in-your-place/

mekkaokereke, 8 days ago to random

Great article on the Angel Reese Caitlin Clark double standard.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/wnba/news/angel-reese-caitlin-clark-comment-sky/51629b885f36c09d00c24ba0

And no, Caitlin Clark is not "doing this." She's not responsible for it. But she does benefit from it.

Similarly, as a man, I didn't create sexism in the tech industry. I didn't create it. But as a man, I do benefit from it. That doesn't necessarily make me sexist! But, what responsibility do I have to reduce it? Smart people disagree on this.

stux, 7 days ago to random

Every year on the anniversary of D-Day, sand from Omaha Beach is rubbed onto the gravestones of fallen soldiers to create a golden shine. They do this for all 9,386 American soldiers buried there

A cemetery janitor rubbing in sand on the names on the gravestone to give it a nice golden shine

tek, 8 days ago to random

A friend just pointed out:

"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability. Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."

Let’s do this.

campuscodi, 8 days ago to random

Security researcher Alexander Hagenah has released TotalRecall, a tool that extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11.

https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

brucelawson, 9 days ago to random

I'm posting this photo because 35 years later, people in China and Hong Kong can't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

megschwamb, 8 days ago to Astro

Hubble moves to single gryo mode. This moves ensures the space telescope can keep on observing well reserving/saving one of the good functioning gyros for the future. https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-to-change-how-it-points-hubble-space-telescope/ #astrodon

TheConversationUS, 8 days ago to history

70 years after the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board, one of its most significant side effects − the large-scale loss of Black teachers − continues to affect America’s schools.
Before Brown, Black teachers were 35% to 50% of the teacher workforce in segregated states.
Today, Black people account for just 6.7% of America’s public K-12 teachers.
https://theconversation.com/how-black-teachers-lost-when-civil-rights-won-in-brown-v-board-229687
#History #Histodons @histodons @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

Cyanocitta, 8 days ago to Bloomscrolling

Warm Tuesday morning going up to the high 90F today. First Lily in the pond blooming.

#Bloomscrolling

archaeohistories, 8 days ago to history

Hell Yeah 😁

#archaeohistories

coloradosun, 8 days ago to random

Denver museum working to reveal T. rex fossil found by three kids in North Dakota
https://coloradosun.com/2024/06/04/colorado-denver-museum-dinosaur-fossil-badlands/

Alon, 8 days ago to random

35 years ago, nothing happened in Beijing. Here's a serene photo of a city center attraction.

sundogplanets, 1 month ago to random

I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

noodlejetski, 1 year ago to queer

!!! IMPORTANT UPDATE !!!

#Pride #Wroclaw