nixCraft 🐧<p>Today is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorldBackupDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorldBackupDay</span></a>. Don’t forget to make a backup and verify your backups too. I use the rsnapshot on my FreeBSD machine <a href="https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-rsnapshot-filesystem-snapshot-backup-utility-in-freebsd/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-instal</span><span class="invisible">l-rsnapshot-filesystem-snapshot-backup-utility-in-freebsd/</span></a> but can be installed on Linux too <a href="https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/redhat-cetos-linux-remote-backup-snapshot-server/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cyberciti.biz/faq/redhat-cetos</span><span class="invisible">-linux-remote-backup-snapshot-server/</span></a> What do you use to make backups?</p>
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Foone🏳️⚧️<p>Happy Transgender Day of Visibility, from VGAPride!</p>
Anne Applebaum<p>Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/magazine/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/</span></a></p>
TransActual<p>It's Trans Day of Visibility today and we're sending love and solidarity to trans people everywhere - whether you're able to be open about being trans or not.</p><p>It's also the 5th birthday of our website! Yes, our website launched on 31st March 2020 and was the catalyst for TransActual becoming the organisation that it is today.</p><p>One of our first pages was our crowd-sourced definition of transphobia: <a href="https://transactual.org.uk/transphobia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">transactual.org.uk/transphobia</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nonbinary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TDOV25" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TDOV25</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TDOV" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TDOV</span></a></p>
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Open Source Programme Office<p>Awesome!</p><p>Our EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue is live ! </p><p><a href="https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/interoperable-europe/news/eu-open-source-solutions-catalogue-now-live" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">interoperable-europe.ec.europa</span><span class="invisible">.eu/interoperable-europe/news/eu-open-source-solutions-catalogue-now-live</span></a></p>
Steve Herman<p>A French court convicts far right leader Marine Le Pen in an embezzlement case and follows up the verdict with a sentence barring her immediately from running for office for five years. <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250331-%F0%9F%94%B4-french-court-convicts-far-right-leader-marine-le-pen-in-embezzlement-trial" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">france24.com/en/live-news/2025</span><span class="invisible">0331-%F0%9F%94%B4-french-court-convicts-far-right-leader-marine-le-pen-in-embezzlement-trial</span></a></p>
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦<p>Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzlement</p><p>The French far-right icon will be sentenced later Monday</p><p>By Victor Goury-Laffont</p><p>PARIS - Marine Le Pen and eight other former MEPs from the French far right were found guilty Monday of embezzling European Parliament funds</p><p><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/france-far-right-national-rally-marine-le-pen-court-verdict-embezzlement-case-guilty" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.eu/article/france-far</span><span class="invisible">-right-national-rally-marine-le-pen-court-verdict-embezzlement-case-guilty</span></a></p>
hagen terschüren<p>exploitation is bad and everything but the most offensive thing about billionaires is that they could do cool shit all day every day and choose not to.</p>
Dan Gillmor<p>The words "detain" and "detention" have definitions that are mostly benign -- e.g. "detained by traffic on the way to lunch" and "grade-school kid has after-class detention..."</p><p>That's why using "was detained" is carrying water for ICE when the reality is "was kidnapped off the street and imprisoned..."</p><p>Journalism needs to be much more precise, but that would require less stenography and more thinking before publishing.</p>
CarveHerName<p>“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<p>Instead of relying on the US, the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> could have spent the equivalent of one or two state dinners on creating an EU alternative to <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/LetsEncrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetsEncrypt</span></a>. They still can :)</p>
Old Book Illustrations<p>Iris.<br />Maurice Pillard Verneuil, from "La plante et ses applications ornementales" by Eugène Grasset, Paris: [ca. 1896] <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/iris/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oldbookillustrations.com/illus</span><span class="invisible">trations/iris/</span></a></p>
myrmepropagandist<p>Please don't order lilies for your friends and lovers if they have a cat. Really... a gift of flowers for a cat owner is... I won't say it's *always* a bad idea, but consider if the cat owner has any house plants.</p><p>If they have no house plants there is a *reason* for that. It's called: The Cat. You can have house plants OR a cat but not both. Cats chew on plants, and they will chew on lilies and get sick and possibly die. No, they don't know not to eat these plants. They dig right in.</p>
FediFollows<p>A couple of important things about this account:</p><p> - You don't have to wait for me to randomly post accounts that are interesting to you. There are thousands of accounts organised into categories and topics on my website at <a href="https://fedi.directory" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fedi.directory</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p> - None of the accounts I post are blank! If an account looks blank to you, it's probably because no one on your server has followed it yet. Follow it and its posts will start showing up on your server. More info about this at <a href="https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fedi.tips/why-does-someones-ac</span><span class="invisible">count-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank</span></a></p>
JA Westenberg<p>America under Trump isn't feared for its strength. </p><p>It's avoided for its ignorance. </p><p>It's the drunk, belligerent, painfully racist uncle at the party that nobody wants to get stuck talking to. </p><p>It is, in fact, the perfect representation of Trump's own voters.</p><p><a href="https://www.theindex.media/donald-trump-is-too-weak-to-understand-soft-power/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theindex.media/donald-trump-is</span><span class="invisible">-too-weak-to-understand-soft-power/</span></a></p>
Hanse Mina<p>Germany’s incoming government says it will press the European Union to finally add some bite to its bark over misbehaving countries ― in a thinly veiled reference to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.</p><p><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-next-coalition-vows-punish-hungary-viktor-orban-friedrich-merz/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.eu/article/germany-ne</span><span class="invisible">xt-coalition-vows-punish-hungary-viktor-orban-friedrich-merz/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>eu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>germany</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hungary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/orban" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>orban</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/merz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>merz</span></a></p>
Foxes in Love<p><a href="https://social.neonpaws.digital/tags/foxesInLove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foxesInLove</span></a> <a href="https://social.neonpaws.digital/tags/comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comic</span></a></p><p>Source: <a href="https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/779533363036946432" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/</span><span class="invisible">779533363036946432</span></a><br>Copyright: <a href="https://foxesinlove.net" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">foxesinlove.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Juliet E McKenna<p>On Trans Day of Visibility, like every other day of the year, I continue to accept, respect and support trans people. </p><p>I don't understand being trans, but - good news! - I don't have to.</p><p>I know who I am better than anyone else does, and I have always found other people know who they are too. Simple.</p>
Greenpeace International<p>THE MAASAI REFUSE TO BE ERASED! <br /><br />Their homes burned. Families forcibly evicted and pushed over 700km from their ancestral lands, where they are now caught in conflict with those already living there. </p><p>All this to make way for trophy hunting and carbon offset deals that profit corporates while destroying lives.<br /><br />Maasai leaders are calling for the Tanzanian government to do the right thing for its people and the planet.<br /><br />Add your voice to theirs 👉 <a href="https://act.gp/4hZdwz0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">act.gp/4hZdwz0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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