Foone🏳️⚧️<p>Happy Transgender Day of Visibility, from VGAPride!</p>
Today is #WorldBackupDay. Don’t forget to make a backup and verify your backups too. I use the rsnapshot on my FreeBSD machine https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-rsnapshot-filesystem-snapshot-backup-utility-in-freebsd/ but can be installed on Linux too https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/redhat-cetos-linux-remote-backup-snapshot-server/ What do you use to make backups?
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. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250331-%F0%9F%94%B4-french-court-convicts-far-right-leader-marine-le-pen-in-embezzlement-trial
FRANCE 24 · Live: French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office
Breaking: French far-right leader Le Pen, furious about being held accountable for her crimes, vows to move to the United States.
Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/
The Atlantic · Orbán’s Hungary Could Be America’s Future
I would like to congratulate France for imprisoning an embezzler who just happens to be a leading political figure.
Other countries should take note of how it's done.
Good morning. #BabyGoatCountdown is at 2 days, and it's -17C this morning so I did get up at 2am to go check the goats. Fortunately the stars were amazing at 2am and the Earth's shadow was high enough that there were no visible satellites!
I'm 75% sure that I heard a peep from the incubator when I checked just now, so maybe the #FediverseChickCountdown won't be a total bust!
Dear US:
Some of you just don't "get it" ,
and *thankfully some do*.
After all these months some haven't clued in on the stress your country is exerting on Canadians mental health.
Parents tell me their children go to bed asking for reassurance they won't be shot by US soldiers.
Most adults complain their sleep is is disturbed by nightmares.
Using a little thought before you speak with us is appreciated, no, *expected*.
And thank all of you who discern what is socially responsible.
Marine Le Pen’s first conviction rules out future presidential candidacies.
Donald Trump’s various convictions, 881,776 Covid deaths, armed insurrection & theft of classified documents made him president.
That’s why we can’t have nice things.
The EU OSS Catalogue is now live! 
The new resource from the @EUCommission , with 640+ #OpenSource tools for public administrations, is designed to support software reuse and collaboration across the #EU.
Learn more on the Interoperable Europe Portal 
https://europa.eu/!VBxPqG
Wait ... so in other countries, politicians who commit crimes are sentenced — they don't get to be elected president?
How weird! That's why America is the greatest country in the world! /s
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.
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.
