Natasha Jay 🇪🇺<p>A guide to changing clocks this weekend ⌚</p>
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Randahl Fink<p>We think the US is falling apart because of Trump's reelection. But Trump is just a symptom of a bigger problem:</p><p>The US is falling apart as a result of the US allowing an insane wealth distribution, where the rich pay no taxes, because their companies are offshored and now have revenues larger than countries.</p><p>This has allowed the malignant to buy both media and social media, which has allowed them to hack democracy by polluting the minds of the uneducated, which THEN has gotten Trump elected.</p>
Street Art Utopia<p>Todays Life Hack</p>
nixCraft 🐧<p>Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week as users look to avoid subscription costs. That’s the highest download number since 2023. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix like systems. <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">computerworld.com/article/3840</span><span class="invisible">480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦<p>Meanwhile. JD Vance and his wife spent only three hours in Greenland during a visit—entirely on a U.S. military base. Protests and a full business boycott forced them to leave, as locals refused to serve or admit them anywhere.</p>
Meanwhile in Canada<p>Canary in the coal mine</p>
Kees van der Leun<p>50,000 people killed by Israel in Gaza. Dutch @trouw.nl has the first part of the list of their names on its front page today. The list is ranked by age; these victims were all zero years old.</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>There is something very wrong in this country when six young people meeting to discuss politics in a Quaker Meeting House are arrested by the police after a mass (twenty officers) invasion of the building (armed with tasers).</p><p>The freedom to protest, or even the freedom to meet in a room to discuss current affairs, are central to a democracy... if this freedom is now compromised (further), as it seems to be, we are in a very bad place!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> </p><p>h/t <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@Thebratdragon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Thebratdragon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/</span><span class="invisible">news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house</span></a></p>
Ars Technica<p>The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations<br />The move is a sign that the public health agency may be falling in line under RFK Jr.<br /><a href="https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/the-cdc-buried-a-measles-forecast-that-stressed-the-need-for-vaccinations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/health/2025/03</span><span class="invisible">/the-cdc-buried-a-measles-forecast-that-stressed-the-need-for-vaccinations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social</span></a></p>
James Gleick 🇺🇦<p>In which Tesla shamelessly tries to defraud Canada of $40 milllion and gets caught.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/world/canada/tesla-canada-sales-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k4.Chtw.FaRL942sXDg-&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/27/world/c</span><span class="invisible">anada/tesla-canada-sales-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k4.Chtw.FaRL942sXDg-&smid=url-share</span></a></p>
Antoinne Sterk<p>Partial</p><p><a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/SolarEclipse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarEclipse</span></a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a></p>
Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)<p>Dear Labour Government... <br>Top 6 (realistic) policy suggestions: <br>1. Rejoin the EU single market.<br>2. Bring in a tiny 2% wealth tax (£24bn) <br>3. Invest that in NHS, Schools and Rewilding<br>4. And avoid welfare cuts for the worst off<br>5. Get growth via investing in green economy (grew 10% last year)<br>6. End arms sales to Israel - because it’s immoral.</p><p>Interestingly, these are the policies of the Green Party. They are NOT policy for Labour, Cons, or Reform. Think of that the next time you vote.</p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>Phew – despite heavy cloud cover here in Heidelberg, there were a few breaks about 20 minutes after maximum partial eclipse, allowing me to get some pictures 🌞👍</p><p>Bonus large sunspot to the top left as well 🙂</p><p>Taken with my iPhone 15 through the eyepiece of my 15 x 70 binoculars. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Heidelberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heidelberg</span></a> 🏰<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photography</span></a> 📷<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iPhonePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iPhonePhotography</span></a> 📱<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SolarEclipse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SolarEclipse</span></a> 🌞🌚🌍<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SolarEclipse2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SolarEclipse2025</span></a></p>
Anarchist Art Ⓐ
Ika Makimaki<p>Must say there is something beautiful and healing about seeing a bunch of strangers in a <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/repairCafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repairCafe</span></a> helping each other fix their rice cookers, format their laptops, sew their teddy bears, patch up their clothes, figure out ways to solve problems with what they've got right there and each other.</p><p>Highly recommended activity to restore faith in ordinary people when we see so much cruelty from the top.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/hopepunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hopepunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightToRepair</span></a></p>
Auschwitz Memorial<p>28 March 1926 | A Czech Jewish girl, Edita Spitzová, was born in Kolín.</p><p>She was imprisoned in Theresienstadt Ghetto on 8 February 1942 and deported to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Auschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Auschwitz</span></a> on 26 October 1942 together with her mother Anna (b. 1893) & father Eduard (b. 1886). None of them survived.</p>
Michael<p>Saw this, and immediately thought of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@babe" class="u-url mention">@<span>babe</span></a></span></p>
European Commission<p>A new commitment to fight malnutrition worldwide.</p><p>We have announced €3.4 billion until 2027 to support partner countries facing high levels of child malnutrition, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.</p><p>The EU support will address children under five and young pregnant and breastfeeding mothers suffering from severe acute malnutrition.</p><p>We will work with partner countries to get closer to a world where every child wakes up nourished, grows strong, and thrives.</p><p>More: <a href="https://europa.eu/!nywc49" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">europa.eu/!nywc49</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> removes the last(?) method of installing <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> without a Microsoft <a href="https://graz.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> account: <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.windows.com/windows-insi</span><span class="invisible">der/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel/</span></a></p><p>"We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account."</p><p>What else do you need to switch to a <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> system which is respecting your privacy and your security in contrast to MS? 🤔 </p><p>Contact your local community if you need help with that.</p><p>Further benefit: Linux is not forcing you to throw away perfectly good computer hardware just to update to <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Win11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Win11</span></a>.</p>
Dr. Victoria Grinberg<p>🌞 + 🌕</p><p>(At least I guess so...)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SoFi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eclipse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>eclipse</span></a></p>
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