JA Westenberg<p>When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'</p>
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Natasha Jay 🇪🇺<p>A guide to changing clocks this weekend ⌚</p>
Meanwhile in Canada<p>Canary in the coal mine</p>
Street Art Utopia<p>Todays Life Hack</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>
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>
George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽<p>The government’s incompetence is leading to horrific acts of cruelty.</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>
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>
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>
-Boulet-<p>Aussi aujourd'hui je retombe par hasard sur ce banger:</p>
The Bee Guy<p>Queen <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BUMBLEBEES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BUMBLEBEES</span></a> - HELP THEM OUT!<br>Another Saturday morning means another vital thread concerning <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bumblebee</span></a> queens at this time of year!<br>Please <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/repost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repost</span></a>/#share as EVERY QUEEN BEE THAT SURVIVES GETS TO ESTABLISH A NEST that otherwise would not happen. Let me explain.<br>1/11<br><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bees</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>
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Robert Roskam<p>The 10x engineer stories never include: added meaningful tests, updated documentation, created onboarding materials, mentored juniors, or improved runbooks.</p><p>There is no glory in these things. Yet those who do them will find themsleves 10xing their team.</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>
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>
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>
Paul Jackson<p>Whats that up in the sky Maisy? <br />Is it springtime sunshine? <br />I think it might be! 😸 😺 🌞 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Caturday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CatsOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediCats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FediCats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pets</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tabby" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tabby</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TabbyCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TabbyCat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Calico" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Calico</span></a></p>
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