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Mont St Michel
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The MOST inept administration in US history.
'Shocking recklessness': Trump’s defense department accidentally texted war plans to reporter
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#PeteHegseth #Reckless #Trumpkakistocracy #GOPIdiot #FoxNews #GOPRapist #GOPDrunkard #WhiteSupremacist #Racist #NoRepublicansEverAgain #TrumpDidThis #USPol
'Shocking recklessness': Trump’s defense department accidentally texted war plans to reporter
On Saturday, March 15, President Donald Trump announced military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. The news broke in the afternoon, but The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg found out about the operation before other journalists.Alex Henderson (Alternet.org)
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Tesla is under investigation in Canada for falsifying thousands of sales to game our rebate system.
What if some of the vandalism at Tesla dealerships in the USA were simply insurance fraud scams?
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US law firm Paul Weiss fired by client over Trump executive order reuters.com/world/us/us-law-fi…
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This seems to be from before Paul, Weiss knuckled under, not a response to that. (Dated last Wednesday; Trump's EO rescinded per the surrender deal a day later.)
Wow. The US Treasury Dept. today announced it is lifting sanctions on Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that state-sponsored hackers from North Korea have been massively using to launder their stolen billions.
"Based on the Administration’s review of the novel legal and policy issues raised by use of financial sanctions against financial and commercial activity occurring within evolving technology and legal environments, we have exercised our discretion to remove the economic sanctions against Tornado Cash as reflected in Treasury’s Monday filing in Van Loon v. Department of the Treasury."
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h/t to @ncweaver for the heads up. Weaver said: "The US government has just said "money laundering is legal as long as the process is automated."
"Every wei that flows through Tornado Cash, even if 'legitimate,' is helping the North Korean nuclear regime by hiding illegitimate flows," Weaver told me.
Here's Treasury sanctioning Tornado Cash in 2022: home.treasury.gov/news/press-r…
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Notorious Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, which has been used to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019…U.S. Department of the Treasury
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@phil_stevens if Russia was thinking ahead, they'd have switched much of their agriculture to popcorn production.
Well, you certainly CAN sanction autonomous protocols, you'll just look like a fool when folks realize your sanctions have no power over them.
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User interface menu control options. #ui #ux
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 12/2025 completed
Cascais - Guincho the only “safe” route today.
What an incredible wind!
The road became a dune
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Windy… rain, hail and ocean foam
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Oh, look, Mr Free-Speech-Absolutist is up to his usual tricks when authoritarians ask him to suppress the speech of opposition figures...
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💥💥💥💥💥
Via Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too)."
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- People gathering, to listen to politicians.
- Politicians delivering speeches.
- Politicians telling people to vote for Democrats, in 2026.
That's it.
That's the plan "to take on billionaires and win our country back", while some 80 #DOGE crooks with laptops continue with dismantling the US, this very moment, day by day.
I find this pretty over simplified and personally, I'd absolutely much rather see leaders reaching out and talking to thousands of people than hiding from American people and even avoiding town halls
If you read the global responses and see what other countries feel about it, it may (or may not) change your perspective.
I don't profess to know the answers but I sure as hell support anyone working for solutions....but I do see your use of tags to make your thoughts known.
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@octothorpe @skry Not really. I work as a communications consultant (not for any party or partisan campaign), but I like to think I have a clue. There is a certain class of Dem consultants, however, still wielding a lot of influence but stuck in about 1995.
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
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Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic partner in Asia.
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#News #Trump #Vietnam #USAID #Environment #PublicHealth #USPolitics
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More than five years ago, I wrote about the American conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Conservatives and the False Romance of Russia
American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is.Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic)
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@juuhaa can we show them all this? mastodon.social/@j2bryson/1142…
Episode 6 really shows you how and why the Oligarchs learnt to manipulate democracy (towards the beginning). But it's also pretty violent, viewer discretion is advised. youtube.com/watch?v=1YogE8ZAVT… #TraumaZone #democracy #US #Russia #ussr
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The storm is still afoot. Will have to go on a “safe” route tomorrow. Even though I will be running by one severely affected spot.
Casa da Guia on the photo.
I hear people are doing a surprise-pikachu about Discord's new ad push?
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 🤯
Nobody saw that coming! 
Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June
Discord looks for more ways to make money ahead of expected IPO.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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We may be speaking past each other. I was talking of products on saturated markets such as cola-drinks or clothes. Also in general international companies are badly in touch with the needs of local populace, so they find it easier to change needs.
I've worked in marketing as well (briefly), but more importantly have two degrees that border the subject.
@iju
The fantasy ads are whale-sales, short term impulse buyers. The (far) bigger market is people who are looking for a product that addresses their needs at a reasonable price.
To get from A to B, I'm never going to need a Tesla (simplifying) but a few percent of people think they do, so you can overprice and underdeliver on that. For a short while.
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The incomparable Ceratina cobaltina, a small carpenter bee from south Texas. #nativebees #bees #Ceratina #insects
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I shall not compare thee to a Ceratina cobaltina,
for no maiden nor bee can compare to its brilliance.
for no maiden nor bee can compare to its brilliance.
On this day, March 17, in 2003 PM Jean Chretien told GW Bush that we would not be participating in their invasion of Iraq, given the flimsy evidence for WMDs and belief that ongoing UN monitoring was effective.
Hindsight showed that to be a solid decision. No WMDs were ever found in Iraq - the war, which claimed between 200,000 and a million human lives (depending on how you count bodies,) was waged under false pretenses.
Then-Opposition Leader Stephen Harper sided with the US.
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So Trump can just claim that Canadian military equipment bought from the US are WMDs and grounds for invasion.
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!New To Friendica Hey, what is the best introduction websides? And wich iPhone App is best for Friendica?
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I guess this group isn't very active if this hasn't gotten a response. 😅
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Rosemary is back at the Federal Building in Pittsburgh,
53 years later
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It actually was 43 years at the time of the meme. In any case, what a legend.
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It actually was 43 years at the time of the meme. In any case, what a legend.
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@FelisCatus @edgeofeurope
I knew it, that I knew the story.
It's from 2017 43 years apart.
""I actually reproduced the sign using a projector and tracing the original onto the new sign," Twyman told PennLive."
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Pa. grandma is a living parallel between Nixon and Trump - and now a viral hit on Twitter
"I'm not a social media person," Duffy said. "I just get a kick out of the grandkids' reaction. I have 10 grandkids and they're having fun with it."Colin Deppen | cdeppen@pennlive.com (pennlive)
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For #AncientSiteSunday this fabulous aerial view of the Acropolis at #Athens - a site I would love to be right now!
📷 Christos Kapoulas
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 11 completed
Cascais maze
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Trump wants to deport a legal resident for supporting Palestine, but Jan. 6 rioters? ‘Very fine people.’
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@godpod
Liberal opinions are violence. Conservative violence is peaceful protest.
#PlankEyedHypocrisy
#RepublicanFascism
#PlankEyedHypocrisy
#RepublicanFascism
Speed does not equal progress. And movement is not the same as meaning.
In fact, some of the most important parts of life only become visible when we slow down long enough to notice them.
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Saw a cardinal on my run yesterday morning! @setmeravelles
#running #runnersofmastodon #birds #iowa
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On the elliptical at the Planet Fitness in my hometown. Nobody is on any of the other 14 machines in the same town. A guy gets on the one next to me, and proceeds to listen to videos with no headphones. Wait, it gets better 🙃 … he started watching a Trump speech on some MAGA site 🙈
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Wow, not sure what I'd do, probably just ostentatiously switch to the farthest possible machine. 🙄
Default theme changed
I have changed the default theme for Friendica.World.
It is still the 'Frio' theme but now with the 'Bookface' customisation, set to 'Auto Color Mode'.
The auto color mode means it switches between Light and Dark mode depending on your computer's setting.
If you want to change the theme and/or customisation, you can do so here: friendica.world/settings/displ…
You'll find the theme under 'General Theme Settings' and the customisation (Appearance) under 'Custom Theme Settings'
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One day later' disappointment kicks in with a vengeance.
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First post!
So, I'm trying this instead of Facebook. I know it's clunkier right now, but hopefully, I can convince people to start coming over and joining it.
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BookFace might already be on if you have just registered your account. I think it has just became the default theme in friendica.world.
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The new nonfiction suggests everything is fine
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U.S. newspapers should do one giant headline: Trump/Musk Declare War on U.S., Americans.
Then subheads: Tariffs on allies, catastrophic cuts to aid and research, and betraying Ukraine are acts of lunacy.
First sentence: Acting as Putin’s puppet by turning on Ukraine, putting tariffs on allies, destroying diplomacy and scientific research, and decimating the government and economy while resegregating people is tantamount to declaring war on America.
#usa #trump #musk
Then subheads: Tariffs on allies, catastrophic cuts to aid and research, and betraying Ukraine are acts of lunacy.
First sentence: Acting as Putin’s puppet by turning on Ukraine, putting tariffs on allies, destroying diplomacy and scientific research, and decimating the government and economy while resegregating people is tantamount to declaring war on America.
#usa #trump #musk
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On behalf of the United Kingdom, I would like to welcome the United States of America into the select club of countries that have voted to impose economic sanctions on themselves.
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Chanced on this one while wandering around downtown Cincinnati at dusk yesterday
Sign story here: bl.ag/meet-chuck-keiger-sam-ca…
Sadly, further photography was abandoned after an unsavoury character started making a beeline for me across the parking lot. Maybe I'll get a opportunity to return for some closer shots of the wall...
#Ghostsigns #Cincinnati #Ohio #SignPainters #Painters #Decorators
Meet Chuck Keiger, Sam Caldwell's Cincinnati Walldog
Story of sign painter and walldog Chuck Keiger, painter of Cincinnati's Sam Caldwell ghost sign.Better Letters (BLAG Magazine: Adventures in Sign Painting Craft, Community & Culture)
Observations:
1. My time poking around facebook has shown me how many people manage to make social media a positive tool and means of staying connected and organized despite the software often working against this.
2. To propose that social media be positive and useful is to insist it’s an effective organization tool. This is why big social media is content with their image as a “vice” — that is where they want to be.
3. The positive uses of social media are basically repressed.
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Social media can be a force for good the fact that so many people see it as the opposite says more about the forces that dominate “the market” and the mistake we make allowing human social networks to be monetized at all.
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I could suggest that there are powerful wealthy people who plot to destroy effective social networks. It can seem that way some of the time. But, this is inventing a romantic opponent, an arch villain with more respect for potential power of "ordinary people" than any of the people who cause these things to happen, mostly without even knowing what they have destroyed.
One advantage we still retain? The people who could stop effective social networks don't really think they are possible.
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A thing I have been trying to do is stop thinking about people's behavior in terms of their intentional motivations and more in terms of "what would this person tend to do, if they act according to the motivations in front of them?"
It is maybe not fair, but I am increasingly questioning how much of what ANYONE does is "intentional". They say "a system is what it does". Is a person a system?
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@mcc one of the most useful meetings I ever had was when we were spinning up a new team, and when discussing things like our testing strategy (geomean or arithmetic mean for composite benchmark scores?) and meeting schedule (daily standup y/n?), the manager would ask “what incentives does this create?”
Vastly more useful way of looking at it than individual preferences
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Totally agree. Back in 2008 I got into a debate with Clay Shirky at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. At the time I was very optimistic about social networks possibilities to create change -- mybarackobama.com was hugely impactful, as was the One Million Strong for Barack Facebook group. His take was that they were going to shut it down ... and that's exactly what happened.
But the potential's still there! It's just a question of how to manifest it ... privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-…
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Make Diseases Great Again!!!!
#AgentBrainWorm #RFK #HHS #PublicHealth #Vaccines #RFKisNoKennedy #RFKPredator #RFKGrifter #USPol
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I'd change the text in the second panel to "Anti-vaxxers lied to you".
Calling these people idiots is not helpful or constructive. Showing them how they've been misinformed may be (I say 'may' because a lot of them are very resistant to the idea that they may have trusted the wrong people)
@Bern
Exactly this 👆
There are no idiots. People just have different values and have internalised different kinds of information.
Exactly this 👆
There are no idiots. People just have different values and have internalised different kinds of information.
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This might be the highlight of the year: I got tickets to see Cate Blanchett perform in "The Seagull" at the Barbican in London! 😱😱
All the tickets had been sold out for months, and they just released few new ones today. OMFG, this is absolutely incredible—I’m so excited! 🤩🤩🤩
You might still be able to find a few tickets from today’s release here: barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…
THE SEAGULL | Barbican
Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke make their return to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier's new production of Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL.www.barbican.org.uk
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I celebrated my first month in London by seeing Cate Blanchett live in The Seagull at the Barbican.
I didn’t love the play—felt like a chaotic script—but being just a meter away from her was incredible, and her performance was amazing.
She and Kodi Smit-McPhee (on her right side) also star in the "Disclaimer" show on Apple TV+, which is set in London, and I recommend it!
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Theater, museums, concerts, meetups, and cultural activities are my favorite part of London. Madrid has a great and huge cultural offer too, although it lacks English-language theater and shows, they are in Spanish instead.
I've always felt that Barcelona is way behind when it comes to cultural events and museums, which is a shame.
What I do miss about Barcelona is its fantastic public infrastructure—especially the transportation system—along with its modern public libraries, night safety, and the convenience of having everything packed into a very compact, beautiful and functional city.
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really on museums in Barcelona? I think museums are pretty great in Barcelona and people visiting often comment to me as much. On cultural events, it feels a lot to me, of course not as many in English but such a diverse blend.
Glad you’re enjoying London!!
Glad you’re enjoying London!!
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So sad to not see the US flag on the world stage anymore but that is what the electorate chose sadly.
I blame it on Republicans unlike many of you who are choosing to blame what the nonvoting Americans chose to do on Democrats rather than put the blame on your friends who didn't bother voting.
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🤔 One's really gotta wonder, whether there's any member in the current administration who's NOT an asset of Putin & who'd have the balls to stand up to Trump & show him (& Vance) the door out to the way to Moscow, where they can share a bed of honor with Bashar al Assad.
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Liverpool Docks from Wapping (Liverpool) by John Atkinson Grimshaw c. 1870
(Private Collection)
I was wondering if the church was still there? I know much of this was bombed in WW2.
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#silentSunday
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At the behest of Putin--in 1987.
That Time Trump Spent Nearly $100,000 On An Ad Criticizing U.S. Foreign Policy In 1987
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Sunrise pic! #Running
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in reply to Eudes Honorato • • •Makes it all the more eearie ... I need to learn more about this building? Town? Leviathan?
I think I must know it as an icon never named from art and stories, but I had no idea that anything real that looked like this existed somewhere.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I was looking into the history of this place and found this interesting video with some footage from 44 of correspondents who stayed in the area as they tried to get in to Paris to cover the war.
Some of them died in their efforts. It's especially arresting because it's in color.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •One of the interesting things about Mont St Michel is that there's two of them. Sort of.
There is Mont St Michel in Normandy and, over the other side of the English Channel, there is St Michael's Mount in Cornwall. They are both tidal islands with medieval buildings on them and they share a name, though I will admit that the French version is the more impressive looking of the two.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •amazing place!
There is an odd indie film from the 1990s that was filmed there: rottentomatoes.com/m/mindwalk
Mindwalk | Rotten Tomatoes
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in reply to Kelsey Jordahl • • •AH! I remember that, or at least the ads for it before the movies at the little art house cinema I hung out at as a teen. It has that actor from Law and Order in it for some reason.
I don't remember if it was any good, but it has a "vibe" that's attractive.
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