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#FundraiserPerk Personalized to you! A signed copy of Lev Grossman’s THE BRIGHT SWORD Easton Press limited edition, only 350 copies made. This leather bound book is a gorgeous additon to your collection. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio!



Off-road motorcycle crash claims life of 14-year-old boy in Aurora

Police said the boy had a 16-year-old rider on the bike and was “traveling at a high rate of speed on the sidewalk when it collided with a Kia Sorento that was turning onto Louisiana Drive from Peoria Street.”

sentinelcolorado.com/metro/off…

#AuroraCO #NoPaywall





Scientists Blasted Human Cells With 5G to See What Would Happen
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-blasted-human-cells-with-5g-to-see-what-would-happen-2000602549?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Science @science-Gizmodo




1/4 📢 Got a groundbreaking idea for #free #software and #privacy preserving projects that support our mission? Missed our first six #funding calls? No worries!

🌟 Our 7th Open Call is live since 1st of April and you’ve got about half month to apply - the #deadline is 1st of June, 2025 12:00 CET (noon). ⏰

💡We’re on the lookout for proposals that will revolutionize #digitalpayment systems and contribute to an #open, #trustworthy, and #reliable internet for all. 💻

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2/4 🌱 We’re offering funding between 5,000 and 50,000 euros! Whether you're a #SME, #academic, #public sector entity, #nonprofit, #community, or an individual - we want your innovative ideas! 🌍✨

🚀 You can enhance GNU Taler by:

♦Developing auxiliary tools,
♦Improving user experience,
♦Creating integrations into FOSS applications, or
♦Boosting infrastructure components (like merchant backends), to name a few ideas...

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3/4 📢Info about this & other NGI funding calls, on the NGI's website: ngi.eu/opencalls/

📋 Read the Open Call, Guide for Applicants, Eligibility Requirements, FAQs and submit your application on @nlnet 's website: nlnet.nl/taler/

💬 Join our TALER Integration Community Hub (TALER ICH) developed by @ps to get your questions answered: ich.taler.net/

💡Need Inspiration? Check 14 successful projects that are working with us here nlnet.nl/project/index.html

@EC_NGI
@Taler

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A female Wagler's Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus wagleri) spotted near the walking path at Windsor Nature Park, Singapore on 1 Jan 2025. An ambush hunter, it stayed still despite all the attention it was getting from passersby. And if you look closely, you can see a mosquito on its snout.

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/2… ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Reptiles #Reptilia #Snakes #Serpentes



Was für ein Wahnsinn... Wadephul unterstützt Trumps überzogene Militärausgaben-Forderung, die fast kein anderes Land erfüllt - nicht mal die USA selbst (3,38 %). Gleichzeitig fehlt Geld für Bildung, Klimaschutz und soziale Sicherheit. Das ist nicht Realpolitik, sondern Realitätsverlust auf Kosten der dringend notwendigen Zukunftsaufgaben.


#Grml - new stable release 2025.05 available: blog.grml.org/archives/423-Grm…

Release name #Nudlaug:
grml.org/faq/#releasename

I really love the grml release names. Disclaimer: being from Austria, I do understand most of them. 😜



Studenter vid Umeå Universitet har öppnat Palestinadammen igen! De kräver full divestering från israeliska bolag och att regeringen inför sanktioner.

Medtag:
- Palestinasjal
- Tält, sovsäck, madrass
- Varma kläder och powerbank
- Det du behöver plugga!

Uppdateringar på I****gram: instagram.com/umustudenter.for…

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Mai 1972: Die Rote Armee Fraktion führt in ihrer Mai-Offensive sechs Sprengstoffanschläge durch, die sich u.a. gegen US-Militäreinrichtungen und den Springer-Verlag richten:


An anticipated round of #Ukraine #peace talks in #Turkey descended into bluster & confusion on Thurs as Ukrainian & Russian delegations arrived in different cities & left it unclear as to whether they would actually meet with one another.

#Putin skipped the talks, & instead sent a group of midlevel Russian ofcls to Istanbul. President Volodymyr #Zelensky of Ukraine landed in Ankara, the Turkish capital, for a meeting with the Turkish president.

#Russia #war
nytimes.com/2025/05/15/world/e…

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As of midday in Istanbul, neither side had said whether the Ukrainians & Russians would in fact meet. #Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the talks had been postponed until the afternoon on Turkey’s request. #Zelensky said Russia’s delegation “appears to be more theatrical than substantive.”

A Ukrainian ofcl traveling w/the country’s foreign minister in #Turkey said #Ukraine would only decide whether to meet the Russian delegation after Zelensky & President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had lunch Thurs.

in reply to Nonilex

And overshadowing it all was #Trump, who told reporters traveling with him on Air Force One that “nothing’s going to happen until #Putin & I get together.” [idiot] Trump, who was in Qatar & the UAE Thursday, had earlier said that he might travel to Turkey on Friday “if something happened” in the #peace talks. However, there was no other indication that a last-minute summit would materialize.

#Russia #Ukraine #war

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Behind the brinkmanship were the two very different approaches from Moscow & Kyiv on how to end the #war. #Zelensky wants an immediate & unconditional #ceasefire, followed by negotiations over a potential peace deal. But #Putin, who appears confident of #Russia’s upper hand on the battlefield, is refusing to stop fighting before he secures major concessions from #Ukraine & the West.
in reply to Nonilex

We have our answer.

Putin wants war, not peace.

Europe, and the other defenders of democracy & peace, do your thing.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Also, ditch the addiction to fossil fuels that funds Putin's war machine.

Wind, solar, hydro, & eventually fusion energy.
npr.org/2025/05/05/g-s1-64393/…

oilprice.com/Alternative-Energ…

cnbc.com/2025/04/27/wind-power…

e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-wi…

theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

Let's all ditch the fossil fuel industry & their perpetual oil wars

cnn.com/2025/05/06/climate/nuc…



Huh?
8 en 9 jaar en vragen ze een man dit?
* De kinderen kregen er snoepjes, drinken en toen de vraag kwam of de man zich wilde uitkleden om zijn geslachtsdeel te laten zien, stemde hij daarmee in.*
nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/348512/verd…


Some new (and newish) data about 2024 gives us a better sense of the role that younger voters played in the outcome. washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…


Alligator that starred in 'Happy Gilmore' dies of old age at Colorado gator farm

“We have decided to get Morris taxidermied so that he can continue to scare children for years to come. It’s what he would have wanted"

sentinelcolorado.com/a-town-ma…

#Animals #Morris #SeeYaLater



Studie: ÖPNV leistet wirtschaftlich viel mehr als er kostet


Der öffentliche Nahverkehr (ÖPNV) gilt als chronisch unterfinanziert - dabei zahlt sich jeder investierte Euro in Bus und Bahn wirtschaftlich gleich mehrfach aus, wie eine Studie zeigt. Demnach liegt die volkswirtschaftliche Leistung des ÖPNV pro Jahr im Mittel bei rund 75 Milliarden Euro. «Das entspricht dem Dreifachen seiner jährlichen Kosten», heißt es in der Untersuchung, die das Beratungsunternehmen MCube der TU München im Auftrag der Deutschen Bahn erstellt hat.


Ach. Ach, was.

zeit.de/news/2025-05/15/studie… (dpa)

#bahn #öpnv

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Palestinian media say Israeli airstrikes kill over 70 people in Gaza byteseu.com/1013398/ #Japan #NHK #NHKNews #NHKWorldNews


Auch Gebäude haben #Mikrobiome - gerade in Krankenhäusern ist das hochbrisant: Trotz #Desinfektion reichern sich stabile bakterielle Gemeinschaften und #Resistenzgene auf Oberflächen an, wie Hortense Slevogt, die mittlerweile am HZI forscht, mit ihrem Team gezeigt hat. via Pharmazeutische Zeitung. pharmazeutische-zeitung.de/das…