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The "Paardenvissers" or fishermen on horseback from Oostduinkerke, Belgium have taken their Belgian (Brabant or Brabançon) horses, planks and nets into the breast-deep water of the North Sea trolling for shrimp since the 17th Century.
Sturdy and steady and willing to work is the name of the game when choosing a horse to perform the task while the tide is out.
The skill is handed down from father to son through the generations, and there are only a few left continuing in this tradition.



Majority Leader Schumer put Republicans to the test, and they failed. Trump and the GOP have been scrambling to hide their unpopular, outdated views on reproductive rights, but they’re not fooling anybody.

Today, every single Republican Senator had a clear chance to protect IVF, something they claim to support, but nearly every single one of them refused. There’s no reason to believe their words when we can see their actions. huffpost.com/entry/ivf-senate-…

in reply to Indivisible ❌👑

It’s remarkable that in the many, many news articles about this vote, not one of them can explain the GOP objections to the legislation

Why are they voting no?

Here’s why: they think IVF *should* be illegal

politico.com/live-updates/2024…

in reply to Indivisible ❌👑

Cruz is just disgusting. His self loathing is what makes him yearn for control over others.


go to the cloud they said
itll be fine they said
in reply to Viss

Also today, in the Netcraft web server survey (yes, they're still doing that): "Cloudflare experienced the largest increase of 3.1 million sites (+2.41%) this month, now accounting for 11.6% (0.16pp) of sites seen by Netcraft."

netcraft.com/blog/september-20…

in reply to Alexander Bochmann

@galaxis a guy I know told me he puts all his clients in Cloudflare. When I mentioned that cloudflare generally blocks me when I’m using Tor he was shocked.




Google seeks authenticity in the age of AI with new content labeling system

C2PA system aims to give context to search results, but trust problems run deeper than AI tech.

arstechnica.com/information-te…


in reply to Matt

I That's cool but I dont remember ever making a sticker with that design . . . hmm. I wonder if someone bought it from the store and added it to the pack. That would be cool - MT


Film festival facilitators are now dealing with teachers who are afraid to book their program because of possible backlash from parents, says Gavin Somers, education director for Out on Screen. 🏳️‍🌈🎞

#bced #bcpoli

thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/17/Fil…

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From history as hypnosis (2023)
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#art by Alison #Nguyen alisonnguyen.com/






Mosquito Trail, Rocky Mountains, Colorado (1874)
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Instagram is making teen accounts private by default. It's a sea change in the conversation about child safety on social networks — but it may not stop the wave of legislation that seeks to push things even further. platformer.news/instagram-teen…



17 September 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Ina Nanny Blits, was born in Amsterdam.

She arrived at Auschwitz on 16 September 1943 in a transport of 1,005 Jews deported from #Westerbork. She was among 578 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.