As promised... no 3
Images of Sidmouth. The waves were decidedly red...
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Un gilet salvagente francese si gonfia automaticamente in 0,08 secondi quando rileva che un bambino sta annegando. Dimenticate braccioli e ciambelle: Flotis "capisce" quando serve davvero e si attiva da solo dopo diversi secondi di immersione. Potrebbe cambiare per sempre la sicurezza acquatica dei nostri figli.
#sicurezzaacquatica #tecnologia #futuroprossimo #piscina #mare #annegamento
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Flotis, il gilet salvagente si gonfia da solo se un bimbo annega
Un gilet salvagente si attiva da solo in 0,08 secondi se rileva immersione. La sicurezza acquatica dei bambini diventa intelligente.Gianluca Riccio (FuturoProssimo)
Polo: Greek for kissing, crushed Italy and qualified for “4”
Polo: Greek for kissing, crushed Italy and qualified for "4"BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
As promised... no 2
Images of Beer (the place, not the drink)
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Dutch research agency ZonMw announced a list of new Long Covid studies that will receive in total approx. €6M funding. One study led by Dr. Rob Wüst will study immune cell infiltration on muscle tissue & mast cell activation during post-exertional malaise
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#LongCovid #PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #LC #PASC #postcovid
#CovidBrain @covid19 #COVIDー19 #COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #SARSCoV2
Nieuwe onderzoeken om post-COVID zorg te verbeteren
Om mensen met post-COVID beter te kunnen helpen, is meer kennis nodig over hoe we post-COVID kunnen herkennen en behandelen.ZonMw
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As promised... no 1
Images of Seaton
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Editorial: On Jesse Jackson Jr. and second chances
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/editorial-jesse-jackson-junior-felony-congress-pardons/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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SFrame Support Beginning To Materialize For LLVM/Clang
SFrame is the lightweight stack trace format that can overcome some of the performance obstacles for tracing ELF files compared to frame pointers. In addition to the SFrame support coming together in the GNU toolchain, the SFrame support for LLVM/Clang is beginning to reach upstream...
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Sammelabschiebungen nach Afghanistan widersprechen rechtsstaatlichen Prinzipien
Zu der am 18. Juli 2025 über den Flughaben Leipzig gestarteten „Sammelabschiebung“ nach Afghanistan erkläre ich:„Jetzt zeigt sich, was das Gerede von der „Migrationswende“ bedeutet: Mensjule.linxxnet.de
Today I reached a pretty cool milestone in my work to build an immutable #postmarketOS: the first configurable bootup with an encrypted user data partition and read-only /usr (for A/B updates)
Still lots more work to do though, but please enjoy this janky recording of me trying it out in a VM 🥳
Thanks to @nlnet for sponsoring this work :D
Dragos Pîslaru, about the money allocated to Romania in the new multiannual financial frame 2028-2035 proposed why: “A good amount at first sight, but which comes with strict conditions”
Dragos Pîslaru, about the money allocated to Romania in the new multiannual financial frame 2028-2035 proposed why: "A good amount at first sight, but whichBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
First District Appellate Court Justice Thomas E. Hoffman dead at 77: 'His opinions were golden'
https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2025/07/20/first-district-appellate-court-justice-thomas-e-hoffman-obituary?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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First District Appellate Court Justice Thomas E. Hoffman dead at 77: 'His opinions were golden'
Mr. Hoffman died July 4 at age 77. The First District Appellate Court justice is survived by his wife, retired Judge Margarita Kulys Hoffman, and four children.Violet Miller (Chicago Sun-Times)
Smurfs visit Staten Island Ferryhawks as Paramount donates $10K to SIUH pediatric cancer center
https://www.silive.com/news/2025/07/smurfs-visit-staten-island-ferryhawks-as-paramount-donates-10k-to-fight-pediatric-cancer.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Smurfs visit Staten Island Ferryhawks as Paramount donates $10K to SIUH pediatric cancer center
"We’re reminding all kids, everywhere, that they have something to contribute; that they are part of a community."Ann Marie Barron | ABarron@siadvance.com (silive)

. Vacation is a state of mind. The weather is usually clement there. I should have a bumper sticker or t-shirt that says that.
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •Wow love that photo through the archway. 😊
Is it algae making the water red?
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •I'm hoping the sandstone has lots of haematite rather than cinnabar. I think that is mostly true near Devon as it is in Greenland.
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Geology of East Greenland
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •It's the eroding red sandstone cliff that colours the water.
The archway is the gate of Connaught Gardens on the cliff top
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •Hello, Alice.
Does that make Mr F the Cheshire Cat?
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And now diasporasocial is up and running again. Guess I’ll keep iviv as a backup.
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •Yay! I will do the same as 008.
Be I a cat or a caterpillar?

or possibly a shapeshifting doppelganger that could be either one or something other entirely...
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •The amount of energy in a whale and a pot of petunias varies considerably.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This principle illuminates the corruption of the universe.
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •what a coincidence ?? @Katherine Bond
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •The answer to absolute power, Mr F, as with much else, is "42".
Which seems infinitely improbable, like a self-upending vat of custard.
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •Quidquid cadere potest, cadet.
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •Tout ce qui peut tomber, tombera.
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •I had not thought that far ahead. Please forgive.
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in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •Ge b' e dè as urrainn tuiteam, tuitidh e.