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US will require ESTA applicants for (among other shit):

Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;

Why would anybody want to visit is beyond me.



First time in a LONG time cooking something for me, as a treat, at my own pace


C’est pas grand-chose mais ça fait toujours plaisir….

Criminalité organisée : deux gendarmes et deux policiers municipaux interpellés dans le Val-d’Oise


Les quatre hommes, affectés à Domont et Pontoise, sont poursuivis dans le cadre d’une affaire de corruption. Le procureur a évoqué «au moins 160 000 euros de flux financiers».

#police #France #corruption #justice #acab




Telkom University Jakarta dan Ekosistem Industri




Just so we’re clear where I stand. AI “art” isn’t art. #Art
#art


I thought it was the TV, but I’ve just been told an actual human is practising Mary Had A Little Lamb on their recorder. At 7.30am. On a Sunday.

Incredible caravan park areas.

in reply to The Drop Bear 2.0

apparently anyone can give a recorder to any child. There are also no restrictions on how many can be played at the same time.
in reply to XCondE

or how the air goes through them

youtube.com/shorts/ggKeB9OOkRY…


in reply to اسماعیل محمّدنژاد 🇵🇸🇮🇷



RE: mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/1…

"They’ve turned government communication channels into a sad, pathetic, middle-aged grievance diary, stuffed with petty memes, juvenile taunts, and the kind of humor you only find funny if you are deeply, profoundly haunted by something you refuse to acknowledge or name. Confident, secure people do not behave like this. This is insecurity so concentrated it has begun to sweat through the screen, and frankly, it’s getting old."


Excellent bit of wild psychoanalysis,

open.substack.com/pub/oliverko…





Guillaume Apollinaire’s Trailblazing Caligrams, 1913

The form is part of the message in French writer Guillaume Apollinaire's "caligrams", in which the shape of the words on the page creates meaning.

by Paul Sorene

flashbak.com/guillaume-apollin…

Caligrames at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/55569

#books #literature

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in reply to Project Gutenberg

A form which "Grasshopper" by ee cummings simultaneously lauds and lampoons.

poets.org/poem/r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s…



Btw: I do care about every comment under my photos. Even if its just a "wow" or an emoji. All (positive) reactions make me smile.
Please never underestimate the impact of your reactions.


In a world of egotism, this sweet story is the antidote we need. ♥️

youtu.be/fDlvzbaxDzo



Yesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.

So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.

Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.

Well, I could not publish that lib any more so I had to migrate that project to "uv" to do so. Finding out how to do that ...

Lib was working. Next, I rewrote my blog generation script which took me four hours or so with heavy help of Claude AI.

Also moved this to uv.

Some unit tests were failing. Partly because of the pandoc upgrade, partly because of classic bugs.

Debugging one by one and FINALLY, after maybe six hours, I could actually publish that article.

A classic #yakshaving Saturday. 😜
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_sha…

#publicvoit #PIM #rant

in reply to Karl Voit

this is why I love #toolbox. I use it on my Fedora laptop and the overall updates don't affect my dev environments. containertoolbx.org/

No yak shaving included 😎



In a more sensible move that some of David Lammy's recent proposals, the Govt. intends to (finally after a 2017 review) simplify the criminal record reporting scheme to remove minor juvenile offences.

In the past decade around 40% of juvenile offences reported to (prospective) employers had been committed over 30 years' earlier.

Lammy is right to remove them to help job applicants prospects. Many of us had a miss-spent youth & it shouldn't cast such a long shadow.

#politics
h/t Observer

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

The current UK system appears crazy and doesn't allow for any prospect of rehabilitation.
Unknown parent

mastodon - Link to source
Emeritus Prof Christopher May

@energisch_

ha ha, I was thinking more of the shop lifting & drinking to be honest, but I take your point completely!



I'm Lubna a mother of three children in Gaza
We lost our home and everything we had. One of my children is sick and needs daily, lifelong Thyroxine treatment and the medicine is running out
My kids are freezing at night.We urgently need $300 for warm blankets and medicine💔
chuffed.org/project/155233
@aral
@Geri
@FediWouter
#gaza #palestine


Shout-out to the Dutch website with Dutch politicians and political parties on #Mastodon:

politici-op-mastodon-7395c1.gi…

And of course also to the organizations and people on this list.

#politics #Dutch #Netherlands #Fediverse #MEP

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Una bottiglia di vetro marrone contenente un liquido ambrato è posizionata su una superficie chiara con una tessitura irregolare. La bottiglia ha una forma allungata, con un collo stretto e un corpo più largo. Un'etichetta rossa è avvolta attorno alla parte centrale della bottiglia. L'etichetta contiene il testo "DESPERADOS" in lettere bianche e script, seguite da "ORIGINAL" in un font più piccolo. Sotto c'è scritto "BEER-BIERE" e "AGUARDIENTE". Nella parte inferiore dell'etichetta c'è un simbolo grafico e "ALC. 5.5% VOL.".

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