A bill called the ‘Stop Resistance Activities by Federal Employees Act’ was introduced in the House yesterday. It covers federal employees at or above GS-15 and would impose very serious penalties for “opposing, obstructing, or impeding lawful directives from the President, Vice President, or any other political appointee”.
The language is….well it’s fascism. And I’m not exaggerating. And maybe it won’t pass this time, but we all see the trend.
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The average size of wildlife populations has declined by 73% in just 50 years, according to the WWF. Today's cartoon by Tjeerd Royaards. More cartoons: cartoonmovement.com/search?que…
#wildlife #massextinction #biodiversity
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Sachez que ce pays de lâches qu'est la France refuse de prolonger les visas des libanais qui étaient en France avant que leur pays ne se fasse bombarder et leur vie détruite.
La réponse qu'apportent les préfectures, sur instruction ministérielle, c'est ça :
(Et notez qu'en plus la menace claquée au sol quand tu crèves est : on va prendre tes thunes)
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Another week, another increase for @heiseonline
#Mastodon keeps growing (the last time, we got this much #traffic, was at the beginning of the year), #Bluesky, too. No big jumps, but we'll see, where it leads.
#Threads still brings very little, #Twitter stays weak.
As always, this is the traffic to heise.de via the different social media platforms.
Edit: In the graph, Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads are stacked together (as they are they biggest Twitter-alternatives).
2nd Edit: Graph added.
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Breaking character for a moment, because the Mastodon instance my bots are running on is shutting down soon. muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/2…
Does anyone have recommendations for well-run instances that bot accounts are welcome to migrate to?
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Tell us again how the actions that would allow us to avoid the #ClimateCrisis were “too expensive.”
None of the record-breaking, historic or “100 year” events we’ve been seeing a lot of lately are the “new normal.” Because it’s actually going to keep getting exponentially worse.
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Estimated russian losses from February 24, 2022 to October 31, 2024 of the russian all-out war against Ukraine, according to the General Staff of the #Ukraine
🔷 1,310 eliminated enemy personnel and 19 Tanks yesterday
Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century by
Neil Degrasse Tyson
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.
In Neil deGrasse Tyson's delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#astrophysics
#cosmos
#universe
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all my homies hate pixies
in page ten of ten of AVI & AQUILA: "The Last Star"
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Hot take from Dr. Seeta Peña Gangadharan, keynote speaker @AoIR
In response to the risks to privacy of Quantum Computation. Her point summarized:
Civil disobedience through technological refusal can work, we just need to make it more timely. To be more timely it has to be a refusal from within (aka from the developers of Quantum Computing). To be able to do this she suggests finding alternative means to conduct research on the topic and remain independent.
Personally, while acts of refusal are important for discourse, it's the development of alternative systems that will protect the people. #solarpunk #aoir2024
To all the new followers, hello and welcome 👋
If you just discovered Readeck after Omnivore's announcement yesterday, I have good news for you!
Readeck 0.15.4 was just released and it includes a new import wizard for Omnivore.
You can download it from there:
readeck.org/en/download
While it does import the content and the labels, it can't unfortunately import the highlights.
Many thanks to the users who tested the import before the release! ❤️
Full changelog: codeberg.org/readeck/readeck/r…
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in reply to Riker Googling • • •Ludovic :Firefox: :FreeBSD:
in reply to Riker Googling • • •Stéphane Bortzmeyer
in reply to Ludovic :Firefox: :FreeBSD: • • •Blog Stéphane Bortzmeyer: New fediverse instance for my bots
www.bortzmeyer.orgLudovic :Firefox: :FreeBSD:
in reply to Stéphane Bortzmeyer • • •Stéphane Bortzmeyer
in reply to Ludovic :Firefox: :FreeBSD: • • •@usul Certainly not.
#NotEnoughTime
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in reply to Riker Googling • • •@theropologist
Do we allow bots on Beige?
Riker Googling seems like a good match for Beige.party.
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in reply to Velocirooster adminensis • • •OOC: Riker Googling was the reason I joined Mastodon. Associating beige.party with this account would be a great get for everybody involved, imo.