Demo of Castopod and Mastodon with Web Monetization support (FOSDEM 2025)
Web Monetization
The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.webmonetization.org
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"You were a little bird in a tiny house, so you painted it as a canvas and knew it by heart.
Art is a gravitational force—oil paint in an empty sardine can, bristles of brush, turpentine hands."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Little Bird by Kim Fahner (2021 The Ekphrastic Review) tinyurl.com/2faxvjz8
Three Poems for Maud Lewis, by Kim Fahner
Little Bird You were a little bird in a tiny house, I know, and he kept you too close for your own good. Love is a gravitational force—a planet in orbit, Atlantic waves at midnight, pull of...The Ekphrastic Review
How Trump Gutted USAID in Two Weeks.
Wall Street Journal: “The cuts came so fast that one dismissed employee had to be rehired to process other employees’ time sheets.”
What JFK created, let no man put asunder.
#USAID #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.
Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 attack on democracy warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
Thousands of people have taken to social media to slam President Donald Trump after he announced that the US could "take over" the Gaza Strip and transform it into a “holiday hub” without Palestinians.
Social media users said the statements were an open call for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and underscored the "settler-colonial" and "imperial" nature of American and Israeli policies towards Palestine.
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Doomscrolling overwhelms people. It erodes their ability to respond to current events. But it's not just a trap that people fall into—it's one that we help set by how we post about current events.Merveilles
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#engineer #Python #K8s #SaaS #Ubuntu #containerization #Golang #virtualization
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Like it or not, the rules-based order is no more
In Trump’s world, it does little good to use the language of treaties or rules or laws. For Denmark and other European allies they’ll to reduce their reliance on the U.S. and increase the cost of unacceptable behavior.
politico.eu/article/rules-dani…
Like it or not, the rules-based order is no more
In Trump’s world, it does little good to use the language of treaties or rules or laws. For Denmark and others to get their way, they’ll have to speak the language of power.Ivo Daalder (POLITICO)
How America’s ultra-rich dismantled democracy, one Supreme Court ruling at a time…
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or as Lenin so eloquently put it:
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.
welp. that's it, folks. i guess it's good night world, FOREVER
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #2CIsDead #GlobalWeirding #politics #HellOnEarth #wildfires #flooding #pandemics #OilAndGas theguardian.com/environment/20…
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagreeDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Death toll in Gaza reaches 47,552, says Hamas-run health ministry
Trump’s declaration US will
‘take over’ Gaza Strip
sparks global condemnation
theguardian.com/world/live/202…
Trump’s declaration US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip sparks global condemnation – live
UK, Germany, China, Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia speak against announcement described as ethnic cleansing by human rights groupsKate Lamb (The Guardian)
We are now fairly certain that the entire grant that funded Ashley's program and other programs like it across campuses is shut down.
From these programs we gained many new jobs in science and for every dollar into which we gained at least 2.4 (probably a steep underestimation, because it is from such mechanisms that we get stuff like 'research on cancer' and 'treatments for dementia')
You can hear about the story of this program here:
changetechnically.fyi/2396236/…
The NIH pays off beyond our dreams - Change, Technically
In a special edition of Change, Technically, Ashley and Cat get into the facts of the NIH: what it does, how it works, and the consequences of disrupting its essential work. The NIH creates enormous economic impact, 400,000 jobs across the US, and...Buzzsprout
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Trump, Musk, and their billionaire and theocratic allies are following the example of tyrants everywhere. But it’s worth remembering they haven’t all succeeded.
I don't know how else to put this: This is fucking insane.
NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.
Hey Grandmas, guess what #Musk controls now.
Exclusive: DOGE [sic] aides have access to payment systems at the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid
- WSJ wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-dog…
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Gauging how the threat of a trade war has affected the Canadian pro sports landscape
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/opinion-canada-united-states-trade-standoff-sports-impact-1.7450393?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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