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techhub.social/@bosquebill/114… bosquebill@techhub.social - Acmon Blue butterfly
City of Rocks State Park, NM

Blues are very small, quick moving butterflies. I was fortunate this one had stopped to sip some minerals from along a pond.

#InsectSaturday #InsektenSamstag #photo #nature #Butterfly #NewMexico



"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

-Franklin D Roosevelt

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

-John F Kennedy

"Those who wish to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it."

-Thomas Paine

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Someone said it made more sense for Harvard to physically move locations abroad than comply. They have the money to do it. That this is a nice stopgap, but picture Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard in the UK cbc.ca/news/harvard-munk-schoo…



New York Post appealed to Trump to immediately resume aid to Ukraine.

NYT came out with an editorial - an appeal from the entire team.

The main theme: stopping aid to Ukraine is a major strategic mistake. If the US allows Russia to conquer Ukraine, it will create global risks, including the security of Taiwan.

"It's not a choice - to help Ukraine or to contain China. It's a choice - to help Ukraine and contain China at the same time."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine

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Aznar encarga a Feijóo unir a "una mayoría a derecha e izquierda" frente a la "política prostituida" después de llamar de todo a medio parlamento elegido democráticamente.
eldiario.es/politica/ultima-ho…

Totalmente de acuerdo con Isabel Morillo cuando se pregunta precisamente: ¿a qué izquierda vas a mirar tú con ese discurso, PP?
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How the EU Stands Firm Amid Growing Pressures byteseu.com/1166893/ #Europe


Hier in Berlijn hebben ze een bijzondere Aperol Spritz…. Rabarbersmaak! 😳

Heb toch maar een cappuccino besteld (sowieso is Aperol niet aan mij besteed).



A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth, according to a Guardian investigation.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

#usa #uspoli



NATO summit: Trump takes his go-it-alone approach after announcing Israel-Iran ceasefire byteseu.com/1166891/ #Europe #NATO


iPhone launch-day plans: for only $60/month, you too could have unlimited EDGE data, 450 call minutes, & 200 SMS messages.
in reply to BasicAppleGuy

I love how much useful information was shown in such a compact amount of space. I can't stand the "brochure" style now that requires endless scrolling and hijacks the scroll process.


Women will support 'women's only' whatever it is--even if it's full of mostly White women--yet they will scorn any 'man's only' whatever it is, especially if it's full of mostly White men.
RT: minds.com/api/activitypub/user…


Activist, hacker en oprichter XS4ALL Rop Gonggrijp waarschuwt Nederland over hoé snél de VS afglijdt in fascisme: decorrespondent.nl/16074/deze-…

‘Ik weet niet wat er nu nog zou moeten gebeuren om ons WEL tot actie over te laten gaan’ #fascisme

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in reply to Matthijs Pontier🏴‍☠️Piraten#1

Hij zegt: "Het is voor mij wel duidelijk dat als de EU erin slaagt een militaire macht van betekenis te worden, het de rol van activisten in de lidstaten is om ervoor te zorgen dat die lidstaten niet in verkeerde handen vallen."

Als je ziet wat er gebeurt in Palestina, en vaststelt dat onze regering daar actief aan bijdraagt, kan je je toch niet anders dan vaststellen dat de huidige militaire macht *op dit moment al* in verkeerde handen is?

in reply to Misha

Dat het leger in de handen is van "de democratie" is niet genoeg.

De grote genocides van de afgelopen eeuwen waren vaak breed gedragen onder de bevolking die er de "vruchten" van plukte.

Ik wil geloven dat mensen - als ze hun racistische harnas afdoen, hun hart openen, en ruimte maken voor diepe zelfreflectie en zelfkritiek - geen genocide steunen. En dat dat hun *eigenlijke*, *onvervormde* standpunt is.

Democratie zonder dekolonisering is geen echte democratie.



Google has been hit by an antitrust lawsuit in Europe from publishers complaining that they can’t opt out of AI overviews without also opting out of showing up in Google Search.

I’m sympathetic to the publishers complaints but this will make the user experience worse if sites can opt out of various search features.

reuters.com/legal/litigation/g…

in reply to Dare Obasanjo

It'll make Google's user experience worse. Not the publisher's.

Also, you gotta look at the long run effects here where it can become unviable to publish and everyone loses...

in reply to Dare Obasanjo

everyone is complaining about the experience having been already degraded, and now even more with GenAI. I'm not sure that's much of an argument anymore. People just basically accept whatever crap big tech serves them as a state of fact mostly just too with it.



"The Web is the set of digital networked technologies that work to increase user agency."

@robin, 2023

berjon.com/user-agency/

This is beautifully put. Succinct, aspirational and achievable.

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A Road Map for Undoing the Damage of the Big, Awful Bill (Jason Furman/New York Times)

nytimes.com/2025/07/05/opinion…
memeorandum.com/250705/p22#a25…