On this, the eve of Flow taking home an Oscar, I want to note that Blender exists in its current form because after Ton Roosendaal spearheaded writing it, released it as freeware, had his company dissolve, tried developing it as shareware, had the company developing it go bankrupt, and built a non-profit foundation to crowd-source funding for it... Enough people stepped up to fund it that it still lives.

It's a hell of a testament to a software author---and a community's---insistence that in spite of market evidence to the contrary, the software is good and worthy of continued existence.

#Blender3d

3 March 1936 | A French Jewish girl, Ida Fistel, was born in Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 30 March 1944 in a transport of 1000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 472 people selected by SS doctors and murdered that day in a gas chamber.

USA promised to defend Afghans if they helped us against Taliban—then Trump backed out.

USA Promised to help Kurdish allies in Syria—then Trump backed out.

USA promised to defend Ukraine if it gave up its nukes—now Trump is backing out.

Trump has further turned the world against us. We are not safer.

thank you for this spot-on meme, @thedarktangent

#Fascism
#Ukraine

If Trump decides, that Ukraine can only fight Russia using plastic swords, the objective is not to figure out how to help Ukraine win using only plastic swords.

The objective is to help Ukraine win without The United States.

Listen, I'm not going to pretend that I'm even remotely surprised, but I will tell you that this is a slap in the face to every person in the infosec community that has worked to track and thwart Russian APTs for the last several decades.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security