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Bloomberg - To celebrate his first 100 days in office in 2017, President Trump visited a wheelbarrow factory in Pennsylvania. That plant is now closed and the wheelbarrows are made in China. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-29/made-in-usa-wheelbarrows-promoted-by-trump-are-now-made-in-china

Human after all 48m ago

LibreOffice 3h ago

Not only is one German state moving from Microsoft to LibreOffice, but the whole federal government is committing to move to open standards by 2027: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/29/germany-committing-to-odf-and-open-document-standards/

Germany committing to ODF and open document standards - The Document Foundation Blog

Digital sovereignty is becoming vitally important. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format (and the default […]

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Human after all 13h ago

Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🍉17h ago

REFORM UK have been urged to reveal who funds them and to rule out donors with links to Russia

LibDem deputy leader Daisy Cooper asked the Reform leader to reveal its sources of funding after calculating the party had spent more than £2 million on personalised letters to postal votes ahead of the English local elections, The Guardian reports.

She pointed out that Reform had reported donations of only £281,000 in the last quarter of 2024.

The party has said its annual income is £5.6m.

Human after all 22h ago

Steve Herman 23h ago

As Canadians go to the polls in a national parliamentary election, the president of the United States instructs them to "elect the man" who will lead their country to becoming the 51st US state.

Human after all 22h ago

@janestegerlewis Send spain a picture of The Switch #PowerOutage

Human after all 22h ago

SeaFury 🦜🍉1d ago

I DID IT. I finally had enough music to make an album on Bandcamp. I have no subscribers, one album with 9 tracks on it. W00t! #music
https://seafury.bandcamp.com/album/we-who-wander

we who wander, by SeaFury

9 track album

SeaFury

Human after all 23h ago

MOULE (in Rouge!) #RedInstead 1d ago

"Mowing the lawn is just haircuts for gardens."

#SpringLawnsDeepThoughts #HashtagGames

Human after all 1d ago

Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]1d ago

Imagining if the History Channel had done a little less programming on “cool Nazi weapons” and a little more on “life before pasteurization” or “life in the iron lung, interviews with polio survivors”

Human after all 1d ago

Ukraine News 1d ago

"Pu‌tin has broken every promise he made to President Trump," said Republican senator John Neely Kennedy. He wants to keep all the territory he has captured and prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. Kennedy stated that Pu‌tin has deceived Trump at every turn and showed disrespect. "I don't think it will get better until we make Pu‌tin understand that we are ready to turn him and his country into fish food," Kennedy said. #Pu‌tin #UkraineNATO

Human after all 1d ago

This is the scum that Americans support under Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJOCPfYIhKY. #USA #trump #putin

Russian Propagandists Call to Bomb Every EU Country | Hate Speech

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