Mastodawn

Women in tech and digital rights deserve more and brighter spotlights. At EFF, we’ve had the honor of celebrating some of our heroes at our annual EFF Awards.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/admiring-our-heroes-international-womens-day-celebrating-women-who-have-received

Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women Who Have Received EFF Awards

For the last hundred years, women have had pivotal and far too often unsung roles in building and shaping the technology that we now use every day. Many have heard of Ada Lovelace’s contributions to computer programming, but far fewer know Mary Allen Wilkes, a prominent modern programmer who wrote...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Taran Rampersad 5h ago

Thumb and index finger to your lips.

You might not understand 'em, but you'd probably have had a lot of fun not understanding them. 😜

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Taran Rampersad 5h ago

@epu Your neighbors must be VERY curious.

Order a huge bandsaw next!

Taran Rampersad 5h ago

Lab scientists stuck in labs experiment with releasing lab mice into the wild.

Maybe to see if it's safe for the scientists. 👀 🙃

(Really fun experiment, I could not resist)

https://defector.com/what-a-week-of-freedom-can-do-for-a-lab-mouse?giftLink=62f79f186aed4af26938be45b179aadb

#science

What A Week Of Freedom Can Do For A Lab Mouse | Defector

Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the mouse in a paper cup, lays the cup on its side in the grass, and takes off the lid. “When the…

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Taran Rampersad 5h ago

@ai6yr Are you KIDDING me?

I demand the planet slow down on terrible things.

Geez.

Taran Rampersad 5h ago

AI6YR Ben 5h ago

CNN:Destructive tornadoes leave 5 dead as storms fire up across the Central US

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/03/06/weather/tornado-storms-oklahoma-texas-climate

#tornado #MIwx #PDS

Destructive tornadoes leave 5 dead as storms fire up across the Central US

A damaging tornado roared through parts of southwestern Michigan Friday afternoon, leaving three people dead and others injured as severe thunderstorm activity ramps up across a broad section of the United States.

CNN

Taran Rampersad 5h ago

PugJesus 5h ago

Swiss bodybuilder Maurice Dériaz models before French artist Gustave Courtois, 1914

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1851425/swiss-bodybuilder-maurice-deriaz-models-before-french-artist-gustave-courtois-1914

Taran Rampersad 5h ago

Old Book Illustrations 5h ago

Tell us, squire, when you see the match, and we'll hold water.
Louis Rhead, from "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson, London, New York: [1915?] #illustration #art