der.hans

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presumably carbon based
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Healthy forest floor. These are all native plants in this area. Upstate New York, close to the Quebec border.
The shame of what our government has done will endure and must be taught for generations to come.

Today I voted in the #RIPE #Election

Even as a small LIR our vote makes a massive difference.

RIPE has twenty thousand members, yet only about 5 percent of members voted in 2025.

Something to think about in our countries as folks go to the polls in the future.

Voter apathy means a small minority of members can have an outsize effect on #democracy.

Be like Obi Wan commit to democracy. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXxpIr1flWg

Hello There (The Democracy on the High Ground Song)

YouTube
@estherschindler I wonder if a tee-shirt with "Schlitz Happens" is available?
This episode was totally screen-recorded and I had no issues with OBS+Wayland+Plasma+Krita. The full process was also commented (audio recording) and it's from A to Z: from scratch to posting. The scenario in Kate, to the panel making, text, everything fully in Krita 5.3 with the new text tool and comic panel tool.
Now I have over 20 hours of video editing to do in Kdenlive; many sequence will be accelerated as time-lapse. ETA of this big tutorial bonus: maybe start of june.

Subconsciously, or maybe even consciously a person or entity that holds a large amount of wealth will be wary of creating stable well-paying jobs because that distributes the power that the wealth represents.

That army of people may decide that they want to have a say in how things are run.

But not spending the money, not hiring people means that it's eaten by inflation.

The dream is a way to invest without creating a big middle class.

This is why so much money appears for AI.

‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

Passwords were stored as plain text in a public GitHub repository.

Gizmodo
The number of people who have died or will die as a result of Musk’s recklessness in slashing funding for USAID is already staggering. If Ebola gets loose, too, bookmark this moment.

Why did Trump give up on electability concerns and shift from Cornyn to Paxton?

Maybe because after orchestrating defeats for Cassidy and Indiana state senators, he’s leaning into his “I’ll do whatever I want, whenever I want, for any reason I want” attitude, without regard for the consequences.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-paxton-endorsement-cornyn-senate-talarico-democrats

Trump’s endorsement of Texas’ Paxton delights Democrats, frustrates Republicans

The Texas attorney general was understandably happy to get the president’s support. Oddly enough, Democrats were thrilled, too.

MS NOW