Widow Keeper

@widowkeeper
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Yes, I really keep black widows and arachnids of all species as pets! I am a zoology, biology, ecology, and agricultural sciences nerd. Love the unloved.

Julia Parsons, who worked on deciphering German Enigma traffic as a US Navy cryptologist in WW II, has died at the age of 104.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/julia-parsons-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Dk8.P_-G.KhlNj7GIVjhR&smid=url-share

Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104

Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

The New York Times
I’m deeply honored to be recognized at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s 37th National Equal Justice Awards Dinner. This powerful evening celebrates the changemakers fighting for racial justice and equality—and I’m humbled to stand alongside them. https://www.naacpldf.org/events/nejad/nejad-2025/

@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now their future is in jeopardy 😢

We usually don't ask this, but please boost for reach, this is important infrastructure for so many FLOSS projects!  

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl

Data Center Migration Update and Fundraising Campaign | OSU Open Source Lab

A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.

This week's comic: Zero dimensional chess

#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #journalism #authoritarianism #democracy

I'm dying over here. This guy says he's created the world's first AI-based call center for actively disrupting and screwing with scammers. Their AI bots are taking live phonecalls at scale and keeping the scammers on the line for hours, and sometimes taunting the scammers. They're tying up entire scam call centers. So entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDpo_o7dR8c

I Built a Bot Army that Scams Scammers

YouTube

Wow. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum officially recognizes Palestine as a state. Here she welcomes Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed.

Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza.

Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽

Chumbawumba 1996.

We're told that after the war

The Nazis vanished without a trace

But battalions of fascists

Still dream of a master race.

...

The world is riddled with maggots

The maggots are getting fat

They're making a tasty meal of all

The bosses and bureaucrats

...

And we'll never rest again...

Until every Nazi dies

https://youtu.be/2CUQu5K8lp8?si=thneubdSymwsoyA0

Chumbawamba - On the day the nazi died

YouTube
When America faltered, others stood up to lead.