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The Silence At Margraten At Margraten, silence has fallen where truth once spoke. Two panels honouring Black American liberators have been removed without explanation. My parents, when they returned to their war-torn home,…

At the American cemetery in Margraten in the Netherlands silence has fallen where truth once spoke. Two panels honouring WWII Black American liberators have been removed without explanation. To erase their story is to betray not only history, but ourselves.
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A brand of pasties and baked food found often at convenience stores and petrol stations (gas stations)

Um, wut? Optical illusion?

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

I’ve not actively hated Rishi Sunak in a while, so the news he’s taken a job with Anthropic AI (aka the company I’m part of a mass lawsuit against for stealing our work to train their LLM) is actually kind of comforting.

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

This also isn’t true!!! There is a public consultation NOW OPEN and you can go have your say. Obviously they want to present it as a done deal but it’s not.

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Ex-Brexit Party MEP pleads guilty in Russia bribe case Nathan Gill admitted to taking bribes in exchange for making pro-Kremlin statements while he was a member of the European Parliament.

The former Welsh leader of Nigel Farage’s right-wing party Reform UK, Nathan Gill, has admitted to taking bribes in exchange for making pro-Russia statements while a member of the European Parliament.

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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

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WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

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Oh, you can do that?!

“Your honour, as you can see by my clients seat posture in court, they are clearly attracted to all genders. If they cannot sit, you must acquit!”

Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts

If you've wondered why Starmer raced to criminalize support for Palestine Action, this is the smoking gun. Absolutely disgraceful corruption in office on behalf of a foreign power. Meanwhile they're charging 80-year-old retired priests and magistrates with terrorism for carrying protest signs …

Yeah, feel this in my bones - congrats on getting over the inertia

Sinéad @sineadnaoimh the Tories are in shambles and obsessed with culture wars, only labour can deliver a compassionate section 28 for trans people

tweeted this almost 3 years ago. today they introduced guidance that was functionally a section 28 for trans people. anyone still involved with Labour, hell anyone still voting for them, whould be deeply, profoundly ashamed.

Cream - White Room
Diamine Arabian Nights in Pilot Parallel fountain pen

Finally picked one of these up, and it seems to handle the shimmer ink quite well!

Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham Follow A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since. 2:15 PM 3/24/25 1.5M Views

The IDF has kidnapped the co-director of Oscar winning film No Other Land after being assaulted by a gang of Israeli settlers.

THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug candidate in the form of a ONCE-yearly intramuscular injection has been shown to BLOCK HIV infections AND participants achieved AND maintained protection ABOVE the 95% efficacy threshold for UP TO 56 WEEKS. Phase III trials are scheduled for later this year! 🧪🧵⬇️

Sadly an unhelpful response - I played 2nd Ed Orks against Blood Angels and Dark Angels, however we were young (12-14) and rule of cool overrode any codex complexities. Agreed that Death Company were fearsome.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down
i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown
you can SEE HIM
he is playing in town
you should go
and
have
a
good time

This is the guy who fired the nuclear weapons specialists.

The scroll guy who dropped out of the University of Nebraska.

Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil Former president is charged by attorney general following police report that accused him of organising a conspiracy to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taking power.

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

YouTube video by Paper Melon The Transformer Every Generation Deserves

@wib.bsky.social likely you may have already seen this, but just in case - as a fan of “little guy” Transformers, this boombox Frenzy seems right up your street:

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OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

Oh so NOW the AI guys are worried about intellectual property theft

If modded, the leaked Rare Remaster of the N64 Goldeneye 007 is well worth your time