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The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Instagram account Saint featured me. The first slide says: "Derek Guy - Dieworkwear. Derek Guy is a menswear writer who has written for The New York Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. He also runs a menswear blog called Die, Workwear"

One of the slides showing my favorite products. It's it's a big bag of Hagen pigeon food. The food is fortified with the vitamins and nutrients pigeons need.

Instagram user writes: "Why tf do i need pigeon food for my outfit." I replied: "this is what i can afford to eat after spending all my money on clothes ::sad face::"

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

Just remembered one of my favorite quotes by Garry Kasparov: “I believe in coincidences, but I also believe in the KGB.”

Left: Pavel Durov, Russian founder of Telegram, suddenly discovering democracy on the exact day of Romanian elections.

Right: same guy, this time for Moldovan elections. Czech elections are on Friday, so Pavel drop a copypasta draft “coincidentally” a third time and call it a trilogy.

Our Jan in Moscow: The secret Russian life of Europe's most notorious fugitive-turned-spy Ever since the summer of 2020, when German payments giant Wirecard collapsed after failing to account for €1.9 billion in missing assets, its former COO Jan Marsalek has been a wanted man. The Insider...

If you read one thing today, make it this: continuation of the decade’s biggest spy scandal - Jan Marsalek, thriving with the FSB, globe-hopping on fake IDs, even fighting in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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Screenshot of the linked blog, saying: We’re adding a new keyboard shortcut to make it easier for you to insert an En dash (–) or Em dash (—) while typing anywhere in Windows. Going forward, pressing WIN + Minus (-) will insert En dash, and WIN + Shift + Minus (-) will insert Em dash. Note – if you have Magnifier running, WIN + Minus (-) will still zoom out Magnifier, rather than inserting an En dash

Any em dash fans here?

We're currently working on a Windows-wide keyboard keyboard shortcut for em dash and em dash, to make it easier to input for those that need it 😊

blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
#WindowsInsiders

The most important story in the world right now.

I have a very similar linen shirt myself and maybe Uniqlo Poland still sells them? 🤔

When journalism disappears, so does democracy With some outlets closing due to funding cuts and others under pressure from rising authoritarianism, guardrails and financing are desperately needed.

When journalism disappears, so does democracy ⚖️

Cuts to U.S media and aid have left newsrooms dark & opened doors to authoritarian influence.

Read Internews Europe CEO @meeraselva.bsky.social piece in www.thenewhumanitarian.org on the impact of cuts and what can be done.

👉https://bit.ly/4eEnOEB

Rocky cliffs and a valley below. It’s a warm and sunny day, and the valley looks full of life. There are a few scattered buildings in the valley but other than those, it’s mostly forest and meadow

A path in the forest, illuminated by evening light. Moderately high grass grows between the trees. The path is modern and made out of wooden planks

An abstract looking image of rock formations. The rocks are separated by crevasses

A tree growing in a rock, illuminated by harsh summer sunlight. It’s surrounded by rocky walls

Go to the mountains, finish a trail race, see some cool rocks

New Report Reveals Global Fallout from U.S. Government Funding Cuts - Information Saves Lives | Internews Independent media outlets worldwide shutter operations as $150M in annual support disappears. LONDON/WASHINGTON, D.C. — Independent media outlets around the world are facing an unprecedented crisis, a...

New Internews Europe, @bbcmediaaction.bsky.social ‬and @freepressunlimited.org ‬report, co-produced with three media development consortia under @ec.europa.eu Thematic Framework Partnership for Human Rights and Democracy, highlights the global fallout of USG cuts to media 📰

🔗 bit.ly/4nq46R2

Whoa

I understand that the payload was malware, yeah? Or a signal phish attack that mirrored your account on an attacker’s device?

Do the individual campaigns also have in depth data that could give them deeper insights? The difference in confidence levels between both sztaby is really noticeable

But exit poll doesn’t include vote from abroad which is very likely to lean pro Trzaskowski, no?

Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

Good morning with good news: Poland's coal generation fell to new record low of 47.24% of generation. It fell 10 points from 57% in April 2024!

Poland's April Coal Share
2025: 47%
2024: 57%
2023: 63%
2022: 71%
2021: 74%
2015: 84%
#energysky

Surging W&S to ~30% is a main reason why coal is down!

Cycling cadence is also important!

My running watch has a metronome to help me keep good cadence!

Have been a tad busy with other things, so I haven't delved too deeply into this yet! At some point, I'll need to get in touch with some accessibility developers/ engineers to chat about this :)

Screenshot of text, from BNEF's 2025 New Energy Outlook report, reading "Data-center power capacity was an estimated 81 gigawatts in 2024, consuming 371 terawatt-hours of electricity, or 1.4% of global final demand. We estimate their capacity will rapidly increase to 179GW by 2030 and 277GW by 2035. To power data centers, annual electricity demand increases by 2.5 times to 935TWh by the end of the decade and quadruples to 1,600TWh in 2035. Those figures mean about 3% of total power demand will feed data centers by 2030 and 4.5% in 2035. By mid-century they consume 8.7% of electricity."

Here's BloombergNEF's best guess on what increased data center activity means for global electricity consumption, from this year's New Energy Outlook, in the Economic Transition Scenario.

(Full report is paywalled: www.bnef.com/insights/361... )

Removing the safety protections of AirTags is… not good 😬😬😬 Can totally imagine how this would be used to stalk or harass…

Hoping that Apple soon updates its firmware to break this

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399...

Executive summary – Global EV Outlook 2025 – Analysis - IEA Global EV Outlook 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

www.iea.org/reports/glob...

Whoa, every fifth new car sold around the world is now electric (BEV or PHEV)

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

Yay, there's an initiative for banning conversion therapy that's collecting signatures! EU citizens, you know what to do. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Does anyone have a good security analysis of Apple accessibility features? Are there for example security mechanisms which ensure that speech transcribed for accessibility reasons is instantly deleted or processed via a Secure Enclave?

We use the same types of Rhodia notebooks! 🥳

My favourite reviews are those in which the person, by complaining, actually highlights a really nice aspect of the place. Especially those which highlight how local (vs globalised) the place is

UK pioneering global move away from passwords Government to roll out passkey technology across digital services as an alternative to SMS-based verification.

Pretty big news! This week, the National Cyber Security Centre of the UK announced that it will be rolling out passkeys across the UK’s digital services later this year. The organization will also be joining the FIDO Alliance to help shape the evolution of passkeys. www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/governm...

Photo of Robert Schuman, standing in the centre, was taken on 20 June 1950, at the opening of the intergovernmental negotiations for the implementation of the Schuman Plan. It is generally used to illustrate the declaration of 9 May 1950 as no photographer was present at the original press conference.

Photo of Robert Schuman.

🇪🇺 75 Years of the Schuman Declaration 🇪🇺

On 9 May 1950, Robert Schuman put forward a bold idea: unite Europe by pooling coal and steel production to make war ‘not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible.’