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President of CBS News quits rather than cave in to Trump extortion, which her former, cowardly bosses are plainly planning to do.

She has more integrity than the rest of them put together.

She also knows that extortionists don't stop when you cave. They demand more.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5403690/cbs-news-wendy-mcmahon-resigns-paramount-trump-lawsuit-60-minutes

Handy bilingual mnemonic for tool use. 🪛🔩

#English #Spanish #screw #unscrew #tools #mnemonic

Incredible (but predictable) : #Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court's access (#ICC) to its services on the orders of the #Trump mafia.

Read that carefully : an international organisation that has no presence in the United States and no US legal rights has had its work tools blocked simply because it disagrees with the Trump administration. 🚩

Get the hell out of it right now.

› https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#Facism #Autocraty #Criminal #BigTech

Kindergarten children dropped seeds in the crack of the sidewalk to see what would happen 💕 More photos: https://streetartutopia.com/2025/05/16/kindergarten-children-dropped-seeds-in-the-crack-of-the-sidewalk-to-see-what-would-happen/

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis
Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a temporary' detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps.
She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn't realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn't handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A.
Single. Difference.

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y'all can shut the fuck up with that "stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.

Its also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.

The web feels so broken. Subscription and login gates at every corner. Using Google on a phone now means being periodically quizzed on which of the buttons to press to *not* be redirected to the app store. Opening an Instagram link casually throws up a browser alert dialog because it tries to automatically open an unsupported URL scheme, presumably their own app, and apparently everyone is fine with it. I'm proud that Mastodon never locks public content behind login walls.

Did you see this? It's an artist's conception of how gravity from the tiny moon Daphnis creates ripples in Saturn's rings - created by Kevin Gill of NASA.

This image was pretty popular here, and elsewhere on the web - but people often don't come out and say from the start that it's not a photo. The actual photos are less beautiful but... hey, they're real! And the ripples look different in the photos. Let's take a look.

(1/n)

Sir David Attenborough: 99 today.
Happy Birthday!

The new pontiff's maternal grandparents lived in New Orleans and in the 1900 census were described as Black. https://www.nola.com/news/first-american-pope-roots-new-orleans/article_3c7bfdf1-8f69-452e-af01-90aa012366df.html

In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry.

Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #Plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website.

Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon happen.
https://thetoyinsider.com/products/mastodon-stuffed-toy/

Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education, sent a letter to Harvard. They responded by grading it.

Honestly, this is the level of petty I aspire to.

EDIT: MOST LIKELY NOT FROM HARVARD

#uspol #fucktrump #trump #harvard

A DOGE aide was told by ethics attorneys that he held stock in companies that Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees are barred from owning — and was advised not to participate in any actions that could benefit him personally.

Days later, he helped fire 90% of CFPB staff anyway, including the ethics lawyers who warned him.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cfpb-gavin-kliger-doge-conflict-of-interest-consumer-financial-protection-bureau?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOGE #Stocks #Business #Ethics #Law #Government

A+ trolling (by Harvard?)

Remember pocket calculators with solar cells to prolong battery life? Something similar is now available as (emulated) IBM XT, built around an ESP32 and an e-ink display: https://hackaday.com/2025/04/23/the-evertop-a-low-power-off-grid-solar-gem/ #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #esp32

Rogue looked perfect on the Mac.

This story bundle with many African scifi books, including mine, ends in 16 days. If there are any "book influencers" here, or perhaps you want to run a campaign of some sort and need to give people a gift or bonus or something, let me know and I can get you gift codes.

https://storybundle.com/scifi

@bookstodon #writing #writingcommunity #sffbooks #sff #africa

New research shows glitter that makes its way into the sea is actively disrupting a crystal-forming process known as biomineralisation, which affects how marine life such as sea urchins, corals and oysters form their shells and skeletons. This mineral formation also contributes to how the ocean helps regulate Earth’s climate by moving carbon through the planet. So the consequences could be far from pretty.
#Glitter #Environment #Oceans #Biodiversity #ClimateEmergency

https://theconversation.com/glitters-sparkle-hides-a-darker-side-it-can-change-the-chemistry-of-our-oceans-255155

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged nearly 430 ppm in April 2025 (new record high) 🚨

10 years ago April averaged about 404 ppm. Preliminary data from https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/mlo.html

This isn't going away. The longer we wait to address climate change, the greater the impacts and the harder it becomes to solve.