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2025-07-09

Someone's kindness made me cry today.

My son's been attending a kids sewing class at a local fabric store.

The owner saw how much he loves it, and had offered to sell us a machine at a discount for him to use at home, but it was still out of reach for us financially. I told her we'd save up for it for Christmas.

Today she gave us that sewing machine free. She said she wanted him to be able to continue to sew at home.

Enabling his passion is such a priceless gift and I'm incredibly thankful.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-07-09

Oooh, and then what happened, JD?

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.QasimRashid
2025-07-09

BREAKING: IRS announces exemption to 1954 ban on 501(c)3 orgs engaging in political activity—now allows churches & houses of worship to endorse political candidates.

The wall separating religion & state is collapsed. It is not hyperbole to state that we are on the footsteps of full blown Christian theocracy. Nothing good can come of this.

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2025-07-09

“With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the sh*t out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice,’” Trump said during one 2024 fundraiser, according to the audio. “And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10%.”

“Trump later claimed he relayed a similar warning to Chinese President Xi Jinping over a potential invasion of Taiwan, telling him that the US would bomb Beijing in response” cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/tr

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2025-07-08

“Climate change is turning ordinary weather into these disasters.”

New from Arcelia Martin at Inside Climate News: Over 100 are dead in Kerr County, including 28 children. As the world continues to burn fossil fuels, scientists say disasters like this are becoming the new normal. texasobserver.org/climate-chan

#ClimateChange #KerrCounty #flooding #weather #environment #politics #USpol #Texas #CentralTexas #news

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Popehat’s Interests Firstkenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-07-08

Superman has been firmly anti-shitbird for a long time.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kjjhbsc3pp3vkqjsivk6z2yd/post/3ltfv42mcok22

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European News 🇪🇺eunews
2025-07-08

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl

(archive.ph/bYVVj)

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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:luckytran@med-mastodon.com
2025-07-08

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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2025-07-08

You know that meme about the ridiculous names of business productivity software? This is an actual notification I received at work this morning:

Pumble notifications enabled

You can now receive clockify notifications directly in Pumble (by CAKE.com), so you never miss important updates from your workspace.
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MastodonMastodon
2025-07-08

We’re excited to announce that Mastodon 4.4 is now generally available as an upgrade for all Mastodon servers. The update brings improvements to profiles, navigation, list management, media controls, server moderation notes, and more.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/

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FediScience Supportadmin@fediscience.org
2025-07-08

Want to talk about your science in your own podcast but don't not know how to start? Or aren't sure what's involved logistically?

FediScience e.V. is planning a "podcasting for scientists 101" workshop and we would like to see how many people might be interested and what specifically you would expect to be covered.

This will be a free online event happening around late September or early October and would be conducted by an expert in science communication.

If you are interested, please either respond to this post or send me a DM. Please include any concrete topics or questions you would like to see covered in your message.

Boosts appreciated.

(edit: fixed hashtag :/)

#podcast #scicomm #wisskomm

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2025-07-08

The UK government is going to test its emergency notification system again in September.

If you have a hidden or secret phone for your safety, make sure you keep it hidden and that it is switched off when this test takes place. Your phone will make siren sounds and vibrate even if it set to silent or Do Not Disturb is turned on.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ge9x

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2025-07-08

Hello #PortfolioDay
I’m a freelance 2D artist & illustrator looking for projects for winter/2026 ✨

I’d love to keep working on visual novels, concept art, posters, books & any other project in need of a queer, trans touch! 🌹

Contact:
✉️ sarielsnowings (at) gmail (dot) com
🔗 sarielsnowings.artstation.com

#art #MastoArt #fediart #queerArtist #TransArtist #Portfolio #LookingForWork #Illustration #VisualNovel #CharacterArt #ArtistForHire 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Sariel’s illustration done for the Queer AF newsletter during trans history week.A picture of a trading card that sariel illustrated. It features an open chest with thorns coming out of the rib cage.A digital drawing of a trans-masculine angel (they have visible top surgery scars) sitting atop a well and looking up with a hopeful expression.A digital painting of a blue demon
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2025-07-08

Goodbye Google, Hello Privacy 👋

Discover how your Tuta Calendar compares to Google and others 👉 tuta.com/blog/private-calendar

Image comparing the data collected from Tuta Calendar vs the data collected from Google Calendar. Tuta Calendar: Data not collected. Google Calendar: Purchases, Contact info, User content, Identifiers, Diagnostics, Location, Contacts, Search history, usage data and other data.
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pixelfedpixelfed
2025-07-08

Edit: To clarify, we're talking about webmonetization.org and admins will be able to disable it. We're not introducing ads.

Exclusive Pixelfed posts = direct creator income 📸

Building a world where photographers and content creators get paid for their premium content, not platforms getting rich off your work.

Creator-first monetization is coming ✨

Interested? Join today ⬇️

pixelfed.org/servers

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2025-07-08

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are saving lives. 🚶🚴

The Guardian. London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’. Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
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2025-07-08

Brazil’s most revered Indigenous leader, Raoni Metuktire, has said he believes that one of the former president Jair Bolsonaro’s goals while in office was to “exterminate” the country’s Indigenous peoples.

“He really wanted to exterminate us. But Indigenous peoples across Brazil united to resist his government,” he says, adding that “from now on, every president elected in Brazil must respect Indigenous peoples”

theguardian.com/world/2025/jul

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Druid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿druid@toot.wales
2025-07-08

Just looking at travel options. We could go to Edinburgh by train for £726.19 taking 7h 16m each way or we could fly for £227.96 taking 1h 20m. How are people supposed to choose the greener option with it's like this???

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Natalia Ossipovanossipova
2025-07-08

A reminder: I'm looking for a senior/staff engineer role, on-site/hybrid in Hamburg, Germany or fully remote elsewhere, can start asap. 10+ years of native iOS development of enterprise and consumer apps. Besides , , UIKit, iOS SDK, I've dealt with different app architectures, APIs, frameworks and requirements. Can work both in an agile team and on my own. AI usage isn't a problem but I strongly dislike all other tech stacks.

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