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Dit is toch geweldig?

Boer uit Zeewolde geeft land ter waarde van miljoenen euro's weg aan stichting - nos.nl/l/2552536

The application form for proposals to #fluConf2025 is now closed!

We will now move on to reviewing the proposals we received. Those who submitted can expect a mail some time in the next day informing them of their proposal's status and any next steps.

Thanks to everyone who helped spread the word!

For people who are newer here, if you have too much US politics in your feed for your taste, you can do a few things to help yourself:

use keyword filtering tools available on your service. Use words commonly found in posts you don’t want to see, especially if the poster is thoughtful and uses hashtags consistently.
you can mute people temporarily (e.g. for a week or a month)
you can always unfollow people or mute people who post non-CW’d politics. It’s not rude, it’s self-care.

we all know meetings that should have been an email, but still make react websites that should have been static html.

@hweimer I think the missing component in your perspective is the large personal and social costs involved in making all those things happen.

The people who have burned out or who we have otherwise lost, as a consequence of various factors relating to power and agency over technology; abusers, bad governance, the fundamental power differential vs. tech corps, and so on.

Most of these initiatives exist *in spite of* immense social forces acting against them, and people frequently pay for them with their personal and/or community health, which is not a sustainable approach in the long term.

I think that is where the techno-pessimism is coming from; the knowledge that we are going to lose these things in the not-so-far future if something doesn't change about the larger power differentials involved.

Do you know what Freenode is/was?
Click each you know what they are/were:
tenforward.social/@nivex/11385

health update 

Today is my weekly 'testing day' where I measure various vitals for post-transplantation (oxi, pulse, BP, blood sugar) and it seems that coffee kind of spikes my BP now, but the blood sugar was 6.4 in the first test, which is a basically perfect value

I just blocked most common AI crawler user agents on all of my sites without exception :3 should have done that earlier

There are actual refugees and children of refugees on fedi. Just...learn some manners. Be good neighbors.

I just saw one who doesn't feel safe telling you to use another hashtag because the very same political machinations that made you come over here from insta or tiktok are making them worry about their safety and their continued existence. Have some perspective. Use another hashtag.

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If you've been calling yourself a refugee because you've moved from one social media platform to another, please stop, and please donate and sign up to the newsletter of a refugee or asylum seeker charity that's close to you.

If you don't know any, feel free to borrow mine.
These Walls Must Fall wallsmustfall.org/
Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) wastmanchester.com/

The idea that individuals alone can't even come close to solving the climate crisis was brilliantly captured in this comic

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submitted to @fluconf, if i get accepted i'm finally going to have to put together a manifesto for a less shitty security industry that i've been thinking about for a while now

If you’ve got a little wooden keepsake box, you can easily load it with 3M Auras and have a classy way present N95s to visiting guests.

#MaskUp #CovidSafeScouts

Zachte waren 

Insteekmodule ondersteunende hulpmiddelen.

A :ns_nl_b: intercity crashed upon an excavator near Bunnik this morning. Nobody was hurt, but there is a lot of damage. No direct trains Utrecht - Arnhem/Rhenen today.

nos.nl/artikel/2552499-trein-b

More pictures with the damage from ProRail. It looks like at least one portal for overhead wires needs to be replaced, and a large part of the railroad crossing installation.

prorail.nl/nieuws/aanrijding-i

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I had a dream last night that £5 and £10 coins existed and they were very large. I was very confused when a cashier gave me them as change.

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