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Against all odds and with far too many rewrites, I’ve launched a story on Royal Road: Phoenix Academy.
Genre: soft sci-fi, school drama, strategy, weirdly emotional power struggles.
Set in an elite girls’ academy where loyalty is weaponised, pressure is curriculum, and hierarchy is destiny.
Think: “game theory with feelings,” but also girls holding hands ominously.
I’d be grateful if you gave it a look, or passed it on if it seems your thing:

royalroad.com/fiction/109929/p…

#AmWriting #RoyalRoad #WebFiction #SciFi #SchoolDrama #PowerDynamics #EmotionalDamage #GirlsLove #DarkAcademia

#scifi #amwriting #royalroad #webfiction #schooldrama #powerdynamics #emotionaldamage #girlslove #darkacademia

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Vor 120 Jahren starb Jules Verne.
Seine Romane sind bis heute weltberühmt – auch, weil der Autor technische Ideen seiner Zeit aufgriff und visionär fortentwickelte. #podcast und Skript

swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/jules-…


Jules Verne – Schreibender Abenteurer und Vater der Science-Fiction

Die Romane von Jules Verne sind bis heute weltberühmt – auch, weil der Autor technische Ideen seiner Zeit aufgriff und visionär fortentwickelte.
SWR Kultur
#podcast

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Millions of Turkish voters, in an opposition party’s primary, back the arrested mayor of Istanbul. france24.com/en/europe/2025032…

Millions of Turkish voters back ousted Istanbul mayor in opposition primary

Fifteen million people participated in Turkey’s opposition CHP primary on Sunday in a show of support for ousted Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. His detention last week, seen as politically motivated, triggered mass protests across the country. 
FRANCE 24

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U.S. border: Eggs seized more often than fentanyl ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-bo… “In the first two months of 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized fentanyl on 134 occasions, down from 197 seizures in the same time frame in 2024. Meanwhile, CBP intercepted egg products on 3,254 occasions this January and February, compared to 1,508 occasions in the first two months of 2024.”

We need an egg czar! Now!


U.S. border officials have caught more people with eggs than fentanyl this year

U.S. President Donald Trump has made stopping fentanyl at both the northern and southern borders one of his administration's top priorities, but American law enforcement data shows that another commodity appears far more often in seizures: eggs.
Tammy Ibrahimpoor (CTVNews)

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Krásné dobré ráno mastodonní bando! 🙋‍♀️🐶
Artura se nám podařilo úplně zmást. Ve všední dny vstávám v pět, takže zatímco my už se vraceli z venčení domů, Artur teprve sbíhal ze seníku dolů. Ale jedno pozitivum v tom bylo. Snídani měl během chvilky.
V podstatě vstávám spolu se sadem. My vyjdeme ven a akorát začíná koncert. Malí i velcí zpěváci si můžou strhnout hlasivky.
Vy si taky užijte dnešní koncert a spěchejte pomalu.
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
#dobre_rano #dobrerano

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Wishing you an OK day on March 23 — National OK Day! 👍

Back in 1839, the Boston Morning Post published the first known instance of "OK" (writing it "o.k."). It was an abbreviation for the joking misspelling of "all correct": "oll korrekt."

Check out the whole story of how "OK" survived when similar funny abbreviations faded away:

Read: grammar-girl.simplecast.com/ep…

Watch: youtu.be/wSEJcbPlYB8

Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…

#GrammarGirl

This is what happens when I design my own social media images <cringe emoji>: A bright yellow background and playful purple dots in the corners. Bold, stylized text at the top reads "HAPPY OK DAY" in purple with a green shadow. Below that, the date "March 23" is centered between two sets of decorative green dotted arrows pointing inward. Or is it not centered? I can't tell anymore. At the bottom of the image, three cartoonish 3D hands with thumbs up are on a circular yellow platform.

Why we say ‘OK.’ How tea shaped English slang. Poetry winner

Podcast Episode · Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing · 03/18/2025 · 17m
Apple Podcasts
#grammargirl

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If you're using Mastodon through a computer, did you know you can access almost all of its functions through keyboard shortcuts? There's a complete list of shortcuts plus more info here:

➡️ fedi.tips/using-mastodon-throu…

Some of these will only make sense in Mastodon's multicolumn mode, but most of them work in all modes.

NOTE: You don't have to use any of these shortcuts, everthing can be done through the mouse too. The keyboard shortcuts are just for people who prefer them 🙂

#FediTips #Mastodon


Using Mastodon through a keyboard | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tips
#Mastodon #FediTips

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Two years ago we introduced the #libcurl header API, which also made it easier to extract headers with the #curl tool:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/24…


Easier header-picking with curl

Okay you might ask, what's the news here? We've been able to get HTTP response headers with curl since virtually the stone age. Yes we have. Get the page and also show the headers: curl -i https://example.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl #libcurl
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Help needed from the more experienced folks from fedi: The following dataset huggingface.co/datasets/foster… is stored as .parquet files. How i can export the contents and store this to my hard drive? The wavs and text?

fosters/be-bel-audio-corpus · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Zvonimir Stanecic

@viachaslavic не понимаю я этот сайт. просто из перспективы незрячего человека он неудобен. Апи скудно документирован, и не все оно выдаёт. Скачивать каждый файл одним щелчком это не метод. Нужно вытащить всё и сразу.
@Viačasłaŭ

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Forwarded from outside the fediverse.

"Dear friends,

In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free.

In this post, I share with you links to films you can view and share to get the message out to the world:

• "Keeper of Memory" documentary:
youtu.be/eywuYeflWzg

• "Empty Seat" documentary:
youtu.be/an4hRFWOSQQ

• "Resistance Pilot" documentary:
youtu.be/wqSmdZy-Xcg

• "Jenin" documentary:
vimeo.com/499672067

• "The Olive Tree" documentary:
vimeo.com/432062498

• "Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza" documentary 1973:
youtu.be/1JlIwmnYnlE

• Documentary "Gaza Fights For Freedom":
youtu.be/HnZSaKYmP2s

• Documentary "Arna's Children":
youtu.be/cQZiHgbBBcI

• Short Film "Strawberry":
vimeo.com/209189656/e5510a6064

• Short Film "The Place":
youtu.be/fgcIVhNvsII

• Documentary "The Mayor":
youtu.be/aDvOnhssTcc

• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar":
youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI

1/2 ⏩️

#Palestine #Gaza #films #movies #documentaries


"Strawberry" (2017)

Samir, 43, is the owner of a shoe shop in Ramallah who has never seen the sea. He decides to sneak past Israeli borders with other Palestinian construction workers…
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#movies #palestine #films #Gaza #documentaries

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 15 updated (14 RB) & 2 added apps:

* URL Cleaner: remove tracking & other redundant parameters from web links for sharing 🛡️
* Golden Ratio: calculate Golden Ratio easily 🛡️

3 apps were removed:

- VpnHood & Iconify switched to a different packageName a month ago
- Telegram SMS was caught with 24 flags at VT (& its development seemingly stalled)

RB Status: 552 apps (42.9%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Nevím, jestli to je gtk3 nebo použité téma, ale tohle prostě nesnáším. Na obrazovce místa jako kráva, ale tenhle list o dvou (ano, celé dvě položky) se zobrazí takto zmršený. Ty dvě šipky tam jsou zcela zbytečné, překrývají polovinu každé položky a není vidět, co se v nabídce. Když pohnu kolečkem myši, tak systém zjistí, že tam toho více není, šipky zmizí a položky seznamu jsou konečně čitelné.

#GTK3

Seznam možností v gtk 3. Dvě položky, ale zobrazena je vždy jen půlka. Horní/dolní polovina je nahrazena šipkou nahoru/dolů
Když pohnu kolečkem myši, dialog zjistí, že tam další volba není, šipky zmizí a konečně jsou vidět obě možnosti.
#GTK3

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Ultrazpracovaná ňamka na palubách žlutých vlaků… jediné, co není narvané, je rýže a kari pasta – původ mimo EU.

Jako vím, že by mne to nemělo překvapovat, ale tak nějak jsem se po přečtení článku (denikn.cz/1675980/vyziva-nejso…) podíval na složení…

V otázce obezity každý řeší pohyb. Pohyb, pohyb! Jenže nám z toho vypadává to zásadní, říká expertka

„Blbnou nám mozek. Jsou navržené tak, aby byly neodolatelné. Křupavost nebo nadýchaná měkkost, lákají nás, sníme jich víc a naládujeme do sebe víc energie,“ říká o takzvaných vysoce průmyslově zpracovaných potravinách Eliška Selinger, expertka na veř…
Lenka Vrtišková Nejezchlebová (Deník N)

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« 450 millions d'Européens ne devraient pas avoir à dépendre de 340 millions d’Américains pour se défendre contre 140 millions de Russes qui ne peuvent pas vaincre 38 millions d’Ukrainiens. » Andrius Kubilius, commissaire européen à La Défense

#Europe #Politique #Guerre #Ukraine #SupportUkraine #USA #FuckTrump #Russie #FuckPoutine

Photo d’un homme politique en costume (Andrius Kubilius), devant un fond blanc et un drapeau européen sur la gauche de l’image
#Ukraine #USA #europe #politique #fucktrump #guerre #supportUkraine #russie #FuckPoutine

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AirBnB migrated 3,5k React component test files from Enzyme to RTL using LLMs and automation in just six weeks. The effort was originally estimated to take 1.5 years of manual engineering time to do by hand. #LLM #AI #ML #Automation
medium.com/airbnb-engineering/…

Accelerating Large-Scale Test Migration with LLMs - The Airbnb Tech Blog - Medium

Airbnb recently completed our first large-scale, LLM-driven code migration, updating nearly 3.5K React component test files from Enzyme to use React Testing Library (RTL) instead. We’d originally…
Charles Covey-Brandt (The Airbnb Tech Blog)
#AI #ML #automation #llm

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Bei unserem Stand vom @metalab am Wiener Forschungsfest haben viele Kinder mit dem Braille-Alphabet geschrieben und gelesen. Dabei haben die Kinder Braille verstanden, angewendet und auch untereinander vermittelt. 😎 oskars.org/posts/wiener-foschu… #make #blind #inklusion
Vier mit Nerdsmiley anonymisierte Personen an einem Stand mit Zeltdach. Eine Regenbogenfahne mit einem Relief aus Blumen und gebärdenden Händen in der Mitte bildet die Standrückwand. Rosa und hellblau leuchtende Lichtschlangen sowie zwei Scheinwerfer hängen im Zeltdach und im umrahmenden Baustahlgerüst. Im Hintergrund befinden sich gotische Fenster und Säulen aus Sandstein. Auf den mit rotem Stoff eingekleideten Tischen steht eine Apparatur mit Metallgehäuse und der Aufschrift amalettomat sowie ein 3D-Drucker, eine Telefonzelle aus Kunststoff, ein Leuchtschild mit dem Logo vom metalab, ein Totenkopf, ein Kopf mit Mütze, und ein halbtransparenter Würfel der von innen leuchtet. Am Zeltgestänge ist ein sprechender Fisch und ein Display mit großem Druckknopf befestigt. Auf einem gelben Schild steht als Überschrift „Sprechende Fische und lustige Hacker*innen“. Auf einem Stehtisch mit Barhockern vor dem Stand liegen Tafeln, eine Brailletastatur und ein Smartphone ist auf einem verstellbarem Arm am Tisch befestigt.

Das Wiener Forschungsfest 2025

Oskar am Stand vom metalab
Oskar
#blind #inklusion #make @metalab

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I really like the integration of #CollaboraOfficeOnline into #Nexctloud, but the built-in CODE server takes up 1.6GB of memory, which is just too much for my 4GB VPS. #Hetzner Storage Share doesn't even include it for this reason.
Nextloud allows you to connect to any #Collabora Online server. Such a resource-intensive service is a great candidate for sharing, but no one offered it as a (paid) service, so I asked @archos if they could offer it as part of their @oscloud. They did and it works great and I just set up a recurring donation for them. 👍
A screenshot of the text processor from Collabora Online with an article on GNOME 47 opened.
#hetzner #collabora #collaboraofficeonline #nexctloud @Archos @Oscloud
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Sharable Family Calendar that protects your loved ones? Tuta Calendar has you covered ❤️📆

With Tuta’s Family Plan you and the crew can plan, schedule, and organize while protected from big tech surveillance 🔐

Learn more about how your family can benefit from Tuta Calendar: tuta.com/blog/best-family-cale…

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Best family calendar app for Android |Desktop | iPhone. | Tuta

A family calendar must allow you and your loved ones to share agendas and stay in the loop. In this guide, we look at the best calendar app for families to use from any device.
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Tuta

@akili41 Hi there! In the Revolutionary and Legend personal plans: tuta.com/ features you will find it says "Family option" Regarding our business plans, the amount of users you can add depends on the plan and what suits you best. You can find more details here: tuta.com/business

Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta

Tuta guarantees your data stays private for free & without ads. Quantum-resistant encryption makes Tuta the best secure technology solution to protect your privacy.
Tuta

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Another cracking book, thanks @FreakyFwoof for both the find of the book, the recommendation of the book, and of course as usual the music bed to go beneath the description of the book.

It's the wonderful in any lifetime by Marc Guggenheim.
#Bookstodon


#bookstodon @Andre Louis

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Are you in the UK, preferably in or near the midlands? Do you fancy trying Showdown, the sport that crosses air hockey, table tennis and blindfolding people? Come down to Coventry on Saturday April 19. Balls will be hit, goals will be scored, fucks will be yelled! If interested, let us know at the following link. Please boost for reach. eventbrite.co.uk/e/showdown-ha…

Showdown Have A Go Day

Come and try this fast-paced sport which has been designed from the ground up for visually impaired people but can be played by anyone.
Eventbrite
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And so, here we are #canada #cdnpoli

A version of this @ #globeandmail

“What’s the probability of this kind of scenario? Ten per cent, 5 per cent, or 1 per cent? No one can say for sure. But it’s certainly not zero. And given the existential cost to Canada, we’d be stupid not to take it seriously. In game-theory terms, we need to pursue a strategy of “minimax regret” – to minimize, as best we can, the possibility of worst-case outcomes.”

cascadeinstitute.org/prepare-f…

#ElbowsUp #trump #usa #uspol

The image contains an article discussing various scholars' perspectives on former President Trump's views on Canada and international relations. Key topics include the potential for conflict, geopolitical fantasies, and the absurdity of some of Trump's assertions regarding Canada and its relationship with the U.S

If you want peace, prepare for war—an ancient lesson Canada must remember - Cascade Institute %

Cascade Institute Executive Director Thomas Homer-Dixon urges Canada to bolster its defenses against the growing threat of an authoritarian and imperialist U.S. regime.
nicole (Cascade Institute)
#Trump #USA #canada #uspol #cdnpoli #elbowsup #globeandmail
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