This watercolor portrait of a cute hedgehog is inspired by two hedgehogs that I can currently observe in my garden. Enjoy!
#art #painting #cute #animals #AnimalArt #ArtForSale #giftideas #watercolor #watercolour #aquarell #aquarelle #handmade #TraditionalArt #kunst #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #BuyIntoArt #MastoArt #FediArt #FediGiftShop #MastodonArt #hedgehog #nature #wildlife
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South Carolina raised a confederate flag over its state house in the 1960s to show contempt for desegregation and Black Americans pursuing civil rights.
Four decades later they moved it to a flagpole at a monument to men who died fighting to preserve chattel slavery.
On 27 July 2015 Bree Newsome scaled that 30ft flagpole, removing that hateful flag. In just days the state decided to take it down permanently.
Today is the 10th anniversary of Bree Newsome's essential, moral, courageous action.
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Heck yeah! The SharedTime feature of #Liblast #Framework that establishes a common time reference so clients can time events in server's time seems to finally work as expected. This took a lot of debugging, but it's here!
Of course this is only via loopback on a single machine, so only using this over the internet will tell if my code is any good...
So far I'm happy with the results :D
This is not yet in the main branch of the git repo, there's more coming ;)
- unfa
codeberg.org/Liblast/liblast-f…
SharedTime seems to work perfectly now · b3ddfbbc77
liblast-framework - Liblast Framework - an integrated set of systems made for Liblast (the game) extending Godot 4 game engine with high-level tools for FPS game development using a 100% open-source toolchain.Codeberg.org
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"/> Fediverse community experiment: Need your help with a final panel idea for this comic draft! Comment with your suggestions! I'll finalize the one I like the most and give you credit in the comic.
#writing #webcomic #experimental
![A webcomic storyboard in four panels, black and white and sketchy:
Panel 1: A cute mermaid sings, eyes closed, with a melancholy expression, sitting on a rock in the middle of the ocean. She plays a small harp.
Panel 2: Aerial view: many boats gather, forming a circle around the mermaid, drawn in by her performance.
Panel 3: The mermaid bows modestly and says "Thank you" to the enthusiastic applause of the sailors on the boats, who give her a standing ovation.
Panel 4: [Empty] You decide! (placeholder: a large '?' sign and text inviting you to read the post for suggestions).](https://nerdica.net/photo/preview/640/33437112 "A webcomic storyboard in four panels, black and white and sketchy:
Panel 1: A cute mermaid sings, eyes closed, with a melancholy expression, sitting on a rock in the middle of the ocean. She plays a small harp.
Panel 2: Aerial view: many boats gather, forming a circle around the mermaid, drawn in by her performance.
Panel 3: The mermaid bows modestly and says \"Thank you\" to the enthusiastic applause of the sailors on the boats, who give her a standing ovation.
Panel 4: [Empty] You decide! (placeholder: a large '?' sign and text inviting you to read the post for suggestions).")
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Though I feel like this might really need another panel for some sort of harmonic climax where they end up making music together
Tens of thousands of people take to streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025
Event becomes biggest of its kind as more than 100,000 turn out to support its ‘existence and resistance’ theme
This is great piece by Ian Dunt on trans rights being taken away without even a pretence of parliamentary debate.
Around the world, LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly used as a litmus test for democracy. Our rights are everyone's rights, and when they come for us, they're coming for your freedom.
iandunt.substack.com/p/the-tra…
The trans rights stitch-up
How government plans to silence debate on the new rulesIan Dunt (Striking 13)
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It's not just about porn. It's about the freedom to safely engage in content if one so chooses. It's about the livelihoods affected by payment blocking. It's about LGBTQ+, whom are often wrongly and purposely equated to porn. This is keystone issue in the war on freedom that affects us all.
Learn what you can do about it at anti-censorship-campaign.carrd… .
#Censorship #CollectiveShout #Freedom #itchio #LGBTQ #Mastercard #PayPal #Steam #Stripe #Visa
Anti Censorship Campaign
Collective action against payment processors unjustly restricting our purchases.Anti Censorship Campaign
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Oh I see the absurdly, negligently insecure Tea app is now getting the "hackers hacked" treatment, so that it can comfortably deflect blame to some unspecified scary hackers?
Cool, cool.
*takes out a bullhorn*
📢 Tea kept drivers license photos of thousands of women in an unprotected Google Firebase storage bucket.
📢 Centering "hackers" means helping let those responsible for the horrendous negligence at Tea off the hook.
👏 There is no "hack", only other people's negligence.
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@the_turtle @arichtman No need, if the bucket is writeable, you'll find tons of malware in it already.
Example of communication with AWS:
- Hey AWS, there is a bucket with hundreds of malware files. Here is a link to one example X1.
- AWS here, we deleted X1.
- Hey AWS, but you left all other malware there. Example X2, X3, X4, ...
- AWS here, please open a new ticket.
And while the answers from AWS are a shame for every service provider, at least they answer. Microsoft is all hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing in such cases.
"This guy planted a bunch of catnip in his ally and this happened 😵💫"
DON'T FORGET TO PICKUP YOUR PETS
Happy #Caturday
via The Smokin Grasshopper 🦗🍃
@smokingrasshopper.bsky.social
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‘This is not a warning.
Famine has already arrived in Gaza. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a prediction. It is daily.
…
Noor, my eldest sister Tasneem’s daughter, is three; she was born on May 11, 2021. My sister’s son, Ezz Aldin, was born on December 25, 2023 – in the early months of the war.
One morning, Tasneem walked into our space carrying them in her arms. I looked at her and asked the question that wouldn’t leave my mind: “Tasneem, do Noor and Ezz Aldin understand hunger? Do they know we’re in a famine?”
“Yes,” she said immediately. “Even Ezz, who’s only known war and ruins, understands. He’s never seen real food in his life. He doesn’t know what ‘options’ are. The only thing he ever asks for is bread.”
She imitated his baby voice: “Obz! Obza! Obza!” – his way of saying “khobza” (a piece of bread).
She had to tell him, “There’s no flour, darling. Your dad went out to look for some.”’
aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/…
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #famine #starvation #StopIsrael #StopFundingGenocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #FreePalestine
‘Did you eat today?’: Voices of Gaza speak of starvation and survival
‘We are starved by the Israeli occupation,’ says Taqwa al-Wawi in Gaza, where all she thinks about is how hungry she is.Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi (Al Jazeera)
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Emergency Preparedness Tip:
Put your local fire department and police department dispatch numbers (non-911) into your phone.
Lots of 911 outages recently; if you have phone service still and need to call for help, it's useful to have them in your phone. (won't help you if your cell towers/etc. go down of course)
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Texas Observer: The San Antonio Flood of 1921 Held Lessons We Refuse to Learn
There is nothing unknown about what triggered the brutal Hill Country flood of 2025 and so many others dating back to the nineteenth century.
"...There was little to no public memory. People did not die solely because of forgetfulness but because this amnesia allowed succeeding generations to erase the past and their responsibilities to the future. When they could have enacted post-flood, life-saving interventions, they chose not to act on their progeny’s behalf...."
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Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Linked to Commercially Distributed Raw Milk — California and Four Other States, September 2023–March 2024
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7…
#RawMilk #UnpasteurizedMilk #SalmonellaOutbreak #PublicHealth
“A Shameful Chapter”: How Anti-Trans Disinformation Drowned Out Science and Gripped the Mainstream
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“A Shameful Chapter”: How Anti-Trans Disinformation Drowned Out Science and Gripped the Mainstream
A pipeline of pseudoscience funded by powerful right-wing hate groups has undermined medical truths with the help of big media.Assigned
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#Fread 1.4.5 has been released.
1. Support multiple accounts to log in to a single platform
2. Solved some known issues
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
#Mastodon #fediverse #Opensource #RSS #FOSS #Freesoftware #fdroid
Fread - Mastodon Bluesky RSS - Apps on Google Play
Built for Mastodon, Bluesky and RSS—simple, powerful, and beautifully crafted.play.google.com
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if you believe that trans people doing their gender in a way you disagree with makes them accomplices of the patriarchy, you are not a safe person for trans people to be around.
this goes double for people who are themselves trans. work on your internalized transphobia and misogyny.
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Obs, I don't know the full context here. But I feel how any of us do gender is highly influenced by the patriarchy. This doesn't mean we shouldn't do these things though. Personally, I do things to help manage my body issues which are highly influenced or set by western patriarchal norms of femininity, but I do so with that acknowledgement. We swim in patriarchy, so we can't avoid it. Anyone who critiques another's expression of their gender should also bear this fact in mind.
Feminism has long argued that the Personal is Political. How we fall into or express our gender is highly personalized, and thus political. Yet, any discussions around this should invoke a desire for understanding long before criticism should be laid. If anything else, feminism teaches us to listen to one another. To suggest that any one of us (individually) is responsible for our own oppression or the patriarchy is ridiculous. However, we should all be ready to cast a critical eye to our own actions and understandings to help ensure we are not prescribing or furthering oppressive norms as much as possible.
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The National welcomes Donut tRump to Scotland in true Scottish style.
Oddly enough, The National seems to be selling in unusually large numbers today, this was almost the last copy left at my corner shop... and I only bought it to take a photo of the headline 😂
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Ugh, I hate how that headline leaves out such important context.
He was found civilly liable for the sexual assault and (repeated) defamation of E. Jean Carroll. Ordered to pay around $500 million, I believe.
He was convicted of 34 criminal felonies for business fraud related to his 2016 coverup of an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels.
I believe a couple of law dictionaries are updating their definition of "Moral Turpitude" to just be a picture of Donald Trump.
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Hello#RFKjr also a Jeffrey Epstein client
newrepublic.com/post/198416/rf…
RFK Jr. Captured in Old Photos Partying With Jeffrey Epstein
It’s not just Donald Trump. Those in his inner circle were in the same orbit as Epstein too.The New Republic
🕹️ Title: OpenHV
🦊️ What's: A libre 90s-inspired Sci-Fi RTS game
🏡️ openhv.net/
🐣️ github.com/OpenHV
🦉️ mastodon.social/@MatthiasMaila…
🔖 #LinuxGaming #ShareYourGames #Strategy #RTS
📦️ #Libre #Arch #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
📕️ lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO…
🥁️ Update: 20250627/28
⚗️ Minor vers. 🐁️🐞️🐞️📑️💎
📌️ Changes: github.com/OpenHV/OpenHV/relea…
🦣️ From: mastodon.social/@holarse/11476…
🦝️ youtube.com/embed/7pe8s_ujwXA
🎲️👥️ youtube.com/embed/SCgmMs0_Itw
🎲️👤️youtube.com/embed/Go0v-yzrRxA
💥️🐧video.hardlimit.com/videos/emb…
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Hello and a good meowing g everyone! 
Have a most wonderful day and stay safe! 😸❤️
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Oh, you thought it was going to stop with trans people?
#bigotry #terfs #fascism #TakeAFuckingBowJKRowling disabled.social/@MikeImBack/11…
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“My parents very clearly do not love me”: Children of Bayswater Speak Out
"In July last year, we exposed Bayswater Support Group’s private Discord for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, revealing evidence of child abuse and political lobbying. Bayswater describes itself as offering “parents whose children have a transgender identity somewhere to talk, share and be understood”. But posts from their private Discord forum revealed that parents exchanged conversion therapy tips, and fostered relationships with MPs to push anti-trans policies."
transsafety.network/posts/my-p…
#Transgender #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy #TransYouth #TransKids #Transphobia #Transphobes #TransChildren #GenderCritical #Terfs
"To say the very least, Trump folks online are not happy. Many of them love South Park because of its ruthless mockery of 'woke' culture, and suddenly, here’s their Daddy being called a fascist little bitch by the creators of the show."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p…
South Park Thinks Trump is a Little Fascist Bitch
The best satire in years.Charlotte Clymer (Charlotte's Web Thoughts)
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This new piece by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social has everything. A conspiracy to pervert science, a prominent spokes-doctor with a perennially lapsing medical license, and a curiously close relationship between the ADF and the New York Times.
How Anti-Trans Disinformation ...
“A Shameful Chapter”: How Anti-Trans Disinformation Drowned Out Science and Gripped the Mainstream
A pipeline of pseudoscience funded by powerful right-wing hate groups has undermined medical truths with the help of big media.Assigned
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Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit byAnnie Kelly (The Guardian)
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Karen Kaspar
in reply to Karen Kaspar • • •Dieser neugierige kleine Igel wünscht dir einen schönen Tag!
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#igel #hedgehog #art #aquarell #watercolor
Neugieriger kleiner Igel auf der Wiese von Karen Kaspar auf ArtFrame, Leinwand, Poster und mehr | Art Heroes
Art HeroesKaren Kaspar
in reply to Karen Kaspar • • •For those who want to take a closer look….
You can find my Curious little hedgehog in the meadow hand-painted watercolor here:
karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featur…
#watercolor #prints #cuteanimals
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in reply to Karen Kaspar • • •Love this. What tool did you use for the darker features on the back? Sponge?
Those green bubble splatters came out wonderful!