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Knew this was coming, eventually.

07.03.2026 19:20 👍 223 🔁 59 💬 7 📌 2
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 👍 6679 🔁 4484 💬 476 📌 1243
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So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

07.03.2026 16:25 👍 10503 🔁 4161 💬 490 📌 421

"Private Equity has never made anything better." - Bomani Jones

07.03.2026 21:42 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

07.03.2026 22:24 👍 10617 🔁 2138 💬 576 📌 111
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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

07.03.2026 20:03 👍 657 🔁 309 💬 5 📌 8
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Nothing like CaturDogDay 💕

07.03.2026 12:22 👍 232 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 1

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A country that always defends human rights and international law, like Spain, earns the respect of the entire world, as has happened in recent weeks.”

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Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

07.03.2026 11:55 👍 2603 🔁 710 💬 25 📌 56
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They like to bomb things. 🥴

Source: Public Policy Polling (PPP)

07.03.2026 15:08 👍 2419 🔁 850 💬 196 📌 67

Oh no, it's really gone 😭

Used to be here, but it's not ?!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

06.03.2026 13:41 👍 53 🔁 15 💬 10 📌 5

The Paralympic Games are going to be a utterly disgusting bloody demonstration of international corruption and cynicism.

07.03.2026 17:14 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So, just picking apart some of the illiterate media references here:

-Walter White- Drug dealer threatening his wife.

-Kylo Ren. Bad guy. Leader of a Space Nazi army. Literally the bit where he relentlessly bombards the #1 space antifascist of all time TO ZERO EFFECT ON TARGET.

06.03.2026 15:21 👍 46 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 0

Who are we supposed to believe are the terrorists in the middle east, again?

07.03.2026 17:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

From my blog archives....

Intro to Power Automate Updated

07.03.2026 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Centered on maximum eclipse, these two total lunar eclipse sequences look almost identical. Yet the one shown on top is composed of images recorded in February 2008, while at the bottom is the recent March 2026 total eclipse of the Moon. Why are they so similar? Because these two total lunar eclipses are from the same Saros cycle. The Saros cycle was discovered historically from observations of the Moon's orbit. With a period of 18 years, 11 and 1/3 days, the cycle predicts when the Sun, Earth, and Moon all return to the same relative geometry for a lunar (or solar) eclipse. Eclipses separated by one Saros period belong to the same numbered Saros series, in this case Saros 133. So expect the next lunar eclipse in Saros 133 to be a repeat of this year's March 3 eclipse. You can watch the next Saros 133 total lunar eclipse on March 13, 2044.   Growing Gallery: Total Lunar Eclipse of March 3

Centered on maximum eclipse, these two total lunar eclipse sequences look almost identical. Yet the one shown on top is composed of images recorded in February 2008, while at the bottom is the recent March 2026 total eclipse of the Moon. Why are they so similar? Because these two total lunar eclipses are from the same Saros cycle. The Saros cycle was discovered historically from observations of the Moon's orbit. With a period of 18 years, 11 and 1/3 days, the cycle predicts when the Sun, Earth, and Moon all return to the same relative geometry for a lunar (or solar) eclipse. Eclipses separated by one Saros period belong to the same numbered Saros series, in this case Saros 133. So expect the next lunar eclipse in Saros 133 to be a repeat of this year's March 3 eclipse. You can watch the next Saros 133 total lunar eclipse on March 13, 2044. Growing Gallery: Total Lunar Eclipse of March 3

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Two Eclipses of Saros 133

07.03.2026 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

I just had to rebuild our internal web site. There is a 13 GB node modules folder.

In 1996 Quake was 50 MB. I could do networking, complex 3D rendering and sound.

30 years later we need 13 GB and still struggle to center a div across two browsers.

Web development is obscene.

06.03.2026 19:07 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 1

between the secretary of the treasury going on cable news to discuss war strategy, and the secretary of state speaking on a roundtable about college sports during a war... i'm starting to wonder how much it actually matters who is secretary of what over there

06.03.2026 23:05 👍 305 🔁 59 💬 3 📌 0

You're doing fantastic

06.03.2026 22:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Completely insane

06.03.2026 21:59 👍 317 🔁 77 💬 14 📌 4

Hello Gaius my old friend

06.03.2026 21:53 👍 687 🔁 81 💬 23 📌 4

They used ChatGPT to create this because they couldn't be bothered to put in the effort themselves, or to even proofread the output.

06.03.2026 22:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you read the article itself, it's pretty obvious that this was entirely the developer's fault, who ignored several warnings and warnings signs. This wasn't on Claude.

06.03.2026 21:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 👍 29948 🔁 7398 💬 225 📌 236

From an international perspective, America is a rogue state now, right? America doesn't respect international law, doesn't honor treaties, is murdering civilians all over the world without care or consequence.

At what point does the rest of the world say ENOUGH?

06.03.2026 20:19 👍 1890 🔁 195 💬 130 📌 22
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Getting Started with .NET Scheduling in Hangfire
https://barretblake.dev/posts/development/2026/02/hangfire/ #NET #scheduling #hangfire

06.03.2026 20:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Value of Immutability in .NET
https://barretblake.dev/posts/development/2026/03/value-of-immutability/ #NET #immutability

06.03.2026 20:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How very presidential

06.03.2026 01:29 👍 2253 🔁 961 💬 253 📌 73
Do young stars blow bubbles? The larger view shows a stellar field observed with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and the inset highlights HD 61005, a star like our Sun, only 120 light-years away. Much younger than the Sun, at just about 100 million years old, it blows a fast and dense stellar wind that pushes out the cooler dust and gas that surrounds it, forming a bubble called an astrosphere. The star-blown bubble was detected with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and it has a diameter roughly 200 times the Earth-Sun distance.  Our Sun has a bubble too, called the heliosphere, which protects the planets from cosmic radiation. Also shown in the inset is debris left behind from star formation, observed by Hubble. The debris appears as wings, giving the star its nickname: the Moth.

Do young stars blow bubbles? The larger view shows a stellar field observed with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and the inset highlights HD 61005, a star like our Sun, only 120 light-years away. Much younger than the Sun, at just about 100 million years old, it blows a fast and dense stellar wind that pushes out the cooler dust and gas that surrounds it, forming a bubble called an astrosphere. The star-blown bubble was detected with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and it has a diameter roughly 200 times the Earth-Sun distance. Our Sun has a bubble too, called the heliosphere, which protects the planets from cosmic radiation. Also shown in the inset is debris left behind from star formation, observed by Hubble. The debris appears as wings, giving the star its nickname: the Moth.

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The Astrosphere of HD 61005

06.03.2026 14:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

06.03.2026 13:31 👍 768 🔁 268 💬 2 📌 0