October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I’m taking on the 2K a Day in October challenge for Breast Cancer Ireland — and I’d love your support.
Every day this October, I’ll be walking 2 kilometres to help raise awareness and vital funds for breast […]

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Jess Zafarris explains how the name Pakistan was created by Muslim students at Cambridge in the 1930s who combined the names of the regions that ended up forming the country.

Listen to the whole interview →https://pod.link/173429229

Get the book, "Useless […]

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[Israeli kidnapping of people part of Global Sumud Flotilla]

Kudos to the Irish people, and all the non-Irish people too of course!, who tried to help Gaza, and has now been kidnapped by the genocidal Israeli regime.

Well done to: Catríona Graham, Louise Heaney, Sarah Clancy, Sinn Féin Senator […]

[transphobia, violence, discrimination]

A ray of hope for trans rights.

There are more trans people, including trans kids existing loudly and proudly out of the closet then there have been any time in human history.

There are openly trans teachers and lawyers and engineers and scientists and […]

Keeping cuttely Blåhaj in small boxes, which clearly a way to small to swim around in, and displayed like that does not seem very animal friendly! Even if it helps make the world aware of how great Blåhaj is!

I did adopt one to have a life with more space […]

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John Oliver meets Bernd das Brot. It goes about as well as you expect.

Mist.

https://youtube.com/shorts/k315NvOdHvc?si=Rzo48AYKIFMKfOe8

As a heads up for people in Ireland, HSE has updated this year COVID-19 vaccination guidance to state that every adult who want a vaccination can get one. (This has as far as I know not been the case in recent years.)

HSE also has a list of pharmacy's where you can get a vaccine […]

If you have a yellow or orange YubiKey that you're willing to part with, please reach out.

#yubikey

macOS Tahoe UI has a HUGE new feature for folks like me who have 24/7 Mac Minis running and access them remotely: you can now type the boot password remotely via SSH!

Power on the Mac, then SSH to it. A simple SSH server will handle your request. Typing the […]

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Yesterday, 10 years ago, Let's Encrypt issued their first #tls #certificate to the domain name `helloworld.letsencrypt.org`. Since then, they issued 7 billion certificates.

To quote Borat: "Great success!"

Congrats!

#letsencrypt #tls #ssl #https

Varnish Cache project to change its name to Vinyl Cache with the next release, 8.0.0 , In March.

> We have tried to negotiate with Varnish Software for many months about this issue, but their IP-Lawyers still insist that Varnish Software owns the Varnish Cache name, and at most we have being […]

Proton Mail Falls Under U.S. Jurisdiction

If you read their Terms of Service, at first glance, they reference the laws of Switzerland. However, because they now have offices in the United States — along with registrations, trademarks, copyrights, and patents in the U.S. — they also cite U.S […]

When you think about it, we really should call "Tesla autopilot" vibe driving

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

"political violence" is a phrase invented by politicians to separate "violence against politicians" from "violence committed by politicians".

Political violence happens every day. It's just done structurally, not personally.

I upgraded my handbag with decoration.

The pin fits better than I expected. I probably need to add more :-).

Trans people must be allowed ID reflecting lived gender, EU court adviser says

It’s depressing how often I see people promoting Brave browser seemingly without realizing what kind of bad person their CEO is.

Note that I’m talking about the kind of people who are likely to care - I know some fanboys won’t.

(Reference eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich ).

Odin had a big day in Den Haag and we successfully avoided flattening any politicians underpaw. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #denhaag