DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices.
The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026.
Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice.
This is digital sovereignty being taken back
I'm watching the Jimmy Savile documentary on Netflix and it's remarkable how much it's actually about how Thatcherism hollowed out public institutions such as hospitals so that they came to rely on the largesse of private entrepreneurs who, now being indispensable, were able to act with impunity
Know what really melts my M&Ms though? When I buy a private jet and then everybody jumps all over me like I'm wearing fancy dress socks or something. I mean Quebec's got THREE private jets they use just to fly sick people around. Sick people! I mean what've sick people ever done for the economy?
Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.
Food banks are not part of a safety net. they are proof we do not have a safety net.
This composite photograph features a warm, close-up portrait of Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939), the internationally acclaimed Canadian author, poet, and literary critic widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the late 20th and 21st centuries. In the main image, the older Atwood gazes directly at the viewer with a gentle, knowing smile, her short curly gray hair softly framing her face. She rests her left hand against her cheek in a relaxed, contemplative pose, wearing a dark top accented by a patterned gray-and-yellow scarf. The solid black background isolates her face and upper torso, creating an intimate and timeless studio portrait. Overlapping in the lower right is the iconic black-and-red cover of her 1985 dystopian masterpiece The Handmaid’s Tale, showing the famous red-robed figure with a white winged bonnet and the bold text “THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER” and “MARGARET ATWOOD.”
Margaret Atwood 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥'𝘴 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦 was first published in Canada #OTD in 1985 (US, Feb 1986).
The book has stayed in print for >40 years, been translated into >40 languages & was adapted into a 1990 film, a 2000 opera, a 2017 television series & and other media.
#litsky #booksky #filmsky
I went to the library to get a book on Pavlov's dog and Schrodinger's cat.
The librarian said that she thought it rang a bell but wasn't sure if it was there or not!
#wildlife #WildlifeCrossings
More photos of wildlife crossings in comments. Great idea!
This black-and-white studio portrait photograph captures Rosalind Elsie Franklin, the brilliant British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose meticulous research produced Photograph 51—the iconic X-ray diffraction image that revealed DNA’s double-helix structure and proved pivotal to the 1953 Watson-Crick model of the molecule. Shown in a close-up, three-quarter view from the shoulders up, Franklin appears in her late twenties or early thirties, her dark, wavy hair neatly styled and swept back from her face. She wears a simple, dark collared blouse or shirt with a crisp, professional appearance that reflects the understated elegance typical of mid-20th-century scientific women. Her expression is calm and intensely focused: direct gaze slightly off-camera to the viewer’s left, lips gently closed in a subtle, knowing half-smile, conveying quiet confidence, intellectual depth, and quiet determination. The plain, softly lit studio background with its neutral gradient emphasizes her face and upper torso, creating an intimate, timeless composition that places her poised presence at the absolute center.
Chemist & X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin's meticulous research was instrumental in uncovering DNA's molecular structure.
Most famous for her role in the DNA double helix discovery, her work also revolutionized our understanding of viruses & coal. Died #OTD in 1958, age 37. #WomenInSTEM
Like Bentham's panopticon.
Hummingbirds looking a bit rough this year.
Conclusion This single-word poem is a bold and successful experiment in minimalist writing. Its evocative power lies in its simplicity and ambiguity, leaving a lasting impression despite its brevity. The piece is a testament to the power of suggestion and invites further exploration of similar techniques in future writings. The potential for expansion and deeper meaning within this concept is exciting and promising!
One time I had to try out an AI writing aid for work and I accidentally ran the full analysis on a single word from the title of an article. It said it was "a bold and successful experiment in minimalist writing."
I experimented a little with this print. I used a lightweight handmade mulberry paper to pull the print. Then I hand tore the edges and pasted it onto a stiffer piece of textured cardstock. I like the overall distressed feel it gave the piece.
#monoprint #art #printmaking
Rare image of a stork delivering a baby!
Some say the head is the best part.
Sunrise in the Grand Teton National Park. We saw about 15 elk in this plain, although they’re barely visible in the picture. The pinks, blues, and oranges of the rising sun make up for it.
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. - Bryan Stevenson
Pic of the day
#photography
For the humanity's sake, this must be a TACO Tuesday.
Once upon a time, the 1970's, the Government controlled Energy, Fossil Fuel, Rail, Mail, Water, Steel, Telecoms, Airports, Public Transport.
50% of the money you spent went to the Government, now it isn't even 5% and the billionaires control everything.
This needs to be undone.
🇱🇺Luxembourg has enshrined abortion rights in its constitution, the second country, after France, to do so.
So much of this could have been prevented if the men in the Epstein files had been prosecuted instead of protected.
I love dogs;)
Could be. But because so many of PKD's books are about instability in reality, or in our ability to know it, I might also have thrown Lathe of Heaven into the wrong pile because of the similar vibe.
I read this book decades ago, then sometime between then and now came to believe it was written by Philip K Dick. Thanks for setting me straight.
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And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I'll follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
Skunk cabbage growing up through dead grass
Skunk Cabbage, taken 3 days ago in Eastern Ontario. #TweedOntario
Yes. We don't always send our best.
Scott Robertson - #cdnpoli
Pierre Poilievre tells Steven Bartlett that he got into politics because he hurt his back playing football
Yet, on Joe Rogan's podcast, he said it was tendinitis and wrestling...
