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„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…

Green Bay Packers DL Kenny Clark says he played through 2024 foot injury: 'It was a tough year for me'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/gree…

Trevon Diggs progressing well in recovery from 2024 injury: 'All signs are positive' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trevon-diggs-progressing-well-in-recovery-from-2024-injury-all-signs-are-positive…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 113 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29887 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06343 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Should We Expect Further Acceleration of the Earth's Rotation in the Coming Years?
Recently, it has been suggested in the literature that the difference between universal and coordinated time UT1-UTC could reach a large positive value in the coming years (Agnew 2024). This would make it necessary to introduce a negative leap second into UTC for the first time in history, which in turn will cause serious problems in time keeping and synchronization systems around the world. Based on the latest Earth's rotation and universal time data published by the international Earth rotati…

from my link log —
The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization.
https://moxie.org/2024/09/23/a-good-engineer.html
saved 2025-05-21

Won't it be a surprise when it turns out that the party of bad losers, who've been trying to convince everyone that they could only have been beaten with election fraud for years, turns out to be the primary source of election fraud?
https…

Trevon Diggs progressing well in recovery from 2024 injury: 'All signs are positive' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trevon-diggs-progressing-well-in-recovery-from-2024-injury-all-signs-are-positive…

In a few minutes LoftyAssist is about to have its 500th deployment to prod since November 11th of 2024. That averages out as 2 deployments per day. Obviously didn't push stuff to prod daily there, but some days I can just get cranking.
When I work on the systems, I want them to be instantly deployable. I know I have it easy because my systems are not mission critical, but there are real users behind them managing their money with it. So it is important not to fail, be buggy, etc.

No Words - #NoWords https://muz4now.com/2024/no-words-nowords/

No Words - #NoWords
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025 - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/
> Unraveli…

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.

How Has Raiders' Malcolm Koonce Looked in OTAs? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/malcolm-koonce-patrick-graham-pete-carroll-las-vegas

Flowing Loops
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Flowing Loops | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Flowing Loops Host: Dan Koop Category: Arts Sub-Category: Crafts & Creativity, Local News & Stories, Places & Travel First Episode: 2024 Dan Koop and six artists have been walking and talking…

Bills quarterback Josh Allen, actress Hailee Steinfeld get married in California, a look at their nuptials

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bil…

Healing Melodies
- we've known for a long time that music has healing power -
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Und wo wir gerade bei underrated Mucke sind: wie konnte Snow Patrol so lange an mir vorbeigehen!?
https://open.spotify.com/album/7cbi6YeBaCjEdyzMdtwG45?si=cCWF1I7gSG-K1LMnEMJd0Q

The Forest Is The Path
Snow Patrol · Album · 2024 · 12 songs

The best-case scenario for the Cowboys quarterback room in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/the-best-case-scenario-for-the-cowboys-quarterback-room-in-2025

Falcons' Darnell Mooney says he 'came here to win' after falling just short of 1,000-yard season in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

Besonders schön ist der #Klimawandel in der #Schweiz für #Schafe. Sie bekommen tolle #Rundflüge

REfugEEs From Beyond – Weird Real Freestyle
#byncsa