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🚁 Drones could cut travel delays and reduce spoilage of donated blood, study shows
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-drones-delays-spoilage-donated-blood.html

Drones could cut travel delays and reduce spoilage of donated blood, study shows
Delivering blood from collection sites to labs is a fast-paced, labor-intensive process. Donated blood can deteriorate within a few hours at room temperature, leaving little room to maneuver in case of unexpected traffic congestion or other delays between collection sites and blood centers.

Went to quilt club today. Its amazing how a little bit of time being creative, with genuinely kind and nice people can really make you feel good. This quilt is being donated to a soup kitchen. Next month we are making lap quilts for hospice.

If you're in Austin and want to attend #LonghornPHP next week but can't swing the ticket price, we still have some donated in-person tickets available. Pay $20 now, then get that $20 refunded when you show up. https:/…

I donated to ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/about/
"Mission: To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdo…

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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg 
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

Here's my (probably not complete) list of #FLOSS projects I've donated to or financially supported over the year - and especially now in the holiday season.
If you've recently started moving away from big tech and replaced their tools with FLOSS alternatives, maybe consider sharing a bit of your savings with the people that make the tools you now rely on 🙏
Which tools would that be for you?
#opensource
https://tzovar.as/supporting-floss/

46,000 Knitted Mice Donated to Rescue Cats Setting Guinness World Record for Crafting Community https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/46000-knitted-mice-donated-to-rescue-cats-sets-guinness-record/

46,000 Knitted Mice Donated to Rescue Cats Setting Guinness World Record for Crafting Community
Readers of Woman’s Weekly magazine set a Guinness Record for knitting 46,506 woolen mice to be donated to 300 UK cat rescue centers.

Folks,
Mahmood is a software engineer from Gaza. He’s looking for work.
Do your thing, fediverse! :)
💕
#Gaza #GazaVerified #software

I love it when @… goes on long nerd dives on YouTube and the topic of his latest video focuses on why #Jesus is traditionally depicted with long hair.
An icing on the cake is that early in the video he donated $250 to

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg (Rei Takver/DeSmog)
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p151#a251105p151

@… thanks. It's mostly old stuff that has been brought to the surface.
For the first time ever, I'm looking at sponsored commits to tell whether any fraction of money that I donated, over the years, might have gone in the pocket of someone whose rule-breaking wasn't worth a penny.
Found: for the organisation to which I donated, three commits…

Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

Exactly this. I was politically naive, and excited by Pelosi's win, and donated a (for me) significant amount her campaign & PAC.
and ended up feeling disappointed and betrayed.
https://48hills.org/2025/11/rep-nancy-pelosis-real-legacy/

Rep. Nancy Pelosi's real legacy - 48 hills
She was always a neoliberal Democrat who dismissed the left and put the party and its power ahead of her constituents at home

Yesterday I installed some OpenSource Software on my Laptop. As it also has a donation page, I donated 5€.
Since a couple of years I try to donate whenever I install OpenSource Software. Something between 5€-15€. Especially in the age of "Free"Apps that are bloated with Ads, I want to honor when a software comes just as is with a friendly hint to a donation page.
(I really try to avoid resetting my machines as this always comes with a couple of donations...)

@… I did, and it was :)
Also donated it to my local library afterwards, to spread the message as far as possible.

Since I rely on and use @… pretty much everyday as my preferred email provider, I donated €10, and will turn it to a monthly donation.
Support the projects, organizations, or initiatives you depend on the most. For me, that’s https://…

And just sometimes there are encouraging news stories - and boy how different from my school and college eating spaces:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/07/…

"Many corporate interests that have donated to the president’s pet project have business before his administration."
Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/us/politics/trumps-team-offers-to-keep-some-ballroom-donors-incognito.html

Keegan-Michael Key talks to Carolina Panthers after Rico Dowdle's pump fine https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46894948/rico-dowdle-pump-carolina-panthers-keegan-michael-key

Anker paid users of its Eufy security cameras $2 per video of staged or real package and car thefts to train its AI systems from December 2024 to February 2025 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/04/anke

Anker offered Eufy camera owners $2 per video for AI training | TechCrunch
Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.

I donated to Give Directly https://www.givedirectly.org/
"GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world's poorest households. In doing so, we aim to accelerate the end of extreme poverty globally."
Give Directly believes is data and facts over wi…

GiveDirectly: Send money to people living in poverty
GiveDirectly allows donors to send money directly to people in poverty with no strings attached. Our approach is guided by rigorous evidence of impact and our values of efficiency, transparency, and respect.

A gift to the West Bank city of Nablus from Scottish firefighters has sat impounded in dock by the fascist Israeli authorities. They've sent a £16,000 bill to Nablus.
Another way in which Israel harms Palestinians and blocks solidarity.
Scottish fire engine destined for West Bank may return after 15-month Israeli seizure | Dundee | The Guardian

Blogged about my new take on Hierarchical data in CLI, scripts and code. And a look into the future direction I want for solving a particular configuration management use case.
https://choria.io/blog/post/2025/11/25/hierarchical_data/

Our Blockchain Rookie Club loaded gifts donated by players, coaches and staff for @SalvationArmyDFW https://www.youtube.com/shorts/autxL5hkc3U

Got an email from the US DOJ. I initially clocked it as spam, but no, it's the real deal:
I donated to some charity drive years ago, the guy who ran the charity pled guilty to embezzling $2.5MM, and as a result I have been identified by the DOJ as a ***VICTIM***. Wild shit!

And just sometimes there are encouraging news stories - and boy how different from my school and college eating spaces:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/07/…

OpenAI's nonprofit foundation announces it's awarding $40.5M in grants this year to 208 nonprofits across the US; the nonprofit donated only $7.5M in 2024 (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I donated to Marketplace (Minnesota Public Radio | American Public Media)
https://www.marketplace.org/about-us/
They have done great work for many years.
We need honest news media now, more than ever, that report facts and provide insight into our economy and the risks that …

About Us
Who we are Marketplace is a public media outlet that produces broadcast shows, podcasts, digital reporting and more. The Marketplace broadcast portfolio is heard by more than 10 million listeners each week on more than 800 public radio stations nationwide. We also reach more than 1.6 million listeners across our podcasts.

I donated to ACLU https://www.aclu.org/
"For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this coun…

Home | American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

I donated to Develop Africa to support students in Sierra Leone.
https://www.developafrica.org/about-develop-africa
"we provide education, child sponsorship, leadership development, workforce empowerment, and more to poverty-stricken African communities. We aid in br…

It's my third #mastodonniversary today! Crazy!!
To celebrate I am getting ready to help host and chair the first #SocialBC and Society of Open Social Servers of BC Annual General Meeting tomorrow with @… and @…
it starts at 5PM! full info in the announcement 📢
If you are in BC and would like to help grow a #regional instance come on over! There is no requirement to be part
of the Society but any SocialBC account holder
can be at the AGM and anyone who has donated at least $20 in the past year is a full member and can vote and volunteer for the Board!
Onward for the #opensocialweb!
#SOSSBC
#mastodon
#fediverse
#volunteer
#community
#society
#bc
#mastodonMigration
#bluesky