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"German mayors call for night-time ban on robot lawnmowers to protect hedgehogs"
#Germany #Hedgehogs #Animals

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)
said Monday that he’s confident
Democrats will still win back the House of Representatives,
despite Republicans now being poised to come out ahead in Donald Trump’s redistricting war.
“The failed GOP majority will not be able to gerrymander themselves back into power,”
Jeffries wrote in a new letter to House Democrats
Jeffries said the House Democratic caucus would meet Thursday as they plot next steps.
…

‘We remain undeterred’: Hakeem Jeffries says gerrymandering won’t save House Republicans
“The failed GOP majority will not be able to gerrymander themselves back into power."

Report: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are in talks to merge; the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

rhesus_monkey: Rhesus monkey grooming (1963)
Grooming interactions among a group of wild adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago, during a two month period in 1963. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 16 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Democrats now have to win the House vote by 4 points due to Republican gerrymandering (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-10-dem-house-pop-vote-threshold-gerrymandering
http://www.memeorandum.com/260510/p7#a260510p7

I took this joke diagnostic "German or Autistic": https://german.millermanschool.com/
Turns out I am both, except instead of German I'm apparently Austrian. And I am indeed Austrian. 😲

"Weimer’s obsessions are no secret – they were probably the reason Christian Democratic Union chancellor Friedrich Merz appointed him as commissioner for culture and the media."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar
First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

Northrop Grumman testet Drohne mit hybrid-elektrischem Antrieb
Northrop Grumman hat eine Nurflügel-Drohne mit Hybridantrieb entwickelt. Mit zwei Jahren Verspätung ist XRQ-73 erstmals geflogen.
https://www.

Northrop Grumman testet Drohne mit hybrid-elektrischem Antrieb
Northrop Grumman hat eine Nurflügel-Drohne mit Hybridantrieb entwickelt. Mit zwei Jahren Verspätung ist XRQ-73 erstmals geflogen.

The journey with my (likely) broken #Garmin Cycle computer continues:
I had some exchange with the Garmin support. They now open a ticket at the US-support ...
Meanwhile I saw a good offer for the successor model - and bought it. I don't believe mine will make it again. I guess I'll sell it - likely as defect (if it can't be fixed).
If garmin can get it back to live …

Britain's Keir Starmer has agreed with Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to “work closely together” in navigating commercial shipping through the strait of Hormuz.
A spokesperson for Starmer said the prime minister spoke to the leaders of Germany and Italy on Monday night “about the situation in the Middle East, discussing the strait of Hormuz.”
He said:
They agreed on the vital importance of freedom of navigation for vessels through these waters. They ag…