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We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

#birdsOfMastodon #birds #naturePhotography
A cormorant standing on rocks at the edge of a pond. June 2025

From the "Your UX is bad so you should feel bad Dept.":
The act of observing the state of your 365 subscription changes the state of your 365 subscription. Or Schrodingers's 365 subscription - until you check, the subscription is both active AND expired in superposition and by checking your subscription the waveform collapses to one of those two states. Was your subscription ever really active at all?

Trump's government reduction program is paying more than 154,000 federal employees
💥 not to work
-- a side effect of the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program,
according to two administration officials.

The number, which has not been previously reported, accounts for workers at dozens of agencies
who took offers from the government as of June
to get paid through Sept. 30
— the end of the fiscal year
— or the end of 2025
a…

The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work
Early resignation offers and other programs have reduced the workforce, but critics say the moves are also wasting money.

Bob Donovan is such a shitbag... how to assholes like this keep getting elected?
"The GOP lawmaker began paying himself $850 a month from his campaign account for "staff lodging" at his old house. He paid himself $5,950 in the seven months after the election, according to campaign reports. The item was made even more confusing by the fact that he didn't even list a campaign staffer during any of that time."

Bice: Rep. Bob Donovan was paying himself $850 a month from his campaign, until he got caught
The campaign for Rep. Bob Donovan of Greenfield was paying him $850 per month from December to June for "staff lodging" for a total of nearly $6,000.

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Westeuropa.
Zwei #Hitzewellen haben den Juni 2025 zum wärmsten Juni seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen gemacht. Durchschnittlich 20,49 °C lagen 2,81 °C über dem Klima…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: [To Cally] You know what all this is about, don't you?
CALLY: [Nodding] I think I can guess.
JENNA: It is a trap, isn't it?
CALLY: Avon thinks so.
JENNA: Well Avon always thinks so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/321

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Found an old review, really loved working with New Noveta back in 2019:
"The two young performers get straight to work making the attendees at the edges of the room feel uncomfortable, grasping each other's bodies, screaming and crying, while brandishing what appears to be a giant folding fan made of 2ft blades. The pair chase each other on foot through the crowd, pushing people in all directions and never looking anything other than distressed, disturbed or downright terrified…

Good Morning ESWC 2025! If you want to join me for a morning run during the conference week, don’t hesitate to address me when you see me around 🏃
#eswc2025 #academiclife #semweb

Jimmy Swaggart was perhaps the most divisive of the broadcast preachers.
He attacked Catholicism as a “false cult”
and suggested that Jews, by rejecting Jesus as the Messiah, brought the Holocaust upon themselves.
Alone among the major televangelists, he leveled searing attacks on other preachers for alleged heresies and
— until his own troubles emerged
— for alleged sexual misdeeds.
Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist felled by sex scandal, dies at 90

Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist felled by sex scandal, dies at 90
The Louisiana preacher became one of the most popular and polarizing Christian televangelists of his generation.