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This weekend all across the country proud patriots will be joining
"Stand Up For Science’s"
✅ National Day Of Action.
Events are planned in more than 50 cities
- check here to see if there is a rally or protest you can join tomorrow.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.…

Tomorrow - Stand Up For Science's National Day Of Action - Events In More Than 50 Cities
I'll be speaking at the DC rally tomorrow. It begins at 1pm - join us!

Hey fedi
Today is National Give Someone a Cupcake day
🧁 🧁 🧁 🧁 🧁 🧁 🧁
(not sure national of what nation)

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- International Women's Day
Celebrating women in classical music with a concert from the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing Louise Farrenc and Clara Schumann.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s4td

🌾 Cameroonian rice farmers caught between national ambition and rural realities
https://globalvoices.org/2026/03/24/cameroonian-rice-farmers-caught-between-national-ambition-and-rural-realities/

Cameroonian rice farmers caught between national ambition and rural realities
The Cameroonian government’s rice self-sufficiency policy has sparked enthusiasm among the country’s rice farmers. In the northwest, rice farmers combine courage with determination every day to fulfil these national promises.

June 6 is a national day of action to de-ICE Citizens Bank
While most major banks have cut ties with CoreCivic and The GEO Group, Citizens Bank is deepening its financial support for these companies, which are already holding more than half of the immigrants currently in ICE detention across the country.
Even as it publicly touts its commitment to “strengthening our communities,” Citizens Bank has played a key role in helping GEO and CoreCivic access more than $2.5 billion in fin…

Denman Rooke Condemns Government Failure to Act on Climate Impacts
https://www.pbp.ie/galways-denman-rooke-government-inaction-on-national-roads-risks-safety-and-future-costs/

Denman Rooke Condemns Government Failure to Act on Climate Impacts
Government’s slow response to warnings about Ireland’s roads and bridges leaves us all at risk. Transport Infrastructure Ireland notes Ireland’s national road network — a €31 billion asset carrying more than 3.5 million vehicles each day — is at serious risk of intensifying climate impacts.

A friend reminded me that today is remembrance day in the Netherlands. Tomorrow, May 5th, is Liberation Day, which celebrates the end of Nazi occupation. On May 4th, at 20:00, the whole country has two minutes of silence to remember those who were lost.
There's something about this that is powerful.
There's a statue that I pass by regularly. It is a monument to the resistance. It is a place where Nazis executed prisoners without trial as retribution for resistance. This evening there were Dutch flags there, though I think about how many anarchists, like Wieke Bosch (who I didn't know anything about), were killed resisting.
I wonder how many names of our martyrs are hidden behind so many national flags. I feel like I should spend more time learning, and think about them on the evening of May 4th.

The US Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero, its founder Sergey Zelenyuk, and others for acquiring and reselling stolen US defense exploits (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026…

Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker accused of buying exploits stolen from U.S. defense contractor | TechCrunch
The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-day broker in the United Arab Emirates was also sanctioned.

Looking forward to this tonight at ANU. Daughter is hoping to finish work in time to meet me there. She's having a bonkers week so it could be a bit iffy.
But as it's her birthday this week and Mothers' Day on Sunday, we'll find time on the weekend to eat, drink, and be merry nonetheless.
Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf | Australian National University

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.

Have a happy day

Winners of the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year #nature #photography

The next major national action of this movement is not just going to be another protest,” Ezra Levin said.
“It is a tactical escalation... It is an economic show of force, inspired by Minnesota’s own day of truth and action.”
“On May 1, on May Day,
we are saying,
‘No business as usual,’” he said.
“No work, no school, no shopping.
We’re going to show up and say we’re putting workers over billionaires and kings"

Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school'
Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said on Saturday that a nationwide general strike is being planned for May 1 that will be modeled on the day of action residents of Minnesota organized in January against the brutality carried out by federal immigration enforcement officials.Appearing at the fl...

Lincoln Kennedy Makes Feelings Clear on Raiders’ WR Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/lincoln-kennedy-feelings-clear-wr-situation/

Source: New York Daily News is cutting six of 10 national desk staffers, one metro reporter, seven print production people, and two photo department staffers (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/1…

NY Daily News left with just four national writers after ‘Valentine’s Day massacre’ brings more devastating layoffs
“The vampiric owners of The News are seeking to drain the lifeblood of the paper,” a staffer told The Post.

Carson Beck's Miami Pro Day performance puts finishing touch on the season that reshaped his draft stock

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/carson-beck-pro-day-results-mi…

2026 Cowboys Pre-Draft Visit Tracker: 30 national, Dallas Day meetings https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/20/2026-cowboys-pre-draft-visit-tracker-30-national-dallas…

Apparently today is National Pencil Day.
A day fabricated by Big Notebook to get me to buy stuff! (Which almost worked!)

🎻 MAGA Land mopes through Unliberation Day - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2026/02/20/maga-land-mopes-through-unliberation-day/

If only every MP was like Hannah.
(Or MEP, for that matter.) @… https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Simon318ppm/116436516880586632

This is quite a good interview with Prof Carl Bergstrom (from my alma mater, University of Washington) on 'AI' https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2019023013/professor-carl-bergstrom-living-with-ai

Saturday, March 07, 2026
2:00 PM
Cesar Chavez Plaza, San Jose
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/03/04/18884731.php

San Jose: Stop the War on Iran - National Day of Action : Indybay
Cesar Chavez Plaza, San Jose

⚰️ Fentanyl or phony? Machine learning algorithm learns to pick out opioid signatures
#sensors

Fentanyl or phony? Machine learning algorithm learns to pick out opioid signatures
New forms of fentanyl are created every day. For law enforcement, that poses a challenge: How do you identify a chemical you've never seen before? Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) aim to answer that question with a machine learning model that can distinguish opioids from other chemicals with an accuracy over 95% in a laboratory setting.

Back in the day - gee now I sound like an old geezer - we would put high-foam detergent into fountains (like the Mulholland fountain near Griffith Park in LA or the descending fountain at UCLA), or we would add sugar or fertilizers to still pools (in order to create a rapid growth of pond scum).
I foresee something like that happening to el cheato's new-blue painted reflecting pool on the mall.
What a disgrace, what a moron, what a vandal, and what grossly poor taste - all bu…

Trump’s changes to Reflecting Pool worry preservationists, locals
Some warned that the president’s blue-tinted resurfacing would distort the experience for visitors and make the national symbol resemble a “large lap pool.”

Damn! I missed National Alien Abduction Day last Friday. As far as I can determine, this had nothing to do with ICE, but rather with aliens doing the abducting. https://www.casino.ca/ufo-hotspots-us-ca/

Women and War: The hidden history of ANZAC Day - ANU
Each year, The Australian National University pauses to consider the meaning of Anzac Day. We reflect on the cost of war, both to veterans who served and for the wider community.
This year, we turn back to the moment when Anzac Day was founded, exploring the key role women played in crafting commemoration. We retrace the steps of grieving wives and mothers as they made their pilgrimage to loved ones’ graves, explore the distin…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Rhona Clarke, Danish National Vocal Ensemble & Marcus Creed:
🎵 A Song for St Cecilia's Day
#RhonaClarke #DanishNationalVocalEnsemble #MarcusCreed

I went on a #randomlibrarywalk the other day and found this book on #aerialphotography I was struck by the before/after images of the bombs. Especially how small the bomb looks before it lands, and how much damage you know it can do. The other photo here is a network of tracks…

Trump pursues Iranian decapitation without a plan for what comes next
Trump’s inclination to bomb first and then wash his hands of whatever comes next in Iran has alarmed U.S. allies.
Security officials in the Middle East and in Europe have raised concerns that the U.S. is unleashing forces that could spill across borders, disrupt global trade and lead to asymmetric terrorist attack reprisals
— all with no certainty that the remaining Islamic hard-liners won’t ultimately …

Trump pursues Iranian decapitation without a plan for what comes next
The U.S. has a fraught track record of toppling autocratic regimes and securing peaceful democracies — even when it has vision for the day after.

National Guard roams Washington with no end in sight to $1 million-per-day deployment | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/national-guard-washington-dc-deployment-no-end-in-sight-b2961086.html

Started the day with a special tour of the German National Library 😍 @… #smad2026

This whole thread is such a joy to read, about migrating away from big tech and taking back control of a digital life. #TechSovereignty #TechEmpowerment
#DanmarkSkifter

📽️ @… das Schwesterprojekt von ECHOES unter der Leitung unserer Mitantragsteller @… und @…

ON JAN. 20, 2025, his first day back in office,
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the United States would henceforth recognize only two sexes, male and female.
Trump framed the move as one meant to protect the dignity, safety, and well-being of women. But the order also upended a long-standing policy at the National Institutes of Health
— one that was crafted to ensure that females are adequately represented in biomedical research.
Imple…

The Future of Sex as a Biological Variable in Health Research
An executive order upended an NIH policy requiring researchers to account for both sexes in preclinical animal studies.

BTW - you could be excused for not celebrating #CommonwealthDay because you were overwhelmed by the festivities that you have to jam into your schedule today. In addition to waving the #UnionJack and looking for a good fish & chips restaurant, here are some of today's holidays on the fake holidays calendar.
National Barbie Day
Amerigo Vespucci Day
Bang Clang Day
Canberra Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
National American Paddlefish Day
National Crab Meat Day
National Dishwasher Day
National False Teeth Day
National Get Over It Day
National Heroes and Benefactors Day
National Meatball Day
World Kidney Day
There's only so many hours in a day...

Have you Tried This Vegan Banana Milk Yet? #plantbased

Have you Tried This Vegan Banana Milk Yet?
Plant-based company Mooala described National Banana Day as “the perfect excuse” to try its vegan, organic banana milk

Every day, we listen to the local morning show from a national public broadcaster. And every time, the segment from the econ reporter makes me nuts. The talk is always about market instability/opportunity and public policy. What drives me crazy isn't the topics, it's how they're universally framed to avoid calling any aspect of the system into question - the economy is natural and we can only uncover its laws. What's the point if even public media refuses to ask inconvenient,…

Singing Resistance Ventura:
ICE Out of Home Depot!
Advocacy Event · Volunteer organized for National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Saturday, February 28
2 – 3pm PST
Esplanade Shopping Center
381 W Esplanade Dr.
Oxnard, CA 93036
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/911

Singing Resistance Ventura: ICE Out of Home Depot! · Mobilize
On the morning of February 28th, Singing Resistance Ventura will join the Singing Resistance national movement, and will take part in a coordinated action at Home Depot in Oxnard. Participants will gather on a public corner near Home Depot for singing and solidarity before approaching the store to sing and take in a letter of concerns. This is a collective, peaceful action to stand up for our neighbors and show the strength of community solidarity. Join us and make your voice count.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116371142200495117
“Courtney Williams is a brave whistleblower and truth-teller. Former Delta Force operators disclose 'national defense information' on podcasts and YouTube shows every day, but the gove…

Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9a2e17e9-3d66-407f-81c4-fae8a6ceae10

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#FridayNightIsMusicNight
- St David's Day celebration
Bronwen Lewis is the special guest singer and presenter in Cardiff with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Grant Llewellyn.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rhgz

I just realized yesterday that Trump's August 2025 deployment of the national guard to DC never ended and he's still spending over a million dollars per day of tax payer money to have them walk around the city.
#Trump #DC #Politics #USPol

A Hong Kong court sentences the 78-year-old Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison over national security charges, ending a five-year legal saga (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Bravo to Tofino for being the first in Canada (again!) protecting our waterways and environment from the overuse and waste of plastics!
Thanks to their work, the same Surfrider group came to Port Alberni and worked with AV Transition Town Society to create Ocean Friendly Port Alberni which has been helping educate and cleanup the community for a number of years now.
I helped our MP Gord Johns (who was previously head of the Chamber of Commerce in Tofino) rally support for his national Plastic reduction strategy introduced back in 2018/19 which led to the controls on plastics today.
Tofino leading the way again!
#EarthDay #Plastic #PlasticWaste #Tofino #Environment
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/04/22/tofino-marks-earth-day-with-single-use-water-bottle-ban/

Middle East crisis live: IEA chief says Iran war energy crunch worse than 1970s oil crises and Ukraine war combined
The head of the International Energy Agency is addressing Australia’s national press club now and says the public needs to understand the “depth of the problem” facing the globe.
Fatih Birol starts by saying the situation is now “very serious”,
more so than the two oil crises in 1973 and 1979, and more serious than the gas crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion …

Good Morning #Canada
Today is National Toast Day, like you didn't have it circled on your fake holiday calendar. Canadians consume approximately 1.4 billion kilograms of #Bread annually which sounds like a lot until you compare us with Turkey where per capita consumption is almost 200 kilos annually. Bread consumption in Canada was down slightly in 2025, attributed to higher prices due to tariffs. But home baking and shopping at local bakeries all increased. Healthier bread options also increased their market share as customers opted for high-fibre ingredients and foods enriched with prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics... and a bunch-of-other-otics. It may be good news that there are plenty of gut-friendly options available in the shape of whole grain and rich-in-fibre bakery products, but IMO a lot of them taste like cardboard. I said it... not sorry...
#CanadaIsAwesome #ALittleBitOfToast
What is your favourite type of toast?
Plain white sandwich bread
Sourdough
Bagel of any type
Calabrese
English Muffin

Walked around Valley Forge National Historical Park last week and was surprised to find hundreds of mason bees nesting *inside* the soldier huts. I'd always assumed they required exterior wood, ideally with direct sun for most of the day. There were also hundreds of Houdini flies lurking around. #ValleyForge #pennsylvania #osmia #bees #insects #history #biology

Gas prices rose for the 11th consecutive day on Wednesday,
jumping to a national average of $3.58 a gallon even as oil prices retreated from their highs,
according to the AAA motor club.
The increase has raised the cost for drivers 20 percent
https://www.nyti…

U.S. Gas Prices Jump for 11th Straight Day, and Oil Pushes Higher
Drivers are paying an average of 20 percent more at the pump since the strikes on Iran began. The global oil price was higher and stocks were mixed.

The president used both days of the weekend to spend hours at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
He also attended a closed-door fundraiser for his MAGA Inc. super PAC at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Saturday night.
Last weekend, Trump played golf at another of his South Florida properties a day after witnessing the dignified transfer for six U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war. That death toll rosethis past week.
Trump is increasingly complaining about mediacoverage o…

US military air crew killed in crash included Alabama father and and several members from Ohio
The six U.S. service members who died in the crash of a U.S. military refueling aircraft included an Alabama father who had just been promoted and deployed. The U.S. government released the identities of the deceased service members Saturday. They include three assigned to the Ohio National Guard and three assigned to a Florida air base. The family of Birmingham, Alabama, pilot Alex Klinner confirms he was killed in the crash. The family says Klinner had recently been promoted to major and been…

Anže Slosar, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, had once hoped to put a radio telescope on the far side of the moon,
but abandoned his dream years ago.
The mission just seemed too expensive, and there wasn’t enough interest in it. “
After the Apollo landings, the thinking was,
‘we’ve done it,’ and that was that,” he recalls.
Sentiments changed during the first Trump administration.
One day Slosar got an
e-mail from a Department of Energ…

NASA’s Artemis moon missions are a game changer for astronomy
After decades of planning, NASA’s Artemis program is giving astronomers their long-awaited moonshot

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Rhona Clarke, Danish National Vocal Ensemble & Marcus Creed:
🎵 A Song for St Cecilia's Day
#RhonaClarke #DanishNationalVocalEnsemble #MarcusCreed