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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-02 18:36:51
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141
🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus, Late #Etruscan

Etruscan bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus in the shape of a giant eagle. The eagle's talons hold on to a naked Ganymedes by the hips. Ganymedes reaches up, one arm holding on to the eagle's neck. Three figures are there to witness the abduction, two male and one female, all of them nude.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-07-31 15:53:39

#FuckEricAdams so so much. And fuck Hochul for not removing him. #BikeNYC
hellgateny…

After two last-minute appeals from safe street advocates, a state appellate court panel ruled on Monday afternoon that Mayor Eric Adams could rip out a three-block stretch of protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue from Willoughby Avenue to Flushing Avenue. Adams's Department of Transportation, which installed the bike lane barely nine months ago, began the demolition late Wednesday night. "It's really sad to see [the removal of] a safety project that has been fought for by a whole host of com…
Crash data from the DOT showed that the entire protected lane on Bedford, which separated bicyclists from traffic with a barrier of parked cars and stone blocks, reduced overall injuries by 47 percent. But Mayor Adams's decision to kill the lane was ultimately about politics, not safety. This past spring, members of the local Orthodox Jewish community, many of whom opposed the bike lane's installation in the first place, became incensed after several close calls between e-bike riders and chi…
One Orthodox man, who declined to give his name, told Hell Gate that he supported Adams's decision to remove the bike lane, which he thought was "poorly planned," but believed that Adams intervened mostly because of the general election in November. "I don't think he would have stepped in if there wasn't an election," he said, adding that he liked Adams before the mayor decided to remove the bike lane. "He has a very hard job because it's New York City, but he's doing a decent job." The m…
The actual removal of the bike lane was extremely loud and agonizingly slow. A massive truck obliterated less than a third of the bright green line on Bedford Avenue between Willoughby and Myrtle Avenues in about an hour of work, as a worker watched to make sure no debris got caught in the machine. Two bicyclists whisked by after 11 p.m. realizing—mid-ride—that the bike lane was being shorn off. One of them turned to their friend, perplexed: "Wait, are they getting rid of this?"
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-02 05:32:36

The voices of our Palestinian friends and families in Gaza Verified will live on forever and bear witness to Israel’s genocide thanks to Fabio’s work in archiving their posts from the fediverse.
If you’re technically savvy and want to help, you can host a copy of the Gaza Verified Archive.
Thank you, Fabio.
💕
#GazaVerified

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-10-02 09:09:28

Is a race or a lottery a good way to allocate subsidies, or are there better alternatives?
Yesterday, a new round of subsidies for electric heavy-duty vehicles opened in the Netherlands – and was immediately oversubscribed, just like the previous rounds.
rvo.nl/subsidies-financiering/

More requests than budget The budget for this scheme was oversubscribed by over €6.6 million on Tuesday 30 September. This means there are more applications than money available. There will be a draw for applicants from Tuesday 30 September. We will announce the result of the draw by e-mail on Wednesday 15 October at 17:00. Applications submitted from Wednesday 1 October 2025 onwards will unfortunately be rejected due to budget exhaustion.
@adrianco@mastodon.social
2025-08-31 08:30:23

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-03 07:16:08
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Swollen with pride is your speech, as befits a servant of the gods."
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 953
🏛️ Lansdowne Hermes, 2nd century CE
@…

Discovered in 1771 near Rome, this sculpture of the god Hermes is a Roman copy of an earlier Greek work from the fourth century BCE. In ancient times sculptures like this could be found in both public and domestic spaces. After rediscovery, he was displayed at Lansdowne House in London, the home of William Fitzmaurice (1737-1805) who was the British Prime Minister in 1782-83. As the god of travelers, Hermes is shown with a traveler’s cloak draped over his left shoulder and wrapped around his ar…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-10-01 21:09:21

Israel: "Do not disturb our genocide."
flipboard.com/@npr/world-news-

Activists say Israel's navy has begun intercepting a Gaza-bound aid flotilla
BARCELONA, Spain — Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza said late Wednesday that the Israeli navy has begun intercepting their vessels as they approach the besieged Palestinian territory. The Global Sumud Flotilla, with Greta Thunberg, Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla …

@gevoel@mastodon.green
2025-09-02 15:06:49

The merchants of doubt are back
Trumps regering ondermijnt actief de wetenschappelijke basis van het klimaatbeleid van de USA om daarmee het klimaatbeleid zelf te kunnen stoppen ten gunste van zijn sponsors, Big Oil.
open.sub…

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-09-29 21:12:33

Please help Aseel’s family in Gaza if you can.
Thank you.
💕
#GazaVerified

Aseel (@Selaa@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Hello everyone I'm publishing the campaign of my three nephews and their mother and trying to deliver it to a large number to help them only. Their father is the one who created and wrote the campaign. His name is Mohammed, as it is written in the description, But he has been missing for about two weeks, we are waiting and hoping that he will be fine. https://chuffed.org/project/save-my-family-from-war-in-gaza-help-us-reunite-safely @aral@mastodon.ar.al

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-01 06:39:36
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#PhallusThursday has come prematurely 💦
"Hear me, Hermes, messenger of Zeus, son of Maia.
Almighty is your heart, O lord of the deceased and judge of contests.
Gentle and clever, O Argeiphontes, you a…

Red-figure vase painting of a man, likely a traveller judging from his chlamys cloak and walking stick, honouring a herm of Hermes. A herm is a simple statue of Hermes and sometimes other gods with a head and an erect phallus at the appropriate height.