The woman in the photo was getting a temple ready for the Chinese New Year celebrations. I know, it took me a while to post… I was out shooting for like eight hours straight, basically turned into a temple decoration myself and went off the grid. But hey, @lostintravel gave me the push I needed—so here it is. Thanks a lot! @photography@lemmy.ml #photography #photo #streetphotography #fotografia #China #360Degrees #35mm #art #travel #press #photooftheday #mastodon #PortfolioDay #pixelfed

A tourist helicopter carrying a Spanish family of five and a pilot crashed into the Hudson River near Lower Manhattan, killing all 6 aboard, including 3 children.

Most of my Dad's Uriah Heep record covers used to freak me out as a kid. They're pretty awesome, though.

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The final ISOs are here: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/42_RC-1.1/

Bye bye Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and many others. They can go and play "America First". We'll have our own independent system by november 2025.

The Israeli military's usage of the company's cloud storage facilities in the first six months after 7 October 2023 was 60 percent more than the four months preceding it. Leaked documents show that the Israeli military's usage of Microsoft's AI products also ticked up in the same period.

State records reveal a faulty manure control structure noted in previous inspections, and “freshly dead fish with some stranded gasping for air, manure on top of ice, and dirty flowing water below ice…”

Jo Ellis said Matt Wallace’s posts falsely identifying her as a helicopter pilot in the crash went so viral that she had to post a “proof of life” video to refute him.

The Minnesota veteran invented a placemat with bungee cords that hold toys or utensils, keeping them off the floor when babies toss them. It’s one of several products she created for Busy Baby, a company she runs with her brother. They are manufactured in China.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

riffing off OpenStars@piefed.social

BFGF Syndrome by Patabot

Didn't feel like cooking. So I made bread and used up some leftovers. Of course this means breaking out the emergency goat cheese.

The United States warned on Thursday, April 10, against an Iranian misstep after a senior aide to the country's supreme leader threatened to expel UN nuclear inspectors ahead of weekend talks with the United States. "The threat of that kind of action, of course, is inconsistent with Iran's claims of a peaceful nuclear program," State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters. "Also, expelling IAEA inspectors from Iran would be an escalation and a miscalculation on Iran's part."

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Digital media such as social media, messenger groups or comment columns in online media have a predominantly negative influence on political processes. They can encourage populist movements, increase polarization and undermine trust in institutions.

The European Union and China have agreed to look into setting minimum prices of Chinese-made electric vehicles instead of tariffs imposed by the EU last year, a European Commission spokesperson said on Thursday.

Dieses Zuhausy ist müde. Keinen Bock mehr. Will weg.

Germany's incoming coalition government, led by the CDU/CSU and SPD, will abolish the 3-year expedited citizenship path for "well-integrated" immigrants, introduced in 2023.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday began hearing Sudan’s case against the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which it accuses of being complicit in acts of genocide against the Masalit community in West Darfur by backing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The United States government will identify the cause of autism by September this year, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday.

A Delaware judge ruled that Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 election, echoing a prior case involving Fox News.

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In the first week of January, I received a letter from the Berlin Immigration Office, informing me that I had lost my right of freedom of movement in Germany, due to allegations around my involvement in the pro-Palestine movement. Since I’m a Polish citizen living in Berlin, I knew that deporting an EU national from another EU country is practically impossible. I contacted a lawyer and, given the lack of substantial legal reasoning behind the order, we filed a lawsuit against it, after which I didn’t think much of it.

There is a severe shortage of tents and fuel, and the IDF is in no hurry to approve repairs to the water pipeline that supplied approximately 70 percent of Gaza’s consumption. The army denies preparing a plan to renew aid and says it will act only on government instructions

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NATO has been warned of potential global internet blackouts amid a surge in suspected Russian sabotage of subsea fibre optic cables.