Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

Ya'know, if the Onion sent out a call to ask people to donate $5 to help them buy Infowars, I bet they'd raise enough to blow any other offer out of the water.

It is that time of the year (I see some people boosting my posts from last year), so let's do another #FreeSoftwareAdvent to appreciate all the great #FreeSoftware out there. I have definitely explored and made use of a bunch of software for the first time this year, so let's shout some out.

For today, it's #LabPlot @LabPlot by the #KDE @kde team.

Amazing, versatile graphing and data alanyisis tool that I actively use in my classrooms. Check it out!

https://labplot.kde.org/
#OpenSource #FOSS

Footage of a massive fire at an oil depot in the Oryol region of Russia as a result of today's attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

This is one of the largest oil terminals in the Russian Federation.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

A Florida woman has been charged with terrorism for expressing frustration at blue cross and blue shield for denying her health insurance claim.

Understand this fact -- this is not about silencing her. It is about silencing all of us. And we must peacefully but firmly resist.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/florida-woman-charged-with-terrorism

Our message to all anti-vaxxer quacks, snake-medicine salespeople, bogus pill-pushing peddlers & deniers of life-saving medicines, medical research & life-saving treatments:
SHUT
THE
F*CK
UP
Your ignorance causes suffering, destruction & death
Stop lying to fools & morons:
VACCINES
SAVE
LIVES

Third Count a Charm: Riggs Wins North Carolina Supreme Court Race - Democracy Docket

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-supreme-court-gop-candidate-asks-for-hand-recount-as-party-pushes-controversial-bill/

A former Boston Globe & Reuters reporter who is now homeless gives a gutting, beautifully written, and clear-eyed firsthand account of what it's like to be homeless in America right now.

This is the best article you'll read today, easily. The ending is chilling.

#LongReads #Journalism #News #AmWriting #Housing #Homelessness

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/?src=longreads

The US may have put a man on the moon, but Denmark put an entire population on free healthcare.

Kyiv this morning
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Kyiv

New in PN: Chris Wray folds like cheap suit. Don’t be Chris Wray.

"Trump threatens, and often, people like Wray obey in advance. This is especially frustrating because Trump is not invincible. When people who purport to care about democracy or institutions choose to fight, they can in fact win." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/chris-wray-resignation-obeying-in-advance

NATO is discussing the launch of pre-emptive high-precision strikes on the territory of Russia - head NATO military committee, Admiral Rob Bauer.

"It is more competent not to wait, but to hit the launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us. What is needed is a combination of precision strikes that will disable the systems used to attack us, and we must strike first”.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war

I just submitted my television series to PBS kids!!! Wish me luck friends! https://www.graciegato.com/adams-world #television #autism #autismawareness

Important we keep a close eye on the #Syrian situation, notably what happens to #Rojava & the #Kurds. The #Kurdish people of NE #Syria assembled a fairly egalitarian, multiethnic, #secular #democracy in their autonomous region, but Erdogan and Turkey will be gunning to dismantle it. #defendrojava ❤️⭐

One of the curious upsides to discovering you have #ADHD as an older man is that suddenly other people have an easier time finding presents for you...

Here is a rare and fantastic opportunity to come and work with us if you're an outstanding Earth system scientist!
(Pass it on if you know someone who might be interested.)
➡️ https://www.academics.de/jobs/full-professorship-w-3-earth-system-dynamics-universitaet-potsdam-potsdam-1094226#SPCoLCxFYXJ0aCBTeXN0ZW0gRHluYW1pY3M=

11 December 1894 | A Jewish woman, Salomea Strul, was born in Constantinople in Ottoman Empire. During the war, she lived in #Paris.

On 30 September 1942, she was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber on 2 October 1942.

My apologies to mastodon.social for saying that it's about time that healthcare companies stop holding this country hostage. I apologize for being glad that someone finally found some consequence to those parasites. I will hold my tongue when I am continuously denied healthcare. Mario is better than Luigi.

This is true social evil. Hospitals are giving pain meds to patients during childbirth, then testing the patients afterwards, detecting the pain meds, and reporting them to child welfare authorities

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/11/pregnant-hospital-drug-test-medicine

If he follows through on these tariffs than there's no other way to discuss his policies other than trying to take down the U.S. economy in order to help out Russia, China and Iran.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-would-impose-25-tariffs-oil-mexico-canada-under-trade-plan-sources-say-2024-11-26/