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Der Medienforscher Bernd Gäbler fasst es für die Otto-Brenner-Stiftung sehr gut zusammen: Die AfD wirft den Journalisten ein Stöckchen hin und weil es Klicks bringt, wird es von allen sofort aufgegriffen. Und wenn sie wieder mal verliert, hat das scheinbar keinen Nachrichtenwert mehr. Aber genau dadurch wird der Mythos vom unaufhaltsamen AfD-Aufstieg aufrechterhalten. Nicht, weil er stimmen würde, aber weil sich anscheinend niemand traut, ihn zu widerlegen. Die Angst der Medien vor schlechten Aufrufen von Artikeln, die das Scheitern der AfD thematisieren, ist noch größer als ihre Angst vor der AfD. Dabei liest du gerade den Beweis, dass die Angst kompletter Unsinn ist. Denn wir haben uns getraut, auch die Realität zu berichten, die viel zu selten medial behandelt wird: Die von den Niederlagen der AfD.

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From Syam S Nair

The mighty owl!

Buffy Fish Owl

From Dave L Clark

Saw Whet Owl hunting on a miserable day 🌧️

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

From Cynthia Rand

It was a very busy spring and early summer for me and I'm just getting to look through some of the images I took. I remember watching this newly fledged Barred Owl trying to fly. Missing the target, it hung upside down for a minute before letting go and landing on the ground!

I have a bad habit of posting photos of Red Kites that are disheveled or disturbed - but today this one was sitting there perfectly composed and tail feathers all nicely folded.

Now to find something other than kites to photo!

Prospect Park, Reading, UK

Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800

I guess you could say he didn’t finish his sentence.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1409060/attackers-have-compromised-itorrents-a-widely-used-public-repository-of-torrent-files-an

We had been warned of trouble looming at a show in Fairfax, Va., a conservative suburb outside Washington, D.C. The gig was at the Patriot Center at George Mason University. George Mason, a father of the Bill of Rights, refused to sign the Declaration of Independence because it didn’t guarantee enough rights and freedoms. (Were he still alive, he’d be cast out of Virginia; although its state slogan is “Virginia Is For Lovers,” in 1994, Virginia had an anti-sodomy law.) The promoter told Green Day in advance that they wouldn’t allow us to play, that we were inappropriate; Green Day’s response to the promoter was that if we didn’t play, they wouldn’t play.

The promoter backed down, but when we arrived, he pulled me aside for a lecture. In a friendly-yet-stern way, he said our material was too mature for Green Day’s young audiences. He said that there would be eight-to-12-year-olds in the crowd. I asked why he was worried about our lyrics and not Green Day’s, which also have some references that might not be suitable. And who were these kids, anyway? What parents were letting their kids go to concerts so young? I told him, if they’re that young, much of what we sing about is going to go right over their heads; they won’t get it. But they’ll know they saw a gay band, and it will get them talking one way or the other. To us, that would be a victory, meaning we’ve infiltrated Pat Robertson country. This guy kept saying things like he had a lesbian sister, that he was for gay rights, but not in these circumstances. He said he was dreading the day-after phone calls from parents. I told him I had the right to sing about it, kids had the right not to be censored, and what we sang about was part of the world we live in. Virginia was a sodomy-law state; the discrimination was written into state law. To counter years of hetero propaganda these kids had heard—and would continue to hear—a few bad words and risqué songs wouldn’t do them any harm. This discussion went in circles for 15 minutes, until I finally told him it was a waste of my time. When we played, the reception was mixed but more supportive than I’d feared; it was the only show we played with Green Day in the South.

The apex of that tour was a gig at Madison Square Garden. The show was a multi-artist extravaganza: faux-alternative station Z-100’s Christmas bash. The lineup from top to bottom: Green Day, Hole, Weezer, Melissa Etheridge, Bon Jovi (gag, choke, splutter, barf), Sheryl Crow, Toad The Wet Sprocket, the Indigo Girls and us. When Green Day found out Bon Jovi was on the bill, they were fit to be tied. This was everything we had ever fought against. This was an alternative station? Z-100 tried to throw us off the bill, but Green Day said they wouldn’t do the show if we didn’t get to play. We’ll always be grateful for the many times they stood up for us that year.

Greenwich Council’s scheme to issue £150 bike vouchers for residents aged 16 or under is pencilled in to start next year, the councillor in charge of the project has said.

Labour had pledged to issue the vouchers, which can be used to buy bikes, scooters and safety equipment, in its manifesto for the council election in May, which it won. It was among the most talked-about policies of the campaign.

Those IDs are what carriers and Apple use for activation, warranty, inventory, and lost or stolen reports.

With a public IMEI or serial, someone can try to abuse the systems built around those numbers: attempt a fraudulent lost or stolen report, which can get a device blocked from cellular networks, or clone the number onto counterfeit handsets, a known trick that works by copying IMEIs straight off retail packaging.

Source: International Cyber Digest.

Keine Ahnung was mich da reitet. Kostet viel Zeit und der Gewinn liegt bei Null. Macht aber irgendwie mehr Spaß als im Repaircafe den Großteil der Reparaturgüter für schrottreif zu erklären.
Aktuell ein 2016er Mac Book welches angeblich beim Hochfahren hängt und ich einmal Elementary OS ausprobieren möchte.

Artist: Kohaku Sogo | pixiv | twitter | danbooru

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