#MorningAll & #TZAG G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!

Happy Saturday every one, I hope you enjoy it it cost me a dozen llamas & a small otter! *

Cashew later Peeps, have a fabulously nutty day #Today ! 😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

#WeirdFolks #SquirrelsOfMastodon #TheMammutMoves

* The exchange rate of 26 otters to one llama fluctuates so timing was essential! **

** No llamas or otters were actually involved in the transaction - thanks to the magic of electronic banking! ***

*** Getting the otters to stay still long enough to be digitised is a definite challenge! ****

****Often one can only digitise one side then the otter half is created with an LLM. *****

***** Large Llama Momma ******

Je viens de recevoir le montant ARE que je vais percevoir pendant les 11 premiers mois de ma création d entreprise. L aide payera mes charges perso. Le chiffre fait à la fois peur parce qu il est faible et soulage aussi parce que je pourrais au moins payer mes prêts et factures pendant 1 an.

Once every week or two if I’m lucky.

People who think transgender is a fetish are so funny to me. Like, I’ve been out 6 years. Do you really think I get up every day, dress in women’s clothes, maybe even put on makeup (increasingly less often) because I’m horned up? Like every day? I got news for you, I’m 52 years old, absolutely nothing sexual happens every day.

Eben habe ich jemanden im Vorbeigehen auf der Dorfstraße begrüßt. Seine Erwiderung habe ich aber wegen des starken Wind nicht gehört.

Moind blown.

Moving to the post-American internet *is* hard - but it will only get harder. Sure, Europe could wait for the next crisis to let go of the Big Tech vine and grab the Eurostack one, but that next crisis will be far, far worse. The EU can't afford to wait for Trump to brick one or more of its member states to (finally, at long last) take this threat seriously:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

eof/

Dear Abby: I want to change my adopted child’s unsophisticated middle name
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/04/04/dear-abby-changing-childs-name/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Dear Abby @dear-abby-MercNews

For Trump, the "art of the deal" can be summed up in one word: *reneging*.

Within the EU, there's fury at the Commission's announcement of "dialogue." As *Politico*'s Milena Wälde reports, lawmakers like Alexandra Geese (Greens) say that this is a move that eliminates the "sovereign path for Europe" by letting tech giants "grade their own homework." She calls it a "fatal decision for our companies and our democracy."

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CDU:
Wir sind die Partei der Wirtschaftskompetenz.

Die Wirtschaftskompetenz:
• Tankstellen bitte nur noch 1x am Tag Preise ändern. :)
• Bitte nicht zu hoch, :)
• Aber wenn doch können wir nix dagegen machen. :)
• Oh man. :)

via E L H O T Z O

#MexicoNews #mexico ¿ya te enteraste de esta #noticia? Empresa de cercano a Adán Augusto logra suspender sanción y podrá participar en procesos de contratación gubernamental https://latinus.us/mexico/2026/4/3/empresa-de-cercano-adan-augusto-logra-suspender-sancion-podra-participar-en-procesos-de-contratacion-gubernamental-168791.html

Buenos días mastogentes

En pocos segundos se da la vuelta de las posibilidades de patinar un lugar público…. Modo escáner todo el tiempo.

- Again F 15 Down
- Blackhawks under Iranian Fire

Humans are not meant to live in huge cities with populations in the millions. It's pure overstimulation and over crowding. It's an adaptation we lie to convince ourselves is normal. It's no coincidence that the lowest happiness index is for people who live in cities.

The quislings and appeasers in the Commission who've been spooked by Trump's belligerence (or tempted by offers of cushy jobs in Big Tech after they leave public service) are selling out the EU's future. Caving to Trump won't make him more favorably disposed to Europe or Europeans. Trump treats every capitulation as a sign of weakness that signals that he can safely ignore his end of the bargain and demand twice as much.

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Aggressive Retsuko (Aggretsuko) - Opening Temporada 2

https://video.sadrarin.com/w/dd1MnyUT6HhgdUWRscZxzD

#anime #bot #Aggressive #Retsuko #Aggretsuko

I have posted before about how men are complicit in toxic masculinity when they (we) don't call it out in casual or 'normal' social interactions.... well, imagine what its like to be a female teacher in schools where the social media impact of the mansophere is shaping young male minds.

I've been persuaded that a total social media ban is not the answer, but the Q. then is: what should we do about this social rupture?

#manosphere #schools #ToxicMasculinity

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/04/masculinity-crisis-brewing-uk-schools-teachers-union

"Why are flights in the UK so often cheaper than taking the train?"

Some of the reasons are nonsensical:
for trains:

"The fuel is subject to VAT at 5% on diesel and 20% on electricity.".

this should be the reverse?!?

for planes:

"Fuel accounts for a much bigger part of airlines’ costs, but they do not have to pay VAT or duty on it.".

whyyyy??
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/nov/19/why-are-flights-in-the-uk-so-often-cheaper-than-taking-the-train

#SaveThePlanet and tax planes in proportion of the damage they do to their environment!

Martyn Turner @turnercartoons on #Trump #IranWar #Artemis – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com