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• Post #2534965

  Guardian: "Portrait looted by Nazis found in home of Dutch SS leader’s family" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/may/11/portrait-looted-nazis-home-dutch-ss-leader-family-toon-kelder-goudstikker-hendrik-seyffardt

• Post #2423231

  Today in "just HF things", the latest revision of the IARU Region 1 40m bandplan: 7000-7010kHz: oldtimers sending morse at 45wpm with a straight key 7010-7018: CW being sent by lesser mortals 7018-7020: Some really brave newcomer calling CQ in very slow, hard to copy Morse. Good on them. 7020-7030: German stations sending impeccable Morse into ruthlessly efficient antenna systems and almost blowing your ears off 7030-7038: Russian propaganda 7038-7047: digital modes, RTTY, old...

• Post #2302959

  The daughter made this video explaining her medical condition as part of her illustration class and you should definitely watch it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=VZNX5L1K7TM

• Post #2091138

  4.3BSD Taco? https://types.pl/@secretasianman/116497222943358872

• Post #2091137

  Recently (after the Hungarian elections) these unattributed posters started appearing on sites across Vienna. This one's at our local tram stop. It's now been discovered who was responsible for them, and the answer is: the ÖVP. Yep, the same party which willingly went into coalition with the FPÖ and nearly went into coalition with them again after the last election. Of course they aren't doing this because they have a genuine concern for the future of liberal democracy a...

• Post #2091135

  Not just that, but as many of DB Fernverkehr's woes are infrastructure related rather than, as it were, their own fault there's no guarantee that other operators will fare any better. They'd have a better chance of making the network more reliable overall if they cut slots completely rather than simply reassigning them to another operator which, among other things, won't have the advantage of being able to scrounge up a replacement trainset that isn't sitt...

• Post #2091133

  August Wöginger, head of the ÖVP faction in parliament, has just been found guilty of abuse of public office after intervening to ensure that a (male) party colleague who it was felt "was owed a favour" was awarded a senior job in a regional tax office over the obvious and most qualified internal candidate (who just happens to be a woman). His party have loyally stood by him up until now - "innocent until proven guilty" and all that - and have strongly resis...

• Post #959797

  "In somewhat unclear comments, Trump told reporters that the UK had “a long way to go”, adding: “We won’t want another Neville Chamberlain, do we agree? We don’t want Neville Chamberlain.”" - Guardian I'm not sure that's a comparison he should be making, as the most logical conclusion if he's comparing Starmer with Chamberlain is that he's Hitler in this scenario.