(K)ubuntu updated thunderbird from 68 to 78. I'm getting some yummy graphics glitches, but nothing that impacts functionality so far.
#thunderbird
#Minetest 5.4.0 has been released! https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=26322
Random shout out for @brainblasted who has done amazing work right across @gnome 40 adapting apps to new patterns and fixing longstanding UX bugs
This will be an amazing release and a lot of that is thanks to Chris
Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f
(submitted by harporoeder)
Using a drone disguised as a hummingbird, BBC captured incredible footage of half a billion monarch butterflies swarming as the weather warms.
https://www.flixxy.com/robot-spy-hummingbird-films-half-a-billion-monarch-butterflies.htm
@pgtips91
wikipedia article of the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrap_rage
Bolivia has created a Piketty-compliant annual tax on fortunes of more than $4.3m. Morocco's trying out a one-time tax on vast fortunes.
It's not just the global south: the UK's independent Wealth Tax Commission recommended a one-time levy. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau wants to "tax extreme wealth inequality."
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#WWI #worldwar1
The thing we can never really fathom about WW1 is the scale - the scale of people involved, the scale of death, even the scale of technology employed. This photo helps to bridge that gap - it shows a pile of empty shell cases from a single British bombardment of Hill 60 in 1916.
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