🇱🇹 Street named after sex-offender priest sparks court case between govt and municipality https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2906406/street-named-after-sex-offender-priest-sparks-court-case-between-govt-and-municipality

🇱🇹 Justice Ministry challenges ruling ordering same-sex partnership recognition https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2906202/justice-ministry-challenges-ruling-ordering-same-sex-partnership-recognition

The New York Times: The Daily: How Iranians See the War https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/podcasts/the-daily/how-iranians-see-the-war.html #podcast #iran 🇮🇷

Hungary must arrest Netanyahu if he visits, Magyar says https://www.politico.eu/article/peter-magyar-hungary-would-arrest-benjamin-netanyahu-israel/?utm_source=mastodon

Finnish Air Force reprimands cadet pilots for penis-shaped flight patterns https://yle.fi/a/74-20221623?origin=mastodon

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20/uk-universities-pay-to-spy-on-students-social-media-accounts?traffic_source=mastodon

It was meant to start on April 22. But it starts tonight! 😲 #dsäv https://www.svtplay.se/den-stora-algvandringen

The Weird, Twisting Tale of How China Spied on Alysa Liu and Her Dad https://www.wired.com/story/the-weird-twisting-tale-of-how-china-spied-on-alysa-liu-and-her-dad/

Does migration lead to ghettos? Researcher challenges Vilnius mayor’s warnings https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2900348/does-migration-lead-to-ghettos-researcher-challenges-vilnius-mayor-s-warnings

'Hard to break the habit': Why free public transport isn't enough to shift from cars https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-20/free-public-transport-effect-on-motorists-fuel/106570576

AI minister Kendall says she doesn't use AI at work https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0rmzjd720o?at_medium=mastodon

Americans sent Vance and Iranians where pissed results negative #EU sent Kaja and the Strait has been opened (details depending)

Interesanti. Visa ir krietni lētāk neko nedarīt, nekā lāpīt ciet caurumu, jo tur izmaksas un laiks būtu krietni lielāks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJ6NJkmDAo

Evikai Siliņai ir game over? Izskatās, ka Vienotībai nāksies meklēt kādu citu, kurš būs viņu premjera amata kandidāts.

Jājautā Daugavas kreisajam krastam, vai sakuras jau zied.

Es saprotu, ka Latvijā ir tik cilvēku, cik ir… tomēr būtu forši, ja LSM pārstātu pie sevis vilkt, piemēram, panu Kleksi. Jā, bija laiks, kad cilvēks saprata lietas, bet tagad vairs ne. Kā piemērs — lai iet viņa viedoklis par Ungāriju, kurā tika prognozēta pana Klekša NAšistisko draugu drauga […]

Warsaw is both medieval hunting lodge and Cyberpunk 2077

Vecāķu saulriets

As I understand it, Orbán and Péter Szijjártó are packing their stuff to move to the same building in Moscow where the Assads are living, right? #hungary 🇭🇺 […]

Today we brought home the youngest of the Captains

Ņauuu 😼

Happy Big Day, everyone! 🥚 🐰 #easter https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWqjg0WACoW/

Rīgā beidzot ir kārtīgs lietus, kas noskalos pavasara putkeļus un smiltis. Pie reizes nav sajūta, ka vajadzētu vazāties apkārt, jo ir jāpiekārto un jāuzkopj dzīvoklis.

Pod Save America: Trump Fires Pam Bondi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEj-dLX1B3A

RE: https://kapteinis.lv/@ojars/116218271432636968 And now it is time to download the Claude Code source code and check how you can improve your work with your local, self-hosted models :D #ai #claude

I've said this all along - Bluesky will eventually betray its users. Mastodon is the better choice for user freedom from tech-bro manipulation. #socialmedia #bluesky

Friends, if you haven't already, it would be a big favour to me if you could enable tags.pub to boost your public tagged posts. Just follow @_followback . It will follow you back, and when you make a post with a hashtag in it, the server will boost your post from the appropriate hashtag. If […]

This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again

OTD 1949 March Deportations (Operation Tidal Wave in russian) started. USSR deported 90 000 Estonian 🇪🇪, Latvian 🇱🇻 and Lithuanian 🇱🇹 civilians marked as "enemies of the state" 70% of them women and children. It was followed up bu next wave in April. If you ever wonder why #NATO is popular in here

Danish election results-multiple simultaneous 'truths": 1️⃣ Social democrats and Liberals (both in government) do poorly historically, but decent compared to polls 2️⃣ Profiled left and right parties gain ground 3️⃣ Middle party Moderaterne in key role for creating any government 4️⃣ (Far) right fragmented

Lithuanian PM says Taiwanese office brought no benefits but hurt ties with China https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2876156/lithuanian-pm-says-taiwanese-office-brought-no-benefits-but-hurt-ties-with-china

Lithuania’s Klaipėda is living through a ‘gastronomic crisis’ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2873166/lithuania-s-klaipeda-is-living-through-a-gastronomic-crisis

Claude Just Opened the Strait https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-claude-opened-the-strait-of-hormuz

Ar SIM karšu reģistrēšanu varētu šos drusku labāk izsekot, bet pilnīgai laimei droši vien katrs būtu jāapgredzeno ar elektroniskas uzraudzības aproci un varbūt arī jāuzliek pienākumu valkāt īpašu lenti ap augšdelmu, lai NA brīvprātīgo brigādes varētu šādus […] [Original post on toot.lv]

Daba tepat Mežaparkā. Vispirms stirnas mežā pa ceļam uz Zaļo teātri, pēc tam ziemeļblāzmas bišķis, izejot uz balkona.

good god

Firefox “Nova” redesign. I wish there were other design elements besides rounded rectangle. At least one

SHOOOOCCCKKKKKKK 🤯 Italy is struggling to get its hydrogen trains working https://ferrovie.info/treni-reali/treni-a-idrogeno-in-lombardia-rischio-ritardi-fino-al-2028.html Here’s an idea: put up a WIRE. Or use a battery We have enough cases from Germany already to know that *even if* these […]

Riga wins European Mobility Week Award for promoting active and sustainable transport https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/riga-wins-european-mobility-week-award-promoting-active-and-sustainable-transport-2026-03-18_en

Zaļo un Zemnieku savienība (ZZS) Eiropas Savienības daudzgadu budžeta plānošanas grupā no savas puses virzījusi kukuļņemšanās un naudas atmazgāšanā tiesātā bijušā Ventspils mēra Aivara Lemberga dzīvesbiedri Kristīni Lembergu, Latvijas Televīzijas raidījumā "Šodienas jautājums" teica satiksmes […]

Nez, arī "atvērto risinājumu" kantorī paviesojās? Ja jā, vai ar Edžu aprunājās? https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/18.03.2026-aizdomas-par-15-miljonu-eiro-vertu-it-iepirkumu-krapsanas-lietu-aiztur-21-personu-ari-valsts-amatpersonas.a639357/

Arī datorspēles ir māksla: secinājumi pēc Latvijas Spēļu gada balvas pasniegšanas https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/kultura/dizains-un-arhitektura/17.03.2026-ari-datorspeles-ir-maksla-secinajumi-pec-latvijas-spelu-gada-balvas-pasniegsanas.a639237/?utm_source=mastodon

Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the enterprise https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/mistral-forge-nvidia-gtc-build-your-own-ai-enterprise/

Taking the Throne as OpenClaw Emperors https://www.chinatalk.media/p/taking-the-throne-as-openclaw-emperors

Migla ir mani mīļākie laikapstākļi.

“This war has nothing to do with NATO. It’s not NATO’s war,” Stefan Kornelius, a spokesperson for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, told reporters in Berlin on Monday. “NATO is a defensive alliance, an alliance for the defense of its territory,” he added. Germany to Trump: We won’t help you […]

If you work in IT and aren’t experimenting with AI models, you’re making life harder — or even paving your own path to becoming unemployable. When management comes up with buzzword-driven ideas, you should not only push back but also show where AI can add real value. Saying ‘AI is bad’ just gets […]

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages https://www.wired.com/story/cobol-is-the-asbestos-of-programming-languages/ or https://archive.is/qXiCe