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Bénédicte de Perthuis, the judge who sentenced Le Pen for embezzling EU funds and barred her from running in France's 2027 presidential election, was placed under police protection on Monday night over alleged death threats she received, domestic press reported.

A red button. Image says: 'Would you press the button?' [results of pressing the button:] there exists a pill that makes your disability a LOT less debilitating BUT it's near-impossible to get because the non-disabled enjoy taking the pill for fun and the government doesn't want them to.

Israel should control the Gaza Strip for the foreseeable future and "cleanse if of enemies," Likud MK Amit Halevi told Radio 103FM on Sunday.

“We want to occupy the territory to cleanse it of the enemy; otherwise, it will kill your children and kidnap your grandchildren again,” he said. “Occupation is the nature of war.” Halevi said Israel is required to make a fundamental change in Gaza, part of which is control.

He said Israel needed “to return to Gaza permanently and control this space, because it is part of our homeland.”

When asked whether the occupation of the Gaza Strip would lead to the citizenship of Palestinians, he replied, “We want to distinguish between the status of the territory and control over it and the status of the residents, which is definitely something that deserves to be defined. When you give control over education, culture, and religion, you get the results you get.”

Artist: Squeezable | fediverse | bluesky | pixiv | twitter | newgrounds | patreon | danbooru

https://societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/soa-day-of-action-following-allegations-of-metas-mass-theft-of-authors-work/

The SoA is organising a day of protest against Meta following revelations of pirated books being used to train their large language models

On Thursday 20 March, The Atlantic broke the story of how Meta has used the Library Genesis (LIbGen) dataset, which is full of pirated material, to develop their AI systems.

The revelations detailed by The Atlantic come against the background of the recent government consultation into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright and the #MakeItFair campaign which sees the UK creative industries fighting back against the proposed changes to copyright law, which would favour multinational tech companies, but irremediably damage the creative industries.

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I played some more AC Shadows today. I did this fun mission where i snuck aboard a boat and blew up some gunpowder reserves (The ship is in the background of the screenshot above. If you look closely you can see the fire)

Before that, I also visited this island filled to the brim with cats. Just cats everywhere. It was like paradise. I found this one building with a ton of cats outfront.

I found another with a cat getting ready to eat. There were plates all over the island with fish on them, for the cats i imagine.

I found this Calico smiling, which is probably my favorite cat pic yet in a game. Idk though, some of my Mountain Lion pictures from red dead are pretty cute.

Underneath the Island, there's a cave that has a secret mount in it. I heard about it online and decided to do a brief search to see if it was true, Sure enough, it was, and i got a free horse. I got this screenshot of the gorgeous cave after surfacing for air before grabbing it from a chest (because everyone knows that's where you keep horses).

After that, i left the island and hijacked this ladies boat and took her on a romantic boat ride. I ended up going to this big city to chase after the next target. I got to get a nice evening of sailing because the lake was huge. It was almost a 1 km of a drive on the boat. I got the following lovely photo as the sun set:

On my way into port, i drove past the ship i would later blow up. It was massive and took up a huge amount of space. I honestly considered climbing it if i wasn't eager to get back on land sooner:

I eventually made port next to this fishing boat and disembarked, heading into town. I'm quite proud of my parking job. Didn't even strike another fisherman, which is a good record for me:

I had to head up to this sort of palace area as Yasuke to talk to this one lady. Along the way i went through these pretty fields. I'm excited to pass back through them once it turns winter because one of my favorite sites is a big open field of snow. Bonus points if the game lets me leave trails in it.

Finally, after talking to the lady, i headed back into town to blow up the ship. The walk back was way quicker because i slid down the hills, but i took a detour to grab a synchronization point at the castle. As i scaled it, i grabbed a photo of it's gorgeous moat area thingy(?)

Artist: Philtomato | twitter | danbooru

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Any opinions on the chances of Legalise Cannabis to gain a seat this election? They came very close to beating One Nation to a QLD senate seat in 2022.

Donald Trump will announce his latest round of tariffs at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, threatening to unleash a global trade war on what he has dubbed “liberation day”.

Trump has rattled global stock markets, alarmed corporate executives and economists, and triggered heated rows with the US’s largest trading partners by announcing and delaying plans to impose tariffs on foreign imports several times since taking office.

No details of Wednesday’s plans have been made available ahead of the announcement. The president is set to speak at 4pm ET. White House officials said that the implementation of the most sweeping rewrite of US trade policy would be immediate.

Trump has made clear a few goals he wants to accomplish through his tariffs: bring manufacturing back to the US, respond to unfair trade policies from other countries, increase tax revenue and incentivize crackdowns on migration and drug trafficking.

Artist: Iwauchi Tomoki | fediverse | pixiv | twitter | danbooru

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What are all the federated blogging options available? I know of a few that are mostly clunky in my eyes.