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She wrote to Secret Santa and then passed away. Now her husband is surprised with an emotional gift.

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i released the first version ever of my open source painting program, it's still in early stage but it has the following features:

- No AI, this is a program for real artists
- 100% native, no Web, no Qt, no GTK, no dear imgui
- Advanced Layer System
- Infinite Undo History
- GPU Accelerated Canvas View
- Brush Engine similar to popular manga software
- Bucket Fill with gap closing (proof of concept)

download: mrgaturus.itch.io/npainter

#gamedev #indiedev #opensource #linux #mastoart #furry #art

If you’re a fan of The Five or Gutfeld! on FOX News, you may have been wondering what happened to Greg Gutfeld. He hasn’t been seen on either show for almost three solid weeks.

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NetBSD: The Portable, Lightweight, and Robust Unix-Like OS – History, Features, and Modern Use Cases

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Top brass at the FBI on Tuesday told Congress that the bureau does not know much about the mysterious drones that have been spotted in New Jersey recently.

justthenews.com/government/con…

in reply to anonymiss

Here is the video that they don't want you to see:

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A prominent leader of an influential sheriff association on Tuesday publicly embraced President-elect Donald Trump's pick for FBI Director, Kash Patel, claiming he was a "butt kicker."

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Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Tuesday said the United Kingdom needs a "Trump-style revolution" in order to beat the administrative state that has been ruling the country's government for so long.

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South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace on Tuesday night said she was "physically accosted" by a pro-transgender activist on Capitol Hill, who has been arrested by Capitol Police.

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Executives and staff members at the top utilities across the country are being "gifted" private jet trips, massages, professional sport games among other perks on the backs of electricity consumers who are footing the bill.

Meanwhile, those executives are working to block climate action as well in order to keep their perks coming in.
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Doesn't always work out better for the customers though. I worked for Georgia Power (investor-owned) and had Cobb EMC for my electricity (customer/ ratepayer owned cooperative) and my electricity rates at home, with the non-profit cooperative, were 38% higher than what we charged customers in Georgia. That's because the Public Utilities Commission/ Public Service Commission, a government body of elected officials, sets the rates for a company like Georgia Power, but they have no jurisdiction over the non-profit Electric-Management-Cooperatives which I had. This is just a tiny example but I would assume it would be similar in other states with other non-profit electric coops too.
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With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Director of National Intelligence-designate Tulsi Gabbard is doubling down on her anti-intervention stance with backing from President-elect Donald Trump as she faces a contentious confirmation battle.

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The State Department is planning to change how it engages with the globe as it braces for unified Republican government that promises to gut the so-called censorship-industrial complex, the subject of a four-part Just the News series this fall.

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Someone needs to take the gas can and matches away from this demented old fool. He is trying to burn this country to the ground on his way out the door.😡

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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that the federal government has been weaponized to spy on Americans' bank accounts and financial transactions.

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#AskFedi - Does anyone have a #Windows11Pro #24H2 ISO they can share with me? Microsoft won't let you download an ISO if you use #Starlink (or a VPN) and I blew through my entire 5GB of data for the month in about 90 seconds attempting to download it on my phone over 5G. I need it to install Windows 11 Pro so I can decrypt some of my BitLocker removable drives.

Former Romanian Prime Minister Admits Romania Is Run By The U.S. State Department And Soros
In an interview on the Marius Tucă Show, Former Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Năstase admitted that “Romania’s Internal Organization” has been run for the past thirty years by “segments of the State Department, together with the Soros Team.”

Năstase, who served as Romanian Prime Minister from 2000 to 2004, said that the “internal affairs” of his country are handled by the U.S. “State Department” and the “Soros Team.” Romania’s defense is in the hands of the Pentagon and the White House. “Right now, we fundamentally depend on them from a security point of view, especially in the context of the war next to us. There are many centers of power in the United States. In the security area, we obviously depend partly on the White House, the Pentagon, and partly on the State Department.”

#Romania #US-State-Department #Soros

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Good morning campers! Been up for a while. It was coooold this morning! Somewhere around 18F. Furnace and space heaters are both on. But, it's rapidly getting warmer. Just working on getting my new #LinuxMint desktop setup and configured. So far all of my old Windows NTFS drives are mounted which is good since that's all my data. Haha! Today is going to be spent moving stuff around and re-formatting the old NTFS drives over to ext4.

As the U.S. continues to accumulate debt at a record pace, entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are calling attention to tens of billions of taxpayer dollars being spent on illegal immigrants.
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday regarding a 2023 Tennessee law (SB 1) protecting minors from gender transition procedures. After Tennessee prevailed in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) intervened in the case and appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case in June of this year.
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in reply to Fight for the Future

Congratulations to all the listees! Your work is major inspiration as we move to the next phase of the project: crafting a toolkit on writing more just fiction in our era of centralized surveillance tech copaganda!
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in reply to KathrynK 💯 🇺🇸 🥇🍿

Lots of answers at the podcast below that explain the history of & truths going back decades.

AlphaWarrior Show - Rumble

SYRIA THE TRUTH - UNCENSORED - Featuring GHOST OF BPH - EP. 365

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Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, one of the most prominent so-called “gender doctors” around, came under fire in October after she chose to withhold the findings of her nearly decade-long study on puberty blockers that appeared to contradict her personal beliefs. It turns out, however, that this sticky situation was only the beginning for Olson-Kennedy. Just last week, the doctor was hit with a weighty lawsuit from a college student at UCLA.
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Roger Ver’s story is a reminder of what happens when you dare to challenge the system. Here’s a man who has spent his life advocating for financial freedom, yet he now faces 109 years in prison.
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Sometimes it just makes sense to go against common wisdom. :D

My strategy of only using
#GoLang
— even in the age of LLMs where Typescript and Python frameworks dominate — continues to be a super good choice for me!

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“One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.”

~ Lyn Nofziger
[Franklyn C. Nofziger] (1924-2006) American journalist, political consultant, author, Press Secretary for President Reagan

"I can't see a model for the future of humanity that I like coming out of China, India or The States.

But I can see it in Europe."

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Predictions are hard, but right now everything I read screams at me that #LuigiMangione is going to die, or to enter a dark hole he'll never return from.

Why? Because violence is power's answer to threats, and people in power want to prevent something akin to what @pluralistic lays out in prospect.org/culture/books/202…

Three things may avert this.

a) he's too white. b) there's going to be a better patsy. c) too many people making this prediction too public.

They're not mutually exclusive.

1/n

in reply to Jens Finkhäuser

This is not a comment on innocence or guilt, or on who is or isn't nice. It's not a comment on right or wrong.

It's just an observation on power/wealth and the dynamics surrounding it. The wealthy and powerful need to show that killing them is not going to pay off, so they'll devote significant resources to producing that show.

Your attention is already on Mangione. That's the show that needs to go their way.

The sad part here is that @pluralistic offers a way out at the end of his story.

Hier soir, j’ai lu prospect.org/culture/books/202… de @pluralistic. Cette nouvelle, mise en avant dans le billet de blog pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/rad… est maintenant disponible en accès libre, à cause de l’actualité. L’histoire est à la fois glaçante et tellement réaliste… Cela prend un peu plus d’une heure à la lire, et je recommande de le faire

I use #Google meet for meetings in #Firefox, which works well most of the time.

Some meetings, I just watch a presentation, which I tend to attend from my desk. I like to pop the video feed out from the browser and put it as a separate window tile on my screen, removing the margins from the GMeet composer.

Today I found out that this doesn't work anymore. media.ccc.de works, but if I pop the GMeet feed, it just re-attaches to the GMeet composer within seconds.

Anyone else experienced this?

Simon Sinek explains how trust is built by asking for help.

When we don’t ask for help we deny others the honor of showing up for us.

Read that again.

(From the connectwithgrowth TikTok ... danielmrose.com/2024/12/11/sim…

⏺️Richard #Medhurst⏺️

«Je suis né et j’ai été baptisé en #Syrie. En tant que chrétien et journaliste, j’ai plus que quiconque intérêt à ce que la Syrie respecte la liberté de religion et la liberté de la presse.

La Syrie est un pays laïque. Et ceux qui se réjouissent de la voir se transformer en un califat islamique dirigé par #Al-Qaïda, #Israël et l’ #OTAN sont des délirants ou des sionistes et des impérialistes».


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⏺️De Oleg Tsarov⏺️

Le membre du Congrès Brian #Mast sera à la tête de la commission des affaires étrangères de la Chambre des représentants sous #Trump.
Après l’attaque du Hamas contre #Israël, Mast est venu au Congrès vêtu d’un uniforme militaire israélien. Vétéran de la guerre en Afghanistan, ayant perdu ses deux jambes dans l’explosion d’une mine, Mast est connu comme l’un des membres du Congrès américain les plus pro-israéliens. En 2015, il a même participé au programme de volontariat de l'armée israélienne à Sar El.
On sait que Trump lui-même a fait pression en faveur de la candidature de Mast. Contrairement à de nombreux autres membres de la nouvelle administration, Mast a toujours soutenu #Trump depuis 2016.
Il s’est également constamment opposé à un soutien à grande échelle à l’Ukraine. En avril, Mast a publié un article dans Newsweek, «Pourquoi j’ai voté contre l’aide à l’Ukraine», dans lequel il a motivé son «non» en affirmant que les États-Unis ne devraient pas dépenser plus pour l’ #Ukraine que l’UE.


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#États-unis

The pharmacists are all jiddy that they are protected from liability for ANOTHER 5 YEARS.

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The wealthiest ONE PERCENT of the world hold a modest 180 TRILLION dollars.
A mere ONE PERCENT of their collective wealth could begin to help the masses of this world. Just 1%.
...imagine if they weren't spoiled greedy brats.... how much they could give back to the world which they (or their grandparents, parents, etc) took it all from to become rich in the first place...?

World Turtle, Cosmic Turtle, or World-bearing Turtle, is a mytheme of a giant turtle supporting or containing the world
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Over the past few years, many people have unfortunately become more dependent on streaming media. But it's important to remember how streaming services can deprive you of important rights. Dis-services like Disney+ and Netflix mandate the use of a hardware-level backdoor called Widevine, giving them permanent access into deep components of your machine. Try video sites like the Blender Open Movies project instead.
in reply to CeceDuBois

I waver on this. I don't know the degree that Biden knows what he's doing, nor the degree to which he does what he's told, nor who has the most influence on him. I suspect Jill, but who knows? So he may restrict pardons to only those that are self serving (very biden like) and not pardon many due to his bitterness at being pushed out, or he may pardon everybody for some motive we know nothing about. Or he may just sell the pardons to the highest bidders. it'll be interesting to see.
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in reply to The Felon Pope

@Phil

Why I put "Biden's" name in quotes.

It's the machine, calculating damage and lining up pardons to protect themselves.

Is he cognizant enough to deny certain pardons, given how they stabbed him in the back? Who knows.

Is Jill part of it? Absolutely. She's as culpable as any of them.

But the machine lumbers on, moving the deck chairs about, in their determination to avoid any personal damage.

All to say, time will tell, but absolute corruption is afoot.

That much we know to be true.

"Sir David King, former chief scientific advisor to the UK government, recently wrote that, “On our present path, civilization as we know it will disappear.” More than a century’s worth of sustainability research has documented how humanity is undermining its own future by polluting the environment, depleting resources, and damaging the natural systems that support complex life on our planet."

resilience.org/stories/2024-11…

Iran’s supreme leader has blamed the US and Israel for the toppling of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, improbably claiming there was “no doubt” they were behind it. The Syrian Islamist group Hayat Tahir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies have appointed Mohammed al-Bashir, the former head of the rebel administration in the north-west, as interim prime minister.

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i'm finally doing it! thepit.social could use some funding to keep the lights on. since November 2022, i have been paying @mastohost $47.19 per month to keep it running smoothly, and i plan to keep doing that, but any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated. 🙏 ko-fi.com/peterjk

Felizão depois do Brevet do domingo.

Depois do ombro fraturado pela capivara em 22 e da separação e reorganização da vida pessoal desde o início de 23, este foi o primeiro 200k que fiz tendo conseguido retomar a rotina de treinos. Foram sete semanas de preparação saindo praticamente do zero.

Eu até já tinha feito um outro 200k em abril sem treinar, mas foi horrível. Apesar de ter concluído, terminei mal.

Desta vez, terminei inteiro, mesmo tendo torrado sob 42ºC durante quase todo o percurso.

DIY Flu/Cold Tea Ball Bombs

Ingredients:

1/4 cup raw honey
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
2 cups herbal tea mix (chamomile, ginger, or lemon)
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
Silicone molds (for shaping)
Directions:

In a mixing bowl, combine raw honey, fresh lemon juice, ground turmeric, ground cinnamon, and ground black pepper. Stir until thoroughly mixed.
Gradually add the herbal tea mix to the bowl, stirring until the mixture reaches a sticky, dough-like consistency.
Firmly press the mixture into silicone molds, ensuring they are packed tightly.
Freeze the molds for 1-2 hours or until the tea bombs are solid.
Remove the tea bombs from the molds and store them in an airtight container in the freezer.
To enjoy, drop one tea bomb into a cup of hot water, stir well, and sip for soothing comfort.
Prep Time: 10 minutes | Total Time: 10 minutes
Kcal: 45 kcal per tea bomb | Servings: 12 tea bombs