Day 3 of #RFFF25 and another delightful event and gathering of friends.

Many thanks to Damon Thomas @ruralgloom for bringing #spokenWord to the streaming fest. And for comfy presentation of a tiny fraction of his amazing writing on such relatable memories and slice of life tales of southern gothic and rural gloom charm.

Keep up with Damon at ruralgloom.neocities.org/

Friends, carry on making comfy, supportive and entertaining gatherings like this so awesome!

This is what community sounds like.

Proof That Adult Brains Make New Neurons Settles Scientific Controversy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/proof-that-adult-brains-make-new-neurons-settles-scientific-controversy/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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I'm good with that!

Wayne Allyn Root:

President Trump, There are Legal Grounds to Revoke the Citizenship of Zohran Mamdani. Don’t Just Defeat Mamdani, DEPORT HIM!

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For all the phases of the war, Palestinian factions (with Hamas as forefront) show a great ability on the negotiation tables, fighting diplomatically for the best possible future. Paragraph by paragraph. Day by day.
The problem is that the rest of the "players" look less like negotiators and more like sellers in an open market. There are no clear (written) proposals, no guarantees for agreements, no willingness to have a "serious" profile while negotiate. Nothing. The level of Hamas leadership is much greater than (even) the american delegations.

PS. An honor to Blinken. This guy is the biggest joke of diplomacy for the last years.
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There is no truth on western media about USA role in Middle East. Israel is the proxy of the empire trying to flare up the whole region (in Ukraine they didn't succeed) to push for a wider war.
#warmongers #uspol #Lebanon #palestine #IsraelTerroristState #imperialism
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"Hamas officials said they were surprised by Trump’s comments and those of Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. “What Hamas presented—both in word and deed—represented a positive, realistic, and flexible position. We offered a vision for all the issues on the table, whether related to maps, prisoner exchange mechanisms, aid, or guarantees for continuing negotiations beyond the 60-day period,” said Hamad. “That’s why the American position was surprising; it was tense and rigid, offering no explanations. Instead, it relied on the language of threats and intimidation.”

Basem Naim, another senior Hamas official, told Drop Site, “Trump is playing a strategic game of deception,” adding that the U.S. and Israel were seeking to increase pressure on Hamas to capitulate. He said Trump’s comments, and similar ones made by Witkoff, were intended to apply “more pressure before the next round” of negotiations.

Some analysts have suggested that if Netanyahu had signed a deal prior to the recession of the Israeli Knesset on July 27, he would have contended with the possible collapse of his governing coalition, so Netanyahu has, instead, delayed signing the deal. The Knesset is not scheduled to reconvene until October."

@villebooks @palestine @israel

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If you see the first posts of this thread you will understand that nobody has to be a clairvoyant to see that US and Israel are not reliable negotiators. All of their policy is based on bullying and force. Their only language is this and they send some "sirs" on negotiation tables that are ridiculous. Israel had a thug (but reliable) as a negotiator, Ronen Bar, and the war cabinet replaced him - they took his position to neutralize him.
How a serious entity, state, organization or whatever can negotiate with israelis and americans?

Great job by the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who spearheaded the drive in Congress for the approval of the “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT.” He has Great Strength and Wisdom, and will go down as one of the most successful Speakers of the House in History, maybe even the BEST OF THEM ALL. Thank you Mike, and congratulations on a job well done!

Israeli forces open fire at returning residents to prevent them from entering Maroun al-Ras in south Lebanon, following the end of the 60-day ceasefire period.
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Lebanese Ministry of Health:

“3 dead and 44 wounded in a new updated toll of Israeli attacks on citizens in southern #Lebanon.”
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#CeasefireViolations #ceasefire #IsraelTerroristState #FreeLebanon

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Another #CeasefireViolation in #Lebanon. Mediators of the #ceasefire didn't intervene after so many of these violations. Lebanese government backs the plans of #zionazis for disarmament of Resistance both in Lebanon and in #Palestine...

"ISR warplanes and attack helicopters launched two airstrikes at dawn on Friday, targeting prefabricated rooms on the outskirts of southern Lebanon’s Deir Antar (Bint Jbeil district) and the town of Shamaa (Tyre district)

The strikes followed a night of intensified ISR aggression across southern lebanon. The bombardment was accompanied by continuous hostile aerial activity that lasted until the early hours of the morning."
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#IsraelTerroristState #terrorism #peace #war
@lebanon @israel

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"Israel" launched a series of airstrikes on Lebanon on Thursday, targeting several areas in southern Lebanon.

Israeli forces carried out a series of airstrikes along the Litani River, hitting the area between the southern Lebanese towns of Zrariye and Deir Seryan, according to Al Mayadeen's correspondent.

Additionally, Israeli warplanes also struck the Al-Mahmoudiya and Burghaz regions in the south, according to our correspondent.

Earlier, Israeli forces targeted a civilian vehicle in the Khaldeh area, south of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, as reported by Al Mayadeen’s correspondent, while the Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed in a preliminary toll that the airstrike killed one person and wounded three others, marking another escalation in Israel’s ongoing attacks on Lebanese territory.

This comes as "Israel" continues to violate the ceasefire in Lebanon, launching airstrikes and killing civilians across the country.
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#CeasefireViolations #Lebanon #IsraelTerroristState #terrorism #peace #war #imperialism
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New blog post! I wrote about one of the weirdest CDs in my collection - a CD single with a few lo-fi music videos and the distinct vibes that this is the leftover wreckage of what was supposed to be a much bigger project that never came to pass.

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europesays.com/fr/224172/ La Russie « ne renoncera pas à ses objectifs » en Ukraine, dit Vladimir Poutine à Donald Trump #Actualités #EU #europe #News #Ukraine

Nichts hat mehr für die Umwelt und Gesellschaft gebracht als das 9-Euro-Ticket -- ganz klar bei dem Erfolg muss es teurer werden, wo kämen wir sonst hin? 😫


Siehe: golem.de/news/abonnenten-deuts…

Weniger Fahrgäste wegen #Preissteigerung... 😐


#politik #umwelt #natur #erde #Nahverkehr #preis #Problem #auto #Emissionen #zukunft #Deutschland

The Republicans in the House of Representatives have just passed the “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT.” Our Party is UNITED like never before and, our Country is “HOT.” We are going to have a Signing Celebration at the White House tomorrow, at 4 P.M. EST. All Congressmen/women and Senators are invited. Together, we will celebrate our Nation’s Independence, and the beginning of our new Golden Age. The people of the United States of America will be Richer, Safer, and Prouder than ever before. Thank you to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and all of the wonderful Republican Members of Congress who helped us deliver on our Promises, and so much more. Together, we can do things that were not even imagined possible less than one year ago. We will keep working, and winning — CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA!

Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok


Source: mediamatters.org/tiktok/racist…

These videos — seemingly created with Google’s Veo 3, a publicly accessible text-to-video generator — traffic in racist tropes, such as depicting Black people as monkeys and criminals and featuring imagery of Black people with watermelons and fried chicken.


#Racist #racism #video #ai #Google #TikTok #fail #problem #content #technology #Software #news #fashism #hate #omg #wtf #veo

Tesla confirms Cybertruck sales are down to just ~5,000 units


Source: electrek.co/2025/07/02/tesla-c…

#Tesla #Cybertruck #car #sales #company #economy #Musk #ElonMusk #news

Yesterday I accidentally learned about how vitamin C can help prevent histamin intolerance reactions such as blisters and rash.

I was curious as to what exactly are in the blisters that itch so terrible. Which led me from one thing to another, apparently there are some over the counter compound that help digesting histamin without the intolerant reactions.

And then it is casually mentioned. Or U can try vitamin C since that will help the body digest histamine.

Probably cheaper than medicine.

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— I also struggle with histamine issues (thanks, alpha-gal). I need to try adding more vitamin c into my diet! (Or find a good powder that’s gentle on my tummy and free of magnesium stearate.)

Unfortunately, citrus fruits, although low in histamine, are histamine liberators, so I can only eat them in small amounts or I get symptoms. It works pretty well though for me to combine citrus with an antihistamine fruit like blueberries or grapes.

My fav food list:
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READ: Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the ongoing campaign to neutralize the Palestine movement. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/from-co…

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"Because the greatest obstacle to dictatorship is an educated populace. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

That’s why slave owners prohibited enslaved people from learning to read, fascists burn books, and tyrants close universities.

In their quest to destroy democracy, Trump, Vance, and their cronies are intent on shutting the American mind."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Republicans #education #books #authoritarianism #tyranny

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