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READ: “How are you?” For a Palestinian in Gaza, it’s not a casual question. It’s a reminder of everything lost. This essay is what it means to answer honestly—after war, after grief, after surviving the unimaginable. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/a-gazan…
Every time someone asks, “How are you?” I feel a sharp twist inside. That simple question drags me back into a place I desperately try to avoid. The truth is, I am not fine. And neither is anyone else in Gaza.
@nom xer here, I have.. I had my grandmothers sewing machine for years but after she passed one of my goofy aunts wanted it.. I bet she never even uses it.. I have my mother’s machine but I have moved on to a more modern cheapo.. it’s definitely more pleasurable to use..
NOAA has a lot of specific specialized offices their Nation Centers for Environmental Prediction, Weather Prediction Center issues the excessive rainfall forecast. You can go back through historical forecasts, I did not see any significant excessive rainfall forecast for Texas, and this was the region in Slight category, issued July 3rd. Being in a poor cellular service area having a NOAA weather alert radio would help if they issue an alert.
@Electronwarrior that’s possible. Years ago my area got 9 inches but over two days. I have sandy soil, but there was runoff in nearby dense neighborhoods with cars and basements flooded. Texas soil must be hard as a rock but with the intensity of the rainfall it’s going to runoff fast no matter what.
@CoranDeo @Electronwarrior that 9 inch rainfall I received was like a 100 year event, so they say, it was not predicted either. Many of the times we are predicted to get heavy excessive rain, we don’t.
@Electronwarrior People say they want science. They trust the science of the NWS, but they really don’t want science. Science is a method of discovery. Sometimes a hypothesis is right, sometimes really wrong. No, they want hard, proven laws of nature, which do not, and will not, exist. The map in the OP represents probabilities. Slight probability does not negate the possibility. A 2% chance of excessive rain speaks nothing about volume of excessive rain, so it’s been proven.
The map legend says (slgt) 15% chance if excessive rain within 25 miles to the right of the drawn line over the next day. Pretty unintuitive if you ask me. Again, if the probability exists, one needs to assume that if could go tit’s up in a heartbeat, and in this case it did. You get a way to weigh the risks with these things. No guarantee, no prediction, just a heads up. When peeps turn climate science into a god, you get shit results. Case in point.
@Electronwarrior @CoranDeo agreed. I find the best is to monitor radar imagery - if you see training thunderstorms that just keep coming you know you’re going to get significant rainfall. Know your regional area. I ran my downspouts off roof gutters many years ago to underground pipes to get runoff as far away from the house as possible. Our undisturbed non compacted soil can soak virtually unlimited water, so I had to get it almost 100 ft there. It all depends on your location & soil type.
@Electronwarrior As far as 100 year events go, i think you are right WRT frequency. It’s a once i. 100 year event. If the event hasn’t happened for 100 years, that ends the previous 100 without that event. If it happens the following year, it’s in the next 100 years and the probability of it happening again in the next 99 years is diminished, theoretically, but not guaranteed. I think it’s more a subjective evaluation that explains scope of devastation, not hard numbers(years)
Turtles are so weird. They can't breathe underwater, but they can show their metabolism down so much they don't need to breathe and can stay underwater for 5 hours, even falling asleep down there.
@DeWalt —Oh, I know. But this sounds just like Ross Perot and the other Losertarians.
Ask yourself:
Are there any Libertarian House or Senate members that strictly have that party affiliation? No, because they wouldn’t be able to get elected in the primaries.
And they sound like absolute loons when they talk.
And even worse, we always wind up with Democrats in charge.
@BlkLdyPatriot @DeWalt This is funny considering Elon has successfully alienated both the left and the right so spectacularly. So who does he expect to draw into this stupidity?
Elon may be a brilliant engineer, but he's a rotten politician.
@Julie @BlkLdyPatriot @DeWalt and yet another case of someone thinking they can be a Trump. There is only one. Trump. True definition of, “they broke the mold”.
I wasn't aware of how frequent these failures are 😰
"while it is one thing to disagree with the political views of a business leader, it is another to be mortally afraid of his products. In the Tesla Files, we found thousands of examples of why such fear may be justified." hachyderm.io/@itamarst/1148009…
Tesla's so-called "autopilot" turns off automatically a fraction of a second before a crash, so the driver can be blamed even though the driver has no time to respond.
İktidardaki her gerilemenin şiddete açık bir davetiye olduğunu biliyoruz. iktidarı elinde tutup da elerinden kaymakta olduğunu hisseden herkes, kaybettiklerinin yerine şiddeti koymanın cazibesine direnmekte zorlanmıştır.
"Soylu bir adam kendini kendinden daha yüksek bir fikirle karşılaştırır ve değerlendirir; sıradan bir adam ise kendinden daha düşük bir fikirle. Biri arzu üretir; diğeri ise hırs, ki bu da bayağı bir adamın arzuladığı şeydir." ~Marcus Aurelius
"Trust the Science" an already bullshit phrase because science is about QUESTIONING and challenging data sometimes--but is now completely going to shit because of that fucking Nazi criminal asshole and his shit friends. HOW DO WE END THIS GODDAMNED MALIGNANCY?
A post by Tadhg Hickey - "In my day, you'd have to go on gruelling training camps in South Armagh and Pakistan to become a terrorist. Now some vegan prick just picks up a sign, and he's Osama Bin Laden. They have it too easy."
He jugado solo pokemon Go (de los 47 a los 50 años, más o menos). La versión original de pokémon (esa especiie de juegobde cartas coleccionables jugado en la gamebot) no la jugué nunca.
"Robert Desnos n’est pas le seul à avoir vu en Robespierre une figure plus qu’humaine. Une « force » comme disait Victor Hugo. C’était déjà le cas de son vivant. Et cela ne sera pas sans lien avec sa mort le 10 Thermidor de l’an II (28 juillet 1794). Comme disait Hugo encore, la Révolution aura été le plus puissant pas du genre humain depuis l’avènement du Christ. Mais c’est un pas qui nous a fait entrer dans une terre inconnue. Un pays aux boussoles affolées. Depuis plus de deux-cents ans, tous ceux qui traversent l’Histoire de France et arrivent au moment de la Révolution sont soudain pris de vertige et se perdent dans le labyrinthe du Temps. C’est un problème de perception. Le 21 janvier 1793, Louis XVI a été exécuté, mais il n’est pas mort."
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Demande de destitution du Président Emmanuel Macron en vertu de l’article 68 de la Constitution
À l’attention des parlementaires de l’Assemblée nationale et du Sénat,
Nous, citoyens français, adressons cette demande de destitution du Président …
hunger may no longer be a problem worldwide "poverty" is too relative and subjective a term why does the soil need to be regenerated and is he the only one who can do it? ...
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A hitman of the Russian mafia has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer; he is sent to Berlin to pick up the watch Yuri Gagarin wore on his first flight i...
today's checkin brought him to mind, and now I need to go be a bigger fan because he gets it
Adam Duritz on counting his anxiety in new album : NPR
Duritz: I just felt there was a real callousness in our society towards women — this real arrogant, we-know-what's-best-for-you thought process returning to our culture in the last decade. I mean, obviously it's always been there, but you thought you were moving in a better direction for many years.
Granted, with the MeToo movement, you got a lot of — for the first time — exposing a lot of people who were victimizing women. But at the same time, it also made you realize how prevalent it was. Half of our race, as humans, messed with and abused and taken advantage of and, quite honestly, raped. And then told what to do by the other half. It's attaching a valuelessness to half the population of the world.
I was trying to imagine what it must feel like to be a woman. When power speaks to you as if you don't matter.
Anna Feder is suing Emerson College for firing her over her Palestine activism. She says she will never stop advocating for a free Palestine. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/i-was-f…
Newsom wants Federal dollars to clean up State lands by implying the Feds aren't doing their job on Federal lands?
Newsom got $$$ to clean up State lands on Trump's first term.
The CA Taxpayer voted for millions of dollars in bonds to use to prevent wild fires here and the State used it on other issues.
Most Federal lands are not close near towns and settled infrastructure. It is the local greenery, green belts, and crap bushes growing in the "desert areas" of southern CA.
Οι σιωναζί δεν μπορούν να νικήσουν αυτό τον αντάρτη λαό. Τα βίντεο των επιχειρήσεων αποδεικνύουν ότι η Αντίσταση ενδυναμώθηκε με τον καιρό και πλέον πραγματοποιεί επιχειρήσεις που εκπαιδευμένοι επαγγελματικοί στρατοί δεν μπορούν να φέρουν σε πέρας. Παράλληλα τα χτυπήματα αντί να μειώνονται, αυξάνονται. Τόσο σε ποσότητα όσο και σε ποιότητα. eksegersi.gr/diethni/to-psycho…
6 Ιούλ 2025, 11:15 - Εδώ στη γη μου την αγαπημένη, τη γη της απέραντης προσφοράς, συνεχίζω κι εγώ την προσφορά μου. Η προσφορά μου συνεχίζεται στον ίδιο δρόμο και δεν χάνει ποτέ τον προσανατολισμό της.
"Dachau was the first step on the road to atrocity. Will America go there? Eight months ago, I would have said never. At that point, America was still a nation under the rule of law. Now, we have politicians cheering the image of people being fed to alligators" and "selling swag celebrating the construction of an American concentration camp."
no, eight months ago America was not a country under the rule of law, and if the author believed that he wasn't paying attention. America ceased to be a country under the rule of law on July 1, 2024, when the supreme Court decided that the president was not bound by law.
Democratic party is essentially dead, so it's possible that he will either trigger a switch of the democratic voter base over to his party and leave the crazies and geriatric leadership out to dry, or else he will use the America Party to threaten the Democratic party so that he's able to buy it out for pennies on the dollar, and then purge leadership and replace them with his own people.
how elon can "buy" a political movement that was hostile to him from the start is rather absurd.
the outer shell of the dem pty may be damaged but the commies never die
after western european commies became disillusioned with the soviets in the 60's, the same commies shifted over to the environmental movement. Elon should read modern european history.
Also see the recent photo of far-right Republican leaders kneeling in prayer together in Congress after Trump's bill was passed. Every week there's another reminder that this authoritarian movement is basically theocratic.
While Trump freezes arms deliveries to #Ukraine due to stockpile shortages, neoliberal warmongering Democrats accuse the #WhiteHouse of lying to camouflage Ukraine dumping. Meanwhile #EU clowns continue to breathe inside their delusional #Brussels bubble, always pretending that they could “intervene” and “solve the problem.”
Zohran Mamdani - aktueller Bürgermeister-Kandidat für New York mit guten Chancen und der hat interessante politische Vorstellungen!
Trump, seine Reps, alle radikale Christen und hier die Springer-Presse (im vorauseilenden Gehorsam) bekommen seit gestern kollektiv Schnappatmung, wenn der Name Mamdani fällt und weil seine Chancen immer weiter steigen 😅
Seine Themen u.a.: Kostenloser Nahverkehr (bspw. städtische Busse, Subway-Freeze) Wohnungspolitik: Mieten einfrieren und öffentlich geförderter Wohnungsbau Universelle Kinderbetreuung und Sozialleistungen Mindestlohn von 30 $ bis 2030 Höhere Steuern für Reiche und Unternehmen, um soziale Programme zu finanzieren
Trump lässt im Moment untersuchen, ob der Mamdani ausgewiesen werden kann. Denn der sei nicht nur Muslim, sondern radikal-kommunistisch mit seiner Vorstellung von Politik!
Wer jetzt in Versuchung ist zu sagen: “Der wird doch nur Bürgermeister einer Stadt”… das Budget der Stadt New York übersteigt das Regierungsbudget von allen außer 33 Staaten weltweit...
Wenn so einer zeigt, dass eine als "sozialistisch" gelabelte Politik für die meisten Bewohner der Stadt richtig tolle Auswirkungen hat, dann könnten die Leute ja (hoffentlich) ins Grübeln kommen. Vielleicht sind sie dann nicht mehr bereit Leute zu wählen, die ihnen erzählen, dass Ausländer ihr Problem sind, während sie gleichzeitig Reiche immer reicher machen und alle anderen immer weniger haben.
¿En serio no hay nadie en el Parlamento britanico que haya gritado "pero estamos locos deteniendo a ancianas de 80 años con cargos de terrorismo por apoyar a #PalestineAction ????
“We are witnessing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere, something we’ve never seen before. While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC, we’re seeing that the SMOC has reversed. This could have unprecedented global climate impacts.” shorturl.at/dEMcv
Ein auf Gaza spezialisierter, französischer Historiker verbringt im Dezember 2024 einen Monat in in Gaza und schreibt darüber ein Buch. Schon der Artikel darüber ist sehr lesenswert.
»'Now I Understand Why #Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in #Gaza'. One of the only historians studying the Gaza Strip, Jean-Pierre Filiu, spent a month in the killing fields there, and documented everything« haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Paywall)
»"Devastated areas emerge from the shadows as the convoy progresses," the French historian wrote later. "A prolonged sequence of horror. Here's a tree that fell, its branches twisted, here's a demolished house, farther away a building is collapsing. The convoy moves ahead as fast as the ruined road allows. The Gaza I knew no longer exists, now I know. A wasteland like this will make us forget that Gaza was for thousands of years an oasis."«
"Even though I have been in a number of war zones in the past, from Ukraine to Afghanistan, via Syria, Iraq and Somalia, I have never, but never, experienced anything like this… Now I understand why Israel is denying the international press access to such an appalling scene."
»The narrative of his visit to Gaza is intertwined with a description of the ear-splitting soundtrack of the enclave: an intense humming of drones overhead. "It's a nonstop roar, so strong that it's impossible to have a regular conversation outside," he says.
The psychological effect of ceaseless buzzing adds yet another layer of stress, which at times develops into unbearable weariness. The steady noise of harassment is punctuated by sounds of exploding munitions. «
»"Death in Gaza is illogical," Filiu writes, noting that anyone can die at any moment from anything and from any situation, and the difference between life and death is completely random. Small decisions, made inadvertently – whether to go there or here, whether to stand here or somewhere else, whether to sleep now or later – determine who will live and who will die. People who have lost their loved ones cannot even mourn them properly, because there is no funeral and no grave.«
»Especially heartbreaking were the children he saw. "In the past the schoolchildren of Gaza had uniforms and schoolbags," Filiu he writes in his book. "Today they are street children, visited by death and wandering. In the open garbage dumps they scrounge for paper, cardboard, nylon, anything that can be used to light a small fire and provide a bit of heat. They barely drag jerricans bigger than they are.«
»Filiu notes that according to UNICEF, the United Nations children's fund, the youngsters who have survived in the Strip are in dire need of social and psychological support. In January, there were only four psychiatrists in the whole of Gaza.«
»One reason for the sharp deterioration in the social fabric of the Strip that he witnessed is the immense hunger there. "Even those who want to share food with others cannot do so beyond the close, and hungry, family circle," he says. "In the past, Gazan solidarity was high; the uncles and aunts, and the cousins, were very close to one another. Now everyone is focused on the small, dying, family circle."«
»[...]he added another heartrending element to this state of disintegration: the wholesale death of parents of small children. "The tragedy of Gaza's orphans is one of the harshest disasters," he told his audience. "Gazan society, which I knew in the past as very well protected within the family structure, collapsed under the weight of the extensive massacre. Wounded orphans remain abandoned in hospitals without relatives, even distant ones, coming to visit them."«
»Despite the children's abject hunger, Filiu relates that he saw them sharing bits of food with scrawny stray cats. When he asked them why they were doing that, they explained to him that they know what it feels like to be hungry and didn't want the cats to feel like that.«
»During his 4 weeks [...] Filiu moved between Rafah and al-Muwasi [...] He calculated that an average of more than 33,000 people live in a square kilometer, and described "an ocean of tents." "On both sides,""tents stretch for kilometers. Some of the displaced have established their improvised shelters on the beach, coping with the gusts of wind and the waves. Signs hover above the surface, declaring an improvised barber shop, cafeteria or boutique with alluring names, which mask the scarcity."«
»Moreover, in the waning days of 2024, every inhabitant of Gaza received an average of nine liters (2.4 gallons) of water per day – less than a quarter of which was potable. By comparison, the daily allocation before the war was 80 liters per person. Filiu describes how "people mill around the water distribution points with plastic jerricans of 5, 10 and 25 liters. Some bring open dishes, tin cans and containers of all sorts, even if that means spilling a bit of the precious liquid."«
»In addition to innumerable deaths of Gazans caused by all manner of weaponry, Filiu also witnessed mortality caused by infection and disease, and the near impossibility of preserving a semblance of hygiene: Almost every person he met suffered from disease and diarrhea. Women are affected more seriously than men by the severe deterioration in sanitary conditions: They tend to suffer more from skin and digestive tract infections, and account for two-thirds of the victims of hepatitis.«
»"Every basic human need here is a struggle for survival," the historian writes. "A reality of open garbage dumps bustling with barefoot children. Holes dug in the sand as toilets, with a simple covering of canvas sheets to maintain an illusion of privacy. Home wells dug hastily in a corner of the tent."«
»Even the weather takes a fatal toll. Filiu tells his readers about a baby girl named Sila who on Christmas Eve died of the cold at the age of three weeks. During his time in Gaza he heard about five other young children who perished from the cold.«
»He describes in his book what the morning after a winter downpour looks like: "Repair is needed on all fronts – to repair the tents, block the broad leaks, repair the poles on which the fragile structures rest. The men are silent under their exhaustion and pain, and a dignified grandmother, trembling in a tattered scarf, calls to the heavens to attest that 'I was never so cold, I was never so hungry.' «
»Filiu accuses Israel of turning a blind eye for years to what has been going on in Gaza: "For 20 years now, Israel has been unable to nurture networks of collaborators inside Gaza. [The Israelis] tried every tool in the book, and they failed. Because they don't know Gaza's society. And because they operate either from a tank or from a drone, which is not the most efficient way to operate."«
»One of the tragic consequences of this blindness, Filiu observes, is the mortal blow being dealt to everyone in the Strip who opposes Hamas. "There were thriving universities, intellectual circles and artists. There were so many rap groups in Gaza, and you can imagine that their members weren't exactly sympathetic to Hamas.«
»"There was a civil society that didn't want to be part of Hamas' Islamist scheme," he continues, "but all that has been destroyed now by the Israeli invasion. And even when there were demonstrations against Hamas [during the cease-fire], instead of the Israelis saying, 'We're stopping the bombing in order for the demonstrators to prosper,' Israel intensified [it]. I don't say that it was a plot, but it's blindness."«
»One of most acute examples of that blindness, which Filiu terms a "tragic paradox," is Israel's support for the Abu Shabab gang in the Strip, which exercises violent control over the precious little humanitarian aid that enters Gaza, loots the trucks and does battle with Hamas. The majority of the Israeli public became aware of the existence of this criminal group only recently, in the wake of reports that Israel is arming its members. «
»"It's 2:30 A.M., when I wake up from heavy gunfire," he writes Dec 4, when he witnessed a gunfight between unidentified security people guarding an aid convoy & a gang of looters, who were aided by IDF drones. The incident claimed 11 lives – five killed by the army and six in the exchange of fire between Hamas and Abu Shabab – plus 50 aid trucks out of 70 in the convoy were looted. The stolen goods, Filiu relates, showed up the next day in the Muwasi market and were sold at exorbitant prices.«
»"This vicious circle of organized crime is bringing about a rise in prices of basic commodities in the markets of Gaza, and this in turn encourages the participation of ordinary citizens in organized looting," Filiu writes. "Every day around the end of 2024 brings its portion of gangs that attack humanitarian convoys, improvised road barriers erected by highway robbers, children who grab hold of trucks in order to steal a bag or two of flour."«
»Israel's very support of the Abu Shabab gang, Filiu explains, is actually strengthening Hamas. "Against the backdrop of the intense hunger in Gaza, Hamas' punishment of the plundering gangs is accepted with understanding by the civilian population – they are angry at the looters and see Hamas as being bent on trying to stop the plunder of the little food that might reach them. Everybody in Gaza hates these gangs. «
»Indeed, the most violent days he experienced were those preceding the start of the cease-fire: The Israelis had stepped up their bombing raids, Filiu notes, and he was in an area categorized as a "humanitarian zone" – ostensibly, a place deemed safe from shelling. But every day there he experienced bombings. «
»"It's a nice way of saying that the Gazans are treated like objects. The thought that they have to move again is terrible. People had to move and lost everything five times on average," he says, since the start of the war. "And that's only the average. I met people who had to move 10 times."«
»For his part, Filiu says during our conversation, he saw in Gaza a place where "international law, basic human rights, the Geneva Convention, the attitude toward human rights – all are being tossed aside without hesitation and being supplanted by raw, random and very violent force."
The "Gazan monster," he warns, will not be contained within fences but will spill out across the globe. "It is threatening the whole world in a very basic and very immediate way."«
Die Menschen in Gaza sind einfach nur Menschen wie überall auf der Welt, und sie erleben einen anhaltenden Horror der unvorstellbar ist, den kein Mensch durchmachen dürfte.
Und dennoch passiert es, dennoch wird das Leid, der Horror, die realexistierende Hölle auf Erden geduldet, unterstützt, angefeuert, ignoriert.
Der Horror der in Gaza passiert ist ein Ausblick auf alle künftigen Kriege, die überall auf der Welt mit maximaler Brutalität geführt werden.
Diese Kriege werden so nun möglich sein, weil man das was in Gaza passiert nicht gestoppt hat, weil man für den Horror noch Waffen geliefert hat, weil man für das was unerträgliches Leid ist noch beschönigende Worte gefunden hat, das internationale Recht ignoriert und mit Füßen getreten hat, nichts dagegen tat, obwohl es jederzeit möglich war und ist.
Nei giorni a in cui si ricomincia a parlare di tregua, mentre continua senza sosta la mattanza quotidiana a Gaza e la pulizia etnica nella West Bank, palestinesi e solidali si sono dati appuntamento in piazza Mercanti a Milano.
Es war ein unvergesslicher Abend voller Adrenalin und Spannung! Am Samstag, den 5. Juli 2025 , öffnete der Challengeclub Frankfurt seine Türen für ein Box-Event, das Sportbegeisterte und Neugierige gleichermaßen in seinen Bann zog.
Not sure if I should get a nice print of this art of Odinn (Artist is based as I've mentioned) for my room above my bed or some Tsukihime wallscrolls, what do you guys think?
![Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social:
“Prayer matters,” Abbott said. Prayers “could have been the reason why water stopped rising”.
What a shameful MAGA debacle of a press conference - a conference supposedly intended to help families desperate for information on the Texas flooding.
[excerpt from article in The Guardian]
Officials praise Trump as viewers express frustration during press conference](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7913530 "Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social:
“Prayer matters,” Abbott said. Prayers “could have been the reason why water stopped rising”.
What a shameful MAGA debacle of a press conference - a conference supposedly intended to help families desperate for information on the Texas flooding.
[excerpt from article in The Guardian]
Officials praise Trump as viewers express frustration during press conference")
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