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Please join G-Man and his great line up of guests today. He will also be doing the premiere of our latest song video, made completely with 5py AI. It's much higher quality video than I've done in the past.
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July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein birthday!

American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction.

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#Birthday #Tribute #Memoria; #SciFi

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It's the birthday of science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, born in Butler, Missouri, in 1907. He studied physics and mathematics at UCLA and then began writing science fiction, or, as he preferred to call it, "speculative fiction." His novel Stranger in a Strange Land, published in 1961, became a cult classic.

He said, "I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it's written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change."

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CBS Austin March 5th: Federal layoffs at NOAA spark concern over critical weather forecasting in Texas cbsaustin.com/news/local/feder…

Der Grund, warum wir Gutmenschen immer verlieren, liegt darin, dass wir uns an zig Fronten verzetteln: Artenschutz, Klimaschutz, Arbeitskämpfe, Mieterkämpfe, Verkehrswende, Energiewende usw. Unser Gegner hat dagegen nur ein Programm: Wirtschaftswachstum um jeden Preis, für immer mehr Gewinn für eine kleine, kaum wachsende Zahl von Menschen. Was wir brauchen, ist eine Mega-Organisation, ein mächtiger und auch finanzstarker Zusammenschluss aller, die begriffen haben, dass Bienensterben, Pflegenotstand, Klimakrise und Mietwucher alle die gleiche Ursache haben. Meint @oetting in diesem Vortrag
(knapp 12 Minuten - Individous-Key: JdUAItlVhKM)

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Bargain basement liquidation close-out Quilt Plotter sale! Remember when we were trying to sell PaleGray Labs a few years ago? Well the space it's been limping along in is going away, and it's just gonna go into storage if we don't sell it like now. Therefore, the quilt plotter and anything else we have left is not just $5,000.
It was $30,000 a few years ago, so it's now ONE-SIXTH the price. C'mon, come get this machine and whatever else is left in the space.
ninapaley.com/2023/01/04/paleg… (now just $5,000!!!!)

Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as settlers circle their homes | Palestinian territories | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

#Palestine #WestBank #Israel
@palestine

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Yesterday's #sunset started rather humbly with a large amount of clouds and not much sun to be seen. (A typhoon was approaching.)
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Waves were quite stronger than usual and I thought that capturing the sun a last time in the gap between clouds and horizon would be it.
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But then the sun had disappeared behind the horizon and lit up more and more clouds from below.
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That was quite a spectacle and the fiery red clouds spread more and more. Only for a short time, but that was impressive.
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Partially it gave the impression that the clouds were on fire.
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#Taiwan #myphoto

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DOJ released 11 hours of video outside Epstein's cell. One of the comments I found from someone who watched it:

They may have used the old 'take a picture of the hallway and put it in front of the camera' trick from Mission Impossible. Or more likely the looped camera footage one. If you look closely at the video, you can see the same cockroach take the same path across the upper right hand corner of the frame seven times. 😂

In a review of a new biography: "Although [Tim] O'Brien was adamantly opposed to American involvement in Vietnam, he dutifully showed up when his draft number was called because he 'lacked the courage' to do otherwise."
This confession challenges the macho penchant to dismiss as cowards those who refused to kill on command - & to glorify all who followed orders, regardless of whom they killed & why.
Would that there were more quietly heroic resisters today in, say, Israel, Russia, and the U.S.

The best impact that end users can hope for from post-quantum cryptography is no visible impact at all, @durumcrustulum explains on the new episode of EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet." eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/podc…

Film documentaire sur la compagnie DuPont de Nemours -2019


Inspiré par une histoire vraie choquante fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Wat… un avocat tenace découvre un sombre secret qui relie un nombre croissant de décès inexpliqués dus à l'une des plus grandes entreprises du monde : Dupont

L’eau est polluée, notamment par la présence d'acide perfluorooctanoïque (PFOA) utilisé pour des produits de la marque Téflon.

Aujourd'hui en France : mastodon.social/@la_voix/11480…


#PFAS : #DuPont fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont et #3M fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M ont sciemment caché la toxicité de leurs substances pendant des décennies sudouest.fr/economie/industrie…

Dark Waters fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Wat…

Pollution PFAS : l’étau autour de Tefal se resserre reporterre.net/Pollution-aux-P…

Scandale des PFAS : 35 ans après, les déchets de #Tefal contaminent toujours reporterre.net/Scandale-des-PF…

#pollution #pfas #environnement #corruption #tefal #teflon #PFOA #PolluantsÉternels


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⛔️🇷🇺AFU General Staff confirms strike on ammunition plant in Moscow region (more) ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/40125… #Ukraine #Mastodon #Brussels #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
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ναι το παρατήρησα κι εγώ ,σε παλιότερο βίντεο που είχα φτιάξει έλεγε ο Παυλόπουλος ΠτΔ για Κουτσούμπα ότι κράτησε πολύ υπεύθυνη στάση και είχε δώσει την συναίνεση του για όποια συμφωνία
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Whitmer on Thursday approved the Michigan Parole Board's recommendations of three pardons and four sentence commutations, The Detroit News reported.

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A shooter was killed after firing on Border Patrol agents and injuring a police officer in McAllen, Texas, on Monday.

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Tom Fitton TORCHES Trump Administration Over Alleged Epstein Cover-Up: “I Don’t Think Even the Biden Administration Would Have Written Anything Like This”

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The final version of President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" contains a series of tax policy changes that are taking effect now that Trump has signed the legislation into law. The impact of some of the changes will be seen from Main Street to Wall Street.

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⚠️🇺🇦AFU General Staff reports 97 combat engagements since day-start, intense fighting in Pokrovsk sector (more) ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/40125… #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset

Die Worte bleiben im Halse stecken. Israel möchte die gesamte Bevölkerung von #Gaza auf den Ruinen von Rafah in einer "Humanitären Stadt" konzentrieren.
haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…
in reply to medico international

Die Zwangsumsiedlung der Menschen in #Gaza dient keinem übergeordneten militärischen Ziel. "Vielmehr ist die ethnische Säuberung mittlerweile selbst mehrfach artikuliertes Kriegsziel", schreibt Riad Othman:
medico.de/blog/ab-jetzt-dagege…
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Five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, we’re coming together to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights, and dignity for all. Join us on July 17: goodtroubleliveson.org/?SQF_SO…

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The State Department is revoking the foreign terrorist organization (FTO) designation for the al-Nusrah Front, aka Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamic rebel group that overthrew the Assad regime earlier this year.

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