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Whatever the outcomes of Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House on Monday and the latest scenario for a ceasefire in Gaza, a bilateral policy of genocide has united the Israeli and U.S. governments in a pact of literally breath-taking cruelty.
i've been raped by 19 people, was homeless before, had to endure decades of sexual, physical, verbal and emotional abuse by my entire family. i was close too dying more times than i can count, and my brain regularly tortures me by spiraling into insanity, hurting me and those who care about me. there have been times were i still got beaten up almost every day and had stones thrown at me, times where i wasn't allowed to leave an autism conversion psychiatry for 2 whole years, times where i didn't have enough money to afford food, times where i didn't know how to do anything at all because i had to basically raise myself almost entirely by researching everything on the internet and forming my own view of the world (and spending 8 hours a day on twitter). i had to be an adult from the day my parents realized that i would never become like the person they wanted to me to be - which, to be honest, wasn't a person at all, just an extension of their personality. they abandoned me emotionally and did the bare minimum to keep me alive, while relieving themselves off their anger and pain by screaming at me or physically hurting me day by day.
i finally ran away when i was 17, to the great unknown of Berlin. i met awesome people, who helped me lots and showed me that i am not a mistake, that i am worth keeping around, and that i am good enough.
yet without even realizing it, the vulnerabilities that had been implanted into my subconsciousness through the many, many times i had been abused, made me more vulnerable than ever to said abuse. i thought i got the chance to recovery, so i let my guard down, but not even a few months later i found myself stuck in another abusive relationship with someone way older than me who regularly raped me, who i was dependent on, who pressured me into staying with them. so i ran away from them too, but that did just about nothing. i arrived in karlsruhe and it started from anew; again and again and again i got sucked into abusive relationships, some with people who actively search for vulnerable young queers to abuse, others with people who simply don't know how to handle their own emotions and trauma and kept me trapped in their abuse (presumably) by accident.
through all of this, i never gave up my hope, i always fought with everything i had and the best i could. but lately, my hope is starting to fade away.
in these (in 11 days) 2 full decades that i have survived and struggled and suffered, i had always had a reason to live on and to move forward. first it was graduating from school and being able to flee from my parents, then It was finding a new social circle from scratch, then it was getting a job... and now i have all of that, yet i still feel like shit? i don't have to worry about being able to afford food anymore, i even found a few friends that i can trust. yet my broken brain continues to make me go through hell, as if every single day was still spent in the battlefield of abuse. it is a pain of such a magnitude that i cannot even begin to describe it, even though i am certainly more privileged than other people who at least look happier than me.
i don't have any attainable goal to work towards, i don't know what i need to do to find peace and happiness. but maybe happiness is just impossible to ask after everything that happened, and i should be grateful for the things i have.
the saddest thing is that screaming for help will not even do me any good, in fact, it will make things worse. everyone also is suffering too, no one has the resources to help me. and being negative like this around my friends will only make them sad, so i try to suppress it whenever i can.
Heh, for no reason other than my own amusement, I made Home Assistant get irritated if you push the button that triggers a status read out too many times. First time is friendly. Second time used a standard voice. A few more times she sounds irritated and uses casual profanity. Enough times and she'll tell you to just read the fucking UI yourself and to leave her alone. Resets after being left idle.
World of Warcraft NPCs say voice lines if you click on them. there's a very small pool of lines and if you click two or three times you hear the others
we had been playing for ten years the first time we noticed that there's a whole other pool of lines they dip into if you click like ten times in a row, expressing their annoyance about it
our friends assured us it did that all along. we just never tried it. why would we want to be rude?
@aud @ireneista You make me fell old, when I have to tell that I remember this feature from warcraft 2. There was one orc unit who had a line "who wants to sing?" and one more click on it made it sing.
@ireneista I don't remember what game it was, but there was a shopkeep who - If you've been there too many times without buying anything, gets REAL short with you. All the professionalism and politeness gone.
"Oh, you again. Do you want something or not?" "Yeah, come back soon, I guess"
Reupholstery isn't for every sofa. If yours is cheap or falling apart, a new one might be better. But if it's well-built and fits your space or style, reupholstering can transform it.
On the fence about reupholstering your sofa? You might've heard it's too pricey, outdated, or a hassle. Those are mostly misconceptions.
Reupholstery has a reputation that doesn't always match reality. Let's debunk the common myths.
"It's Cheaper to Buy New"
For low-end, mass-produced sofas, replacing might cost less initially. But well-crafted pieces—often older or custom-made—have solid frames and materials that outlast many new options. If your sofa's structure is strong, reupholstering can be a better investment than a flimsy replacement.
Reupholstery focuses on long-term value, not just short-term savings.
"It's Too Much Effort"
Reupholstering involves picking fabrics, possibly new padding, and waiting for the job to finish. But sofa upholstery services make it manageable. Professionals guide you through decisions and handle the heavy lifting.
Buying a new sofa isn't quick—you'll spend time browsing stores, testing models, and arranging delivery. Reupholstery's effort is comparable but often easier with expert support.
"It'll Look Dated"
Some think reupholstery means a retro style. Not true. You can choose modern fabrics, bold colors, or even tweak the sofa's shape if the frame allows. The result can be fresh and stylish, often more unique than store-bought furniture.
Sofa upholstery services let you redesign your piece, not just preserve an old look.
"It Won't Feel Comfortable"
The feel might change, but that's often a good thing. Reupholstery lets you replace sagging cushions or worn springs, improving support. It's not just a visual update—it's a chance to enhance comfort.
"It's Only for Vintage Pieces"
Reupholstery isn't just for antiques. Many people refresh newer sofas to update the look or fix wear from daily use. If the frame's solid, any sofa can be revived, no matter its age.
"It Won't Last"
Durability depends on materials and craftsmanship. A well-reupholstered sofa with quality fabric and thorough work can outlast many new sofas. Sofa upholstery services that focus on the frame and internals deliver lasting results.
"All Upholsterers Are the Same"
Not really. Some just cover up issues, while others rebuild the sofa, addressing frames, springs, or padding. Ask about their process—repairs, reinforcements, or custom tweaks—to ensure quality work.
Why Reupholstery Makes Sense
Reupholstery isn't for every sofa. If yours is cheap or falling apart, a new one might be better. But if it's well-built and fits your space or style, reupholstering can transform it.
It's not just about saving money or being eco-friendly. It's about creating a piece that suits your taste and comfort. Don't let myths stop you—explore sofa upholstery services and see what's possible.
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Die, die den Krieg Israels gegen #Gaza für gerechtfertigt hielten, weil es sich um legitime Verteidigung handele, und den Protest fast immer für antisemitisch hielten: Seht Ihr das weiterhin so?
Wie Hilfs-Lieferungen für die Zivil-Bevölkerung im Gaza-Streifen wieder hochgefahren werden können, bespricht tagesthemen-Moderator Ingo Zamperoni mit dem Nothilfe-Koordinator der Vereinten Nationen.
Ja. Die HAmas kann es beendet, indem sie die Geiseln freilässt. Beim 2. WK fand es auch niemand komisch, dass die deutsche Bevölkerung bombadiert wurde, bis das Nazi-Regime aufgegeebn hat. Eines muss man der Hamas ja lassen - sie haben mehr Durchhaltewillen als die Nazis im Dritten Reich.
@fred_brill Warum unterstellst du Netanyahu, dass er lügt, wenn er wiederholt sagt, dass die Angriffe NICHT beendet werden, wenn alle Geiseln frei sind? Nur weil er Jude ist?? Was bist du denn für ein Antisemit!
@HiroProtagonist Superman is a pillar of our modern mythology.
The subversion of this cultural symbol represents an attack on our principals and virtues, and the twisting of them towards the ends of those who mean to do us harm.
Remember folks, if you see a grown man beating the living shit out of a small child, do not interfere. The man might be Israeli and the child Palestinian and you wouldn’t want to be called an antisemite.
it would be antisemitic to not hold the small child so the grown ass man can take a break from hitting the child. Letting child abusers get exhausted is antisemitic. Also you need to give the abuser a stick with which to beat the child in order to make the abuser feel safe feelings because the child clearly represents an existential threat to the man.
I actually once did see a grown man (a roadside newspaper vendor) kicking the shit out of a street child at a robot. I wound down my window and screamed "Stop it! Stop it or I'm calling the police " . Dude turned to me to explain that the kid had stolen his money so he was getting it back (showing me the pouch). Kid took the chance to GTFO.
In this current conflict, there's nowhere for the kid to go, and everyone is pretending they see nothing wrong. 😥
»Die Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora warnt in einer offiziellen Broschüre vor antisemitischen Symbolen, wie germanische Runen, White-Power-Handzeichen aber auch vor Wassermelonen und der Forderung nach Waffenstillstand in Gaza.« bsky.app/profile/yossibartal.b…
Was natürlich stimmt ist, dass jemand, der •in Buchenwald• mit einem "Ceasefire Now" T-Shirt (geschweige denn Banner) aufkreuzt, mit erhöhter Wahrscheinlichkeit nicht einen reibungslosen Ablauf erleben möchte, sondern evtl. einen medienwirksamen Eklat - ganz wertfrei, unabhängig davon, wie die Forderung an sich zu bewerten ist, oder der Legitimität einer solchen Aktion.
Von daher wäre es zumindest theoretisch legitim, die Mitarbeiter*innen dahingehend zu sensibilisieren. Rein praktisch.
Nur: das ist ja überhaupt nicht das, was sie geschrieben hatten!
@bifouba Exakt. Im ersten Fall wäre - gerade wenn es sich zu internen Schulungszwecken nutzen lassen soll - eher hinzuweisen auf deeskalierende Maßnahmen - anstatt maximal eskalierend zu interpretieren.
Graph shows the RPM required to create Earth-like gravity, based on the radius of the station. I used a log scale for radius to show everything from 10-meters
Being inside a spinning station which you are not touching would not provide any centripetal nor centrifugal force on someone inside the space station but not touching it
Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as settlers circle their homes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/palestinians-fear-razing-of-villages-in-west-bank-as-settlers-circle-their-homes
#Israel #WestBank #Genocide
Congressional candidate Martin Hyde has released a public apology following a February 14 traffic stop where he threatened to end the career of the officer w...
Candidate Martin Hyde apologizes for 'belligerent and rude' behavior toward officer who pulled him overWFLA's Allyson Henning spoke with Hyde Wednesday about...
When someone tells you to trust the experts, this is what they mean. On a serious note, academic studies, on average, are pretty much this. In some fields, the situation is even worse.
A prerequisite for having formal power in America is being an abuser and a creep. Aggressive incompetence is a plus.
"Even Republican senators blanched at his sordid personal history, which includes a record of heavy drinking, close family members such as his mother and sister-in-law characterizing him as a misogynist, and a $50,000 financial settlement for an rape allegation."
@aral@ar.al “At what point do we, as paying users, draw a line and walk?”
Well, they previously did draw multiple lines by first becoming users, then paying users, so I guess they are used to changing plans and going from paying to non-paying shouldn’t be that hard.
Consciousness is the weighted cable you hold onto, that you let go of, and to which you return.Consciousness is the balance that leads you along the cable stretched between two peaks. Above the voi…
Are you in Atlanta? Don't miss this free punk show at the Fulton County Courthouse at 8 am on July 7—part of a rally supporting Ayla King at their first day of trial on RICO charges.
On Ayla's first visit to Atlanta, police snatched them at random out of a crowd of hundreds at a music festival. Ayla was charged with domestic terrorism on account of an act of sabotage that happened almost a mile away while the music festival was in progress, and later charged with violating the RICO act.
These charges constitute judicial harrassment aimed at intimidating an entire movement. The prosecutors are not just despicable and dishonest—they are intent on eroding everyone's freedom to protest. Solidarity with Ayla King.
Apropos of nothing, in 1960s Vienna the socialist city government decided—against vehement protests of the conservatives—to spend a lot of money on a major civil engineering flood protection project.
In 2013, the Danube reached a 500-year flood in Vienna.
Nothing was destroyed and no one got seriously hurt.
Maybe not, depending on population density and geography.
However, it's not a big mystery where floods will happen and we figured this out long ago—there's no reason anyone should live there and we know in advance when they happen to evacuate anyone being temporarily around.
Planning? Preventing predictable tragedies? Saving lives? All sounds a bit communist to me. Are you sure you don’t want a burger delivered to your door in half an hour instead? How about two burgers?
Im pretty sure you mean the Donau Insel, a great place for sports and unwinding. 😊 Speaking of protection against flooding.Im confident that the nearby Wetlands "Lobau" play a much bigger role.
(sarcasm) Yeah, but where's the personal responsibility in that? How are people supposed to study meteorology on their own, launch their own weather satellites, instead their own river gauges, stay up all night every time they forecast some rain, when all their money is gone in taxes that is wasted by the government on useless projects like hiring meteorologists, launching weather satellites, installing river gauges, and having people stay up all night to sound the alarm as needed?
Heyo, Austrian here 👋 Over the recent years the creation of the "Donauinsel" has gotten a lot more media coverage. And while some at least praise the building, all focus on the "vehement protests". And while conservative bashing is always fun, let's add some more context so it doesn't just become a cheap excuse to make vague political statements: The Socialists together with the Far Right, green lit the project & it was one of the most ludicrous ideas proposed. 1/2
@dougroudouvari Alt text: A man with short hair wearing casual clothing in a city setting holds sign: “People who protest war crimes get longer sentences than people who commit war crimes.”
The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much-touted tradition of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, along with the right to protest.
Cambridge, UK— The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much-touted tradition
"Netanyahu’s office released a statement claiming, “the talks in Doha are continuing and are making progress"" This is a lie. Hamas and Israel do not agree on aid, the non permanent ceasefire and disarmament. Hamas says aid must be unimpeded and come from UN, Red Crescent; the war must end and IOF withdraw. Israel say No, we stay, GHF stays and bombing will continue after 60 days. And there's the ethnic cleansing plan...
From Al Jazeera: In the White House, at the press briefing: "Netanyahu said Israelis wouldn’t want a Palestinian state after what happened on October 7th, which is a different tone from what the prime minister had previously said on this matter. He had said that he’s worked his entire political career trying to prevent a Palestinian state, and that he would continue to do so"
"Netanyahu also said that both Israel and the US are actively working to find countries that would take Palestinians from Gaza" Also "until Israel achieves all of its goals and objectives in Gaza, the war would continue" The ceasefire negotiations are continuing in Doha, despite the totally diverging positions between the 2 parties.
"At the core of the latest attempted “renaissance” of nuclear power is the Big Lie that atomic reactors are an answer to global warming. In fact, they are significant sources of heat. There are more than 400 nuclear power plants in the world today which fission atoms at 300 degrees Centigrade which is 572 degrees More The post Nuclear Power’s Hot Streak appeared first on CounterPunch.org."
@[G.R.K.]🌈🏳️⚧️Ⓐ💣¡NoPasarán! Any power source is going to be a source of heat including solar and wind because nothing is 100% efficient. Molten salt reactors are considerably more efficient than existing boiling or pressurized water technologies and a whole lot safer. Nuclear has the lowest death rate per megawatt of ANY generating technology and it also provides base load power which wind and solar do not.
"We found man-made lakes full of radioactive sludge and heard claims of polluted water and contaminated soil, which, in the past, have been linked to clusters of cancer and birth defects."
"Machines are constantly on the hunt for rare earths called neodymium and dysprosium that go into making powerful magnets for a variety of modern technology, from electric vehicles to computer hard drives."
"...we know that 690 homes have been completely demolished in Jenin, and 340 more are in the process of being demolished. In Tulkarem, 285 homes have been fully destroyed and 400 more are targeted. And in Nur Shams, 225 homes have been levelled."
After 21 months of genocide in Gaza, there's a renewed push to end the bloodshed. US President Donald Trump has met Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah...
🤮 “C’est mérité et vous devriez le recevoir”, lui a dit le chef du gouvernement israélien. “Waouh ! Venant de vous, cela veut dire beaucoup”, a répondu le président américain.
- Largest Israeli demolition since 1967 gets under way in the West Bank - War-weary Palestinians hope for an end to Israeli attacks on Gaza - Israeli forces kill 13 Palestinians in Gaza - Dozens of countries condemn US sanctions on ICC - Netanyahu takes new tone on Palestinian state, touts Gaza displacement plan
#DOX #FASCISTS. They don't care about us. They care about what their kids see, what their neighbours see & what everyone else in the communities these muthafucking domestic terrorists live - see. Dox them ALL. Make life UNLIVEABLE for them.
Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.
In #Auschwitz from 6 October 1942 (no. 22090). She escaped during the evacuation. After the war - a writer, the author of one of the first memoirs about Auschwitz, „Smoke over Birkenau”.
I saw an article about a vibe coder who's allegedly dominating hackathons.
Of course he does, AI is good at producing code fast. But that means nothing for real-world applications where efficiency and maintainability matter.
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he may be right about some issues but he's a severely unlikeable person, perhaps he should try to keep his smug mug under control and more people might listen.
Wonder what that highly-revered pedophile Thomas Jefferson would have to say about this. Don't white men who love taking about Liberty love citing him?Where'd they go?
Romans 12:17-21 NASB Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men. If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. “But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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