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#etatiste #vs #gueux

Nos politicailleux woke-gauchistes, dans leur grande croisade contre le surtourisme — oh ça, ça sent le truc écolo en costard, bien propre sur lui — en réalité, ils nous balancent un mépris de classe à la face.

Leur rêve ? Que Bob, Ginette et Roger restent bien sagement dans leur salon à mater des diapos comme dans les années 70, pas un poil qui dépasse, pas une aventure qui dérape.

L’avion, ça doit rester un club privé : pour ceux qui savent se tenir, qui savent claquer le pognon du contribuable sans faire de vagues.

Faut pas voir ces bouseux en Crocs, ces sauvages qui applaudissent comme des clowns quand l’avion se pose à Tokyo ou Mexico.

Et surtout, surtout, pas question de selfies moches devant la Mona Lisa, ça dégrade l’art, ça fout la honte au Louvre.

Bref, la haute société du politiquement correct veut garder le tourisme pour ses copains bien nés, pendant que les autres, ben… qu’ils regardent leurs diapos et qu’ils restent bien sages.

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#trump #humor

Donald Trump, a guy with about as much culture as a pickle stuck in a jar, a dude who would make the president from the movie Idiocracy look good, has struck again.

He complimented Liberian President Joseph Boakai on his "excellent English"... without seeming to realize that English has been the official language of Liberia since its founding in 1847! It’s like me congratulating a goldfish for knowing how to swim.

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Estoy hasta los cojones de mi trabajo.

¿Alguien necesita una técnica informática y/o oficinista estándar en Girona o provincia? Soy experta en hardware y Windows, domino Office; me defiendo en macOS y Linux y smartphones y en general soy lo mejor que le podrá pasar a un PC.

Tengo 12 años de experiencia reparando PCs y 2 como oficinista (recepcionista/logística/atención al cliente/compras).

#empleo #buscotrabajo

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Gesucht: eine Plattform, wo ich eingeben kann, wann ich fertig war, mit Schule, und mir dann – sinnvollerweise sortiert nach Themenbereichen – gezeigt wird, welche Sachen, die ich damals als Stand der Wissenschaft gelernt habe, längst überholt sind. Und mir dann die Gelegenheit gibt zu lernen, was heute der wissenschaftliche Konsens dazu ist
Wie ich darauf komme? Die Große macht nächstes Jahr Abi, und es gibt Fächer wie Bio, wo das, was ich gelernt habe, mittlerweile völlig überholt ist.
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Benjamin Braatz

@rostbot @_tillwe_ @leisefuxx Kann mir auch nicht wirklich vorstellen, dass Wakefield je so etabliert war, dass das auch nur in die Nähe von Schulstoff gekommen wäre (was “since graduation” im Seiten-Titel ja irgendwie nahelegt). Wahrscheinlich einfach nur ein *so* prominentes Beispiel von einer zerstörerischen Widerlegung, dass sie es unbedingt drin haben wollten.
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Bilal Barakat 🍉

@HeptaSean @rostbot @_tillwe_ @leisefuxx

Ich habe damals in UK studiert und schon die unmittelbare Berichterstattung über das 1998 Paper mitbekommen. In Wissenschaftskreisen war das vom Start weg eine Lachnummer und hat praktisch vom nächsten Tag an als Paradebeispiel für statistische Denkfehler gedient. Noch vor 2000 gab es dann schon eine ‘offizielle' Review von Dutzenden von Experten, die eine komplette Abwesenheit irgendeiner Evidenz für die Sache festgehalten hat. Also dass das Wakefield Paper keinerlei wissenschaftliche Qualität hat, war schon klar, lange, lange bevor dann rauskam, dass es sogar ein Fake war.

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You know I’m fucked already. But I heard from multiple people leaning on things is an American thing. Read somewhere that apparently intelligence agencies make spies unlearn leaning to not get exposed as American.

Multiple people also I heard say eating while walking is an American thing. Or at least not continental European.

I do both of those things almost daily.

As with anything I post the fake American thing is a bit but also it’s not.

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Una empresa cumple la ley; la otra no. La empresa que cumple la ley denuncia a la que no lo cumple y el juez desestima la demanda porque la ley no le gusta.

En #España🇪🇸, quien determina lo que es la ley son las Cortes Generales. Un juez que no acepta ese principio tan básico (que está en el artículo primero del Código Civil) no puede ocupar su posición. Y quienes le permitan esta arbitrariedad no merecen la responsabilidad de vigilarle.

#justicia #economía #noticias

elpais.com/economia/2025-07-10…


La justicia exime a Glovo de pagar casi 300 millones a Just Eat por competencia desleal

El juez carga contra “algún iluminado y omnisciente burócrata que parece gozar de un privilegiado acceso a la Verdad” para validar el modelo ‘riders’ falsos autónomos
Dani Cordero (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)

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#WildlifeServices an agency within the US Department of Agriculture (#USDA), kills over a million wild #animals each year, largely for the farmed #AnimalIndustry, by horrendous means such as #poisoning, #CyanideBombs, neck #snares and even being shot from an airplane.

In fact, a whopping 36.5% of the agency’s activities were done to “protect #agriculture including #livestock, row #crops, #aquaculture, and #timber “, and a large portion of their $286 million budget

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Alarming news - 1 982 932 wild animals killed by USDA wildlife services including endangered species in 2024 to protect big ag; photo of a grizzly bear roaming in a muddy landscape
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nadb 🐸

#Les #WildlifeServices, une agence du ministère américain de l'Agriculture(#USDA), tuent plus d'un million d'animaux sauvages chaque année, en grande partie pour l'industrie des #animaux d'élevage, par des moyens horribles tels que l'#empoisonnement, les #bombes au cyanure, les #snares au cou et même les tirs d'avion.

En fait, 36,5 % des activités de l'agence visent à "protéger l'#agriculture, y compris le #bétail, les #cultures en rangs, l'#aquaculture et le #bois ", et une grande partie de son budget de 286 millions de dollars est consacrée à la protection de l'environnement.

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Making #vegan sausages myself again!
Should do that more often given how much better this is on various levels compared to processed stuff from the stores. And a rather easy recipe: itdoesnttastelikechicken.com/v…

Vegan Baloney (Bologna) • It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken

Homemade vegan baloney is easy to make and tastes better than store-bought! Make this bologna ahead of time and enjoy as a snack, fried, or in sandwiches!
Sam Turnbull @ It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken (It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken)

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Woohoo! Sold the first copy of the God's Disdain Supporter Pack on Itch.io! It's still on sale by the way, 29% off on both Steam and Itch.io 😀 if you've already played the game and you like it well enough to send over a fiver that would be sick! If you haven't played it yet and want to try out a 2D, non-linear JRPG that I worked NEARLY TEN YEARS on, that would be pretty sick too 😀 it's free!

Itch.io: after-midnight-games.itch.io/g…
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/305…


God's Disdain by After Midnight Games

Explore a vast, rich world in the fight to end a plague in this non-linear JRPG!
itch.io

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The Colchester Collection's "Military" catalog has 60+ books on Military History, Military Science, and more.

colchestercollection.com/subje…

The Colchester Collection is the Web's largest curated archive of pro-White books, with almost 1,800 of them in one of our 22 different catalogs.

Military

List of all Military books, by title, in the Colchester Collection
www.colchestercollection.com

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Elmo was a true team effort fix and it was worth it for the huge smile on his owner!

Kev C started work on him at our June repair cafe. Kev H took him home to work on the wiring. And then Ann sewed him up good as new at our July cafe before he went home.

We're at Barry Library on the first Saturday of every month fixing your much loved items for free. Tell your friends!

@repaircafe

#RepairCafe #Community #Positivity

A women with light skin tone and short brown hair stands in front of a tall blue Repair Cafe Barry sign. She is holding a sigh which reads "fixed in Barry" and a bright red Elmo toy, she is smiling and looks absolutely thrilled.
Elmo sitting on a desk looking inquisitively at his plastic skeleton which is open on the desk surrounded by a very organised set of tools.
Kev H, a man with light skin tone and short grey hair and beard, sitting at a table looking at someone to the side of the camera. On the table in front of him is an Elmo toy laying on its back with the red material taken off one foot. On the desk is a form and various electrical testing and fixing equipment.
A close of of a lot of wires and some electronics inside a plastic casing.
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WilhelmIII

The Provisional Wing of the Irish Republican Army used to use a drill to interrogate people assumed to be disloyal.

Drilling about 1/4 into the spot just below the patella is extremely effective at getting people to tell you what you want to know. And it's not permanently debilitating. You can walk out of the room afterward.

If the cops REALLY want into your phone, you will give them access.

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ins0mniak

@mitchconner @dsm @WilhelmIII Its not the way people think it is.

Like I was saying earlier they rely on douche security outfits to use exploits and zero days to get into them. Its costly and difficult process...mainly with newer phones still receiving security updates.

One thing apple and google do is spend a fuck ton on money on security features.

There are evidence rooms just packed with people's devices they can't get into.

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Mitch Conner

Yep, also has support for rootless Wayland apps, native Qt and Gtk support, and a modern QtWebEngine based browser, Falkon. It's getting damn viable. discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-n…

Haiku ❤ Nvidia (porting Nvidia driver for Turing+ GPUs)

As many people already knows, Nvidia published their kernel driver under MIT license: GitHub - NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source (I will call it NVRM).
Haiku Community
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Mitch Conner

I think it's commendable/absolutely amazing that they stuck to their goal of reproducing BeOS piece by piece. They took no short cuts. The 32bit version is fully binary compatible with BeOS r5 to this day! The only original piece that they had to start with was OpenTracker, the file manager/desktop shell. Be couldn't open source much else due to patent encumberment. Some insane genius wrote the AppServer (graphics system) in a weekend, as the legend goes. Similar vibe to the Rebble Aliance​ bringing back Pebble Web Services
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#humor #statist

According to our dear bobo-leftist-woke politicians, we’re supposed to weep for the “good old days” when only the rich could afford to travel and broaden their horizons. Oh yes, it was so much better back then… for the rich, of course!

Because honestly, it’s unbearable to find yourself stuck right in the middle of a herd of tourists in Florence, between selfie-stick mania and croissants sold on the sly.

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What Makes Playschools in Bali Special for Young Learners?

When offering a strong foundation for your youngster’s education, selecting the ideal playschool is an vital primary step. In Bali, parents have a wide array of options to choose from, with countless playschools offering varied programs designed to address the early educational needs of little ones. This article will assist you through the considerations to take into account when picking a playschool in Bali and how this choice is important for your kid’s development.

Early learning center is frequently the first formal environment where kids acquire essential social skills, emotional skills, and cognitive skills. At this phase, kids are inherently enthusiastic and keen to investigate the universe around them. A high-quality playschool in Bali supports this curiosity through age-suited activities, guaranteeing children develop their bodily skills, imagination, and ability to engage with friends.

In Bali, numerous playschools likewise embrace the island’s rich cultural customs, providing kids to mature with an awareness for regional rituals while combining global teaching strategies. For expatriates and natives alike, this cosmopolitan environment presents an outstanding start for their kids’ learning adventure.

Different playschool in Bali employ diverse teaching approaches, such as Montessori, Reggio Emilia approach, or play-centered education. Understanding these methods and adapting them with your little one’s preferences is vital. For case, Montessori-based playschools concentrate on promoting self-sufficiency and experiential learning, while Reggio Emilia schools highlight imagination and collaborative learning.

Bali’s playschools are spread across famous areas like Sanur. Select a place that is convenient for your home while meanwhile ensuring the school’s infrastructure are secure, clean, and kid-friendly. Many playschools in Bali feature open-air play environments, sensory learning areas, and eco-friendly surroundings, providing an ideal space for little ones to grow.

The level of a playschool often depends on its educators. Find playschools in Bali where facilitators are trained in child development and have a genuine dedication for working with youngsters. A skilled teacher can have a positive impact in forming a encouraging space that fosters your kid’s mental and intellectual progress.

Reduced class numbers and small student-teacher proportions are crucial for guaranteeing customized attention. In Bali, a number of playschools control their class numbers to ensure a more intensive and assisting learning environment. This makes certain that every student gains the direction and care they desire to excel.

A few playschools in Bali encourage parents to be engaged in their little ones’ early learning experience. Schools may organize seminars, frequent updates, or occasions for parents to participate in classroom activities. This cooperative approach cultivates stronger ties between parents, educators, and students.

Bali is the location of several highly regarded playschools that accommodate both indigenous and expat families. Moreover, some playschools embrace green and sustainable practices, reflecting Bali’s green values.

Picking the right playschool in Bali is a choice that can meaningfully shape your little one’s growth. By evaluating factors such as syllabus, position, teacher qualifications, and group size, you can ensure your kid begins their academic journey in an space that promotes growth and imagination. Bali’s exceptional blend of culture and international education guidelines makes it an excellent place to offer your youngster with a well-rounded and rewarding early learning adventure.


Malajah Playschool | Learning Through Play | Best Playschool in Bali

Malajah Playschool offers a play-based early learning programfor children aged 18 months through to 6 years old.
Playschool at Parklife Bali
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RickyMoses

A great feature of Universitas Lampung is the blend of traditional values and modern education systems. Universitas Lampung

Unila - unlamp.ac.id

Belajar Dimulai Dari Diri Sendiri Sumber Daya Manusia ( SDM ) yang bermutu sangatlah penting untuk kelangsungan hidup bersosial dan bernegara sehingga untuk mendapatkan SDM yang berkwlitas harusnya kita sadar untuk selalu terus mengembangangkan diri …
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#humour #etatiste

Selon nos chers politiciens bobo-gauchistes-woke, il faudrait qu’on pleure sur le « bon vieux temps » où seuls les riches pouvaient se payer le droit de voir du pays et d’élargir leurs horizons. Ah oui, c’était tellement mieux avant… pour les riches, bien sûr !

Parce que, franchement, c’est insupportable de se retrouver au beau milieu d’un troupeau de touristes à Florence, entre la selfie-stick mania et les croissants à la sauvette.

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#humor #sarcasm #quebec #montreal #mayor

Mayor Plante, aka Madam Disaster of Montreal. On the big day of the housing crisis, she’s back in town, filming herself handing out Timbits to new tenants all smiles like it’s a kids’ party.

In the middle of a housing crisis? No, no, it’s more like a scene from a bad sci-fi movie where the mayor thinks a few donuts will fix the city’s roof problems.

Surreal, pathetic, and above all, completely out of touch with the real life of Montrealers.

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#humour #sarcasm #quebec #montreal #mairesse

La mairesse Plante, alias Madame Désastre de Montréal. Le jour J de la crise du logement, la voilà de retour en ville, se filmant en train de distribuer des Timbits à des nouveaux locataires tout sourire comme si c’était un party d’enfants.

En pleine crise du logement? Non, non, c’est plutôt la scène d’un mauvais film de science-fiction, où la maire croit que quelques beignets vont résoudre des problèmes de toit.

Surréaliste, pitoyable, et surtout, complètement déconnecté de la vraie vie des Montréalais.

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#humour #sarcasm #quebec

Au Québec, on se demande bien sur quelle planète ou dans quel château en sucre vie France-Élaine Duranceau, cette ministre de l’Habitation qu’on se demande encore à quoi elle sert, tellement elle est inutile.

La reine du mépris envers les locataires, voilà son titre non officiel. En pleine pire crise du logement qu’on ait vue depuis que le Québec existe, elle a eu le génie – tenez-vous bien – de leur suggérer d’aller chercher du « coaching » pour se trouver un toit. Oui, du coaching! Comme si les locataires n’étaient pas déjà assez démunis, voilà qu’on leur conseille de prendre rendez-vous avec un gourou du logement, comme si ça allait arranger leurs affaires.

C’est pitoyable, c’est grotesque, et surtout, ça prouve qu’elle comprend autant à l’habitation que moi au concours de beauté.

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Der Spiegel nennt es einen "radikalen Emigrationsplan", so viel zur journalistischen Lauterkeit und zum politischen Mut der Journalist:innen, die beim ehemaligen "Sturmgeschütz für die Demokratie" Lohnarbeit verrichten. Dabei könnten sie sich auf das Vorbild einer der wichtigsten Tageszeitungen Israels berufen, um zur Abwechslung Klartext zu schreiben.

In einem bitterböse Kommentar nimmt Zvi Bar'el in Haaretz das Wort "Konzentrationslager" in den Mund und fordert, dass es auch ein Lagerorchester gibt, das die internationalen Beobachter:innen unterhält, wenn sie den humanen Charakter des Lagers absegnen.

Gideon Levy spricht - ebenfalls in Haaretz (Opinion | The Jewish State Is Building a Ghetto) - von der "letzten Phase vor einem Genozid". Selbstverständlich werden derartige Worte in den Presseschauen deutscher Medien eher nicht erwähnt, sie könnten ja die Festungsmentalität der deutschen Staatsräson durchlöchern.

Vor einer Woche schrieb Levy in Haaretz:

»Gaza ist ein Paralleluniversum«, sagte ein Offizier gegenüber Haaretz. Das ist der Kern der Sache, die Frage des Völkermords. Gaza ist kein Paralleluniversum.
Gaza ist das Gesicht der IDF und des Staates Israel. Was in Gaza geschieht, wird nicht in Gaza bleiben, auch wenn die meisten israelischen Medien dies wünschen. Was in Gaza geschieht, definiert Israel in der Welt, und was in Gaza geschieht, wird die israelische Gesellschaft für viele Jahre prägen. Wenn Israel zum
Völkermordstaat erklärt wird, dann ist es Israel, das zu einem Paralleluniversum."
(Übersetzung junge Welt)

Wären deutsche Politiker:innen und Journalist:innen wirkliche Freund:innen Israels, wie sie ein ums andere Mal behaupten, dann würden sie dafür sorgen, dass es nicht so weit kommt. Statt dessen unterstützen sie den Prozess, der Israel zu einem Pariah in der Staatenwelt machen könnte. Auch eine Form des "israelbezogenen Antisemitismus" ...

#Gaza #Medien #Haaretz #Antisemitismus

haaretz.com/opinion/2025-07-09…


How might Israel go about planning the world's biggest concentration camp in Gaza

And the orchestra: there must be one to welcome Red Cross reps and other guests coming to marvel at Israel's one-of-a-kind 'humanitarian' project for all of Gaza, built on Rafah's ruins
Zvi Bar'el (Haaretz)

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#stats #china #car

In 2024, 17 million electric vehicles were sold worldwide. Of those, 11 million came from the same country: China. The only serious non-Chinese competitor in electric cars is Tesla. Tesla’s sales have taken a big hit due to Elon Musk’s political ties with Trump. And now, the company risks suffering further from the political war between Musk and the not-so-democratic President Trump.

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#stat #chine #auto

Il s’est vendu 17 millions de véhicules électriques dans le monde en 2024. De ce nombre, 11 millions provenaient du même pays: la Chine. Le seul concurrent sérieux non chinois dans l’électrique, c’est Tesla. Les ventes de Tesla ont grandement souffert de l’affiliation politique d’Elon Musk avec Trump. Et maintenant, la compagnie risque de souffrir de la guerre politique entre Musk et le peu démocratique président Trump.

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#auto #chine

Citation : Mario Dumont

La Chine domine sur à peu près tous les fronts. C’est tellement gros, nul besoin d’être un expert du Guide de l’auto pour constater l’évidence. Ils produisent des autos technologiquement avancées, avec des autonomies et des temps de recharge plus avantageux et, ma foi, un look séduisant dans plusieurs cas. Ils les mettent sur le marché pour 33% à 50% moins cher qu’un équivalent occidental.

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#invitation #group #animal

For all the lovers of our little furry friends and companions!

Whether you’re passionate, serious, or just curious, join our group to talk about your favorite animals.
Share your stories, photos, and even announcements to give away, adopt, or sell a pet — always respecting the theme, the rules, and each other.

Everyone who loves their animals like family is welcome! 🐾💬

mewe.com/join/housepet


MeWe: The best chat & group app with privacy you trust.

Brilliant features with no BS. No Ads. No Spyware. MeWe is the Next-Gen Social Network.
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Byline Times: Patel, Braverman and Jenrick Immigration Scheme Led to Unexpected and Unregulated Influx of 1.2 Million Foreign Workers
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/04/pat…

Patel, Braverman and Jenrick Immigration Scheme Led to Unexpected and Unregulated Influx of 1.2 Million Foreign Workers – Byline Times

Nearly ten times as many entered the UK under under Brexiters' unvetted skilled worker visa scheme as arrived in small boats
David Hencke (Byline Times)

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Brigitte Macron déboutée en appel dans son procès en diffamation contre Natacha #Rey

Ce jeudi 10 juillet, la cour d’appel de Paris a relaxé Natacha Rey et Amandine #Roy, les deux femmes accusées de diffamation par Brigitte Macron. Une très mauvaise surprise pour l’Elysée.


nouvelobs.com/justice/20250710…

#macron #macronie #brigitte #jean-michel #trogneux

Brigitte Macron déboutée en appel dans son procès en diffamation contre Natacha Rey

Ce jeudi 10 juillet, la cour d’appel de Paris a relaxé Natacha Rey et Amandine Roy, les deux femmes accusées de diffamation par Brigitte Macron. Une très mauvaise surprise pour l’Elysée.
Emmanuelle Anizon (Le Nouvel Obs)

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North East Bylines: Bregretful: new survey on what Britons now think of Brexit
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/br…

Bregretful: new survey on what Britons now think of Brexit

"Two-thirds of those surveyed want Britain to have a closer relationship with the European Union. Crucially, this is a stance, which is popular, not only among all parties, but also among Leave voters"
Peter Sagar (North East Bylines)

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#humour

Le Canada, après des vagues de vols de voitures dignes d’un salon de l’auto gratuit qui ont nécessité une mobilisation pancanadienne… voilà maintenant que ce sont les cas d’extorsion – surtout chez les restaurateurs et les p’tits vieux – qui font la une. À ce rythme-là, on va finir par installer un guichet automatique directement dans les poches des gens… et les crosseurs, ça ira plus vite.

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Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD

@aymm How do you know they're only doing it on device?

I revealed that even though "Gobbler" was an app on employees phones, that Apple tried to say was opt-in and on device, uploaded a ton of information itself, but also all information via iCloud backups including pics, GPS, biometrics, etc. Apple also used the employee app to get pics & biometrics of non-employees, and said employees can't tell anyone its happening.

So, I'd like more details about this "feature" & how they're developing it

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machete_Badger

@aymm Agreed, while I personally trust (and I say that word begrudgingly with big tech) Apple to care more about doing these sorts of things correctly and truly privately compared to the others, I can only extend that trust to the length of my throw remembering what they tried / have done in the past.

We are mostly hinging on the claim until private research or a scandal breaks out, which is very unfortunate.

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Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD

@machetebadger To that point, I feel like it should be a much bigger scandal that Apple's openly applying and enforcing NDA provisions against employees who could expose this stuff. To me, that's Apple admitting its actually engaged in misconduct, and openly admitting it thinks any evidence of it violating people's privacy is confidential, and it will enforce that as much as it can. Its the complete opposite of openness & privacy by design. It's the illusion of privacy by NDA.

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EFF was founded at a time when governments were hostile toward technology and clueless about how it would shape your life. While threats from state and commercial forces grew alongside the internet, so too did EFF’s expertise. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/its-…

It's EFF's 35th Anniversary (And We're Just Getting Started)

Today we celebrate 35 years of EFF bearing the torch for digital rights against the darkness of the world. While threats from state and commercial forces grew alongside the internet, so too did EFF’s expertise.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Bei @spiegel macht man wieder #Kriegspropaganda. Ethnische Säuberungen werden umgedichtet in "Radikaler Emigrationplan", um Zustimmung für die von #CDU / #CSU, #SPD und #Grüne genehmigten Rüstungsexporte und deutschen #Imperialismus zu erzeugen.

x.com/pat_kaczmarczyk/status/1…

#Propaganda #Gaza #Westbank #Palästina #Israel #Genozid #Rassismus #Rechtsextremismus #Aufrüstung

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#humor #sarcasm #anti #statist #woke

Our useful idiots in politics and their opportunistic little eco-woke bureaucrats keep lecturing us: “Buy local! Within 15 minutes of your home!” … Meanwhile, they’re flying around in private jets and treating themselves to the best of everything, of course. Except their absurd taxes, anti-business policies, and “zero parking” rules here in Quebec have killed off all the small shops. No more bakeries, no more butchers… Luckily, in my area, a fruit shop that had closed down recently reopened. But even on foot, all you find are big chain stores – and even those are vanishing. So in the end, you’re forced to shop online. Amazon sends them a big thank you, by the way.

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Nos idiots utiles de politiciens et leurs petits fonctionnaires opportunistes du wokisme écolo à deux balles nous font la morale : “Faut acheter local ! À moins de 15 minutes de chez vous !” … Pendant qu’eux se baladent en jet privé et se payent le meilleur de tout, évidemment. Sauf qu’à force de nous pondre des taxes absurdes, des politiques anti-commerce et du “zéro parking” à Québec, ils ont réussi à faire crever tous les petits commerces. Plus de boulangerie, plus de boucher… Heureusement, dans mon coin, une fruiterie a rouvert après avoir fermé. Mais bon, même à pied, tu tombes juste sur des grandes bannières – quand elles sont encore là. Résultat : t’es obligé de commander en ligne. Amazon leur dit merci, au passage.

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Diplomacy or Submission? The Zionist Grip on U.S. Political Power and Trump’s Uneasy Alliance with Netanyahu
By Scott #Rickard

In analyzing #Trump's interactions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu, it becomes increasingly evident that their relationship is neither one of mutual respect nor shared values, but rather a performance dictated by entrenched political coercion. Despite public displays of solidarity, Trump’s demeanor—particularly during joint appearances with Netanyahu—reveals discomfort and a lack of genuine rapport. These interactions stand in stark contrast to his more relaxed and visibly enthusiastic engagements with leaders from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other Middle Eastern states, where economic and strategic negotiations were central and beneficial to U.S. interests.¹

This dissonance suggests that Trump’s alignment with Netanyahu is not driven by national interest or ideology, but rather by a deep-rooted fear of political reprisal from the powerful pro-Israel lobbying apparatus in the United States. Organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( #AIPAC), coupled with influential billionaire donors and tightly controlled political patronage networks, have created a political environment where deviation from pro-Israel orthodoxy can spell the end of a political career.² The unspoken threat of reputational or legal exposure—symbolized for many by the unresolved implications of the Jeffrey #Epstein network³—adds an additional layer of unacknowledged coercion.

Trump’s public posture toward Netanyahu thus appears less like diplomacy and more like forced compliance—a survival tactic within a system dominated by Zionist political pressure. The American public is led to believe this is a strategic alliance based on shared democratic values. In reality, it is a spectacle of submission, maintained through a combination of lobbying power, media influence, and financial entanglement.⁴
If Trump were genuinely committed to an “America First” doctrine, he would resist foreign manipulation rather than acquiesce to it. Instead, his administration—like many before it—remained entangled in Israel’s political priorities, often to the detriment of broader #US diplomatic credibility.

The larger implication is damning: the U.S. political infrastructure, long championed as a beacon of sovereignty and democratic agency, has been deeply compromised by an external lobby operating with near impunity.
This is not alliance. This is extortion dressed in the costume of diplomacy.

References:
1. Beauchamp, Zack. “Trump’s Foreign Policy Was Always about Deals, Not Values.” Vox, Jan. 2021. vox.com
2. Mearsheimer, John J., and Walt, Stephen M. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
3. Kirchgaessner, Stephanie, et al. “Ghislaine Maxwell trial: ‘Terrified’ Epstein Victims Eye Powerful Network.” The Guardian, Dec. 2021. theguardian.com/.../epstein-gh…
4. Blumenthal, Max. Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. Nation Books, 2013.


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