Mhairi on the ball as ever.

Criticising Israel is not religious intolerance. Orange marches are | The National

thenational.scot/politics/2530โ€ฆ

The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) said late on Thursday that suspected asbestos had been found at five locations on the bonfire site and 20kg of material was removed.

Elsewhere, posters depicting the Irish rap group Kneecap, Irish flags, and Palestinian flags appeared on other bonfires on Friday evening.

Kneecap effigies, Palestinian, and Irish flags on loyalist bonfires | The National

thenational.scot/news/25309023โ€ฆ

Graham said: โ€œAngela Rayner has been a member of our union for 10 years and she was very clearly a member when she asked us to give her ยฃ10,000 for the election.โ€

She added that in previous weeks, โ€œweโ€™ve discussed that weโ€™re not happy with whatโ€™s going onโ€.

Unite attacks Angela Rayner over โ€˜abhorrentโ€™ handling of Birmingham bin strikes | Labour | The Guardian

theguardian.com/politics/2025/โ€ฆ

Photo of the year: British police arrest an 83-year-old priest for holding up a sign that says, โ€œI oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action,โ€ under the statue of Gandhi.

A year in, this is the โ€œchangeโ€ we got from Labour.

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/07/โ€ฆ

Trumpโ€™s crash is coming now โ€“ his latest tariff announcements mean it is unavoidable taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0โ€ฆ

Michael Shanks has claimed there's no such thing as Scottish electricity because it's generated by "GB wind". An extraordinary statement from a so-called Scottish MP.

In October 2023, Shanks urged people to vote for him saying Rutherglen needed "a local champion who will fight for our area. I want to be that champion."

That aged well.

We expected nothing from him and he's still managed to disappoint us.

Lety Does Collecting TAP Cards Mega Haul


My TAP card collecting adventure continues through Arab American Heritage Month and Armenian History Month! I also find the elusive Women's History Month, get reminded to attend Songkran, and make the worst-sounding ASMR segment ever made!!! (Also, please ignore the shitty thumbnail, I forgot to pose for a better one.)

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  • โ€œMonday Morningโ€โฝแตƒโพ by Alepsis Hernรกndez
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  • 29 Commemorative TAP Cards from LA Metro
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Some Non-English Vocabulary

A los nazis que organizan en Telegram cacerรญas de magrebรญes con su nombre y apellido no hay manera de localizarlos. Pero a estos por hacer unas pintadas les van a imputar hasta pertenencia a banda armada, ya verรกs.

La Policรญa busca a los jรณvenes de Arran que incitan al odio con la quema de imรกgenes de hoteleros y polรญticos de Mallorca
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in reply to Cรฉsar Rendueles

Las รฉlites econรณmicas, sociales y polรญticas, incluyendo a la judicatura y el alto funcionariado, han aceptado definitivamente el neoautoritarismo como el marco en el que surfear con ventaja la policrisis. Nosotros vemos USA, Rusia, Hungrรญa y Argentina con terror y estupor. Ellos con esperanza.

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The new "Mastodon account verification" scam going around is yet another reason why Mastodon SHOULD NOT HAVE A DM FUNCTION.

AT ALL.

An unsolicited on-platform communication channel that admins have no entitlement to inspect, but some responsibiity for the misleading contents of, is ripe for abuse.

Private communication belongs on private e2ee personal comms channels.

in reply to khm

@khm
If people fall for these DM scams, what are the chances of those very same people noticing that the scam email must be a scam/phishing attempt because they never actually entered their email address when they created their Mastodon account several years ago?

The majority of people are not as tech savvy as you might hope, and doesn't even distinguish between the activitypub protocol and implementations of that protocol, let alone different instances/servers of an implementation.

in reply to srslypascal

sorry, having a hard time taking you seriously. is this a real opinion or just sealioning? because this "well that slight improvement might not help this other, even dumber idiot I just invented" stuff combined with your implicit assertion that you know more about "the majority of people" than I do is starting to smell pretty bad-faith over here

if you don't collect email addresses, then you can safely say "any email claiming to come from us is fake"

it removes ambiguity. ambiguity that currently exists because webshits have a habit of outsourcing account management to email. removing email from the platform and loudly announcing it helps people understand.

CC: @dalias@hachyderm.io

@billbennett @lightweight @podsrover Came across this on Mastodon. It may help.

ioc.exchange/@Avitus/114820977โ€ฆ

But what alternative is there? I am no keen on Apple.

#GeminiAI #Google #DoNoEvilMyAss

in reply to Bill Bennett

at best, it's the lesser evil right now. And the more invested anyone gets in it, the more stridently they'll defend it when it makes that next step down the enshittification track. Apple's hiring the same folks that Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, and all the other wannabe mega-evil corps are, so they're all in a race to the bottom. The only way to have a hope of winning... is not to play.
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in reply to Dave Lane ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ

I know you remember when Google said "do no evil" - for a few years, many of us tech folks gave them the benefit of the doubt. How foolish were we? Apple's already done plenty of evil, just not (so far as we know) *that* kind. And, yeah, in general they have a bit more panache. For now. But, as we know, things change. Because that's where all the incentives point. Just like there are no worthy & admirable billionaires, there are no worthy corporations.

@bananabob @podsrover

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in reply to Dave Lane ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ

Iโ€™d rather not have to trust corporations not be evil, and instead know that if they do evil some well-funded government regulatory body will catch them and rain hellfire down on them.

We have allowed corporate lobbyists and propaganda to weaken government regulatory powers and thatโ€™s been a big mistake. Without that balance, corporations donโ€™t need to benefit society, just their shareholders.

in reply to Jon Sullivan

@joncounts
That is the nature of this system.

Capitalism incentivizes abuse by valuing profit above all else. Corruption begets corruption. Wealth and power are used to capture regulations and bend them to gain more wealth and power that is used to bend regulations for more money and power round and round we go and the final, inevitable form of this type of system is corporate feudalism. That's how it works by its inherent nature.

Dimanche 23 juillet, cafรฉ โ˜•๏ธ

J'ai l'impression qu'il y a encore une tonne de gens qui ne rรฉalisent pas ce qui se passe #Gaza.

J'ai besoin d'un conseil:

Est-ce que je dois faire une grรจve de Masto et arrรชter de mettre des photos d' #รขnes ?

Vous en pensez quoi ?
Merci d'avance

#Palestine #StopGenocide

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For fantasy is true, of course. It isnโ€™t factual, but itโ€™s true. Children know that. Adults know it too and thatโ€™s precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons because they are afraid of freedom.

โ€” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

#quote

I bought a Vitamin K2 supplement, but I get plenty of K2 from my diet.

So Im just using it up. I think my Garden of Life Vitamin Code multivitamin also has some. I dont take the 4 pill recommended daily, but just take 1 or 2 pills depending on if Im fasting that day. It's just an insurance policy to boost nutrition, not a substitute. You want to get most of your nutirition from your diet.

Guerre ร  la guerre, guerre aux frontiรจres : 14 juillet โ€“ dรฉfilรฉ internationaliste
contre-attaque.net/2025/07/13/โ€ฆ

"Le 14 juillet nous nโ€™assisterons pas au dรฉfilรฉ militaire dโ€™Emmanuel Macron.
Lโ€™article Guerre ร  la guerre, guerre aux frontiรจres : 14 juillet โ€“ dรฉfilรฉ internationaliste est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque."

Rapports sur les menรฉes anarchistes ร  Paris, en provenance de Suisse. 30 aoรปt 1892
anarchiv.wordpress.com/2025/07โ€ฆ

"Ministรจre de lโ€™intรฉrieur Police des chemins de fer Commissariat spรฉcial nยฐ1164 Anarchistes Annemasse, le 4 septembre 1892 Rapport Ci aprรจs โ€ฆLire la suite โ†’"

#cuisine #canada

Le Canada est le plus grand producteur de sirop d'รฉrable au monde, et les Canadiens cรฉlรจbrent la saison des sucres chaque printemps en transformant la sรจve d'รฉrable en ce dรฉlice sucrรฉ. Cette tradition est non seulement une partie intรฉgrante de la culture canadienne, mais elle est รฉgalement un symbole de l'hospitalitรฉ et du partage.

DEMELLIER Louis dit CHINOIS, cordonnier, anarchiste de Genรจve
anarchiv.wordpress.com/2025/07โ€ฆ

"Ministรจre de lโ€™Intรฉrieur Police des chemins de fer Commissaire spรฉcial dโ€™Annemasse Haute-Savoie Nยฐ 1745 Dรฉserteurs DEMELLIER Louis dit CHINOIS Annemasse, โ€ฆLire la suite โ†’"

Trump: Let's 'Not Waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, Somebody That Nobody Cares About'

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#ICE memo outlines plan to #deport #immigrants to countries where they are not #citizensโ€ฉ
The shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

Federal #immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours notice to countries not their own even if ofcls have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from #persecution or #tortureโ€ฆ.โ€ฉ
#Trump #law #rendition
wapo.st/3TxrUES

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Metadata Shows the FBIโ€™s โ€˜Rawโ€™ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified


source: wired.com/story/metadata-showsโ€ฆ

Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video #forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prisonโ€™s #surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool #Adobe #Premiere Pro. The file appears to have been assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJโ€™s website, where it was presented as โ€œrawโ€ footage.


I thought they have cyberforensic experts at the FBI ...

#fail #prison #epstein #metadata #fbi #police #crime #video #modification #problem #news #conspiracy #raw #camera #usa #jail #suicide

Now that it's #disability #pride #month, I want to #remind #people that being #disordered doesn't mean you are #immune to being #ableist.
Yes this includes #personality disorders.
Yes this includes #autism.
Yes this includes #PTSD.
Yes this includes people with high #empathy.
Yes this includes #physically disabled people.
Yes this includes #cripplepunks.
No one is immune to #ableism. Not Me, not you, not anyone. What we can do is recognize our mistakes and try to improve upon them and ourselves.

#Microsoft shareholders demand report into the company's 'human rights due diligence' over allegations of war crime complicity in #Gaza. A group of more than 60 Microsoft shareholders has filed a proposal that will be voted on at the company's next Annual General Meeting.
pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/miโ€ฆ

The Balls On That Lying Fat Fuck.
Trump Calls Epstein List A Democrat Psyop, Tells MAGA 'Not To Waste Time And Energy'

On Saturday, Trump gave a masterclass in how to look guilty - writing in a Truth Social post "We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and โ€œselfish peopleโ€ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, itโ€™s Epstein, over and over again."

Yeah, why do people want to find out which rich and powerful men were fucking children provided by Epstein? And what did Trump mean when he said that Epstein 'never dies'? (Maybe QAnon knows)

Trump then attempted to discredit the Epstein files, equating it to the Steele dossier...

#music #60s psychedelic pop rock๏ปฟ
The Lords - Death Bells At Dawn ยท - 1966
youtu.be/IE5Pl6faF3U?list=RDIEโ€ฆ
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