STATEMENT FROM THE IOI (IWI) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE #WFTU pensionistas.info/en/statement…

So my sister's friends daughter who live with her father in Florida has gone missing. Side note I don't know why anyone would wear crocs or slippers outside the home. You can't run in them or kick . I apologize for my digression. By all accounts she's a good kid with no problems in school or at home. My sister asked to post this here to get Awareness and the chance it might help . She's half Greek and half Spanish as far as looks . But anyway hers the photo . This is hours old . Thank you

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Record high of 83.4 million internally displaced people registered in 2024


source: lemonde.fr/en/international/ar…

Raging conflicts, disasters and climate change are responsible for the displacement of tens of millions of people, with #Gaza and #Sudan hit the hardest. The lack of progress toward reining in global displacement marks 'a #policy #failure and a #moral stain on humanity.'


#disaster #war #terror #climate #refugees #humanrights #politics #humanity #problem #news #poverty #fail #ethics

פודקאסט קנדי חדש על החראת האינטרנט, בהגשת @pluralistic, קורי דוקטורוב, שטבע את המונח enshitification. הפרק הראשון על גוגל, מדבר על האינטרס של החברה לפגוע באיכות תוצאות החיפוש. למה? תקשיבו.
pca.st/episode/29bf7554-a4ea-4…

Why are coffee stains darker at the edges?

Link: why.is/svar.php?id=5513
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Die politische Verfolgung ist zurück! Warum jeder Bürger das geheime AfD-Gutachten kennen muss


nius.de/kommentar/news/die-pol…

#SED #DDR #DrittesReich #DasGrüneReich #Orwell #DasVierteReich #Neusprech #1984

Podcast worth your time to hear.

ISRAEL FOR LAST!?! CCP SURRENDERS - TRUMP CONTROLS THE POPE - HEIL HITLER 2.0 - EP.412

rumble.com/v6tapx7-israel-for-…

thefederalist.com/2025/05/13/e…

On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in three consolidated cases concerning the propriety of the nationwide injunctions entered against the Trump Administration barring implementation of the president’s birthright citizenship executive order.

in reply to YoungBlood

While President Trump seems assured of scoring a victory from the Supreme Court in these cases, a win will do little to stop the lower courts from continuing to flood the country with nationwide injunctions interfering with the Trump Administration’s execution of its American-first agenda.

The reason why is simple: The issue before the Supreme Court is narrow and does not concern the propriety of nationwide injunctions in cases brought under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

#Gaza mourns beloved #photojournalist #FatimaHassouna killed by #Israel


source: middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-ph…

The photographer was killed in the attack alongside six other siblings. Her parents were left wounded, but survived.


Her photo blog about the war on #Instagram: instagram.com/fatma_hassona2

#war #idf #terror #military #Palestine #press #journalism #news #photo

if they were smuggling oil, they were probably smuggling other things (and people?) as well.

Utah Oil Tycoon James Jensen and Wife Arrested in $300M Mexican Oil Smuggling Scheme — Feds Raid $9.2M Mansion with Battering Ram

Federal agents have arrested Utah oil magnate James Lael Jensen, his wife Kelly Anne Jensen, and two of their sons, Maxwell Sterling Jensen (aka “Max”) and Zachary Golden Jensen, in connection with a sprawling $300 MILLION smuggling and money laundering conspiracy tied to Mexican criminal organizations.

Court records reveal that all four members of the Jensen family were arrested on Wednesday, April 23 — with sons Max and Zachary taken into custody in the Rio Grande Valley, while James and Kelly Jensen were apprehended at their 26,893-square-foot mansion in Sandy, Utah, reportedly worth over $9.1 million.

The arrest was carried out by the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Apprehension Team, equipped with a battering ram and tactical gear, according to KSLTV.

#Agenda47 #Mexico #smuggling

The Trump-Netanyahu divorce papers have been signed. It’s over.

The biggest red pill in history has officially been dispensed.
t.me/fsfCIacomQ4ZjNh

🚨 Now in effect: Utah law draws a line on state vs. federal power

HB380 reaffirms state jurisdiction over:
✅ Natural resources
✅ Water rights
✅ Education
✅ Energy

Details ⬇️
blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/…

Kurt Vonnegut: She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


Brussels Parliament Unanimously Approves Landmark Resolution Urging Arrest of Israeli Leaders and International Accountability #Palestine republicpalestine.com/en/2025/…

This is who I voted for…

President Trump Extends Olive Branch to Iran with a Firm Warning: Peace or I will Inflict Maximum Pressure

“I’m here today to not condemn the past chaos of Irans leaders, but to offer them a new path to a far better and more hopeful future.

As I’ve shown repeatedly. I am willing to end past conflicts and forge new partnerships for a better and more stable world, even if our differences may be very profound.

t.me/candlesinthenight

My mother in law, now 98, was a Jewish child immigrant from Germany in 1938 or 39 (not actually on the KinderTransport). Her parents also later managed to escape to Britain before war broke out, but were interned on the Isle of Man as enemy aliens for the duration. Most of the rest of their relations died in the #Holocaust.

A short thread...

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The only difference is, eighty years ago, British factories were building the weapons which were being used to fight those committing the #Holocaust (even if stopping the Holocaust was not in itself a war aim).

Now, they're building the weapons with which the Holocaust is being committed.

#GazaGenocide

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EXPOSED: Israel’s Weapon of Mass Starvation to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza | Muhammad Shehada #Palestine

A flash of lightning shines brighter than the lights of nearby cities in this Oct. 29, 2024, image taken by astronaut Don Pettit while aboard the International Space Station. At the time of this photograph, little to no moonlight illuminated the scene. This allows astronauts to see and photograph a variety of light sources with […]

Save the Date and Register: 19th Congress of the IADL, July 18-21, 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal iadllaw.org/2025/05/save-the-d…

ETH Zurich researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors

Link: ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Here we have another wonderful edition of Katy Jay's #MixedFeelings radio show on Skylab Radio.

mixcloud.com/skylabradio/mixed…

I caught most of it live when it aired yesterday but missed the beginning so I'm catching up on that now - how great to see that Katy Jay included my remix of JG Stockton's Xylophonics II.

The Xylophonics Remixed EP was released earlier this month via Dragon Trax Recordings and includes stellar remixes by @ordosmarkzero and @ireless. Check it out!

dragontraxuk.bandcamp.com/albu…

An unexpected friendly encounter: Ambassador Wang Yajun pays tribute to veteran artists from the DPRK socialistchina.org/2025/05/12/…

Dieses Jahr keine #Pride-Flaggen mehr erlaubt, #Israel trotz Völkermord wieder dabei bei der Happy #Genocide Party.

»Die Organisator*innen der Europäischen Rundfunkunion (#EBU) erklären demnach in ihrer neuen Flaggenrichtlinie, dass damit "politische Botschaften vermieden werden" sollten.«

Offensichtlich, ja.

Und mehr poste ich zu diesem Kadaver von Wettbewerb auch nicht mehr.

queer.de/detail.php?article_id…

#ESC #esc2025

Le journaliste Hassan Slayeh a été tué aujourd’hui par une frappe israélienne sur l’hôpital Nasser à Khan Younès. Il s’y remettait de ses blessures après avoir été déjà ciblé le 7 avril dans une tente dédiée à la presse.
#Israël a tué 264 #journalistes depuis le 7/10/23, dont 252 à #Gaza.
Source : Stop Murdering Journalists dot com @IDFkillsPress


stopmurderingjournalists.com/

diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/f20349…

The Fediverse Has Already Failed


The Fediverse Has Already Failed

With asshole mods and asshole users running amok around instances unchecked while playing victim when the favor is returned to them. I find that the fediverse as a whole is just like any other socializing platform. No different, just a different coat of paint and a neat little mechanic in how it operates. But, still the same old shit.

How disappointing.

in reply to Nyticus

So.... then host your own instance and set up your own rules and mod /de-federation how you see fit?

It's an offer you don't have to take as-is, and this shows it's the exact opposite of a failure: you can be the change you demand from others.

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in reply to Nyticus

No, this is not the same old shit, because while yes of course humans are still humans and will do shitty human things the difference is that there is no easy way to enclose the Fediverse and force an opinion, censor people speaking out against injustice. or hold the entire network hostage to push a profit for investors.

The Fediverse is still definitely vulnerable to those things, and who knows if longterm whether a large corporation or constellation of authoritarian regimes can critically undermine the Fediverse (we will certainly see attempts at some point), but no matter what happens, anybody can still spin up their own instance of Mastodon, Lemmy or any other fediverse software and start creating a new community.

From the perspective of an authoritarian ruling class, the problem of quelling dissent in the masses has gone from buying the one or two tv conglomerate networks that provide news for 100s of millions of people, buying Twitter and sabotaging it, or buying Reddit and paying someone to manipulate it with bots and ban people saying things they don't like, to a Sisyphean hell of having to keep stamping out Fediverse communities wherever they pop up, in whatever country or legal context they happen to pop up all over the globe.

If you think that the Fediverse taking off and reaching a critical mass where lots of people use it daily for normal social media stuff isn't a strategic failure for the dictators and ruthless capitalists willing to create mass murder if it nets them a profit, I don't know what to tell you...

edit maybe this is going too into the conspiracy weeds here to be useful to conjecture about, but until the Fediverse took off virtually ALL online communities with any vibrancy were moving to Discord, and it scared the hell out of me because it would have made the attempt to silence dissent right now across the world and more specifically in my country a trivial task if there was simply no alternative that was anywhere near ready to function for people as a basis for their community. Corporate social media is full of voices refusing to be silenced about the Palestinian Genocide... but would those activists feel so comfortable and would corporate social media companies feel restrained at all if there was no truly no alternative to their social network for communicating online?

I will never forget how almost everybody in my life would basically laugh at me years ago when I voiced concern about Discord vacuuming up seemingly every significant online community, but just think about how right now would be vastly different if activists had NOWHERE to go online if they got banned from Twitter or Discord or Reddit............

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What is a black hole? Well, the name is actually a little misleading because black holes aren’t actually holes. They’re regions in space that have a gravitational pull that is so strong that nothing can escape, not even light. Scientists know about two different sizes of black holes — stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black […]

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has denied a motion by far-left immigrant advocacy groups seeking to block the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from sharing taxpayer information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the purpose of locating and removing illegal immigrants.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/h…

Le fait que ces #massacres, ce nettoyage ethnique pratiqué depuis des centaines de jours par les sionistes puisse devenir une normalité quotidienne acceptable en dit très long sur le niveau de conscience général occidental. Éventuellement une petite phrase entre amis ou en famille du genre « Oh oui, c'est horrible ... » et puis on passe vite à autre chose (en lisant le Canard ou en écoutant franceInter...) parce que de toute façon « on peut rien faire », .....alors que si la moitié du quart des présents sur les réseaux sociaux publiaient tous les jours la-dessus, cela aurait de l'importance et de l'impact....mais non, elles/ils continuent de publier les petites émotions de leur petite vie cocoonée et la vie de leur clébard a plus d'effet sur eux que de cautionner silencieusement des massacres quotidiens. Elles/ils ne veulent pas en parler ni ne veulent voir les images et les vidéos... « c'est trop horrible !. »
En fait la plupart des gens ne comprennent absolument RIEN au fonctionnement du monde, et ne veulent surtout pas savoir....

#Netanyahu #EU #US #US-Israel #US-Israel-terrorism #Israel #Israël #genocide #ethnic-cleansing #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Cisjordanie

Fund to support school board candidate arrested in Worcester ICE raid

gofundme.com/f/help-school-boa…

#ice #mutualaid #WorcesterMA

On Tuesday, the monthly inflation numbers came in below expectations for the third straight month.

The inflation rate for April came in at 2.3%.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/t…

RINO Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) openly rebuked President Trump’s bold new plan to slash sky-high prescription drug prices during a Senate hearing on Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Drug Pricing.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/t…

James Baldwin: The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


One of President Donald Trump’s most controversial executive orders — dismantling birthright citizenship — has been challenged in court and halted by federal judges in three different districts. Now, the three cases against the president’s order will be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.

washingtonstand.com/news/scotu…

One of the goals of the new pope will be to develop Catholic teaching on artificial intelligence (AI), the pope himself shared recently. Addressing the College of Cardinals on Saturday, the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV explained how he hopes to continue the work of his nominal predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, and what that has to do with AI.

washingtonstand.com/news/pope-…

House Republicans seeking to end federal funding of abortion businesses received two enormous boosts to their efforts on Monday, as a legislative provision inched closer to adoption and Planned Parenthood released an annual report showing it received more taxpayer funding than any time in history. The report has pro-life experts telling The Washington Stand, “Planned Parenthood must be defunded.”

washingtonstand.com/news/plann…

A newly enacted Tennessee law prohibits schools from punishing employees and teachers for referring to trans-identified students by their given name and pronouns, as public school staff in other states have faced professional repercussions for declining to use trans-identified students’ preferred names and pronouns.

washingtonstand.com/news/tenne…

During his trip to Riyadh on Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, signed more than a dozen agreements addressing each nation's armed forces, justice departments, and cultural institutions.

justthenews.com/government/whi…

The House Republicans' plan to reform Medicaid revives a popular conservative idea from decades earlier known as "workfare" that imposes work requirements on welfare recipients.

justthenews.com/government/con…

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says the Biden-era mentality of treating conservatives and citizens with dissenting views like domestic terrorists was an “abuse of power,” signaling that a 2021 memo that empowered the FBI to probe Americans for “concerning non-criminal behavior” is no longer operative.

justthenews.com/accountability…

Sen. John Cornyn is polling 16 points behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Texas GOP primary for U.S. Senate, according to the Senate Leadership Fund super PAC.

justthenews.com/politics-polic…

One of the keys to a sustainable human presence on distant worlds is using local, or in-situ, resources which includes building materials for infrastructure such as habitats, radiation shielding, roads, and rocket launch and landing pads. NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate is leveraging its portfolio of programs and industry opportunities to develop in-situ, resource capabilities […]

Estonian Government: Not just war mongers but sadists as well gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p…

FROZEN - Fuck It All (PARODY COVER)


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SteamOS Compatibility

"Today we are announcing a new compatibility rating system for SteamOS devices. It’s an extension of the Steam Deck Verified process, which has been a useful tool for players to make decisions around what games to purchase and play on their Steam Decks. With the Legion Go S – Powered by SteamOS shipping soon, we are expanding Deck Verified and introducing SteamOS Compatibility ratings. These new ratings will roll out over the next few weeks."

steamcommunity.com/groups/stea…

we might get official steamos desktop before half life 3