Fighter jet firms dined key witness in Israel arms export case
Air Vice-Marshal Keith Bethell accepted hospitality from companies who benefit from UK arms exports to Israel.JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)
Air Vice-Marshal Keith Bethell accepted hospitality from companies who benefit from UK arms exports to Israel.JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)
They surrounded us with walls so that we thought the Nakba was forever. Instead, we forgot that the walls existed, so we could see the Palestine we’ve always dreamed of.Amena al-Ashkar (Mondoweiss)
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AOC leads in polls of Democrats regarding which political leader "best reflects" the "core values" of the party
10% of Democratic-aligned voters said Ocasio-Cortez best represents the party, which is more than any other party figure.
Some suggest AOC is stepping up to fill a void as Democrats seek a new identity
AOC was the frontrunner among potential choices to lead the Democrats in one poll, though she tied with "no one," indicating uncertainty among voters
Northern California's commercial crab season under threat from migrating whales
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crab-season-northern-california-under-threat-migrating-whales/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A high-tech system that involves a remote-controlled pop-up balloon-like device is helping some fishermen from getting their crab cages entangled with humpback whales.Elizabeth Cook (CBS News)
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While Europe drafts reports and holds conferences, China and Russia are preparing to build a nuclear-powered lunar base and redefine the future of spaceФил Батлер (New Eastern Outlook)
Lenin: Everybody talks about imperialism. But imperialism is merely monopoly capitalism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) notes the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey released on the 13th of May 2025 by Statistics Soeffonline.org
For some reason Calibre won't let me do anything because "drive is full" which I assume has to do with this.
Update: I believe I "fixed" the error with Calibre by using FlatSeal to add environment variable CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR
that changes the Temp directory to something else.
That is your / (root) partition. You can't write to it because Aurora is an atomic & immutable distro.
Source: I use Aurora & Bazzite.
While true, why are you linking this comment in almost all the other comments?
They are not incorrect, it just makes you look like an ass.
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"Civilized society" is designed to confuse and distract...to create a confused, bipolar population mass who have no clue as to reality, who are preoccupied with their own survival and totally immersed in valueless materialistic trinkets.-Gary Williams
May 15, 2025 @ 20:57 Good evening family & friends❣️ I guess the day got away from me, I'm not sure how and don't remember much about my afternoon once we got home, but I realized just after 20:00 that I hadn't yet posted my 2 posts for today even though I had been operating under the assumption all day that I had...SHEESH!!! So I got those finished up and now here I am - with or without my brain, I'm not sure at the moment hahaha! It was quite hot today, I am still learning how to keep this house cool (since we moved in in late Oct last year); today was my best test so far. I'm sure the new curtains to diffuse the morning sun through the kitchen window helped, and we kept the south-facing back door closed also. Once we had some shade at the front of the house (north) I opened the living room window a few inches and put the fan in front of it to pull that shade-cooled air in; I had the fan aimed up toward the kitchen ceiling. Anyway, it worked quite well! Tonight we are expecting some severe storms with tornado risks so I will probably stay up late to keep an eye on the Michigan Storm Chasers who are now reporting that these storms are starting to reach land from Lake Michigan; it will take a couple of hours to cross the state and reach us, I think. So I will see you guys in the morning, Lord willing...sleep well❣️🙏🥱🌛💤
GUEST POST from Don (Gas-Lighting part III) - chia.owly.net/?p=47474
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What I Ate Today (#OMaD #AnimalBased #Keto) - chiachow.net/what-i-eat/ @GoatsLive
It was a delightful surprise when I learned that Thursday fell on May 15 because May 15th is a special day in my heart. On May 15, 2081 Captain DonKirk was born.chia.owly.net
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
Link: theregister.com/2025/05/15/voy…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
: Failure could've triggered a small explosionBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
welp i took a diversion tonight and installed some better lighting in my abrasive blasting cabinet.
what i can say about harbor freight tools is that they're good for people who don't value their time. most of their tools require some tweaks or improvements to be actually usable.
i am getting ready to sandblast this acura steering knuckle casting and decided i couldn't deal with the weak little fluorescent lamp in there so i put some LED strips in there instead.
if you have one of their blasting cabinets, you'll want to do that, and also install a bottom siphon feed tube instead of their dumb little pickup tube. after those 2 mods it becomes actually usable
Reason why I focus on Jewish culpability for Palestinian genocide(rather than abstract "Zionist" culpability), is not because I want to feel morally righteous(I am flawed⇒I cant be morally righteous), but because without honest accounting for massive crimes like Genocide & deflecting accountability by playing "antisemitism" definitional games, we allow similar/worse crimes more likely to happen in the future
Accountability requires honesty.
Via Vanessa Beeley The following is a post on X, written by Yemeni analyst Mohamad Al Shami. I recommend everyone to follow him for insights that you will not find elsewhere. Trump’s Strategy…INTERNATIONALIST 360°
Did you know #Microsoft is shutting down Chinese universities by blocking access to their services? When will this come to Europe and the rest of the world? How dependent on Microsoft or Google is the day to day work in your organization?
Here's an example, one of many: scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article…
Concerns about technological decoupling have risen after Microsoft ended commercial services for some clients in China.Wency Chen (South China Morning Post)
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.dair-institute.org
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.www.dair-institute.org
TEHRAN, May 15 (MNA) – President Masoud Pezeshkian strongly criticized US President Donald Trump for his recent remarks against Iran.Marzieh Rahmani (Mehr News Agency)
Wonderful.
#Reddit decides to give me a three-day ban for the following:
- Discussion talking about rolling coal and how truck drivers that modify their trucks to "roll coal" are basically assholes.
- Lawyer chimes in and says technically rolling coal on somebody is assault but good luck getting that proved because an assault has to have "harm".
- To which I reply with the following hypothetical:
-- Say the victim has asthma
-- They get "coal rolled".
-- They have a serious asthma attack as a result
-- Severe asthma attacks can be fatal if not treated
-- Vitim dies.
-- Now the driver could be charged with voluntary manslaughter! (I would hope because choosing to roll coal on someone is clearly a voluntary act.)
-- Me: "Sucks that someone has to die first though for that [being prosecuted] to happen."
And for this Reddit has given me a three-day ban for threatening violence.
Reddit has so far gone off the deep-end it's like a fucking different universe over there.
There was not one single thing in my original comment that threatened or called for any violence.
So I go to do an appeal and they only give you 250 characters (not even a fucking tweet's worth) to make your case.
So I basically told them to read this. That this is my fucking appeal.
Think it'll help? I doubt it.
Anybody know when is Digg being re-launched?
"Over the boos of his classmates’ rich parents, the threats of his college’s craven administrators and influential alumni, and the rumble of jackboots descending on campuses countrywide, this young man refused to be cowed into silence."- Dan Sheehan
NYU student Logan Rozos denounced #Israel ’s #US -funded genocide in #Gaza during his graduation speech to big applause. In retaliation, #NYU has withheld his diploma and is threatening further disciplinary action.
UN stresses adherence to principles of neutrality and independence in delivering life-saving humanitarian aid to Gaza.Al Jazeera
The capital plans to attract business guests by focusing on BRICS-level events, developing congress infrastructure and providing digital services for the convenience of work tripsBRICS
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Lenin: The dialectics of history is such that the war, by extraordinarily expediting the transformation of monopoly capitalism into state-monopoly capitalism, has thereby extraordinarily advanced mankind towards socialism. Imperialist war is the eve of socialist revolution. And this not only because the horrors of the war give rise to proletarian revolt—no revolt can bring about socialism unless the economic conditions for socialism are ripe—but because state-monopoly capitalism is a complete material preparation for socialism, the threshold of socialism, a rung on the ladder of history between which and the rung called socialism there are no intermediate rungs. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
The Workers Party of Britain (WPB) packed London’s Bolivar Hall, the cultural premises of the Venezuelan Embassy, on Saturday May 10 for its celebration of the 80th anniversary of the victory over fascism in the European theatre of World War II.Friends of Socialist China
_Hillary Clinton Post About Qatar Jet Backfires - Blocking Comments Did Nothing to Save Her_
FTA: “No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious,” Clinton wrote.
...
“Be serious. Nobody give[s] millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation without expecting anything in return. Be serious,” one user wrote, reposting Clinton’s post along with a screenshot of donors to the Clinton Foundation.
westernjournal.com/hillary-cli…
Hillary Clinton chimed in via social media platform X about Trump's visit to Qatar. Users quickly brought up her past.Samuel Short (The Western Journal)
#RIPCharlesStroyse #CharlesStrouse
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#Theater #MusicalTheater #Broadway
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No one is above the law, right...May Karma give him exactly what he deserves, and then let justice take care of the rest.
"The FBI, DHS and Secret Service are now investigating former FBI Director James Comey over his Trump assassination social media post.
“We are aware of the recent tweet by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump. We are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran. Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support,” FBI Director Kash Patel said on Thursday evening."
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/d…
The FBI, DHS and Secret Service are now investigating former FBI Director James Comey over his Trump assassination social media post.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Assailants opened fire from a passing vehicle at Tzeela Gez and her husband near their home in Bruchin. Doctors delivered the baby in serious condition via emergency C-section.Josh Breiner (Haaretz)
Trump told Tim Cook he doesn't want Apple building iPhones in India
cnbc.com/2025/05/15/trump-told…
Apple has been ramping up production in India with the aim of making around 25% of global iPhones in the country in the next few years.Arjun Kharpal (CNBC)
How real couples sleep together. Watch to the end.
Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Hillary Clinton chimed in via social media platform X about Trump's visit to Qatar. Users quickly brought up her past.Samuel Short (The Western Journal)
The Iranian president says the country will never bow to threats and pressure.PressTV
Support for refugees has dropped significantly, with growing numbers reportedly being told to “go back to Ukraine”RT
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Russia would make “adjustments” in its demands to Ukraine “due to developments on the ground,” a vague declaration following the Kremlin’s confirmation that strongman Vladimir Putin would reject Ukra…Frances Martel (Breitbart)
FBI head James Comey is getting lambasted online after he shared a post on social media that many are taking as a "hit" on President Donald Trump's life.Alec Schemmel (Fox News)
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Pepe Escobar- Sean bienvenidos a ‘El Soberano del Mundo’ recorriendo su particular País de las Maravillas, al compás del hipnótico riff de ‘Kashmir’ [1].thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
New York’s Solution to Prison Staff Shortage: Hire Teenagers
If we can’t keep prisons properly staffed, maybe we should incarcerate fewer people.
It's about time people were held accountable for their actions. This is an outrage.
westernjournal.com/breaking-fo…
"If you are creating any other meaning you are the ones who are going to end up inciting violence," one defender said.Bryan Chai (The Western Journal)
United States President Donald Trump said on May 15 that a nuclear deal with Iran may be close, voicing optimism...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
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Henry Kissinger: It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) is giving the first keynote at #PyConUS tomorrow morning. But tonight, he has a stop on his book tour here in Pittsburgh! It's at 7PM ET at White Whale Books, which is just a few miles from the convention center.
You can still RSVP here for FREE: whitewhalebookstore.com/events…
If anyone wants to go with a group, reply here.
Conversation, community, and culture. Pittsburgh's family-owned, general interest independent bookstore. Check out our online store, literary events, and writing workshops.whitewhalebookstore.com
Learn about the dangerous program in this epic interview!www.infowars.com
source: newsmax.com/newsfront/musk-ame…
#ElonMusk's political action committee failed to pay registered swing state voters as promised during last year's U.S. #election in return for signing a petition or referring other #voters, according to a proposed federal class action #lawsuit.
#fail #justice #court #fraud #politics #money #finance #news #usa
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Tehran has called for an immediate end to the deadly clashes in Tripoli as fighting between rival Libyan factions continues to escalate despite a declared ceasefire. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Bakaei said in an interviewМихаил_Хамин (Военное обозрение)
Gathering foreign leaders in Moscow, Putin demonstrated to the whole world how Russia is ready to engage in dialogue with other countries.Lucas Dumont (Oriental Review)
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