A single member of a galaxy pair takes centerstage in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. This beautiful spiral galaxy is NGC 3507, which is situated about 46 million light-years away in the constellation Leo (the Lion). NGC 3507’s classification is a barred spiral because the galaxy’s sweeping spiral arms emerge from the ends of […]

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by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Here on Earth, we undergo a changing of seasons every three months. But what about the rest of the Solar System? What does a sunny day on Mars look like? How long would a winter on Neptune be? Let’s take a tour of some other […]

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Interview mit Klaus von #Dohnanyi zu #Ukraine


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#Ukraine #BIDEN #Scholz #Putin #BearBock #Krieg #Frieden #Diplomatie
#Bellizismus ausgebreitet
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"#Errands" is an amazing #Tasks app for #Gnome that syncs perfectly with #Nextcloud. It even supports sub-tasks (and sub-sub-tasks). This is perfect and everything I've wanted and had been looking for.

The only caveat is you need to create an App Password since you can't use your normal Nextcloud account password to authenticate which has nothing to do with Errands.

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What have you been using for cloud backups?


I had backblaze, and it's really a bummer they don't support linux. The closest one I've found is Icedrive, but it costs a bit more. I don't mind paying a bit more though for a FOSS solution (technially not free but yeah). I probably only have 2 TB of actual important stuff but it would be nice to have more for future.
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Tucker Carlson is stunned as doctor makes claim about Covid vaccines

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President Donald Trump speaks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission on May 30, 2020. The mission was the first crewed launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s […]

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“If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything ... quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States.”
Justice Clarence Thomas

~ Justice Clarence Thomas
(1948- ) U.S. Supreme Court Justice
dissenting in Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005), with respect to federal regulation of marijuana that had never been sold, had never crossed state lines, and had no effect on the national market

in reply to Blaise Pascal

Have the members of the Supreme Court all had a Top Secret Military clearance ever? I doubt they would pass.

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How To Get Top Secret Security Clearance (TSI)

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in reply to Emmanuel Florac

Effectivement complètement bancale cette loi, incorporant le suicide assisté dès 18 ans si j'ai bien suivie @Alarc'h je me demande comment ça se passe pour les actes désespérés, comme dans le cas de cette jeune femme, geste lui ayant permis de rebondir, de mettre à jour son désespoir et heureusement d'avoir maintenant une vie presque normale, avec sa propre fille.

U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams

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“Our system is changing and [Congress] is the one branch that must act if we are to reverse those changes. We are seeing the emergence of a different model of government, a model long-ago rejected by the framers. ... A dominant presidency has occurred with very little congressional opposition. Indeed, when President Obama pledged to circumvent Congress, he received rapturous applause from the very body that he was proposing to make practically irrelevant. Now many…

The American “Foreign Aid” Agency, USAID, Funded Attacks Against Me covertactionmagazine.com/2025/…

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“When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.”

~ Jessica Mitford
(1917-1996) Self-described 'muckraker' and political radical

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What well known maxims/rules are over exaggerated, but generally still true?


Things like don’t shake a baby (babies love to be bounced and rocked, which are honestly just gentle shaking, but even moderately vigorous shaking can seriously injure or kill an infant and you should never shake a baby in anger or anything like that) or don’t take anything with you when exiting a building when a fire alarm goes off (don’t go looking for things, but you should still put your coat on if it’s next to you and it’s cold out). What other common maxims are generally good to follow, but over exaggerated? Bonus points if it’s only a well known saying because our instinct is to do the thing, like with rocking babies.

(Please don’t think I’m telling you to shake babies or look for and carry huge stacks of files out of a burning building)

in reply to idiomaddict

Children and sex. Recently on local social media, there was a discussion on our topless laws. Of course, there were the predictable comments about women not going topless where children might see.

Well, why not, Karen? It's utterly ridiculous when you consider what breasts are for, and what children are meant to do with them. Yes, it's true the children shouldn't be engaging in sex acts, and the details of adult sexual behavior should be kept from them, since they're not equipped to understand, e.g. BDSM and power play, yet. But if kids see a pair of boobs, if kids see naked people, or even if kids know the basic functions of body parts, they'll be fine. Lots of kids throughout human history lived in small dwellings and heard, or even saw, parents and other members of their community having sex, and they all survived the experience.

Communicable disease? Now there's something that we should be protecting children from...

My wife randomly sends me call signs when she sees them on license plates etc, and then I look them up in ULS and pretend like it's someone I know (she knows I don't actually)

Anyway, I think it's past time that the FCC lets private hams remain mostly anonymous. I wonder if anyone suggested that as part of all the Delete Delete Delete crap.

in reply to George Ellenburg (he/him/his)

@gme I work for a company that provides home carers, and whilst our staff are subjected to one of the most stringent background and ID checks available in our country (and their immigration/citizenship status is audited regularly) there's also strict rules about confidentiality of this information within the company.

We can't search their vehicle registration marks to check registered keeper details (only companies with a motoring-related reason can do so like parking enforcement and car insurance), although staff do need to submit details of what they are driving and we check the car has a valid inspection cert (MOT) and the driver has valid insurance for business travel.

I need to buy a lottery ticket today. (I actually might.)

Had a 6.5 hour sleep without any interruptions last night and without taking any melatonin to go to bed. Granted, I did wait until after midnight and for me to be sufficiently tired and exhausted before going to bed.

But to not have woken up after 90 minutes or even after 4 hours has been somewhat of a blessing this morning!

Please body, more of this. Please.

#insomnia

Gaza’s Hospitals ARE The Target


It’s a relatively well-known fact that Israeli forces have attacked the overwhelming majority of hospitals in #Gaza and have launched hundreds upon hundreds of strikes on medical services in the enclave.

Whenever anyone mentions this fact publicly they’ll get #Israel apologists babbling about “human shields” and absurdly trying to claim that there are #Hamas bases in all the hospitals. But these talking points are invalidated by the fact that we’ve seen multiple reports from doctors documenting Israeli forces actually entering hospitals they’ve attacked and destroying all the individual pieces of medical equipment in those facilities, one by one.

The latest of such reports appears in the Greek outlet Efimerida ton Syntakton from a specialist surgeon named Christos Georgalas, who was at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza from April to May of this year.

According to machine translation, #Georgalas calls Israel’s onslaught “a war mainly against children,” and describes horrific injuries that Israeli munitions have been inflicting upon young Palestinians.
Georgalas also describes repeated Israeli attacks on the hospital where he was working, which include the following:
“A Spanish colleague told me that when the Israelis came to the hospital where the MRI machine was, they tried to destroy everything. But the #MRI machine is a huge machine. It’s like a car. Even if you shoot it, it can be repaired. So they brought in a specialist engineer to permanently destroy it. Because even if a bomb went off next to it, it could still be repaired. They had to bring in a specialist who knew the heart of the machine to make it non-functional. And that’s exactly what he did last February.

“In our hospital, the Israelis went through the wards that were the incubators and systematically broke them one by one. The incubators with the crowbar! This has been recorded by my colleagues. The hospital where I worked was occupied by the Israelis for two months, in February and March 2024. The doctors who had remained in the hospital were tortured. They were lined up one by one and beaten. A total of around 80 of them were kidnapped. Of these, we do not know where 40 are or if they are alive. They killed many on the spot.”
Because Israel has been blocking journalists from entering the Gaza Strip, doctors have largely become the de facto reporters on the ground there.

We saw another report documenting Israel’s pattern of systematically destroying individual pieces of medical equipment back in February of this year, this time at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. Doctors Without Borders emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin reported the following:
“There is no health system anymore in the northern part of Gaza. Kamal Adwan hospital has been razed, while Al Shifa, Al Awda and Indonesian hospitals are seriously damaged and only partially functioning. We were utterly shocked to observe that in Indonesian hospital every medical machine seemed to have been deliberately destroyed; they were smashed to pieces, one by one, to make sure no medical care could be provided anymore. You have to ask: What is the motivation of such action? These machines are made to save people’s lives, mothers, fathers, children. It’s devastating to see the state of these hospitals.”

In April of this year Seguin’s report on the Indonesian Hospital was corroborated by an emergency physician named Clayton Dalton, who wrote the following for The New Yorker:
“Sultan led me upstairs, to the I.C.U., where wind blew through broken windows. He wanted to show me something that he had discovered after Israeli forces left the hospital. He pointed to a cardiac monitor near a wall. It appeared to have a bullet hole in its screen. Next to it was an EKG machine whose screen had been smashed.
“We entered a large storage room in the corner of the I.C.U. which was crammed with medical devices: ultrasound machines, I.V. pumps, dialysis machines, blood-pressure monitors. Each had apparently been destroyed by a bullet — not in a pattern one would expect from random shooting but, rather, methodically. I was stunned. I couldn’t think of any possible military justification for destroying lifesaving equipment.”

Indeed, there is no possible military justification for destroying lifesaving medical equipment. They were destroyed so that they could not be used to save lives. Israel has been systematically destroying Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure with the goal of making it uninhabitable, so that the territory can be seized by Israel.

That’s three separate accounts describing Israeli forces systematically destroying medical equipment in Gaza, from doctors who’d stand nothing to gain from lying about such a thing. The evidence is too overwhelming to deny.

There were no Hamas fighters hiding in the MRI machine. There were no tunnels in the incubators. No arms stockpiles in the EKG machine. Israel has been lying about Hamas hiding in hospitals this entire time. Hamas was never the target. #Hospitals are the target. #Healthcare is the target. That’s established far beyond any reasonable doubt by now.

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#Israel #apartheid-Israel #EU #US #US-Israel #US-Israel-terrorism #Israel #Netanyahu #zionism #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #WestBank #Cisjordanie

Maria #Zakharova :

« Les Français ont récemment été très surpris après avoir lu un article révélateur dans la presse locale.

Le point principal : les pourparlers de paix ne signifient rien, et les soldats français servent déjà sous le régime de Kiev.

L'article concerne une unité de combat tactique au nom évocateur « International Revenge » (Vengeance internationale). Ses membres principaux sont français, et le nom, bien sûr, n'est pas une coïncidence.

Le symbolisme du groupe porte toutes les marques classiques des revanchistes néonazis : crânes, esthétique sombre et slogan militant « Memento Audere Semper » (latin pour « Souviens-toi de toujours oser ») — une devise, comme nous le savons, du fasciste italien et allié de Mussolini Gabriele D'Annunzio.

Les néofascistes revanchards français ne se cachent même pas. Ils parlent ouvertement de venir de #France pour combattre les Russes « sans ménager leurs balles » et expriment l'espoir qu'un jour, ils affronteront la #Russie dans une bataille à grande échelle.

Des soldats français, dont d'anciens policiers, serviraient aux côtés des unités de renseignement militaire ukrainiennes. Leur idéologie est imprégnée de croyances néonazies, et leur mission est simple et claire : tuer autant de Russes que possible.

Après cela, les discours de #Macron sur son engagement en faveur de la #paix sonnent complètement creux. »

L’affirmation d’Israël selon laquelle « le Hamas vole l’aide » est une imposture


“Aucun journaliste ne devrait répéter la #désinformation transparente d’ #Israël. Agir de la sorte, c’est participer à la promotion de mensonges visant à justifier un #génocide. C’est pourtant ce que font les #médias occidentaux depuis plus d’un an et demi. Ils sont devenus totalement insensibles à leur propre collusion active dans le génocide.”

L’affirmation d’Israël selon laquelle le #Hamas « vole l’aide » est tellement absurde qu’aucun journaliste ou politicien sérieux ne devrait lui accorder la moindre attention – et pourtant, elle revient sans cesse dans la couverture de la situation à #Gaza.
Par jonathan #Cook, journaliste indépendant britannique

Comment puis-je savoir que l’affirmation d’Israël est totalement dénuée de valeur ? Pour cette simple raison :
Israël dispose d’une flotte de drones de surveillance qui planent en permanence au-dessus de la minuscule bande de terre qu’est Gaza, surveillant chaque centimètre carré du territoire. Le gémissement incessant que vous entendez chaque fois que vous regardez une personne interviewée provient de l’un de ces drones. Ils sont les yeux d’Israël sur l’enclave. Si vous êtes à l’extérieur de Gaza, vous pourriez tout aussi bien vivre dans le « Truman Show ».

Si le Hamas volait de l’aide à Gaza, Israël serait facilement en mesure de le documenter. Il disposerait des images vidéo de ses drones. Le fait qu’il n’ait pas fourni d’images montrant le vol d’aide par le Hamas – le saccage de camions d’aide ou l’introduction clandestine de combattants dans les entrepôts d’aide – confirme à suffisance qu’Israël a simplement inventé cette affirmation pour rationaliser ses plans visant à affamer la population de Gaza en imposant un blocus de l’aide pendant des mois ou à la forcer à fuir dans le Sinaï voisin, selon ce qui survient en premier.

Sans sa campagne de désinformation sur le « vol de l’aide par le Hamas », Israël sait que la révolte populaire face à sa campagne de famine s’amplifierait rapidement et que les gouvernements occidentaux auraient encore plus de mal à contenir l’opposition.

Il y a bien sûr beaucoup d’autres raisons de rejeter les mensonges d’Israël sur le « vol de l’aide par le Hamas ». Notamment parce que toutes les organisations caritatives et tous les organismes d’aide qui s’occupent de Gaza affirment que l’aide n’est pas volée par le Hamas.

Mais aussi parce que si les combattants du Hamas le faisaient, ils voleraient leurs propres familles : leurs enfants et leurs grands-parents, qui sont bien plus vulnérables qu’eux à la campagne de famine d’Israël. L’idée que le Hamas vole l’aide n’a de sens que pour une mentalité raciste et coloniale européenne dans laquelle les combattants du Hamas sont considérés comme des croquemitaines indifférents à la mort de leurs propres enfants, femmes et parents.

Ce qui se passe indubitablement, c’est qu’Israël permet aux familles élargies les plus puissantes de Gaza – souvent des familles de criminels disposant d’arsenaux privés importants – de piller l’aide. Cette situation est devenue un grave problème depuis qu’Israël a éliminé la police civile de Gaza (en violation du droit international), ne laissant personne pour faire respecter l’ordre public.


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So, Chrome is THE most used browser in the world, on mobile, and on desktop. Out of the box, it doesn't have an ad blocker, or a tracker blocker enabled. To use that browser to the fullest, you'll also need to use a Google Account, and thus everything you do in your browser will be collected unless you specifically disable it.

You can disable a lot of things in your Google account and the web browser settings, but you'll need to download extensions to block the most invasive trackers and limit fingerprinting. Chrome is also not open source.

On Privacy tests.org, we can also see that Chrome has weak fingerprinting resistance.

Firefox has a good reputation for privacy, but it's not the best choice either. By default, it collects telemetry data, including how many tabs you have open, how many windows, how many webpages you visit, the number and type of extensions, duration of your browsing sessions, and some technical data on your OS, the version of the browser, the language, and your IP address in their server logs. Firefox can also use this data to recommend extensions to you.

In terms of protections, Firefox doesn't block tracking scripts or pixels but it does block social media trackers, cross site cookies, cryptominers, plus all tracking when you're in incognito mode. Firefox is open source, so you can be reasonably sure that it doesn't collect more than what it tells you.

If you like Firefox but you don't want the telemetry, and you want improved fingerprinting protection, then there's Librewolf.

Brave offers a lot of what you'd be able to do in another browser with extensions, but it does so out of the box. They call them "shields", and they block ads, trackers, fingerprinters, and cross site cookies by default. They also auto redirect GOogle's AMP pages to the "real" website, and they redirect tracking URLs so you're not even visiting the tracking domain at all.

The ultimate private browser is probably Tor Browser, but it won't be for everyone. Tor Browser blocks everything that the website might want to learn about you, so there's no tracking at all, and no fingerprinting, but ads aren't blocked.

Edge is based on CHromium, the base for CHrome, but they remove everything Google related from it, to mostly replace it with Microsoft related things, like a Microsoft account.

Edge, by default, has an opt-out for telemetry. It will block trackers from third party sites, and some ad trackers as well. It also collects "required" diagnostic data that can't opt out of, and this data is used to personalize ads from microsoft. If you use a microsoft account, you'll also give MS a bunch of data in the process, including device information, usage data, browsing activity, bookmarks and more.

Opera is yet another chromium based browser, which gets the worst results on privacytests.org. It has a unique fingerprint, and doesn't block tracking scripts, or pixels, it doesn't resist fingerprinting, it doesn't remove tracking parameters, and it also doesn't block the major tracking cookies.

It doesn't send "do not track" signals by default either. Their privacy policy also states that they might share personal data with third parties, which can be worrying, as Opera has been bought by a chinese consortium in 2016.

Vivaldi is also a chromium based browser. At first start, it will ask you what you want to block.

Vivaldi doesn't collect any data, browsing history or anything else, even if you use a Vivaldi account, because everything is encrypted in there.

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I'm pretty sure they're ok with this.

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I got my new tshirt before my big trip, so I can take it with me YAY!

I'm a HUGE fan of libraries --they prefigure a solarpunk future with their communal resources and third space and championing arts and knowledge -- and they're seriously under attack and need to be supported/defended.

Tshirt is in support of the *For the People Leftist Library Project* by @prisonculture.bsky.social and you can get one here: librariesforthepeople.org/gear

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Meanwhile, the Irish Dáil votes down bill that would have banned sales of Israeli bonds.

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They won’t even do the bare minimum.

#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #Ireland

One book to rule them all 📕

Here is the first look at my original pyrography completed on all three edges of The Lord of The Rings.

Do you have a favourite edge?

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