He has always been of the right
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“For reasons which they could not comprehend…they found themselves made strangers in their own country”.1 —Enoch Powell, the “Rivers of Blood” speech, 20 April 1968. “[W]e risk becoming an island of strangers”.International Socialism
Is a wealth tax a better option than welfare cuts? Read how Labour MPs are challenging the government's decisions on financial support.Bill Curtis (The London Economic)
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America—People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) condemned in the strongest terms on Sunday, June 22, the military attack by the United States government against civ…Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Adam Kinzinger: Let’s be clear: this is not normal. It is not acceptable. And it is not compatible with a functioning democracy.
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if you can deliver bombs here,
deliver food.
deliver food.
instead, deliver food.
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starvation is one of the most cruel ways to kill.
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La France a officiellement autorisé la vente d'une participation de 32 % dans l'opérateur de transport Transdev au conglomérat allemand Rethmann, qui devient ainsi actionnaire majoritaire.Thomas Wintle (RailTech.be)
It's like watching a predictable horror movie Iran seems to be headed for doom now, unless they are indeed, masters at chess.
▪️After repeatedly lying to Iran, attacking it amid negotiations designed specifically to lure it into complacency, then announcing a 2 week deadline to deci...YouTube
A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted works to train AI is transformative and fair use.
An important caveat is that in this particular case, the authors conceded that "training LLMs did not result in any exact copies nor even infringing knockoffs of their works being provided to the public."
The ruling says authors are still free to sue in the future if they can prove those things happen.
You can read more about it here: cnbc.com/2025/06/24/ai-trainin…
The decision is a major win for AI companies as legal battles play out over the use and application of copyrighted works in LLMsAshley Capoot (CNBC)
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Mikayla Raines (Save a Fox Rescue) has committed suicide due to all the online abuse she received!
She was 29.
Fucking hell. I loved her videos and her work so much.
The World just got a little bit darker.
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Animal rescue activist and YouTube star Mikayla Raines has died by suicide, according to her husband.Matt Lavietes (NBC News)
Mads Mikkelsen , 21, arrived at New Jersey 's Newark Airport on June 11 excited about his holiday.Olivia Allhusen (Daily Mail)
#Iran #Israel #Ceasefire
@palestine
From Al Mayadeen. Lebanese time.
20:15
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the Iranian people: "This historic triumph belongs, with utmost pride, to the great Iranian people, the true architects of civilization"
20:16
"Today, after the steadfast resistance of our great people, the makers of history, we witness a ceasefire and the end of a twelve-day war"
so to any followers that haven't yet blocked/muted me after 2 weeks of constant politics and war updates...
@rybson HAS RELEASED NEW MUSIC AND ITS SO SICK OMG!!!
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@5149jamesli: Trump wants to make a historic nuclear deal with China and Russia. Great! But there’s one nuclear-armed country that never gets mentioned — because officially… it “doesn’t exist.” Here’s the untold sto...…threadreaderapp.com
Vanunu: Israel is the only country that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - Investig'action investigaction.net/vanunu-isra…
Israël est le seul pays qui refuse de signer le traité de non prolifération nucléaireSilvia Cattori (Investig'Action)
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Tehran (Quds News Network)- Iran has launched a major military response against US forces in the region, targeting American bases in Qatar, Iraq, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Iranian state TV confirmed the stEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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Not going to lie, it's stories like this that make me scratch my head. This kid has been "referred" to the Juvenile Justice System 7 times already and the Judge released the kid while he awaits trial for an armed carjacking that resulted in one of the victims getting shot and wounded, and the kids' accomplice getting shot and killed.
Kids in and around Albuquerque know they can literally get away with murder because the Courts will simply let them go, free to car jack yet another person, or kill someone.
Fucking incredible. #USpol #NMpol #ABQpol #JuvenileJustice #CarJackings #murder #kids #juveniles #law #legal #CriminalJustice #DistrictAttorneys #Police #Albuquerque #BernalilloCounty #BernCo #ABQ
For the 12 day war with Iran, so far
"...directly and indirectly, the war could cost Israel up to $20 billion"
"...the Israeli government is considering one of the three following measures to cover the widening budget deficit: cutting down on public spending on health and education, increasing taxes, or resorting to borrowing, which could bump up the public debt to national income ratio by over 75 percent"
How about US taxpayers money?
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Experts warn that Israel's growth rate could slow down, unemployment could rise, and poverty rates could increase if the conflict continues.TRT Global
Age of consent should be 99 years old, exactly the age boomers are. /s.
Everyone else should not be able to consent to anything. Sexual relations before 99 should be disallowed /s
This is how they think. I had to leave the country to be independent from the boomer rule. Only one left in my life now my father in law. Taking care of him. Good guy.
What was the way out? Understandable if it's not worth giving out too much info. Interesting times.
Seen a few people talk about potential options, but it's usually fairly generic and laced with sketchy investment pitches.
‼️Trump 🇺🇸 ha publicado una conversación con el S.G. de la OTAN 🌐, Mark Rutte
"Nos has conducido a un momento muy importante, vas a conseguir algo que NINGÚN presidente de EEUU podría haber logrado en décadas".
electomania.es
@prolrage From what I hear they've been losing TANKS and other armored vehicles in Gaza. Not only that, these tanks are being knocked out using locally produced antitank weapons from Gaza's obviously excellent local workshops.
Retaliating against civilians whether with firing squads or with carpet bombing is straight out of the Nazi playbook. Thus we know who the freedom fighters and who the Nazis are in this war.
Such IOF behavior as torturing unarmed prisoners with acid and cigarette butts won't stop Merkava tanks from having their turrets blown off, nor will it bring back the tank crews that seconds earlier were firing at tents full of civilians.
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Al-Quds, Al-Qassam, and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades launch coordinated attacks against Israeli occupation forces in Khan Younis as part of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation.
#Palestinian #resistance factions in #Gaza have announced multiple successful operations targeting Israeli vehicles in the Strip, confirming casualties among the Israeli Occupation Forces.
As part of the ongoing Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, Palestinian resistance fighters persist in attacking Israeli forces operating inside the Gaza Strip, causing Israeli military casualties with both killed and wounded soldiers.
The Al-Quds Brigades also announced today that they had carried out a coordinated operation, beginning with the detonation of a minefield targeting Israeli military vehicles advancing in the Huda Square area east of Gaza City's #Shujaiya neighborhood, forcing soldiers and officers to take shelter in nearby houses.
The fighters then targeted the troops who had taken cover inside the houses, first with a guided missile, followed by an anti-fortification TBG shell. Afterwards, the fighters engaged Israeli soldiers in close-quarters combat using light and medium weapons, leaving casualties of both dead and wounded, according to a statement released by Al-Quds Brigades.
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#FightBack #IOF #idfterrorists
The Israeli military says five of its soldiers have been killed after Palestinian fighters detonated explosive devices during an operation in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoon area.
The Israeli military said the five soldiers, aged between 20 and 28, “fell during combat in the northern #Gaza Strip”, while 14 others sustained injuries – two of them “severely wounded”.
“What we understand is that the #Israeli soldiers were attacked, then the unit that tried to come to their rescue was also attacked, and then a third group of soldiers that tried to extract them was also attacked,” she said.
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In a statement published on Telegram on Tuesday, Abu Obeida added that the #war of attrition being waged by Resistance fighters across the Gaza Strip, from north to south, continues to inflict daily losses on the Israeli occupation.
"Our fighters launched their attack from the very ruins the occupation believed were devoid of life," Abu Obeida stated, adding, "The war of attrition our fighters are fighting across the entire Gaza Strip, from the North to the South, will continue to cost the enemy more losses by the day."
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#FightBack #IOF #idfterrorists #PalestinianResistance #BeitHanoun
@palestine @israel
At least 887 Israeli soldiers have been killed in 21-month Gaza war, which has left at least 57,523 Palestinians dead.Al Jazeera
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🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸BREAKING: IRAN STRIKES US AIRBASE IN QATAR, ISRAEL RETURNS TO BOMBING IRAN
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#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
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"I'm not happy with Israel,” Trump told reporters, after Israeli fire threatened a fragile ceasefire with Iran. "They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing," the president continued, referring to both of the countries.
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#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel
“I’m not happy with Israel,” Trump told reporters, after Israeli fire threatened a fragile ceasefire with Iran. “They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing,” the president continued, referring to both of the countries.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
Iranian armed forces have launched a barrage of missiles at a US military base in Qatar, a day after Iranian nuclear sites were targeted by US bombers.PressTV
ESA’s week-long Living Planet Symposium is in full swing in Vienna, Austria, drawing scientists and researchers from around the world. This flagship event focuses on the latest breakthroughs in Earth science and highlights the advanced space technologies used to observe and understand our changing planet. Throughout the week, we’ll be covering the bigger stories in depth, but we’re also sharing some daily snapshots of other significant happenings.
The major highlight of today was the signing of a landmark agreement between ESA and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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In Deutschland gibt es nach Berechnungen der Unternehmensberatung BCG immer mehr "Superreiche". Das sind Menschen, die über ein Finanzvermögen von mehr als 100 Millionen US-Dollar verfügen.Die Nachrichten
Spaßfakten:
Die meisten größeren Volkswirtschaften haben eine Erbschaftssteuer. Z.B. USA, Japan, Deutschland, UK, Frankreich, Italien, sogar die Schweiz. Keine Erbschaftssteuer gibt es dagegen in China, Indien, Russland.
Vermögenssteuern gibt es dagegen in deutlich weniger Ländern, u.a. Frankreich, Spanien, Schweiz.
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#Miller, who served as President Donald #Trump’s senior advisor on #immigration and homeland #security, disclosed owning between $100,001 and $250,000 of Palantir stock as of mid-March, according to financial disclosure forms obtained by the watchdog group. #Ethics experts told POGO that Miller’s dual role crafting enforcement policy and investing in Palantir, which provides “mission-critical” data services for ICE, could amount to a troubling conflict of interest.
#finance #money #corruption #fail #crime #politics #news #usa #government
POGO report shows top Trump adviser owned six-figure stock in company profiting off deportations.Pablo Manríquez (Migrant Insider)
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Circular Microcomputers embedded and powered by repurposed smartphone components.
Citronics is the only company in the world able to transform retired smartphones into circular microcomputers, at industrial scale.Citronics
@Jagahati this is St. Matthew's German Lutheran church
amazing organist. However it's so moldy from having been flooded I can't be in it for more than a few minutes. Also very WOKE
I used to find it disturbing walking around town and seeing the damn PRIDE flags hanging on these historic churches but now I think it's good they ID themselves
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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops #ACAB #FTP
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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A new site, FuckLAPD.com, is using public records and facial recognition technology to allow anyone to identify police officers in Los Angeles they have a picture of. The tool, made by artist Kyle McDonald, is designed to help people identify cops who may otherwise try to conceal their identity, such as covering their badge or serial number.“We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up,” McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. “fucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests against the horrific ICE raids. And more broadly—the failure of the LAPD to accomplish anything useful with over $2B in funding each year.”
“Cops covering up their badges? ID them with their faces instead,” the site, which McDonald said went live this Saturday. The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officer’s face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests. The site says image processing happens on the device, and no photos or data are transmitted or saved on the site. “Blurry, low-resolution photos will not match,” the site says.
“fucklapd.com uses data provided by the City of Los Angeles directly to the public,” McDonald told me in an email. “This data has been provided in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits. That means all of this information belongs to the public and is a matter of public record. fucklapd.com is not scraping any data.”
In addition to potentially identifying officers by name and serial number, FuckLAPD.com also pulls up a police officer’s salary.
“Surprisingly it [the domain name] only costs $10 a year to exercise my first amendment right to say fucklapd.com,” McDonald said.
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I tested the tools by grabbing an image of a white and bald police officer from an LAPD press conference addressing its use of force during the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. I uploaded the image to the site, and within a few seconds the site presented me with nine headshots of officers who could be possible matches, all of them bald white men. The first correctly identified the cop in the image I uploaded.Clicking “view profile” under the result sent me to the Watch the Watchers site by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community group based in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. “All of the information on this website comes from records that were deliberately made public by the City of Los Angeles in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits,” the Watch the Watchers site says. “We plan to keep refreshing this data from new public records requests as well as to add other data.” Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is not associated with FuckLAPD.com and did not endorse the site.
McDonald told me that since the site launched, it had around 50,000 visitors, but “Because the analysis happens on-device I have no way of knowing what people are using it for, except for some people who have posted screenshots to Twitter or Instagram,” he said.
In 2018 McDonald made another tool called ICEspy which used hundreds of photos of ICE employees from LinkedIn and does much the same thing as FuckLAPD.com. “This app is designed to highlight and embarrass the organization committing atrocities against refugees and immigrants to the United States,” ICEspy’s website says. That tool originally used a Microsoft API, before Microsoft restricted access to it. McDonald said on X that he recently relaunched the tool to run locally on devices. 404 Media tested ICEspy using images of ICE employees on LinkedIn to verify if the tool worked and each result was incorrect; McDonald indicated on X he was looking for others to re-scrape LinkedIn and update the database.
Over the last few months ICE officers have consistently worn masks, neck gaiters, sunglasses, and baseball caps to shield their identity while often refusing to provide their name or even confirm the agency they belong to. This includes while violently assaulting people, detaining U.S. citizens, and pointing weapons at bystanders, leaving little room for recourse or accountability against the individual agents or the agency.
ICE’s constant use of masks has created a climate where people cannot be sure that the heavily armed group of men coming towards them are really federal agents or not. In Philadelphia, a man pretended to be an ICE agent in order to rob an auto repair shop and zip tie an employee. In Brooklyn, a man posed as an immigration officer before attempting to rape a woman.
ICE claims that assaults against its officers have increased by 413 percent, and use this as the justification for covering their faces. But as Philip Bump showed in the Washington Postthere are still plenty of questions about those numbers and their accuracy. ICE says its officers’ family members have been doxed too.
Neither the LAPD or ICE responded to a request for comment.
Joseph Cox contributed reporting.
'ICE Agent' Pulls Gun on Man Taking Photos of His Car
Activists post footage which also shows suspects being led away by masked agent.Billal Rahman (Newsweek)
Masiva movilización en la huelga del metal de Cádiz pese a las cargas policiales
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El conflicto ha emergido con fuerza: barricadas y cortes de tráfico con cargas policiales y detenciones, evidenciando el choque entre los trabajadores y sus legítimas demandas frente a la cerrazón de la patronal.kaosenlared.net
Más imágenes de la huelga del metal en Cádiz, España. Solo la lucha genera cambios
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Más de veinte años después, Cádiz sigue siendo ejemplo de lucha.
¡Mucha fuerza durante estos días, compañeros!
El alcalde de Cádiz ha ido a hacerse la foto con los trabajadores del metal en huelga y le han hablado claro: "llevamos muchos años (así) alcalde, se acabó".
"En CTM decimos NO a la basura de convenio que ha firmado UGT.
Recuperación de pluses en el 2032 al precio del 2012, una puta locura.
Se sacan de la manga un contrato para menores de 25 años al 75% del salario convenio para precarizar todavía más.
Eso es lo que ha firmado UGT y no lo vamos a aceptar.
Son vendidos."
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HUELGA DEL METAL EN CÁDIZ
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Siguiendo la estela de la huelga del Metal de Cantabria de hace unas semanas, 25.000 trabajadores también del sector del metal han ido a la huelga, convocados por los sindicatos CCOO y UGT [1] suponiendo un seguimiento de aproximadamente el 95% de l…user2 (Organo Comunicación Revolucion)
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La imagen muestra dos fotografías de una protesta. Arriba, un grupo de manifestantes camina por la calle, muchos con la cara cubierta o tapada. Abajo, una multitud más grande se reúne frente a un edificio, con pancartas que piden la defensa del trabajo. Ambas imágenes muestran una protesta relacionada con una huelga en el sector del metal en Cádiz, organizada por el Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT), como se indica en el texto de la imagen.
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Una multitud de hombres se encuentra reunida en una calle frente a un edificio de la empresa Navantia. Al fondo se ven dos grandes grúas de puerto. Los hombres están vestidos con ropa casual, muchos de ellos con camisetas oscuras. Algunos llevan chalecos de seguridad de color naranja. La escena parece ser una protesta o una reunión en el exterior de un astillero. El ambiente es tenso pero pacífico.
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Un hombre con casco blanco circula en una motocicleta eléctrica frente a un muro blanco con grafiti en negro. El grafiti dice "QUE ARDEN LAS CALLES Y NO LOS TAJOS". Al fondo se ven grúas de puerto.
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Una fotografía de una sección de gradas de un estadio de fútbol repleta de aficionados. Los aficionados, mayoritariamente vestidos de amarillo, ondean banderas y pancartas. Las pancartas principales muestran lemas en español, uno de ellos dice "La Bahía de Cádiz en lucha" y otro "Brigada Amarillas". Se aprecian también otras banderas y pancartas más pequeñas con diferentes mensajes. Al fondo se ven edificios de apartamentos de varios pisos. La escena evoca un ambiente de partido de fútbol con un fuerte apoyo de la afición local.
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En medio de una calle, un contenedor grande de plástico arde en llamas, produciendo una gran columna de humo negro. Alrededor, un grupo de personas observa la escena desde la acera. A ambos lados de las llamas hay barreras de seguridad de color naranja. En el fondo se ven edificios y un letrero de una estación. La escena sugiere una protesta o disturbio con un objeto incendiado en la calle.
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Una imagen muestra un gran fuego ardiendo en primer plano, consumiendo lo que parece ser una bobina de madera grande. Al fondo, un grupo de personas, algunas enmascaradas, se mueven a través de una nube de humo amarillo, cerca de una barricada. La escena sugiere un disturbio o protesta violenta.
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Una multitud de trabajadores de la construcción, muchos con cascos, protestan en una plaza soleada. Algunos levantan los brazos en señal de protesta, mientras otros sostienen carteles o simplemente observan. El fondo muestra edificios de varios pisos y palmeras. La atmósfera es de tensión y activismo.
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I do attend Bible study run by a conservative local pastor but with people from variety of traditions & that's what makes study interesting & lively, because we all take Bible seriously even if we do not always agree.
Rural resident so churches are quite geographically spread out. I've tried around seven different churches over the years but not found a permanent home. I'm stuck being a lone ranger Christian. Not the way it is supposed to be....but the way it is.
@elston_ -- I can relate though! The debates between denominations confused me for years and were a large part of why I steered clear.
When first learning about Orthodoxy, I was quite struck by idea that it's "predenominational". So when I became intensely Christian-curious and wanted community, I figured I'd start at the root of it all and go from there. Ends up Orthodox theology and biblical interpretation are the first that have made sense to me and seemed internally consistent. 🤷♀️
For me, conservative Lutheranism shows fidelity to Word while not necessarily rejecting all tradition- only that which makes void the Word of God.
But embracing infant baptism is a tricky one for me. I would even point to rite of "confirmation" as a tacit admission by Western churches that practice infant baptism, that some kind of real faith & commitment is needed from the individual at some point in spiritual journey.
Calvinism & its daughters I strongly dislike.
– I've also had many questions about baptism, especially for infants!
I barely dare try to articulate my feeble grasp/why I'm comfortable with it now. It's only come through just starting to understand, and personally experiencing, how the holy traditions of the church–baptism, liturgy, Eucharist, confession–combine to gently orient a soul towards God; and, at the same time, each person themselves chooses to maintain that orientation, even after being baptized at whatever age.
@Haleakalacrater
If baptism is a gift of God to church & one it can in turn give to children, that helps us see it in a different light.
If human parents give gifts to infants & toddlers, without demanding they be old enough to write a thank you letter then why can't God through church bring baptism to infants & children?
When it talks about whole households being baptized in NT that *could* include infants. But text doesn't give us clear indication that it does.
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BUGS BUNNY IS NON BINARY FIGHT ME ON THIS
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According to Chuck Jones this is actually true. Bugs is trans and beyond the binary system. Chuck said Bugs is sometimes more male and sometimes more female, just as he feels like it.
tuna ramen COMI...
GENDERFLUID BUGS?
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Chuck Jones didn't know the word back then (to be fair, he used transse*ual to describe him, because it was the 90s and he was a different generation) but yes, definitely!](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7776105 "[A screencap of a Twitter thread.]
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BUGS BUNNY IS NON BINARY FIGHT ME ON THIS
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According to Chuck Jones this is actually true. Bugs is trans and beyond the binary system. Chuck said Bugs is sometimes more male and sometimes more female, just as he feels like it.
tuna ramen COMI...
GENDERFLUID BUGS?
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Chuck Jones didn't know the word back then (to be fair, he used transse*ual to describe him, because it was the 90s and he was a different generation) but yes, definitely!")
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He wrote it in one of his books. Bugs bunny is based on the classic tricksters in norse mythology, which all were either trans or genderfluid. Also, even though Bugs wasn't intended to be trans, but due to the fact that he was a huge icon in the trans community of the 80s and
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was used on signs on riots at the time, chuck jones was talking with queer people why they used his image as representation and he gladly learned that bugs was seen as trans and chuck gladly accepted him that way. The fact that he created a character in a way that a minority,
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like the trans community of that time, found hope and happiness in him, made him very proud and Chuck saw it as his biggest achievement, much bigger than any award or so could ever be.
He wrote it in one of his books.](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7776107 "[A screencap of a Twitter thread.]
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
He wrote it in one of his books. Bugs bunny is based on the classic tricksters in norse mythology, which all were either trans or genderfluid. Also, even though Bugs wasn't intended to be trans, but due to the fact that he was a huge icon in the trans community of the 80s and
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was used on signs on riots at the time, chuck jones was talking with queer people why they used his image as representation and he gladly learned that bugs was seen as trans and chuck gladly accepted him that way. The fact that he created a character in a way that a minority,
Ferret Pigeon @gwenjuckts
like the trans community of that time, found hope and happiness in him, made him very proud and Chuck saw it as his biggest achievement, much bigger than any award or so could ever be.
He wrote it in one of his books.")
Al-Udeid airbase in the Qatari capital was struck by at least three ballistic missiles in response to Washington's bombing of Iran's nuclear facilitiesthecradle.co
My poor kitty Lola. She still poops on the floor, which is semi-manageable now because I place puppy pads next to the litterbox. She also has blood in her urine. She's had 2 rounds of antibiotics and her culture is bacteria-free, so she has "idiopathic cystitis," ie no known cause. The vet suggests I give her Gabapentin to "manage stress," and I guess I'll try it, but I doubt the cause is "stress." I'm considering that the cats got Covid from me in 2023, when I was completely bed-bound for 4 weeks and sick for months, and that may be the source of their autoimmune disease too (they both have IBD) and complications. Which means, not much to be done. They're already both on prednisone for IBD, which shortens their lives all by itself. We (meaning my Mom, they're her cats too) have spent a lot of money on teats and treatments and vet visits, and some point need to stop and let the inevitable occur. My poor kitty.
Here's a pic of her cooling off on the floor under the ceiling fan yesterday.
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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A new site, FuckLAPD.com, is using public records and facial recognition technology to allow anyone to identify police officers in Los Angeles they have a picture of. The tool, made by artist Kyle McDonald, is designed to help people identify cops who may otherwise try to conceal their identity, such as covering their badge or serial number.“We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up,” McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. “fucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests against the horrific ICE raids. And more broadly—the failure of the LAPD to accomplish anything useful with over $2B in funding each year.”
“Cops covering up their badges? ID them with their faces instead,” the site, which McDonald said went live this Saturday. The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officer’s face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests. The site says image processing happens on the device, and no photos or data are transmitted or saved on the site. “Blurry, low-resolution photos will not match,” the site says.
“fucklapd.com uses data provided by the City of Los Angeles directly to the public,” McDonald told me in an email. “This data has been provided in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits. That means all of this information belongs to the public and is a matter of public record. fucklapd.com is not scraping any data.”
In addition to potentially identifying officers by name and serial number, FuckLAPD.com also pulls up a police officer’s salary.
“Surprisingly it [the domain name] only costs $10 a year to exercise my first amendment right to say fucklapd.com,” McDonald said.
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I tested the tools by grabbing an image of a white and bald police officer from an LAPD press conference addressing its use of force during the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. I uploaded the image to the site, and within a few seconds the site presented me with nine headshots of officers who could be possible matches, all of them bald white men. The first correctly identified the cop in the image I uploaded.Clicking “view profile” under the result sent me to the Watch the Watchers site by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community group based in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. “All of the information on this website comes from records that were deliberately made public by the City of Los Angeles in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits,” the Watch the Watchers site says. “We plan to keep refreshing this data from new public records requests as well as to add other data.” Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is not associated with FuckLAPD.com and did not endorse the site.
McDonald told me that since the site launched, it had around 50,000 visitors, but “Because the analysis happens on-device I have no way of knowing what people are using it for, except for some people who have posted screenshots to Twitter or Instagram,” he said.
In 2018 McDonald made another tool called ICEspy which used hundreds of photos of ICE employees from LinkedIn and does much the same thing as FuckLAPD.com. “This app is designed to highlight and embarrass the organization committing atrocities against refugees and immigrants to the United States,” ICEspy’s website says. That tool originally used a Microsoft API, before Microsoft restricted access to it. McDonald said on X that he recently relaunched the tool to run locally on devices. 404 Media tested ICEspy using images of ICE employees on LinkedIn to verify if the tool worked and each result was incorrect; McDonald indicated on X he was looking for others to re-scrape LinkedIn and update the database.
Over the last few months ICE officers have consistently worn masks, neck gaiters, sunglasses, and baseball caps to shield their identity while often refusing to provide their name or even confirm the agency they belong to. This includes while violently assaulting people, detaining U.S. citizens, and pointing weapons at bystanders, leaving little room for recourse or accountability against the individual agents or the agency.
ICE’s constant use of masks has created a climate where people cannot be sure that the heavily armed group of men coming towards them are really federal agents or not. In Philadelphia, a man pretended to be an ICE agent in order to rob an auto repair shop and zip tie an employee. In Brooklyn, a man posed as an immigration officer before attempting to rape a woman.
ICE claims that assaults against its officers have increased by 413 percent, and use this as the justification for covering their faces. But as Philip Bump showed in the Washington Postthere are still plenty of questions about those numbers and their accuracy. ICE says its officers’ family members have been doxed too.
Neither the LAPD or ICE responded to a request for comment.
Joseph Cox contributed reporting.
'ICE Agent' Pulls Gun on Man Taking Photos of His Car
Activists post footage which also shows suspects being led away by masked agent.Billal Rahman (Newsweek)
The US leader criticized the former Russian president for suggesting some nations may provide Iran with nuclear weaponsRT
Zurückweisungen an deutschen Grenzen sind rechts- und verfassungswidrig.
Wird offen ignoriert.
Israels Genozid in #Gaza, sowie ein unprovozierter Angriffskrieg gegen den Iran sind völkerrechtswidrig.
Findet man nix schlimmes dran.
Die 'Intervention' der amerik. Faschisten ist eben so ein Verstoß gegen das Völkerrecht.
Auch hier klatscht der Kleine Fritz Beifall.
Es gibt einen Bericht über die offen rechtsbrüchige Bereicherung des Jens Spahn.
Diesen Bericht macht man "sich nicht zu eigen".
Jeder Bürgergeldempfänger wird drangsaliert und gebrandmarkt für 4,20€, während man die Fristen für eine Auffarbeitung der CumEx-Affäre (MILLIARDEN!) verstreichen lässt.
Rechtsextremisten lässt man fast zügellos freie Hand, während potenzielle klimaproteste oder Demos gegen Völkermord zu Extremisten erklärt werden.
Der #Faschismus ist schon hier; unterstützt vom deutschen Michel, der für 2km Autobahn alles und jeden Fortschritt als "linksgrünwoke" attackiert.
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Ich weiß nicht, wie ich euch sonst noch erklären soll, dass Gerichte, Parteiverbotsverfahren, das ganze Rechtsbrimborium und vorallem eure gottverdammten Petitionen rein gar nichts mehr bewirken werden.
#Gaza #genocide
#IsraelTerroristState
@palestine
"Over 377,000 people, half of them children, are missing in Gaza since Oct 2023, says Harvard-linked report, pointing to a far higher death toll than reported"
"According to Garb's findings, the actual number of people killed may be far higher than the official death toll, which currently stands at around 61,000"
Also, the GHF scheme is a further genocide tool at the IOF's disposal
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![The new report sheds light on how the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid sites triggered the killing of scores of Palestinians [Getty]](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7776081 "The new report sheds light on how the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid sites triggered the killing of scores of Palestinians [Getty]")
Over 377,000 people, half of them children, are missing in Gaza since Oct 2023, says Harvard-linked report, pointing to a far higher death toll than reported.The New Arab Staff (The new Arab)
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This heat wave is absolutely bone crushing, and I'm so glad that I installed central air two years ago.
But if you are without central air, or you're dealing with a heat wave for the first time because it's reaching areas that don't historically get this hot, here are a few tips from my years of poverty in a desert:
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President Trump changes the trajectory of the history of the Middle East.Hugh Hewitt (Fox News)
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