A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up

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if you have the room for me to stay I'll probably be there from the 20th to 25th. I personally don't mind meeting up with a bunch of other fedi users. I'm just not sure if they would be cool with my other identity or if its best they just know me as vitalis.

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the structure and evolution of our own spiral, which is much harder to do since Earth is embedded inside the Milky Way. The galaxy […]
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!

Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on July 1:

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And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:

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And thank you for coming all the way to NZ - so few ever do, on account of it being so far away from the rest of the world that it is practically on the moon.

The bit that echoed the longest was the Corpus callosum severance story, where the spoken word is the spark that jumped the gap.

The analogue hole between McGilchristian hemispheres... and I'm prone to going a bit Milton/Blake on the whole thing so am tempted to see the gap between the hemispheres as being a literal physical instantiation of The War in Heaven - and "in the beginning was the word" has a certain ring to it.

So thanks for that 😀

Secretary of Defense (War!) Pete Hegseth, together with Military Representatives, will be holding a Major News Conference tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. EST at The Pentagon, in order to fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots. These Patriots were very upset! After 36 hours of dangerously flying through Enemy Territory, they landed, they knew the Success was LEGENDARY, and then, two days later, they started reading Fake News by CNN and The Failing New York Times. They felt terribly! Fortunately for them and, as usual, solely for the purpose of demeaning PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, the Fake News (Times and CNN) lied and totally misrepresented the Facts, none of which they had (because it was too soon, there were no Facts out there yet!). The News Conference will prove both interesting and irrefutable. Enjoy!

Ayer el parlamento iraní aprobó la retirada de #Irán de la #OIEA y la expulsión de todos sus inspectores y trabajadores del país.
Existen claros y repetidos indicios de la colaboración entre la organización y el estado judío, cuya documentación publicamos anteriormente, con respecto a la ubicación no solo de los depósitos de uranio sino también de los ingenieros nucleares, sus nombres y sus domicilios. Se da el caso que #Israel no es miembro de la OIEA, por lo cual está libre de sus inspecciones.

Please do not watch the video where a Israeli/Belarrusian man beats an Iranian 2 year old child in Moscow's air port.

I wish I didn't.

Anyway yo already have all the information, an Israeli beat a 2 year old Iranian child for no motive whatsoever. The Russian authorities detained him, so he'll prob. get some jail time, not that it'll help him. He seamed not a bit remorseful of his heinous act.

Anyway, you don't need to watch violence against children, it's horrible.

The child is on a coma.

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Old school winter fishing in Finland. youtube.com/watch?v=DvYjC7_UJY… The subtitle translation does not work, as they speak Swedsih. And I cannot see a way to make it start from Swedish. Seems like Google missed something here? Most countries are multilingual. Or am I missing something.

En la Armada se han venido arriba con lo del aumento del gasto militar y han decidido ignorar positivamente la principal enseñanza de este último cuarto de siglo: en el mar, hoy por hoy, solo hay submarinos y blancos. Te gastas mil millones de euros en un portaaviones para que te lo hunda un yemení de 19 años volando un dron hecho con un Passat del 1981 y dos alas de fibra de vidrio

#guerra #fuerzasarmadas #España🇪🇸 #noticias
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never forget Navatia y sus cosillas que nos costaron un pastizal.

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New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered an extraordinary #Roman mosaic in Alès in the Gard department.

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#archaeology #RomanArchaeology

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The Midterms Are Among Us!

The threat of the Usurpitation is high!

America's enemies are not knocking on the Doors!

They're already within our domains!

Don't wait to get registered, insist on Paper Ballots & if you don't get these two things?

Make anything issue out of it by making it a Federal Case!

It's the only way to separate the Wheat from the Chaf!

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A British guide to...

Terrorism:
- picking up a flag
- putting paint on a war plane

Not terrorism:
- executing 200 journalists
- murdering 30,000 kids
- bombing 37 hospitals
- allowing babies decompose in ICU beds
- starving 2million people
- shoot people queuing for flour


--- Daniel Lambert, on x/twitter, regarding Palestine Action

#PalestineAction #framing #narrative #NarrativeFraming #terrorism

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BREAKING: DOJ has filed a Complaint against Tim Walz for Minnesota Laws providing in-state tuition benefits for illegal aliens

“The Department of Justice just won on this exact issue in Texas, and we look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first.” - Attorney General Pam Bondi

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Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

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The "Eurostack" is a (long overdue) project to publicly fund a European "stack" of technology that is independent from American Big Tech (as well as other powers' technology that has less hold in Europe, such as Chinese and Russian tech):

euro-stack.info/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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The European Union has emerged as a hostile force to Moscow, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed, accusing the bloc of arming the “neo-Nazi Kiev regime” to attack Russia.
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A paramilitary is a military that is not a part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.[1] The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term "paramilitary" as far back as 1934.[2]

photo: Legion of Frontiersmen, Edmonton Command, 1915 – a nationalist paramilitary group not officially affiliated with the Canadian Army

Lara Friedman President of Foundation for Middle East Peace is an expert on U.S. foreign policy in the Mideast, anti-Palestinian legislation, and the weaponization of " antisemitism" to target critics of Israel. I talked with her about all this and more in an in-depth interview for Cutting Through.

Interview With Lara Friedman

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From the exact same company that gave us google glasshole glasses. That's just one of the almost 300 spectacular white elephants they're had to date - most of them being in the last five to ten years.

Every company obviously has failures which no one usually gets to hear about. google's failed products on the other hand were heavily marketed before flopping and then being shut down. They're blown through umpteen billions on trail of total lemons which reinforces my belief even more that they're really just a ponzi operation.

killedbygoogle.com

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(72/...) ... Fermetures de classes écoles publiques en raison de la démographie en baisse, sauf établissements privés -> regroupement des classes/élèves + Paprec groupe de collecte/traitement déchets : #corruption + Free accord vente données personnelles clients Selfconnect revendues partis politiques + Apple amende 150 millions € abus de position dominante -> outil App Tracking Transparency 2021-2023.

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We can't know, but I'd venture that if Harris was in office the aggression against Iran probably wouldn't have lasted 12 days. The Dems are very committed to the "regime change" goal.

Even with Trump in office, a bunch of Dems supported the aggression and opposed AOC's bill to impeach Trump. If it was Harris that crowd would have sided with the aggression, and they'll prob. wouldn't be complaining about the unconstitutionality of the attack, as they didn't with Obama bombing Yemen.

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I've found half a dozen of these neoliberal accounts lately, and I've been blocked by half a dozen: "Harris told you if Trump won we would be at war. Told you so."

These fuckers make my blood boil. Their team is complicit in just as much the red team is, and red/blue team are nothing more than a bipartisan oligarchy doing what it does. They make politics so disgusting and unreal.

Creative Commons jumps the shark.

*smdh*

#AI #CreativeCommons mastodon.social/@creativecommo…

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Students attending the U.S. Space and Rocket Center Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, will have the chance to hear NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station answer their prerecorded questions. At 12:40 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 1, NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Jonny Kim, and Nichole Ayers will answer student questions. Ayers is a space […]

Wow had to use my feeding tube for the first time today...sort of.

Been having an issue swallowing small pills over the last few days. Making it hard to get Advil and my prescription pain killers. I can get larger sized food pcs across the blistered area (painful) but small pills are hanging up on it and causing gag/puke reflex (EXTREMELY painful). Got a mortar and pestle and ground up my pills, dissolved the powder in 50ml water, draw up and flush down the feed tube

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