On Tuesday 17th June 2025 MSPs votit unanimously tae pass the Scottish Languages Bill intae law.
This'll be the first time oor language is recognised in Scots law!
It's the haurd wark o a guid wheen o fowk, wi the backin o a hunner year o activism wi thoosans involved, an millions o Scots speakers, fae the 2,444,659 thit reportit Scots skills in the 2022 Scotland's Census gaun back throu aw thae speikers ower the past near millenium.
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Canadians are selling their properties in Florida, not to mention tourism is down there. International tourism remains below pre-pandemic levels, with a notable decline in Canadian visitors.
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Discover why Canadians are selling US properties as values rise and the dollar weakens, creating a unique investment opportunity.Miles Zimbaluk (Canada to USA)
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Triple-bad time for homeowners, in the SW still recovering from two bulls-eye hurricanes. Insurance is high, labor is scarce, and as you say @Katherine Bond - a lot of Canadians own homes &/or vacation homes in SW FL. And as they sell, few buyers are liking the scene, so down go values, and services.
I was recently at two state parks in FL, usually full to the gills, but neither big park seemed to have any day tourists, Empty roads & paths! But packed with US'ians in huge motor homes. From Minnesota, GA, TX ... Meanwhile, homeowners who think it's time to sell and leave 'Paradise' are not finding buyers. The wealthy may not care, mansions are still being built, a short private jet-ride from Mar-a-lago....
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Doğu Kürdistanlı bu anne oğlunun tutulduğu hapishanenin önünde, “Ey insanlık oğlumu asacaklar, ne olur yardım edin,” diye yalvar yakar feryat etti, ama dünya duymadı onu, sırça köşklerine kapanan siyasi partiler ve kurumlar o çığlığa kulaklarını kapattılar. Ve vahşi İran molla rejimi feryat figan yardım isteyen annenin oğlu Hamid’ i idam etti.
Bir defa daha söyleyeyim: Ateş düştüğü yeri yakıyor. Ne zaman ki ateş düştüğü yeri değil hepimizi yakarsa, ancak o zaman insan oluruz, ancak o zaman gerçek bir millet oluruz. İdam edilen Hamid’i, Hamid’leri kendi çocuğumuz, kardeşimiz gibi hissettiğimiz bir millet yaratmak gerekiyor. Gerisi boş laf.
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Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’ | US weather | The Guardian
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Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shutteredEric Holthaus (The Guardian)
yea so the thing about iran's underground nuke facilities, is that if they were really "totally obliterated" as in, the blast wave went all the way down to penetrate the actual structure, there would probably be video of the blast wave coming out of the entrances. they shot the bombs down the ventilation shafts so you'd expect it to blow the entrances out.
i figure if such video existed they would have shown it. instead we just see holes punched in the ground near the vent shafts.
still not convinced. but eh whatever it was a good show and everyone backed down. better than a ground assault
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Latest deaths come amid worsening humanitarian situation despite renewed hope for ceasefireWilliam Christou (The Guardian)
Re: UN Guteres:
UN inability and unwillingness to prevent genocide bordering criminal. The Gen Secretary should be tried for war crimes against humanity for his reluctance to intervene
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Organisers of Budapest Pride said the government was attempting to restrict peaceful protests by targeting themNadeem Badshah (The Guardian)
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December 9, 2011 - June 28, 2025.
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Thank you for all the joy you brought to our lives every single day and night.
Sleep tight, my sweet prince.
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aah I have early signs of arthritis myself in my right hand from a boxer’s fracture when I was an amateur fighter. I’m not too familiar with the shinai but as I understand it the recommended hand protection is called a “kote” but I think any lobster mitten style glove would work.
Something like this: woodenswords.com/product_p/sg.…
I don’t recommend using any 5 finger style gloves but if it comes down to affordability its better than nothing. Trust me though, spending $100+ on hand protection is worth the investment to protect your hands if you want to spar with any amount of force.
"Le temps est venu pour les forces de progrès de défendre un nouveau modèle économique : l’eurokeynésianisme" marianne.net/agora/tribunes-li…
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Do liberals understand why things are being overturned by SCOTUS?
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> Do liberals understand
No, mainly because they do not care. Like a religion, their philosophy is based around moral right not outcomes in reality. Understanding is irrelevant.
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I've never heard of this happening, but heat doesn't kill toxins that grow on rice from leaving it sit out of the fridge for too long.
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#FU
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The losers in all this unseemly business are the European public. They are being screwed by U.S.-led militarism and European elites who are pimping their…Strategic Culture Foundation
Last week was a Bcachefs pull request consisting of fixes and a new 'journal_rewind' feature to aide as a disaster recovery tool for the file-systemwww.phoronix.com
The world sadly needs some of the stuff only antisocial nutters can provide. If the said nutter's gift to the world is good enough, the drama and discord that the nutter bequeaths will be forgotten and they will be given a free pass.
Hence the advice: never meet your heroes.
Πανευρωπαϊκό πρωτάθλημα στίβου με καύσωνα στη Μαδρίτη και οι βόρειοι δεν μπορούν να πάρουν τα πόδια τούς.
Ο Τεντογλου ως γνήσιο τέκνο του καλοκαιριού κάνει εύκολα ένα 8.46 στη δεύτερη προσπάθεια με πάτημα 14.5 πόντους πίσω από την βαλβίδα.
Ρεκόρ αγώνων και καλύτερη επίδοση της χρονιάς μέχρι τώρα.
Μίλτος ο καλοκαιρακιας.
Πονατε χειμωνακηδες?
Israel is hiding potentially deadly Oxycodone inside humanitarian aid flour bags in Gaza found at an aid distribution point.
The pills have been identified as Oxycodone 80mg, a highly addictive and deadly drug in larger doses, especially to children.
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Gaza’s Grassroots Effort to Ensure Humanitarian Aid Reaches Starving Palestinians
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Tribal and community leaders in Gaza are uniting to secure aid convoys after over 500 people have been killed in daily aid massacres.
Ursula von der Leyen suggests EU could join forces with the Asian-Pacific trade bloc as Europe tries to up its game.Tim Ross (POLITICO)
Live Updates: Israel has been bombarding Gaza, killing thousands of Palestinians, since Hamas launched a deadly offensive on Oct 7, 2023.DAWN.COM
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" L'homme ne doit pas se couvrir la tête, parce qu'il est l'image de la gloire de Dieu, tandis que la femme est la gloire de l'homme.
En effet, l'homme n'a pas été tiré de la femme, mais la femme de l'homme; et l'homme n'a pas été créé pour la femme, mais la femme pour l'homme "
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1/2 Je propose de renommer ce texte fondateur de l'Église Catholique "Discours sur l'origine et les fondements du patriarcat"
Petit clin d’œil aux excités du voile et de l'islam !
" Tout homme qui prie ou qui prophétise la tête couverte, déshonore sa tête.
Toute femme qui prie ou qui prophétise la tête non voilée, déshonore sa tête: elle est comme celle qui est rasée.
Annalena Baerbock Elected UN General Assembly President Amid Outcry Over Support for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
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Former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber sharply criticized Baerbock’s election. He wrote: “The United Nations was born in opposition to German war criminals. Today, it has elected a German war criminal to oversee its accelerating decline. Eighty years later, the Reich takes its revenge with Annalena Baerbock as UNGA President, in the midst of a genocide that she has enthusiastically abetted.”
👏 👏 👏 👏 #Germany. You have send the right person to the right position to make the world an abattoir.
Ps. You asked for jungle, you'll have a jungle.
New York (Quds News Network)- Former German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has been elected President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), despite sharp criticism over her support for IsEditing Team (Quds News Network)
Western thugs. Genocide perpetrators.
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Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time
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Americans still have fresh memories of the death and destruction of the previous US imperial adventure in the region.Ahmad Ibsais (Al Jazeera)
I haven't had a proper game console since the PS3.
I would like to get one, mostly to play with my family (wife, 7yo kid). I had been waiting for the Switch 2 for a while now (I really resisted the urge to get a Switch OLED back when it was released...).
On the plus side:
On the minus side:
Should I still go with it, or is there a better option? (I hope the better option is not to wait 4 more years for Nintendo to release a newer Switch 2 that would fix the shitty hardware).
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
Switch 2's IPS display probably isn't using overdrive.Jeremy Laird (PC Gamer)
I personally don't recommend anyone get the Switch 2. The new price points are frankly ridiculous, and I'd hate to see that shit get justified by sales.
Personally, I'd recommend looking into handheld PCs. I haven't looked into them much myself due to lack of money, but they're generally much more worth the cost from what I've heard.
All that said, I missed that you were looking for something to play with your 7 year old child. Switch might be better, but any handheld would be... notably destructible, so that's a factor to keep in mind.
Yeah, Mastodon's Unlisted is such a misnomer. My biggest gripe with it is that it mainly means "unsearchable".
And you can't really change that on a server, since that would mean that people who did mean "unsearchable" when they chose "unlisted", suddenly find their posts showing up in searches without their consent...
Friendica meanwhile shows threads as threads, but without the collapsing which would be very useful.
That's an urban legend, alas. While that *would* be a great way to make "unlisted" work, that's absolutely, positively, 100% *not* how "unlisted" works.More here, including how to manage threads in your timeline:
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🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump says the administration will now run FULL STEAM AHEAD to fully ban birthright citizenship following the SCOTUS ruling
"That was meant for the babies of slaves, not meant for people trying to SCAM the system and come into the country on vacation." 🔥
"Hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship and it wasn't meant for that reason. It was meant for babies of SLAVES."
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#Kneecap news: according to the band themselves, they've been told that their set will not be streamed live but will be available on demand (presumably with some politically inappropriate words cut out) this evening.
I don't know what time this evening, and finding recorded sets on the iplayer during the festival is a challenge at the best of times.
But everyone, do please watch it when you can. I know that most of the people posting about Kneecap here will have no interest in enjoying the actual music, it's just a political point to make.
However, the only reason their political stances have made any headlines at all is because they're popular. And the only reason they're popular is that they are very good at what they do. It would be a great shame if everyone just focused on using them as a political football without paying attention to the tremendously entertaining music that Kneecap make.
Anyway, in about a quarter of an hour, BBC will be streaming Bob Vylan from the West Holts stage without controversy, and they're very good too, so watch that.
He was better than good
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There are remote beaches. There are quiet towns. And then there are isolated places. The real ones. The kind where the post takes months, the people all haveGareth Johnson (Young Pioneer Tours)
« Qu’est-ce qu’une croyance limitante ?Une croyance limitante est une croyance que nous entretenons à notre sujet et qui, comme son nom l’indique, nous limite, nous contraint dans nos actions. Voici des exemples de croyances limitantes
Je n’ai pas de mémoire. »
« Je n’ai jamais eu l’oreille musicale, comme mon père. »
« Je ne peux pas terminer un livre, je me déconcentre trop vite. »
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The UK’s designation of Hamas, and possibly Palestine Action, as “terrorist” organizations shows that the proscription regime is not about preventing terrorism but silencing political views and free expression.
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Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait pick up Richard Medhurst from Beirut airport as he takes a break from political persecution in Austria and the UK, and immediately take him to the borders of South Lebanon and Occupied Palestine to witness the largest funer…Free Palestine TV (FPTV’s Substack)
to destroy Pres. Trump and his administrationRobert W Malone MD, MS (Malone News)
We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity.But what we call AI today is nothing more than a statistical machine: a digital parrot regurgitating patterns mined from oceans of human data (the situation hasn’t changed much since it was discussed here five years ago). When it writes an answer to a question, it literally just guesses which letter and word will come next in a sequence – based on the data it’s been trained on.
This means AI has no understanding. No consciousness. No knowledge in any real, human sense. Just pure probability-driven, engineered brilliance — nothing more, and nothing less.
So why is a real “thinking” AI likely impossible? Because it’s bodiless. It has no senses, no flesh, no nerves, no pain, no pleasure. It doesn’t hunger, desire or fear. And because there is no cognition — not a shred — there’s a fundamental gap between the data it consumes (data born out of human feelings and experience) and what it can do with them.
Philosopher David Chalmers calls the mysterious mechanism underlying the relationship between our physical body and consciousness the “hard problem of consciousness”. Eminent scientists have recently hypothesised that consciousness actually emerges from the integration of internal, mental states with sensory representations (such as changes in heart rate, sweating and much more).
Given the paramount importance of the human senses and emotion for consciousness to “happen”, there is a profound and probably irreconcilable disconnect between general AI, the machine, and consciousness, a human phenomenon.
AI may appear human, but it is an illusion we must tackle.The Conversation
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in reply to Michael Dempster • • •Wi this bill gaun intae law, A'm gled tae say thit A've knocked ma pan in tae see it throu. A'm prood thit A'm wan o a haunfae thit's been wi it fae inception, throu public consultation, draftin, introduction, giein ma evidence at committee stage, amendments an debates, tae it gettin votit intae law.
A wis at ivry meetin an gaitherin giein ma best, A respondit fully an thochtfully tae aw written maitters, an spake wi hunners aw up an doon the country fae the heich heid yins ...
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in reply to Michael Dempster • • •Guid oan yersels fur gittin that through.
A big well done tae aw concernt.
But ah wid imagine ther wull still be thaim thit ster at ye as if ye've goat horns when ye open yer mooth an spout oot Weegie 🤔😄
Wan ae the granweans sterts ther Scots law oor in Glesga this year, ah wull lit ye know how much ae the Mither tongue actually gits yased in Scots law wance ah git ther feedback.
Onwards..Heeeeeucht! 😄😁
Michael Dempster
in reply to Michael Dempster • • •tae the news & culture fowk, tae public bodies, organisations, an oniebody thit juist wantit a blether aboot it. An A'v been in an oot thon pairliament mair than some o the jannies.
A'm no claimin it ma ain, here, it's aw oors!
That said, A ken masel, fir ma ain satisfaction, thit A fair pit some shift in fir tae see thit yeese got it, as best thit wis athin ma pooer. 🫡🫡🫡
Congratulations tae aw involved, we duin it! 🥳
As A aye say - your voice maitters!
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