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@ol dusty hamstrings A little tweaking with RBG levels in gimp and then adjust the remaining contrast curve:
If it wasn't for horrid compression artifacts probably could have produced a much better image but the blockiness of the compression was the limiting factor here.
Land acknowledgements are like this: Your parents give you $100k, you ask where it came from and they say "we stole it from Larry's parents, but they're dead now" and then, instead of giving the money to Larry, you spend the money on yourself, but every time you buy something you say "I feel bad about screwing Larry" like that makes you a good person. If you really believe you’re on stolen land, then give it back or STFU.
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I don't know how else to reach you, so I'm asking you - maybe they'll hear us this way. Please share these photos. Show them to your politicians. This is the Kyiv metro. Every night, Ukrainians hide here from Russian missiles. Families sleep on the cold floor with their children. Please, help us. Close the sky over Ukraine.
So I had an eye appointment today. As I'm waiting , this woman comes in with her husband to pick up her new glasses. Can't have the fit checked properly because that would mean taking off, or at the least moving, her hijab. So the woman serving her does the best she can to fit them and tells her to come back if there are issues so they can try again. Husband is also wearing glasses but since he doesn't have to wear any kind of covering I suspect his were fitted correctly the first time around.
At least 13 people were dead after flash flooding hit south-central Texas early Friday, officials said, with more than 20 girls at a summer camp still...
Man, Synth finds no joy in anything, lmao. I really can't help but disagree with his view of gaming this time, Death Stranding is garbage that's for sure, but I don't believe for one second you're "wasting your time" playing games you enjoy.
Death Stranding 2 is one of the most subtly disturbing games I've ever played, and a complete waste of everyone's time.#deathstranding2 Join this channel to ...
point wasn't really that games as a whole are a waste of time (even tho they arguably are like anything that does not involve some form of IRL gain) but monotone busy work more similar to wagie jobs are
@DarkMahesvara I know what he said, but he doesn't make a proper differentiation, he outright says "men want a wife and kids and wouldn't waste time on games if they had that!", lmao.
he is being polemic as usual considering he is extremely lonely. even he would still play some games if he had wife and kids but the point that we would spend a lot less time and money on all of our copes if we didn't need to cope still holds.
@DarkMahesvara I don't know about spending money, I uh, just don't, but I would never focus less on gaming.
A NEED to focus less on gaming is different from a WANT to focus less on gaming. I won't let my kids die of fucking hunger because I have to get to 99 mining on Runescape, lmao. But this is such a vapid argument.
@DarkMahesvara Is that really something you think matters though? I doubt I'd care anyway, there are a million older games, even if games stopped being made, I'd be dead until I finished everything from older times.
A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic mutations that may contribute to the development of lung cancer in people with no or hardly any history of smoking.
Mongabay India won an excellence in audio reporting award recently from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA). The award was for the limited series podcast Wild Frequencies. SOPA, which promotes best practices and excellence in journalism, announced the winners of its 2025 Awards of Editorial Excellence during a ceremony in Hong Kong on June 26. Wild Frequencies, a three-episode series that follows researchers in India studying animal sounds to better understand wildlife, is hosted by Mongabay India’s Kartik Chandramouli and Mongabay’s Shreya Dasgupta. It features sound design and original music by Abhijit Shylanath. SOPA shared the judges’ comments on the series: “With a rich audio-scape and creative sound design, rigorous reporting and engaging storytelling, these reports from the field (and forests and wetlands) around India offer listeners a deeper understanding of how the sounds [are] made by creatures in the natural world, and what those creatures and their bioacoustics can tell us about whether an ecosystem is healthy or imperiled.” The series also won “Best Science and Medical” podcast at the Publisher Podcast Awards in June and the “Best Produced Show” in the science category for the India Audio Summit & Awards 2025. In 2023, Mongabay won SOPA’s Excellence in Bahasa Indonesian News Reporting Award for the story ‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom, which was a collaboration with The Gecko Project and BBC News. Find the Wild Frequencies episodes here: Episode 1: “Find Them” — introduces the science of…This article was originally published on Mongabay
The Court of History's Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz are joined by Conservative former judge, John Michael Luttig, who declares his independence from Tr...
Trying to pinpoint it (at the risk of earnestness) something about the human endeavour - these spaces and structures of creation and intention against a wild backdrop of nature and world. How precarious and how precious the effort is.
Ça mérite un post tout seul :-) Par manque de connaissance du dossier (complexe et sinueux), je ne partage pas absolument toutes les certitudes de Candace #Owens quant au couple de dangereux escrocs élyséens, pour autant j'apprécie (et je crois en) sa sincérité et son intégrité. Et là elle révèle simplement, en bref, que Trump, qui recevait macron à la maison blanche, lui a téléphoné directement pour lui indiquer que #macron lui avait discrètement demandé de faire fermer sa bouche à #CandaceOwens, ainsi en échange macron pourrait œuvrer pour la paix en #Ukraine. Après les lettres envoyées par les avocats de bribri à candace, ça monte encore d'un cran, c'est juste ÉNORME. Ce dangereux couple est complètement cramé et encore et toujours protégé par le #médiavers français, ses #chiens-de-garde, ses truands et les journalopes officiels.... Et Trump la joue fine....en le sachant....ou pas:-) Pendant ce temps, les abrutis pipolitiques (qui ne sont pas comploplo eux, évidemment, enfin !! Aucune raison de douter de Brigitte, pas plus que de Pfizer, enfin !) font mumuse avec du secondaire ... On attend les réactions du #médiavers français aux ordres ....
Le 29 juin, un homme a été retrouvé mort après une terrible chute depuis sa fenêtre dans le 12ème arrondissement de Paris. Le bureau du médecin légiste a
Speaking on the Piers Morgan Uncensored talk show, US journalist and attorney Geraldo Rivera says young Jews who voted for pro-Palestinian Democratic Sociali...
It’s so frustrating that there is this illusion that we are all 49%/49% right now. Us versus them, good versus bad, and it’s all because of the BS that is the electoral system. It’s very likely 70% versus 30% and we’re just not seeing representative government.There’s just no common sense right now
The Court of History's Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz are joined by Conservative former judge, John Michael Luttig, who declares his independence from Tr...
poorly. “What I was trying to say is that I want this technology to be universally available as one of the ways people can get on top of their health,” he explained; "Of course I don’t want to mandate
Hamas responds to US-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal in a ‘positive spirit’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/4/ha…
"But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to publicly endorse the plan."
Waiting for him to now walk it back, as he has done before.
Again, learn from Turkey, because Trump sure is. Erdoğan did the same thing, cleaning out the ranks… and he’s managed to cling onto power for decades because of it. infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidnis…
Today in modern American Gleichschaltung:
"My SAC informed me in a moment she described as “brutally honest,” that I would not be receiving any promotions; in fact, I needed to prepare myself for the likelihood of being demoted.
@yianiris No, I mean that he/the people around him (e.g., Thiel via proxy of Vance, Miller, etc.) are systematically removing any chance for legal and democratic oversight by staffing the institutions that could enforce it with loyalists.
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Teen Vogue nails it again. The American empire (like all others) is built on hate and cruelty. We are simply watching it decline. Unfortunately, also like all other empires, it is going to kill a bunch of people on the way down. teenvogue.com/story/trump-admi…
"The solution is not returning to some mythical state of pre-Trump administration American equality, but actually understanding and fixing what is broken," argues writer Joseph Lee.
Ältere Frauen werden #lebendig #begraben, weil sie zu alt sind, um als #Sexsklavinnen zu arbeiten. #Mütter werden gezwungen, ihre eigenen #Babys zu essen. Junge #Mädchen wurden in #Eisenkäfige gesperrt und verbrannt. Doch kein einziger Protest! Alle, die jetzt für #Gaza protestieren, waren völlig still. Warum? Anders als die Menschen im Gazastreifen haben die #Jesiden nie einen #Krieg begonnen!
German Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies groups that fight paedophilia as ‘right-wing extremist’ medforth.biz/german-office-for…
In Islam, Muhammad is the "perfect model." And Muhammad's favorite wife Aisha was 6 when he married her, 9 when he consummated the marriage, so this makes perfect sense.
So far is the Qur’an from modern notions of tolerance and peaceful coexistence that it even warns Muslims not to befriend Jews and Christians.... By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, surely (Jesus) the son of Mary will soon descend amongst you and will judge mankind justly (as a Just Ruler); he will break the Cross and kill the pigs and there will be no Jizya (i.e. taxation taken from non Muslims). [17]Another hadith has Muhammad saying: “How will you be when the son of Mary (i.e. Jesus) descends amongst you and he will judge people by the Law of the Qur’an and not by the law of Gospel.”[18]
Muhammad weaves his charges against Jews and Christians together by condemning Christians for believing that Jesus was crucified, and Jews for believing that they crucified him: “They said (in boast), ‘We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah’; but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not” (Qur’an 4:157).
Allahs willing executioners - Germany: “First we cut the throats of the Jews, then the gays and finally the Christians!” No matter how obsequiously you pander to Muslims, the crocodile won’t eat you last. Degenerates are next after Jews. This is made clear by the statement from Arab youths quoted by Büscher: “First we cut the throats of the Jews, then the gays and finally the Christians!” Unless of course they encounter resistance at some point. But even to criticize their tactics would be racist.. D Blount medforth.biz/germany-first-we-…
Pamela Geller lists the acts of jihad in the US since the Garland, Texas jihad shooting. Yet one year after jihadis attacked our Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in defense of free speech, the West is in full surrender mode. In the wake of the Garland jihad attacks, the world says: let the bullies silence you. Don’t draw Muhammad. Comply with their other demands. We went into the event with our eyes open. We knew the risks. But we knew the risks were greater, for our children and our children’s children, if we allowed the freedom of speech to be destroyed by violent intimidation. Yet still we were cast as the villains. An imam told Sean Hannity that I should be executed. Non-Muslim media and political figures agreed with him that in standing for free speech, I had provoked the jihadis. Fox News host Martha McCallum pleaded with me to respect Islam and constrain myself. Bill O’Reilly said I “spurred” the violence. Erin Burnett accused me of “relishing” being targeted for beheading.Alisyn Camerota on CNN battled with me, trying to bully me into adhering to sharia law.Chris Cuomo was almost brought to tears by the thought of drawing Muhammad. Juan Williams and I had a knock-down drag out on Hannity. Geraldo Rivera compared me to the Aryan Nation, skinheads, and the KKK, and said, “Every time I see her on TV, I want to take a shower.”Carly Fiorina likened our free speech event to white supremacist marching. Donald Trump said I was an obnoxious blowhard (!) who was taunting Muslims.The list is long. The leftist networks (i.e., MSNBC) were unhinged. I could go on, but you get the picture.One year on, jihad in America is raging. We were right. Gerard Perry wrote an excellent essay on the “shortsightedness of the media lynch mob.” But still people are afraid to have me speak. CPAC refused to allow me to host an event. Ironically, Donald Trump is suffering the same abuse I received from him, for speaking candidly about jihad terror and Muslim immigration. breitbart.com/national-securit…
The Garland jihad was followed by a spate of ISIS-related attacks on American soil. Here is a list of the acts of jihad in the US since the Garland, Texas jihad shooting.
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I'm on Caterpillar's email list. Sometimes they're links to white papers, sometimes relevant for other reasons. And sometimes it's just to announce sales or special offers.
A friend was looking over my shoulder and noticed the subject line "See the latest deals on Cat parts" and had questions.
Speaking from experience: Taking a risk by calling things out can be a very isolating experience. Don't applaud people that do. Do as they did: Take a risk, speak up, call shit out.
Because the more people do so, the less risk everyone has to take. And eventually what was once daring to say has moved into the realm of ordinary again.
Interesting counterpoint to the stuff we sometimes talk about here. It's more for public chat rooms though. MLS (RFC 9240) still interests me and I've been wanting to try coding it.
The White House confirmed that the U.S. has cut off some planned shipments of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, claiming they suddenly want to "to put America's interests first."
I challenge you or anyone else who thinks this is AI to try to duplicate the image using any standard gen AI tooling. Please post what you get, I fucking dare you.
This is 100% crappy vector art thrown together into a crappy infographic by hand, and that thing on the bottom of the skeleton is called a pelvis.
Ah that’s fair, I can see where you’re coming from on that. Those icons could 100% be generated with AI given the right prompting.
In my book, they look way more like stock assets to me due to how generic the symbols are, and the consistent styling. The “army guard” icon is kinda sus because of the stick “gun”, but that can be read as deliberate ambiguity to appease potential corporate customers who don’t want gun depictions in their vector stock images, and same deal with the generic “six point star”.
You’d also think they’d have chosen some sort of more detailed depiction of “isolation & surveillance” than a megaphone, or a lightning head for “fear & control”. If any of the accompanying text was included in the prompt to generate these images, the output would’ve been completely different.
If you know anyone in the European Union who is seriously considering buying Meta's spyglasses, please remind them that using those privacy nightmares would make them a controller according to the GDPR. They'd be responsible for ensuring full compliance with our privacy laws, which - surprise, surprise - will be impossible.
Please tell them to save themselves and everyone around them the trouble and give the money to any NGO instead. -- #privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #Meta #BanRayBan
When it comes to President Donald Trump, the "worst is yet to come," according to an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.
Draft-dodging president tells US servicemen and women who recently risked their lives to conduct a combat operation: "Better you than me, that's all I can say."
The Colombian Navy announced its first seizure of an unmanned, remotely controlled narco-submarine in the Caribbean Sea, equipped with a Starlink antenna and with the capacity to transport 1.5 tons of cocaine.
Based upon a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, Donald Trump's administration wants to ramp up efforts to purge the country not only of undocumented immigrants but also naturalized citizens.
Newspaper article today has people complaining that second hand cars they bought online are dodgy. Like, maybe don't buy a car you've never seen or taken for a test drive?
The New Republic reports members of the U.S. military are spending July 4 demanding answers about the consequences of following the orders of “Trump’s far-right authoritarian government.
You know what one of the crazies things about the US is?
A cop can pull you over on the side of the road and be like "Please take this breathalyzer test" and you can say "no" because that's your right.
But he can also say "please step out of the car" and if you say "no" then he'll beat your ass and claim you're resisting, because that's not your right.
So the word "please", in US legal parlance, has 2 meanings: 1. Would you please wave your right not to do this? 2. By my authority I am compelling you to do this.
And they won't tell you which one it is, or they may lie about which one it is, and if you do it and you had the right not to then it's assumed you waved that right.
Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : JUN 28-JUL 11, 2025 CANADA MODÉRÉ (stable) Environ 1 personne sur 120 est infectée Par rapport au point le plus bas de la pandémie au Canada : -Infections ~5X 🔺 -COVID longue ~7X 🔺 -Hospitalisations ~5X 🔺 -Décès ~4X 🔺
John Stockwell left the CIA when he decided that what they were doing was endangering national security not protecting it.John R. Stockwell (born 1937) is a ...
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 CANADA MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 120 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~7X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : JUN 28-JUL 11, 2025 CANADA MODÉRÉ (stable) Environ 1 personne sur 120 est infectée Par rapport au point le plus bas de la pandémie au Canada : -Infections ~5X 🔺 -COVID longue ~7X 🔺 -Hospitalisations ~5X 🔺 -Décès ~4X 🔺
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 118 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~4X higher -Long COVID ~6X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 120 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~6X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 NOVA SCOTIA MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 110 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~7X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 NEW BRUNSWICK MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 133 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~4X higher -Long COVID ~7X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 QUÉBEC MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 115 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~7X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~5X higher
Today in Labor History July 4, 1910: African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocked out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round, leading to race riots throughout the U.S. 11 separate riots occurred in NYC, alone. There were riots in 50 cities, including New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, and St. Louis. At least 20 people died in these riots. Johnson, who was also known as the Galveston Giant, became the first black World Heavyweight champion in 1908, which made him unpopular with the predominantly white audience of boxing. He held that title from 1908-1915 and quickly became the most famous black man of the era. The racism against him was so intense that many, including socialist writer Jack London, called for a Great White Hope to fight him and take away his title. Jeffries, a former heavyweight world champ, came out of retirement specifically to prove “that a white man is better than a Negro.” Johnson’s victory in this fight earned him $65,000 ($2.1 million in today’s dollars).
With his winnings, Johnson opened a multi-racial restaurant and nightclub, Club Deluxe, which he ran with his white wife. Because of this, the authorities arrested him for violating the Mann act (transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes). President Trump pardoned him in 2018, something Reagan, both Bushes and even Obama refused to do. Johnson fled the country to avoid arrest, but continued boxing abroad. Eventually he turned himself in and served time at Leavenworth Prison.
"The rich and powerful don’t care if you dye your hair or pierce your nose or kiss a member of the same sex or say Hail Satan. They don’t care if you support one mainstream political faction over the other, or if you yell empty words about anarchy and revolution that aren’t pointed toward any real material goals. They care very much, however, if you are undermining public consent for military and geopolitical agendas they’ve worked very hard to propagandize the public into accepting.
The establishment never dropped the hammer on Marilyn Manson. Lady Gaga never ran into trouble with the state for singing that gay people are Born This Way. Ozzy Osbourne is living in the lap of luxury with an estimated net worth of $220 million. But groups like Kneecap and Bob Vylan are being subjected to police investigations and visa revocations for taking a stand on Palestine.
Which, of course, is only going to make their position more popular among young people with a defiant streak in them."
i think "empire makes it clear who the enemy is, and it is them" makes more sense. rebellious music didn't go away, it just stopped being any degree of mainstream.
Today in Labor History July 4, 1977: The George Jackson Brigade planted a bomb at a power station in Olympia, Washington, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary. They were a revolutionary group founded in the mid-1970s, based in Seattle, named after George Jackson, a prisoner and Black Panther who was shot and killed during an alleged escape attempt at San Quentin Prison in 1971. The Brigade was composed of both communist and anarchist veterans of the women's liberation, LGBTQ and Black Nationalist movements.
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@MikeDunnAuthor And your proposal is what? Redistribute all that wealth equally? Equality of opportunity is a good thing, equality of outcome is not. Ask the Bolsheviks how that worked for them.
Speaking for myself I want a very progressive tax rate. More graduations on the tax table reaching as high as 99%. And I want that money to go into public works and welfare. I want this not only for humane reasons. bot more importantly I want it in order to preserve democracy! In other words, I would want those tax rates even if the collected taxes were not used for anything!
A clinic in Republican southwest Nebraska announced it’s closure this week due to anticipated Medicaid cuts from President Donald Trump’s new budget — approved by its own Republican lawmakers.
Dr. Anthony Fauci may have to testify about COVID-19 origins, Rand Paul wrote on X. RFK Jr. said a pandemic “truth commission" could investigate Fauci and others.
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in reply to ol dusty hamstrings • •@ol dusty hamstrings A little tweaking with RBG levels in gimp and then adjust the remaining contrast curve:
If it wasn't for horrid compression artifacts probably could have produced a much better image but the blockiness of the compression was the limiting factor here.