I made a page for Cal and his box! 😀
It's become a crap day for a lot of folks and I'm struggling with the news and everything too, and I happened to download my Mastodon archive and realized how many photos of Cal in his box that I have - there are 15 so far, I think more if I keep digging.
So as a small good thing for today, here's our goofy boy and his beloved cardboard friend.
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#cats #OrangeCats #CatsOfInstagram #CalsBox
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Despite United Nations experts urging British lawmakers to rethink plans to use terrorism laws against the protest group Palestine Action, the punishment of the group is in full swing.Gridwork
What were the core principles of the republic and how were those moral principles of natural law subverted over the course of a 260 year struggle to establish on this earth a system of representative government founded upon the consent of the governe…Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)
Goddamn. I was going to boost a post but then I got near the end where it said: "crushing to see this happen to human beings who aren't criminals...", and first of all, in such an unjust society define "criminal" for me, would ya? I'd love to hear it.
Secondly, would you think it's okay if "criminals" were kidnapped and tortured?
I assume this person primarily meant to emphasize that these are just everyday people, like your neighbors, but the implication is not good.
Don't let right-wingers define the debate here. They want to argue with us about who is and isn't a criminal, because they don't actually have a defense for why this is okay to do to *anybody*.
So we can endlessly argue about "criminals" while they send people to concentration camps.
I didn't screenshot the post because I'm not trying to call out this specific person. I just wanted to remind us to be careful whose rhetoric & language we are using.
Yikes.
Sometimes the biggest gap between "everyday people" and "criminals" is getting caught.
Marijuana possession convictions can still chase the elderly around to this day.
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Several members of the Palestinian Red Crescent crews were injured due to being targeted by drones while performing their humanitarian duty of providing aid to citizens in Jabalia al-Balad city, northern Gaza Strip.
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Please pray....
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At least 13 people were killed as nearly two dozen girls at a Christian summer camp are missing — and potentially dead — amid “catastrophic” and fatal flooding in Texas, officials said.…Katherine Donlevy (New York Post)
BRICS has expanded to 20 countries – 10 members and 10 partners – after adding Vietnam. BRICS+ now makes up 44% of world GDP (PPP) and 56% of the global population. The US failed to divide China and Vietnam in its Second Cold War.
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#economy #economics #geopolitics #brics
BRICS expanded to 20 countries, 10 members and 10 partners, adding Vietnam. BRICS+ makes up 44% of world GDP (PPP), 56% of global population.Ben Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)
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@freeagent BRICS is a trade organization, it's not an ideological bloc like NATO. This is a strength and not a weakness. Countries within BRICS can have disagreements on policy, but do trade together regardless. China happens to be one of India's biggest trade partners.
This is what actual civilization looks like as opposed to the west where everyone has to be subordinated to daddy.
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I never said it wasn't political, every trade agreement is political. What I said is #BRICS is not a military or political alliance it is an alternative system of multi polar trading free of interference from the current US hegemony system where international trade requires trading in US dollars.
For example, New Zealand, which is not even a #BRICS member country, has a FTA with its biggest trading partner China that means NZ and China can freely trade with each other in their own currencies.
I have no idea what argument David is trying to make. His initial comment was that BRICS doesn’t appear to be a unified bloc pointing to the relationship between India and China. Which is why I pointed out the fact BRICS is not a political or military alliance but a cooperative economic system of trade.
USA’s 3 largest trading partners are Mexico, Canada, and China. It would be ridiculous to assume this makes these countries a unified political bloc.
Ironically, since Trump introduced his tariffs India, Japan, South Korea and the ASEAN member nations have all agreed to increase their economic and political cooperation with China.
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BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.BRICS
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Cubs break franchise record with 8 home runs, 3 by Michael Busch
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Nvidia Is Full of Shit
Link: blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/n…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Since the disastrous launch of the RTX 50 series, NVIDIA has been unable to escape negative headlines: scalper bots are snatching GPUs away from consumers before official sales even begin, power connectors continue to melt, with no fix in sight, mark…Sebin's Blog
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This is the heartwarming moment we need right now:
11-year-old Danish kid Jens Fogh made Easter decorations and sold them, thereby raising USD 5300 which he used to buy 270 school backpacks for Ukrainian children. So while in Denmark, Zelenskyy presented him with a medal for his friendship.
A hero meets a hero — I love it! ♥️
Flash floods like the one that swept through Texas are the nation's top storm-related killer
https://apnews.com/article/flash-flood-warning-watch-texas-986af31b0402a7a721fd9cc275622457?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Israeli occupation forces have launched three coordinated ground incursions in southern Syria and near Damascus, marking an unprecedented escalation in their illegal military presence inside Syrian territory.Tasnim News Agency
How to Incapacitate Google Tag Manager and Why You Should (2022)
Link: backlit.neocities.org/incapaci…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Drilling beneath the hype to expose the truthbacklit.neocities.org
🙏 - this is horrible news
🅱️there many more mystiques under yet the same sun?
Orynx/narwhal : unicorn?
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Texas families plead for information on more than 20 girls missing from summer camp after floods
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Considering the current intrusive cyber climate, what are the best ways to preserve privacy?
For example, I have been exclusively using a VPN connection network-wide at home setup on OpenWrt, which in turn has a PiHole as its DNS, with the PiHole using Unbound and NextDNS (redundant I know, but I use it to encrypt my requests more than anything else).
I also have Wireguard setup so I can VPN all my devices to my network while I am on the road (also have a NextDNS profile installed. Yes I know, it’s redundant).
I also basically have all my “smart” devices (TV, lightbulbs, air purifier, etc…) at home cutoff from the internet using OpenWrt’s firewall to prevent them from calling home.
I rotate web browsers frequently to try and attempt avoiding getting fingerprinted, not sure how useful that is.
I switched email providers to mailbox.org because f*** Google and Microsoft.
I also am hosting my own cloud drive on Nextcloud to avoid using services like GDrive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc…
I own Apple devices which aren’t the best for privacy but migrating from a whole ecosystem that I have been embedded in for MANY years is easier said than done. Hopefully in the future that’s my next move.
I feel like there is a lot more I can do but I am not sure what else. I would appreciate any and all suggestions ya’ll might have.
A group of Colombian legislators from the government coalition formally requests the US House of Representatives Ethics Committee to investigate and sanctionteleSURenglish
More than 20 campers are still missing after overnight flooding at Camp Mystic, a girls-only camp on the Guadalupe River.Rebecca Salinas (San Antonio News, Texas News, Sports, Weather from KSAT.com, Expect More)
The Supreme Court turned away an appeal by Montana officials seeking to revive a state law that requires minors seeking abortions to obtain the consent of their parents.Lawrence Hurley (NBC News)
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ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for major companies
Link: theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
: Crims have cottoned on to a new way to lead you astrayIain Thomson (The Register)
Transcript submitted by a readerGilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
"America has been vaccinating people for fifty years. If vaccines caused autism, America would have trains, okay? We would have so many trains." - Jon Allen
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5 July 1934 | A French Jewish girl, Jacqueline Rajter, was born in Villerupt.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Lol to this, because it's partially true, but also a bit defeatist.
You need to stay on top of berry bushes quarterly in warmer zones, but this person is in Minnesota. I don't think they'll thrive their like they would in warmer zones without harsh winters.
If farms can keep them in check, regular gardeners can as well, it just takes a fair amount of effort.
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I got curious about how many Cal-in-a-box photos I might really have, so I went to the Photos app on my laptop and did a search for "cat in a box".
There are 113 photos.
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in reply to Hollie • • •This is amazing and I love Cal and his box!
Also, I belonged to that bean club too and I still have so many beans.