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@dnkboston Democrats Abroad chapters are the ones ORGANIZING those demonstrations outside of the US in in partnership with Indivisible Abroad and #TeslaTakedown.

Everyone who runs a DA social media account is a volunteer who also holds several other volunteer, leadership positions in DA.

So, again, to all those who are telling us to do more, that will only happen if more people join in. Tell us what you yourselves are doing.

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An Introduction to Weather Modification w/ Mark Messina - It's MUCH More Than Chemtrails!

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Linux Mint 21.3 Review: solid Wayland support!


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Mint 21.3 is still based on Ubuntu 22.04 and its super old kernel, version 5.15. You do get the Mesa drivers version 23, but you don't get the latest Nvidia drivers either, you're still on 535.

So, you can select that new Wayland session from the login screen. I tested this on a spare laptop that uses an Intel Xe integrated GPU, and also has a dedicated Nvidia GPU.

At first glance, everything seems to work ok, but it's an experimental session, and it's missing a few things.
OBS, for example, has no source for the display: Cinnamon doesn't seem to support the screen sharing protocol through pipewire, so OBS has nothing to display here. You won't be sharing your screen to anyone just yet.

Another issue I encountered is the lack of any sudo graphical prompt: anytime I needed to install a package or update the system, I had to use the command line.

I also got some inconsistencies in the place where menus appeared, there were also a few things that I couldn't find, like changing the keyboard layout in the Wayland session, the "layouts" tab doesn't appear in the settings where it should be. The gestures of Cinnamon also don't work here for now, you can enable them, but they won't do anything.

The hot corners did work though, with their nice animations and features, but there were some weird graphical things happening. Some settings pages also seemed to have some sort of infinite scroll and didn't stop at their own content, which was a bit weird.

After that, I tried the Wayland session on Nvidia, and, all the problems I had experienced previously were still there, obviously, because they all are missing features in that experimental session, so no reason to expect them to work better here. But I also didn't get any other issue that I didn't see in the wayland session with the Mesa drivers.

So just as a little experiment, I also decided to run a game in the Wayland session, namely Warhammer 40K Mechanicus:
- Wayland + Intel: 25-32 FPS
- Wayland + Nvidia: 60-65 FPS
- X11 + Intel: 32-37 FPS
- X11 + Nvidia: 65-75 FPS

Ok, so now, let's talk about the other changes in Linux Mint 21.3. In terms of apps updates, Hypnotix, the TV watching app now lets you set channels as favorites. You can also create your own custom TV channels if you want.

Cinnamon will also now let you download Actions. These are add-ons for the file manager, that will appear in the right click context menu, letting you do, well, custom actions.

Warpinator, the file sharing app now lets you connect to a device manually by just entering its IP address of scanning a QR code. The Sticky Notes app can now be managed by DBus, meaning you can manage notes using scripts, and the bulk rename tool of Mint now supports drag and drop and thumbnails.

As per the desktop itself, you can now use 75% fractional scaling on X11 if you want that, you can also set keybinds to change the window opacity again, you can disable stylus buttons if you use that sort of hardware, and gestures got a bit better with the ability to set a gesture to zoom in on the desktop.

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LINUX MINT 21.2 is a solid update that's stuck in the past


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If you got used to the super smooth 1:1 gestures for GNOME or Plasma on Wayland, or even elementary OS on X11, you'll be disappointed here. Mint still uses X11, and their gestures act like keyboard shortcuts. You perform the gesture on the touchpad, and once your fingers have moved enough, the animation happens all at once.

Gestures are disabled by default, you'll be able to enable them in the new Settings panel. They are very configurable though, contrary to GNOME or KDE.

Mint 21.2 also changes a few things in terms of how the distro looks, or can look. First, instead of the endless list of selectable themes, in their dark or light variant, and all their color variants, you now get Styles.

The Style defines the theme you're using, for example MintY, Adwaita, or the older Mint X. For each style, you can pick mixed mode, where apps can be light or dark at the same time, dark mode, where every app that supports the dark mode preference will use it, and light mode.

And on top of that, you have a choice of accent colors, if the theme supports it, for example, there are no accent colors for Adwaita, or the High COntrast theme.

Folder icons are now longer the same color as what WIndows uses, they'll now use your accent color instead, which is much better in my opinion.

On the desktop side of things, the login screen received a lot of improvements, with support for multiple keyboard layouts that you can switch between, and support for tap to click as well.

The onscreen keyboard is usable there, and you can also configure the layout for it, and you can now more easily navigate this login screen using the keyboard and the arrow keys.

Once you're logged in, you can now resize the main menu, by dragging its corner or its edge, and you can now disable notifications for connected devices that have a low battery level.

As per the apps, the file manager, Nemo, now generates thumbnails using multi threading, which means it should be way faster.

The software manager got a small UI refresh, with the search field inline in a headerbar, with the hamburger menu moving there as well. The app pages also got a small redesign, with buttons in the header to install, and to show the installation source.

Pix, the image viewer, got a lot of changes, mostly due to its rebase on a new version of GTHumb.

Finally, Warpinator, the PC to PC file transfer program, was reviewed by the openSUSE team, and some security issues were discovered and fixed.

All Linux Mint editions are still based on Ubuntu 22.04, and they're all LTS, supported until 2027. The next base change will be when Ubuntu 24.04 releases, which means that in the meantime, you get the Linux kernel 5.15, and older Mesa and Nvidia drivers.

Now, for the XFCE variant, you get the same improvements to the login screen, the apps and the software manager, plus the new colored folder icons, tooltips and notifications, and the symbolic icon changes. You're not getting the Styles manager and selector though, and you're not getting the touchpad gestures either.

Still, you do get XFCE 4.18, which is a solid update over 4.16 that Mint used in the previous release.

As per MATE, it gets the same stuff as XFCE, so no gestures or style manager, and it's still on MATE 1.26, same as the previous Linux Mint release.

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Adana Katliamları-20. Yüzyıl Başında Devrim ve Şiddet - Bedross Der Matossian (Çev. Renan Akman) (372 sayfa)
Adana Katliamları, 1908 Jön Türk Devrimi sonrası oluşan birlikte yaşama ve özgürlük umutlarının yerini nasıl şiddetin ve
çatışmanın aldığını gözler önüne seriyor. 1909 yılında Adana ve çevresinde paranoyanın neden olduğu iki ayrı katliam dalgasıyla öldürülen Ermenileri, yakıp yıkılan mahalleleri, işyerlerini, Osmanlı hükümetinin müdahale etmekteki başarısızlığını, sıradan insanların faillere dönüşümlerini anlatıyor. Bedross Der Matossian, bu katliamlara giden yoldaki tüm etkenleri incelerken, katliamlar sonrası insani yardımları ve müdahaleleri, yargılamaları da es geçmiyor. Çok sayıda kaynaktan yararlanarak yazdığı bu eseriyle tarih çalışmalarında kendisine pek yer bulamamış Adana katliamlarını gün yüzüne çıkarıyor, yaşanan trajedinin neden ve sonuçlarını titizlikle masaya yatırıyor.

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-- my mom listened to all their records while I was growing up in the 70s. I especially remember this Christmas album. I really do love her voice.

It's such a tragedy that the perfectionism which drove her ended up being more of a curse than a blessing. 😔

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"rights don't exist. there' is only force."
"he who has force, makes law"
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Top 20 Most Loved Countries in the World in 2025 ❤️

1. 🇨🇦 Canada
2. 🇳🇴 Norway
3. 🇸🇪 Sweden
4. 🇨🇭 Switzerland
5. 🇦🇺 Australia
6. 🇫🇮 Finland
7. 🇳🇿 New Zealand
8. 🇩🇰 Denmark
9. 🇳🇱 Netherlands
10. 🇧🇪 Belgium
11. 🇮🇪 Ireland
12. 🇦🇹 Austria
13. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
14. 🇮🇹 Italy
15. 🇩🇪 Germany
16. 🇯🇵 Japan
17. 🇪🇸 Spain
18. 🇵🇹 Portugal
19. 🇫🇷 France
20. 🇸🇬 Singapore

Source: WorldAtlas

[Serious] How did he actually lose that election?


In 2022, Chris Jones, a nuclear engineer, ran for Governor of Arkansas

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He is an Arkansas native. He wrote an entire platform to improve Arkansas. He visited every single county in Arkansas. His opponent, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, barely campaigned.

Jones lost by double digits. She absolutely crushed him.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ark…

How the fuck did that happen? What's the Arkansas culture like?

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A heads up...

I had to print a return label from Amazon; it's usually right in th email they send after beginning a return. This time it was a redirect, back to Amazon.

I printed it using a laptop, and a PC, just because there were a few glitches.

BUT, as soon as I did, both keyboard and mouse would not function on both my laptop nad PC. It took a few hours of sheer panic (were we hacked?) and a deep dive investigation, but we finally discovered that the settings on the mice were reversed.

Every time I go to a U.S.-run ‘aid’ center in Gaza, I know I might not come back #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/07/every-t…

A #Florida Cinema Showed a Documentary About #Palestine. Now, The Mayor Could Shut It Down.
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#fascism #usa #uscomplicity #zionists
Now tell us about the totalitarian regimes of the East.
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"We oppose the oppressive regime of Iran. The totalitarianism against opposition should be faced with sanctions and action to overthrown this repressive regime."

Welcome to the West ladies and gentlemen.
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#UK #PalestineAction #Solidarity #repression #TotalitArianism #PalestineSolidarity #FreePalestine

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Until recently, the accepted wisdom in Mexico was that Mexico’s economy is simply too integrated with the US and Canada’s and too dependent on the US for it to be able to join the BRICS.

Fast forward to today, and President Sheinbaum has just announced that her government will be participating as an observer in the 17th annual meeting of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7.

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#brics #mexico

Concerns raised about council appointments, including 19-year-old overseeing children and family services

Reform UK’s local election wins have seen teenagers left in charge of vital public services, including a 19-year-old who is overseeing children and family services while still at university.

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Things picked-up a little yesterday with two donations totaling $45, bringing our daily average up a little to $42.50. Still far below the the $81 per day we need to reach our goal of raising $2,500 this month. All we need is two donations a day for roughly $40 each to reach and maintain that average.

This brings our total, through the first four days of the month, up to $170

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The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937-2001) | Open Culture


#music #history #electronicmusic

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"May constitute a war crime"? May? What will it take for the Western Press to get off the damned fence? Israel's war criminality has been established in fact long, long ago

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Tensions between Russia and Azerbaijan: another chapter in Russia’s saga in the Caucasus strategic-culture.su/news/2025…
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Bit confused, what would they even do with a report of downvote? Doesn’t make sense.

Plus don’t even understand why someone cares so much about downvoting that they would message you and report it. The upvote/ downvote means seriously nothing. It’s “thin air”.

Put down your device and it has no impact on your live. Continue using Lemmy and it will have no impact on how you use Lemmy.

Kann es einen guten Grund geben Babynahrung zu blockieren?
Eine andere Antwort auf diese Frage als "Nein" lässt sich nur dann geben, wenn man palästinensische Menschen von Geburt an als unwertes Leben betrachtet.

»They’re skin and bones’: doctors in #Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula.
Doctors say #Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies« #genocide
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GPS collars used to control farm animals may soon become allowed in Sweden.

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Meanwhile, GPS thingys used to control humans have been in use for quite some time. 😉

So we can look forward to that soon, both farm animals and humans will be controlled in the same way.

"American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press.

Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal operations, said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices. They said the security staff hired were often unqualified, unvetted, heavily armed and seemed to have an open license to do whatever they wished.

They said their colleagues regularly lobbed stun grenades and pepper spray in the direction of the Palestinians. One contractor said bullets were fired in all directions — in the air, into the ground and at times toward the Palestinians, recalling at least one instance where he thought someone had been hit.

“There are innocent people being hurt. Badly. Needlessly,” the contractor said."

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#USA #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #HumanRights #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

The attempts by law enforcement & governments to subvert end-to-end encryption are ongoing. The European Commission is going to spend a year thinking about their new "Roadmap for law enforcement access to data", and they are (genuinely) asking for people to join their expert group to help. Here I urge you to join that group (also because I can't): berthub.eu/articles/posts/poss…

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