Max Verstappen starts on pole for Formula 1's British Grand Prix, with title rivals behind
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#Srebrencia, replacement ferries, #Gaza, forensic science and rocks.
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It's the first Saturday of the Scottish school holidays and I’m still a wee bit bleary-eyed after an early morning train down to Troon to take the…Alison Phipps (The National)
Tropical Storm Chantal strengthens slightly as it nears landfall in South Carolina
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Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …Simon Willison’s Weblog
A NAFO moron who supports Ukrainian Nazis and an unelected #EU committee is worried that we will become totally fascist.
STUPIDITY IS INVINCIBLE.
Dalai Lama, a global symbol of Tibetan culture and resistance, turns 90
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Gaza (Quds News Network)- Doctors in Gaza are sounding the alarm over a growing crisis threatening hundreds of babies, reported the Guardian. The strip is running out of infant formula as Israel contiEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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there are dimwits with more money than brains who buy an organization that elects them.
Some are dumb as rocks. I have some really funny stories. Thank you for reminding me. I will use them soon. I met these "leaders" personally.
Shit for brains. as you said.
First, I had to catch up on the headlines, and I have a network I am building - almost ready 😎
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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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior commander of Saraya al-Quds resistance group, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, announced that nearly 40 Israeli occupation troops were killed or wounded in a coordinated resistance operation in eastern Ga…Tasnim News Agency
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Another war, another trip, another ask: Netanyahu returns to Washington
With Gaza still burning and corruption charges mounting, Israel’s prime minister arrives in D.C. looking for favors, not peace
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Peruvian lawmakers have introduced four bills to annul the decree that doubled President Boluarte’s salary, challenging its legitimacy and demanding accountability before Congress.teleSURenglish
Alleged arsonist charged over fire at Australian synagogue
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Les plaintes pour escroquerie sentimentale en ligne se multiplient ces dernières années. Ce fléau, nourri par la solitude et la fracture numérique, s’appuie sur des techniques de manipulation de plus en plus sophistiquées.Clara Lainé (Franceinfo)
Wasn’t he one of those idiotic intellectual masturbators who thought Thatcher was a fascist?
At the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Belarus drew attention to human rights violations in Ukraine and the persecution of ethnic Belarusians.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
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Interesting. The American Ayatollah, the Supreme Court, ruled in favor of those harmed by the US state violence system, which is often referred to as a justice system.
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In a term marked by rulings limiting immigrants’ rights, the court sided with several other people harmed by the criminal justice system.Rebecca McCray (The Marshall Project)
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) – Iran’s ambassador to China has lashed out at the United States and its allies, including the Israeli regime, for disregarding international laws and undermining the principles of cooperation.Mehr News Agency
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Thousands of voices unite in song at traditional choir festival celebrating Estonia's culture
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La police néerlandaise se déclare officiellement opposée à une nouvelle législation en cours d'adoption qui vise à créer un délit d'aide aux personnes en situation irrégulière et à restreindre le droit d'asile. Sa présidente affirme que la police est là pour venir en aide aux personnes qui en ont besoin, et non pour leur faire la chasse.
Ça fait bizarre quand on lit ça.
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Die Polizei stehe für Rechtsstaatlichkeit, Sicherheit, Gleichheit und Menschenwürde, so die PolizeipräsidentinDER STANDARD
If you drive a #tesla, you're not only fascist supporting asshole, but also stupid and suicidal.
To paraphrase the Dean from Animal House:
"Being a stupid, suicidal, fascist asshole is no way to go through life son."
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Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles.Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Arrested Again The abruptness, severity and theatrics behind the May 29 arrest of funk and trap music artist Me Poze do Rodo (Marlon Brendon Coelho Couto) downgrades Brazilian media even further, to the point of the story being published in the New Y…Julian Cola (CovertAction Magazine)
Harvard trying to choose the path that punishes people who oppose genocide while at the same time fighting off the Trump admin's attack on academic freedoms is a remarkable effort at squaring two completely adversarial roles.
Here's the commencement speech by Zehra Imam from Harvard Divinity School. The speech Harvard censored.
youtube.com/watch?v=a8Mw2mELF4… #Palestine #Genocide #Harvard #DeathDeathToTheIDF
In May, Harvard Divinity School refused to publish its commencement speech after a speaker went off-script to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. The Intercept...YouTube
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I hate having "representatives" who support making trans people miserable and committing genocide overseas.
It fills me with so much rage having MAGA Nazi freaks be my "voice" in Congress.
Honestly, the entirety of the GOP is guilty of incitement to genocide.
Fuck the GOP to hell and back. May they get a fraction of the suffering they inflict on others. I am eager for the Washington Tribunal.
I am tempted to say a lot of angry and unwise things surrounding this subject. Here's what I will say:
I appreciate why the French and the Russian Revolutionaries treated reactionaries they way they did.
Tasmania: Covid hits state hospitals, causes holiday cancellations
"The Health Department confirmed cases of Covid at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Launceston General Hospital and North-West Regional Hospital but were unable to say how many patients had been infected"
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Thousands of developers are part of a new class action lawsuit against Valve over Steam’s pricing rules. Here’s what it means for indie devs.Ronny Fiksdahl (Fix Gaming Channel)
6 July 1939 | French Jewish girl, Huguette Gutmajnster, was born in Paris.
In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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What a bunch of horseshit - Taking a page from the Nazis by dehumanizing people calling them "alien"
ICE post on twitter
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The European Union plans to create reserves of critically important minerals and cable repair kits in case of emergencies. The Financial Times (FT) newspaper writes about this with reference to the order of the European Commission.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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The European Union's attempts to adopt another, already 18th package of anti-Russian sanctions have not yet been successful due to Slovakia's position.Магас (Военное обозрение)
Hundreds take to the streets to protest Starmer regime’s participation in Israel’s genocide in Gaza Hundreds of local people gathered and marched on Saturday through Camden in the heart…SKWAWKBOX
"Palestine is waiting for you to arrive. And you must be courageous enough to rise to the call because Palestine will keep showing up in your living rooms until you are ready to meet its gaze."
All major US institutions have betrayed the values America pretended to stand for.
Yet while institutions like Harvard act in cowardice, some who attended it, like Zehra Imam, still see the world with moral clarity and act with courage in service of truth & real justice.
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“I wanted to center Palestine,” a Harvard commencement speaker told The Intercept. Read and watch her speech.Akela Lacy (The Intercept)
Alright, I admit I use ChatGPT to figure out #homebrewing recipes, and was even IMPRESSED it offered a JSON file to import into my Brewfather…
… for just a second
ChatGPT is straight up just making shit up. It knows people that look for #homebrewing recipes use Brewfather; that it imports/exports JSON; but then just generates JSON that’s not even close to the correct format.
Picture 1: ChatGPT JSON
Picture 2: Brewfather JSON
Energy giant SSE may keep Peterhead power station 10 years longer than planned, which critics fear could “blow an enormous hole” in the Scottish Government’s climate strategy.Paul Dobson (The Ferret)
Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to students marching on WhitehallDuncan Campbell (The Guardian)
Labour falls short on school funding
The government’s pay deal for teachers, while improved from their initial offer, still amounts to cuts to education
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The government's pay deal for teachers, while improved from their initial offer, still amounts to cuts to education On 22 May, the independent School Teacher Pay Review Body finally released its recommendation for a 4% pay increase for teachers, i…Counterfire
The origins of women’s oppression - why the oppression of women is not eternal or natural and is bound up with class exploitation
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Alex Snowdon explains why the oppression of women is not eternal or natural and is bound up with class exploitation Karl Marx and his close collaborator Frederick Engels, using insights from anthropologists, understood that human societies had not…Counterfire
#UK #government drops charges against #Kneecap
Kneecap will no longer face charges over a resurfaced #video where members chanted "Kill your local #MP!" at a 2023 gig, according to UK #police. Due to the statutory time limit of #prosecution expiring, the police could not continue the investigation, per The Independent.
This #indictment by the Counter-Terrorism unit was separate from the individual case against member #MoChara (#LiamÓgÓhAnnaidh)...
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The Irish rap group performed at Glastonbury on Saturday in one of the most talked-about shows of the weekendAthena Stavrou (The Independent)
Brazil has assumed the rotating presidency of the BRICS group at the 17th Leaders’ Summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro from July 6 to 7.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Palestine solidarity was not confined to a couple of moments, but was a pervasive normality at the festival, in stark contrast to our media, reports
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Palestine solidarity was not confined to a couple of moments, but was a pervasive normality at the festival, in stark contrast to our media, reports Katherine Hajiyianni In the sun and sequin-soaked fields of Glastonbury Festival’s ‘most political…Counterfire
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FreeOffice isn't open source. It's available as a deb or an RPM, or a basic archive. No Flatpak, Snap or Appimage, though.
FreeOffice does word processing, creating spreadsheets, and presentations. FreeOffice aims to be as compatible with MS Office as can be. FreeOffice gives you a choice between the classic menubar + toolbar combo, and the ribbon interface that MS office uses.
In terms of Office compatibility, I tried a few complex templates, and there seem to be a few issues on word documents, with header images not being in the right place, and elements being moved where they don't belong.
FreeOffice is free of charge to download, but the free version does lack a few features.
You probably all know about Libreoffice. It has a word processor, a spreadsheet module, a presentation app, but also a flowchart /diagram editor that also doubles as a PDF editor, and a database module comparable to Microsoft Access.
It's completely open source, doesn't cost a dime, and is installable in virtually every way you'd ever want: deb, rpm, flatpak, snap, appimage, you name it.
LibreOffice is compatible with the opendocument format, but also with MS office formats. The compatibility with openXML formats, like docx, xlsx or pptx isn't 100% perfect though.
In terms of interface, LibreOffice is super customizable: not only can it pick up your GTK or Qt theme, but you can also change its icons in the settings, and change how the interface looks and feels. By default, it uses the older menubar + toolbar layout, but you can change that into a ribbon interface, a simplified ribbon, a grouped bar, a sidebar, basically you can do whatever you want, and customize each toolbar to add or remove what you want.
There's another open source office suite for Linux, and that's OnlyOffice. It only offers the 3 basic modules: word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. It's free to download and open source, and comes as a deb, an RPM, a flatpak, an appimage, or a snap package, so anyone can get it.
OnlyOffice supports the Microsoft OpenXML document format, as well as the opendocument format that Libreoffice defaults to, and the older proprietary office formats as well. Compatibility seems better than FreeOffice, and LibreOffice, at least with my test templates. It actually seems pretty much identical to how MS office renders the same document.
In terms of interface, Onlyoffice isn't as customizable as LibreOffice: you only get a ribbon interface, and you can't change what's displayed in each toolbar. The ribbon will use a dedicated color for each program, if you use the light theme, so they're still easy to differentiate. Onlyoffice also supports interface scaling, with factors ranging from 100% to 200% with 25% increments.
Now we come to another non open source office suite, WPS Office. You get a word processor, a spreadsheet module, and a presentation module, and you also get a PDF viewer. It offers deb and RPM packages, and it's also available on flathub, and as a snap.
In terms of compatibility, WPS opens older office docs, newer office docs, as well as their own format. Compatibility seems good, at least with openXML formats, although a little bit less perfect than OnlyOffice. It should be good enough for most people.
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Is the party about to begin? | Counterfire
A new party to the left of Labour is highly welcome, but it will need to be rooted in the social movements, organised democratically and prepared to resist attacks
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A new party to the left of Labour is highly welcome, but it will need to be rooted in the social movements, organised democratically and prepared to resist attacks, argues Michael Lavalette On Thursday evening this week (3 July), the internet and …Counterfire
🚨100s of ppl have already been killed across the US in storms incl deadly tornadoes -many of which were inaccurately forecasted. We're entering peak hurricane season. Meteorologist Vagasky: “The world’s example for weather svcs is being destroyed.”
After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in TX -TX officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Trump’s gutted #NWS.
#FEMA will be called upon -Trump said repeatedly that he wants to abolish.
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Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAARon Filipkowski (Meidas+)
Trump's weakened NWS,🚨warnings from May & June:
"Staff vacancies hit Texas weather offices as they brace for a busy hurricane season.
In Houston, 44% of #NWS positions are vacant."
“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote 5 former NWS directors from both Democratic & Republican admins in an open letter on May 2nd."
#Climate #TrumpRegime #FEMA #Protest #USPol
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Houston’s National Weather Service office has lost its head meteorologist amid a federal requirement to cut 10% of NOAA’s staff.Alejandra Martinez (The Texas Tribune)
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“ #CrytpoAlchemist and #Aliencarvings: Shocking #New #Discoveries in #Tula, #Mexico!”
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Thanks to The Times newspaper for this shocking photo of the sickening, deadly terrorism being carried out by the notorious 83yo Reverend Sue Parfitt.
Due to the prompt and courageous response of the Metropolitan Police, Rev Parfitt and her fellow terrorists are now securely detained under his Britanic Majesty's Terrorism Act.
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> While storms are already hitting northern Italy with severe rainfalls. the Mediterranean today, July 5, has reached its highest values of SST daily anomaly in these months, with areas (purple) over +7 °C off the coast of France,up to +7.7°C #climateemergency. Data CMEMS
Millions of Muslims in Iran and across the world are commemorating Tasu’a, a day before the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hossein (AS), the third Shia Imam and the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).PressTV
under hitler's days, the "autistic" kids were just creative, artistic, curious, and difficult to settle down. Half a century later, its having a strong interest in tech at a young age, and also being troublemakers.
Both hitler and modern american fascists seem interested in making lists of them, too. I wonder why?
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