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Webinar July 27: “Revolutionizing Tourism: Nicaragua’s Model to Benefit Communities & Travelers” iacenter.org/2025/07/13/webina…

Webinar July 27: “Revolutionizing Tourism: Nicaragua’s Model to Benefit Communities & Travelers” - International Action Center

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Janet (International Action Center)

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HÜZÜNLÜ BİR AŞK HİKAYESİ ; GAM ZEDEYİM DEVA BULMAM...
Tüm şarkıların bir hikayesi vardır...
"Gamzede’yim Deva Bulmam."
Şarkısı da bu tür şarkılardan biridir...
Hemen belirtelim, Gam-zede, üzüntü sebebiyle kötü duruma düşmüş anlamındadır.
Hikayenin kahramanı Kemani Tatyos Efendi’nin kendi cemaatinden çocukluk aşkı bir sevdiği varmış.
Aile o tarihlerde Erivan’a göç ettiğinden evlenememişler.
Aradan uzun seneler geçmiş Tatyos efendi evlenmiş çocukları olmuş ancak kadın hiç evlenmemiş ve bir gün İstanbul’a dönmüş.
Bunu öğrenen Tatyos Efendi sözlerini de yazarak bir eser bestelemiş...
Kısa zaman sonra Beyoğlu’nda bir meyhanede gece nihayete ererken birkaç müşteri ve sandalyeleri toplayıp yerleri süpüren birkaç çocuktan başka kimse kalmamışken birlikte oturdukları Vasili ve Ahmet Rasim Bey de tam gitmeye hazırlanırken Tatyos Efendi kemana uzanmış sanki saatlerdir içen ve çalan o değilmiş gibi kemanı omuzuna yerleştirip, hafifçe başını kemana eğerek, dudaklarında acı bir tebessümle o ana kadar duyulmamış o uşşak şarkıyı ilk defa söylemiş...

Gamzede’yim deva bulmam,
Garibim bir yuva kurmam,
Kaderimdir hep çektiren,
İnlerim hiç reha bulmam.
Elem beni terketmiyor,
Hiç de fasıla vermiyor,
Nihayetsiz bu takibe,
Doğrusu ta'kât yetmiyor.
Ehl-i dilin yoktur kadri,
Uğraşma gel Tatyos gayri,
Eserin çok kıymetin yok,
Git talihine küs bari...

Tatyos kemanı omuzundan indirdiğinde hiç kimsenin tek bir kelime edecek hali yoktur...
Vasili hıçkıra hıçkıra ağlıyor meyhane de kalanlar da göz yaşlarını birbirlerine sezdirmeden silmeye çalışıyorlar...
Birkaç hafta içinde İstanbul’da bu şarkıyı ezberlemeyen ne hânende ne sâzende kalıyor...
Şarkıyı besteledikten bir ay sonra Tatyos Efendi vefat ediyor naaşı kilisede iken otuz yıl önceki çocukluk aşkı olan kadın Ahmet Rasim’in yanına üzerinde
"Tatyos ile birlikte defnedilecektir..."
yazılı bir zarf bırakıyor...
Yarım saat sonra Tatyos’un naaşı ile birlikte toprağa verilecek zarfın içinde şu dizeler yazılıdır;*

*Gamzede'sin devân benim
Garip kuşsun yuvan benim
Çektiğimiz yeter gayri
Kaderimsin inan benim.
Ta'kât yetişmez eleme,
Bülbül imrenir çileme.
Bizim şu kara sevdamız,
Kalsın öteki aleme.
(...)
ALINTI

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"Not then, not now, never again fascism
Never forget Srebrenica genocide"

Mural in Amsterdam of Potočari cemetery featuring the names of different Bosnian towns and cities with the corresponding estimated amount of victims.

Almost 30 years has passed since Europe was shaken by the genocide of more than 8000 muslim boys and men in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica, at the hands of Bosnian Serb troops during an operation of ethnic cleansing, witnessed by UN peacekeeping troops who failed resoundingly in their protection mission.

In the midst of the conflict in the Balkans during the 1990’s, the small city of Srebrenica, in Eastern Bosnia, was established as a “safe area” by the UN for civilians fleeing fights between Bosnian government and separatist Serb forces, during the breakup of Yugoslavia.

On 11 July 1995, Serb forces attacked Srebrenica lead by Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić, conducting a ten-day operation to take over Srebrenica and subject it to ethnic cleansing. More than 8000 people were killed, mainly Bosnian muslim boys and men.

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Several people injured in second night of anti-migrant riots in Spanish town
Several people were hurt in a second night of anti-migrant unrest in the town of Torre Pacheco in south-east Spain after a pensioner was beaten up, authorities said.

Despite a major police presence, groups armed with batons roamed the streets looking for people with foreign origins, the regional newspaper La Opinión de Murcia reported.

The regional government did not say how many people were injured but stated that at least one person had been arrested over the violence.

The unrest erupted after a 68-year-old man told Spanish media he was beaten up in the street on Wednesday by three young people of north African origin. The attack was filmed and put on social media.


Several people injured in second night of anti-migrant unrest in Spanish town

Authorities say at least one person arrested after disorder broke out in Torre Pacheco over attack on pensioner
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)

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Macron calls on EU to ‘defend European interests resolutely’ from Trump tariffs
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called on the EU to “defend European interests resolutely” after Donald Trump threatened to impose 30% tariffs on nearly all imports from the EU.

It came as the EU moved to de-escalate tensions after the blunt move by Trump on Saturday. The bloc declared a further pause on €21bn of retaliatory tariffs until 1 August, dovetailing with the US president’s new deal deadline.

At the same time, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto, announced a “political agreement” on a free trade deal on Sunday, ending nine years of negotiations.


Macron calls on EU to ‘defend European interests resolutely’ from Trump tariffs

French president says bloc should be ready for trade war after 30% tariff threat but other EU leaders call for calm
Lisa O'Carroll (The Guardian)

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When Britain's 'feminists' cheer for bombs and sneer at Palestinian suffering
A familiar breed of British pundit has resurfaced - loud, self-declared feminists whose outrage is as selective as it is performative, and whose moral compass somehow always aligns with western state power.

They remain silent as Gaza burns, but are quick to find their voice to cheer on Israel and its allies as they threaten to flatten Iran - civilian casualties be damned.

During Israel's recent strikes on Iran, the radical feminist journalist and co‑founder of Justice for Women, Julie Bindel, branded leftist anti-war feminists "Team Iran" sympathisers. It was a disingenuous, grotesquely misleading and dangerously ideological accusation, but not a surprising one.

While women in Gaza bleed in silence, these pundits reserve their fury for pro-Palestine protesters - smearing them as extremists, branding solidarity as terrorism, twisting every act of dissent into an endorsement of "jihad" and weaponising antisemitism to crush critique.


When Britain's 'feminists' cheer for bombs and sneer at Palestinian suffering

The UK's most prominent 'feminists' ignore women in Gaza under bombs and siege, but speak up to manufacture consent for western wars or attack the anti-war left
Middle East Eye

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Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir, seems visibly nervous when asked about Israel's use of AI in Gaza.

You know humanity is waking up and seeing through it all!

t.me/+ULOaAfEI4elTPRmc

Fabijenna - eine deutsche Liebe (offiziell)🌹🦅

An die deutsche Volksseele erinnern und zurück verhelfen 🇾🇪 💚
Telegram

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Israeli Firm Tests Drone on Unarmed Palestinian in Gaza, Shares Footage on Twitter for Marketing #Palestine qudsnen.co/israeli-firm-tests-…

Israeli Firm Tests Drone on Unarmed Palestinian in Gaza, Shares Footage on Twitter for Marketing

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems used footage showing the killing of an unarmed Palestinian man in Gaza to market one of its combat drones. The vi
Editing Team (Quds News Network)

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“The number of trauma cases, the severity of the injuries, the lack of basic supplies, and the overwhelming number of children affected — it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen elsewhere.” theintercept.com/2025/07/07/is…

When Israel Attacks Gaza, These People Run to Save Lives

A civil defense worker, a doctor, a reporter, and a photojournalist tell The Intercept their stories of responding to Israel’s war on Gaza.
Huda Skaik (The Intercept)

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"Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to name names. How many fewer homes would have been destroyed if congressional Republicans hadn’t spent decades stopping bills to reduce planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions...? Rather than just ordering investigations, Democrats should state the obvious: Climate change is killing people and destroying communities across the United States, and Republicans at every level of government are making life here more dangerous."

newrepublic.com/article/197662…


Democrats Should​ Say Who’s Really to Blame for the ​Flooding in Texas

Republican lawmakers have Texan children’s blood on their hands. Democrats shouldn’t let anyone forget it.
The New Republic
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Nanook

@Prickly Pam (D-PA) Floods in Texas are natural. Nobody is to blame. Weather happens, and anywhere you have rich farmland you have a history of floods, for it is floods that bring silt down from weathered rock in mountains to replenish depleted minerals. And anywhere you have fertile farmland you have humans in the way of those same floods. Yea I know the Climate Wealth Transfer scammers will try to take advantage of every opportunity but no amount of taxation will stop weather.

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"In a move that activists are saying is an attempt to quell the passionate student and worker movement for Palestinian liberation within the City University of New York (CUNY), student organizer Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik has been suspended for a year.

"Along with CCNY’s academic sanction case against Malik, CUNY has also fired four faculty members."

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny-su…

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #CUNY #NYC #NewYork #education #academia


CUNY suspends student activist leader, fires four faculty members in escalation of repression against

Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Billie Estrine (Mondoweiss)
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Mark Shane Hayden

making a video game for the Colecovision in Z80 assembly language was the best lesson in I had in embedded programming...better than any formal course on the subject.

Its BIOS, called OS7, was pretty decent too so you could leverage it to do some of the minutiae and concentrate on the fun stuff. I suspect the same is true about the routines in the C64 KERNEL and BASIC ROMs.

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From LA to Ainata: Wish You Get Broken Oh “Israel” - FPTV & Colonial Outcasts Coproduction

From LA to Ainata: Wish You Get Broken Oh “Israel” - FPTV & Colonial Outcasts Coproduction

Ji of Colonial Outcasts is joined by Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait of Free Palestine TV, on his journey back from LA to his home town Ainata in South Lebanon, t...
YouTube

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Mac Plus with a mysterious fault taught me a good lesson | Adrian's Digital Basement
It's time for another 68k Mac repair. I thought it would be a quick and easy fix, but this turned out to be a but more mysterious.

-- Info

Microbug:

DM (dump memory)

SM (set memory)

Video page:

U15D VIA 6522 PA6 Pin 8 to U4G 74AS253 Pin 4

From microbug, I was writing to

3F A700 Screen Buffer 1

00 0000 - 3F FFFF 0M - 4MB Total address space

00 0000 - 0F FFFF 0M - 1MB

00 0000 - 07 FFFF 0K - 512k

xx FCFF Screen1 memory end

xx A700 Screen1 Memory start

xx 7C7F Screen2 Memory End

xx 2700 Screen2 Memory Start


Mac Plus with a mysterious fault taught me a good lesson

It's time for another 68k Mac repair. I thought it would be a quick and easy fix, but this turned out to be a but more mysterious. -- InfoMicrobug:DM (dump m...
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TURQUIE. Les femmes kurdes bloquent les travaux d’un projet minier
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0…

"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Dans la province kurde de Diyarbakir (Amed), des femmes ont organisé un sit-in pour interrompre les travaux d’un projet controversé d’une mine de cuivre. Leur protestation vise à dénoncer un passé de violences qui a déjà dévasté leur village à sept reprises. Dans le village de Mizak, dans le


TURQUIE. Les femmes kurdes bloquent les travaux d'un projet minier – Kurdistan au féminin

Kaf1 (Kurdistan au féminin)

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The older I get, the more I understand "Blue Monday" by Annie Lee

Blue Monday by Annie Lee
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Le…

#painting #art

American artist

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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Israeli settlers beat Palestinian-American to death, fatally shoot another
By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST

"The attack began when a large group of settlers targeted dozens of #Palestinians attempting to access their land between the villages of Sinjil and al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.

Such assaults have become a regular occurrence, taking place almost every Friday, as part of efforts to intimidate villagers and drive them off land targeted for settlement."

"'Musalat owned a home in the area and died trying to defend it' - Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya municipality member"


Israeli settlers beat Palestinian-American to death, fatally shoot another

Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian-American man to death and fatally shot another during a coordinated assault on villagers in the occupied West Bank on Friday.
Fayha Shalash (Middle East Eye)

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Israeli settlers beat Palestinian-American to death, fatally shoot another
By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST

"The attack began when a large group of settlers targeted dozens of #Palestinians attempting to access their land between the villages of Sinjil and al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.

Such assaults have become a regular occurrence, taking place almost every Friday, as part of efforts to intimidate villagers and drive them off land targeted for settlement."

"'Musalat owned a home in the area and died trying to defend it' - Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya municipality member"


Israeli settlers beat Palestinian-American to death, fatally shoot another

Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian-American man to death and fatally shot another during a coordinated assault on villagers in the occupied West Bank on Friday.
Fayha Shalash (Middle East Eye)

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There would never be a better time for Q to reappear than now, and talk about how Epstein was a distraction to get the real criminals, Obummer and the demonrats.

>You would have never believed the truth if I told it to you from the beginning anon.
>You needed something you could relate to; pedophilia.
>But now you need to let it go because the true crimes are SO much worse.
>They've purposely kept the black men down after stealing their technology, 5000 years ago in Egypt...

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Trump’s 50% copper import tariff said to cover refined metal. This is important because copper is in practically everything, and it's a bellwether commodity for recession as well.

mining.com/web/trumps-50-coppe…

#usa #economy


Trump’s 50% copper import tariff said to cover refined metal - MINING.COM

Refined copper represents the biggest category of the metal that is imported by the US.
MINING.COM

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Dramatic US threat to Lebanon: Surrender by force or else! tehrantimes.com/news/515573/Dr…

Dramatic US threat to Lebanon: Surrender by force or else!

BEIRUT — In a post on X, US Special Envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack has claimed that his statements to The National were not intended to threaten Lebanon, but rather to praise the Syrian regime's “impressive strides”.
Tehran Times

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More #Israeli #gaslighting and #propaganda. It has never been anti-semitic to criticize or "demonize" #Israel and anyone that tells you so is full of shit. Israel claiming something is "anti-semitic" when it clearly isn't is simply their way of manipulating opinions so they can't be held accountable for their actions. Well, enough is enough. ---

Carlo Gubitosa

2025-07-13 18:00:25

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WTF I just read?

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Earth’s Poet of Scale | The New Yorker newyorker.com/culture/photo-bo…

Documenting the world's destruction.

Tags: #dandelíon #Environment #pollution #climate #anthropocene

via dandelion* client (Source)


GitHub - gsantner/dandelion: a unofficial diaspora* client for Android

a unofficial diaspora* client for Android. Contribute to gsantner/dandelion development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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it's incredible how the e-rightoids think they only have two options every single fucking time MUH TRANNIES try to appropriate anything:
a) immediately give up the thing they loved up until 5 mins ago (and even go "well ackshully in retrospect that thing i loved was always tranny-coded so good riddance")
b) bitch about it in their social media circles without ever actually doing anything (this eventually leads to option a every single time without failure)
but option c (actively fighting against it/ignoring it altogether) is never ever on the table

learned helplessness is both terrifying and disgusting :jahy_disgust:

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I'm about to give up my organic balcony gardening experiment. This is a cry for help.

I'm a bit emotional right now. But in the bad way to be fair.
I just got stung by a wasp without any reason, after having to take a extensive shower before because my body was totally itchy from all the mites and whatnot. UGH! 😫

I've been pretty proud in the beginning of this experiment, because there were lots of wild bees, beetles and other cool critters around here. It's basically like being in nature.

But I forgot that nature sucks... 🥲

For example, imagine laying in the grass and just chilling.
Beautiful for the first 5 seconds, but then, you begin getting stung in the asscreek by a dozen ants and get everything ruined.

Nature is basically dead in my area, so only the asshole bugs survive here.

The whole balcony is swarmed by aphids/ mites as well as ant colonies that protect those suckers from ladybugs and other beneficial predatory insects.

The aphids droop honeydew everywhere, which attracts lots of yellow jacket wasps, which in return could kill my girlfriend in minutes because she's highly allergic.
I didn't even realise that asshole (the wasp, lol) is there until I got stung just by existing.

I'm right about to pull the trigger and get my pesticides (neem oil/ pyrethrum extract) out.

Also, I began to hate soil even more than before.
I have to hunt for slugs every evening, because they're everywhere, and I can barely stand a chance against them.
There are gnats living in it too, as well as other unwanted guests.

The plants in soil are starting to spread diseases and pests to my otherwise healthy plants in hydroponics. I will for example harvest my weed soon, and there are bugs sticking in the buds like in a glue trap. I have no idea how I should get them out of them, it's just disgusting.

I also largely prefer hydro compared to soil, not only because there are less pests, but also because due to the much lower water demand and control it gives me.
The soil is guzzling water like crazy and still the plants are looking way less healthy.

Spraying neem oil on my hydro plants and just not using soil anymore seems to be the way better choice right now.

Sorry for the rant. It had to be.

What should I do?

A yellow jacket wasp sitting on a willow leaf with hundreds of aphids on it
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just_another_person

Okay, just from the pictures, let me say what I think is happening:

1) You're growing too many different kinds of plants in a small space.
2) You're growing Cannabis, which draws literally every sweet-sensing pest.
3) Those things on the underside of the leaves you posted are Ladybug larvae, and they are GOOD.

You clear this up in about a week with a few simple things:

1) Get a clutch of ladybugs from your local nursery or plant stores. This should be available almost everywhere in the US.
2) Although I don't want to advocate for this because I love local pollinators, get a pheromone trap for the stinging insects. They cost about $10, and don't lure honeybees, but WILL kill local carpenter bees and yellow jackets.
3) For the aphids, get a soap-based spray, or make it yourself. It's pretty much just dish soap and water, but there are guides online. Spray EVERY MORNING AND AFTER SUNSET. This plus the ladybug clutch will make quick work of the aphids.
4) I see you have Basil in containers, move that AWAY from the plants that are infested with scale or aphids.
5) Depending on where you live, your nursery's may sell Mantids. Get them. They are beneficial, but ruthless in eating and killing anything in their grasp, including wasps.
6) If you have wasps around, there is a nest nearby. Inspect your building awnings, trees, or under anything shaded and find that nest. It's not two doors over, it's within 100ft of where you got stung. Find it, set a pheromone trap around your plants (not where you think the nest is), then after a lot of them are dead, go find and remove the nests next.

Don't leave standing water around, and make sure that you stay on schedule with the soap spray. Most of this will be cleared in just a week.

Edit: also for the slugs and stuff, you're growing a lot of stuff in a mostly shaded area, so you're just asking for slugs. Line a general area around your plants with Diatomaceous Earth. It's cheap, easy to use, and doesn't harm anything that doesn't crawl. Also, organic.

Double edit: DO NOT spray this black bugs with the striped butts. Those will be ladybugs soon that eat all the aphids. They are good.

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Günther Unlustig 🍄

You're growing Cannabis, which draws literally every sweet-sensing pest.


Funnily enough, my weed is pretty much the only thing (and chillis) that isn't much affected.
The willow is the worst one, and the pepino second.

Those things on the underside of the leaves you posted are Ladybug larvae, and they are GOOD.


Those larvae pictures are already a bit older, maybe two weeks?
They probably got killed by the ants or wasps, because I rarely see them around anymore.
I also rarely see any other aphid eating insects anymore, only ants and ants carrying carcasses 🙁

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An interesting approach. I like it.
From the article

The attorney general also pointed out that if AI chatbots are deceiving consumers through manipulated “fact-checking,” it may violate the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, which aims to prevent companies from using false or deceptive advertising to sell merchandise in the state. Given the substantial revenue these tech giants generate from Missourians, Bailey asserted that their activities fall within his authority to protect consumers from fraud and false advertising.

breitbart.com/tech/2025/07/11/…


Missouri AG Andrew Bailey: ‘Misleading’ AI Chatbots Push Anti-Trump ‘Propaganda Masquerading as Fact’

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding answers from big tech giants including Meta, Google, and OpenAI, about their AI chatbots distorting facts and producing biased results about President Donald Trump.
Lucas Nolan (Breitbart)

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Its strange, i listen to a #song that has lyrics by a #rap artist and it says "i hear voices" yet in reality i enjoy this fucking song and my neighbours who must be deluded as fuck use this as ammunition against me for things that i dont experience personally. I dont hear fucking voices other than my own #dialogues meaning my own fucking voice and memories of other #people in my life #speaking. People are fucking stupid!
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Former PM Ehud #Olmert 👇🏼

It is a #ConcentrationCamp. I am sorry.


[...]

We make a discount to ourselves saying ‘they are antisemites’. I don’t think that they are only antisemites, I think many of them are anti-Israel because of what they watch on television, what they watch on social networks.
This is a painful but normal reaction of people who say ‘hey, you guys have crossed every possible line’.


theguardian.com/world/2025/jul… #Israel #Gaza #IsraelHamasWar #HumanitarianCity #Hamas


‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM

Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitism
Emma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)

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spectator.co.uk/article/the-uk…

The situation has become so bad that the Environment Secretary has warned that if nothing is done we could run out of clean drinking water within a decade. This is, frankly, embarrassing. We’re supposed to be a developed country and we have abundant rainfall, and yet our state is so dysfunctional that we soon might not have enough drinking water.

While the government has approved the building of two new reservoirs, expected to be complete by 2036 and 2040, and plans to build another seven by 2050, this is not fast enough. And so water companies are considering rationing supply through surge pricing, much to the delight of some environmental campaigners.


archive.ph/nJTzs


The UK should not have to ration water

The UK’s steady decline continued today with reports that water companies are looking to introduce ‘surge pricing’ in order to ration demand.
David Shipley (The Spectator)

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Die zufällige Schwankung bei der Zahl der Feiertage, die auf Werktage fallen, dem Schalttag, usw. wird übrigens aus dem BIP einfach rausgerechnet, der Standardisierung wegen. Schon mal was davon gemerkt, am "realen" Wirtschaftswachstum? Didn't think so...
norden.social/@bwaaaaak/114847…

bwaaaaak (@bwaaaaak@norden.social)

Pfoten weg von meinen Feiertagszuschlägen https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/pfingstmontag-abschaffung-feiertag-dihk-peter-adrian-100.html
norden.social
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dontkickducks

I wouldn't say really positive. But it changed a daily slightly negative into a daily slightly positive.

At work I regularly need to take short notes. I like to fill the page to the full. But it gets messier and more complicated aa the day goes on. So I'd strike through and cross out notes I don't need anymore.
The thing is, crossing things out triggers a feeling of making mistakes. So instead of crossing out I started using check-marks (Dutch-style)., which feels like a succes and is also a quick fun flourish to draw. So small annoyances have turned into small victories.

geschreven symbool

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Maestro

I found a slightly different system online once. You mark your todo list with a dash (-) in front. If it's done, cross it to make a plus sign (+). If it's something that you postponed or moved to another list/page, turn the dash into an arrow (->). I adapted it from the dash-plus system years ago: patrickrhone.net/the-dash-plus…

The Dash/Plus System – Rhoneisms

www.patrickrhone.net

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Pearl Harbor (2001)

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Actors:
- Ben Affleck
- Kate Beckinsale
- Josh Hartnett
- Cuba Gooding Jr.
- Jon Voight
- Tom Sizemore
- Alec Baldwin
- Jennifer Garner
- Jaime King
- Catherine Kellner
- Sara Rue
- Michael Shannon
- Dan Aykroyd

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I just think its so funny how hard online games have tried to "curve toxicity" by limiting player communication or trying to punish players for toxic behavior.

Don't they understand? Calling someone a slur or telling them to go kill themselves is and will always be part of the online experience.

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Beefki

This to me smacks of "retard"

Retard used to be the medical way to talk about retards, the kind and proper term for talking about the subject.

Then children realized that retard meant retard. Retard became a "slur" because children didn't mean it in the kind medical use way, they meant that a fucker was retarded.

So we went with "Special". Kind word for the unfortunate simpleton. Once again kids found out that it means retard. Now Special is a "slur".

It doesn't matter what word is used for retard, it will always be used to laugh at people being retarded.

Take out the hook and they'll find a new way to tell each other to hang themselves. Sanitize it completely and even the nicest of words will be the ones used to tell each other to kill themselves.

Shit talk is eternal.

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