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🇫🇷 Lancement du Bridge XMPP / Fédiverse !

Vous l'attendiez, le voici : vous pourrez désormais converser directement entre le Fédiverse et la messagerie instantanée XMPP ! Et ce depuis votre compte et votre application habituelle, sans rien changer.

Comment ça marche ? Très simple, deux comptes robots jumeaux vont se charger de passer vos messages dans l'autre monde.

Et donc depuis Mastodon : votre contact est @xmpp_bridge que vous pourrez suivre pour vous inscrire, puis envoyer et recevoir des messages depuis XMPP.

À chaque fois que vous envoyez un message, vous faites comme pour tout message privé : mention du compte robot depuis Mastodon ou envoi de message privé depuis une application comme Pixelfed ou Friendica, par exemple.

Adressez votre ou vos destinataires XMPP avec le préfixe xmpp: suivi de leur adresse (sans espace). Vous pourrez répondre directement à tout message reçu.

Vous pourrez également gérer vos listes de blocage, afin d'éviter tout spam, et vous pourrez rapporter tout abus à votre administrateur.

Ça ne vous intéresse pas ? Pas de panique, tant que vous n'êtes pas inscrit, vous ne recevrez rien.

Commencez ! Évidemment, ça n'a d'intérêt que si vous connaissez des interlocuteurs XMPP (et vice-versa). Mais c'est aussi l'occasion d'essayer et de promouvoir la messagerie instantanée.

Testez et rapportez-moi tout bug ou toute remarque utile, pour améliorer le service.

En espérant que vous appréciez ce nouveau service assez exclusif mais ouvert à tous !

🔄 Boostez svp pour répandre la bonne parole dans l'Univers.

#gayfr #XMPP #GayXMPP #BridgeXMPP #XMPPBridge

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🌈 BarbaPulpe 😇 ᴹᵃˢᵗᵒᵈᵒⁿ

🇬🇧 Launch of the XMPP / Fediverse Bridge!

You've been waiting for it, here it is: from now on you'll be able to chat directly between Fediverse and XMPP instant messaging! All from your usual account and application, without changing a thing.

So how does it work? Very simply, two twin robot accounts will be responsible for passing your messages to the other world.

So from Mastodon: your contact is @xmpp_bridge, who you can follow to sign up, then send and receive messages from XMPP.

Each time you send a message, you do as you would for any private message: mention the robot account from Mastodon or send a private message from an application such as Pixelfed or Friendica, for example.

Address your XMPP recipient(s) with the prefix xmpp: followed by their address (without spaces). You can reply directly to any message you receive.

You can also manage your block lists to prevent spam, and you can report any abuse to your administrator.

Not interested? Don't worry, you won't receive anything until you register.

Get started! Obviously, this is only of interest if you know XMPP contacts (and vice versa). But it's also an opportunity to try out and promote instant messaging.

Test it out and report any bugs or useful comments to me, so that I can improve the service.

I hope you enjoy this new service, which is fairly exclusive but open to everyone!

🔄 Please boost to spread the good word in the Universe.

#gayfr #XMPP #GayXMPP #BridgeXMPP #XMPPBridge

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🌈 BarbaPulpe 😇 ᴹᵃˢᵗᵒᵈᵒⁿ

@Goffi
Salut ! Pour information.

Un pont XMPP - Fédiverse élémentaire donc (bien moins ambitieux que Libervia), fournissant un service de chat entre les deux mondes, les utilisateurs gardant leur application et leur compte habituels.

L'architecture est simple : deux comptes robots, un dans chaque monde (backend Python avec Slixmpp et API Mastodon) se chargeant de faire écho de chaque message pour l'envoyer dans l'autre monde. Avec un traitement des adresses, listes de blocages, etc.

Ça reste pour une utilisation simple et à échelle modérée (chaque compte robot étant soumis aux limitations imposées par les serveurs Mastodon et XMPP auxquels ils sont rattachés).

L'idée étant de permettre un déploiement simple et de jouer la scalabilité en rajoutant des bots jumeaux par chaque administrateur intéressé (le principe du Fédiverse, finalement).

Si ça intéresse quelqu'un, je mettrai le code source à disposition en AGPL cet été après quelques semaines de fonctionnement en béta. Ouvert à tous !

Bonne soirée.

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Why is this great news? Well, it serves as a clear reminder that federal agents can be arrested when they break the law. If they assault people—or kidnap them—or commit any crimes at all, they can and should end up in handcuffs.
“No one is above the law, regardless of their position or badge,” LA County DA Nathan Hochman said. He’s right, but it shouldn’t take this level of carnage for them to end up behind bars. - Scott Dworkin

dworkinsubstack.com/p/border-a…


Border Agent Arrested in CA, Trump Gets Loudly Booed, and More Great News

Onward!
Scott Dworkin (The Dworkin Report)

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"I have been on Truth Social to cover Trump since the first day it became active, and have read every post. The people on that platform are hardcore MAGA cultists who are typically intensely loyal. But his dismissive post on Epstein drew a tidal wave of angry responses like I have never seen before. So far, Trump has received over 45,000 replies, over 90% negative."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Epstein #MAGA
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Disillusioned Trump Fans Respond to Him on Epstein

Truth Social was on fire responding to Trump's Epstein post.
Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)

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The Guest


يا ضيفنا لو زرتنا لوجدتنا
نحن الضيوف وأنت رب المنزل

“O our guest, if you were to visit us, you would find
That we are the guests, and you are the master of the house.”

Mohammad Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Abu Khaled), or most commonly known as Mohammed Deif — The Guest: A man who led the resistance from the shadows, his name chanted by millions, though little was known about him. But that didn’t matter. What mattered was that he was the shadow of the resistance, dedicating his life to the fight for freedom. And the people knew that.

Born in Gaza in 1965, Deif studied science at the Islamic University of Gaza. During his time there, he was active in religious, student, and humanitarian work—along with a passion for theater. In 1989, the occupation forces arrested him, detaining him without trial for 16 months on charges of working with Hamas’ military wing.

His release coincided with the rise of the Qassam Brigades, which had begun executing operations deep within the zionist entity. Deif moved to the West Bank alongside several Qassam leaders from Gaza, overseeing the formation of a West Bank branch. He rose to prominence after the assassination of Imad Aqel in 1993, and oversaw several successful operations against the occupation, including the capture of zionist soldier Nachshon Wachsman in 1994.

In the year 2000, he was arrested once again by the Palestinian Authority but managed to escape detention following the outbreak of the Second Intifada. This marked a significant turning point in the development of Hamas’ military capabilities.

Mohammed Deif was appointed as the commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades in 2002. Upon taking leadership, he established a military training and development academy, later revealed after the occupation’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.

Deif is credited with numerous strategic successes for Al-Qassam, most notably in the field of missile development. Under his command, the Qassam Brigades transformed their arsenal—from primitive rockets with a few kilometers’ range to missiles capable of reaching every occupied Palestinian city, from the far south to the north.

Mohammed Deif rarely appeared on media, the last being on the morning of October 7, 2023, when he announced Al-Aqsa Flood. He survived seven assassination attempts by the occupation, in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2014, and twice in 2021. He suffered burns, lost an eye, and, according to occupation claims, lost a leg and sustained arm injuries in another.

In 2014, another attempt on his life killed his wife, Widad Mustafa Harb Deif, and children including a his three-year-old daughter and his seven-month-old son, Ali. Yet, Deif remained committed to resistance.

Despite never revealing his face to the public, Deif became one of the most beloved and respected figures in the resistance. People from different countries and backgrounds pledged allegiance to him, for what he represented.

“Put the sword before the sword—we are the people of Mohammed Deif!”

He was nicknamed “the guest” because for decades, he slept in a different house every night, avoiding detection and assassination. The occupation threatened to kill him. The people answered: “Our homes are yours.”

Mohammed Deif was the resistance as it is: from the people, for the people.

Glory to Mohammed Deif, the shadow of the resistance who remains for as long as its light keeps shining.

Abu Khaled, the guest, master of every home and every heart.

source: Resistance News Network

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#alAqsaFlood #gaza #hamas #MohammedDeif #palestine #westAsia

Resistance News Network

The pulse of the resistance. المقاومة جدوى مستمرة. Backup Mirror: @RNN_Backup Prisoners Channel: @RNN_Prisoners RNN Archive: @RNN_Archive Contact/Feedback: @RNN_Messaging_Bot
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PKK’nin Kendisini Fesih Kararının Tarihsel Önemi Üzerine-I

Geçen yılın başında yazdığım “AKP-MHP Kavgası ve Muhalefet” adlı makalede, ABD’de Trump’ın başkan seçilmesi durumunda, Erdoğan ile AKP’nin İmralı’da bulunan Abdullah Öcalan aracılığıyla PKK ile yeni bir “Çözüm ya da Barış Süreci” başlatabileceğini yazmıştım. Bugün yaşananlar bu tespitleri büyük oranda doğrulamıştır. Bugün yaşanan olayların tarihsel nedenlerini, toplumda çok az bir kesim tam olarak bilince çıkarabilmiştir. Gerek görsel gerekse de yazılı basında sorun ya çok dar bir temelde (Erdoğan’ın tekrar seçilmesi) ya da yanlış bir bağlamda (Suriye’de rejim değişikliği) tartışılmakta ve temelde olayları hareket ettiren dinamik ya da dinamiklerin yapısı tam olarak kavranılmamaktadır. Olayların tarihsel arka planını inceleyen ve çözümleyen iki uzun yazı[1]ile bunu yapmış olduğumuz için burada artık sorunun bu yanı üzerinde durmayacağız.

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SYRIE. Le HTC attaque les forces arabo-kurdes à Deir ez-zor
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"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Au milieu de massacres des Druzes de la région de Soueïda, les gangs djihadistes dirigés par le gouvernement de Damas attaquent les forces arabo-kurdes à Deir ez-zor, rapporte l’activiste Scharo Maroof. Scharo Maroof a écrit sur son compte X (ancien Twitter) : « Le gouvernement syrien profite du chaos provoqué par


SYRIE. Le HTC attaque les forces arabo-kurdes à Deir ez-zor – Kurdistan au féminin

Kaf1 (Kurdistan au féminin)

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Mack Evasion - Getting Caught
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"Author: Mack EvasionTitle: Getting CaughtSubtitle: When Bad Things Happen to Good Shoplifters, A MemoirDate: 1994Source: <evasionbook.com> & <amazonaws.com>
Before Evasion, There was...
​Evasion, the zine, had its first print run of 10 copies in June of 1999. Like all my bad ideas, it was a refined version of an even worse idea — one that came 5 years before, when I was in high


Getting Caught

Mack Evasion Getting Caught When Bad Things Happen to Good Shoplifters, A Memoir 1994
The Anarchist Library

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VDH

When asked why the current Department of Justice might be investigating him, former CIA Director John Brennan answered, as was his wont, with a complete lie: “I am clueless about what it is exactly that they may be investigating me for.”

Clueless? Hardly. Brennan knows full well that his fingerprints are on some of the greatest scandals of the last decade. These machinations have threatened the very integrity of our institutions and elections.


Will John Brennan Ever Tell the Truth? › American Greatness

When asked why the current Department of Justice might be investigating him, former CIA Director John Brennan answered, as was his wont, with a complete lie: “I…
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YoungBlood

He has a record of serially lying to Congress, the public, and the media, and doing so emphatically.

In 2011, as the government’s chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan absurdly insisted that the Obama administration’s drone strikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border had not killed a single civilian noncombatant. Yet multiple sources proved the claim was clearly false. In truth, the number of innocents killed was likely somewhere between 50 and 70.

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YoungBlood

In 2014, as director of the CIA, Brennan lied again, doubling down by denying that CIA operatives were hacking into U.S. Senate staffers’ computers.

“As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. . . . We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.”

Here, too, he was caught lying and forced to apologize—but never charged with perjury.

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Chronic-Yonic

@HaleakalacraterThere are less and less insects (thank you RoundUp) so have you tried hand-pollinating them with a soft pain brush? Some plants, like tomato plants are self pollinating but even then, sometimes you have to give them a hand by gently shaking the plant like if wind made them move a bit.

Some others, like bell peppers, if you pollinate them, can lose their flowers if they have too much water. I would look it up with search criteria being zucchini loses flowers or something similar.

Oh and for my cucumbers, I seem to notice they are male flowers and female flowers which bear the fruit. After a time, the male flowers fall...

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Chronic-Yonic

@HaleakalacraterExcellent. It's time-consuming if you have to hand pollinate but quite frankly, when I take care of my garden I really enjoy it, so much in fact. It's my way of being in touch with nature. And it's also that bulb moment over your head when you do something that helps your plants along. I might have to shut up, I'm starting to sound like a loony. 😂
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HebrideanUltraTerfHecate

@astarsscreams @HaleakalacraterI actually had to have 4 wasp nests destroyed last week, I don't like doing anything like that, but they were up under the eaves of the house and they were getting arsey around outside. Had they been elsewhere in garden, further from house would maybe have left them, but had trouble with them there before and couldn't go outside in peace.

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Chat Pile, fenêtre sur l’Oklahoma
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"«La musique de Chat Pile c’est une fenêtre sur ce que l’on ressent quand on vit à Oklahoma».
L’article Chat Pile, fenêtre sur l’Oklahoma est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque."


Chat Pile, fenêtre sur l'Oklahoma

Contre Attaque musicale : «La musique de Chat Pile c’est une fenêtre sur ce que l’on ressent quand on vit à Oklahoma».
B (Contre Attaque)

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Today is Bastille Day, a French national holiday that commemorates the Storming of the Bastille prison in 1789.

The crowd busted down the doors of the prison fortress to free French guards they believed had been imprisoned for refusing to fire on the people, but instead only found seven prisoners - four counterfeiters, two mentally ill men and a sexual deviant imprisoned at the behest of his own family.

This is a holiday the French celebrate.
#losing

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Aquest dimecres a Son Sardina i el dijous al Secar de la Real, des de la plataforma MALLORCA PER VIURE NO PER ESPECULAR convocam un taller de pancartes i cartells obert a tothom perquè els nostres carrers, places i façanes cridin ben fort contra la llei macrourbanitzadora del PP i VOX. Tendrem tot tipus de material, però animam a tothom que tengui llençols o teles blanques que en dugui.

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Belarusian FM to pay visits to China, Thailand, Laos eng.belta.by/politics/view/bel…

Belarusian FM to pay visits to China, Thailand, Laos

In China, the minister is set to attend a meeting of the SCO Foreign Ministers Council. This is the first time Belarus will participate in the SCO ministerial meeting in the capacity of a full member of the organization.
Belarusian Telegraph Agency

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#Mastobada

🎶 Ma révolution
Porte ton nom
Ma révolution n'a qu'une seule façon
De tourner le monde
De le changer
Pour toi je ne cesserai jamais de marcher
Ma révolution porte ton nom 🎶

(Pardon)
#earworm

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Jenifer - Ma Révolution

Best of Jenifer: https://goo.gl/di1F8vSubscribe here: https://goo.gl/yJXWBbMusic video by Jenifer performing Ma Révolution. (C) 2004 Mercury (France)#Jenifer...
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The Cult of Control: Exposing Big Pharma & the Mormon Church w/ Dr. Bryan Ardis

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In this jaw-dropping interview, Dr. Bryan Ardis rips the veil off the medical industry’s deceptive practices ...


The Cult of Control: Exposing Big Pharma & the Mormon Church w/ Dr. Bryan Ardis

In this jaw-dropping interview, Dr. Bryan Ardis rips the veil off the medical industry’s deceptive practices, drawing chilling parallels to his escape from t...
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Αγγλοσάξονες ρε φίλε!

Κατά την διάρκεια των διαδηλώσεων υπέρ της οργάνωσης #PalestineAction

"Η αστυνομία πραγματοποίησε επίσης έφοδο στα σπίτια των συλληφθέντων, σπάζοντας τις εξώπορτες και κατάσχοντας αφίσες, βιβλία και τεχνολογία. Σύμφωνα με το Υπουργείο Δικαιοσύνης, δύο από τους 13 συλληφθέντες ήταν Κουάκεροι, ηλικίας 78 και 80 ετών. Ανέφεραν ότι τα ντουλάπια των τροφίμων τους ελέγχθηκαν για ραδιενεργά υλικά."

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¿Buscas un DNS rápido, privado y sin vender tus datos?

RocksDNS ya tiene dos servidores públicos:

— DNS1: veterano, con la caché bien calentita
— DNS2: recién llegado, rápido y con ganas de demostrar lo que vale

Funciona con DoH, DoT y DoQ.
Y sí, lo hemos probado. Lo usamos cada día.

rocksdns.ovh

#RocksDNS #DNSlibre #PrivacidadDigital

dns.rocksdns.ovh - DNS Público Seguro y Universal

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My roof sprinkler experiment was a success. It reduced my air conditioning by half. If you have well water or aren’t raped by water cartels I suggest it. My water schedule is 15 on and an hour off for evaporation. I just used a flat soaker/spray hose and a cheap chink WiFi hose valve. I 3d printed peak vent hose holders to get the north and south sides of the roof.
Unknown parent

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Clambino

@eriner I takes the whole 15 to completely wet the roof and it still works well in humid air. If I sunk more money into the system I could make a nice grid and really tune it for some short spray times. Probably next year. Shit maybe I’ll plumb in a spigot to the roof while I’m doing the AC pex. Less ghetto than the hose running along the fascia. Slightly less ghetto anyway!

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Στην Suwayda της Νότιας Συρίας γίνεται μακελειό μεταξύ Δρούζων και φυλών προσκείμενων στην κυβέρνηση των τζιχαντιστών.

Αυτή είναι η ειρήνη που επεφύλασσαν οι αμερικάνοι στους Σύρους 😡

Unknown parent

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Obi-Two al-Menashani

@Wtdrisco I’m asking. My little bottle with the silicone holder for my backpack is almost gone. I didn’t realize it before I left and just thought, no big deal, I’ll get one in one of the multiple airport gift shops/news stands. And I can’t find any. Seems like this would be the ideal place to sell them.

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Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
“Come on Eileen” is a teenage love song, as the lyrics imply. Eileen is just now blossoming into a woman, and the singer appears to be one of her peers. The majority of the song is dedicated to his attempts to – succinctly put – get intimate with her. However, he does not perceive this as an act of lust. Rather he believes that his love for her will endure forever.
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A plurality of Ukrainians believe that, within ten years, their state will be "a country with a ruined economy and a large outflow of people," according to a new report from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.

The study asked respondents to choose the most likely between two futures: one with a Ukraine in tatters and one with a prosperous nation as part of the European Union. Forty-seven percent chose the more pessimistic option.

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I just watched a YouTube video called “Movies Historians Absolutely Despise” and once again, I’m reminded of how carelessly, even dangerously, “history” has been treated in mainstream culture.

It’s not just the inaccuracies. It’s the way those inaccuracies get sold to us as truth.

Many of the films highlighted were marketed as “based on real events,” when in fact, they were strategically crafted lies, for dramatic effect.

youtu.be/RaPt_yu2Q1U?si=csHbPo…


Movies Historians Absolutely Despise

Whitewashing Britain's Nazi king? Messing up Jesus' language? Nobody expects movies to be 100% historically accurate — but you'd hope they'd be better than t...
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Kim Crayton ~ Her/She

When you grow up believing these stories, taught in schools, reinforced in media, echoed in everyday conversation, undoing them doesn’t just take learning something new. It requires unlearning everything you thought you knew.

That’s why the impact of misinformation and disinformation is so hard to challenge.

Because when a lie is wrapped in nostalgia, repetition, and collective belief, it doesn’t feel like a lie.
It feels like “common sense.”
It feels like “truth.”

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Kim Crayton ~ Her/She

It feels like “the way it’s always been.”

And that’s exactly the problem.

So much of what we’re told is “fact” is actually fabrication, designed to preserve the status quo. And when that status quo has always served you, it becomes easier to defend the lie than to face the cost of truth.

This realization has made it increasingly difficult to trust the intentions of people and institutions I’m not in community with.

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Kim Crayton ~ Her/She

Because without shared values, without accountability, without relationship, truth becomes negotiable. And liberation becomes impossible.

That’s why I’m building spaces for truth-telling and unlearning. For people who are ready to go beyond the myths, challenge what we’ve inherited, and create new narratives rooted in honesty, liberation, and equity.

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Kim Crayton ~ Her/She

If you’re feeling the same way, if you’ve been questioning what’s real, what’s right, and what’s worth rebuilding, join us inside the Profit Without Oppression (PWO) community.

This is not just a learning space. It’s a doing space. A place for people ready to lead differently, live more fully, and divest from the lie that profit requires harm.

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#History #MediaLiteracy #Unlearning #TruthTelling #Disinformation #CommunityMatters #PWO #ProfitWithoutOppression #LiberationWork

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Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo simpleanalytics.com/blog/googl…

'Think DuckDuckGo keeps you safe from Google? Well think again. A new study shows that even with a privacy-focused search engine, Google's trackers follow you around the web (mostly through analytics, ads, and video embeds). The research by SafetyDetectives compares four countries and reveals just how hard it is to avoid Google online.'

#DuckDuckGo #google #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #search


Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo

Simple Analytics is the privacy-first Google Analytics alternative that is 100% GDPR compliant.
Simple Analytics

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George Michael - Freeek (Uncensored Version)


 Sexual objectification and some...strong language.

Sensitive content

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Mel and Kim - Respectable
Respectable" is a song by English pop duo Mel and Kim from their only studio album, F.L.M.
It was released on 18 February 1987 and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for one week in March of that year.
British born Simon West was the director. He later went onto direct such films as CON AIR starring Nicholas Cage, THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER starring John Travolta and Lara Croft: TOMB RAIDER starring Angelina Jolie.
Sadly Mel passed away from cancer just three years after the song’s release.
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For me, it's not about nostalgia. It's not about "RETVRN" to anything.

For me, retro is about the people. Most of them are awesome. Much nicer in general than I am -- as long as you can tune out the wankers.

It's also about the tech -- retro systems, in many ways, work better than new ones.

A retro system does what you tell it, and NOTHING ELSE. It exists to serve you. It doesn't pretend to offer things it doesn't. It just does what a computer is supposed to do.

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🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞

yeah, i agree. i would argue that it's sort of (but not entirely) nostalgia (though my brain works in a weird way so i could be conflating nostalgia for something else), but specifically for the time where the computer was like this. though you're right that it's not about "retvrn" because we all know the past was less good than now. it's just the computers from then happened to be better. although, it is possible to make things in current day that are better than retro things (example: tangara is better than ipod)
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