in reply to mirabilos

Stickers, in the 90s? Are you sure? I believe we've been calling them smileys. I don't have any BBS software sources at hand, but PHPbb and SMF were among the most popular forum engines in the early 2000s, both call them smileys, e.g. here:
github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/…
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Sticker is a relatively "young" term IMO, I think I encountered it for the first time when dealing with Telegram or something like that.

in reply to Howard Chu @ Symas

Oh, yes, that could be true! 🤔
But I see, @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org means real-life objects that inspired them — makes sense, but for me it wasn't like that. This could also be country and language specific.
In any case — yes, for the sake of correctness, emojis are original Japanese characters, but I personally don't mind the term being used more broadly 😁

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I think there was a belief that Trump was going to be the "disclosure president." I have come to the conclusion that we mistakenly believe that the president (and that goes for any president) has more power and control than he really has. For instance, once Trump released the JFK documents, most of us thought there was nothing dramatic in those documents; that there was no reason these weren't released decades ago, and hence, the meaningful stuff has been held back.

Challenge: Prove that an Epstein client list exists.

Over the last 4 years that I have been collecting and cataloging news and memes I have saved almost 60K images.

I read every charging document on Ghislaine Maxwell, and I saved every piece of evidence related to the case that I could find.

I have never seen proof that an "Epstein client list" even exists let alone that it would be trustworthy if it did.

Is there anyone that can prove it exists? I seriously doubt it.

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The "list" is several thousand documents and data objects deemed sufficient to start a conviction process and due diligence filing. A single piece of paper - even if it was "These following people banged minors at my island. Signed J. Epstein" - does not exist. Unfortunately, that's the narrative that's been sold by spokespeople and the media. Right now, I don't care about the long term; I just want people to be indicted and removed from power.

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Byline Times: Nigel Farage Says He Wants to Scrap the Two-Child Benefit Cap - But There's Something He's Not Telling You
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Il a osé le dire: "Les très riches sont déjà très éreintés et très essorés", s'émeut le député LR Philippe Juvin, sur France Info. L'élu estime que taxer les plus riches "n'apportera qu'une goutte d'eau" et que le vrai sujet est de "travailler plus comme en Allemagne". Alors que les 500 Français les plus riches ont vu leur fortune multipliée par 14 en 3 décennies, selon un classement Challenges tandis que le nombre de pauvres a explosé en France...

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WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.

Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).

(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)

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So... I printed a pocket sized gas filter cartridge to mouth adapter. It fits and works! Great for all the other times when one doesn't want to carry a full face respirator around everywhere for the occasional less than lethal dog fart.

I found this has already been designed, "3M Filter Adapter for Snorkel Mask (dual or single filter)" and I chose the single filter and printed it, and here is the success. It will need an oring (which can be printed with TPU filament LOL.) The only change I would make is printing it slightly smaller at 98% for a better fit to the cartridge and 100% infill for strength, so just started another print.

And possibly another revision, to print the whole thing in TPU as this is held by the mouth and teeth 😁

DeSmog: Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds
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Ceci n'est pas une baguette : c'est un sac Moschino
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"Supermarché Chanel, burgers géants signés Moschino, orgies néo-baroques chez Gucci… Le luxe s'empare de la nourriture pour en faire une démonstration d'abondance, une esthétique de la satiété qui oublie volontiers la faim des autres. « En dehors de son talent de couturier, Christian Dior fut un gourmet passionné, à la recherche des recettes les plus subtiles et les plus raffinées.

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« Les empires s'épuisent avant les peuples »
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The NASA-supported fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4, completed its flight as part of the agency’s efforts to demonstrate demand and build operational knowledge for future commercial space stations. The four-person crew safely returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of California at 5:31 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, […]

I really appreciate The Nation as a publication. Their latest issue has analysis by a writer from 50 states, honing in on one issue in each state.

In this piece on Arizona, the writer looks at how our media environment creates a self -destructive performativity incompatible with a healthy democracy.

"In the run-up to the Civil War, congressmen of all persuasions paid close attention to how they were covered in the press."

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Hope can be a tricky thing.

We should all hold out hope that things will improve, that despite how bleak it may look, things have a way of getting better, or if they don’t that we ourselves can improve and be changed by circumstance into something more than we believed we could be.

However placing your hope IN some government, some country, some politician, some ideology or some policy is foolish.

We must all learn to draw this distinction, and stay on the right side of the line.

in reply to Consider The Raven

Well said.

There are those who look at 'saviors' in our politicans. Biden or Que Mala will save our democracy!

When Trump won, these same people claimed Trump supporters were a cult. Who knows, some may be.

However, intelligent people realized Trump had many good statements and was better than any alternative available.

Of course we are disappointed. We did not expect the yellow brick road.

However, we need to defend against the cultists who worship big gubmint sans Trump.

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in reply to emptywheel

I also keep linking back to these pieces from @pbump.com and @rothschildmd.bsky.social, from when Bongino first blew this all up. Power and conspiracy theories don't play well together. css.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...themikerothschild.com/2025/05/22/p...

Opinion | The conspiracy theor...

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Breaking Ukraine’s Backbone: Russia’s Offensive Severing Strategic Supply Routes southfront.press/russia-offens…



L’IA, un nouvel internet… sans condition


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L’idée finalement très partagée par tous les géants de l’IA, c’est bien d’annoncer le remplacement du web que l’on connaît par un autre. Une sous-couche générative qu’il maîtriseraient, capable de produire un web à leur profit, qu’ils auraient avalé et digéré.


Les gens n'accéderont plus qu'à de l'information générée par les IA des GAFAM. totalement manipulés.

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Trump dévoile un accord d'armement avec l'OTAN pour fournir des armes à l'Ukraine


Le président Donald Trump a annoncé lundi que les États-Unis vendraient des milliards de dollars d'équipements militaires aux alliés de l'OTAN, qui en transféreraient ensuite une grande partie à l'Ukraine dans le cadre des efforts visant à soutenir la défense de Kiev contre la Russie.

Le président n'a pas fourni de détails supplémentaires sur cet accord, qui marque sa première approbation de transferts d'armes offensives vers l'Ukraine depuis son retour au pouvoir. Cependant, lorsqu'on lui a demandé si le paquet comprenait des batteries de défense aérienne Patriot et des missiles intercepteurs , il a répondu : "C'est tout."

Une source proche du projet a déclaré à Axios que les États-Unis vendraient pour environ 10 milliards de dollars d'armes à leurs alliés de l'OTAN au cours de la première phase de l'accord.

Le secrétaire général de l'OTAN, Mark Rutte, a déclaré que l'accord porte sur "des quantités considérables d'équipements militaires", notamment des missiles à longue portée et des munitions. L'Allemagne, la Finlande, le Danemark, la Suède, la Norvège, le Royaume-Uni, les Pays-Bas et le Canada ont manifesté leur intérêt à y participer.

Trump a annoncé l'accord sur les armes peu après avoir donné à la Russie un délai de 50 jours pour accepter un cessez-le-feu. "Nous allons imposer des droits de douane très élevés si nous ne parvenons pas à un accord dans les 50 jours", a déclaré Trump. "Des droits de douane d'environ 100 %, on pourrait les appeler des droits de douane secondaires. Vous savez ce que cela signifie."

Le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelenskyy a déclaré avoir discuté lundi avec Trump et Rutte des moyens d'améliorer la protection des civils contre les attaques russes et de renforcer les positions défensives de l'Ukraine.

"Nous apprécions la volonté de fournir des Patriots supplémentaires, et les États-Unis, l'Allemagne et la Norvège travaillent déjà ensemble sur ce sujet. D'autres armes seront également livrées pour protéger la vie de nos citoyens et repousser les assauts russes", a écrit Zelenskyy sur X.

Dans un autre message sur X, Zelenskyy a remercié Trump pour sa « volonté de soutenir l'Ukraine ». Il a déclaré qu'ils avaient convenu de se téléphoner plus souvent et de coordonner les prochaines étapes pour mettre fin à la guerre.

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in reply to gilles geirnaert

c'est sûr que 800 milliards c'est une belle commande, mais comme l'Europe ne sait pas sur quel pied elle dance (elle ne fait en réalité que tourner en rond), le lendemain, le contrat est dénoncé... pour acheter Français (entre autre), mais comme les capacités de production n'existent pas, ni ici, ni ailleurs... ce sera surtout 800 milliards de commissions dans les poches des "intermédiaires"...

Speaking of weak Democrats, you have no idea how much trouble I've had getting Democrats in #Maine to introduce or otherwise advocate for gun reform legislation. I've written multiple times to the chair of the Democratic Senate Committee, the Executive Director of the Maine Democratic Party, Senate President Mattie Daughtry (my state senator), the Maine Gun Safety Coalition, and more. All of them refuse to answer me. What cowardice. #Politics #Democrats #Guns #GunReform #Democracy #US #USpol
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in reply to fm2279

Nobody has made this conflation.

I reacted to the statement that gun-related issues and laws in Maine are a local problem, which they very clearly are not. The specific one at hand, a person using a firearm in their yard, might be framed as a local/municipal problem if one were inclined to ignore the context in which it's occurring. But I am not so inclined. Furthermore, it's a perfectly reasonable and valid political act to petition your state to take action that your municipality will not, and force it to be a statewide issue that needs to be addressed (which it is, and has been, for some time). That's how politics works. I found your responses here--that it's "just a local problem"--to be needlessly dismissive of an important issue. I'd also like to keep things friendly, but I don't find dismissiveness like that to be very friendly.

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