Barn, Lyons Ranch Historical District, Redwood National and State Parks. Learn more at nps.gov/redw/index.htm and nps.gov/places/lyonsranch.htm and nps.gov/orgs/1739/upload/prese… and #nps #nationalparks #photography #landscapephotography #publiclands #history #interpretation #forest #trees #oak #prescribedfire #rxfire Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #summer #barn #prairie #farming #sheep

Israeli youths burn their draft orders in Tel Aviv. “We won’t take part in genocide! We won’t serve Apartheid! Resist. Refuse!” Support Israel’s refuseniks www.instagram.com/reel/DMJDHne...

On the struggle for rights: George Abdallah is free after 40 years in French prisons #Palestine republicpalestine.com/en/2025/…

NASA/Jacob Shaw NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft has moved under its own power. NASA test pilot Nils Larson and the X-59 team, made up of NASA and contractor Lockheed Martin personnel, completed the aircraft’s first low-speed taxi test at U.S. Air […]

Budget Bayrou : « Injuste, quoi qu'il nous en coûte »
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"Le Premier ministre a annoncé ses orientations budgétaires pour 2026. Pour l'association Attac, ses propositions vont « affaiblir davantage les services publics et la protection sociale, quitte à augmenter encore la pauvreté et les inégalités ». L'organisation avance des propositions alternatives. Car « un autre budget est vital ! »

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Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος: Το 1/3 των νοικοκυριών δαπανά πάνω από το 40% του εισοδήματος για τη στέγη thepressproject.gr/trapeza-tis…

Έτσι, βεντούζα βεντούζα
ΠΚΡ όπως λέει και ο Φου

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Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος: Το 1/3 των νοικοκυριών δαπανά πάνω από το 40% του εισοδήματος για τη στέγη thepressproject.gr/trapeza-tis…

"Israeli forces have bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church, killing three people and wounding at least 10 others, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, as the military continues its assault across the besieged enclave."

aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/17/i…

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

Et hop, c'est l'heure des 3 bonheurs du jour :

1/ J'ai dormi jusque 9h, heure de mon réveil ! C'est tellement rare que ça fait plaisir 😁

2/ Réussi à faire mes exercices de gainage et de mobilité même si la motivation n'était pas là 😅

3/ Ce midi, j'ai improvisé une sauce tomate aubergine pesto maison, popopooo, c'était délicieux ! 😎

Et vous ? Quels sont vos 3 bonheurs du jour ?

#Les3BonheursDuJour #BulleDeBonheur #PositiveImpact

New International Coalition “The Friends of The Hague Group” #Palestine republicpalestine.com/en/2025/…

what's the deal with flatpak's organic maps downloading the whole world all at once, not even offering the user an option to cancel it or to choose what maps to download? (debian 12.11)


debian 12.11, organic maps from flatpak.

My local organic maps started to download the whole world. Every single map it could find. I tried stopping it but the only way to achieve that is to turn the application off. On starting it again, it resumes downloading.

Why?

The android based version found on f-droid is easier to use. I wanted to use the desktop based one because I work from home more often than elsewhere.

in reply to merompetehla

Unfortunately I don't know how yo help with your original question then.

CoMaps is a recent fork because Organic Maps shows signs of corporate takeover and going against the principals of FOSS
More details here
lwn.net/Articles/1024387/

@petaramesh@piaille.fr

Le point auquel le gouvernement se fout de notre gueule c'est quand on voit que tout ce qu'il veut prendre touche de près ou de loin aux revenus du travail : les salaires, les congés, les jours fériés, le chômage, les retraites, la santé, l'école.

Et très bizarrement par un étrange hasard, ça n'affecte absolument pas les riches qui n'ont généralement pas besoin d'un emploi salarié pour vivre, ni donc de l'assurance chômage, pour lesquels une retraite sera une part anecdotique de leurs revenus, qui mettent leurs gosses dans le privé, etc.

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Singer Connie Francis passes away at 87

Connie Francis, known for her hit songs such as “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” and “Pretty Little Baby,” has died at 87-years-old.

On Thursday, Ron Roberts, the president of Francis’ record label Concetta Records, announced her passing in a Facebook post.

“It is with a heavy heart and extreme sadness that I inform you of the passing of my dear friend Connie Francis last night,” he wrote. “I know that Connie would approve that her fans are among the first to learn of this sad news. More details will follow later,” the message concluded.

oann.com/newsroom/singer-conni…

#ConnieFrancis #PassesAway #87

Is It Now Strategic to Refocus Towards Climate Adaptation?


counterpunch.org/2025/07/17/is…

without cuts to emissions we are on course for hothouse planet (runaway temperatures within decades) so they are not giving up, but rather arguing that the way to achieve mitigation is to not focus directly on it but instead to focus now on adaptation.

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Je rafraîchis constamment la page de la pétition contre la loi Duplomb sur le site de l'assemblée nationale :

petitions.assemblee-nationale.…

et c'est hallucinant, on a parfois + de 50 nouvelles signatures en quelques secondes, cela redonne espoir !


CNN STUNNED After Democrat ATTACK AGAINST Trump BACKFIRES As Their Approval Tanks and Trump Surges!
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July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and dynamics of the chromosphere, one of the most complex regions of the Sun’s atmosphere. The SNIFS mission’s launch window at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico opens on Friday, July 18.
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@BlkLdyPatriot @Stefanie @MarcusJ65 @EarlThePearls Catturd isn’t that complicated (which could be a compliment or a sneer). I like his dog pics, his farm pics and to be fair, I think he represents a lot of people, that unlike us here, don’t dig too deep. I’m glad we have QV because I need my own echo chamber to validate the cognitive dissonance banging around my head from most X writers or written rag sheets. I gave up on TV news because it isn’t.

Cognitive collapse and the nuclear codes: When leaders lose control

Many former leaders of the world's nine nuclear-armed nations were impaired by health conditions while in office, raising concerns over their decision-making abilities while they had access to nuclear weapon launch codes, a study from the University of Otago, New Zealand, has found.

The study analyzed the health information of 51 deceased leaders of nuclear-armed countries: China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Eight of the leaders died from chronic disease while still in office, five from heart attacks or strokes. Many of the leaders had multiple serious health issues while in office, including dementia, personality disorders, depression and drug and alcohol abuse.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2025…

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@Lori This is also all in the journalist's head. His reaction was that the crowd was going to turn on the media presence at the Butler Rally because the crowd immediately blamed the media for the assassination attempt. But we've all seen the video of the assassination attempt, and there's not a single sign that the crowd was about to go all vigilante on the press. So maybe this journalist's PTSD is the result of his own guilty conscience.

3 Postscripts 3 VI.- THE NONCONFORMIST
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"3 Postscripts 3 VI.- THE NONCONFORMIST At first, it snorted irritably. His fur bristled like a sullen and rebellious cat, […]"

Mortgage and auto loan delinquencies are rising fast in the US.

When consumers start skipping car payments, it’s a flashing alarm.

People will skip everything else before they lose their car. That’s how they get to work. If they’re missing payments now, the strain is already severe.

forbes.com/sites/jimosman/2025…

forbes.com/sites/jimosman/2025…

#usa #economy

_PBS CEO Pops Up Hours After NPR Boss, Claims There’s Zero Evidence of Bias_

Inversion of the burden of proof: If there were no bias, that would be easy to prove simply by showing a long history—including recent history—of news and opinion they've published from both sides of the political spectrum, with a statistically robust distribution between left and right (e.g, a balanced spread to the left and the right from the mid line.)

Key fact: Were there no bias, the left would not be so supportive of these sources, and the right would not be so opposed. That's NOT a debatable point.

newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curti…

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@relentless_eduardoThe burden of proof is on PBS and NPR to justify their continued receipt of public funds. It's not on the taxpayers to prove they don't have to continue to fund them--or anyone else.

There are MANY views other than communism (extreme socialism,) extreme social conservatism, extreme fiscal conservatism, extreme limited government, extreme free-market propertarianism, extreme Progressivism, extreme wokeinsm, etc. And those can be mixed in non-traditional ways (e.g. rabidly pro-transgender + extreme free-market propertarianism + Hinduism.)

That's one of the very strong arguments against ANY public funding for news and opinion publishing: It's inherently impossible to be neutral, to be "balanced."

3 Nachschriften 3 VI.- Der Widersprechende.
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"3 Nachschriften 3 VI.- Der Widersprechende. Zuerst ein zorniges Fauchen. Das Fell, gesträubt wie eine menschenscheue und rebellische Katze, die […]"

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🇫🇷The Prime Minister of France has signed his own "political death sentence" by proposing to cancel Victory Day and a number of social benefits, writes Politico.

Bayrou proposed to deprive the French of vacations, freeze their social security, and save billions of dollars on healthcare in order to save the budget.

But most of all, the general outrage, as the publication writes, was caused by Bayrou's call to cancel two of the 11 public holidays in France. He named Easter Monday and Victory in Europe Day on May 8 as two potential candidates for cancellation.

Opposition leader Marine Le Pen has already promised to overthrow Bayrou's government.