Dad's army..
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In one incident last year, the names and bank details of 272,000 staff were breached when one of its systems was hackedDavid Maddox (The Independent)
CASCADIA VOLCANOES ACTIVATE - MORE THAN 750 EARTHQUAKES AT MT. RAINIER!!
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CASCADIA VULKANE AKTIVIEREN SICH - MEHR ALS 750 BEBEN AM MT. RAINIER !!! Magmatische Intrusionen und Aufheizung des hydrothermalen Systems in nur kurzer Zeit, - die Gletscher beginnen zu schmelzen und der Mt. Rainier ist nicht mindes des Mt. Helens.Telegram
Trump’s Agenda Could End America’s Education Crisis
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Guest post by Gregory Lyakhov While most headlines about Donald Trump focus on immigration, foreign policy, or tax cuts, it’s his education agenda that may have the most lasting impact.Guest Contributor (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Misplaced hope #1: Most court rulings halting Trump's authoritarianism are based on his having usurped Congressional authority. But a MAGA Supreme Court is reversing those rulings, approving his power grab. And a MAGA Congress is happy to hand over their power to him anyway.
Misplaced hope #2: MAGA's declining popularity means voters will rein them in? That assumes they'll allow free elections. To doubt this is no longer absurdly alarmist or just a matter for grim jokes: publicnotice.co/p/trump-coup-a…
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Republicans Fretted Over Ceding Spending Power to Trump. Then They Voted to Do It.
In voting for President Trump’ cancellation of $9 billion in spending they had already approved, Republicans in Congress showed they were willing to cede their power of the purse.](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/8086222 "[NYT headline]
Republicans Fretted Over Ceding Spending Power to Trump. Then They Voted to Do It.
In voting for President Trump’ cancellation of $9 billion in spending they had already approved, Republicans in Congress showed they were willing to cede their power of the purse.")
Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.David R. Lurie (Public Notice)
Bedouin forces affiliated with the Syrian government say they are preparing a new attack on the Druze despite a recent ceasefire announcementthecradle.co
His ascent, backed by elite networks, did not go unnoticed abroad. Israeli media frequently refer to Elsztain as “South America’s richest Jew.” With respect to his connections to broader Jewry, Elsztain’s relationship with Argentina’s Jewish community runs deep and spans several decades. He is the President of Chabad Argentina and serves as Chairman of the World Jewish Congress Governing Board.
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Before his monumental victory against Sergio Massa in November 2023, Milei was an eccentric political analyst who had a flair for controversy and had sharply criticized the Argentine political establishment.The Unz Review
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Le coup du père François
"Le coup du père François : détrousser les pauvres à la déloyale.
Et oui, notre bon Bayrou entend faire porter les efforts du budget presque uniquement aux salariés, aux retraités, aux assurés sociaux et aux familles. A trop vouloir ponctionner la France qui se lève tôt, il en oublie les entreprises …
L’article Le coup du père François est apparu en premier sur Le Libertaire."
coup du père François, austérité, hausse de la pauvreté, Macron fossoyeur économie, ruissellement pour patronslelibertaire_admin (Le Libertaire)
Baffled by President Trump's Response to the Epstein "Client List"? I Think I Get It.Dr Naomi Wolf (Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf)
Clint Eastwood: "I love when people call Trump Stupid.. You mean the multi-billionaire who kicked every Democrats butt, buried 16 career Republican politicians, and continues to make fools out of once reputable news organizations ..Substack
Which one is your favorite?Vidar (Street Art Utopia)
“It would make [Epstein] a story with which we have to be persistent and steady in our demands; but also cautious, and methodical, and discerning.” —Naomi WolfJames Howard Kunstler (Clusterfuck Nation)
The Sino-Indo rivalry will shape Trump’s anti-Russian secondary sanctions decision more than anything else.Andrew KORYBKO (Oriental Review)
Wall Street drifts near records as it heads for the finish of a winning week
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Analysis: WeTransfer added the magic words "machine learning" to its ToS and users reacted predictablyJude Karabus (The Register)
Newsom Sues Trump Admin For Canceling Funding For California’s Failed $130 Billion High Speed Train to Nowhere
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On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for canceling funding for California’s failed high speed train.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
EXCLUSIVE: Arrest Of The Deep State Must Start NOW, Or The New Trump Admin Is Doomed To Failure, Alex Jones Tells Steve Bannon
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CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Download
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Gary Kildall’s story shows how he paved a path for the start-up culture, say his childrenTekla S. Perry (IEEE Spectrum)
Week in images: 14-18 July 2025
Discover our week through the lens
#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Saturday 12-July-2025 – Amid a worsening famine in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army has enforced a complete ban on fishing and sea access off Gaza’s coast, further deepening the h…Network in Defense of Humanity-Cuba
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URGENT: Help Save 32 American Allies from Being Murdered by the Taliban
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URGENT: HELP SAVE 32 AMERICAN ALLIES FROM BEING MURDERED BY TALIBAN TERRORIST REGIME Award-winning journalist Lara Logan is asking for your help to help save American allies from being murdered by the Taliban.Joe Hoft
FBI Director James Comey’s Daughter FIRED by DOJ, Key Player in Sealing EPSTEIN Files!
ARTICLE 1: POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE: DOJ FIRES Maurene Comey, Federal Prosecutor Who Filed Key Court Docs to Keep Epstein Files Under Seal
ARTICLE 2: JUST IN: Senate Passes Trump-Backed Rescission Plan to Defund PBS, NPR and Slash Bloated Foreign Aid
ARTICLE 3: ICE Arrests MS-13 Member and Fentanyl Dealer in Providence, RI – Local Officials Worried That Police May Have Assisted (VIDEO)
ARTICLE 4: Garland Favorito and VoterGA Appeal Inexplicable Dismissal of Curling vs. Raffensperger Election Ruling
ARTICLE 5: BEYOND PARODY: The Steve Miller Band Cancels All Remaining Tour Dates Due to Climate Change
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...yer in Sealing EPSTEIN Files! ARTICLE 1: POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE: DOJ FIRES Maurene Comey, Federal Prosecutor Who Filed Key Court Docs to Keep Epstein Files Under Seal ARTICLE 2: JUST IN: Senate ...Minds
OpenAI Unveils ‘Agent’ Feature That Can Control Your Computer and Perform Tasks Automatically
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OpenAI is preparing to launch a new feature that may mark the latest leap forward in the artificial intelligence revolution.Ben Kew (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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If you need some joy in your day, this is my gift to you. Jon Batiste is a gem of a human being. He is also massively talented.
In this interview from 2023 with Chris Wallace, Jon talks about the limitations genres put on music. And THEN he genre hops through part of a Beethoven piece on the fly.
It’s so good. And Chris’ face is priceless. He’s almost giddy.
#JonBatiste #Music #Genres #Piano #Genius #ChrisWallace #Joy #GoodNews
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Taxation is obscene, you lose about 50% of your income.
The good side is nobody wants to kill you, imprison you, and ruin your life. So no cops with quotas, no SWATting (they just don't kick down doors over anonymous phone calls, actually kicking down doors AT ALL is extremely rare), no personal injury lawyers, no toxic food.
The bad side is that nobody wants to do anything, so when you need something done, it can be really painful. Like if you're paying someone and they still don't want to work.
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It's not just "lazy" in the sense that an American would think of it, it's a whole culture unto itself.
The French don't grovel. Everybody knows that whatever they're paid half is going out the window, so as a result, customer service is hilarious. But if they can see that you're in a tight spot, they'll help you out, because they do care about you as a human being. It's just that whether or not you're paying them doesn't really have an impact on how much they want to help you out.
The French wear you down, until you become one of them...
Another thing about the French is they are experts at not following rules. The French are absolute masters at implicitly negotiating with one another what is and is not an acceptable thing to be doing, with astonishingly little regard for the letter of the law.
America has nothing comparable to this, America has mostly the German concept of enforcing every stupid little rule to the full extent possible, with no regard for the lives of everyone around, or indeed even the reason the rule was implemented in the first place. America also has the Scotts-Irish Borderer concept of breaking every rule possible, and starting a fight with anyone who suggests otherwise, but there's no analogue to the French concept of gracefully breaking the letter of the law while remaining within the spirit and being a good neighbor.
There are different ways to do it. If you're marrying, you can marry a woman from any country in the EU, I recommend looking in Romania.
There are also other ways to get residency. There might even be a special thing for digital nomads now, IDK.
Never been to SEA but it always gave me a weird "cool for vacation, but not to live" vibe, but I guess it works for some people...
Fuck RepugniQunt fascists and nazis.
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More than 100 emails expose the extent to which authorities in southwest Florida were left unaware of plans to build a sprawling immigration detention centre in the EvergladesKate Payne (The Independent)
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Declassified investigation sheds light on secretive Home Office project that used a network of local charitiesMartin Williams (Declassified Media ltd)
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#gm i slept til 9:30 this morning (!!!)
haven't slept this late in quite a while. kitter was very relieved when i got up.
today we need to finish welding and drill and tap some holes. so many holes
Brazil's former President Bolsonaro ordered to wear an electronic ankle monitor
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova earlier said that the treaty provides for various forms of bilateral cooperation.Sputnik International
I made a zine about why we lift up hopeful climate fiction stories on the Bright Green Futures podcast! (plus my prior one about solarpunk)
You can download/print/share them (plus I have a handy video on the trick of folding them): brightgreenfutures.substack.co…
Ep of the pod about how the resurgence of zines is an indicator of cultural change: brightgreenfutures.substack.co…
#solarpunk #climatechange #hopepunk #zines
Read again about how NASA used to do cost-plus deals for rocket building with boeing, lockheed, etc.
This completely insane way of paying for things means that the contract says that they pay the full cost of manufacturing plus a fixed percentage on top.
What this of course leads to is that the manufacturer is incentivised to make the cost as high as possible.
Make our voice heard at the Apple encryption hearing!
On the sly, the UK government tried to force a backdoor into the firewall that protects your privacy. We made the hearing public.
Now we need to win in court ✊
Donate now to fund legal representation ⬇️
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#e2ee #apple #encryption #privacy #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #crowdfunder #surveillance #security
What's at stake? Your photos of your kids. Your bank statements. Your payslips. Your CV. Should you be able to store these important items safely and securely in the cloud or should the Government be able to make us more vulnerable to criminals and h…Open Rights Group
There is no such thing as a "loneliness" epidemic. There's neoliberalism, and 10% of Western populations who refuse to catch SARS2 over and over again. These are two different issues, tho interrelated.
The "loneliness" epidemic you've read about is the political class applying pressure to people who refuse to catch their favorite plague.
Individualism, a part of neoliberalism's cultural revolution in the 1980s, purposefully replaced community with "enlightened self-interest."
Most of the COVID competent people I'm aware of are *deeply* involved in community efforts, either online or sometimes in person (in safe environments). They aren't lonely, they're angry and unwilling to comply in advance.
This would vex neoliberals and all the well-meaning people who advance their agendas, like erasing the consequences of getting COVID so people would go back to work and keep making the ruling class their filthy lucre.
After all, what use is someone they can't gaslight?
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«Στη σκιά του Λούσια» στο Μουσείο Αργυροτεχνίας
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> Δέκα χρόνια από τον θάνατο του σπουδαίου Γιαννιώτη ζωγράφου, συγγραφέα και μουσικού Νίκου Χουλιαρά (20 Ιουλίου 2015), ένα παράξενο θέατρο σκιών φτιαγμένο από τις φιγούρες των έργων του, ζωντανεύει το μυθιστόρημά του «Ο Λούσιας».
wow even back then, an Old Fashioned was still called “old-fashioned”.
(some research later… started in the early 1800s and was sometimes called a “bitter sling”, went out of fashion a bit, but came back with requests for “give me one of those old-fashioned style cocktails” in the late 1800s)
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Clint Dempsey says success on the field will help build pro-American crowds at World Cup
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Psilocybin produces substantial sustained decreases in depression and anxiety
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Cancer patients often develop chronic, clinically significant symptoms of depression and anxiety. Previous studies suggest that psilocybin may decrease depression and anxiety in cancer patients. The effects of psilocybin were studied in 51 cancer ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Changement de TVA sur l’électricité : quel impact sur les prix à partir du 1er août ?DILA (www.service-public.fr)
salut à toi jeune mastonaute,
tu es en apprentissage dans le cadre d'une formation ? ton employeur te force à faire du travail dangereux sans qualifications, te refuse des congés ou ne respecte pas tes périodes école ou tes horaires ? ou bien simplement tu veux mieux connaître tes droits ?
lis le guide des apprentis de la CGT. Tout ce qu'il y a à savoir est dedans, simple, clair, bien fait.
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#apprentie #apprenti #formation #droitDuTravail #cgt
'no sitting on the street-coffin'
nowhere does it say that one cannot sit in the street-coffin 🤔
@Benhm3 There are ALWAYS a bunch of these at the ewaste dump. Once there was a whole towering palette of them!
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GH15 prayer for July 18, 2025
God’s “Kiss” for Suffering Humanity
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Κατα την ταπεινη νταλικερισια μου αποψη, οποιος πλεον αρνειται την εννοια γυναικοκτονια, ειναι συνεργος στα εγκληματα
Και δεν ειναι καθολου συμπτωση οτι ο ιδιος συνηθως ειναι κατι απο τα παρακατω: ομοφοβικος, τρανσφοβικος, anti-woke, αντι αριστερος, αντι κομμουνιστης, αντι δικαιωματιστης, αντι ανθρωπιστης, αντι οικολογος
ή συνοπτικα καθεστωτικο κοπροσκυλο νεοδημοκρατης
President Zelensky expects his new administration to increase the share of domestic weapons on the battlefield to 50pc from 40pc within six months.Reuters (DAWN.COM)
There is no need for tech tips just stick to the steps without missing or mixing them.
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nope, posts will not be deleted. In any case, it is a good practice to autodelete your posts (mine are deleted after some months). Microbloging social media are ephemeral. If you want an archive, create a proper blog. There are also settings to keep any of them in your preferences.
This is the kind of preachy and hectoring response that puts people off!
And it does not even address the point of discussion; it is just you feeling smug about your own decision to auto-delete your own posts, and showing contempt for the people who do not.
The point of my posts was to show that moving to a different instance may not solve the problems @{rzeta0@todon.eu} was facing on mastodon.social, and may even create new problems.
Posts not getting transferred when you move accounts is a design flaw of Mastodon, whether or not they are set to auto-delete; and the reluctance of Mastodon evangelists like you to even acknowledge the problem is harmful to Mastodon itself.
And that’s only one of the problems of Mastodon, and of ActivityPub as a whole.
Here are some others:
In this context, the irony is that Mike Macgirvin’s Nomad protocol existed and was being used in production before ActivityPub was released, and before Mastodon was even born. The Nomad protocol allows each account to have multiple channels, the channel is what participates on the Fediverse. But here’s the feature relevant to our discussion: a user can open an account on another Nomad-protocol-based instance and can clone the channel from the original instance there. You can choose to post from the original channel or the clone channel, the post gets mirrored on the other one. Connections are also identical on both. So essentially a channel and its one or more clones exist simultaneously. If one of the instance shuts down or bans the user, all the posts and connections and blogs and everything else on the channel are still there on the clone, and the channel can continue functioning as it always did.
The above feature is called nomadic identity.
ActivityPub chose NOT to incorporate Nomadic Identity in its original implementation. But recently, Mike Macgirvin even ported nomadic identity to ActivityPub.
Those who are so keen to dish out advice about moving to another instance should at least spend some time learning about nomadic identity, and checking out Fedi software that supports nomadic identity [Hubzilla, (streams), Forte].
@baskin :kafeneio:🇵🇸, you have a Palestinian flag in your profile, so I assume the ongoing holocaust of Palestinians enrages you as much as it enrages me and @{rzeta0@todon.eu} and many other people. And I presume you also care about the fediverse. In that case, try to understand the drawbacks of the fedi, accept them, and organize and agitate for it to be better.
At present, the dominant force on the Fediverse is a tiny liberal Western elite virtue-signalling to each other. The Fedi is entirely irrelevant in the larger sociopolitical context. If you care about the fedi, try to make it a catalyst for genuine sociopolitical change in the world out there.
@Fou @{rzeta0@todon.eu}
Today, we go in-depth with Mike, a senior developer in the federation who has developed much of his own platform from scratch.Sean Tilley (We Distribute)
"At present, the dominant force on the Fediverse is a tiny liberal Western elite virtue-signalling to each other."
That's why I keep encouraging people to leave the big instances and especially mastodon.social.
People's decision to stick with mastodon.social invalidates the very concept of federation @baskin
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