Hunga Tonga is back, refreshed and revisited. But the truth is, it never left. It's Classic C&C, with hindsight.Jeff Childers (☕️ Coffee & Covid 2025 🦠)
Welp. Time to get three cavities filled at the dentist. Even the office is twitchy about it because I guess I'm marked as difficult on their file. The thing is once my mouth is numb, everything is fine. The problem is I'm terrified of needles and it seems impossible for me to hide that fact so it becomes a whole ordeal. They have a newer dentist who is a very nice lady, but last time she sent me home because "I can't do this when you look like that I need your consent." Um. Lady. We're not having sex. Needles in your mouth sucks. You just gotta not care about me. We both know that I'm not going to die. I just have a problem with needles.
Alas, next time they sent in their more experienced old man dentist who does not care about me at all and all things considered it was rather swift.
Kid does a hit and run and kills a cyclist in a stolen car.
I wanna slap the mother who had the unmitigated NERVE to name him 'Messiah.'
In today's true crime documentary, we're covering the murder of Scott Habermehl.We are a news agency dedicated to delivering factual reporting on criminal in...YouTube
When I was 11 yrs old I walked my dog in the forest or rode my bike around town.
Never did I ever have to have a lawyer present or have my parents at the police station.
'Oh come on. It will not kill to sleep 10 more minutes.'by Shiroyasha_2308LUCK (USLUCK)
The hysterical response to Diane Abbott's remarks show a society operating on a hair-trigger basis to performative rejections of antisemitismMaryam Jameela (The Canary)
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The office says Israeli forces have destroyed 720 water wells, depriving more than 1.25 million people of clean water.Tareq S. Hajjaj (Truthout)
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Woke Podcaster FROZEN After Jesse Lee ASKS The Forbidden Question - "Name One Black Accomplishment?" - YouTube
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'They (middle class blacks) ain't gonna accept you. You're too white."
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She's had it hard. Growing up in a rural Canadian community she knew racism. THEN when she went to the US, she was too white.
Choose one from column A and one from column B, please.
Luigi Lineri, the Italian collector who gathered and categorized stones from the Adige River in Northern Italy for over 50 yearsby VelourRushLUCK (USLUCK)
A lawyer representing Palestinian Dr Hussam Abu Safiya has raised concerns over his deteriorating health and routine torture in Israeli detention, where inmates are given only two spoonfuls of rice a day.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
Loi Duplomb : l'extrême droite au service de l'agro-industrie
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"L'Assemblée nationale a définitivement adopté la proposition de loi Duplomb, en dépit d'une mobilisation sans précédent d'une partie du monde agricole et de la société civile. Réintroduction de pesticides, intensification programmée de l'élevage industriel : ce texte écrit sous dictée de la FNSEA est une aberration
L’Assemblée nationale a définitivement adopté la proposition de loi Duplomb, en dépit d’une mobilisation sans précédent d’une partie du monde agricole et de la société civile.unioncommunistelibertaire.org
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Happy Friday....here's my 5:
I just want to make fun of politics. I am done being serious about it. I don't care anymore. There have been no significant arrests. I just don't care.
I wish someone would make the ultimate social media platform. Complete with blogging and the ability to reach all who follow you, not just a select few.
You would think that News stations would go back to the Walter Cronkite days. Just deliver the News Headlines and some facts and let the viewer make their own decisions. Their viewership would go through the roof.
If today's music was so good, why do they keep using the Rock classics in commercials?
There is beer and Pizza at the end of my rainbow today.
Thames Water is polluting rivers, drowning in debt, and failing customers. Is it time to renationalise this privatised disaster?Mike Sivier (Vox Political)
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)
Menen brushless shave cream ad (1946)by Tony_Tanna78LUCK (USLUCK)
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)
US Citizens living abroad can request absentee ballots easily. Start your ballot request or find your state’s voting rules here.votefromabroad.org
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
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“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
Kevin MacDonald (born January 24, 1944) is a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, best known for his use of evolutionary psychology to inform his study of the development of Jewish population as a "group evolutionary strategy." As part of this, MacDonald theorizes that Jewish features of higher-than-average verbal intelligence and ethnocentrism have eugenically evolved to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete non-Jews for resources, resulting in their ability to undermine the power and self-confidence of the White majorities in Europe and America.
He has called for the establishment and defense of a European "ethnostate" in America and Europe in a speech while accepting an award from the . . . colchestercollection.com/autho…
The Colchester Collection is the Web's largest curated archive of pro-White books, with almost 1,800 of them in one of our 22 different catalogs.
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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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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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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
Hospitals are overwhelmed, fuel is gone, and essential treatments like dialysis are nearly impossible.
Patients—young and old—are facing death not just from war, but from a collapsed healthcare system.
Al Jazeera’s Moath Al kahlout reports.
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
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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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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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in reply to GalacticTurtle 🤠🇺🇸👽 • • •@GalacticTurtleHeavens, the fact that you are there at all would surely mean that you have given your consent! We had a horrible dentist when we were kids, I was in my 20s before I stopped having the horrors at needing to go.
Is it the thought of it that bothers you or the actual process. They can use a cream to numb it a bit, usually for children, but if you are really freaked out then you could ask if they could use it for you, as in before they inject.
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in reply to GalacticTurtle 🤠🇺🇸👽 • • •@FeartnTiredNasty. I had a couple out from over crowding when in primary school.
It might be worth your while asking your mum if she had any vitamin deficiency in pregnancy too, and speak to the dentist or the Dr...mind you, not sure how it all works over there...and ask them if you need to have a check re why this happens to you.
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