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Surprising and Scary Gabapentin Side Effects

Doctors are prescribing gabapentin off-label for pain. Gabapentin side effects, such as dementia, can be serious. Stopping can be difficult.

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Why Is the Sugar Substitute Erythritol Risky?

The non-nutritive sweetener erythritol is popular, but is it safe? Studies show it increases the risk for cardiovascular complications.

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Surprising and Scary Gabapentin Side Effects

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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.

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HebrideanUltraTerfHecate

@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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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.'

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Cops Find Murder Video on 11 Year Old's Instagram

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...
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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."


Woke Podcaster FROZEN After Jesse Lee ASKS The Forbidden Question - "Name One Black Accomplishment?"

Jesse Lee Peterson delivers a brutal takedown of modern race politics by asking one simple question that leaves this black podcaster completely speechless. I...
YouTube

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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

Loi Duplomb : l'extrême droite au service de l'agro-industrie

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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Good Morning MINDS
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.

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Trump’s Agenda Could End America’s Education Crisis

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Trump’s Agenda Could End America’s Education Crisis | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor

           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…

[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.
But by then, Trump and his crew will have new tools at their disposal, including a beefed up ICE that will include large phalanxes of masked thugs who are experienced in using violence at the president's behest. Thus, if the time comes for Trumpers to effectuate yet another post-election coup, they will have a ready and willing militarized federal police force to back them up and will not have to rely on a ragtag array of right-wing tourists. While many are currently rightly concerned about the impact Trump's brutal “immigration crackdown will have on undocumented persons, the danger of his creation of a massive, non-law-abiding federal police force could extend far beyond the immigration. Congress has just handed the coup leader in the White House new, dangerous tools that he and his cohorts could use in their next attempt to overturn the nation's democracy once and for all.

The emerging coup

Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.
David R. Lurie (Public Notice)
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Science in Space July 2025 When astronauts began spending six months and more aboard the International Space Station, they started to notice changes in their vision. For example, many found that, as their mission progressed, they needed stronger reading glasses. Researchers studying this phenomenon identified swelling in the optic disc, which is where the optic […]

Vision Changes on Space Station - NASA

Christian M. Getteau (NASA)

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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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Argentina’s “Libertarian” Revolution Was Brought to You by Chabad

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."

Le coup du père François - Le Libertaire

coup du père François, austérité, hausse de la pauvreté, Macron fossoyeur économie, ruissellement pour patrons
lelibertaire_admin (Le Libertaire)

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As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out - WeTransfer added the magic words "machine learning" to its ToS and users reacted predicta... - go.theregister.com/feed/www.th…

As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out

Analysis: WeTransfer added the magic words "machine learning" to its ToS and users reacted predictably
Jude Karabus (The Register)

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Newsom Sues Trump Admin For Canceling Funding For California’s Failed $130 Billion High Speed Train to Nowhere

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Newsom Sues Trump Admin For Canceling Funding For California's Failed $130 Billion High Speed Train to Nowhere | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

          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)

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Gaza fishermen banned from the sea as Israel tightens blockade amid famine networkdefenseofhumanitycuba.w…

Gaza fishermen banned from the sea as Israel tightens blockade amid famine

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 the Taliban | Joe Hoft

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

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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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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... | Minds

...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

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OpenAI Unveils ‘Agent’ Feature That Can Control Your Computer and Perform Tasks Automatically

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OpenAI Unveils ‘Agent’ Feature That Can Control Your Computer and Perform Tasks Automatically | The Gateway Pundit | by Ben Kew

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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Caleb James DeLisle

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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Caleb James DeLisle

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...

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Caleb James DeLisle

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.

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Caleb James DeLisle

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...

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Fuck RepugniQunt fascists and nazis.

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Alligator Alcatraz: How DeSantis administration blindsided county officials with detention center plans

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 Everglades
Kate Payne (The Independent)
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including Noobs Are Coming and Dog Walk - 2025-07-16 Edition: boilingsteam.com/new-steam-gam…
#linux #linuxgaming #update #release #gaming #steam #native #newgames #noobsarecoming #dogwalk

New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including Noobs Are Coming and Dog Walk - 2025-07-16 Edition

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Treaty on Strategic Partnership Between Russia and Iran Enters Into Force - Ambassador sputnikglobe.com/20250718/trea…

Treaty on Strategic Partnership Between Russia and Iran Enters Into Force - Ambassador

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova earlier said that the treaty provides for various forms of bilateral cooperation.
Sputnik International

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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

two zines — How to Solarpunk and Bright Green Futures

Solarpunk Zines

FREE Downloadable Zines
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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.

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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


Make our voice heard at Apple’s encryption hearing

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

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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."

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John

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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Feral Ferment

@baskin :kafeneio:🇵🇸

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:


  • A profile redirect, that you and many others are tomtoming about, is still at the mercy of the administrator of the current instance. A malicious admin can simply block it.
  • There is no way out for a user if the current instance shuts down.


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].


  • But even if some of the fedi software has nomadic identity, the entire fediverse has the major problem of search being entirely local. An instance (call it instance 1) becomes aware of a post on another instance only if someone on the instance 1 follows the poster, or boosts or likes the post. This effectively invisiblizes the global south, and also invisiblizes the low-visibility topics even from the global north. In other words, most of the fediverse remains invisible to most of the fediverse, by design.


@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}


Got Zot — Mike Macgirvin on building your own apps and protocols

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)
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