Fuck "our democracies" of course, but there are good reasons to stay healthily disengaged from and indifferent to engagememt and upvotes, etc., you get from social media.
I can tell immediately when I'm talking to a twitter brained ego junkie. It's better to be Pavlov than one of his fucking dogs, you absolute slack faggots, (you don't know who you are).
Man pulled into MRI machine after he walked into an exam room wearing a chain necklace
https://apnews.com/article/mri-machine-long-island-chain-necklace-24b4c34492811dd72b15c2fd26ec76fd?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats
Link: neowin.net/news/libreoffice-ca…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Another day, another complaint about Microsoft from LibreOffice. This time, LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of intentionally using overly complex XML to define documents and lock in users.David Uzondu (Neowin)
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Why is this 2020 article getting so little attention? There IS a “there there” and it paints an accurate portrait of #epstein and #Maxwell not as aberrations but as archetypical of the soulless world they inhabited and others still do. #motherjones
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What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.Mother Jones
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I read Leland Nally's article, well written & entertaining in how it details the sordid, sorry lives of some pretty horrible people, who were into manipulation like you wouldn't believe. 😐
🤔 How it seems to have escaped current hyper levels of scrutiny.
In July 2025, Innu and Nehirowisiw land defenders from the MAMO Alliance blocked Canadian National (CN) railway lines between Mauricie and Abitibi to stop the extraction and transport of timber from their unceded territories. Despite a police presence, the blockades remained peaceful — grounded in Indigenous sovereignty and a deep commitment to protecting the boreal forest.
Amplifier Films was on the ground in both Wemotaci and Mashteuiatsh to document this act of resistance.
🎬 Stay tuned for our upcoming documentary: Defenders of the Forest
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Discover impactful documentaries that challenge narratives and amplify indigenous voices. Amplifier Films highlights grassroots movements, blending truth and humor to inspire action against colonialism and empire.Amplifier Films
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In July 2025, Innu and Nehirowisiw land defenders from the MAMO Alliance blocked Canadian National (CN) railway lines between Mauricie and Abitibi to stop the extraction and transport of timber from their unceded territories. Despite a police presence, the blockades remained peaceful — grounded in Indigenous sovereignty and a deep commitment to protecting the boreal forest.
Amplifier Films was on the ground in both Wemotaci and Mashteuiatsh to document this act of resistance.
🎬 Stay tuned for our upcoming documentary: Defenders of the Forest
amplifierfilms.ca/forest
#DefendersOfTheForest #IndigenousSovereignty #UncededTerritory #RailBlockade #ForestDefense #MAMOAlliance
Discover impactful documentaries that challenge narratives and amplify indigenous voices. Amplifier Films highlights grassroots movements, blending truth and humor to inspire action against colonialism and empire.Amplifier Films
Incompetent at crime. Even more incompetent at cover-ups.
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FBI AGENTS TOLD TO FLAG MENTIONS OF TRUMP IN EPSTEIN RECORDS, SAYS SEN. DURBIN In a new letter to AG Pam Bondi, Durbin writes, "According to information my office received, you then pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel...Threads
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Gaza’s healthcare system is buckling under the weight of an Israeli-made starvation crisis. The Ministry of Health confirmed Friday that emergency rooms are seeing record numEditing Team (Quds News Network)
Delta is rolling out AI that sets your ticket price based on your data — as high as they think you’ll tolerate.
Not “dynamic pricing,”—It’s predatory pricing with a neural net. theverge.com/news/709556/delta… #press
Delta Air Lines is leaning into dynamic ticket pricing that uses AI to individually determine the highest fee you’d willingly pay for flights.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
The country is reeling from an extreme climate crisis, as hundreds of farmers in the Tarai are unable to plant paddy.The Kathmandu Post
"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
— William Gibson
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Experts think NATO has found an end around the president’s war fatigueStavroula Pabst (Responsible Statecraft)
Good. And to all the wise-asses who want to point out that the Houthis commit atrocities, I'll have you know that when the US fought the Nazis, the US had put innocent Japanese folks into concentration camps, was actively engaged in land theft, bombed hundreds of thousands of civilans, and was being racist as fuck.
But when you're against genocide, you're doing good.
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Israel's Eilat port will halt operations from Sunday after failing to pay its debts following a steep drop in revenue caused by Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.Nadav Rapaport (Middle East Eye)
Last night I set up my Game Boy Camera to work as a webcam!
It was neat, but at like 3 frames a second it wasn't really usable for very long, not even just for the novelty of it 😅
But I did it!
Incendi forestal a Ibi: desallotgen habitatges pel risc d'expansió.
Han tallat l'accés al Parc Natural de la Font Roja. Estic sentint els avions passar damunt ma casa 😱
Aneu a espai si sou a la vora.
#incendisforestals #Ibi #Alcoi #IFIbi
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VÍDEO | Incendi forestal a Ibi, prop del Parc Natural de la Font RojaDiari La Veu del País Valencià
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility. She recalls the generous and compassionate women who helped her through this harrowing ordeal.
> To my surprise, I discovered handwritten notes scattered throughout the book, dated and written by various detainees over time. These messages were filled with reminders of hope, strength, and the assurance that this, too, shall pass.
The Media and Public Relations Department of the Lebanese Civil Defense Directorate General announced the deaths of five workers, three Palestinians and two Lebanese, inside a wastewater treatment plant in Khaldeh, south of the Lebanese capital, Beir…www.saba.ye
There is a Panasonic 42PX60u 42" 1024x768 plasma tv for $40 on craigslist.
Should I get it?
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British Open bunkergate: R&A does away with tradition of having a crew rank bunkers
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Fuck
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Un incendio forestal declarado este viernes al mediodía en el paraje San Pascual, en el término municipal de Ibi, ya ha cruzado a Alcoi y ha entrado en el parque natural de la Font Roja llegando a alcanzar su cumbre.Sara Rodríguez (Levante-EMV)
Israeli warplanes killed one and wounded at least 20 in a series of airstrikes on Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday. Israel claimed the attack was to ‘protect’ the minority Druze community in Syria. But there’s more to the story.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
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Myself and others have suffered 2 years of mastodon-social admins taking down anti-genocide posts.
History will judge mastodon-social admins as complicit in genocide.
They're worse than those complicit by silence. They're proactive in harassing and stamping down on voices.
#mastodon #fediverse #censorship #genocide #germany #staatsrason #europe #gaza
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Το Mondoweiss είναι ένα πολύ καλό παράδειγμα πως η επιμονή, η εκμάθηση και η οργάνωση ξεπερνούν τις μικρές ατέλειες του Fediverse, τους «περίεργους» moderators και την εχθρότητα των φιλοϊσραληνών.
Το OmniaTV είναι ακόμη ένα πολύ καλό παράδειγμα
Μακάρι να ακολουθούσαν και άλλοι το παράδειγμά του
youtu.be/03br1abjjJw dozens of comments about Asgore running over some Deltarune character with his truck. Amazing. I cannot put precisely into words why i find this so funny but I cannot stop laughing at it.
"Bergentrückung, German for "mountain rapture", is a phrase that is often more loosely translated to "king in the mountain". It signifies a hero who has been laid to rest or sealed away and will return some day when he is most needed, and the reason for its use as Asgore's theme should be self-evident. In Deltarune, Toby Fox has cleverly inverted this motif by having Dess be put to rest beneath the Mountain King's Truck."
"You see, this version is a little bit longer than the original one to reference the fact that asgore's truck could drive longer than dess can run away from it."
It bothered me that neither version of this included Bergentrückung, so I added it. I didn't make anything in this video, credits are below, if you see any a...YouTube
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A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy cluster in question isNASA
DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results
Link: techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/duck…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)
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PARIS /PNN/ France has strongly condemned what it described as an “unacceptable” Israeli military strike on the Catenglish.pnn.ps
so apparently there was a protest outside a uk hotel that was housing illegals and some antifa faggot got his shit kicked in desservedly
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Trump administration seeks release of Epstein grand jury records but not Justice Department files
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jeffrey-epstein-justice-department-bondi-91f911d2d7a909f78259cdca7b55d9a6?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Most US adults think the GOP tax bill will help the wealthy and harm the poor, AP-NORC poll finds
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Man accused of stockpiling bombs, using Biden photo for target practice, pleads guilty
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This interview was conducted by Jerm Warfare and published on UK Column on June 19, 2025, with the introduction (my links added):”In this discussion, journalist Eva Bartlett shares her experi…In Gaza
Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page
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Mildly cursed factoid about UNC paths:
- UNC Paths can contain IP addresses such as \\192.168.1.1\share
- IPv6 addresses are supported as well
- IPv6 addresses contain colons
- can't have colons in Windows paths since colons are reserved for drive letters
So Microsoft came up with the the ipv6-literal.net domain that's special-cased by Windows so you can to write IPv6 addresses in UNC paths as 2a0e-3c0--21.ipv6-literal.net without it hitting any resolvers.
Funny, one of the top hits on this is a 2010 blog post by Microsoft's Raymond Chen, but it links to an MSDN article that makes no mention of all this (but luckily the contemporary version that does has been collected by the Archive: web.archive.org/web/2010091802…)
"For Microsoft network providers on Windows Vista and later, the lpRemoteName member can contain an IPv6 address. However, the IPv6 literal format must be used so that the IPv6 address is parsed correctly. An IPv6 literal address is of the form:
ipv6-address with the ':' characters replaced by '-' characters followed by the ".ipv6-literal.net" string."
The United States has withdrawn from reforms introduced by the World Health Organisation (WHO) last year to enhance the global response to pandemics, part of a broader push by Washington against international regulations.
The administration of President Donald Trump formally rejected on Friday the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) that were put in place in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Washington says amendments to global health regulations risk interfering in US ‘sovereign right to make health policy’.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
ΣΩΣΤΕ τον ποταμό Κόκκινο στα Βαρδούσια, συλλογή υπογραφών για την αποτροπή του έργου
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Το υδροηλεκτρικό "Δάφνος" πρόκειται να κατασκευαστεί σε επιλεγμένη θέση επί του ποταμού Κόκκινου, η οποία βρίσκεται, στα όρια των Δ.Ε. Λιδωρικίου & Βαρδουσίων, του Δ. Δωρίδος, της Π.Ε. Φωκίδας και θα εκμεταλλεύεται την υδατόπτωση 160μ.infolibre
By axing his show, CBS is reminding us that trust in corporate media is dead for a reason—but there's something even more sinister afoot we cannot ignoreQasim Rashid, Esq. (Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid)
George Katsiaficas The real danger is not any one US president, but a system that enables imperial power, corporate aristocracy, and genocidal policies under the guise of democracy, now increasingl…INTERNATIONALIST 360°
The most significant thing at work in the world right now is the widening realization that the US is a paper tiger under the control of a flailing pretorian guard.
All the economic and social changes we see and will continue to see fall under that umbrella.
Smart money moves first.
Energy exports play a central role in Israel's campaign to normalize relations with its neighbors and avoid accountability for its ongoing genocide of Palestinians. An energy embargo on Israel should go hand-in-hand with calls for an arms embargo.
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#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel
Energy exports play a central role in Israel’s campaign to normalize relations with its neighbors and avoid accountability for its ongoing genocide of Palestinians. An energy embargo on Israel should go hand-in-hand with calls for an arms embargo.Energy Embargo for Palestine (Mondoweiss)
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This story will be more compelling if it turns out Elon also fucked kids but just doesn't care and wants to bring them all down with him.
>TRUMP I KNOW YOU FUCK KIDS BECAUSE WE DOUBLE PENETRATED THAT 13 YEAR OLD MALASIAN GIRL TOGETHER!
On Friday 18 July, His Excellency Christian Stocker, Federal Chancellor of Austria, visited ESA Headquarters in Paris receiving a tour of the site from Director General Josef Aschbacher.
It was the Chancellor’s first visit to an ESA establishment following his swearing in earlier this year. Visiting the Astrolabe interpretive centre, Mr Stocker saw how Austria’s participation in ESA contributes to the goals of sustainable development and scientific excellence, and also heard how commercial space has undergone rapid development in Austria. He was accompanied by the Austrian ambassador to France, Barbara Kaudel-Jensen.
Austria became ESA’s 12th Member State when it ratified the ESA Convention in December 1986 and while always strongly committed to Earth observation and space applications, Austria has recently diversified its space interests, becoming more involved in launchers, navigation and human and robotic exploration. Austrian Carmen Possnig was selected as a member of ESA’s astronaut reserve in 2022 and will commence her second phase of training in the autumn. Carmen joined the visit and enthusiastically answered questions from the assembled Austrian media.
As part of Austria's innovation community, the ESA PhiLab opened last year and has a current call for proposals open until 8 October. Just last month, Austria hosted the Living Planet Symposium, which brought together 6500 members of the Earth observation community to present scientific results and plan future activities. It was supported by a citywide 'Space in the City' festival in Vienna, organised by the Federal Ministry for Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure (BMIMI) and Urban Innovation Vienna GmbH (UIV) and demonstrating the everyday connections between citizens and space.
#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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in reply to Catnip Junkie • • •There are people writing fiction stories and calling it news who have infiltrated all the mainstream sources of information
Universities
Public Schools
Large denominations of every major religion
News outlets
Peer reviewed scientific journals
The voting system
They have tried to instill a fear that accessing certain information will lead to bad things to try to prevent people from figuring out what they are doing
They instill blind faith & obedience in multiple organizations