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Mine too. Just yesterday I called a utility company to tell them I was switching to another one. Their rates had gone up 78% in the time I've lived here. (9 1/2 years) They reduced my rate to lower than the other offer. Now it's about $5 more thyan it was in 2016!
Shownotes: Vince Lanci returns to the podcast after my hiatus for a raucous talk about the what and why of the US's stablecoin strategy and what it implies for not only the US's future but how it slots into the greater emerging picture of a new financial paradigm.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's questions without fear that her responses could later be used against her.
Blanche didn't speak to reporters upon his arrival at the federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida. On social media, Blanche said he would reveal what he learned from Maxwell "at the appropriate time."
Blanche's meetings with Maxwell comes as the Justice Department has tried to quiet calls from Senate Republicans to release more information about Epstein and his interaction with high-profile figures.
July 25, 2025 @ 12:45 Good afternoon family & friends❣️ Stuff going on today so I'm late with my "morning" here...oops! J&E came to help us out with some house stuff today since Gwen & Don are coming to visit - and meet Gloria - next week and the house must be ready! (Have you ever known anyone who had a separate ceiling broom just for cobwebs before? That 🤯 when I learned of it years ago, now I hope that my ceiling passes muster!) We always joked that Gwen was Felix and I was Oscar...but at least I figure I should try. Or rather, I should get someone else to try hahaha! But it's always good to spend time with Emma (while Jared and Pete are doing their thing outside, usually)! Anyway, I'm not sure how the day will pan out after this, most certainly I will need rest...already do as a matter of fact...so I will get done what I can do - if anything! But another fun thing is something I didn't think we'd be doing for quite a while...then I was tidying up my..................................[BIG INTERRUPTION - to be continued]
July 25, 2025 @ 20:00 (!).........................................table next to where I sit. Er, sat. Um, well I guess photos will be in order. But not tonight. I will post a quick Sherry Shares video tonight for those of you subscribed to those [onmarcopolo.com/sharecast/siyc…], but will do photos tomorrow. Tonight I can barely think or move or stay vertical. But Emma worked so hard - and I ended up doing all the things I shouldn't be doing - and then we needed Lyra so went to get her to help us too...and I had to finish up by myself in the end which took several hours. VERY pleased with the results, for the most part, but at the moment I'm just plain done in 😩. So I will sign off, won't be doing anything else tonight except eating and going to bed, and I will see you in the morning. Good night, sleep tight❣️🙏🤕🌛💤
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A Call From the Workers of Gaza to Labor Unions Around the World: A Cry in the Face of Starvation and Genocide
To all free workers everywhere, To our comrades in trade unions and labor federations around the world,
We bring to you the statement of the workers of Gaza, issued by the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions, addressed to the workers and unions of the world—this final appeal they have named “A Cry Before Death.” It reaches us from the midst of hunger and siege, from beneath the rubble of factories and homes, and from the heart of a continuing war of extermination that has gone on for nearly 22 months alongside a systematic policy of mass starvation executed by “Israel” with direct support from the United States and its European partners.
The statement reads: “The Israeli war has destroyed 80% of Gaza’s homes, all of its factories, workshops, and sources of livelihood, and most of its farmland has been bulldozed.”
Indeed, the lives of workers, fishermen, farmers, and all productive social sectors in the besieged Strip have been turned into a living hell. Their families are now without shelter and without income. There is no food and no medicine. One worker says: “We are besieged by American and European weapons, choked by hunger, neglect, and silence — all in an attempt to destroy our lives, to break our resilience, and to crush the will of resistance in our people.”
We address you today once again, not merely as victims, but as the workers of Palestine: an integral part of the popular and working classes of this world, struggling for justice, liberation, and dignity. And we call upon you to:
Break the silence and complicity, raise your voices within your unions and federations, and denounce the policies of starvation, siege, and massacre in Gaza.
Pressure your governments to end arms deals and military cooperation with the occupation, and to impose sanctions on the Zionist settler-colonial and apartheid regime.
Boycott companies that support the occupation, and withdraw union investments from any company, institution, or entity involved in funding or profiting from the war.
Organize days of rage and global solidarity in factories and workshops, in ports and airports, in the streets and public squares, in support of Palestine and its brave people.
We especially appeal to the unions of seafarers and port workers, urging them to refuse to load or unload “Israeli” ships or those bound for Zionist ports, and to halt any form of maritime or commercial cooperation with the tools of war and siege. Your strong hands and awakened consciences are capable of halting the machinery of extermination and stopping the shipments of death sent to Palestine. Show all humanity the power of the struggling working class when it rises united in defense of justice and human values.
From here, we proudly and gratefully salute our comrades, the port workers in Greece, for their principled and courageous stance, and their leading role in boycotting “Israeli” ships and rejecting complicity in war crimes. We also salute the labor unions in Norway, Spain, France, Canada, and elsewhere for their pioneering role in impactful solidarity with our people through the boycott of occupation institutions. We call upon all labor unions around the world to cut ties with the so-called “Histadrut”, the Zionist organization that claims to belong to the working class while participating in the siege of Palestinian workers, justifying the genocide in Gaza, and serving as an integral part of the Israeli occupation apparatus.
Comrades,
What is being carried out today in Gaza is a crime of mass starvation in full view of the world: its aim is to displace us and expel us from our land. This is not only a war of physical extermination; it is a series of crimes that surpass everything committed by Nazism and fascism in Europe. It is carried out with the aim of subjugating us by destroying the very conditions of life and human dignity. Yet the popular working classes and their free unions around the world possess a legacy of history, strength, and courage sufficient to defeat these criminal policies — if they unite their ranks and raise their voice in confrontation with colonialism, Zionism, and the savagery of capitalism.
We promise you: We will rebuild the universities, schools, institutions, and factories of Gaza again, as we have always done after every American-Zionist war of destruction. And we will continue our steadfastness, no matter how great the hardships and challenges.
Let us turn anger into action, and solidarity into a concrete stance. Let us break the policy of starvation and raise the banner of labor struggle for justice— For a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.
The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil) 23 July 2025
(Text of the statement from the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions – Gaza)
The Workers’ Cry Before Death
A cry we raise to speak to the consciences and dignity of our comrades in the unions, to call for mobilization in support of children who cannot find milk or a morsel of bread, for mothers whose breasts have dried up, for patients waiting to die of hunger, for elders who fear dying of hunger, and for workers who can find neither work nor bread.
Our free comrades, For 22 months, the occupation has carried out the killing of civilians and the destruction of homes—destroying 80% of Gaza’s houses, all of its factories, bulldozing most of its agricultural lands, and closing off most sources of livelihood.
Honorable colleagues, We think well of you, so roll up your sleeves to break the siege on Gaza. We await from you a human and moral role to save Gaza from a blockade in which the criminal occupation has sealed every window for the entry of food, medicine, and water to its people.
Our union comrades, We await your role in delivering the cry of the children and workers of Gaza to decision-makers and to the streets. You are the most worthy of carrying this responsibility—so be our support, move the streets, and stop the arms deals that are killing children, women, and workers. Mobilize the sympathizers and supporters to break the siege on Gaza, and deliver your free voice to the decision-makers.
There is no excuse for those who abandon Gaza and its people, or who abandon the workers.
Gaza will remain a witness to those who stood with the cry for humanity and the cry for freedom, and it will remain a symbol for the free people of the world.
We urge workers and labor organizations to contact us; please email workers@masarbadil.org.
A Call from the Workers of Gaza to Labor Unions Around the World: A Cry in the Face of Starvation and Genocide To all free workers everywhere, To our comrades in trade unions and labor federations around the world, We bring to you the statement of th…
The Jewish Community Relations Council attacked a talk I gave to the U.S.'s largest children’s mental health system as "antisemitic" because I discussed Palestinian trauma. My employer bowed to the pressure, but as a child advocate, I must speak out.
The Jewish Community Relations Council attacked a talk I gave to the U.S.’s largest children’s mental health system as “antisemitic” because I discussed Palestinian trauma. My employer bowed to the pressure, but as a child advocate, I must speak out.
Nu-LOTF dropped October 25, 2023, and just today they released another patch, this time adding unique armor as a reward, as well as more mat rewards for PVP while also allowing you to simply disable PVP because a lot of people were complaining about invasions.
A game that has received THIS much love is tough to hate but I still do because they can patch it all they want, the levels are still agonizing to play. Man I WANTED to like it though. (There are multiple bosses that are 8 foot tall women with feet)
How would people feel about a future version of Bookface removing the engagement counts from the Action Button? Now that the response info is reduced to an icon and a number the count on the Action Button with the same icon is redundant and makes the UI unnecessarily cluttered.
I know since the beginning of Bookface some people have found the engagement counts on the buttons too "busy" or "distracting" but before I remove them I thought I'd ask how people feel about that?
I don't know if anyone else has noticed it, but sometimes the engagement counts and responses don't agree. I don't know why. The response counts are usually the more accurate ones. Getting rid of the counts on the buttons would eliminate this inconsistency.
@Random Penguin You should discuss this with the project. The display under the Like/Dislike button is an option that can be activated or deactivated on the server. This option was introduced after this user info was removed from the code. The demand for this was very high.
Just tried it on my dev server. Looks like hiding it only works in Frio? It seems the themes have to have {{if $item.legacy_activities}} to support hiding it.
You said the demand for this was very high. Was it an objection to showing the names or showing the totals or both?
I've been working on a theme similar to "Bookface" only based on Vier instead of Frio. One thing that has frustrated me are the engagement counts/lists because the code for them comes into the theme template already having been formatted in PHP, so then I have to use CSS to hide the bits I don't want which gets messy.
It would be so much better if only the DATA were coming into the templates, meaning the total and, I guess optionally, the array of names and links for that response. IMO no HTML formatting should be happening in PHP functions, it should be formatted in the templates. But changing it would require a bunch of edits to core files, which would break all the existing themes.
As far as I can tell the *only* reason it's being formatted in PHP is to handle singular and plural cases of the extraneous verbiage that I don't feel is necessary in the first place (which is why I've hidden all of it in Bookface).
@Random Penguin On the Share or Like button, you only see a mouseover that displays the names of the users, but no clickable preview with a link to the user profile. This was seen as a shortcoming. Many users not only want to see who has clicked a button, but also want to jump to the profile.
It was therefore discussed in the project whether a separate view was needed in which the user clicks are displayed and the profiles can be called up. If I remember the discussion correctly, the behaviour should be similar to Mastodon.
Unfortunately, I can't find the issues at the moment.
Facebook is somewhere in between. If you mouseover the reaction it reveals a popover list of up to 19 names plus the total tally, if you click on the reaction it opens a modal with the full list:
@Random Penguin Oh, that's great. I think something like that would fit very well. It connects the separate functions in Friendica and provides real added value. I think that was the goal in the issues and could be realised identically for Frio and Vier.
Please bear in mind that I am quoting the issues from memory, as I unfortunately cannot find them.
On frio desktop there are some places that utilize mouseover to show additional info like post action icon number (showing users who interacted) hovercard (TBD whether to keep or not #13453) There ...
Interesting that thread says there's no way to do it without JavaScript. In the latest Bookface I solved that problem, at least for modern mobile browsers, by adding a :active state which triggers it on tap. This is alongside the :hover state for mouse and :focus and :focus-within which trigger it for keyboard/screenreader.
But changing it would require a bunch of edits to core files, which would break all the existing themes.
Maybe this is something we could make an issue for and see if there's support for it? I don't think other themes besides Vier and Frio are maintained (and Vier is barely maintained, which IMO makes sense given how powerful but also really complex themes are, not just being CSS overrides) so we'd just have to update those two.
Also I think the count mismatch should be reported, as long as other themes show them. I can do that using/referencing your image if that's ok. About the like count differences I wonder if it's because the line includes all reactions and thus counts that emoji as one as well...?
That would explain the count mismatch on the "likes" since the emoji is shown separately among the Action Buttons. I'd have to double check but I think the count mismatch on the Comments is the one on the Comment button is just comments by other people while the lower one includes your own comments/replies. So in my example there were two of my own replies and three from others. Still this obviously isn't clear, they look like errors.
Ah, alright. Completely agree that it's still unclear, and that it should be fixed so one or the other is chosen consistently. I'd be inclined to say that comments including one's own makes a more sensical total for comments. When the icon is directly on the like button it kinda makes sense it's all likes only. In that case all of the reacts should have individual counters. Otherwise they could be dropped and there could be a total counter only, which perhaps expand to show the individual distribution or something like that. Like Facebook, as you show above.
The Jewish Community Relations Council attacked a talk I gave to the U.S.’s largest children’s mental health system as “antisemitic” because I discussed Palestinian trauma. My employer bowed to the pressure, but as a child advocate, I must speak out.
AFAICT, The Vatican has been the top of the power structure that has been pushing all of this "refugees" in the US and Europe. The Jews catch a lot of flack over this, but when you look closely, it's all Catholic NGOs.
Minutes after takeoff Friday, a Southwest flight leaving Burbank, California, rapidly descended because another aircraft was in the area, injuring two flight attendants and frightening passengers, according to officials and those on board.
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The Venezuelan government, led by President Nicolás Maduro of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, has issued an official statement reiterating "its deepest indignation and absolute condemnation of the systematic barb…
Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase,...
The repeatedly noted absence of case-reports of individuals with schizophrenia and congenital/early developed blindness has led several authors to argue that the latter can confer protective effects against the former. In this work, we present a ...
Nah, most are equal to the CDU of the Merkel era. People like AOC however would better fit in with the so-called "fundamentalists" of the Green party or Die Linke.
The 2010s was the Wild West of the mobile world. "Mobile-first" was the buzzword, much like "AI-first" is today. Every company, from the biggest social media giants to your local pizza parlor, seemed
Age verification on the internet falls solidly into the category of "anything to avoid building a society which is designed for actually supporting the work of parenting"
Can tell you from experience, working to give kiddos the support they deserve has been mainly a 16 year long bullshit navigation and mitigation.
should note I had a bachelors double major in psychology and neuroscience before becoming a parent. Mainstream (in Australia) parenting is stunningly adversarial to what we know about development.
Absolute testament to human resilience that we do OK despite it all.
Acting #Thailand Prime Minister Phumtham warns that border clashes with #Cambodia could "move towards war". #China, which has significant influence over the 2 nations, expressed that it is deeply concerned, but 3rd party mediation has been refused. bbc.com/news/articles/ckg5gz03…
Help @sun_eater and I settle a debate. Do you find the art style of the Madoka anime (not movies, fan art, manga, etc) to be off-putting like an unfinished sketch, or a highly stylized artistic choice?
Ah yes, the best way to stop all these pesky bushfires is to destroy the bush entirely. Wildlife is an inconvenience. We just need suburbs, cattle, and shopping malls. Everything will be fine.
@Taco_lad @ewen This is a 100% true statement, but I'd like to point out that this is mostly driven by invasive Mediterranean annual grasses, which outcompete native perennial bunchgrasses when grazed by cows. I don't think cattle don't make the fires better in the long run, they make them worse.
Here's a quick reference I dug up, but I'm sure there are more informative ones I can find if you are interested: ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/…
@Insanitree @ewen look at our experiences in Australia - Black Friday 1939, Ash Wednesday 1983, and the 2019 fires - grass fires in introduced fields play a large part on how rapidly fire covers distance and outpaces firefighting efforts
no you dont understand i didnt tip you because i couldnt afford it. i did it because you didnt do enough to earn it. see im not black, im just ahead of the curve.
Once again, Geert Wilders echoes classic fascist patterns: racism, hate of Islam, and fearmongering. He scapegoats minorities, undermines solidarity, and makes violence against marginalised groups socially acceptable. It is awful.
Wilders doesn’t defend Dutch borders at all. It is all pretend, Actually, he tries to destroy Democratic values and the structure of society. His rhetoric fuels hate, not safety. Fear is his weapon, division and intolerance are his goal. Don't fall for it.
Also I got jewed by a zombie grapple and died before I could loot the chest outside the bandit boss but I think the health drink upgrade item from it ended up at the DLC box at the first temple. The tooltip told you that but it's still a real thing that can happen: key items dropping by there if you missed them.
Is it just me or does the game tend toward hyper-armor a lot?
I beat the boss up there and started exploring the multiple areas open from that region. If you asked me right now, AI Limit is the better game but I do not regret >buying wugame.
I'm not having performance issues around there though which is part of why I don't regret but that entire area is massive in that the town extends outward to a couple other paths and also connects back to the first courtyard.
Also good of the game to let us use the dub of the primary original language: Japanese!
Longsword has a passive that lets you instant fire a heavy charge attack at cost of a meter plip. Does short sword have that? It makes getting backstabs almost Souls 1 tier easy. I haven't figured out the best way to convert meter into damage other than that though but the newbie spell hits pretty hard
You aren't kidding. The shortsword charged R2 is unusable dogshit. Longsword charged R2 comes out in one quick hit which makes backstabs a LOT easier to do. Honestly, instant charged R2 for shortsword is probably something you can skip next time you respec. You have convinced me to do Longsword/Shortsword even if it probably will spread my stats around too much.
Just hours after Hamas submitted its latest proposal in the ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks, US envoy Steve Witkoff abruptly pulled out of the negotiations. His reason? He claimed Hamas showed “a lack of
"Mois après mois, Aïe tech défonce la technologie et ses vains mirages. Ultime épisode consacré à la grande déprime du contempteur des folies high-tech, versant cochons mutants. Wesh. Voilà. C'est la dernière « Aïe tech ». Ça commençait à faire beaucoup. Trop, même. Presque 30 chroniques, zarma. T'façon j'en ai plus rien à foutre. On est foutus. FOUTUS. Il y a bien quelques ahuris épars mais
I didn't get free software until I became a reverse engineer — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software fsf.org/bulletin/2025/spring/i…
A leading American epidemiologist has warned the public that Covid mRNA "vaccines" are a "chemical lobotomy" that "cause severe brain damage and DEVASTATE mental health."
"Si depuis le Coronavirus les jardins potagers ont le vent en poupe, leur contribution réelle à l'alimentation des ménages continue à décroître. Souvent associée aux urbains surdiplômés, faire pousser ses légumes pour se nourrir reste pourtant une pratique fortement ancrée au sein des classes populaires. « Il faut cultiver notre jardin », disait Candide, un moyen sûr « d'éloigner de nous trois gran"
The criminality of the #WHO is #exposed by a #whistleblower who has spent most of her working #life at the top levels of this organisation.
Dr #AstridStuckelberger holds nothing back. Lawyer Katie Ashby-Koppens join her. If our #Government signs the WHO IHR, they are committing an act of gross negligence at best and #treason at worst. We also have an update from Astrid on the state of Dr Reiner Fuellmich.
Friends, this is a lengthy #interview, so feel free to break it into parts that suit you, because truly,
The criminality of the WHO is exposed by a whistleblower who has spent most of her working life at the top levels of this organisation.
Dr Astrid Stuckelberger holds nothing back. Lawyer Katie Ashby-Koppens join her.
If our Government signs the WHO…
@MidwesternDoc: The COVID vaccines were "safe" because the CDC insisted their secret databases said so. Recently, they also said it doesn't cause menstrual abnormalities despite studies on hundreds of thousands of w...…
"« Si vous me poursuivez / Prévenez vos gendarmes / Que je n'aurai pas d'armes / Et qu'ils pourront tirer » conclut Boris Vian à la fin de sa chanson « Le Déserteur ». Dans son dernier livre Nous refusons. Dire non à l'armée en Israël (Libertalia, 2025), le photographe Martin Barzilai brosse le portrait d'hommes et de femmes qui refusent de prendre les armes. Passage obligé pour tous les citoyens d"
Never underestimate the incoming tsunami of disruptive “analysis” and predictive programming already embedded in the Hybrid War on China – and the larger war on…
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a landmark trade agreement with Japan, calling it “the largest trade deal in history,” which imposes a flat 15 percent tariff on all Japanese goods entering the U.S., including automobiles.
Ghislaine Maxwell, who sources told ABC News initiated the meetings with the Department of Justice, answered questions for about nine hours over two days after being granted a limited form of immunity, the sources said.
The immunity allowed Maxwell to freely answer Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's questions without fear that her responses could later be used against her, the sources said.
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in reply to Robert R. • • •They reduced my rate to lower than the other offer. Now it's about $5 more thyan it was in 2016!
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