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Al-Quds Brigades show rocket attacks in video dedicated to Yemeni people en.ypagency.net/356629

Al-Quds Brigades show rocket attacks in video dedicated to Yemeni people

GAZA, May 15 (YPA) -The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, released on Wednesday video footage dedicated to the Yemeni people .In a video broadcast, the Brigades’ Rocket Force was shown launching barrages of rockets ta
عماد (Yemen Press Agency)

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Says James Comey Should be "Arrested and Put Behind Bars" for Threatening the Life of President Trump - The Last Refuge

Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is pulling no punches in her view of the direct threat against President Donald Trump that has been made and promoted by former FBI Director James Comey.
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The current state of TLA⁺ development

Link: ahelwer.ca/post/2025-05-15-tla…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


The current state of TLA⁺ development

The 2025 TLA⁺ Community Event was held last week on May 4th at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It was a satellite event to ETAPS 2025, which I also attended, and plan to write about in the near future.
Andrew Helwer (https://ahelwer.ca/)

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Horace: Whoever lives in fear will never be free. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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Britain's Financial Times: Trump Is Learning It Is Putin Who Is 'Biggest Obstacle to Peace' eir.news/2025/05/news/britains…

Britain's Financial Times: Trump Is Learning It Is Putin Who Is 'Biggest Obstacle to Peace'

As the Global NATO plan for war with Russia continues to disappear, the British are pulling out their mouthpieces to try and change the narrative with regard to Russia, Ukraine, and Trump.
Stewart Battle (EIR News)

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Hello Wisdom Collective. I may have a cavity and/orinfection where I had a root canal and I am a bit concerned as I once had very bad reaction after some dental work (different occasions). I was so sore all over my body after that I could barely walk/lift my arms and some other issues, including vertigo (it was bad , better now but not really gone away 100 percent) and a weird episode - not directly after but soon after that might have been a mini stroke. right now (for a few days) Im having mild pain in my upper left chest that comes and goes (not other symptoms) - following some bronchitis. I'm not against going to a doctor and likely will if the heart "pain" doesn't go away soon, but I have to be cautious with money right now (I have a high deductible) and the dental thing is going to be $$$$. Anyhow... Im working on my Diest and exercise and all the stuff, but would love to see if anyone has ideas for inflammation and possibly bacterial issue . Besides the $ - more important- I want to feel the best I can. Love to hear your thoughts as how I can just reduce inflamation and boost my immune system before this procedure.
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Lady MountainJay

— a naturopath friend recently recommended this tincture and I’ve found it quite effective the last few months to help clear both cold and allergy symptoms.

My understanding with herbs like this is to only take them for a few weeks, then stop for at least that much time, in order to maintain maximum effectiveness.

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Hamas lauds Salfit shooting operation, calls it “natural response to Israeli crimes” #Palestine english.palinfo.com/news/2025/…

Hamas lauds Salfit shooting operation, calls it “natural response to Israeli crimes”

The Hamas Movement has applauded the shooting operation that was carried out on Wednesday night in western Salfit, saying that it was a “heroic act that represents the true pulse of the West Bank.”
The Palestinian Information Center

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Western attempts to divide backfire on instigators en.reseauinternational.net/les…

Western attempts to divide backfire on instigators - Réseau International

By Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov. Washington's hopes of involving its satellites to divide the main forces of the multipolar world, primarily Russia, China, and Iran, ultimately lead to the exact opposite result.
Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov (Réseau International)

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Lenin: For socialism is merely the next step forward from state-capitalist monopoly. Or, in other words, socialism is merely state-capitalist monopoly which is made to serve the interests of the whole people and has to that extent ceased to be capitalist monopoly. There is no middle course here. The objective process of development is such that it is impossible to advance from monopolies (and the war has magnified their number, role and importance tenfold) without advancing towards socialism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

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Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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Thousands Flee in Gaza City After Israel Issues Mass Displacement Orders and Vows to Attack ”With Great Force” dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-d…

Thousands Flee in Gaza City After Israel Issues Mass Displacement Orders and Vows to Attack ”With Great Force”

The scenes of mass displacement on Wednesday were like a slow-moving human flood flowing through destroyed streets.
Rasha Abou jalal (Drop Site News)

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How Pyrolysis Oil Helps Combat the Energy Crisis


 How Pyrolysis Oil Helps Combat the Energy Crisis

As the global demand for energy surges and concerns over fossil fuel depletion grow, alternative energy solutions are no longer a luxury—they are a necessity. One such emerging solution is pyrolysis oil, a synthetic fuel derived from waste materials like plastics, used tires, and oil sludge. Far from being just a waste management technique, pyrolysis offers a compelling answer to both environmental pollution and energy insecurity.

What Is Pyrolysis Oil?
Pyrolysis oil, also known as bio-crude or synthetic oil, is produced through a process called pyrolysis—thermal decomposition of organic materials at high temperatures in the absence of oxygen. This method breaks down long-chain polymers in plastics, rubber, and hydrocarbons found in oil sludge into smaller, energy-rich molecules. The end product is a dark, viscous liquid that can be refined into fuels like diesel, gasoline, or even used directly in industrial burners.

Waste-to-Energy: A Dual-Benefit Approach
One of the most compelling aspects of pyrolysis oil from plastic or tire pyrolysis machine is its dual impact:

Waste Reduction: Mountains of non-biodegradable plastic, millions of scrap tires, and toxic oil sludge are growing concerns for urban environments and ecosystems. Pyrolysis not only diverts these materials from landfills and incinerators but repurposes them into something valuable.

Energy Recovery: Instead of letting energy-rich waste decompose or pollute the environment, pyrolysis captures their embedded energy. A single ton of plastic waste, for example, can yield roughly 700–900 liters of oil.

Role in Alleviating the Energy Crisis
Pyrolysis oil can play a crucial role in easing the global energy crunch in several ways:

Alternative to Crude Oil: As a substitute for diesel or heavy fuel oil, pyrolysis oil can power generators, industrial machinery, and even vehicles after proper refinement.

Decentralized Energy Production: Small-scale pyrolysis units can be established near waste sources, reducing transportation costs and supporting energy generation in remote or underdeveloped areas.

Energy Security: Countries that lack natural fossil fuel reserves can reduce dependence on imports by tapping into their own waste resources, promoting energy independence.

Environmental and Economic Upsides
Beyond energy production, pyrolysis oil offers other strategic benefits:

Lower Carbon Footprint: While not entirely carbon-neutral, pyrolysis oil emits fewer greenhouse gases compared to traditional fossil fuels, especially if produced using renewable energy sources.

Job Creation and Local Economies: Establishing pyrolysis plants supports green job creation in engineering, operations, logistics, and environmental management.

Scalability and Flexibility: From large municipal setups to mobile containerized units, pyrolysis technology can scale according to the volume of available waste.

Conclusion
Pyrolysis oil represents a powerful synergy between waste management and energy generation. By transforming plastic, tires, and oil sludge from environmental liabilities into energy assets, we not only reduce pollution but also gain a new tool in the fight against the energy crisis. It’s not a silver


Tyre Pyrolysis Plant

In response to the waste management crisis confronting the tyre recycling industry, recyclers are choosing tyre pyrolysis plant as a solution. This
Beston Group

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Simply put, the mask exposes who is compliant & easy to control & who isn't.

We do not have a problem of civil disobedience in this country we have a problem stemming from civil obedience....
Blind, unquestioning obedience to authority has been the linchpin of all genocides and oppression throughout human history...

Adolf Hitler, Mao and Joseph Stalin...
It is doubtful that if any of these three men ever committed a single murder by their own hand...
It was blind obedience to their authority, by young men in uniform who thought themselves to be virtuous, just "following orders" or "just doing their duty"...

We are at a critical time in the history of humanity...
It is time to stand up and be counted or humanity is doomed to come to an abrupt end within a decade.-Gary Williams

#donotconsent #donotcomply #massawakening

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Protestation

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The walls that surround us were built to make the Nakba eternal #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/05/the-wal…

The walls that surround us were built to make the Nakba eternal

They surrounded us with walls so that we thought the Nakba was forever. Instead, we forgot that the walls existed, so we could see the Palestine we’ve always dreamed of.
Amena al-Ashkar (Mondoweiss)

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I thought this was a joke

AOC leads in polls of Democrats regarding which political leader "best reflects" the "core values" of the party

10% of Democratic-aligned voters said Ocasio-Cortez best represents the party, which is more than any other party figure.

Some suggest AOC is stepping up to fill a void as Democrats seek a new identity

AOC was the frontrunner among potential choices to lead the Democrats in one poll, though she tied with "no one," indicating uncertainty among voters

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Northern California's commercial crab season under threat from migrating whales
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crab-season-northern-california-under-threat-migrating-whales/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into CBS Evening News @cbs-evening-news-CBSNews


Northern California's commercial crab season under threat from migrating whales

A high-tech system that involves a remote-controlled pop-up balloon-like device is helping some fishermen from getting their crab cages entangled with humpback whales.
Elizabeth Cook (CBS News)

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China and Russia Readying Moon Station – Europe Planning to Plan Other Stuff journal-neo.su/2025/05/15/chin…

China and Russia Readying Moon Station - Europe Planning to Plan Other Stuff

While Europe drafts reports and holds conferences, China and Russia are preparing to build a nuclear-powered lunar base and redefine the future of space
Фил Батлер (New Eastern Outlook)

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Lenin: Everybody talks about imperialism. But imperialism is merely monopoly capitalism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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May 15, 2025 @ 20:57 Good evening family & friends❣️ I guess the day got away from me, I'm not sure how and don't remember much about my afternoon once we got home, but I realized just after 20:00 that I hadn't yet posted my 2 posts for today even though I had been operating under the assumption all day that I had...SHEESH!!! So I got those finished up and now here I am - with or without my brain, I'm not sure at the moment hahaha! It was quite hot today, I am still learning how to keep this house cool (since we moved in in late Oct last year); today was my best test so far. I'm sure the new curtains to diffuse the morning sun through the kitchen window helped, and we kept the south-facing back door closed also. Once we had some shade at the front of the house (north) I opened the living room window a few inches and put the fan in front of it to pull that shade-cooled air in; I had the fan aimed up toward the kitchen ceiling. Anyway, it worked quite well! Tonight we are expecting some severe storms with tornado risks so I will probably stay up late to keep an eye on the Michigan Storm Chasers who are now reporting that these storms are starting to reach land from Lake Michigan; it will take a couple of hours to cross the state and reach us, I think. So I will see you guys in the morning, Lord willing...sleep well❣️🙏🥱🌛💤

GUEST POST from Don (Gas-Lighting part III) - chia.owly.net/?p=47474
Fursday (photos/CaptainDonKirk/links: donkeys) - chia.owly.net/?page_id=47444
What I Ate Today (#OMaD #AnimalBased #Keto) - chiachow.net/what-i-eat/ @GoatsLive

...He humbled Himself in obedience to God and died a criminals death on a cross. Therefore, God elevated Him to the place of highest honor and gave Him the name above all other names... Philippians 2:8,9 Text is as if hand-written Below text is a hand drawn picture of a donkey tied to a post, looking at the reader with a large sweet look "He is humble riding on a donkey - " Matthew 21:5 (also written by hand, across the bottom)

Fursday – Donkeys – May 15, 2025 Edition

It was a delightful surprise when I learned that Thursday fell on May 15 because May 15th is a special day in my heart. On May 15, 2081 Captain DonKirk was born.
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woodland creature

i am getting ready to sandblast this acura steering knuckle casting and decided i couldn't deal with the weak little fluorescent lamp in there so i put some LED strips in there instead.

if you have one of their blasting cabinets, you'll want to do that, and also install a bottom siphon feed tube instead of their dumb little pickup tube. after those 2 mods it becomes actually usable

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Reason why I focus on Jewish culpability for Palestinian genocide(rather than abstract "Zionist" culpability), is not because I want to feel morally righteous(I am flawed⇒I cant be morally righteous), but because without honest accounting for massive crimes like Genocide & deflecting accountability by playing "antisemitism" definitional games, we allow similar/worse crimes more likely to happen in the future

Accountability requires honesty.

@palestine @lebanon @iran @israel @anarchy @anarchism

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Trump’s Regional Strategy is a Dangerous Game of Brinkmanship libya360.wordpress.com/2025/05…

Trump’s Regional Strategy is a Dangerous Game of Brinkmanship

Via Vanessa Beeley The following is a post on X, written by Yemeni analyst Mohamad Al Shami. I recommend everyone to follow him for insights that you will not find elsewhere. Trump’s Strategy…
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Did you know #Microsoft is shutting down Chinese universities by blocking access to their services? When will this come to Europe and the rest of the world? How dependent on Microsoft or Google is the day to day work in your organization?

Here's an example, one of many: scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article…


Microsoft abruptly cuts services to Chinese university, genomics firm

Concerns about technological decoupling have risen after Microsoft ended commercial services for some clients in China.
Wency Chen (South China Morning Post)

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Frankly there is no reason why the #QOwnNotes #flatpak package has to be updated every goddamn day. I've never done this before but I've ignored all future updates for the package entirely. Spamming me via System Updates for bullshit minor updates every single day is a bit much.
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In our work documenting the social media failures contributing to #TigrayGenocide (dair-institute.org/tigray-geno…), we tried to be proactive in thinking about what we can contribute to the foundation of the new social media platforms being built. We also tried to issue a warning of the current rampant incitement to violence and warmongering on social media, preparing the groundwork for another devastating war.

Tigray Genocide

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
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in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

From our statement, dair-institute.org/blog/tigray…: "We can't say that we did not know. We are ringing the alarm bells for what is to come and urge you to act with us." What does it take to stop the most violent genocidal & graphic content from being shared on these platforms with impunity?

Social Media Platforms Are Spreading Violent Warmongering Content Encouraging All-Out War Between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Again

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
www.dair-institute.org

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Wonderful.

#Reddit decides to give me a three-day ban for the following:

- Discussion talking about rolling coal and how truck drivers that modify their trucks to "roll coal" are basically assholes.
- Lawyer chimes in and says technically rolling coal on somebody is assault but good luck getting that proved because an assault has to have "harm".
- To which I reply with the following hypothetical:
-- Say the victim has asthma
-- They get "coal rolled".
-- They have a serious asthma attack as a result
-- Severe asthma attacks can be fatal if not treated
-- Vitim dies.
-- Now the driver could be charged with voluntary manslaughter! (I would hope because choosing to roll coal on someone is clearly a voluntary act.)
-- Me: "Sucks that someone has to die first though for that [being prosecuted] to happen."

And for this Reddit has given me a three-day ban for threatening violence.
Reddit has so far gone off the deep-end it's like a fucking different universe over there.

There was not one single thing in my original comment that threatened or called for any violence.

So I go to do an appeal and they only give you 250 characters (not even a fucking tweet's worth) to make your case.

So I basically told them to read this. That this is my fucking appeal.

Think it'll help? I doubt it.

Anybody know when is Digg being re-launched?

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"Over the boos of his classmates’ rich parents, the threats of his college’s craven administrators and influential alumni, and the rumble of jackboots descending on campuses countrywide, this young man refused to be cowed into silence."- Dan Sheehan

NYU student Logan Rozos denounced #Israel ’s #US -funded genocide in #Gaza during his graduation speech to big applause. In retaliation, #NYU has withheld his diploma and is threatening further disciplinary action.

#FreeSpeech #FreePalestine

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Moscow Intends to Increase Business Tourism by a Factor of 1.5 in Five Years infobrics.org/post/44176/

Moscow Intends to Increase Business Tourism by a Factor of 1.5 in Five Years

The capital plans to attract business guests by focusing on BRICS-level events, developing congress infrastructure and providing digital services for the convenience of work trips
BRICS

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Lenin: The dialectics of history is such that the war, by extraordinarily expediting the transformation of monopoly capitalism into state-monopoly capitalism, has thereby extraordinarily advanced mankind towards socialism. Imperialist war is the eve of socialist revolution. And this not only because the horrors of the war give rise to proletarian revolt—no revolt can bring about socialism unless the economic conditions for socialism are ripe—but because state-monopoly capitalism is a complete material preparation for socialism, the threshold of socialism, a rung on the ladder of history between which and the rung called socialism there are no intermediate rungs. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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Keith Bennett: WW2 victory is inseparable from the heroic struggle of the Soviet and Chinese peoples socialistchina.org/2025/05/15/…

Keith Bennett: WW2 victory is inseparable from the heroic struggle of the Soviet and Chinese peoples - Friends of Socialist China

The Workers Party of Britain (WPB) packed London’s Bolivar Hall, the cultural premises of the Venezuelan Embassy, on Saturday May 10 for its celebration of the 80th anniversary of the victory over fascism in the European theatre of World War II.
Friends of Socialist China

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_Hillary Clinton Post About Qatar Jet Backfires - Blocking Comments Did Nothing to Save Her_

FTA: “No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious,” Clinton wrote.
...
“Be serious. Nobody give[s] millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation without expecting anything in return. Be serious,” one user wrote, reposting Clinton’s post along with a screenshot of donors to the Clinton Foundation.

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Hillary Clinton Post About Qatar Jet Backfires - Blocking Comments Did Nothing to Save Her

Hillary Clinton chimed in via social media platform X about Trump's visit to Qatar. Users quickly brought up her past.
Samuel Short (The Western Journal)

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No one is above the law, right...May Karma give him exactly what he deserves, and then let justice take care of the rest.

"The FBI, DHS and Secret Service are now investigating former FBI Director James Comey over his Trump assassination social media post.

“We are aware of the recent tweet by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump. We are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran. Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support,” FBI Director Kash Patel said on Thursday evening."

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/d…


DEVELOPING: FBI, DHS, Secret Service Investigating James Comey Over Trump Assassination Post | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

           The FBI, DHS and Secret Service are now investigating former FBI Director James Comey over his Trump assassination social media post.
Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Pregnant Israeli woman dies after West Bank shooting; baby in serious condition haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

Pregnant Israeli woman killed in West Bank shooting attack; baby in serious condition

Assailants opened fire from a passing vehicle at Tzeela Gez and her husband near their home in Bruchin. Doctors delivered the baby in serious condition via emergency C-section.
Josh Breiner (Haaretz)
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