In a #Haaretz הארץ, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud #Olmert accused #Israel Defense Forces under Benjamin #Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו of commiting #genocide:

What we are doing in #Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, & criminal killing of civilians... a policy dictated knowingly, intentionally, viciously & maliciously by the government. Yes, we are committing war crimes.

From @pluralistic :

"Just a QR Code" is a new site that generates QR codes, operating entirely in your browser, without transmitting any data to a server or trying to cram ads into your eyeballs. The fact that it runs entirely in-browser means you can save this webpage and work with an offline copy to generate QR codes forever – even if the site goes down:

justaqrcode.com/

QR code generators are mostly bad news, so this is great news.

You're wondering how they'd be so stupid - going back on their promise not to cut Medicare. I'm wondering how in hell so many Americans could be so stupid to think they wouldn't.

I'm sure Trump and his congressional enablers think it's a safe move. After all, the total number of Americans directly affected probably can't change the mid-terms, assuming they all vote.

But their extended families could.

So might the undertow effect - if enough Americans understand what's pullling them under.

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Then there's the short-sighted American propensity to assume other Americans are all freeloaders. So many of us will hook line and sinker that dangling "they should all be working" bait.

Odd though, that proving they're working isn't going to be easy. Then there's that clause that keeps them from getting Obamacare if they lose Medicare.

Wonder how many folks will work out the truth - Republicans want to get the federal government out of the business of helping its citizens.

'Chanting “Death to Arabs” and singing “May your village burn,” groups of young Israeli Jews made their way through Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday ahead of an annual march marking Israel’s conquest of the eastern part of the city', which however as the AP noted first towards the end of their article crucially "Its annexation of east Jerusalem is not internationally recognized".
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Monty Python - Spam


The term "spam" for unsolicited mail is humorously linked to the famous "Spam" skit from Monty Python's Flying Circus, where the repeated mention of "spam" in a café drives the characters to frustration. This skit highlights the overwhelming and often unwanted nature of spam, paralleling how unsolicited emails clutter our inboxes.

I do not own any of this material; it's all courtesy of Monty Python. I only upload these videos because I'm tired of all the low-quality ones on #YouTube.

#MontyPython #spam #mail #youtubeFree #googleFree #metaFree

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Miley Cyrus - End of the World (Official Video)


Official Video for “End of the World” by Miley Cyrus

Lyrics:

Today, you woke up, and you told me that you wanted to cry
The sky was falling like a comet on the fourth of July

Baby you’ve been thinking ’bout the future like it’s already yours
Show me how you’d hold me if tomorrow wasn’t coming for sure
Let’s pretend it’s not the end of the world
Let’s pretend it’s not the end of the world

Let’s spend the dollars you’ve been saving on a Mercedes Benz
And throw a party like McCartney with some help from our friends
Yeah let’s go down to Malibu and watch the sun fade out once more
Show me how you’d hold me if tomorrow was coming for sure
Let’s pretend it’s not the end of the world
Let’s pretend it’s not the end of the world
The sky is falling, falling like a comet now
I can see it coming down
The sky is falling, falling like a comet now

Ooh let’s go to Paris
I don’t care if we get lost in the scene
Paint the city like Picasso would’ve done in his dreams
Do all the things that we were way too terrified of before
I wanna take you to nirvana
We can’t take it too far
Hit the bottom of the bottle and forget who we are
Hold me close, you know tomorrow isn’t coming for sure
Let’s pretend that it’s not the end of the world
Let’s pretend that it’s not the end of the world
Let’s pretend that it’s not the end of the world

Let’s pretend
It’s not the end
Let’s pretend
It’s not the end
Let’s pretend
It’s not the end

Let’s pretend that it’s not the end of the world
The sky is falling, falling like a comet now
Let’s pretend that it’s not the end of the world
The sky is falling, falling like a comet now
Let’s pretend that it’s not the end of the world
The sky is falling, falling like a comet now
I can see it coming down

Credits:

Columbia Records and Live Nation present a Miley Cyrus and XYZ Films Production
Miley Cyrus “Something Beautiful”

Directed by: Miley Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman, Brendan Walter
Produced by: Miley Cyrus, Panos Cosmatos, Nick Spicer, Nate Bolotin, Aram Tertzakian
Executive Producers: Adam Folk, Ron Perry, Tom Mackay, Krista Wegener, Michael Rapino, Brad Wavra, Ryan Kroft
Associate Producer: Marcela Victoria
Director of Photography: Benoît Debie
Production Designer: David Meyer
Choreography by: Stephen Galloway
Costume Design: Bradley Kenneth
Edited by: Brendan Walter

Music Produced by: Miley Cyrus, Shawn Everett, Michael Pollack, Jonathan Rado, and Maxx Morando
Engineered by: Shawn Everett, Ian Gold, and Pièce Eatah at The Village
Assistant Engineer: JC LeResche
Mixed & Mastered by: Shawn Everett
Mix Assistant: Ian Gold

#MileyCyrus #EndoftheWorld #SomethingBeautiful #googleFree #youtubeFree #musicVideo #officialMusicVideo #tanLines #topLess #Miley #Cyrus #pop #popMusic #2020s #2025 #HannahMontana

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Waltzing celebration for half a century of European satellite tracking


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ESA's deep space antenna aligned with the Moon

2025 marks a landmark year for Europe’s ‘bridge between Earth and space’. ESA’s Estrack satellite tracking network turns 50 – and with it, its deep space antenna in Cebreros, Spain, celebrates 20 years of connecting Earth to the agency’s most distant missions.

Fittingly, this celebration of technological excellence coincides with the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II and the 50th anniversary of the European Space Agency. To honour this convergence of milestones, the European Space Agency and the Vienna Tourist Board are orchestrating a unique mission: broadcasting The Blue Danube Waltz to its destined home among the stars.

Don’t miss the live concert of the Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony Orchestra) on Saturday, 31 May. The event will start at 20:30 CEST and the transmission from ESA’s Cebreros antenna will occur at 21:30 CEST. The live stream can be followed via space.wien.info and the Vienna Instagram channel.

#operations #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world

Link: simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Gaza Aid Worker: Trump Is Lying About Who is Blocking the Aid thealtworld.substack.com/p/gaz…

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My understanding is previously the kernel would crash on systems with more RAM than the address space, so there's now a patch to ignore the anything above the max address supported (e.g. 32bit without PAE, 36bit with PAE). More RAM was never supported, so I think the author of the article has misunderstood or oversimplified what's been done.
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Types of codebases my customers send me:

- Enterprise javabean factory factory... on a SIM card

- C# programmer retasked to write an authenticated bootloader in C for an arm platform with no training

- Beautiful well-written, easy-to-read C by an experienced systems programmer, with one mind-blowing 100-out-of-100-risk-severity bug buried in miscutils.c

- There is a hermit monk in a cave in Czechia. Once every three years, he emerges with a new revision of the codebase. It is horrifying spaghetti logic that repulses the human soul, but no matter how long and how hard you look, you can't actually find anything wrong with it

Jewish settlers kidnap Palestinian in Masafer Yatta #Palestine english.palinfo.com/news/2025/…

Sich ans Völkerrecht halten und einen Genozid stoppen?

Oder doch lieber am Genozid und an Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit/ Völkerrechtsverletzungen teilnehmen?

Außenminister Wadepfuhl (CDU) so: Völkerrecht bäh! Wenn wir aufhören Waffen zu liefern stoppt noch Irgendwer den Genozid. Geht ja gar nicht.

Vorsitzender der Grünen Banaszak so: Völkerrecht bäh! Wir müssen schon differenzieren zwischen bisschen mithelfen beim Genozid und viel mithelfen

tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…

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»Israel sei zahlreichen Gefahren von außen ausgesetzt,«
Natürlich sollte jedes Land Gegner haben, das gerade einen Genozid durchführt, und seit Jahrzehnten Völkerrechtswidrige illegale Besatzung aufrecht erhält.

»Zugleich sei das Existenzrecht Israels Teil deutscher Staatsraison. Die Bundesregierung sei daher dazu verpflichtet, Israel bei der Gewährung seiner Sicherheit Beistand zu leisten«

Staatsräson ist verfassungsrechtlich nicht existent. Regierungen sind an die Verfassung gebunden.

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»Israel bei der Gewährung seiner Sicherheit Beistand zu leisten, und dazu gehörten auch Waffenlieferungen«

Haben die Waffenlieferung Israel sicherer gemacht?
Macht ein Genozid & eine Besatzung von einem riesigen Gebiet, Zerstörung von Leben & Wohngebäuden sicherer?

Meine These ist dass die Unterstützung Israels mit Waffen Israel eher unsicherer macht, den sie hilft bei der Besatzung, beim Töten von Menschen. Beim Genieren von Feinden, die gute Gründe haben das israelische Militär zu hassen.

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Völkerrechtlich verpflichtet ist der deutsche Staat nichts dafür zu tun dass dabei hilft die Besatzung der palästinensischen Gebiete aufrecht zu erhalten.

Deutschland ist völkerrechtlich dazu verpflichtet keine Waffen zu liefern wenn nur die Wahrscheinlichkeit für Kriegsverbrechen und andere Völkerrechtsverletzungen bestehen.

Unterstützung, Billigung und Verharmlosung von Genozid & Kriegsverbrechen ist in Deutschland gesetzlich verboten.

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»Der Iran habe etwa den festen Willen, Israel zu vernichten. "Gegenüber einer solchen Bedrohung darf Israel nicht schutzlos ausgeliefert sein«

Und was ist mit dem festen Willen der israelischen Regierung jede Lebensgrundlage für Palästinenser in Gaza zu zerstören und ihren Plänen sie aus Gaza zu vertreiben?

Ist ist eine israelische Auslöschungsdrohung ethisch besser als eine iranische?

Sind getötete palästinensische Kinder wertloser als israelische?

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»"Wir müssen unterscheiden lernen zwischen Handlungen der israelischen Regierung und Israel als Ganzem, da gibt es große Unterschiede." Damit könne zur Versachlichung der Debatte beigetragen werden"«

Hält man uns alle für doof? Natürlich geht's ja um Regierungshandeln um Handeln des Staates als ganzen. Bei Waffenlieferungen geht's doch explizit um Regierung, Um die Machtmittel der Regierung.
Um Verbrechen die die Regierung mit den Machtmitteln des Staats begeht.

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Palästinensisches Leben, palästinensische Menschenwürde kommt bei all den Äußerungen nicht vor.

Es geht immer nur um das Problem für Israel, für das israelische Image und israelischen Sicherheit. Und ganz viel um die eigene deutsche Betroffenheit

Um die Kinder die von unseren Bomben zerfetzt oder verbrannt werden, oder wegen der mit deutscher Zustimmung verhängten Hungersnot verstorbene Kleinkinder geht's auch nicht.

Dutch protests over Gaza: A painful truth for an Israeli abroad

Last week, the largest Dutch protest in 20 years saw over 100,000 people rally in The #Hague and other cities, calling for a #Gaza ceasefire, protesting against genocide, and urging the Dutch government to change its policy towards #Israel and demand urgent humanitarian aid for Gaza.

An Israeli emigrant in the #Netherlands reflects on the large-scale protests. While acknowledging initial discomfort with past pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which he describes as “scary,” he admits that the current protests, focused on humanitarian concerns and a clear condemnation of the war's impact on civilians, resonate with a growing sense of unease about the situation in Gaza.

[…] How does it feel when, throughout the country where you live, massive demonstrations are taking place calling to boycott and ostracize the place where you were born and raised, the country you love? Saying this is as painful as removing a shard of glass from deep within the flesh, but it is just as necessary: they are right. They haven't always been right, and they aren't right about everything. But today, now, on this matter - they are right. The situation in Gaza has simply spiraled out of control, and there probably never was a real guiding hand, one that sets goals and executes them. The vast majority of us, unfortunately, have fallen into the maze of mirrors called "living under Netanyahu's rule," and we mistakenly thought that the war has a purpose, justification, a possible end. Currently, it has none of those.

The international community views the war with increasing alarm, he says, regardless of Israeli justifications or narratives.

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/world/europe/.pr… or archive.is/PwX3j

@palestine
@israel
#Gaza #Netherlands
#GazaGenocide

Vienna granted asylum to a spherical micronation in 1982, changed their mind, fought all the way to the supreme court, lost, then gave up.

It's still sat in a public park and has 650 citizens.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelmug…

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Report of 3rd KFA UK Reading Session on the book “ Understanding Korea -Volume 9 -Human Rights “ 24.05.2025. #DPRK kfauk.com/report-of-3rd-kfa-uk…

Expedition 33 has an awesome soundtrack. I can't recall any game that even comes close to it. Just too much good stuff, in multiple genres, concentrated in one game. Lorien Testard came out of nowhere and showed everyone how it's done.

youtube.com/watch?v=MLd3E6_f5R…

#expedition33 #soundtrack #awesome #gaming #linuxgaming

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U.S. Begins Negotiations with Partners on the “Tariff Issue” journal-neo.su/2025/05/25/u-s-…

US protects Israel as Netanyahu vows to ‘take over’ Gaza, using hunger as as weapon geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/0…

President Donald Trump told journalists that he was "not happy" with Russia's recent large-scale strike against Ukraine while speaking to the press on Sunday.
Speaking to reporters at Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey, Trump accused Putin of "killing a lot of people" in the attack, which was launched on Sunday afternoon.
"I'm not happy with what Putin is doing," Trump explained. "He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin."
foxnews.com/politics/trump-say…

President Donald Trump told U.S. Military Academy graduates at West Point's commencement ceremony that they are all winners.

"Let me begin by saying congratulations to the West Point Class of 2025," Trump said in a high-energy address at Michie Stadium in New York. You are winners. Every single one of you. Today I can proudly say mission accomplished, great job."
foxnews.com/us/trump-addresses…

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Speaker Johnson: There Are ‘More Than 1.4 Million Illegal Aliens on Medicaid’.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there were “more than 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid.”
Johnson said, “We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. There‘s a lot of misinformation out there about this.”
breitbart.com/clips/2025/05/25…