Got a letter from the IRS yesterday. I filed our taxes on time but never mailed in the payment. I can't imagine what sort of things might have distracted me, a transgender woman taking care of her disabled wife in a red state in the US of A under a nakedly fascist regime that hates us both.
Hah hah, now I owe penalties and interest, too.
Too bad I'm not rich enough to not have to pay taxes.

At Least 27 Palestinians Killed near Gaza Aid Site amid Renewed Israeli Violence tn.ai/3327125

From Eric Carlson substack dated 6/2/25

Trump's Repost - Biden executed?

"... There is no way for me to know for sure if Biden is alive or dead. But at the same time, a good place to start is to at least consider that Trump really means what he says and everything he says isn’t always trolling. There is plenty of evidence that Trump has told us before that Biden is dead. It makes sense that Trump wouldn’t have willingly handed over the executive branch to the Deep ...

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State in 2020. Lately, Trump has been talking about being in his third term. It makes sense that going public with Biden’s execution in 2020 would have caused mass chaos. It at least makes sense to consider the possibility that Biden is dead and the way the truth has been revealed to us was the least harmful way it could have occurred. ...

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Scroll to 41:45 point at the link below and listen to the discussion of President Trump's repost about Biden being executed in 2020. Absolute and Stormy provides a montage of DJT talking about Biden not knowing he's alive, etc.

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Tiniest garden summer has officially begun.

I love how well these painted nettle cuttings from the one plant from last summer go with these red petunia. Also planted lots of it in the garden beds.

Also love the flower clay pots we painted and the huge night princess cactus that was just a leaf cutting last year. It's going to again live outside for the summer.

Monsteras will also move outside this year, but not yet.

#gardening #BloomScrolling #plants #TinyGarden #BudgetGardening #diy

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And here is the tiny meadow we planted to the front of our apartment a year ago on what was just barren earth. Without asking permission from anyone (rental).

It is looking amazing, so much forget-me-not and lots of stuff coming up.

I escalated it this spring and sprinked more seeds all around it to similarly barren land. Give it a few years and it will be great.

So many bees and butterflies every day. We get to watch the visitors from our kitchen windown.

#meadow #niitty #BloomScrolling

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385, located about 30 million light-years away. Hubble released an earlier image of NGC 1385, but the two images are notably different. This more recent image has far more pinkish-red and umber shades, whereas cool […]

I Spent My Life Anticipating Trump’s “War on Antisemitism”


#politics #racism #antisemitism #identitypolitics

Hear, hear. There are thousands of ways to be a Jew. Once an antisemite told me “Fucking yid, when Hitler’s back you’ll burn in oven”. So I’m definitely a Jew, whatever my origins, my religion, my will, or my opinion about the matter. Everyone's somebody else's Jew, or Negro, or else. The day you get this, you can't be a racist anymore (unless your brain's dead).

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#TheFediFiles 11 is back with perhaps the most infamous guest in ALL of Fedi: @ube or as you may have known her, Maija!

Do I even need to sell a Maija episode? Kicked off of over 109 instances, denies the existence of Russia, and... a racoon story (not to mention the Faggot Tourney top seed). Maija's fediverse history is something of legend, and that legend will be codified on this very special episode of The Fedi Files!

Stream starts at 8 Eastern 7 Central this Sunday the 8th. Don't miss it!

Wall Street banks are reinforcing their calls that the dollar will weaken further, hit by interest-rate cuts, slowing economic growth and Trump’s trade and tax policies.

Morgan Stanley said the greenback will tumble to levels last seen during the Covid-19 pandemic by the middle of next year, while JPMorgan Chase & Co. remains bearish on the US currency.

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#usa #economy

U.S. gives nod to Syria to incorporate foreign jihadist ex-rebel fighters in army haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2…

Calling Pete Hegseth!

Chief Warrant Officer and Blackhawk Pilot Facing Discharge for Refusing mRNA Shot After President Trump’s Reinstatement Order

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Not great news for statins nor Big Pharma.

Why Didn’t Statins Protect Dad from Clogged Coronary Arteries? What About Aspirin?

Doctors believe statins prevent clogged coronary arteries. Will such drugs prevent most heart attacks? What about aspirin if Lp(a) is high?

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Mongolia is not a partner for the US, but a raw material reserve en.news-front.su/2025/06/03/mo…

how much prison time for 75 counts of attempted murder.... nypost.com/2025/06/03/us-news/…

US gives Syria green light to bring foreign Takfiri militants into army: Report presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/02/7…

Leur matinée est pleine de tristesse et de chagrin... « Publier est à nouveau autorisé » !
Il est vrai que la nouvelle a fuité dans la nuit, mais ils ne prennent des informations que de leur source militaire.
Il y a quelques instants, la nouvelle choquante est tombée.
Trois soldats ont été tués à Jabalia, deux autres sont dans un état critique.
Les lamentations ont rapidement commencé. Netanyahou a ouvert la marche, suivi par d'autres.
20 mois qu'il s'extasie sur sa « victoire absolue » !
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If LLMs are basing their outputs on what they've read, why don't they footnote every assertion of fact and provide a bibliography? That would get authors off their backs, and it would also enable LLMs to work as search engines.

I've heard that they don't because of a fundamental flaw in the basic design of LLMs that makes that impossible.

Is that correct?

And is that fundamental flaw also the cause of the bullshit (also euphemistically called "hallucinations") that LLMs often output?

52 martyred, 340 injured in aid center massacres across Gaza english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

The Fedi Files #10 - CMD / Faggot Tourney Kickoff


For the 10th Episode of The Fedi Files, CMD joins us to talk a little bit about himself, as well as introduce all the contestants in the 2025 Faggot Tourney!

We cover some of Fedi's most notorious users, infamous posts, and got all kinds of information from chat. This episode covers nearly every corner of Fedi that there is to cover.

The original air date(s) of this episode is 5/31 - 6/1 as the tournament was started live on the show at the stroke of midnight!

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#BigOil doesn't care about you. Big Oil will burn you right to the ground. They're doing it already #abpoli #Climate eenews.net/articles/heat-is-ki…

The note to make on this post is the domain. Fly is an hosting company so if “AI lets us go faster” and “AI makes bad code but we’re slowing down to make it usable” (paraphrased) is their self-contradictory policy, that puts a question mark on hosting with them

fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

Also, going “many of you will lose your jobs but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” is almost admirable as a douchebag move, but it’s also the norm in tech. There is no class solidarity to speak of in tech.

Palestine Action target tech suppliers for the Israeli weapons trade #Palestine palestineaction.org/palestine-…

Zip Bombs - Une technique redoutable qui fait crasher les bots


Si vous en avez marre des bots qui pourrissent votre serveur web, j’ai une solution qui va vous plaire. En effet, il est possible comme dans vos rêves les plus fous, de transformer chaque bot malveillant en kamikaze involontaire avec un simple fichier de 1MB. C’est ce que permet de faire une zip bomb et croyez-moi, c’est aussi jouissif que ça en a l’air.

D’abord, parlons du problème de fond. En 2024, d’après le dernier rapport Imperva, les bots représentaient environ 51% du trafic web total. Oui, y’a officiellement plus de robots que d’humains sur Internet. Et sur ces 51%, pas moins de 37% sont des bots malveillants, contre 32% en 2023. Ça fait donc un sacré paquet de nuisibles qui scannent, spamment et tentent d’exploiter la moindre faille.
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Kommentar: Ein gruseliges Rechtsverständnis


Das Dobrindt auch schon in der Vergangenheit ein eigenes Rechtsverständnis hat, sollte bekannt sein. Bisher hat er jedoch nur mit dem Geld der Bürger gespielt. Hier geht es aber um Grundfeste einer Demokratie.

Zurückweisungen von Asylbewerbern an deutschen Grenzen kann man gut, falsch, effektiv oder unsinnig finden. Aber hier geht es um den Stil, um das Wie. Ein Bundesinnenminister, der mit Ansage geltendes Recht bricht und der dann, als ein Gericht sein Vorgehen erwartungsgemäß stoppt, sagt: Egal, weiter so - so ein Innenminister bereitet Sorgen. Weil er das Recht, die Ordnung schleift.


.. und weiter

Dobrindt, der selbst kein Jurist ist, hat sich darüber einfach hinweggesetzt. Der Beschluss des Berliner Verwaltungsgerichts war für viele Juristen nun wirklich keine Überraschung. Auch Dobrindt muss damit gerechnet haben - und was macht er? Er tritt vor die Presse und sagt wörtlich: "Es gibt keinen Grund, aufgrund einer Gerichtsentscheidung, die heute hier erfolgt ist, in diesem Einzelfall unsere Praxis zu verändern."


.. zusammenfassend

Aber in einem Rechtsstaat sollte nicht das persönliche Rechtsverständnis eines Ministers oder seiner Partei entscheidend sein, sondern das geschriebene Gesetz und die Auslegung durch die unabhängige Justiz. Und wenn ein Innenminister - also der Mann, der auch die Polizei verantwortet - öffentlich erklärt, sich von Gerichtsentscheidungen nicht beeindrucken zu lassen, dann signalisiert er: Recht gilt nur, wie es mir passt.


Kommentar: Ein gruseliges Rechtsverständnis

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libertytree.ca/quotes/Wendell.… "No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents."

-- Wendell Phillips
(1811-1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, lawyer
Source: Liberty and the Great Libertarians (C. Spradling)

Yemeni missile triggers sirens in occupied Palestine en.ypagency.net/358538

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U..S..Privacy.Study.Commission.Quote.3121
"The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable."

-- U. S. Privacy Study Commission
Source: 1977

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"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either."

-- Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, author

Euro-Mediterranean: The Israeli army intensifies the use of Quadcopeters to target civilians in Gaza dailyyemen.net/2025/06/02/euro…
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Do all dreams have the same quality? What if some dreams need to be chased, but others only come condensed like dew on the unfaltering ground. How dare I equate dreams and some kind of state of remaining still? If stillness words, like peace and sleep are really the stuff that dreams are made of, then the dream is that which comes to us, and the other way around only as a reflection of those qualities we can lie down peacefully with.

As a value-oriented language, English has made "dreams" to be something you could dream about--select your dream and sleepwalk to win--rather than an inherent quality. As with all values, the activation under will realizes the limits of their constituting qualities. Again and again we become sleepwalkers for the sake of our wills' realization, the dream...and yet if there is a real meaning to this, then we can resurrect it by remaining still and letting the dream come to us. No one knows, because there are always hidden variables guaranteeing our freedom. But it would be hard to say "you are wrong" when I claim that sleep comes before dreams.

Wildfire smoke - now extra toxic plumes from sun UV

Did you know just one of the many fires burning in Quebec is the size of an entire Canadian province (PEI), or large enough to stretch between the cities of Ottawa and Montreal or Toronto to Niagara Falls? Read on to learn more about why the smoke now smells like plastic and the health impact. 🧵 1/

You can read the unrolled one page version here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/167…

#AirQuality #Wildfires #WildfireSmoke #Ontario #Canada #Quebec

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Well fitting respirators like N95 masks will do a great job at filtering out the PM2.5 particles from the air if you are outside, but they are not designed to filter out all the smoke related gases. You can learn more about how filtration material in N95s and HEPA filters actually filter out the tiny PM2.5 particles despite them being smaller than the holes in the material ( mstdn.science/@jeffgilchrist/1… ). 6/

This is how newspapers should react when the government asks them to carry its water.

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