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Feels like this song which was rather in context with the US and the USSR that ordinary people do not want war. Irony: The Box is a Canadian band and they posed as Americans. Came to mind when I traveled in Canada recently and the FM started to play that song.

Putin’s Clarification Of Russian Policy Towards Ukraine Discredited The West’s Narrative korybko.substack.com/p/putins-…
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I have only played the game in VR and loved it. The mod worked great for me a year or two ago so unless a patch went through it still should. Since you’re an experienced VR player I don’t think you’ll have too much issue with motion sickness. That being said it takes a lot to make me nauseous, so your results may vary. I think it’s an amazing way to get drawn into the world.

Some scattered thoughts:

- The Israeli and US attacks against Iran are blatantly illegal under international law. The US attacks are blatantly illegal under US law and represent the most casual, blasé violation of the constitution I can recall in my life.

- No one involved in these crimes will ever suffer meaningful consequences for their crimes (unless we can figure out how to do it ourselves). Law cannot save us because it was never meant to protect us, and the fiction of a constitutional order in the US or a functioning system of international law should be well and truly dead now.

- The Iranian regime is genuinely, truly awful. There is very little the Iranian regime has done to the people under its rule that the Israeli state has not also done to Palestinians. All of these regimes deserve to be destroyed—by the people they rule and abuse, not by rival monstrous regimes.

- Real human beings are suffering because of this—the civilians on the receiving ends of these strikes, the people who will sicken and die if nuclear materials are exposed and scattered, the children who go hungry because meals were stolen from their mouths to pay for ballistic missiles and B2 bombers and one-way attack drones.

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This photo means a lot to me … I had to run around the traffic circle to align the sunburst with the top of the Azadi Tower.

When I visited the top level, I made a point of standing in the center window of each of the four sides.

Whenever I see a photo of the tower, whatever the circumstance, I can say with certainty that I was *there*.

Taken ~ New Years Day of ’79 … I left Tehran for the final time on January 3.

My parents got out the day before the Shah closed the airport.

#Iran #Tehran

Lets be clear; changes to tax laws do not 'force' the wealthy to leave the country.

The wealthy are choosing not to increase their contribution to the country they are (currently at least) living in.

Sure that is a choice they are free to make, but its their choice; no-one is forcing them into anything.

They already have enough money, so refusing to pay higher taxes is a choice about what they wish to support in their (for now) home country!

They are not victims!

#taxes #politics

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".

Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!

19χρονη κατέληξε αφού δεν υπήρχε νευροχειρουργός στο νοσοκομείο Κορίνθου
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Regarding Adam's comments about Siri's "not ready" clip. There was a key statement in that clip. Apple is trying to run the model on-device. You can't run a model of any usable size on an iPhone. Even if it had the memory, it would take days for it to crunch through the prompt. It's like trying to pull a tractor trailer with a Honda Civic.

So, instead, they have to run smaller models which can't handle any worth while tasks.

No way the Zionist entity can sustain a conflict with Iran for this long - even with US support! Neither has the manufacturing capacity to re-stock the expended munitions! The US/ NATO are already struggling to supply Ukraine!

“BREAKING: Iran estimates that the war will last up to 6 months, and has planned for this”

via Middle East Spectator on Telegram

@palestine
@israel

t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/207…

#Press #Israel #US #UK #Iran #War #Attack #Natanz #Isfahan #Fordow #Netanyahu #Trump

Another Economist Calls 'Stablecoins' Currency Chaos from 19th Century eir.news/2025/06/news/another-…

It happened to a friend of mine in GA. She's the sweetest woman, loves teaching, and little kids loved her.

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I installed Openmediavault on a computer recently, what should I do next?


I picked up an old optiplex I'm trying to use as a NAS and do other things with. Initially I put Debian on there but felt like I was running into too many problems with things like power management, remot desktop, Docker, and mounting drives.

So I put Openmediavault on there and it's working now. But what are some of the best ways to get the most out of it?

Can I do most things through the browser interface, or should I remote into it to install things?

How easily can I mount it as a network drive to other computers? I still have a Windows PC so I'd like to access it from there too if possible.

And what's the best way to get other services running on it? I'm thinking of how it's possible to set up torrenting software and control it with a remote app from your phone. (For managing and sharing my distros, of course).

Happy to hear any feedback on what people do with OMV, or their setups for a NAS in general. This is more of a tinkering computer to get me more familiar with networks and Linux.

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I don't use OMV, but I have a nas server I built and here is my .02

  • set up an smb share in OMV for windows. Mounting that in windows should be trivial (don't hold me. Haven't used windows in years now, but last I used win10 smb was super easy to mount)
  • look into docker on OMV for deploying stuff. I run docker on my NAS and host a bunch of stuff including
  • with docker, if you want a GUI for ceeating, managing and interacting with your stuff, look at Dockge and Portainer
    • jellyfin for all the rips of my DVDs
    • navidrome for all the rips of my CDs
    • nextcloud to replace google stuff
    • radicale for my calendars
    • Joplin server for my notes
    • mealie for recipes
    • more stuff I can't think of right now


Edit: added more stuff

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Here’s the thing: fuck the ayatollah and his mullahs and fuck Hamas (neither of those bastards would hesitate to put a bullet in the head of an atheist apostate like me) but that doesn’t mean you attack the people of Iran (most of whom oppose the regime) or Palestine (who also suffer under the yoke of Hamas – an organisation that, furthermore, was funded and supported by Netanyahu’s regime to sabotage the peace process).

If you cannot separate authoritarian regimes from the people being oppressed by them, and if you condone the indiscriminate slaughter of the latter, then don’t be surprised when the same rules end up applying to you… given the way things are going in the United States, for example.

We have rules of combat and international law for a reason. It’s not because we’re morally superior; far from it. It’s because we don’t want that same shit done to us. That’s a dangerous thing to forget.

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it wasn't really netanyahu's regime in the eighties (I mean the government at the time was under likud I guess). but again, most of the support is either before bibi was in office or letting money into gaza via qatar for humanitarian aid, of which the former is hard to blame "netanyahu's regime" for and the latter is...humanitarian aid?
I'm mostly just being nitpicky though, it's fine.

The #BluesBrothers is my favorite film too! Cory, @pluralistic, Doctorow discusses Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers': Far more than production gossip – an unmissable portrait of a turning point in American comedy and music

pluralistic.net/2025/06/21/106…

🐟 Idle new business thought for the day:

Seafood restaurant called "Sofishticated" and all menu items are terrible puns.

So far I've got "Shrimply Irresistible", "Prawn to be Wild" and "Just for the Halibut".

If you're hooked on this idea, add your suggestions for the menu below.

EDIT: So many people joined in we ended up with a fun mockup of a menu, which I'm adding here for posterity.

Keep reading for all the suggestions I couldn't fit in!

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@pluralistic Cory, absolutely loved Picks & Shovels. Looking forward to even more Martin Hench in the future.

Not relevant to P&S, but gives me strong vibes of both Eastern Standard Tribe and Walkaway universes: have you ever looked into _Meshtastic_ LoRa networking? (off-grid, low power, open source, mesh text comms)

Meshtastic looks like something that would appear on a Cory Doctorow Venn diagram…

"UNRWA has affirmed that in the past year, Israel has subjected Gaza to “the most intense bombardment of a civilian population since World War.” By February 2024 they had used over 25,000 tonnes of explosives across the Gaza Strip...

...The growing #BlockTheBoat campaign, led by the BDS movement, aims to block as much as possible the export and transport of military or dual-use equipment to Israel and the import of Israeli military-security materiel."

bdsmovement.net/Stop-Illegal-M…

Attack on a Bank Branch by Anarchist Action Group: Volos, Greece


In the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 28, we placed gas canisters at Alpha Bank in Larissis Street in the city of Volos.

We dedicate this action to our comrades outside but above all to those within the walls, to those who fled, to the people of our class who are killed and sacrificed daily because of the capitalist machine on the altar of profit, as well as to all the rebels of this land.

We judge injustice and always at the height of the struggle we will try to take revenge on our torturers and oppressors at every opportunity and in every way.

Therefore, we call on those who are suffering from injustice to take the situation into their own hands in any way they can, so that the monopoly of state and capitalist violence can be demolished.

KYRIAKOS FOREVER PRESENT
FREEDOM FOR N. ROMANO, MARIANNA M., DIMITRA Z.
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION, LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

Anarchist Action Group

Translated by Act for freedom now!

source: Act For Freedom

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#anarchism #directActiion #europe #greece

Just learned some frankly disconcerting stuff, accounts on #private #SocialMedia #platforms that have more than 10,000 followers actually get paid.

This makes me sad.

But also glad that I am dedicated to the #fediverse, #mastodon in particular.

I don’t say shit for clicks nor $$$$.

I am dedicated to the desimination of true factual #information.

I see the #FarRight #Nazi #propaganda #disinformation campaign for what it is, & I hope to be a rock in the road on the way to their #tyranny.

🤷🏼‍♀️

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I am not an asshole.

I am a person that sees.

I see the #tyranny.

I see the #oppression.

I see the #sadness.

I see the #racism.

I see the #misogyny.

I see the #heterosexism.

I see it all.

Maybe I’m just an observer, but I’m still a romantic jackass full of hope that at least here, in the #fediverse, on #mastodon….

You all are listening. And your followers are listening. This is the actualization of #grassroots.

#CounterDisinformation #NaziState

@mastodonmigration

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Colonel Jacques Baud, a former military intelligence analyst in the Swiss Army, discusses America's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities and the deception surrounding this war of aggression.

International law, treaties and institutions are all undermined in the effort to destroy Iran and restore American hegemony.

youtu.be/D26_5bxSAaA

#usa #geopolitics #iran

Ukraine fighting 10,000 Russian troops in Kursk region, Ukrainian commander says


Around 10,000 Russian soldiers are fighting in Russia's Kursk region, about 90 square kilometers (35 square miles) of which is controlled by Ukraine, Ukraine's top military commander said.

"We control about 90 square kilometers of territory in the Hlushkov district of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, and these are our preemptive actions in response to a possible enemy attack," Oleksandr Syrskyi said without elaborating, in remarks released by his office for publication on Sunday.

The Ukrainian military said the activity in this area prevented Russia from sending a significant number of its forces to Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk, where some of the heaviest fighting has taken place in the more than three-year-old full-scale invasion.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-fighting-10000-russian-troops-kursk-region-ukrainian-commander-says-2025-06-22/

Americans more vulgar online than Brits, Aussies — study


Linguists analyzed websites and blogs to determine where vulgarity was most common. They found Americans swear more on the internet than other English-speaking groups.

Almost two billion words — just under 600 of them swear words — were carefully assessed, and the United States then handed the dubious honor of being the most cursing country in the English-speaking world, at least online.

For the Australian duo behind the research, it came as a surprise that the inhabitants of their own country did not lead the way, such is the stereotype that Aussies are easy-going and relaxed, in actions and words.

But Australians were only the third-most likely citizens to drop a swear word in conversation online.

The reason that America — viewed by some to be a more conservative and polite culture among English-speakers — is the most profane community online may be the anonymity of the screen, according to the study's co-author Martin Schweinberger, a linguist at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Jury awards $2.25 million to Georgia couple in suit over autopsy images of decapitated baby


A jury has awarded a Georgia couple $2.25 million in their lawsuit accusing a pathologist of posting graphic videos of an autopsy of their decapitated baby.

A Fulton County jury returned the verdict against Dr. Jackson Gates on Wednesday. The couple, Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr., hired Gates to perform an autopsy on their son, Treveon Taylor Jr., who was decapitated during delivery in July 2023.

They have separately sued the doctor who delivered the baby and the hospital where the delivery occurred. That case is pending.

In a lawsuit filed in September 2023, the couple said Gates posted several videos of the autopsy on Instagram without their permission. Gates initially removed the videos after receiving a letter from the couple’s attorneys, but then reposted them, according to the couple’s attorneys.

https://apnews.com/article/decapitated-baby-autopsy-video-lawsuit-3062bc590b8152dc51c53ba35eb28073

Meanwhile, in Gaza:

“Israeli strikes have killed 202 people in Gaza within the last 48 hours, the Palestinian health ministry said, adding that a further 1,037 were wounded.

Meanwhile, at least 500 patients & wounded Palestinians in Gaza have died as a result of delays in medical referrals”

via Middle East Eye on Telegram

@palestine
@israel

t.me/MiddleEastEye_TG/15322

#Press #Gaza #Palestine #Resistance #Israel #Genocide #Terrorism #WarCrimes #SettlerColonialism #Zionism #Barbarity #BloodLust

Unbedingt angucken!
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Es ist in dem Vortrag wirklich gut aufgearbeitet, dass #ARD und #ZDF #Kriegspropaganda für den #Genozid an den Palästinensern/innen machen.

Meine persönliche These ist, viele machen es nicht absichtlich, sondern dass due Hauptstadtjournalisten/innen so strunzdumm und schlecht in ihrem Job sind, dass sie alles glauben, was Regierungsvertreter/innen ihnen erzählen.

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#Propaganda #Tagesschau #Gaza #Westbank #Palästina #Israel #Rechtsextremismus

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Das zieht sich bei #ARD und #ZDF durch: unkritisch wird oft alles geglaubt, was Regierungsvertreter/innen westlicher / pro-westlicher Regierungen erzählen. Das fällt besonders auf bei der Außenpolitik, aber auch z. B. bei der Umweltpoltik und Wirtschaftspolitik. Da werden Lügen zu E-Fuels oder dass Steuersenkungen für Konzerne die Wirtschaft ankurbeln, sich zu eigen gemacht und weiterverbreitet.

Noch eine Anguckempfehlung:
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#Propaganda #FakeNews #Tagesschau

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Speaking of maps, I've noticed several articles now, especially in the AP, with maps of the area where Iran is partly cut off so that it looks significantly smaller than it actually is. Granted it must be challenging to create a squarish map of that area that includes both Israel and Iran, but I can't help thinking this is an editorial choice. Iran is a large country, much larger than Iraq and almost the size of Saudi Arabia. Obviously there's much more to the situation than geographic area but I do think the choices in visuals can be telling.

Malgré l'annonce triomphante de #Trump, seules les entrées et sorties du site nucléaire de #Fordo ont été endommagées par les bombes de Trump.
=> Commentaires d'un observateur :
"Si Fordo avait disparu, on aurait vu des cratères, une rupture électromagnétique, des ponts aériens d'urgence, des sismographes allumés et des éruptions infrarouges sous la montagne. Au lieu de cela, nous avons reçu un tweet d'un compte géré depuis le nord d'Israël, criant « #Fordow a disparu ».
Pour l'instant, pas d'équipes de recherche et de secours, pas de regroupement de cratères. Pas d'analyse flash multispectrale. Pas de signature de feu souterrain. Pas d'évaluation de dommages de combat.
Si Fordo continue de tourner demain, Washington vient de réaliser l'opération d'influence la plus coûteuse de l'histoire des opérations de destruction de bunkers, pour finalement voir Téhéran gravir les échelons de l'escalade sans encombre."
=> Et pas de radiations anormales détectées en Arabie Saoudite, par exemple.
=> Et des experts américains avancent que le site #nucléaire d'Ispahan a été construit plus profondément qu'ils ne le pensaient. Et il existerait un autre site secret d'enrichissement d'uranium.
=> Trump menace de bombarder davantage l'Iran, si l' #Iran répond aux frappes américaines.

The #US #military struck 3 sites in #Iran early Sunday, inserting itself into #Israel’s effort to decapitate Iran’s #nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals could spark a wider regional conflict.

#Trump says Iran’s key nuclear sites were “completely & fully obliterated” by US strikes. Speaking hours after the attacks, he threatened more strikes & said Iran faced a choice between “peace or tragedy.”

#MiddleEast #war
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Israel-Iran Escalation Compromises Global Energy Security, Venezuelan VP telesurenglish.net/israel-iran…

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I just saw a leaked video that supposedly shows an Iranian underground lab being blown up by an aircraft.

There is no proof of anything.
Space, Time, Location

For all I know, it could have been a volcanic eruption.
In Hawaii or Indonesia.
Or even a GBU-57 being dropped on a test site.
It doesn't clear up any doubts.
Especially from the masters of deception

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Spartacus

@antones εσωτερική κατανάλωση
Αν ακούσεις τι ειπε ο Hegseth στο πεντάγωνο θακαταλαβεις ποσο αναγκη το είχε ο Τραμπ

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Wanna hear someone lying to your face?
Pentagon Briefing: U.S. Striking Iran

Clowns for free

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