As the first openly LGBTQ+ woman elected to both the House of Representatives and the Senate, Senator Baldwin has been a progressive voice and steadfast advocate for equality and human rights. This event in celebration of Pride month is an excellent opportunity for us to come together in celebration and focus on critical issues at stake in a rapidly changing 2025 political landscape, and we're delighted that the Senator will join us. RSVP now! democratsabroad.org/722406/cel…

#Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQ

in reply to LadyButterfly

That we are currently in a black hole.

There's a famous argument for the existence of God which goes like this:
1. Everything has a cause
2. The universe exists
3. Therefore there must be some cause of that existence that is outside of the bounds of the universe.

This argument works until you ask what created God? So there has to be something eternal. As an atheist, my opinion is that the universe is eternal. Most people will then point to the big bang, saying "well the universe can't be eternal because we know it had a beginning". But that's not entirely true. The big bang was a singularity, meaning all the mass was concentrated into a point. Not a point in space; space or time doesn't even make sense in a singularity. It's just the farthest back that we can possibly know about. We know of one other type of singularity and that's a black hole.

My crackpot theory is that everything ingested by a black hole over it's entire life becomes a universe within the black hole. The timeline would be entirely separate from our timeline and they would see the origin of their universe the same as we would. They would have the same vast space that we would no matter how large the black hole. It would follow that we are in a black hole with potentially infinite black hole layers above us.

Largest Wildlife Bridge Spanning 10 Lanes of CA 101 Is Nearly Complete

Link: thedrive.com/news/worlds-large…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

„Es geht um patriarchalische #Erziehungsmethoden, die #Integration nahezu unmöglich machen“


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Der Unterschied!


In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt

The Foolishness of Trump’s Persecution of American Universities: Silencing campuses, driving talent away, and empowering America’s rivals. journal-neo.su/2025/06/22/the-…

'Horrible judgment' to 'Historic moment': Va. lawmakers react to Iran nuclear sites' bombing - NewsBreak newsbreak.com/share/4066195241…

US to screen social media of foreign students for anti-American content


The State Department had temporarily paused issuing visas for foreign students at the end of May while it came up with the new social media guidance and it will now resume taking appointments.

"The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country," a senior State Department official said.

US consular officers will conduct a conduct a "comprehensive and thorough vetting of all student and exchange visitor applicants," the official said.

This solstice feels like a moment of transformation.

This solo #podcast from #AccidentalGods is a reflection on how we might use this moment as a springboard to a different way of being and a more generative world we'd be proud to leave as our legacy.

accidentalgods.life/thoughts-f…

#Solstice
#SummerSolstice
#TippingPoint
#CriticalMass
#TotalSystemicChange

I have this idea of building a "Luddite Library". A set of information, tools and processes to harness luddite thinking when analyzing technological developments and "innovation".

Something that interested parties could use to understand that there might be a different way to think about what tech is/should be/can be/mustn't be for us. Think for example sets of questions to use to analyze a new thing being pushed on you and similar tools.

I'm thinking about applying for grants to fund this. If anyone has an idea where to propose this, I'd be grateful for a message to: tante+ludditelibrary@tante.cc

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The governments of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have announced their commitment to create a massive multinational Melanesian Ocean Reserve. If implemented as envisioned, the reserve would become the world’s first Indigenous-led ocean reserve, covering an area nearly as big as the Amazon Rainforest.

By Shreya Dasgupta
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#News #Conservation #Environment #IndigenousPeoples #Oceans

We have been here before. And then as now:

a combination of both corrupt and Insecure greedy dick waving war mongers rather than compassion and cooperation based secure humans are (and always have been) the true threats…

I am sorry but ya just can't divorce -any- of this militaristic dick waving idiocy from the right's insistence on trying to continue to enshrine dominance based norms about masculinity.

#Damaskus: #Selbstmordattentäter sprengt sich in einer #Kirche in die Luft, #tötet min. 20 Menschen.


Ich kenne keinen #Christen, der sich in #Moscheen in die Luft gesprengt hat, nur christliche Länder, die #Muslime bedingungslos aufnehmen.

Der Unterschied!


In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt

UK Met Office
"When a heatwave hits the British Isles, we're rarely prepared. Our homes are designed to trap warmth, not keep it out.."
rmets.org/metmatters/10-surpri…
#HeatWave #SolarPunkSunday #KeepingCool

Now, as #drought hits hard, the point of #aquaponics becomes very apparent. Every single traditionally ground-planted #plant requires more #water daily than the entire #aquaponics garden plus the #fish, and the ground plants still suffer from the drought. Meanwhile the #VerticalGarden just consumes the sunbeams to grow more and more, the #beans are #blooming, the cabbages start to round up and the lettuces are vibrantly green and pithy.

#solarpunk #SolarPunkSunday #hydroponics #ponics

in reply to Ma Quest

Often works but I tried this in Cambodia once when the air was hotter than my body temperature and the humidity was high enough to stop the sweat evaporating.
Currently in the UK where relative humidity seems high enough to sweat working too. People used to far hotter temperatures are complaining about how opressive the heat is and can't understand it, because they're used to dry heat.

Mister, you just assured me that I could ENRICH URANIUM. Look, I'm under what? Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest. Have a look at the NUCLEAR SCIENTIST here, see that chap over there? he- GET YOUR HAND OFF MY NUCLEAR POWER! This is the bloke who BUNKER BUSTED MY UNRANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITY. Why did you do this to me, for what reason, what is the charge? ENRICHING some ORE? Some succulent chinese ORE. Oh, that's a nice B2 BOMBER sir, oh, ah yes, I see that you know your TACTICAL STRIKES well. Good one. And you sir, are you waiting to receive my limp penis? How dare - get your hands off me! Tata, and farewell.
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He's gets slammed pretty good. MAGA doesn't want war, but at the same time, we can't be passive. We can, however, passively save a lot of money and not protect other countries. We're in unprecedented territory that's been escalating since Carter from being passive. Iran will retaliate, but it was going to anyway. We can argue our ideology all day long. In the end, it stopped nothing.
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"I reeeeally wish I had an electric car, or roads, or an EMP right now. On the plus side, I don't need a gym membership, and the war-haze makes for pretty sunsets!" (Neofeud 2 work in progress) store.steampowered.com/app/673…
silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
#indiegame #gamedev #adventuregame #retrogamer

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"I cried when i finished this game actually. it'll be living rent free in my head 24/7, 365." One of the highest complements I've received for Neofeud. Makes 3 years of blood, sweat, & tears as a solo-dev worth it! store.steampowered.com/app/673… #indiedev #indiegames #SteamDeck
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An older lady in our upstairs apartment just told me today how the meadow reminds her of her childhood in the countryside decades ago. As daisies are relatively rare to see in the city.

She is also taking part in the meadow-watch, we inspected it together today and there are some wild violas coming up now too. The forget-me-nots, cats-eyes and buttercups also still going strong.

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In Louisiana, local court officials known as justices of the peace can line their pockets by granting evictions—and keeping the resulting fees as part of their salaries.

A new lawsuit argues that’s unconstitutional. boltsmag.org/ilouisiana-justic…

Tehran vows ‘everlasting consequences’ after US strikes Iranian nuclear facilities thecradle.co/articles-id/31499

Accessing Jellyfin Help


Good morning all,

I'm having an issue with my Jellyfin server and hoping that you lovely wizards can help me...again.

So I initially tried and failed to set up Jellyfin on elementaryOS(skill issue), I wasn't really invested in the OS so I just switched to Ubuntu. Things have been much easier for the get go. I now have set up Jellyfin on my ubuntu 24.04.2 and uploaded my library from my external hdd. Now I cant figure out how to connect other devices so I can watch my media on my macbook. I currently also use a PIA vpn with port forwarding on due to my qbit seeding. I feel like that is important info. I've looked up how to connect while one the same network but since I need my vpn to stay on I'm feeling a little outside my depth again. Ultimate goal is to be able to access my library on other devices mainly, mainly my macbook, while also being able to seed from Qbit safely.

I appreciate any assistance you all can offer!

in reply to Kelp

I haven't had to deal with this specific kind of use case before (accessing the local Jellyfin service while the laptop is connected to a VPN), but after some cursory research, one of these approaches may work for you:

Easy Option (only available on some VPN software):

There may be an option in your VPN client that lets you access local network addresses like your Jellyfin server. Check your settings and see if there are any options like "allow local network traffic" and then try opening up your Jellyfin server in a browser (e.g.: 192.168.1.100:8096/)

Less Easy Option:

If your VPN client doesn't have an option for allowing local traffic, you can open up the command prompt on your macbook and run a command like this:
sudo route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.1

Where 192.168.1.0/24 is the local network you want to connect to, and 192.168.1.1 is your local gateway (change these depending on how your local network IP addresses are formatted).

This should update your routing table to handle local network addresses without the VPN and this should persist between reboots.

Hope this helps.

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