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We got an unsolicited offer on our house in Perth WA it wasn't terrible. made me pull out the calculator. And consider not renting. But the wife says we can't sell that. we will get screwed on fees and taxes. The houses here suck and it's our retirement.
Well, it's not far down to paradise At least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away And find tranquility Oh, the canvas can do miracles Just you wait and see Believe me
@Katherine Bond Let me know if this comment is out of place and I will delete it. @John Hummel I wondered for a long time about the "hierarchy of intelligence" set by humans where put themselves at the top of the "intelligence hierarchy". They understand so little about how other animals and plants operate and from my own observation, the animals and plants always know way before humans when something is going to go down eg cyclones or when a particular fruit is fruiting 5,000 or more kms away. How do they know these things??? So I've inverting the pyramid (symbolically speaking) and putting the animals and plants at the top, there is so much we can learn from them. Maybe, there is no hierarchy of intelligence, except within the human psyche? Thanks for opening this wondering again...💚☮️🐸
Definitely @iam-elegance@diaspora.psyco.fr. Dolphins, for example, have to be smarter than humans: They speak (their own language), they laugh, and they don't work. 😀)
Comparative cognition (the study of the relative cognitive abilities of different species) is indeed deceptively tricky, @iam-elegance.
At the risk of over-simplifying, one lesson seems to be that whereas most animals are specialists who are extremely good at a relatively small number of things, humans are generalists who can learn to be fairly good at almost anything.
Another generalization, related to the previous one, is that most species change themselves over evolutionary time in order to adapt to the environment in which they find themselves. Humans, by contrast, change the environment in real-time (building homes, irrigation, farms, factories, etc.) in order to suit their needs.
@mc is also right that cetaceans (whales and dolphins) and corvids (crows, ravens, jays, and magpies) appear to have a kind and degree of general intelligence that is comparable to (and perhaps in some cases, superior to) human intelligence in many ways.
"Animals don’t kill each other for fun." I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, @Katherine Bond, but at least in the case of cats (and I'll bet this principle extends to most animals) the instinct to hunt/kill is entirely separate from the instinct to eat. Basically, cats kill whenever they get the opportunity. And if they happen to be hungry (which, in the wild, they probably are most of the time), then they eat the kill. I don't know what they do with the kill if they don't happen to be hungry. Or maybe I do: My own cat has presented me with several dead mice; perhaps when they're not hungry, they share.
It's unclear whether "killing when the opportunity presents itself" is the same as "killing for fun", but even if they're not the same, it seems to me that they're cousins.
But this doesn't make cats or other predators psychopaths. (Although this behavior in a human would definitely make them a psychopath.) It probably just means that selection pressure favored predators who hunted even when they weren't hungry. After all, waiting until you're hungry before you hunt means you'll always be hunting on low blood sugar, which is not a good plan if you want to be a successful hunter.
Cats here seem very respectful of birds and opossums. But greatly enjoy staying out all night and decimating rabbits for sport. I guess if the cats tried to pick on birds, the predator birds will hear the calls and swoop in and remove the terrorist cat from service.
Big tech executives have been sworn in as high ranking officers in the US Army. Normally it takes around 2 decades of sacrifice to achieve such a high rank. ...
You must be mistaken, Meta are partners with Mastodon at the Social Web Foundation. Are you saying Mastodon would partner with such a horrible corporation? Or that the illustrious Social Web Foundation would allow them in if they were as bad as you say?
SANAA, June 22 (YPA) - The Sanaa-based government strongly condemned on Sunday the blatant and barbaric US aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.In a statement, the government considered the US strikes a blatant declaration of war against t
L'eurodéputée espagnole Irene Montero :" Israël et les États-Unis (et non l’Iran) possèdent l’arme nucléaire. Et seuls les États-Unis en ont déjà utilisé une. Être leur allié nous met en danger."
MAID: A National Scandal Unfolding Before Our Eyes Let’s cut to the chase: MAID isn’t the compassionate choice it’s sold as—it’s a runaway train of death, and it’s already claimed over 60,301 Canadian
"In a world where the U.S. does not value commitment, few others will truly bargain with it, although they may go through the motions of pretending to. What is the point of making deals with a country that may renege unexpectedly on the president’s momentary whim" #auspol
U.S. wildlife officials plan to kill nearly half a million “invasive” American owls over three decades, new documents confirm. Experts say the #cull is #needed to help protect two #native owl #species, which have been put under #threat from the #invaders. However, animal rights activists have condemned the plan as #cruel and unnecessary.
Barred owls (Strix varia) are large owls native to eastern #NorthAmerica. In the early 20th century, these owls started moving west of the Mississippi River following “human-induced changes” to the Great Plains and northern boreal forest, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). As a result, the owls have gained a stronghold in #Washington, #Oregon and #California, where they are considered an invasive species.
The arrival of barred owls in the Northwest has adversely affected two native owl species — northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) and California spotted owls (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) — which are both much smaller than the #invaders and are being outcompeted for food and territory. Both native species have also been impacted by extreme logging activity over the last few decades, which has majorly reduced their range, according to California’s Santa Clara University.
Barred owls have also started mating with the spotted owls, creating hybrids that have the potential to reduce the gene pool of the spotted owl species.
The northern spotted owl population has declined severely over the past few decades, and the species is now outnumbered by barred owls across most of its range.
This, of course, is truly reprehensible. The barred owls aren’t even #foreigners! They’re just as #American as the northern spotted owl or the California spotted owl, and all they’re doing is chasing the American dream to make a better life for their children!
This Great Owl Replacement theory is just racism and spotted owl #supremacism. Any decent owl would reject it; no owl-refugee is “illegal” or “invasive”. And if the spotted owls are mating with the barred owls, obviously they are welcoming the #refugees.
Who cares about the gene pool of the spotted owl species? That’s just #eugenics and #Nazi #pseudoscience, right? All owls are the same under their feathers, and obviously there is no place for “pure gene pools” or Spotted Owl #supremacy in Owl #Democracy!
A Spotted Owl #supremacist seen protesting “the Great Owl Replacement.”
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a final proposal to kill around 450,000 invasive barred owls in the Northwest, in an attempt to save two native species.
A while ago I made a tiny function in my ~/.zshrc to download a video from the link in my clipboard. I use this nearly every day to share videos with people without forcing them to watch it on whatever site I found it. What's a script/alias that you use a lot?
# Download clipboard to tmp with yt-dlp
tmpv() {
cd /tmp/ && yt-dlp "$(wl-paste)"
}
Similar to yours OP I copy many URLs and then run my script that takes the number of URLs I copied eg 5,and downloads them with yt-dlp and GNU parallel to ~/Videos
Here are probably the most useful ones. I prefer for rm to be interactive so I don't accidentally delete something important and for mkdir to create a parent directory if necessary.
alias rm='rm -i'
alias mkdir='mkdir -p'
alias podup='podman-compose down && podman-compose pull && podman-compose up -d'
This extract function (which I didn't make myself, I got it from when I was using nakeDeb) has been pretty useful too.
function extract()
{
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
case $1 in
*.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
*.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 ;;
*.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;
*.rar) unrar x $1 ;;
*.gz) gunzip $1 ;;
*.tar) tar xvf $1 ;;
*.tbz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
*.tgz) tar xvzf $1 ;;
*.zip) unzip $1 ;;
*.Z) uncompress $1 ;;
*.7z) 7z x $1 ;;
*.xz) unxz $1 ;;
*) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via >extract<" ;;
esac
else
echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
fi
}
it's somewhat vibe coded but the one i probably use the most is this one to swap between speakers and headset. the device name to look for is just put directly in there, it'd take some adjustment to run it on different machines. this is in my .bashrc:
switch sinks
toggle_audio() { # Find headset sink ID dynamically headset_id=$(pactl list sinks short | grep "Plantronics" | awk '{print $1}')
# Find speakers sink ID dynamically speakers_id=$(pactl list sinks short | grep "pci-0000_05_00.6" | awk '{print $1}')
# Get current default sink current_sink=$(pactl get-default-sink)
# Get current sink ID current_id=$(pactl list sinks short | grep "$current_sink" | awk '{print $1}')
# Toggle between the two if [ "$current_id" = "$headset_id" ]; then pactl set-default-sink "$speakers_id" echo "Switched to speakers (Sink $speakers_id)" else pactl set-default-sink "$headset_id" echo "Switched to headset (Sink $headset_id)" fi }
generally i try not to use too many custom things because for work i regularly work on all kinds of different servers and i've just been too lazy to set up some solution to keep it all in sync. someday....
Because using docker can sometimes cause ownership issues if not properly configured in your docker-compose.yml, I just added an alias to ~/.zshrc to rectify that.
-edit- Only run this script in your user owned directories, e.g. anything from ~/ (or /home/) you might otherwise cause ownership issues for your system.
## Set ownership of files/folders recursively to current user
alias iownyou="sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP"
I often want to know the status code of a curl request, but I don't want that extra information to mess with the response body that it prints to stdout.
What to do?
Render an image instead, of course!
curlcat takes the same params as curl, but it uses iTerm2's imgcat tool to draw an "HTTP Cat" of the status code.
It even sends the image to stderr instead of stdout, so you can still pipe curlcat to jq or something.
\#!/usr/bin/env zsh
stdoutfile=$( mktemp )
curl -sw "\n%{http_code}" $@ > $stdoutfile
exitcode=$?
if [[ $exitcode == 0 ]]; then
statuscode=$( cat $stdoutfile | tail -1 )
if [[ ! -f $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode ]]; then
curl -so $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode https://http.cat/$statuscode
fi
imgcat $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode 1>&2
fi
cat $stdoutfile | ghead -n -1
exit $exitcode
Note: This is macOS-specific, as written, but as long as your terminal supports images, you should be able to adapt it just fine.
When you pipe to this, for example ls | clip, it will stick the output of the command ran into the clipboard without needing to manually copy the output.
Little tip: In case you need to use rm directly, even with the alias in effect, you can put a backslah in front of the command to use its original meaning: \rm filename
I'm not sure what you mean with the question. If you have any alias like alias rm='ls -l' in your .bashrc in example, then you cannot use the original command rm anymore, as it is aliased to something else. I'm speaking about the terminal, when you enter the command. However, if you put a backslash in front of it like \rm in the terminal, then the alias for it is ignored and the original command is executed instead.
I've only used aliases twice so far. The first was to replace yt-dlp with a newer version because the version that comes pre-installed in Linux Mint is too outdated to download videos from YouTube. The second was because I needed something called "Nuget". I don't remember exactly what Nuget is but I think it was a dependency for some application I tried several months ago.
alias yt-dlp='/home/j/yt-dlp/yt-dlp'
alias nuget="mono /usr/local/bin/nuget.exe"
I looked through my bash history and it looks like I needed it to build an Xbox eeprom editor for Xemu. Xemu doesn't (or at least didn't, I haven't used newer versions yet) have a built in eeprom editor and editing the Xbox eeprom is required for enabling both wide screen and higher resolutions for the games that support them natively.
I just looked at Xemu's documentation, and it looks like they've added a link to an online eeprom editor, so the editor I used (which they do still link to) is no longer required.
I wrote a script called please. You input please followed by any other command (e.g. please git clone, please wget blahblah) and a robotic voice will say "affirmative," then the command will run, and when it completes, the robotic voice reads out the exit code (e.g. "completed successfully" or "failed with status 1" etc.)
This is useful for when you have a command that takes a long time and you want to be alerted when it's finished. And it's a gentleman.
It's full of random shit I put in as a joke, but here it is. You can use please -s to get lightly roasted when your command fails.
::: spoiler spoiler
\#!/bin/bash
# announces success or failure of task
if ! command -v "spd-say" > /dev/null
then
echo "spd-say must be installed."
exit -1
fi
VOLUME=0
SERIOUS=1
FINISH_ONLY=0
if [ $# -ge 2 ]
then
if [ $1 == "-i" ]
then
# parse volume from command line
VOLUME=$2
shift 2
fi
fi
spd-say -C
# force stop speech synthesizer
killall -q speech-dispatcher
# androgynous voice
# __sayfn="spd-say -i -80 -t female3"
# deep voice
__sayfn="spd-say -i $VOLUME -r -10 -p -100 -t male3"
function _sayfn {
$__sayfn "$@" 2>/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
$__sayfn "$@"
fi
}
if [ $# -eq 0 ] || [ "$1" == "--help" ]
then
_sayfn "Directive required."
echo "Usage: please [-i volume] [-s|--serious] [-f|--finish] <command...>"
echo " please [-i volume] --say text"
echo " -i: volume in range -100 to +100"
echo " --serious, -s: no silliness. Serious only. (Just kidding.)"
echo " --finish, -f: do not announce start"
exit -2
fi
# threading issue
sleep 0.001
if [ $# -ge 2 ]
then
if [ $1 == "--say" ]
then
# _sayfn the given line
shift 1
_sayfn "$@"
exit 0
fi
if [ $1 == "--serious" ] || [ $1 == "-s" ]
then
shift 1
SERIOUS=0
fi
if [ $1 == "--finish" ] || [ $1 == "-f" ]
then
shift 1
FINISH_ONLY=1
fi
fi
i=$(shuf -n1 -e "." "!") # inflection on voice
if [ "$FINISH_ONLY" -eq 0 ]
then
if [ "$SERIOUS" -eq 0 ]
then
# startup lines (randomized for character)
_sayfn -r -5 -x ".<break time=\"60ms\"/>$(shuf -n1 -e \
'Proceeding As Directed...' \
'By your command...' \
'By your command...' \
'By the power ov greyskaall!' \
'By your command,line...' \
'As you wish...' \
'Stand by.' \
'Engaged...' \
'Initializing...' \
'Activating' \
'At once!' \
"Post Haste$i" \
'it shall be done immediately' \
'Very well.' \
'It shall be so.' \
"righty-o$i" \
"Affirmative$i" \
"Acknowledged$i" \
"Confirmed$i" \
)"
else
_sayfn -r -5 -x ".<break time=\"60ms\"/>Engaged..."
fi
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
_sayfn "Speech engine failure."
echo "Failed to run speech engine. Cancelling task."
exit -3
fi
fi
if ! command -v "$1" > /dev/null
then
# _sayfn a little faster because this exits fast.
_sayfn -r +10 "Unable to comply? invalid command."
>&2 echo "$1: command not found."
exit -4
fi
eval " $@"
result=$?
i=$(shuf -n1 -e "," "!" "?") # inflection on voice
transition=$(shuf -n1 -e "; error" ", with error" "; status")
taskname=$(shuf -n1 -e "task" "task" "command" "objective" "mission" "procedure" "routine")
errtext=$(shuf -n1 -e "Task_failed" "Task_failed" "Task_resulted_in_failure" "Procedure_terminated_in_an_error" "An_error_has_occurred" "Auxilliary_system_failure" "system_failure")
consolation=$(shuf -n1 -e "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "Attention required." "Attention is required!" "Perhaps It was inevitable." "It may or may not be cause for alarm." "Perhaps Machines too, are fallible." "Apologies" "Hopefully nobody else was watching" "shazbot" "maybe next time." "Nobody could have predicted this outcome." "I'm very sorry." "how unfortunate." "remember: don't panic" "oh dear" "Nothing could have been done to prevent this" "Remember: No disasters are fully preventable" "perhaps the only winning move is not to play" "Remember: Failure is our teacher, not our undertaker." "Remember: If at first you don't succeed... try again." "Remember: If at first you don't succeed... try... try again." "But your friends still love you." "Remember: the machine is not your enemy." "Command?" "Awaiting further instructions." "Remember: Logic is the beginning of wisdom... not the end of it." "Remember: When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." "Keep at it. Victory is within reach." "Remember: The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." "Now, while this could have gone better, it could also have gone much worse." "Remember: we do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it was going to be easy." "Don't give up." "It has now been... -- zero... -- days, since the last serious failure." "Remember: instead of documenting the problem, you can fix it." "Remember: Artificial intelligence is no match for artificial stupidity." "Standing by," "Remember: with every failure, we get closer to success." "We live in a society." "sometimes failure is not an option; it's a necessity." "Keep at it." "Remember: mistakes are just the first step on the road to failure... <break time=\"250ms\"/> I mean success." "Don't leave. The drones need you... <break time=\"350ms\"/> They look up to you." "Try again, for great justice." "fantastic" "brilliant" "did you really think that would work?")
if [ $SERIOUS -eq 0 ]
then
# perhaps some silliness.
if [ $result -eq 0 ]
then
_sayfn --wait "$(shuf -n1 -e \
"$taskname complete. All systems nominal" \
"$taskname completed successfully." \
"$taskname resulted in success." \
"$taskname yielded a successful result." \
"$taskname concluded successfully." \
"$taskname completed as instructed." \
"Jobs done." \
)" &
else
if [ $result -eq 1 ]
then
_sayfn -x --wait "$(shuf -n1 -e \
"Alert$i Primary system failure. Attention is required." \
"Alert$i System failure$i Attention required! $consolation" \
"Alert$i $taskname resulted in failure! <break time=\"150ms\"/> $consolation" \
"Alert$i $taskname was not completed as intended; $consolation" \
"Alert$i An error has occurred! <break time=\"220ms\"/> $consolation" \
)" &
else
_sayfn --wait -x "Alert$i $errtext$transition code $result! <break time=\"350ms\"/> $consolation" &
fi
fi
else
# no silliness here.
if [ $result -eq 0 ]
then
_sayfn --wait "Command complete."
else
if [ $result -eq 1 ]
then
_sayfn -x --wait "Alert. Command failed; error code $result!"
fi
fi
fi
exit $result
You can also use something like notifyd to generate a pop up for visual feedback 😀 I can't remember the exact command right now though. Differs per distro or desktop environment, obviously.
Also, printf '\a' will output an alert bell character which should make the terminal beep/blink and be highlighted for attention by your wm/compositor if it's unfocused.
I have that aliased to a to get notified whenever a long running command finishes just by adding ;a at the end.
I usually set up an alias or script to update everything on my system. For example, on Ubuntu, I would do this: alias sysup='snap refresh && apt update && apt upgrade'
And on Arch, I do this: alias sysup ='flatpak update && paru'
Funny enough you'd need to use sudo to run this on Ubuntu, but not in the Arch example because paru being neat
Because: 1. If you install any new software that needs updating, you don't need to update your alias. 2. If any software makes changes that break your alias, (theoretically) the bit of software should be able to fix it quickly, without you needing to pay any attention to it. 3. The bit of software can more easily do advanced things than the simple alias. For example, I added functionality to update JetBrains Toolbox and IDE's installed with it. A simple alias could not do this, because Toolbox does not have a simple update command, however I made it work by enabling automatic updates temporarily, and then inspecting the log for updates. Now the end-user doesn't have to think about this at all. Other things that could be done but are not implemented yet include parallelization, and listing updated components in a neat summary (PR linked).
Of course if you're a minimalist, then you probably don't have that much stuff that needs upgrading in the first place; for me personally I have deb-get, uv, cargo, and flatpak, to name a few; the alias was getting longer and longer until I was able to remove it completely by switching to Topgrade.
What does this PR do
Closes #943 (I am planning to open a tracking issue for implementing this for all steps where it is possible if this is merged.)
Adds the framework for listing updated compone...
alias nmtui="NEWT_COLORS='root=black,black;window=black,black;border=white,black;listbox=white,black;label=blue,black;checkbox=red,black;title=green,black;button=white,red;actsellistbox=white,red;actlistbox=white,gray;compactbutton=white,gray;actcheckbox=white,blue;entry=lightgray,black;textbox=blue,black' nmtui"
Hey OP, consider using $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR instead of /tmp. It's now the more proper place for these kinds of things to avoid permission issues, although I'm sure you're on a single user system like most people. I have clipboard actions set to download with yt-dlp 😀
My favorite aliases are:
alias dff='findmnt -D -t nosquashfs,notmpfs,nodevtmpfs,nofuse.portal,nocifs,nofuse.kio-fuse'
Good idea! I'll steal that but I would rather be able to give a directory path as parameter (and show in colors, and don't pause if less than 1 page of content, and support the scrolwheel), also piping ls forces it to be 1 single column so might as well show more details, personally I'm gonna use this instead:
lt() { ls -t --color=always -Fgoh "$@" | less -RF --mouse; }
With how many new Linux users we get recently, I don't like this joke at all without a disclaimer. Yes yes, its your own fault if you execute commands without knowing what it does. But that should not punish someone by deleting every important personal file on the system.
In case any reader don't know, rm is a command to delete files and with the option rm -r everything recursively will be searched and deleted on the filesystem. Option -f (here bundled together as -rf) will never prompt for any non existing file. The / here means start from the root directory of you system, which in combination with the recursive option will search down everything, home folder included, and find every file. Normally this is protected todo, but the extra option --no-preserve-root makes sure this command is run with the root / path.
Haha I know its funny. Until someone loses data. Jokes like these are harmful in my opinion.
@Haleakalacrater @TriptychTwinsRidesAgainHeb has shears and is not afraid to use them, they do strange things with potatoes, they poison cake, they witch you when you sleep etc etc.
"This default position is so naked in its hypocrisy, so ignorant and parochial in its worldview, so clear in its disregard for human life, that it represents a colossal erosion of sophistication in political discourse, and a new low in contempt for the public. Support for Israel can only be defended by facile, logic-defying references to its right to defend itself even when it is the aggressor, and Iran’s “threat to the free world”."
The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
Η φωτιά στη Χίο δεν έχει πιαστεί. Νέο μέτωπο και στα βόρεια του νησιού. Προσπαθούν να αποτρέψουν να περάσει τον Άγιο Γιώργη Συκούση, διότι μετά θα κάνει όλη η νότια Χίος
"Because your fight has not been with flesh and blood, but with Principalities and The Rulers and The Powers of this dark world and with wicked spirits which are under Heaven." Ephesians 6:12
At least 202 Palestinians were killed and 1,037 others were injured in the Gaza Strip over the last 48 hours as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocide in the region, according to medical sources.
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 06/23/25: Trump Suggests He Wants Iran Regime Change, Iran May Close Strait of Hormuz, and More youtube.com/watch?v=YJkoz2Nqpg…
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Ironically, Iran is a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Israel shuns. As shown by The Fall of Israel (2025), the US/Israeli path to the carnage across the Middle East was paved almost 60 years ago.
Twenty years ago, one day in June 2005, I talked with an Iranian man who was selling underwear at the Tehran Grand Bazaar. People all over the world want peace, he said, but governments won’t let them have it.
The thing to always remember is that this stuff doesn't even rise to the level of being scientifically wrong. There are no "different races" to start with that potentially ⋅could⋅ have systematic cognitive differences, because it's simply not possible to give a robust biological definition of human "races” to start with, and boy, have the racists tried to find one. These statements are gibberish in the narrowest sense of the word. norden.social/@wackJackle/1147…
And the social definitions of race are such a jumble in terms of genetic background - an Icelander and an Italian both considered "white," a Namibian and a Nigerian both considered "black" - that any actual biological correlations would be canceled out, and the results dominated instead by "nurture" effects: how society treats people based on race; i.e., you're measuring racism, not race.
Okay, they were already teaching that all that was a load of crap in my public high school in the 1970s. This guy really does want to just bring back that never-existent early/mid-20th-century white supremacist utopia.
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. U.S. messaging to Iran, courtesy of President Trump, is quite simple: We slugged you (with our bombing attacks on three nuclear sites in your country), and if you don’t like it, we’ll slug yo…
While global diplomats were still exchanging draft terms to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran, the United States launched airstrikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure.
*Wokismus, Tabus und das Ende der Vernunft*In diesem Gespräch analysieren Esther Bockwyt und Raphael Bonelli die psychologischen Hintergründe des Wokismus: D...
Slowly but surely everyone is now exposing the ridiculous lies of the orange clown's "successful mission".
How hard it is to understand that being a lying clown is far worse than being just a clown.
#WashingtonPost | In the two days before #US strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, satellite images revealed "unusual truck and vehicle activity" at #Iran's #Fordow enrichment facility, according to a senior Maxar analyst.
Eine Studie ließ Studenten vermeintlich „antirassistische“ Aufsätze lesen – danach sahen die Probanden Rassismus, wo nach objektiven Kriterien keiner war. Die Studie soll so aufzeigen, dass Diversitätsprogramme vor allem mehr Vorurteile verursachen.
Wir sind jetzt in #Israel bei einer neuen Deutung des 7.10.2023 angekommen:
7.10.23? Der hat Israel gerettet, sonst hätten wir den Iran nicht bombardieren können.
So ein Vertrauter von Netanyahu heute.
»💥Aryeh Dery, ostensibly a man of faith and one of the people closest to Netanyahu, just said "The massacre of October 7th saved the people of Israel." 1200 citizens killed. Almost 1000 soldiers killed. Some 50,000 Gazans killed. 50 hostages still held.« (Noga Tarnopolsky)
By Arnold August and Luis Toledo Sande Despite the US blockade, Cuba, like many other countries worldwide, has a high level of mobile telephone users. In a population of nearly 11 million (this pop…
But Gaza has changed us, and I found myself in a frenzy of uninterrupted speaking since the genocide began. In November 2023, I found myself mentioning my father for the very first time in a political writing. Perhaps because, after a month of carpet bombing in Gaza, I finally admitted what I had refused to admit until then—that we might be living (in the Palestinian lexicon, “reliving”)
a horrendous moment, worse than the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba in 1948, that my father lived.
This, in addition to the fact that when we are invited to speak, we often need special permission to narrate, to use Edward Said’s words. (Said 1984). And when such permission is granted, after we have paid a tormenting and excruciating price- through considerable destruction both in actual and potential lives—the permission is limited to what is
acceptable, in tone, and does not upset the audience. These directions vary according to context, geography, and language. I have often felt the need to perform a certain identity of Palestinianism, for better or for worse, which I was not always successful in inhabiting through my political practice.
Following the judicial-political notion of “the right to have rights,” which Hannah Arendt offers us, I want to offer an understanding of the German hegemonic public discourse around Palestine
You can’t understand the Ukraine War unless you understand the neocon poster-child which was the Yugoslav Wars. The way the US-NATO establishment managed not...
London (Quds News Network)- Israel’s continued prevention of international journalists from entering Gaza appears to be motivated less by concerns for their safety and more by a desire to avoid proper
🪷 23 June is #NationalPinkDay! This video shows how the pink lotus became associated with #Antinous: youtu.be/E-ztLsDitlU Pink waterlilies have always adorned his altars/statues. It is said they sprouted from blood of a lion slain in Egypt by #Antinoos & #Hadrian. #PinkDay 🪷
When Emperor Hadrian visited Alexandria, the poet Pancrates presented him with a beautiful lotus flower. Awestruck by the magnificent rosy-red petals, Hadri...
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