Infant deaths "disappeared" in Japan just by raising age to 2 to vaccinate

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Tiny cocktails


I am all in favor of this. There are beer flights at so many restaurants but tiny strong & delicious cocktails with small foods would be such a great starter to a meal. Something bitter but not enough to get drunk and not be able to enjoy the food.

When I am working up a recipe, often I will invite people over and make 4 different versions but then split each drink into 4 little dixie cups so that each of us have only one drink's worth of alcohol. That doesn't fix the drink getting too warm problem but does let us test them clear headed.

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Using downsized recipes is pretty standard for me when I'm drinking at home. For a lot of cocktails, half-size or third-size is just fine, especially when you start experimenting with ingredients and ratios. And I have something of an issue with actually committing to a full-size drink (i.e. I often get bored of it halfway through).

However, one of the biggest barriers to entry is the need for smaller glassware, which, while not impossible to source, is limited in its variety. “Where I see a lot of room for improvement is tiny rocks and tiny Highball glasses,” Zielinski says, noting that miniature coupes or diminutive Martini glasses are more readily available.


This is definitely an issue. I've been using stemmed liqueur glasses for small Martini-style cocktails, but even in somewhat smaller rocks glasses a half-sized Old Fashioned-style drink just looks lost.

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America is now the most unequal society in the developed world. The billionaires are the richest, and poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth.

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#usa #uspol

BREAKING NEWS…I was shocked to hear that the State of Israel, which has just had one of its Greatest Moments in History, and is strongly led by Bibi Netanyahu, is continuing its ridiculous Witch Hunt against their Great War Time Prime Minister! Bibi and I just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the incredible Holy Land. Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment, and chaos! Bibi Netanyahu was a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel, and the result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World, and it was going to happen, SOON! We were fighting, literally, for the Survival of Israel, and there is nobody in Israel’s History that fought harder or more competently than Bibi Netanyahu. Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to Court on Monday for the continuation of this long running, (He has been going through this “Horror Show” since May of 2020 – Unheard of! This is the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister has ever been on trial.), politically motivated case, “concerning cigars, a Bugs Bunny doll, and numerous other unfair charges” in order to do him great harm. Such a WITCH HUNT, for a man who has given so much, is unthinkable to me. He deserves much better than this, and so does the State of Israel. Bibi Netanyahu’s trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State. Perhaps there is no one that I know who could have worked in better harmony with the President of the United States, ME, than Bibi Netanyahu. It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu. THIS TRAVESTY OF “JUSTICE” CAN NOT BE ALLOWED!

Venezuela’s Certified Oil Reserves Increase By 30% orinocotribune.com/venezuelas-…

"IntelBroker's" real identity is Kai West, a British national, according to court filings now revealed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York today.

U.S. is seeking his extradition from France, where he was arrested on February 5 and detained.

USAO press release: justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/seria…

Kai West Four-Count Indictment: justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/14…

Kai West Complaint: justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/14…

#databreach #intelbroker #arrest #indictment

Here's a pic of him from his 2023 license (from court filing):

The Iran crisis has shown yet again how Israel dominates U.S. politics. It also made clear that Zionism is an ideology based on nothing but brutal violence. The urgent task before American Jews is to dissociate themselves from this rogue state.

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#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

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Mod managers for Linux?


I've finally started having some free time lately and have been working through my Steam library, most of which is Windows games I'm playing with Proton.

I wanted to install some mods, and wanted a mod manager for this. Nexus Mods has Vortex, which is not available for Linux. In any case, running Windows games on Linux through Proton on Steam is fairly specific; the game files will be at certain locations on a Linux filesystem, not at the same locations as they would be on a Windows filesystem. So I think I would need software that has specifically been designed for this use-case (Windows games from Steam running on Proton).

Are there any such mod managers out there? What do other people do when playing games on Linux? I can't be the only person who wants to play video games with mods.

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github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinke… for when you need MO2 or Nexus (that isn't Stardew). Keep in mind this will install a new instance of the app for each game you use it with (in its proton prefix folder).

github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMod… is the current version of the new Nexus Mod Manager App, which has linux support. Currently it only has game support for Stardew Valley.

As many others have said, go with PrismLauncher for Minecraft. Modrinth's launcher works fine too, but doesn't have curseforge support.

Every month, we do this cool thing on QueerSciFi.com to support indie writers. We share 4 of their books with our readers for free, and then add those readers (only with permission) to the author lists. It's a great way to get some new reads, "meet" a few up and coming authors, and forge new connections. 😀

This month's books are below. Grab 'em here (we send them out around the 3rd of next month):

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#queerscifi #gayscifi #queerfantasy #gayfantasy #giveaway #freebooks

A closeted Zionist (Mamdani) won the primary, Nazi segment of Jewish community seems to be copying quite well — by imagining things that are not there.

If someone who is for actual Decolonization won primary (unlike Mamdani who has bent over backwards for segments of Jewish Nazism to get Jewish vote), they might call them Hitlerᴴᶦᵗˡᵉʳ as Nazis need to be hyperbolic to express how oppressed they fell while enabling non-stop genocide.

@palestine @lebanon @iran @israel @anarchy @anarchism

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Jewish Nazi hyperbole is so transparent that they say Democrats i.e Mostly NazLibs & lil bit of Shitlibs—not even Left,leave alone Far-Left—are bigoted against Jews&these Naz-&Shitlibs are nothing more than Nazis of 1930s.

No wonder, nobody takes them seriously.

Self-delegitimization is what we are witnessing from Jewish community at large (thats filled with Jewish Nazis). Many Jews who oppose Jewish-Nazism are still living in denial.

@palestine @lebanon @iran @israel @anarchy @anarchism

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Handful of of Jews who are for actual decolonization (not only oppose Jewish Nazism, but are for decolonisation) are not taken seriously within their broader Jewish community.

Ofcourse, this last segment has no organised & sizable Jewish groups like other Jewish groups.

So, barring these handful who see clearly where their community is & has been at, most of Jewish community ranges from active denial to full embrace of Nazism.

@palestine @lebanon @iran @israel @anarchy @anarchism

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Iranian Victory - with Mohammad Marandi


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#MohammadMarandi #Iran #SabbySabs

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« On Sunday, June 1, the Israeli military destroyed the Noura Al-Kaabi Dialysis Center, the only one in North #Gaza, which served more than forty patients a week. For these patients my research has become largely irrelevant [...] Many of them will die slowly, each one becoming another number in the growing butcher’s bill of the #GazaGenocide. »

Gaza: The War on Dialysis

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#WarOnGaza #Palestine @palestine @israel

About 19,000 Children in Gaza Admitted for Acute Malnutrition in 2025: UN #Palestine qudsnen.co/about-19000-childre…

I wrote a #DeltaChat blog post for technical users who are skeptical about how it works

Everything You Think You Know About DeltaChat Is Wrong

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@delta

A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up

Link: quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyram…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Shifting gears on Iran – U.S. war continues iacenter.org/2025/06/25/shifti…
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if you have the room for me to stay I'll probably be there from the 20th to 25th. I personally don't mind meeting up with a bunch of other fedi users. I'm just not sure if they would be cool with my other identity or if its best they just know me as vitalis.

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the structure and evolution of our own spiral, which is much harder to do since Earth is embedded inside the Milky Way. The galaxy […]
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!

Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on July 1:

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And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:

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And thank you for coming all the way to NZ - so few ever do, on account of it being so far away from the rest of the world that it is practically on the moon.

The bit that echoed the longest was the Corpus callosum severance story, where the spoken word is the spark that jumped the gap.

The analogue hole between McGilchristian hemispheres... and I'm prone to going a bit Milton/Blake on the whole thing so am tempted to see the gap between the hemispheres as being a literal physical instantiation of The War in Heaven - and "in the beginning was the word" has a certain ring to it.

So thanks for that 😀

Secretary of Defense (War!) Pete Hegseth, together with Military Representatives, will be holding a Major News Conference tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. EST at The Pentagon, in order to fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots. These Patriots were very upset! After 36 hours of dangerously flying through Enemy Territory, they landed, they knew the Success was LEGENDARY, and then, two days later, they started reading Fake News by CNN and The Failing New York Times. They felt terribly! Fortunately for them and, as usual, solely for the purpose of demeaning PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, the Fake News (Times and CNN) lied and totally misrepresented the Facts, none of which they had (because it was too soon, there were no Facts out there yet!). The News Conference will prove both interesting and irrefutable. Enjoy!




A British guide to...

Terrorism:
- picking up a flag
- putting paint on a war plane

Not terrorism:
- executing 200 journalists
- murdering 30,000 kids
- bombing 37 hospitals
- allowing babies decompose in ICU beds
- starving 2million people
- shoot people queuing for flour


--- Daniel Lambert, on x/twitter, regarding Palestine Action

#PalestineAction #framing #narrative #NarrativeFraming #terrorism


Ayer el parlamento iraní aprobó la retirada de #Irán de la #OIEA y la expulsión de todos sus inspectores y trabajadores del país.
Existen claros y repetidos indicios de la colaboración entre la organización y el estado judío, cuya documentación publicamos anteriormente, con respecto a la ubicación no solo de los depósitos de uranio sino también de los ingenieros nucleares, sus nombres y sus domicilios. Se da el caso que #Israel no es miembro de la OIEA, por lo cual está libre de sus inspecciones.