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On Tuesday 17th June 2025 MSPs votit unanimously tae pass the Scottish Languages Bill intae law.
This'll be the first time oor language is recognised in Scots law!
It's the haurd wark o a guid wheen o fowk, wi the backin o a hunner year o activism wi thoosans involved, an millions o Scots speakers, fae the 2,444,659 thit reportit Scots skills in the 2022 Scotland's Census gaun back throu aw thae speikers ower the past near millenium.
Wi this bill gaun intae law, A'm gled tae say thit A've knocked ma pan in tae see it throu. A'm prood thit A'm wan o a haunfae thit's been wi it fae inception, throu public consultation, draftin, introduction, giein ma evidence at committee stage, amendments an debates, tae it gettin votit intae law.
A wis at ivry meetin an gaitherin giein ma best, A respondit fully an thochtfully tae aw written maitters, an spake wi hunners aw up an doon the country fae the heich heid yins ...
Guid oan yersels fur gittin that through. A big well done tae aw concernt.
But ah wid imagine ther wull still be thaim thit ster at ye as if ye've goat horns when ye open yer mooth an spout oot Weegie 🤔😄
Wan ae the granweans sterts ther Scots law oor in Glesga this year, ah wull lit ye know how much ae the Mither tongue actually gits yased in Scots law wance ah git ther feedback.
tae the news & culture fowk, tae public bodies, organisations, an oniebody thit juist wantit a blether aboot it. An A'v been in an oot thon pairliament mair than some o the jannies.
A'm no claimin it ma ain, here, it's aw oors!
That said, A ken masel, fir ma ain satisfaction, thit A fair pit some shift in fir tae see thit yeese got it, as best thit wis athin ma pooer. 🫡🫡🫡
I must of had something in my afterlife ..as I actually understood much of what was written 🤔 and am nowhere near to having been around anyone of that heritage known to me
#TrumpVirus NYC seems much quieter/emptier/devoid of tourists than usual. I'm hearing that Las Vegas is being badly impacted by its large loss of Canadians. Etc.
Canadians are selling their properties in Florida, not to mention tourism is down there. International tourism remains below pre-pandemic levels, with a notable decline in Canadian visitors.
Triple-bad time for homeowners, in the SW still recovering from two bulls-eye hurricanes. Insurance is high, labor is scarce, and as you say @Katherine Bond - a lot of Canadians own homes &/or vacation homes in SW FL. And as they sell, few buyers are liking the scene, so down go values, and services.
I was recently at two state parks in FL, usually full to the gills, but neither big park seemed to have any day tourists, Empty roads & paths! But packed with US'ians in huge motor homes. From Minnesota, GA, TX ... Meanwhile, homeowners who think it's time to sell and leave 'Paradise' are not finding buyers. The wealthy may not care, mansions are still being built, a short private jet-ride from Mar-a-lago....
The autistic manchild at work has started using the ladies bathroom. It's disturbing the girls terribly because he doesn't dress like a girl and talks about sports all the time. They asked if we could stop him going in there, but HR says we have to let him do it. I'm going to make the bathroom single occupancy, so only one person can be in there at a time, but really, I just want to beat his ass and throw him in the dumpster. He's trying to get a legal case, I think.
Doğu Kürdistanlı bu anne oğlunun tutulduğu hapishanenin önünde, “Ey insanlık oğlumu asacaklar, ne olur yardım edin,” diye yalvar yakar feryat etti, ama dünya duymadı onu, sırça köşklerine kapanan siyasi partiler ve kurumlar o çığlığa kulaklarını kapattılar. Ve vahşi İran molla rejimi feryat figan yardım isteyen annenin oğlu Hamid’ i idam etti. Bir defa daha söyleyeyim: Ateş düştüğü yeri yakıyor. Ne zaman ki ateş düştüğü yeri değil hepimizi yakarsa, ancak o zaman insan oluruz, ancak o zaman gerçek bir millet oluruz. İdam edilen Hamid’i, Hamid’leri kendi çocuğumuz, kardeşimiz gibi hissettiğimiz bir millet yaratmak gerekiyor. Gerisi boş laf.
yea so the thing about iran's underground nuke facilities, is that if they were really "totally obliterated" as in, the blast wave went all the way down to penetrate the actual structure, there would probably be video of the blast wave coming out of the entrances. they shot the bombs down the ventilation shafts so you'd expect it to blow the entrances out.
i figure if such video existed they would have shown it. instead we just see holes punched in the ground near the vent shafts.
still not convinced. but eh whatever it was a good show and everyone backed down. better than a ground assault
it's more about feeling good (satifying the bloodlust of the israel 1st neocons) than actually accomplishing anything, and i would say this was probably counter productive and drives iran even further toward producing nuclear bombs now. they'll definitely have a sense of urgency now if they didn't before
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« le système scolaire, tel qu’il est organisé aujourd’hui, se concentre sur 2 types d’intelligence uniquement : l’intelligence verbo-linguistique (celles des mots) et l’intelligence logico- mathématique (celle des chiffres). Tout élève dont l’intelligence se manifeste au travers d’autres catégories se retrouve donc confronté à un sentiment d’échec. »
N'importe quoi. Si tu as été enseignant ne serait-ce qu'un an tu as été confronté à l'entièreté des personnes, de leurs connaissances et de leurs manques. Et c'est pas les chiffres qui t'ont donné la clé de leurs capacités et de leur manque. Ca c'est de la rationalité à deux balles.
« il existe en réalité 9 types d’intelligence, tels que répertoriés par le psychologue américain Howard Gardner. Celui-ci définit en effet l’intelligence comme « notre capacité à résoudre les divers problèmes de la vie quotidienne ». Nous possédons tous plusieurs de ces intelligences, dont 3 dominantes. »
UN inability and unwillingness to prevent genocide bordering criminal. The Gen Secretary should be tried for war crimes against humanity for his reluctance to intervene
@fasnix Thank you, Florian. It was the right thing to do but it doesn’t make it easier. We didn’t want him to suffer or to be afraid. He was at home, calm, not in any pain, and in our arms. I miss his little puppy face though.
@fasnix May you have many happy years. You’ll know when it’s time if that’s how it goes. We did and I’m glad we didn’t selfishly hold on any longer. It wouldn’t have been fair to him. But it is hard. *hugs*
I'm so sorry for your loss. He had a very happy live with you. Unfortunately, their lives are too short... If I may, an hug 🫂 from me and Estrela 🐶 for you and Laura.
what an absolutely beautiful boy. I'm so sorry. My lad is getting on now, and I'm dreading the day when I have to make the hard decision. Tons of love. ♥️♥️♥️
aah I have early signs of arthritis myself in my right hand from a boxer’s fracture when I was an amateur fighter. I’m not too familiar with the shinai but as I understand it the recommended hand protection is called a “kote” but I think any lobster mitten style glove would work.
I don’t recommend using any 5 finger style gloves but if it comes down to affordability its better than nothing. Trust me though, spending $100+ on hand protection is worth the investment to protect your hands if you want to spar with any amount of force.
Cette tribune signée par six économistes, à l'initiative de « L'Engagement », parti politique fondé par Arnaud Montebourg, plaide en faveur d’un modèle économique adapté au contexte géopolitique actuel, capable de s’opposer frontalement au néolibéral…
l’avènement dans l’Union européenne d’une économie eurokeynésienne fondée principalement sur la demande effective plutôt que sur l’offre, la mise en œuvre de relances concertées par l’investissement et une approche assouplie des règles budgétaires.
Mais ça va à l opposé de ton souhait de détruire l'UE.
MSNBC Legal Analyst Melissa Murray/Image: MSNBC video screenshot. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down several decisions affirming President Trump’s agenda, leaving MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace trapt doom spiraling.
No, mainly because they do not care. Like a religion, their philosophy is based around moral right not outcomes in reality. Understanding is irrelevant.
« La discrétion cultive la détermination. Si certaines personnes peuvent vous aider à développer votre mental, comme un coach ou un proche, n’oubliez jamais qu’à trop parler de vos objectifs et de vos projets, vous vous exposez au risque de recevoir des remarques négatives et décourageantes. Pire, votre cerveau pourrait imaginer que vous avez déjà réussi, puisque vous discourez comme si c’était fait ! Or un cerveau qui pense que le plus gros du travail est derrière lui peut freiner la détermination. »
« Notre entourage peut s’avérer aussi aidant que freinant. Certaines personnes, parce qu’elles s’inquiètent pour nous ou se réfèrent à leurs expériences personnelles, nous découragent. D’autres, au contraire, alimentent notre mental. Elles y croient pour nous, et, en arborant une mentalité de « gagnant », elles nous transmettent une grande énergie. On peut s’appuyer sur ces personnes. »
if it's an aluminum ladder, I would think it would be melting into the puddle as well. and it would soon break the connection (if it hadn't tripped the breaker already).
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The losers in all this unseemly business are the European public. They are being screwed by U.S.-led militarism and European elites who are pimping their…
I think it's excellent that we have a new bogeyman to take over from Lennart Poettering, Hans Reiser (before the murder) and everyone that came before them. To be honest, the Pottering thing was getting old.
Plus ça change.
Is there an audition process or do people just make themselves available via secret Santa or that game when your role is given to you (and everyone else) in an envelope at a party?
The world sadly needs some of the stuff only antisocial nutters can provide. If the said nutter's gift to the world is good enough, the drama and discord that the nutter bequeaths will be forgotten and they will be given a free pass.
I highly disagree with the attitude of this comment (after all Linus allowed BCacheFS in and now complains about it) but necessary evil in itself is a valid thing for most people unfortunately.
Πανευρωπαϊκό πρωτάθλημα στίβου με καύσωνα στη Μαδρίτη και οι βόρειοι δεν μπορούν να πάρουν τα πόδια τούς.
Ο Τεντογλου ως γνήσιο τέκνο του καλοκαιριού κάνει εύκολα ένα 8.46 στη δεύτερη προσπάθεια με πάτημα 14.5 πόντους πίσω από την βαλβίδα. Ρεκόρ αγώνων και καλύτερη επίδοση της χρονιάς μέχρι τώρα.
look at these numbers from EuroMed Monitor and tell me with a straight face that this was to target hamas only. Its ridiculous, they destroyed 266 schools. Half the houses in Gaza city are gone. This is what genocide looks like, if we let #ApartheidIsrael continue, they will destroy a People with the world watching and the US cheering it on euromedmonitor.org/en there is another story on the site abt how israel steals dead bodies just to torture families, holding them for years #freepalestine
it is a routine practice of #ApartheidIsrael to hold dead bodies after they kill ppl in prisons to serve out their sentence even after death. sometimes they hold them just to torture the family, this is all upheld under 'law' in israels highest courts euromedmonitor.org/en #freepalestine
« Votre confiance en vous ne regarde que vous. C’est votre moteur interne. Dites-vous que vous avez le droit de croire en vous et de vous estimer ! Vous n’allez pas tomber dans la vanité, mais simplement être plus à l’aise dans vos projets et votre quotidien, et dégager une belle énergie. N’oubliez pas qu’avoir confiance en soi, c’est se sentir capable de certaines choses. Cela ne signifie pas qu’on le crie sur tous les toits avec prétention. »
Annalena Baerbock Elected UN General Assembly President Amid Outcry Over Support for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza qudsnen.co/annalena-baerbock-e…
Former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber sharply criticized Baerbock’s election. He wrote: “The United Nations was born in opposition to German war criminals. Today, it has elected a German war criminal to oversee its accelerating decline. Eighty years later, the Reich takes its revenge with Annalena Baerbock as UNGA President, in the midst of a genocide that she has enthusiastically abetted.”
👏 👏 👏 👏 #Germany. You have send the right person to the right position to make the world an abattoir. Ps. You asked for jungle, you'll have a jungle.
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The UN General Assembly’s new President is a German politician who justified the Gaza genocide as “self defense”
Annalena Baerbock spread debunked Oct 7 atrocity propaganda & claimed that civilian areas in war…
I haven't had a proper game console since the PS3.
I would like to get one, mostly to play with my family (wife, 7yo kid). I had been waiting for the Switch 2 for a while now (I really resisted the urge to get a Switch OLED back when it was released...).
On the plus side:
it's really geared towards family/party gaming
it's Nintendo, so you get the whole usual games (Mario Kart, Zelda, etc.)
like most consoles, it's plug and play and can be enjoyed in the living room (I kind of gave up trying to set up a proper gaming experience with my Linux PCs, given that I don't have the hardware for it)
On the minus side:
the battery life is not great to say the least (2.5 hours takes me back of the Game Gear in early 90s!)
the screen seems to be pretty bad too (at least it's a step back from the OLED one of the Switch)
the joycons are still not using a Hall effect sensor, meaning they might still be prone to drifting
most of the games will not be sold as proper cartridges but as download codes
the whole thing (console, additional gamepads, games) is quite pricey
it's Nintendo, famous for their anti-everything (anti-homebrew, anti-emulation, anti-piracy)
Should I still go with it, or is there a better option? (I hope the better option is not to wait 4 more years for Nintendo to release a newer Switch 2 that would fix the shitty hardware).
I personally don't recommend anyone get the Switch 2. The new price points are frankly ridiculous, and I'd hate to see that shit get justified by sales.
Personally, I'd recommend looking into handheld PCs. I haven't looked into them much myself due to lack of money, but they're generally much more worth the cost from what I've heard.
All that said, I missed that you were looking for something to play with your 7 year old child. Switch might be better, but any handheld would be... notably destructible, so that's a factor to keep in mind.
« La confiance permet de se jeter à l’eau, de rassembler ses forces et de se penser capable. Mais elle n’abolit pas l’appréhension, de la même façon qu’elle ne garantit pas un résultat parfait. Un bon résultat exige de l’entraînement. »
Yeah, Mastodon's Unlisted is such a misnomer. My biggest gripe with it is that it mainly means "unsearchable".
And you can't really change that on a server, since that would mean that people who did mean "unsearchable" when they chose "unlisted", suddenly find their posts showing up in searches without their consent...
Friendica meanwhile shows threads as threads, but without the collapsing which would be very useful.
That's an urban legend, alas. While that *would* be a great way to make "unlisted" work, that's absolutely, positively, 100% *not* how "unlisted" works.
More here, including how to manage threads in your timeline:
« Je définis la confiance en soi comme le fait de se sentir capable, bien dans sa peau et prêt à essayer de nouvelles choses tout en acceptant qu’il est normal de faire des erreurs.Une personne qui a confiance en elle est une personne qui se sait capable. Le simple fait de se dire que l’on est capable pousse à agir. »
love to see bob vylan gaining much-merited attention. their show in glasgow last october was one of the most spine-tingling i've ever witnessed. may they long have the courage of their convictions. #bobVylan #palestine #freePalestine #music #musique
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Le 14 octobre 2024, la Commission des affaires économiques a auditionné de M. Philippe Mauguin, candidat proposé par le Président de la République aux fonctions de président-directeur général de l'Institut national de recherche sur l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Inrae) Lors de cette audition, le senateur Duplomb a tenu des propos inquiétants envers une chercheuse de l'INRAE, toxicologue spécialiste des effets des pesticides sur la santé #StopLoiDumplomb senat.fr/compte-rendu-commissi…
🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump says the administration will now run FULL STEAM AHEAD to fully ban birthright citizenship following the SCOTUS ruling
"That was meant for the babies of slaves, not meant for people trying to SCAM the system and come into the country on vacation." 🔥
"Hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship and it wasn't meant for that reason. It was meant for babies of SLAVES." x.com/nicksortor/status/193862…
#Kneecap news: according to the band themselves, they've been told that their set will not be streamed live but will be available on demand (presumably with some politically inappropriate words cut out) this evening.
I don't know what time this evening, and finding recorded sets on the iplayer during the festival is a challenge at the best of times.
But everyone, do please watch it when you can. I know that most of the people posting about Kneecap here will have no interest in enjoying the actual music, it's just a political point to make.
However, the only reason their political stances have made any headlines at all is because they're popular. And the only reason they're popular is that they are very good at what they do. It would be a great shame if everyone just focused on using them as a political football without paying attention to the tremendously entertaining music that Kneecap make.
Anyway, in about a quarter of an hour, BBC will be streaming Bob Vylan from the West Holts stage without controversy, and they're very good too, so watch that.
Every time I've seen BV live they've had some choice things to say about the royal family. I'm guessing Bobbi won't accuse them of killing Diana, or call Prince Andrew a nonce on the BBC.
(I say 'everyone' - I should have limited that to only those who have access to the BBC's Glastonbury coverage, which is very much not everyone. Apologies.)
They make great music. I will listen - as per usual, I will go through the sounds offerings after the festival, and after seeing what they are broadcasting.
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« Nous employons souvent le terme « mais ». Nous le brandissons dès que nous cherchons une excuse. Exemples : « Je pourrais m’inscrire à un cours d’anglais mais je n’ai pas le temps », ou encore « Je pourrais essayer la lecture rapide mais je ne suis pas assez vif d’esprit ». Remplacez les mais par des « et si ? ». Et si j’avais le temps, finalement ? Et si j’étais plus vif d’esprit que je ne le pense ? »
There are remote beaches. There are quiet towns. And then there are isolated places. The real ones. The kind where the post takes months, the people all have
« l’impuissance apprise : certaines remarques ou expériences nous enseignent que nous sommes impuissants. Nous retenons cette idée et ne la défions pas. »
« Certaines de nos croyances, aussi, naissent avec l’expérience : on échoue une fois et on en tire une conclusion hâtive sur notre incapacité générale et définitive dans un domaine. »
« Qu’est-ce qu’une croyance limitante ?Une croyance limitante est une croyance que nous entretenons à notre sujet et qui, comme son nom l’indique, nous limite, nous contraint dans nos actions. Voici des exemples de croyances limitantes
Je n’ai pas de mémoire. » « Je n’ai jamais eu l’oreille musicale, comme mon père. » « Je ne peux pas terminer un livre, je me déconcentre trop vite. » « Je ne sais pas travailler seul, je ne pourrai jamais créer mon entreprise. »
The UK’s designation of Hamas, and possibly Palestine Action, as “terrorist” organizations shows that the proscription regime is not about preventing terrorism but silencing political views and free expression.
Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait pick up Richard Medhurst from Beirut airport as he takes a break from political persecution in Austria and the UK, and immediately take him to the borders of South Lebanon and Occupied Palestine to witness the largest funer…
We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity.
But what we call AI today is nothing more than a statistical machine: a digital parrot regurgitating patterns mined from oceans of human data (the situation hasn’t changed much since it was discussed here five years ago). When it writes an answer to a question, it literally just guesses which letter and word will come next in a sequence – based on the data it’s been trained on.
This means AI has no understanding. No consciousness. No knowledge in any real, human sense. Just pure probability-driven, engineered brilliance — nothing more, and nothing less.
So why is a real “thinking” AI likely impossible? Because it’s bodiless. It has no senses, no flesh, no nerves, no pain, no pleasure. It doesn’t hunger, desire or fear. And because there is no cognition — not a shred — there’s a fundamental gap between the data it consumes (data born out of human feelings and experience) and what it can do with them.
Philosopher David Chalmers calls the mysterious mechanism underlying the relationship between our physical body and consciousness the “hard problem of consciousness”. Eminent scientists have recently hypothesised that consciousness actually emerges from the integration of internal, mental states with sensory representations (such as changes in heart rate, sweating and much more).
Given the paramount importance of the human senses and emotion for consciousness to “happen”, there is a profound and probably irreconcilable disconnect between general AI, the machine, and consciousness, a human phenomenon.
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Michael Dempster
in reply to Michael Dempster • • •Wi this bill gaun intae law, A'm gled tae say thit A've knocked ma pan in tae see it throu. A'm prood thit A'm wan o a haunfae thit's been wi it fae inception, throu public consultation, draftin, introduction, giein ma evidence at committee stage, amendments an debates, tae it gettin votit intae law.
A wis at ivry meetin an gaitherin giein ma best, A respondit fully an thochtfully tae aw written maitters, an spake wi hunners aw up an doon the country fae the heich heid yins ...
Sony
in reply to Michael Dempster • • •Guid oan yersels fur gittin that through.
A big well done tae aw concernt.
But ah wid imagine ther wull still be thaim thit ster at ye as if ye've goat horns when ye open yer mooth an spout oot Weegie 🤔😄
Wan ae the granweans sterts ther Scots law oor in Glesga this year, ah wull lit ye know how much ae the Mither tongue actually gits yased in Scots law wance ah git ther feedback.
Onwards..Heeeeeucht! 😄😁
Michael Dempster
in reply to Michael Dempster • • •tae the news & culture fowk, tae public bodies, organisations, an oniebody thit juist wantit a blether aboot it. An A'v been in an oot thon pairliament mair than some o the jannies.
A'm no claimin it ma ain, here, it's aw oors!
That said, A ken masel, fir ma ain satisfaction, thit A fair pit some shift in fir tae see thit yeese got it, as best thit wis athin ma pooer. 🫡🫡🫡
Congratulations tae aw involved, we duin it! 🥳
As A aye say - your voice maitters!
Dan Morgan
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