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John 4:42 (KJV) "And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world."
The recently released from prison leader of the Belarusian pro-Western "opposition" Sergei Tikhanovsky accused his associates of not actively sending him donations for the fight against Lukashenko and Putin.
At least 24 people are dead following extreme flooding that slammed Texas Hill Country overnight on Friday, according to officials. At least 20 girls from a summer camp remain missing. #news #NPRnpr.org/2025/07/05/nx-s1-54572…
There are very few chances for agreement on a #ceasefire. Israel is not a serious negotiator with this kind of demands. The "document" says that #zioNaZis will restart the slaughter whenever feel comfortable to do it...
J’ai connu la faim: le vide qui ronge, les vertiges, la douleur sourde du corps. Mais ce dont je suis témoin aujourd’hui à Gaza, ce n’est pas la faim. C’est la famine. La faim est un sentiment. La famine est une arme. La faim vous affaiblit. La famine est utilisée pour vous briser.
Nous regardons un peuple, mon peuple, mourir de faim en temps réel.
I generally go for a desktop environment, I just like the versatility. I completely understand the appeal of window managers though and when I've used them in the past I was quite impressed even.
i use KDE, and i prefer using a desktop environment. a DE has everything already preconfigured, so that it's usable right out of the box. window managers need to configured right after installation since they don't have stuff like taskbars, and sometimes they don't even have default shortcuts except for the terminal.
gnome (vanilla), by intentional lazyness. It's the least effort path, it's the most tested on my distro, minimizing the risk of bad surprise during upgrades. While I had to get acostumated to its UX at the beginning (years ago), I now feel productive since then, and ended up enjoying it, though without comparing with others.
DE, because usually is pretty out of the box. I'll never get the eye candy as anything like GNOME DE with some extensions. Speaking of... which is your fav DE for eye candy? (if resources were not a problem)
- DE, usually Gnome 4x with a bunch of extensions (such as Arc Menu & DesktopCube) added, if its on a nicely spec'd system - or Budgie, XFCE, Lomiri or Phosh once in a while, on less powerful devices, as well.
I use whatever can give me a web browser and a bunch of terminal emulators placed in tidy places around my screens. Background images are nice, but I quite often cover them up with windows containing said browser and clis. Outside of that, it doesn't matter too much.
I used to joke that the best thing about guis is the tidy placement of lots of tuis.
@Karsten Johansson @It's FOSS I prefer a pulldown menu to the mess that KDE gives and I prefer the older style Mate menu, though by default now it ships with the same menu as Gnome, it is easy to remove that menu and put the classic menu back up. I use the Marco built in Window manager both because it works locally but also plays well with x2go, some of the others do not.I make use of virtual desktops, so an interface that makes it easy to switch between them is convenient. Mate works well in this respect. I just hit control+alt and then use the left or right arrows to move up or down. I have 16 work stations configured but usually am only using five or six, but there have been times when I've had all 16 in play.
For the longest I used xfce on latest Debian stable. But for some reason the Bluetooth was not showing up nor was the user credential changer. So I switched back to gnome. I love xfce for how light weight it is. I even ran it on a beefy setup 8cors 32gb of ram etc
@It's FOSS At one time I had a dell with 4GB of RAM and two cores, then a light desktop was important. Presently I am using an i7-9700k with 96gb of RAM and nvme, so not so much. But x2go doesn't work well or at all with accelerated graphics so some things are still best avoided if I am remoting in to one of my servers.
Look at you young whippersnappers, with all your new fangled gizmos. Real men just need a #teletype and paper tape to do the work. No fancy shmancy #GUI. 🤡 no really. Isn't a windows manager a component of a desktop environment ?! #i_am_confusion !!!
@It's FOSS I used to use a model 35-KSR at the local telephone company to install software updates into #1ESS machines or to add hardware in preparation for a growth job. Such fun.
@ABSURD @It's FOSS Since I sometimes display X-apps remotely over the network as opposed to using an entire remote desktop with X2go, and since also I have Intel graphics which work with the kernel X-server, I don't use Wayland for both reasons. I am hopeful that either some day Wayland on Wires will reach a mature state where it actually works, or XLibre provides an efficient interface that works with gamers and then can have the best of both worlds, but for now that is the case.
KDE is the base environment on my main system. For daily work in virtualized environments, I always use a window manager—typically DWM, and lately I've been really enjoying Niri.
Window Manager. I love Hyprland. While I do love KDE, it has so many unnecessary for me options and bulk, that is not usable for me, especially on older laptops. With a window manager you get flexibility and just the things that you need for your use case. I chose Hyprland because I wanted to stay ahead of the curve and use Wayland. Everything I need just works on Hyprland! I use Arch-based CachyOS.
I would say desktop environment. After doing some distro hopping to find what I like, it has turned out to be the desktop environment and software store / package manager that drive my decision on what I am using. I don't think that I have used a straight up window manager that did not come from a desktop environment (example: install icewm on a distro that did not come with it).
WM. Always a WM. The last time I used a full-blown DE as such was in the KDE3 days. My WM-of-choice is AwesomeWM. And as for why... In the early 2000s when I was learning HTML, I realized that my 'Dream Desktop' would be just like a HTML page - no fixed structures, everything user-scriptable. And AwesomeWM is the closest thing to that ideal I've seen so far.
A WM. I use awesomewm. Because you choose yourself how your desktop should look and work. (I like to keep it clean and simple). And it is the perfect combination of ricing and minimalism.
I'm lazy af: The one which comes by default. But if I had to choose I'd throw a coin for either KDE or Gnome. Both very lovely and well crafted Desktop Environments and I do not want to favor one over the other. Therefore random it is.
Did you know Orthodox so called Jews try to maintain all their houses within a certain maximum distance from a Synagogue which results in increased segregation
The victory of Newcastle UCU provides a model for higher education workers fighting management cuts across the country, report Counterfire members in HE
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As famine ravages northern Gaza, so-called humanitarian efforts backed by the United States are coming under fire—literally. In this episode, investigative j...
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Why assume that petroleum is formed mostly of animal remains.
Petroleum is a fossil fuel derived from fossilized organic materials, such as zooplankton and algae. Vast amounts of these remains settled to sea or lake bottoms where they were covered in stagnant water (water with no dissolved oxygen) or sediments such as mud and silt faster than they could decompose aerobically.
When I was a kid, there was a chain of service stations^1^ in the western US that used a dinosaur as its logo. This pretty clearly implied that petroleum has something to do with dinosaurs.
Petroleum was formed from stuff at the bottoms of lakes and seas laid down long before dinosaurs dominated.
It's just as easy to teach people (kids in particular) the truth, so why not do so? "Gasoline, kids, comes from algae and plankton, not dinosaurs."
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You'll notice that I wrote "service" stations, not "gas" stations. The difference is significant. We still have gas stations, but we haven't had service stations in nearly 50 years.
In the film Back to the Future you'll see a service station. BTW, service stations were history when that film was made, and that film is already 40 years old.
When you pulled into a service station, at least one person would run out to your car, and start cleaning the windows while, at the same time, offering to check your oil level, offering to check your tire pressure, and asking how much gasoline you'd like to buy. The most common reply was "Fill 'r up." Never was a customer expected, or even allowed, to operate a gasoline pump.
In addition, individual service stations hired mechanics to do auto repair and preventative maintenance (e.g., changing the oil). Auto manufacturers didn't yet monopolize maintenance and repair.
Authorities advised people to call 800-733-2767 if they were trying to locate a loved one. One thing is for certain, we can't blame the deep state for this one. Rescuers raced against the clock on Friday night in their frantic search for more than 20 missing girls from a private Christian camp and anyone else who may have survived the deadly, unprecedented, and catastrophic floods when the Guadalupe River burst its banks in Kerr County. The floods have claimed at least 24 lives.
Forecasters warned more rain was coming to the region, nicknamed "flash flood alley," which may only worsen a "mass casualty event" that swept away entire buildings, and sent cars swirling through the gray and brown waters.
A somber assemblage of Texas National Guard commanders, state troopers, and emergency management joined Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Friday night in a livestreamed update. Abbott stressed that Texas would send all its resources to aid the rescuers. They provided no update on the missing girls.
Rescuers raced against the clock overnight in their frantic search for more than 20 missing girls from a private Christian camp and anyone else who may have survived the deadly, unprecedented, and catastrophic floods when the Guadalupe River burst it…
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Bobbie Vylan released a statement saying: "The headline of it is: don’t let the media distract you from what’s truly important. [...] They want to control this country’s narrative to frame genocide as Israel defending itself [...] Regardless of how it was said, calling for an end to the slaughter of innocents is never wrong."[33] The band also released a statement, writing, "We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use ‘unnecessary lethal force’ against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza." [34]en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Vy…
Taking some supplement with a side-effect of lowering blood pressure or thinning the blood could help, if any of these effects are noticeable.
For example, the nattokinase enzyme, ginger, and garlic are said to thin the blood. That's probably a good thing when you're straining muscles to the point of possible damage, anyway.
The first #StopCopCity RICO defendant's felony trial is set to begin Monday, January 7. Ayla King, a young working class activist arrested at the Welaunee Music Festival, bravely filed for a speedy trial and refused any plea deal. Their case will mean mountains for the other 60 defendants.
People in (and traveling to) Atlanta are organizing for a festival-like atmosphere outside the courthouse to support Ayla and the movement, as well as funds for court and organizing costs including food, clothes and housing for Ayla in the event the trial lasts the expected 4-6 weeks. To that end, a new fundraiser page has been made - please give and encourage others to give here: givesendgo.com/freeaylaking
If you're unable to be in Atlanta, host a fundraiser, make a care package, and raise a ruckus for Ayla and the other defendants. Our movements are only as strong as our support for targets of state repression, and now's the time to show we defend out people!
Report: US contractors fired live bullets & stun grenades at Palestinians queuing for food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites
The contractors are heard on video cheering as they shoot.
"One contractor said he saw other contractors shooting at Palestinians from a tower above the site as they were leaving the area, having collected food parcels."
"He said it was unclear why they were shooting at people departing the site."
A new Associated Press (AP) report detailing how American contractors guarding aid distribution sites used live ammunition, stun grenades and pepper spray against starving Palestinians seeking food has sparked fierce criticism online.
Analysis: From anti-immigration raids, Gaza kill lists & lucrative government contracts, US data firm Palantir is making billions from warmongering. Stephen Miller et al have shares.
Report: US contractors fired live bullets & stun grenades at Palestinians queuing for food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites
The contractors are heard on video cheering as they shoot.
"One contractor said he saw other contractors shooting at Palestinians from a tower above the site as they were leaving the area, having collected food parcels."
"He said it was unclear why they were shooting at people departing the site."
A new Associated Press (AP) report detailing how American contractors guarding aid distribution sites used live ammunition, stun grenades and pepper spray against starving Palestinians seeking food has sparked fierce criticism online.
This is what you get when you hire mercenaries and train soldiers to think of their work as a video game. These are exactly the sort of people Stephen Miller will hire for his new 10,000 strong DHS Schutzstaffel.
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Russian parliament member Andrei Gurulev said that Russia will soon attack #Poland and that fortifying the border with mines will not help it.
Putin regularly lies that he is not going to attack NATO countries.
Sources told western media that Hezbollah has come to view its arsenal as a ‘liability,’ just two days after the group’s leader vowed not to surrender its arms
Local officials said they have rescued or evacuated more than 200 people since the Guadalupe River flooded early Friday morning, but the fate of more than 20 girls missing from a camp remains unclear.
SANAA, July 04 (YPA) - President of the Supreme Political Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, sent on Friday a congratulatory cable to the President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.In the cable, Al-Mashat congratulated Tebb
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If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
This is new and unusual. To get an idea of how weird this is, let's take a quick tour of some of the many times the US federal government has officially persecuted entire groups of people.
1929-1939: the US "repatriated" somewhere between 300K and 2M Mexican Americans. No due process. The federal government removed them from the US to "stop them from competing with Americans for jobs."
About half of the deported people were US citizens.
Few if any Anglo Americans seemed to have a problem with this.
Mexican Americans ran the court battles, protests, and educational campaigns against forced deportation on their own. While they were struggling to keep their families together day by day.
WW2: the US jails 120,000 people, who hadn't been charged of any crime, as a "precaution." 2/3 were US citizens. Many were farmers. White folks wanted their land, & got it.
The loss of so many skilled farmers dented the US food system & made it harder to fight the war.
Some white Americans did publicly oppose rounding up their Japanese neighbors. They were in the minority & overruled.
Resistance was limited to individual efforts to tone down the impact of incarceration- tending jailed neighbors' farms while they were away, sending supplies to the camps, etc.
Public outrage over the many US citizens deported caused Operation Wetback to get its funding pulled. … After 3 months & over 1 million people deported.
This was the fastest a purge ever got rolled back. But it still took people a while to notice & stop it. At the supposed peak of US unity.
Slavery & Jim Crow: millions of Americans held in captive labor.
Enslaved & sharecropping farm workers knew things were bad! They did what they could to push back the whole time.
But that wasn't enough. Both slavery & Jim Crow finally ended when a critical mass of white Americans decided they should. Not even the majority of white Americans. Just a critical mass. And it took us ~250 and close to 100 years to get there, respectively.
The US & its preceding colonies were at war with tribes ~each year from 1610 - 1920s- 300 years.
There was more opposition from white folks than you'd think; but it wasn't broad-based, organized, or effective. We're still breaking treaties with tribes today.
I think I hear you, this scale of response this quickly being new. That, makes sense and suggests how key it is to get more coverage of that resistance and especially its successes out there, so that it can keep growing quickly.
Curious if you are you drawing on any particular sources that bring a lot of that history together?
@Sarah Taber I was with you up to this point--the U.S. has NOT been about this the whole time. What the U.S. has been about the whole time is the see-saw between the people in power who do that sort of thing and the people who give that lot the boot from time to time.
If the U.S. was all about that the whole time, there never would have been a Civil War OR an end to the Vietnam War, and this should be said. No, the U.S. wasn't born in 1960 , but it was in the 1960s that the people you describe lost power--Vietnam ended, Civil Rights were encoded into law--and it was also the time when the Republican Party morphed from the Party of Lincoln into the Dixiecrat-Kremlin Party.
But understand this: I stand with the NAACP and ACLU to make it known that we're Americans too, and we will NOT be overlooked.
It's amazing how conveniently self-serving memory can be, innit? "We're not like that!" you howl. And millions of the unalived and genocided howl back with one voice, "YOU ARE!"
I see "late stage capitalism" as a very positive thing. It means capitalism has mostly run its course and will soon cave in under the weight of its own excesses. That will be painful, but if we can survive to get to a post-capitalist society, it will be better.
The Democratic Party has done a good job of blaming deportation on Republicans despite Clinton, Obama, and Biden deporting millions. It was Clinton who changed the law allowing misdemeanors to be equated to felonies for deportation purposes, thus creating the "criminal illegal" surge.
my grandfather's best friend was part of that. His family was in a camp in Arizona. He ended up serving in the Army and fought all through Europe. They lost their dairy farm as a result of being rounded up.
I met him about 30 years ago when they were all old men reminiscing about the war.
We donated an audio record postcard that he sent my grandfather from the camp of his valedictorian speech to the archives at Manzanar. It was wild listening to it as a kid because it was so normal
@Sarah Taber ...and then there were the Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots, 1943. There was more to that than just a catchy tune by Cherry Poppin Daddies--it actually happened.
"They're rounding people up just because of their skin color and locking them up!"
Yeah, like you said, I'm just glad people are speaking up about this in a big way because this has been happening for decades. I think one of the key differences is that they've dropped the pretense that what they're doing is "justice."
Liberals have been more than happy to lock black and brown people up en masse as long as they can run them through the system first. If someone is convicted of a crime, they're completely okay with throwing them in prison. Does "convicted" mean "guilty?" Should what they were convicted of even be a crime? We've never really had a meaningful conversation about that in this country.
But the numbers really speak for themselves. Things *were not okay* before Trump was elected. When this fascist regime falls apart, we *cannot* go back to how things were before.
From the thousands dying now abandoned by USAID, or those in Ukraine who suffer by the reduction in military aid? Or maybe from Palestinians shot by so called 'American aid contractors'? Or maybe the 132,000 trans people who will now be denied medical care?
I listen to a lot of history podcasts and I know about these times because of that, but mostly it has made me sad we didn’t learn anything. Turns out, maybe we did? I guess I want to say this has been really helpful for me - thank you for writing it
I feel empty. There is no holiday today for me. We are under bondage. Someone remind me what we should feel today. - Our Fourth of July celebration is now crawling with maggots like everything else he touches.
The good news is that we have another few years to survive at most, then the government will have no legal reasons left to justify persecution of trans folks and non-white people. They'll have zero support from the majority, and will likely be arrested after they're out of office.
Thank you for posting this. I've been reading and relearning a bit of this countries history lately and I quickly realized how it's the same shit in a different decade, but none of that could cover how it's any different than what we're experiencing now. I wouldn't have considered that the response is quicker.
USA has become the new nazi party Ice are the NEW SS GENOCIDE is supported in Israel as the ethnic cleansing continues ,Israel killing the people it stole from TO Cover its murderous crimes innocent unarmed people are being slaughtered in an open air prison compound , no one can get in or out just run from the bombs the IDF and the starvation , Now Bezos and Black rock are planning to privatize water in the USA MAKE AMERICA dystopian nightmare
This is a great, informed take. Not rose colored glasses but forward thinking and historically grounded. I couldn't agree more about the whole 'this being the worst timeline' being really problematic. That's a cop out; that's throwing your hands up; that's giving yourself an excuse to give up and not try. It's showing a lack of imagination, if you truly cant think of worse things. There were times during the Cold War people lived in constant fear of nuclear annihilation. It's also showing a lack of historical knowledge, especially knowing that the underlying issues of what is happening (racism, sexism) are foundational particularly to Western culture, and human culture in general. We've never actually had a reckoning with our past (or present). To think that these issues were just going to go away quietly is naive, or that somehow with education we had suddenly become not-racist. It's also not surprising that we are having a hard time forming a coherent resistance party given how much technology has changed politics in the last 20 years, and given the diversity and complexity of global problems we are facing. Let's give this issue, the rise of violent ultra-nationalism in the 21st century, its due as the complex historical problem that it is and not get frustrated when we can't solve it or defeat it in six months. But like you say, there are signs that American society as a whole, not just those directly persecuted, are resisting in ways that are novel. We are far from powerless here and I'm really tired of takes that paint us as such.
We are witnessing premeditated murder and the last nails in the coffin of democracy. No celebrating for me. I'm in mourning for what used to be our nation
Excellent thread. Thank you for this. This is why I share Heather Cox Richardson's blog posts every night. She puts things in historical perspective and while that doesn't make me feel better about what's going on, it keeps me from panicking, knowing what we've been through.
Thank you for this. People pretend that we just became a #WhiteSupremacy. No. It has been bipartisan and centuries old. This is the death throws, and they are willing to throw out everything to keep it. Nothing is off the table for them. But everything they do can be undone. EVERYTHING! We just need the will.
But there is one more thing that people need to stop pretending. #WhiteSupremacy is NOT bipartisan any more. The Democratic party IS the party of Black and Brown people and IS anti-fascist. And having an entire political party with that position IS a first. FDR is the one who interred Japanese Americans. Truman did as well, and deported millions of Hispanics. He also stood by during Jim Crow and the abuses of Black WW2 veterans. Nixon's Southern Strategy changed all this.
How much more will it take for people to realize that the political stage (internationally, nationally, at the state level and to some extent even locally) is just that: a stage. --It’s all a scam, a show, a farce…whatever word you’d like to use. It is so sad to me to watch so many good people get sucked into this giant spectacle, wasting their passion on people who lie and quite frankly do not care about them. I’ve tweeted and said before: this guy’s role is the convince you to take the “safe vaccines”. He’s been a pro-abort & hard leftist on pretty much every issue his whole life. He ran as a DEMOCRAT yet somehow became the darling of the right??? What? nurseclairesays.com/2025/02/01…
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Flan is a nice and playful girl. Real cute. Of course, you'd never spot her most the time. She's an extreme shut in. Has rarely ever left her room in at least 495 years.
Well of course you'd be hit by a large blast of her artwork, 7/4 (or 4/95) was her day. Lots of people looking to admire her for what is the closest thing we have for her to a birthday.
The former American republic is now an empire, the type of government from which Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues violently seceded, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
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