Western nations pretended to be shining cites on hills, beacons of freedom, but as the genocide against Palestinians has revealed, they are actually giant mounds of horseshit, nothing more than violent arbiters of a global racial caste system.

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-intโ€ฆ

New York Times had "an errant outbreak of journalism." ๐Ÿ˜‚

jonathanturley.org/2025/07/06/โ€ฆ

I just signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, to ensure that our Brave First Responders immediately have the resources they need. These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost, and many still missing. The Trump Administration continues to work closely with State and Local Leaders. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was on the ground yesterday with Governor Greg Abbott, who is working hard to help the people of his Great State. Our incredible U.S. Coast Guard, together with State First Responders, have saved more than 850 lives. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!

This is a person who was deported at age 19, snuck back into the country and lived her for another 25 years then encouraged here U.S. citizen husband to vote for Trump and mass deportations. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿพโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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โ€œI never thought leopards would eat MY face,โ€ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jโ€ฆ

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We are looking for an investor who can loan our holding company 237,000 US dollars.

With this money, we will open a farm in Baku, Azerbaijan to produce animal-based food.

We will also make our own animal feed, so our products will be healthier, better quality, and cheaper.

Because we sell quality products for less and have strong advertising, we will sell more worldwide and make big profits.

Why Azerbaijan? Because animal farming makes a lot of money there, but few people do it. Thatโ€™s why we will earn more by starting in Azerbaijan.

Additionally, by producing our own animal feed, we will be able to sell healthier, higher quality animal products at a lower price.

Since we can sell quality products cheaply and thanks to our strong advertising network, we will be able to sell more internationally and make huge profits.

The reason for establishing the business in Azerbaijan is that animal husbandry is a very profitable business in Azerbaijan, but since there are very few people doing animal husbandry, establishing the farm in Azerbaijan will provide us with more income.

Your profit:

You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.

Your earnings will be great. When 22.03.2026 comes, you will get your money back as 953.00 US dollars.

You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.

When 22.03.2026 comes, I will give you back your money in the amount of 953,000 US dollars.

That means you will earn 716,000 US dollars profit in just 9 months.

If you like this project and want to loan us money, message me on WhatsApp or Telegram for more details.

If our project is suitable for you and you would like to lend money to our holding, send a message to my WhatsApp number or Telegram username below and I will give you detailed information.

For detailed information and to lend money to our holding, send a message to my whatsapp number or telegram username below and I will give you detailed information.

My WhatsApp phone number:
+44 7842 572711

My telegram username:
@adenholding

European LOBBYISTS are against Stop Killing Games :kekw:

videogameseurope.eu/news/stateโ€ฆ
It's hilarious that they're making the exact SAME statements that fucking Pirate Software was and is making. It's almost as if he was always a plant. They completely misinterpret it THE SAME WAY THAT FAG DID. :guraKekw:

Look at these fucking niggers. :zt_laugh: The fucking stereotypes are real. Look at all those companies, the exact same companies EVERYONE knows would take part in this type of lobbyist posturing. videogameseurope.eu/about/our-โ€ฆ

I explicitly reject the new Fediverse terms and conditions. My posts are my posts according to Magna Carta 21.2.III and are my property. I object to having your filthy LLM trained on my especially good posts. This is a legal binding post based on the Magna Carta.

EVERY ADMIN WHO DEPRIVES ME OF MY OWNERSHIP UNDER US LAW 1982 CAN BE FINED UP TO $200,000 OR 5 YEARS IMPRISONMENT.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!

I can't believe I have to say this mastodon. This isn't 1996, and you're not learning how to use Eudora:

When you're replying to a boosted post: Do. Not. CC. Everyone.

Reply directly to the person you're trying to speak to. Remove the @'s to everyone else not directly involved in the conversation.

yes, I know the clients automatically chain on the usernames of everyone involved in the post, but this is 1990s era basic netiquette and not magic.

#feditips

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The depravity of Trump supporters has no limits. They are walking monsters and every single one of them should be dead. I would give my right arm for a Politician to run that promises to deport and strip the citizenship of every single Trump supporter.

Chaque matin depuis 6 ans, ce sont vos messages qui nous rappellent pourquoi on se lรจve le matin. Ce sont vos messages qui reboostent quand il y a un petit coup de mou. Ce sont vos messages qui nous disent pourquoi Bon Pote est utile et doit continuer ร  informer avec rigueur, en donnant des solutions individuelles et collectives.

Si vous le pouvez, soutenez-nous, cela prend 30 sec. Merci ร  toutes et tous et oui, tous vos messages de soutien sont lus ๐Ÿ˜

fr.tipeee.com/bon-pote

Speaking to Al Mayadeen, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, responds to US calls for her removal from the UN, reaffirming her mandate to speak out against war crimes and genocide.

She discusses "Israelโ€™s" recent attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, denounces violations of international law, and highlights the global communityโ€™s failure to hold the Israeli regime accountable.

#Gaza #Lebanon #FrancescaAlbanese

en.mdn.tv/8Ybq

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The propaganda machine is tuned so unless the target is on their payroll they wouldn't mention their name even if it appears as a worst enemy.
By directing criticism and making a hero of their opponent they are telling you who to support. Individual opponents with no political commitments are much more manageable than ideas.

So keep expecting from media personas to ever bring change, it will never come.
Look for ideas, principles, proposals that are never mentioned by media
@foufoutos

#Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava THE GREAT REMIGRATOR, Donald J. Trump makes it official today, he's an ethnic cleanser

dailykos.com/story/2025/7/5/23โ€ฆ

Donโ€™t call it โ€˜Alligator Alcatraz.โ€™ Call it a concentration camp.

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinioโ€ฆ

Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Donโ€™t Have to Be Disposable

ifixit.com/News/111613/fairphoโ€ฆ

#Fairphone #Fairphone6 #Teardown #RightToRepair #Repair #DIY #iFixit

Today I coded something I've been dreaming about for many months - a solution to the #ActivityPub scaling problem.

The problem is that if 20 people cast 5 votes and those votes are federated to 500 servers, the instance hosting the community needs to do 20 * 5 * 500 = 50,000 network requests.

The solution is to bundle the activity up into chunks. I describe the solution and how #PieFed does it here peertube.wtf/w/v5aWpxjS2P4pJSnโ€ฆ (probably only of interest to developers).

#fediverse

You donโ€™t need to give a good goddamn about snooker โ€“ I certainly donโ€™t โ€“ to find this Sally Rooney piece entirely wonderful. (Via @bright_helpings.) nybooks.com/articles/2025/03/2โ€ฆ
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My own professional interest, of course, is in Rooneyโ€™s incandescent prose, but hereโ€™s the final frame of the 2014 Welsh Open. It is always a source of the greatest pleasure to see a master craftsperson at work. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4XOgP6yaโ€ฆ

๐ŸŽฅ En Direct du Sommet des BRICS : Ce Que Personne Ne Vous Montre ร  Rio


#gรฉopolitique #BRICS

L'Indonรฉsie (plus grand pays musulman du monde) et l'Arabie saoudite sont officiellement membres des BRICS.

yewtu.be/live/54dftlFZoe4
youtube.com/live/54dftlFZoe4

Hereโ€™s what weโ€™re reading today:

#EU will stockpile critical minerals and cable repair kits, as fears over the blocโ€™s security vulnerability rise, FT reported.

The preparation for a potential attack on the bloc follows repeated Russian-led sabotage attacks across Europe.

ft.com/content/48216c51-a784-4โ€ฆ

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Hereโ€™s what Mariana is listening to today:

SadSvit โ€” ะะตะฑะพ

youtube.com/watch?v=cPzhNzqt9Lโ€ฆ

> Follow our newsletter through the link: Stop using #Substack and I will.I don't support Nazis.


Amplify the voices living in the shadows of war.

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Durch den #Klimawandel droht nรคchste #Finanzkrise

ยป"Wir nรคhern uns rasant Temperaturen, bei denen Versicherer viele Risiken nicht mehr abdecken kรถnnen"

"Der wirtschaftliche Wert ganzer Regionen wird verschwinden"

"Ein Haus, das nicht versichert werden kann, lรคsst sich nicht finanzieren. Keine Bank vergibt Kredite fรผr unversicherbare Immobilien. Die Kreditmรคrkte frieren ein. Das ist eine vom Klima verursachte Kreditklemme", so Allianz-Vorstand Thallinger.ยซ

n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Durch-den-Kโ€ฆ
#Klimakrise

There are two very important lessons here. 1) Don't trust #Adobe. For real. Adobe has been pulling shit like this for *years* and yet people still continue to use it or go back. Why? Are you masochists? There *are* alternatives. Both open-source and commercial. **Use them.** 2) It's safe to assume that any new software update will probably include features you're not interested in. Whether it be the #Cloud or #AI or AI in the Cloud. I don't know about you but I *religiously* go through every single setting and configuration page of every new software I install (or update) prior to me using it. It's a great way to learn new things about the software you're about to use.
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As someone who is forced to use multiple Adobe products at work, I concurr 100%. Adobe are sneaky shitty mcshittersons. And the amount of sneaky shit they sneak into your software is astounding.

The one and so far ONLY thing I have found that any Adobe package still does better than anything else is Acrobat comparing two PDFs.

No idea why my overly religious IT dept. is OK with Adobe crunching our IP in PDF form in their cloud, yet I can't use some foss tool that doesn't leave my PC.

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Before I retired from the InfoSec group at the power company I worked at, we were an Adobe shop for decades. We had a lot of critical business processes built-up around Acrobat and other Adobe products. Especially in Supply Chain and Vendor Management.

Then it came down to money. (That and the constant patching.)

Finally the bean counters in IT realized how much money we were throwing away at Adobe and in less than a year we completely switched and re-tooled those business processes to move away.

It wasn't that hard.

Maybe one day your Company's bean counters will see the same light.

Can we talk for a minute about how completely ludicrous a $4T valuation is for a company like NVIDIA or Microsoft? Investors often talk about P/E: the ratio of the share price (P) to the earnings per share (E). Or, if you simplify the equation slightly, the market capitalisation (price per share multiplied by number of shares) divided by the annual profit. This is, roughly, how many years it would take the company to make the amount of money that it is valued at. For NVIDIA and Microsoft, these ratios are, roughly, 50 and 40, respectively.

The simplest model of share ownership is that you get a share of the companyโ€™s profits. In practice, that only applies to companies in the โ€˜cash cowโ€™ phase, where they are no longer growing and are just redistributing all excess income to shareholders. This kind of P/E would be ludicrous for such a company. With a P/E of 50, the company would be returning at most 2% of your investment each year, which is the kind of return you get from bonds at much lower risk. The idea for growing companies is that theyโ€™re investing a lot of their profits (and money raised by diluting shares) in growth. Putting money in now lets them become more valuable and that means that youโ€™re happy to not even get the 2% return now because you expect to get a larger return on a larger valuation in the future. If a company has a share price of 100 and, instead of giving you a 2% return, it spends five years investing in growth and turns into a company with a share price of 1,000, then gives you a 1% return, youโ€™ll make as much in the fifth year as you would have in the first five years in total if they had just returned the money, then youโ€™ll make the same again in the sixth.

So far, so good. But letโ€™s think about another ration: price to maximum-possible-earning-in-shiny-pixie-land. Letโ€™s call it Price to Pixie ratio, P/Px. There are 8B people in the world (roughly). A trillion is a thousand billion, so a 4T market cap means that you have a valuation of $500/person. Thatโ€™s more than the annual disposable income for a large proportion of the population. The median wealth for people is around $8K, a number somewhat skewed by the large number of people with a lot less. These valuations are all assuming a lot of growth, but how many people can actually afford to spend more on NVIDIA or Microsoft products? Of those, how many of those would choose to? These companies are making a lot of money at the moment because of lock in. Microsoft with Win32 and Office / SharePoint, NVIDIA with CUDA. Thatโ€™s very fragile.

I wouldnโ€™t be surprised if P/Px for these companies is only very slightly lower than P/E: if everyone who could afford their products bought them, it wouldnโ€™t move the needle on their earnings more than 50%. For either company to be at a stable P/E, youโ€™d need everyone in the world to be spending $20/year with them. Or the people in rich countries to be spending in excess of $200/year. Can you think of any company, in any market where that would make sense? At the moment, that spending is heavily skewed to other companies burning VC money for both. For Microsoft, itโ€™s other companies who believe that they make more in increased productivity from using their systems than using something else, but between putting up prices for M365 for features no one wants and firing all of the people who build the things customers actually care about, that doesnโ€™t look like a long-term revenue stream. NVIDIAโ€™s revenue comes primarily from selling to companies that sell to companies that burn VC money and make a loss. Again, not sustainable. Which may mean that Px < E for both companies.

And thatโ€™s exactly the situation that leads you to a crash.

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Hill Country flooding: Hereโ€™s how to give and receive help. texastribune.org/2025/07/05/teโ€ฆ
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