Another hot summer day spent on extending the boat.
Life is great.
Put the measuring tape under the keel so I can check that everything is in line.
Boat is about 19 feet and when it is done it will be a 21 feeter 
I know I’m new here, and I understand some may feel unsure about trusting a stranger. But I come to you with my heart open, because we truly have nowhere else to turn.
My name is Britnny, and I’m a transgender woman living in Gorom refugee settlement in South Sudan. I’m here with three other queer sisters women I now call family. Together, we’ve survived what most people couldn’t imagine: daily threats, hunger, violence, and complete abandonment. But now, even survival is slipping out of reach.
The South Sudanese government gave us an order: leave the camp and go to Juba or face arrest. That deadline has already passed. We’re living in terror, unsure when the next knock on the door might come, or when we’ll be dragged out, humiliated, or worse. We weren’t given any help no money, no transport, not even a safe place to go. And for people like us trans and queer women Juba is not safe. We fear being beaten, harassed or even killed in the streets simply for being who we are.
Right now, we’re holding on with nothing. No shelter, no food security, no peace of mind. We don’t need luxuries we just want a chance to be safe. A kind friend who was once in the same camp helped us set up a fundraiser to help us relocate safely and find shelter in Juba. But we need help to make it real. We’re not asking for pity,we’re asking for solidarity, for a hand to hold while we try to escape what feels like a death sentence.
Please, if you can share, donate, or even just boost this message, you could help save four lives. We just want a chance to live. A chance to breathe without fear. A chance to make it to tomorrow.
Thank you for reading. Thank you for not turning away.
With love and hope,
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Tax the rich...
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Here are the most stark warnings in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s reportArchie Mitchell (The Independent)
At least 13 may have killed themselves over UK's Post Office wrongful convictions scandal
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The Return of Trump — Transformed into a Diagnosis. While the USA drowns its global authority in isolationist hysteria, Asia is collecting the wreckage ofРебекка Чан (New Eastern Outlook)
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του πόλεμου ήθελα να πω, την κάνει η ελληνορθόδοξη εκκλησία.
Γκουμουνια........θα πεθάνετε ολα απο το χέρι του Αρχαγγέλου Γαβριήλ.
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You can still bypass. Say speak to agent. I have never had an issue talking to a person.
Dollar stores tend to cost more than regular stores.
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Hell I would pay double to avoid poor people.
One of the main reasons why dollar stores can sell so many things for a dollar — or $1.25 — is that they simply sell you less of it.Dominick Reuter (Business Insider)
You sound like the sort of person that would tell a poor person to go get a job rather than offer them a job cutting your grass or washing your car or something.
That sort of thing is part of the problem too, many would rather avoid poor people than to offer them an opportunity to earn money.
What the NEA is doing is shocking; read this critical thread:
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@DeAngelisCorey: I just received a copy of the National Education Association's resolutions that they passed at their annual convention. They kept them private this year. The nation's largest teachers union adopted ...…threadreaderapp.com
Israeli censors hid reports that Iranian missiles struck at least five military sites, including Tel Nof airbase and Glilot intelligence center.NaturalNews.com
IRAN WAR DEBATE: Dinesh D’Souza vs Nick Fuentes
It starts around at 14 min.
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Federal authorities have charged 11 suspects in a coordinated ambush on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. The attackers, dressed in bl...YouTube
It seems to me that the ability to read source code will become more and more important over time. This skill is rarely taught, as far as I can tell. The learning situation resembles that for natural language: knowing how to produce/generate text does not immediately translate into the ability to read it, let alone read it well.
#tech #dev #code #CodeLiteracy
Thanks
And where can I learn sequence diagrams ?
Would you have a good source for that ?
(from my experience, a good teaching ressource is orders of magnitude preferable to an average one)
I don't have great resources on hand but these look OK to me:
- visual-paradigm.com/guide/uml-…
- agilemodeling.com/artifacts/se…
- sequencediagram.org (for playing around)
UML sequence diagrams model the flow of logic within your system in a visual manner, enabling you both to document and validate your logic.The Agile Modeling (AM) Method
Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping
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Italy outraged at killing of heroic police bloodhound, found dead after eating food laced with nails
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ok attempt #2 at buying a lower engine splash guard for the RSX. first one was never delivered.
missing these plastic things can definitely have a negative effect on your engine when driving in wet conditions. they're there for a reason. this car was missing many little things like this when i got it
the RSX body is ok now, in that it's not going to rust apart, and the door closes and everything seals properly. i just don't like all the dents and crap making it look trashy.
body work takes forever. i would probably regret starting that. i can do this stuff later after some of the pressure is off and i'm moved onto the property
"Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be, and becoming that person."
— St. Therese of Lisieux
A kindergarten in China added lead to food, and over 200 children are affected
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“Cities never designed for heat now face new heat shocks and stresses””
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#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Heat #Heatwave #Weather #Europe #EU #Cities #Urban
Prolonged hot weather is reshaping Europe’s cities, as temperatures above 32°C stretch into autumn.Euronews.com
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If you think North Korea is violent now, wait until they get a female leader.
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In North Korea, dictator Kim Jong Un has been making more public appearances with the person many believe will succeed him as supreme leader, his daughter...NBC (Yahoo News)
BBC | #Israel 's defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.
One Israeli human rights lawyer condemned it as nothing less than an "operational plan for a crime against humanity".
"It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the #Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation outside the strip,"
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Israel Katz tells Israeli media the so-called "humanitarian city" in Rafah will eventually house 2.1 million Palestinians.Ione Wells & David Gritten (BBC News)
The war in Gaza has "created a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild Gaza from first principles . . . as a secure, modern prosperous society."Nick Corbishley (naked capitalism)
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In Starmer's latest show of breathtaking wickedness, he's using the DWP PIP U-turn to hit other benefit claimants with miseryJames Wright (The Canary)
The International Federation of Journalists has strongly condemned the arrest of Nasser al-Lahham, who was taken from his homethecradle.co
Anti-genocide campaigners receive warm welcome from delegates furious with Graham and cronies Some of the protesters outside Unite’s conference yesterday. Unite members lobbying the unionR…SKWAWKBOX
Greenwich council are trying to silence and blame a disabled woman who is simply requesting a healthy, safe environment to live inHG (The Canary)
Should journalists who persistently publish fake news face penalties? We examine the case of Sarah Vine and call for tougher standards.Mike Sivier (Vox Political)
ALEX JONES SAYS A DEAL WAS MADE WITH THE DEEP STATE CONCERNING EPSTEIN
( No Deals! )
====Bullhorn Barry📢 (Opinion / News)
According to Alex, the Deep State is supposedly going to roll over and let Trump do his thing—as long as he backs off the Epstein disclosures.
Yeah… no. That’s never going to happen.
You can’t make deals with devils.
Now, I’m not even saying I believe that claim—but IF there’s any truth to it—NO DEALS CAN BE MADE! Personally, I think what's happening is something else, but I don't think anyone knows for sure except for those on the inside.
ARRESTS, INDICTMENTS & CONVICTIONS!
Multiple Israeli women have testified to a joint Knesset committee, accusing senior figures of involvement in ritual abuse. One survivor said that her harrowing experience is only “a drop in the oc…SKWAWKBOX
A new joint report from Declassified UK and the National has exposed just how the media is complicit in hiding the truth about RAF AkrotiriEd Sykes (The Canary)
Nearly 600 starving, helpless innocent civilians slaughtered trying to get food. But wait... did someone say 'Death to the IDF'..
Yemen's Houthi rebels attack a ship in the Red Sea after claiming they sunk another
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El Gobierno 🏛️🇪🇸 autoriza a Defensa a comprar tecnología a Israel 🇮🇱 para su plan de rearme
Alegan “la carencia de capacidad industrial” para abordar “avances urgentes” en sistemas antimisiles, guerra electrónica y sensores de última generación”.
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El Ejecutivo ha decidido permitir al Ministerio de Defensa adquirir tecnología militar israelí en el marco del plan de rearme, justificado por la carencia de…electomania (Electomanía)
Trying to explain "How Capitalism Works" without mentioning its disastrous structural flaws for the masses is just a cover-up, albeit an entertaining one, I must admit.
#Capitalism needs "suckers" on an individual level, all the way to colonies on an "empire" level.
Fortunately, -although I have some doubts about stupidity-
both of these "characteristics" are beginning to disappear.
And this is precisely the path that capitalism will inevitably take.
the path of extinction
San Antonio City Council Candidate Calls For the Killing of ICE Agents – and the DHS is Already Tracking Him Down!… “We’ll See You Soon”
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A San Antonio City Council candidate called for the killing of ICE agents on Monday evening and the DHS is already tracking him down.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Jessica Tarlov Shredded by Co-Hosts on ‘The Five’ for Suggesting ICE Detainees Are Being Sexually Abused by Federal Workers (VIDEO)
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Today on the popular FOX News panel show, The Five, liberal host Jessica Tarlov suggested that people being held in ICE detention centers are reporting sexual abuse by the workers at these facilities.Mike LaChance (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Lavrov: Denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine are guarantees of peace Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAvis Krane (Rossa Primavera International News)
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Steve Bannon Goes There, Slams Ted Cruz on War Room: “Ted Cruz Was the Shill for Big Tech on the AI Bill, He Held MAGA Movement Hostage” (VIDEO)
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On Monday Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) attended the press briefing on the flooding disaster in Kerr County Texas this past weekend.Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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The EU presidency says Europe must rearm within 5 years. It's unclear how that could be done.
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Kremlin calls transportation minister's death 'tragic' but gives no clues about his apparent suicide
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Thinking nothing more wonky than mint/pop!/bazzite/elementary. I know there is never “one” perfect one but feeling like trying something new on this machine that’s at least somewhat push button. Since it no longer receive regular updates from Apple I just want to keep this machine available for use when needed.
I’m pretty comfortable on the above ones I mentioned. I’m not a coder/engineer so I tend to lean heavily on flatpaks and such, though if I have to go into the terminal occasionally I can usually poke my way around
ubuntu because everything works.
in case you can't stand the snap business go fedora, add rpmfusion and poke around. if everything works, you're set.
two possible issues with resume from sleep. if your wifi won't come back, use the script from t2linux. if your laptop won't wake up expeditiously (takes a while), come back here and ping me and I'll dig up the the script.
stay away from mints and xfces and friends as you need wayland (so, Plasma or Gnome) for fractional scaling, gestures, seamless dock/undock, etc.
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I think one of the reasons I tend to enjoy "retro-styled" games (eg. pixel art and possibly chiptune music) isn't really about nostalgia at all - there were no games like Eastward, Animal Well, Kingdom: Two Crowns, Stardew Valley or even Undertale when I was a kid with an Amiga. Playing them feels nothing like what playing games felt like when I was a kid with an Amiga either.
Rather, I think it's because pixel art and that sort of gameplay feels much more like a piece of artistic craftsmanship someone cared about. I get the same feeling from hand-drawn vector art (ranging from the simplistic-looking art in eg. Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included to the "cartoon you can play" style of eg. Spiritfarer). I only very rarely get this feeling out of modern 3D-rendered game art - for lack of a better term, that often feels a lot more "alienated", even when it's technically much better.
(Possibly I'm just better at judging pixel art than 3D rendering, which would be because I'm old. 😀 )
One 3-d rendered game that stands out for me is The Long Dark. Its art style borders on cartoony: it's 3-d, but highly stylized and not hyperrealistic. This video gives a sense of it. It's one of the few games I've played as an adult where I felt like I had an experience. I remember and still think about it from time to time.
Hyperrealistic 3-d game art tends to trigger unpleasant feelings in me. Usually either it's the uncanny valley, where everything feels creepy, or it's one I can't easily describe where I feel like I'm smelling cellophane the whole time (everything's too shiny) and just want to leave before I'm sick from it. It's disorienting, almost dizzying, and I can't suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the game a lot of the time (while also acknowledging some of these games are visually very impressive). I've had this reaction to modern digital television shows too. I'll admit that maybe I'm unusual, but anyway I have a kind of "alienated" response to this kind of game art too.
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