#Cloudflare has at least made it's #AI #crawler blocking free for all users even if you're on the free plan. I enabled it for all of my domains last night. The switches to enable it are right on the overview page for your domain.


"I donโ€™t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-futureโ€ฆ


We are past the eviction deadline. Please donโ€™t look away.


I know Iโ€™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 Iโ€™m a transgender woman living in Gorom refugee settlement in South Sudan. Iโ€™m here with three other queer sisters women I now call family. Together, weโ€™ve survived what most people couldnโ€™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. Weโ€™re living in terror, unsure when the next knock on the door might come, or when weโ€™ll be dragged out, humiliated, or worse. We werenโ€™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, weโ€™re holding on with nothing. No shelter, no food security, no peace of mind. We donโ€™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. Weโ€™re not asking for pity,weโ€™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,
BritnnyX

gofund.me/891e4f34

Trump as a Symptom: The Crisis of the USA and the Awakening of a Post-American World journal-neo.su/2025/07/07/trumโ€ฆ

ฯ„ฮทฮฝ ฮบฮฑฮปฯฯ„ฮตฯฮท ฮผฮตฯ„ฮฌฮดฮฟฯƒฮท ฯ„ฮฟฯ… ฯ€ฮฟฮดฮฟฯƒฯ†ฮฑฮนฯ......ฮตฮตฮตฮตฮต
ฯ„ฮฟฯ… ฯ€ฯŒฮปฮตฮผฮฟฯ… ฮฎฮธฮตฮปฮฑ ฮฝฮฑ ฯ€ฯ‰, ฯ„ฮทฮฝ ฮบฮฌฮฝฮตฮน ฮท ฮตฮปฮปฮทฮฝฮฟฯฮธฯŒฮดฮฟฮพฮท ฮตฮบฮบฮปฮทฯƒฮฏฮฑ.

ฮ“ฮบฮฟฯ…ฮผฮฟฯ…ฮฝฮนฮฑ........ฮธฮฑ ฯ€ฮตฮธฮฌฮฝฮตฯ„ฮต ฮฟฮปฮฑ ฮฑฯ€ฮฟ ฯ„ฮฟ ฯ‡ฮญฯฮน ฯ„ฮฟฯ… ฮ‘ฯฯ‡ฮฑฮณฮณฮญฮปฮฟฯ… ฮ“ฮฑฮฒฯฮนฮฎฮป.

ekklisiaonline.gr/nea/exontothโ€ฆ

in reply to baskin ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

@baskin ฯ„ฮทฮฝ ฮ‘ฮณฮฏฮฑ ฮ•ฮนฯฮฎฮฝฮท ฮดฮตฮฝ ฯ„ฮทฮฝ ฮผฯ€ฮตฯฮดฮตฯฯ‰ ฮผฮต ฯ„ฮฏฯ€ฮฟฯ„ฮฑ.
ฮˆฯ‡ฮตฮน ฮฑฯ€ฯŒ ฯ„ฮฑ ฮบฮฑฮปฯฯ„ฮตฯฮฑ ฮผฯ€ฮฌฯ ฮตฮบฮตฮฏ ฮณฯฯฯ‰ ฮณฯฯฯ‰.
in reply to over_clox

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.

businessinsider.com/dollar-genโ€ฆ

Hell I would pay double to avoid poor people.

in reply to blr1a

ฮฅฯ€ฮฑฯฯ‡ฮฟฯ…ฮฝ ฮฑฮบฮฟฮผฮฑ 10 ฮผฯ…ฯฮนฮฑ ฮนฮฝฮดฮนฮฌฮฝฮฟฮน , ฯƒฮฟฮฒฮฑฯฮฑ; ฮกฮต ฯƒฯ… ฯ€ฯฮตฯ€ฮตฮน ฮฝฮฑ ฮผฮฟฮปฯ…ฮฝฮฟฯ…ฮผฮต ฮผฮตฯฮนฮบฮตฯ‚ ฮบฮฟฯ…ฮฒฮตฯฯ„ฮตฯ‚ ฮผฮต ฮตฯ…ฮปฮฟฮณฮนฮฌ ฮณฮนฮฑ ฮฝฮฑ ฮผฮตฯ„ฮฑฮดฯŽฯƒฮฟฯ…ฮผฮต ฯ€ฮฟฮปฮนฯ„ฮนฯƒฮผฯŒ.
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Spartacus

@Feleki
ฮฯ„ฮฑฮพ.....ฯ€ฯฯŽฯ„ฮท ฯ€ฯฮฟฯƒฯ€ฮฌฮธฮตฮนฮฑ ฮฎฯ„ฮฑฮฝ.
ฮผฮตฯ‡ฯฮน ฯ„ฮทฮฝ ฮตฯ€ฯŒฮผฮตฮฝฮท ฯ†ฮฟฯฮฌ ฮธฮฑ ฯ„ฮฟฮฝ ฮญฯ‡ฮฟฯ…ฮฝ ฯ„ฮตฮปฮตฮนฮฟฯ€ฮฟฮนฮฎฯƒฮตฮน ฯฮต ฮฒฮนฮฑฯƒฯ„ฮนฮบฮญ.
ฮ˜ฮฑ ฯ‡ฯ„ฯ…ฯ€ฮฌฮตฮน ฮผฯŒฮฝฮฟ ฮญฮณฯ‡ฯฯ‰ฮผฮฑ dna
@blr1a

DOJ update from the acting US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas on the July 4 ICE ambush in Alvarado TX (south of Ft. Worth). youtube.com/watch?v=9VK9M-uxm_โ€ฆ
in reply to Lien Rag

I don't have great resources on hand but these look OK to me:

- visual-paradigm.com/guide/uml-โ€ฆ
- agilemodeling.com/artifacts/seโ€ฆ
- sequencediagram.org (for playing around)

More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: blog.documentfoundation.org/blโ€ฆ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

โ€œAs global temperatures continue to rise, European cities are experiencing extreme heat for far longer than the traditional summer monthsโ€ฆ

โ€œCities never designed for heat now face new heat shocks and stressesโ€โ€

euronews.com/green/2025/07/06/โ€ฆ

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Heat #Heatwave #Weather #Europe #EU #Cities #Urban

Chinese defense industry manufactures equipment comparable or superior in quality, but always much more affordable than #NATO.
Moreover, the West is already facing problems as they lose #Russia's and #China's rare earths.
#Iran is in talks to buy an entirely new air force with J-10C and AWACS aircraft from China.
If China were to arm Iran, it would reshape the military and diplomatic landscape of the entire Asia.
Checkmate

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,"

#Palestine

bbc.com/news/articles/c8rp31lkโ€ฆ

ALEX JONES SAYS A DEAL WAS MADE WITH THE DEEP STATE CONCERNING EPSTEIN

( No Deals! )

====Bullhorn Barry๐Ÿ“ข (Opinion / News)

According to Alex, the Deep State is supposedly going to roll over and let Trump do his thingโ€”as long as he backs off the Epstein disclosures.

Yeahโ€ฆ no. Thatโ€™s never going to happen.

You canโ€™t make deals with devils.

Now, Iโ€™m not even saying I believe that claimโ€”but IF thereโ€™s any truth to itโ€”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!

El Gobierno ๐Ÿ›๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ autoriza a Defensa a comprar tecnologรญa a Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ para su plan de rearme

Alegan โ€œla carencia de capacidad industrialโ€ para abordar โ€œavances urgentesโ€ en sistemas antimisiles, guerra electrรณnica y sensores de รบltima generaciรณnโ€.

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electomania.es/el-gobierno-autโ€ฆ

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 โ€“ and the DHS is Already Tracking Him Down!โ€ฆ โ€œWeโ€™ll See You Soonโ€

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/sโ€ฆ

Jessica Tarlov Shredded by Co-Hosts on โ€˜The Fiveโ€™ for Suggesting ICE Detainees Are Being Sexually Abused by Federal Workers (VIDEO)

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/jโ€ฆ

Lavrov: Denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine are guarantees of peace eu.eot.su/2025/07/07/lavrov-deโ€ฆ

Fediverse alternative for Tiktok?


Preferably with no required registration.
in reply to darkguyman

tiktok alternatives would suffer the same problem that shorts and loops do; they are content creator driven platforms so unless you incentivise content creators to move you just get reposts from other platforms or ai generated slop.
in reply to darkguyman

Loops, like everyone rightly said, but while this initially peaked my interest, at this point I'm a little skeptical about this project. Dev seems very keen to overhype and tease new features, but usually fails to deliver, like the webUI that was supposed to be days away last year but still doesn't exist. For a fedi platform, not being able to access it via a browser on a desktop is the most bizarre thing to me. I'd hate for fediverse tech to follow this mobile-only trend.

Steve Bannon Goes There, Slams Ted Cruz on War Room: โ€œTed Cruz Was the Shill for Big Tech on the AI Bill, He Held MAGA Movement Hostageโ€ (VIDEO)

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/sโ€ฆ

"Best," somewhat turnkey, user-friendly distro for a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro


Thinking nothing more wonky than mint/pop!/bazzite/elementary. I know there is never โ€œoneโ€ perfect one but feeling like trying something new on this machine thatโ€™s at least somewhat push button. โ€ฉSince it no longer receive regular updates from Apple I just want to keep this machine available for use when needed.

Iโ€™m pretty comfortable on the above ones I mentioned. Iโ€™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

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in reply to LandedGentry

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. ๐Ÿ˜€ )

in reply to datarama

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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