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The letter that retired judges, led by Nancy Gertner and Michael Luttig, wrote opposing Emil Bove's nomination emphasizes what a shithole he was to FBI Agents. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
More than 75 former judges have called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Donald Trump's former attorney Emil Bove to an appeals court judgeship.
Focusing on Jan6 is presumably a bid to get Thom Tillis (who claims to have a litmus test tied to Jan6) to not be a coward. CNN first wrote up the letter here. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/15/p...
I was completely unaware of this class of drone. What is the idea, to start fires in the vegetation dense areas such as breaks between fields, in which Russian soldiers are typically entrenched?
@Edizionilazio From what I can see from the video, it looks like the drone might be carrying a thermite grenade and it has some sort of pin pulling mechanism to start of the reaction and then the molten contents are just spraying randomly down on whatever is underneath. I don't see any evidence of fires being started. Maybe useful in summer months of dry tinder? Resulting smoke/fires might also be a good guide for artillery followup. Just not sure this is actually much practical use.
@Edizionilazio Otoh, it did get the Russians to fire off a whole lot of rounds, which they no longer have available to fire at Ukrainians. Every bit helps.
@Edizionilazio Reminds me a bit of the night witches during WWII. One of their greatest effects was in keeping German units up and alarmed at all hours and not able to sleep.
They are using them from an year or so now, its much more than a distraction or harassment, its actual effective destruction, its an incendiary weapon by all definitions of the term. The few wasted bullets dont mean much in the big scheme of things. You can see how many ammo boxes are just thrown to the ground when troops deploy from an APC Thermite just goes through all sort of stuff and a drone delivers it very precisely, UA has been even following whole trench lines with them
@Edizionilazio Interesting. First time I've seen video of the thermite drones, but I'm not following Telegram channels like I was in the first few years of the invasion.
@Infoseepage Yes, that's the basic idea. It's not the most effective incendiary weapon, but it's relatively cheap and easy, if the drone can carry a lot of weight and it can survive while slowly moving directly above the target.
@isaackuo You'd basically be better off with fowling pieces than the guns these guys are using. Even then, shotgun pellets would need to hit some critical part of the drone to down it.
@Infoseepage The problem with a shotgun is that its effective range is not very far. I'm not sure how high up that drone was in the video clip, but I feel like a shotgun simply wouldn't be able to reach that far.
@isaackuo It reminds me of when Ukraine first started putting out videos of them using drones to drop surplus RKG-3 anti vehicle grenades on Russian IFVs. The grenades weren't of much use to actual soldiers, but they had a whole bunch of them sitting around, so why not put them to some use? Then they started swapping out the fuses and adding fins and they became more effective.
@isaackuo Seems to me that something similar applied here. Someone found warehouse full of these thermite incendiary grenades and a team went to work. If you can hover low and slow over an exposed vehicle, maybe some blob of molten metal hits upholstery or some spilled oil or something and causes a real problem. If not, maybe you've wasted 20 minutes of a squad's time stamping out brush fires and firing their guns wildly in the air instead of doing something else more useful.
I think it's thermite mixed from base ingredients. If thermite is packaged in an incendiary grenade, it would be more effective to use the grenade directly.
With mixing DIY thermite, the Ukrainians can mix up an essentially limitless cheap supply, independent of foreign supplies and purchases.
@isaackuo It does appear they're using some sort of premanufactured canister with markings on it. I'm not sure if this is a pre-war grenade or something new they've come up with. There is a wikipedia article about these things and I've found a few pictures of the units themselves.
@Infoseepage The latter two pictures are of a Russian "copycat" thermite drone that apparently does not dispense very much thermite compared to the Ukrainian ones:
@isaackuo Interesting. Clearly Ukraine has at least some drone models capable of heavy lifting. Saw a recent video where they were using a drones to drop artillery shells and those things weigh close to a hundred pounds. This one doesn't look near that big/capable.
Doesn't take much of a tech base to produce canisters filled with rust and aluminum. I'm continually impressed by Ukraine's creativity in doing a lot with the resources they have available.
@isaackuo @Infoseepage It's quite possibly an "off the shelf" item, used for on-site welding - especially of railway track. Then you just need a container with a hole in the bottom for the igniter and a suitable heat-resistant lid to protect the drone as it pours molten steel onto the target.
(Someone was selling "NR Grade Thermite" on eBay UK a few years ago - I suspect the NR stood for "Network Rail".)
@Cadbury_Moose @isaackuo I'm doubting cots. I'd guess they're making up something from scratching. It isn't terribly sophisticated kit, just some sort of tube to hold the mixed powder and and igniter and as you say, some sort of shield to prevent the drone from damage. One interesting bit to me is that the molten material isn't just all plopping out rapidly once ignited, so they've got something that is holding and extending the reactants so that they spray out over time.
@Cadbury_Moose @isaackuo Because it sounds like the way they are using this is making low, slow passes so little bits of super hot molten metal gets all over and starts fire. It's almost a molten sprinkler effect.
@Cadbury_Moose @isaackuo I wonder if they have some sort of rotating piece of ceramic that moves as the molten metal passes over it so that it goes in all directions or some sort of static deflector plate. Would love to see more videos of these things in action.
@Vive_Levant les vieilles R5 avaient la commande de lave vitre au pied. Je l'ai découvert sur un freinage d'urgence où en me crispant j'ai appuyé sur le passage de roue et ça a arrosé le pare brise 😂
The response of Chinese military aircraft to the Japanese planes repeatedly conducting close reconnaissance in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone was entirely reasonable and professional, a Chinese defense spokesman said on Sunday mor…
A Simple Fix for the Healthcare Crisis: Outlaw Insurance
Both sides in the health care debate have vested interests in screwing the pooch, so to speak, and little interest in solving the problem. Neither side ever asks, "What is the problem?"
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Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio has become one of the latest schools to close its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) office following the implementation of anti-DEI legislation in the state.
Amid an ongoing dispute over tariffs, the US is pressuring the EU to revise its digital regulations and is angling for a seat at the table. How much room for manoeuvre does Big Tech really have?
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DOGE Boy Marko Elez, who still has access to a broad swath of US databases, exposed the key to several LLMs used by Grok over the weekend. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge...
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S.
Trump: "Adam Shiff was a scam artist. And now I learn that Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff has engaged in a sustained pattern of possible Mortgage Fraud. Adam Schiff said that his primary residence was in MARYLAND to get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America, when he must LIVE in CALIFORNIA because he was a Congressman from CALIFORNIA..." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…
I have always suspected Shifty Adam Shiff was a scam artist. And now I learn that Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff has engaged in a sustained pattern of possible Mortgage Fraud.
A drone strike hit the Sarsang oil field in Iraq’s Duhok province early Tuesday, igniting a fire and halting operations. Operated by US-based HKN Energy, the...
@hyc @mirabilos yeah this is why i usually avoid using emoji altogether. The first is someone staring silently and expressionless (at modern C) The second is a cute alien woman clapping her hands together excitedly (Nei from Phantasy Star II) at C89/C99
I might be wrong, but I think they are called custom emoji nearly universally and just emoji in ActivityPub itself. Probably not the best term, but that is what we currently have 🤷
Stickers, in the 90s? Are you sure? I believe we've been calling them smileys. I don't have any BBS software sources at hand, but PHPbb and SMF were among the most popular forum engines in the early 2000s, both call them smileys, e.g. here: github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/… github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF/…
Sticker is a relatively "young" term IMO, I think I encountered it for the first time when dealing with Telegram or something like that.
Admin -> Forum -> Smileys and Message Icons Click Modify on any of the sets, try and set it as the default set using the checkbox. Doesn't seem to work. Workaround is use the settings tab.
Oh, yes, that could be true! 🤔 But I see, @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org means real-life objects that inspired them — makes sense, but for me it wasn't like that. This could also be country and language specific. In any case — yes, for the sake of correctness, emojis are original Japanese characters, but I personally don't mind the term being used more broadly 😁
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I think there was a belief that Trump was going to be the "disclosure president." I have come to the conclusion that we mistakenly believe that the president (and that goes for any president) has more power and control than he really has. For instance, once Trump released the JFK documents, most of us thought there was nothing dramatic in those documents; that there was no reason these weren't released decades ago, and hence, the meaningful stuff has been held back.
@karnage If there was no there there, why did previous administrations actively seek to skirt complying with legislation that required the release of the JFK documents? Why did Secretary of State Mike Pompeo counsel Trump against fully releasing all the documents during Trump's first term?
This morning harvest. Cucumbers are starting to go gangbusters and pepper are still a bit small due to the drought, Tomato's are still thinking about budding more.
Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), declassified and publicly released files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his sexual exploitation of over 250 underage girls at …
If you're asking about a document that says: "Here are the people who I sold illegal sex from minors, signed J. Epstein", well, that probably does not exist, for obvious reason.
The real point is in his presidential campaign, Trump promised to do SOMETHING with the Epstein case, and now that he's president, nothing new has happened and he wants everyone to forget about it. Nobody has been indicted, no document has been disclosed.
So I'll accept that by your definition there's no list, but I think it's incumbent on you to prove that you're not wearing the Fell For It Again Award...
Yeah, there has to be a ton of financial crime evidence in there. It's a typcial white collar crime and the people he surrounded himself with were all very affluent white collar workers.
Chain of Custody When the AG released the binders she was under the assumption that's what was held that wasn't under Seal of the Court. A Whistle Blower came forward and stated the SDNY FBI was sitting on mountains of evidence. Now, if that evidence was being held in other locations outside the SOP of DOJ Evidence and Archiving, then it stands to reason the Chain of Custody had been broken by unknown actors.
@karnageIt is also naïve to think that any political part or organisation is not infested with compromised people. I now think that it is not possible to obtain any political power unless you have skeletons that can be held over you. It certainly explains why so many of our politicians think, act and talk in lockstep.
People are just assuming that the Trump administration is sitting on evidence of crimes against children, and I haven't seen any proof of that. Personally, I think all substantial evidence is long gone.
The "list" is several thousand documents and data objects deemed sufficient to start a conviction process and due diligence filing. A single piece of paper - even if it was "These following people banged minors at my island. Signed J. Epstein" - does not exist. Unfortunately, that's the narrative that's been sold by spokespeople and the media. Right now, I don't care about the long term; I just want people to be indicted and removed from power.
Donald Trump and Prince Andrew have mutually agreed to pretend not to know each other during the US President’s upcoming state visit to the UK. Trump has formally accepted an invitation from King C…
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Byline Times: Nigel Farage Says He Wants to Scrap the Two-Child Benefit Cap - But There's Something He's Not Telling You bylinetimes.com/2025/07/14/nig…
The Reform leader needs to be reminded whose idea it was to push hundreds of thousands of children into poverty in the first place, writes Josiah Mortimer
@DavidAsmanfox · 2h And talk about clinging to power…this practically assures that cop-hating, Israel-hating, business-hating socialist Mamdani will be NYC’s next mayor.
Il a osé le dire: "Les très riches sont déjà très éreintés et très essorés", s'émeut le député LR Philippe Juvin, sur France Info. L'élu estime que taxer les plus riches "n'apportera qu'une goutte d'eau" et que le vrai sujet est de "travailler plus comme en Allemagne". Alors que les 500 Français les plus riches ont vu leur fortune multipliée par 14 en 3 décennies, selon un classement Challenges tandis que le nombre de pauvres a explosé en France...
Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- The Israeli government has revived plans to expand illegal settlements in the sensitive E1 area east of occupied Jerusalem, Haaretz reported Monday. The move th
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WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.
Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).
(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)
So... I printed a pocket sized gas filter cartridge to mouth adapter. It fits and works! Great for all the other times when one doesn't want to carry a full face respirator around everywhere for the occasional less than lethal dog fart.
I found this has already been designed, "3M Filter Adapter for Snorkel Mask (dual or single filter)" and I chose the single filter and printed it, and here is the success. It will need an oring (which can be printed with TPU filament LOL.) The only change I would make is printing it slightly smaller at 98% for a better fit to the cartridge and 100% infill for strength, so just started another print.
And possibly another revision, to print the whole thing in TPU as this is held by the mouth and teeth 😁
Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages on 6,000 adults.
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I had a sad dream about my recently departed beloved cat Lola, woke up crying, cried some more, felt awful. Had to start my day anyway. Had a lot of household chores to do. Did them. I’m still sad and crying occasionally, but I gotta admit doing chores made me feel better. “Service,” “esteemable acts,” those things do help.
UNITED NATIONS, July 14 (YPA) - The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously voted to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeida Agreement (UNMHA) for an additional six and a half months.The UK drafted the resolution on
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The NASA-supported fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4, completed its flight as part of the agency’s efforts to demonstrate demand and build operational knowledge for future commercial space stations. The four-person crew safely returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of California at 5:31 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, […]
I really appreciate The Nation as a publication. Their latest issue has analysis by a writer from 50 states, honing in on one issue in each state.
In this piece on Arizona, the writer looks at how our media environment creates a self -destructive performativity incompatible with a healthy democracy.
"In the run-up to the Civil War, congressmen of all persuasions paid close attention to how they were covered in the press."
We should all hold out hope that things will improve, that despite how bleak it may look, things have a way of getting better, or if they don’t that we ourselves can improve and be changed by circumstance into something more than we believed we could be.
However placing your hope IN some government, some country, some politician, some ideology or some policy is foolish.
We must all learn to draw this distinction, and stay on the right side of the line.
Other than God the only other place to put your hope is in your fellow man…..a disappointment in most cases to be sure. But it doesn’t take a majority to move the needle…..
I always hit the hopium pipe. I think I built up a bit of a tolerance though. My IDGAF attitude has been poking through a bit more than usual. IRL I focus only on things that I can affect. My prepared person philosophy takes care of everything else. I'm a survivor so no matter what happens I'll get by. Hope for the best prepare for the worst.
Πρώην Ειδικός Εισηγητής του ΟΗΕ Δηλώνει ότι η Φραντσέσκα Αλμπανέζε Αξίζει το Βραβείο Νόμπελ, Όχι τις Κυρώσεις των ΗΠΑ (Μάρτζορι Κον)
Η Ειδική Εισηγήτρια του ΟΗΕ για την Κατεχόμενη Παλαιστίνη, Φραντσέσκα Αλμπανέζε, μιλά κατά τη διάρκεια εκδήλωσης με τίτλο «Σταματήστε τη Γενοκτονία, Ελεύθερη Παλαιστίνη» στη Μαδρίτη της Ισπανίας, στις 23 Ιουνίου 2025. Πρώην Ειδικός Εισηγητής του ΟΗΕ Δηλώνει ότι η Φραντσέσκα Αλμπανέζε Αξίζει το Βραβείο Νόμπελ, Όχι τις Κυρώσεις των ΗΠΑ Οι…
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Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner has reinforced his position at the top of the ATP world rankings, released today, Monday, following his first-ever Wimbledon championship victory—the third Grand Slam tournament of the year.
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in reply to emptywheel • • •Focusing on Jan6 is presumably a bid to get Thom Tillis (who claims to have a litmus test tied to Jan6) to not be a coward. CNN first wrote up the letter here. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/15/p...
More than 75 former judges urg...