<<Iran News: Official Threatens European Cities with Drone Strikes Amid Rising Tensions>>
Oh well
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In a televised interview broadcast on Iranian state TV on July 12, former senior Iranian official Mohammad Javad Larijani openly warned that EuropeanMehdi Oghbai (Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran)
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.www.documentcloud.org
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...
"There's somebody in the public who's going to be outraged by the cuts"
The 13-inch MacBook Pro is supercharged by M2. It’s our most portable pro laptop with all-day battery life and a gorgeous Retina display.Apple
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Former Braves players Freddie Freeman and Max Fried are making their return to Atlanta as All-Stars
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WNBA players and the league are far apart on new CBA talks ahead of in-person discussions
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Estonia has 7 golf courses, a 5-month season and a 20-year-old amateur at the British Open
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@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.
Maybe call this one a distraction drone.
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.
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@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:
I don't know the size and mass of the Ukrainian ones, but it'd have to be a lot bigger and heavier to produce such large amounts of incendiaries.
@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.
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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".)
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…eng.chinamil.com.cn
Ça commence par "nous dépensons plus que nos recettes"'.
Ça commence donc mal pour un moment de vérité.
La surprise est totale.
"je sais pas ce que je fais là, je veux rentrer à la maison"
Ovation suivie d'une démission, l'assemblée se lève les larmes aux yeux et continue jusqu'à avoir mal aux mains ~
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?"
The problem is simple to understand -- medical costs are too expensive in America. Fortunately, the solution is just as simple -- outlaw insurance. Insurance is a form of gambling, and, like any casino, insurance companies . . . stormfront.org/forum/blogs/u15…
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.www.campusreform.org
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?Cynthia Kroet (Euronews.com)
🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
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Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrongJohn Cole (Yorkshire Bylines)
The House Rules Committee voted 7-5 to BLOCK the House vote demanding Attorney General Pam Bondi release the Epstein files.
Each of the 7 "NO" votes were Republicans.
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Here are the pro-sex-trafficking members.
Against Releasing the Files:
Virginia Foxx (Republican, North Carolina)
Michelle Fischbach (Republican, Minnesota)
Erin Houchin (Republican, Indiana)
Nick Langworthy (Republican, New York)
Austin Scott (Republican, Georgia)
Morgan Griffith (Republican, Virginia)
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...
DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked...
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.krebsonsecurity.com
EU ministers discuss deal with Israel to increase Gaza aid
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Employees at the nation's consumer financial watchdog say it's become toothless under Trump
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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.Truth Social
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Obvious and common sense. Things that seem to escape politicians
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Growing number of campaigners urge government to ensure green investment is not done ‘on backs of the poor’Matthew Taylor (The Guardian)
Iran blew up US Oil Field in Iraq
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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...YouTube
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The Sun has irresponsibly spun new DWP figures to sow racist division - with a deliberate omission: these 'migrants' are not migrants at allSteve Topple (The Canary)
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ActivityPub is wrong, these are not emoji, not even "custom" ones.
We called them stickers even in the 1990s, so. Do.
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:
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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.Trekkie101 (GitHub)
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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Can justice, conducted in secret, ever truly be justice?Lewis Goodall (LBC)
By: Emma Buckley The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass.Deputy Managing Editor (Working Mass)
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Everything But the Helicopters…
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"…Disaster “Anarcho”-Capitalism Comes to Argentina Argentina’s self-described “anarcho-capitalist” President, Javier Milei, has — to put it mildly — generated considerable enthusiasm on the libertarian right in the United States. Shortly after Milei’s election in December 2023, Reason’s Katarina Hall praised an omnibus bill successfully pushed through by “the libertarian president” for policies tha"
Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires.Wormhole
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Another is Croc, full P2P, also FOSS
End-to-end encrypted file transfer. Contribute to stophecom/sharrr-svelte development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Challenge: Prove that an Epstein client list exists.
Over the last 4 years that I have been collecting and cataloging news and memes I have saved almost 60K images.
I read every charging document on Ghislaine Maxwell, and I saved every piece of evidence related to the case that I could find.
I have never seen proof that an "Epstein client list" even exists let alone that it would be trustworthy if it did.
Is there anyone that can prove it exists? I seriously doubt it.
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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…NewsThump
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 MortimerJosiah Mortimer (Byline Times)
Goodbye, NYC.
David Asman on X:
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And talk about clinging to power…this practically assures that cop-hating, Israel-hating, business-hating socialist Mamdani will be NYC’s next mayor.
Expansion WNBA team brings back the original Portland Fire name
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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 thEditing Team (Quds News Network)
Opinion: Mozilla's management is a bug, not a featureLiam Proven (The Register)
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.)
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WeTransfer is the simplest way to send your files around the worldWeTransfer - Send Large Files & Share Photos Online - Up to 2GB Free
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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 😁
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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.Sam Bright (DeSmog)
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Ceci n'est pas une baguette : c'est un sac Moschino
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"Supermarché Chanel, burgers géants signés Moschino, orgies néo-baroques chez Gucci… Le luxe s'empare de la nourriture pour en faire une démonstration d'abondance, une esthétique de la satiété qui oublie volontiers la faim des autres. « En dehors de son talent de couturier, Christian Dior fut un gourmet passionné, à la recherche des recettes les plus subtiles et les plus raffinées.
Kim Jong Un stresses Pyongyang-Moscow alliance during Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to North Korea.Al Jazeera
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 onعماد (Yemen Press Agency)
a good movie about a type of person polticians and corporates hire a lot
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The Killer Man 2 - Hollywood English Movie | Blockbuster Michael Fassbender Action Full Movies In English killer man,michael fassbender,hollywood action mo...YouTube
« Les empires s'épuisent avant les peuples »
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"Dans son dernier livre, La guerre globale contre les peuples – Mécanique impériale de l'ordre sécuritaire (La Fabrique, 2025) Mathieu Rigouste, chercheur en sciences sociales et militant, nous embarque dans une histoire moderne de la contre-insurrection. Face aux régimes et leurs innovations sécuritaires, les peuples, qui savent ce qu'ils veulent, gagnent du terrain. Entretien. Depuis 20
Dans son dernier livre, La guerre globale contre les peuples – Mécanique impériale de l’ordre sécuritaire (La Fabrique, 2025) Mathieu Rigouste, (…)CQFD, mensuel de critique et d'expérimentation sociales
"If you learn everything except Christ, you learn nothing. If you learn nothing except Christ, you learn everything."
— St. Bonaventure
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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."
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The country and the nation: Fifty writers and artists report on the states of our dis-union.The Nation
Hope can be a tricky thing.
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.
Well said.
There are those who look at 'saviors' in our politicans. Biden or Que Mala will save our democracy!
When Trump won, these same people claimed Trump supporters were a cult. Who knows, some may be.
However, intelligent people realized Trump had many good statements and was better than any alternative available.
Of course we are disappointed. We did not expect the yellow brick road.
However, we need to defend against the cultists who worship big gubmint sans Trump.
Native American teens kayak major US river to celebrate removal of dams and return of salmon
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Πρώην Ειδικός Εισηγητής του ΟΗΕ Δηλώνει ότι η Φραντσέσκα Αλμπανέζε Αξίζει το Βραβείο Νόμπελ, Όχι τις Κυρώσεις των ΗΠΑ (Μάρτζορι Κον)
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NYC subway service operational but some roads in NY and NJ remain closed after heavy rains
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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.www.saba.ye
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