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Remember, Nigel Farage is the man who said this: Now at last a party political leader has had enough: Watch Ed Davey(LibDem leader) go after the BBC "for not doing a very good job of exposing Nigel Farage." #BBCBreakfast pic.twitter.
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So my mother had gone to the hospital the other day. They initially thought she had a stroke and were very gloomy about her chances of recovery. However, she has mostly recovered and is now home. it turned out to be a TIA brought on by a UTI.
Is someone who has years of experience doing PR for fossil fuel companies wrecking the planet the best choice to oversee the Foreign Office? Obviously not, writes Adam Ramsay.
On the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Foreign Ministers’ Council held July 15 in Tianjin, China, there were several important meetings.
"Les anarchistes ont de tous temps été sensibles aux injustices sociales, aux inégalités et aux iniquités raciales (Elisée Reclus, Lucy Parsons etc.), ces questions sont au fondement même de l’anarchisme. Certains wokistes rejettent le principe de lutte des classes sous couvert que la lutte de classes est systématiquement opposée à … L’article Fidèles à nos fondamentaux anarchistes est
Unfortunately, there's racism (or more specifically sectarianism) even among the Palestine solidarity folks, especially among Arabs. They could not extend the same solidarity to those who are negatively affected by the same violent actor.
The essence of White Nationalism is the idea that Whites have a right to exist as a people. This implies that they have the same right as all other people to freedom of association, in other words, they have the right to build institutions, communities, and even countries constituted of White people for the express purpose of preserving their genetic and cultural heritage. White Nationalism makes . . . stormfront.org/forum/blogs/u15…
In Ball of Thread, @thefarce.org & I spent much of last year documenting how Trump has set up loyalty structure Trump has been trying to expand to include Epstein in recent posts. This episode explains how they substituted the dossier for the real RU investigation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiwC...
Where did Kash Patel come from?On March 22, 2017, Devin Nunes went to the White House to announce his “concerns” about intelligence gathering on the Trump tr...
The final Ball of Thread answers how Donald Trump won and defeated the rule of law, for now. His grievance myth. That’s how he got here. That’s why we must e...
There are obvious logical problems w/his attempt now--so obvious EVEN Benny Johnson smells a rat, which is saying something. But it's important to understand how EVEN disseminating his tweets helps to enforce the polarization he's relying on. www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/13/j...
If you ever need to "reset" a cast iron skillet and you have a woodstove, just get the fire going strongly, then put the cast iron right into the stove. Let the fire finish up, and _let the cast iron cool down_. All the cruft will have burnt off to a white ash. Clean, and you can apply a new seasoning.
Parti à 15h25 de chez mes parents pour avoir un train à 16h11 à Nancy, en 45mn normalement c'est large faisable. Mais c'était sans compter avec le #pdvdfsm tout le long du canal 😬
Du coup j'ai bourré comme un cochon, bien à plat dans les prolongateurs, autant que possible avec un sac sur le dos... et je suis arrivé en a peine plus de 30mn, totalement trempé de sueur. Bordel, parfois je me déteste 🥲
heureusement que j'avais prévu des fringues civiles dans le-dit sac à dos, je voulais les garder pour ce soir mais je crois que je vais aller me changer aux toilettes quand j'aurai séché un peu 🙃
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Le grand magasin inauguré par Emmanuel Macron en 2021 devait être la vitrine du groupe #LVMH à Paris. Il relève en réalité de la gabegie, avec 110 millions d’euros de pertes en deux ans. LVMH va le placer sous la tutelle du Bon Marché, son autre enseigne parisienne, largement bénéficiaire.
Le grand magasin inauguré par Emmanuel Macron en 2021 devait être la vitrine du groupe LVMH à Paris. Il relève en réalité de la gabegie, avec 110 millions d’euros de pertes en deux ans.
US outspends everyone on war (74% of global military budget) while Global South rises. China now leads 57/64 key technologies—US only 7.
BRICS+ and South-South trade surge as nations ditch dollar dominance. From Burkina Faso’s anti-French coups to Latin America’s left wave, nations are shaking off western dominance.
In July 2015, social and political movements gathered for the Second Dilemmas of Humanity Conference and set in motion what would become Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
The The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED), a two-stage stratospheric drop test architecture, is currently under development to bridge the state-of-the-art gap that many NASA flagship missions require to reduce system risk and enable more optimized designs via margin reduction. To do this, a two-stage vehicle will drop from a high-altitude balloon and […]
For Dr. Sullivan, the damage was much worse. He says his lung capacity was slashed by HALF after taking the COVID shots the government recommended.
After a period of being unsure if the damage was in his head or not, Dr. Sullivan was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, a dangerous condition that elevates blood pressure and forces the heart to work much harder to pump blood to the lungs.
Leinenpflicht wegen Brut- und Setzzeit ist vorbei. Seit heute. Erster Typ, der seinen Hund neben/hinter dem Auto herlaufen lässt, noch dazu auf Feldwegen, auf denen Autos nicht fahren dürfen, UND im Naturschutzgebiet – heute.
Has anyone else noticed that in #gimp3, the lasso tool keeps defaulting to "subtract" mode rather than "add"? Anyone know a way to stop this? I keep drawing careful selections only to hit enter and realize that I've subtracted it from my existing selection and need to start over.
@bodhipaksa Yes, but that doesn't help if you've already got a complex selection you've just accidentally subtracted from, while intending to add to it.
right, not using GIMP 3 (because Debian), but in my version the "Free select tool" has a mode in its properties that you can change. Then that dialog has a button at the bottom that says "Save tool preset".
I wonder if it is related and pressing enter is changing the behaviour, because saving a preset should definitely set the default (unless there's another bug there).
Was fixed in 3.0.2; depending on your version this may be red herring.
Hi! Hmm - is it reseting to subtract mode each time you restart GIMP or when you switch tools? I haven't been able to replicate so far, but I'll look into it.
By chance, if you hold Shift while in Subtract mode, does it switch you back to Add mode?
@CmykStudent Not sure - just know that I have *never* consciously switched the lasso mode to "subtract" but I *constantly* have to switch it back to "add."
It may be that this setting is being restored every time I relaunch Gimp (which is pretty often, as Gimp 3 crashes a *lot*).
Holding shift in subtract mode allows for temporary adding (and vice versa). But since my default assumption is that I'm in "add" mode, I don't hold the shift key, because that would subtract from current selection.
It may be that if you change the setting to Add but GIMP crashes, the setting isn't being saved on exit. If you open GIMP, switch the setting, close and reopen, is Add retained?
As for crashes, please feel free to report the stacktrace on our bug tracker if you haven't already: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/ac… We're trying to fix them all, but some are difficult to reproduce without more info (like, some bugs only affect Flatpak, others only on macOS, etc).
Interesting. It doesn't do that for me (with Debian packages gimp-3.0.4-3). Now that I've clicked the "Add" mode button, my lasso tool is now set to add by default, even when changing tools, even in different images' windows, even after restarting GIMP.
(That said, I have trained myself to use those keyboard shortcuts, except when I accidentally confuse Shift (add) and Control (subtract), at which point I get the opposite of what I wanted.)
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. Omer Bartov NYT JUL 15, 2025
' ... My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one ...''
A little reminder that DuckDuckGo is venture capital (VC) funded.
The way VC works:
1. You get VC 2. You grow as fast as you can (or fail fast) 3. You sell (either to a larger corporation or to the public in an IPO; this is called the “exit”)
(In case any of you are surprised by recent/future developments.)
- News (MSN) - AI - <insert future enshittification to sweeten the exit here>
(I’m sure there are some I’ve missed; I’m currently paying for Kagi and don’t use it day to day. Not saying Kagi is perfect in any way either; this is not an endorsement.)
This is the Silicon Valley “startup” model. Startups are not long-term sustainable businesses or small businesses. A startup is a temporary business designed to either grow exponentially and exit (sell) or to fail fast.
this. The business is a speculative asset, not generating cashflow from customers but designed to be sold to a greater fool(s) for an inflated valuation.
@aral@ar.al I use DDG (switched to the noai version recently) but I fully expect to have to bail at some point. Loyalty to any corporate owned internet service is a mugs game these days eh.
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Note, while I won't post Trump's spectacle from Truth Social, he keeps making allegations about where the Hunter Biden laptop comes from that do not match the public record (here, in his bathroom, before, from beside his bed), but DO match where Keith Ablow "found" a laptop he sat on for a year.
From a French Revolution museum exhibit in Paris… they wore jewelry with guillotines… ahahaha This is a pair of guillotine earrings with the heads of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI.
My friend tried Linux 5 years ago. His computer is now not supported by Windows 11, so I told him give Linux another try but he said that "Linux wouldn't have changed in that time."
Just want to say, I now run Fedora and this is 100% usable and I daily drive it. I don't know if anything has changed, but hey, I can game, my life it complete.
Texas mid-cycle redistricting to try to pick up 5 seats really is a gamble if you go inside the numbers, as I did. To pull it off almost requires making several Republican seats vulnerable to a wave election, using 5-year-old Census data in a fast-growing state.prospect.org/politics/202...
After its defeat, Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich was coaxed back to life by the very forces that once conspired to defeat it.
Germany today has dangerously embarked on a rearmament campaign to prepare for a supposed Russian threat.
Note, while I won't post Trump's spectacle from Truth Social, he keeps making allegations about where the Hunter Biden laptop comes from that do not match the public record (here, in his bathroom, before, from beside his bed), but DO match where Keith Ablow "found" a laptop he sat on for a year.
Today marks an absolutely unique day in History: on July 16,1945,with the #TrinityTest,humanity entered the #NuclearEra.
My book #LArmaFinale -based on 23 years of my work on #NuclearWeapons(it will be out July 25) - reconstructs, among other things, massive cover-up and lies
Qwant and Ecosia join forces to develop European Search Index European search engine tech to go-live in 2025. EUSP will develop a privacy-first search index, which will be used by both Ecosia and Qwant. Unlike proprietary solutions, EUSP’s index will be available to other independent search engines and technology companies. Source
Habe meine Reshare wieder zurück genommen. Ich mag keine KI, die mir die Suchergebnisse versaut! Ich will eine reine Textsuche und selber entscheiden, in welche Richtung die Suche geht. Dafür darf es auch gerne länger dauern. So wie es war, als Google noch nicht böse war. Metager war damals auch sehr gut. Heute spülen mir auch die Metasuchmaschinen der Ki-Schrott in die Ergebnisse. Bitte nicht sowas!
I switched to @kagihq as my default search engine more than a year ago. I don't have to worry about hallucinations or SEO spam. The monthly cost is modest and search feels like it did when "I'm feeling lucky" really made me feel lucky.
No affiliation, not a bot. Actual human deeply disappointed by Google's enshittification.
The #EU #DMA compliance workshops exist to regulate gatekeepers powers, yet both #Apple and #Google treat them like "product launches" where non-engineers show slides and can never answer questions.
The Android play-field, instead of taking steps to respect the DMA, Google shrinks what Android even is. If Apple can own its closed iOS, Google figured they can privatize Android?
Maybe it being #FOSS for 17 years was just a glitch and now Android is out of the famous Google betas?
* "Android is... quarterly source-code over the wall called AOSP" * "Android is... not GMS or Play Integrity" * "Android is... not the device trees or driver binaries of Pixel phones" * "Android is... not part of the monthly security reports"
I think they definitely have begun to realize that they sort of painted themselves into a corner by giving us something so open. They want to be like Apple and make money hand over fist locking people into a platform -- and honestly, some of what Gapps is doing these days and how they're doing stuff exclusive to the most recent Pixels only is really starting to get there. I'm convinced Google will legitimately lock Android down soon and I don't think third parties are ready for this.
I really wish people would put their collective foot down on Google's current practices now, before it's too late, but we all know it will only happen after it's way too late.
Baltimore has started treated violent crime like a public health issue. The city is literally "sending social workers," as the law-and-order right derisively puts it. And it's working. popular.info/p/the-secret...
"It's cheaper to buy the default search box everywhere in the world than it is to make a product that is so good that even if we tried another search engine, we'd still prefer Google. This is enshittification."
It's been more than a year since I gave up on Google Search (I switched to Kagi.com and never looked back). I don't miss it. It had gotten terrible. It's gotten worse since, thanks to AI (of course):
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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#YearOfTheGoon is over now