Evening Reflection: In just a few days, it will be BSD Cafe's second birthday. Two years ago, I never anticipated what would follow. What was once a dream - this kind of community - has transformed into a reality. I set the table, but the Cafe isn't just me; it's all of you.
It's the Fediverse, it's Matrix, it's a group of people who want to communicate, who want positivity, who want to grow, who have a passion and an interest. This morning, I announced the Journal, and the enthusiasm shown was comparable. And that, for me, was a gift.

Even though it's not yet Tuesday here, it already is in many places. While I might sound repetitive, I feel compelled to dedicate this #ThankYouTuesday to you all: friends of BSD Cafe (both in and outside the cafe), of the Fediverse, of Matrix, of every communication channel.
Because FREE communication channels are tools, and they are merely extensions of people.

Wonderful people, who make the world a little less bleak.

Thank you.

#ThankYou #BSDCafe #Fediverse #World

Michael Hudson: How the Global Majority can free itself from US financial colonialism
* The success of China’s model poses a threat to the neoliberal order
* Taxing economic rent is a precondition for economic sovereignty
* Debt remission is a precondition for economic sovereignty
* China’s success has made a global alternative attainable
* The strategy of creditor-rentier nations to prevent withdrawal from their global control
* How U.S.-centered financial colonialism replaced European colonial occupation
* Moves toward a multipolar world order
* Summary

In this article: #banks #BRICS #China #colonialism #dollar #finance #imperialism #MichaelHudson #Russia

@Acta Populi2025-07-18 17:52:03
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Sex Fox Friday
She thinks herself a seductress and she wouldn't be far off in that thought. The wisdom filled whispers played at the exact right moment. A "chance" encounter planned far ahead in advance. A tube fox does as she likes.
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Sheikh Qassem: Let's unite around the priority—once the threat is gone, we're ready to discuss a defense and national security strategy. english.alahednews.news/fastne…

"After all, you don't need a thousand-node cloud to write something worth reading."

This phrase appears in the "under the hood" section of my blog.
Just now I was reading a post by an "influencer" on a well-known social media platform. The post was biased, lacking in content, useless. Digital waste. A waste of bits and energy. Shortly after, I read a fantastic post written by a user of a #snac instance, and I know it's running on a Raspberry Pi, at their home.
And that phrase immediately came to mind.

Goodnight, world.

#Reflection

Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux

The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linu…
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Russian courts have sentenced 135 people to prison for taking part in a mass anti-Israel protest in Dagestan in 2023. The sentences range from 6.5 to 15 years.

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#Russia #Protest #Dagestan #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Fascism #Politics

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

This is a war crime.

"It is forbidden to destroy the enemy's property unless it is imperatively demanded by the necessity of war"

#Israel levelling thousands of #Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions - BBC News
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#EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced Tuesday that the EU chose not to #sanction #Israel over its actions in #Gaza, following a meeting of EU foreign ministers. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called it a “diplomatic victory,” praising efforts to block sanctions pushed by #Ireland, #Spain, and others.

Kallas acknowledged “positive signs” after Israel’s recent agreement to increase aid to Gaza but emphasized that “more concrete steps” remain necessary.

Just days later, Gaza is facing unprecedented #famine with hundreds flooding already overwhelmed hospitals due to severe starvation.

This morning, Palestinians seeking aid in #Rafah were shot dead as Israel continues to block vital fuel supplies critical for Gaza’s medical facilities.

I AM ASHAMED TO BE PART OF THIS CRIMINAL GENOCIDE PROTECTING ENTITY .

#Genocide #Starvation #Complicity #Shame #EUppl #Politics #Palestine

@israel @europe @palestine@a.gup.pe @palestine@lemmy.ml

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Record advances for Russia’s armed forces in Ukraine while neo-Nazi ideology continues its rise in Kiev

In May 2025, JPMorganChase financial analysts predicted a ceasefire by July 2025, with the most likely scenario being along the lines of the truce in Georgia, which followed the brief war there in 2008. According to this scenario, Ukraine after the war would not receive reliable security guarantees from the West, would remain unstable, and eventually, after one or two changes of government, would fall into Russia's sphere of influence. Although Georgia is not a country friendly to Russia, the West considers it so because of the persistent refusal by the government there to consider launching a second, suicidal conflict with Russia.

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Outraged Victims Stop Dems' Palisades Land Grab

During a slowdown of permit activity for L.A. fire victims trying to rebuild their lost homes, legislators in Sacramento were trying to write a law to allow the state and county officials to "bank" the properties, & build low-income housing in some of the highest-end real estate in the county.

Fire victims would lose their properties to a proposed county agency that would use tax dollars to separate them from their land.
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Mexico expresses outrage over the removal of Fidel and Che Guevara statues cubanews.acn.cu/world/27243-me…

Να κανω και ενα αφιερωμα στον υπεργηρο @tromo με το λυγερο κορμί.
Tρόμε, έλα να πιουμε ρε κωλογερε.

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Historia de tres amigos de la dulce libertad
Si se hicieron anarquistas no fue por casualidad
Buenaventura Durruti, Ascaso y García Oliver
Llamados Los Solidarios, que desprecian al poder

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in reply to Δρ. Φελέκι

Απο κει ερχεται ο Ντουρουτι

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Por allí viene Durruti con una carta en la mano
donde pone la miseria de este pueblo soberano.
Por allí viene Durruti con un libro en el morral
donde apunta los millones que ha robado el capital.

in reply to Δρ. Φελέκι

Lucharemos codo a codo
sin ponernos etiquetas.
Los mismos amos tenemos,
la misma cárcel nos cierra.

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in reply to 𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋

The best thing about this is that no matter what Trump does, what he does will hurt him. If he releases anything, he'll be accused of not releasing everything.

Trump has always managed to keep the conspiracy nuts looking at his enemies, but now he's tripped up. Once those people latch on to a perceived conspiracy, they never let go.

"But the building has no basement!" "You just haven't found the entrance yet."

"I just don't believe a US Marine Corps sharpshooter could have hit Kennedy from that window." The Kennedy shooting is my best example of this. It's been 62 years, and the conspiracy theories still live on.

An now Trump has filed a lawsuit against Murdoch and his newspaper. This will not help Trump. Even if he wins, he loses. Winning this lawsuit will not stop the conspiracy theory. The lawsuit itself backs up the theory. It shows Trump is afraid of any reporting about Epstein.

I noticed this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_…

Τζίμης #Πανούσης - Με λένε Πόπη (Παράσταση στο Κεντρί) DVD-Rip (Μερικώς υποτιτλισμένο)

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europesays.com/uk/273090/ Trump talks tough on Russia, but will he follow through? | Russia-Ukraine war #DonaldTrump #Europe #Opinions #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #UnitedStates #US&Canada

'Unity is the only way to break free from neocolonialism' — Juliana Lumumba odysee.com/Lumumba-Congo:98a35…

Title: Treading the Infinite

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in reply to RegalBeagle

They would have simply tried to leave Madagascar

Deporting the Kikes will never work because it does not prevent them from just scamming people in a new location, then returning to the original location

The only solution to Kikery is education

If more than half of the population know how Kikes scam people then less than half the population can fall for their scams

Imagine if a Indian Telemarketer called people all day and they just hung up on them because they know it's a scam

This is a press release from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence:

"The information... clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government. Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people,” said DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
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TFM now argues that women aren't the issue after all, as men are indeed the ones enforcing feminism, BUT ONLY because they're simps! And how do you solve the problem? You stop men from simping, by giving all of them chinese AI wifus! Turns out more dystopia is the solution. Thanks China!

Except, men don't enforce feminism because they're simps. In fact, they enforce many other bad things that have nothing to do with women whatsoever. So what is actually driving men to empower women?

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in reply to Based_Accelerationist

Is the solution to accept Digital Currency let the whole system rely on it,then topple the power grid of the data centers with EMPs or hack Elons satellites that process the transaction,either way you would try they could go back in time and edit the event,the current monetary system has to be destroyed for the weak to lose control and the strong to thrive
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You see, men enforce feminism (and the rest of the tyranny) because, wait for it, they get PAID to do it!
Breaking news, am I right?

And if you openly resist, the other shabbos goys will ruin your life.

If you WERE to give all the men AI wifus, or hell, real women by taking their rights away, men would keep enforcing all the tyranny, but with an even bigger smile on their faces. Great idea.

It's almost as if China and incels aren't the solution to slavery and Judaism...

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Short Supply: Empathy, Attention, and America’s Legal Labyrinth projectcensored.org/empathy-at…

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Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 - this processor was released just a year before I started my current business. That doesn't seem that long ago, but here it is in a "retro computing" video.

#retro #intel

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I Le discours tenu par les « biens pensants » du gouvernement et des éditorialistes des médias sur le travail et les français commençant à me chauffer le foie, la rate et tutti quanti, petit #Fil ou #Thread pour remettre les choses au point by @russeurope(Jacques Sapir) | Twitter Thread Reader


#économie #politique #UE #euro

II Quelques faits : Le temps de travail par actif des français est supérieur (1489h) à celui des allemands (1335h). Le contrat de travail français prévoit en moyenne 38,2 heures par semaine, contre 36,6 heures pour les Allemands,
III Répéter comme des perroquets « les français ne travaillent pas assez » est stupide, et relève de la Fake News la plus totale.
Mais il est vrai que le taux d’emploi est + élevé en Allemagne qu’en France autrement dit que le chômage est + important dans notre pays.
IV Si le chômage est + important en France qu’en Allemagne c’est essentiellement un problème de compétitivité. Le produit français se vend plus mal que le produit allemand. Pourquoi ? Regardons les « suspects habituels » :
V (a)Problème de prix : le FMI montre depuis des années dans les External Sector Reports que l’Euro conduit à une surévaluation de la production française de 15%. (b) Problème de qualité (vrai parfois mais pas toujours) (c) Choix du type de produit par l’entreprise
VI Le problème (a) devrait se traiter par une dévaluation, comme lors de l’arrivée du Gen. De Gaulle en 1958, ou en 1971. Le problème (b) se traite par un effort de formation de la main d’oeuvre. Le problème (c) par un bon choix de l’entreprise
VII Aucun de ces problèmes ne se traite par un accroissement du travail. Faire travailler plus quand on a du mal à vendre ses produits et que l’on a déjà 7,4% de chômeurs (au sens du BIT) est simplement stupide et va aggraver les problèmes.
VIII Par contre, aucun de nos perroquets médiatiques ne parle de la baisse relative de la productivité du travail depuis 2021. Elle est pourtant importante (décrochage de 8%) mais largement inexpliquée
IX Or, une stagnation ou une baisse de la productivité détériore encore plus notre compétitivité ET empêche un financement correct des retraites. C’est donc une question décisive pour l’économie française.
X Mais, cette question de la productivité se traite (entre autres) par un effort accru d’investissement. Le problème est que, depuis plusieurs trimestres, l’investissement des entreprises, de l’État et des ménages baisse.
XI On voit qu’augmenter le travail de ceux qui déjà ont un travail est absurde puisque l’on ne pourra vendre plus. Faire baisser le chômage ne serait possible qu’en BAISSANT le temps de travail, tant que l’on ne vendra pas plus.
XII Pour résumer : augmenter le temps de travail (individuel ou collectif) n’a pas de sens tant que nous n’aurons pas dévalué (20%-25%), tant que la formation restera défaillante, et tant que nous n’investirons pas plus et massivement plus.

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