Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo

Wow. Antifa violently threatened the Portland ABC News affiliate @KATUNews outside the ICE facility.

After calling the news crew racial slurs, Antifa chased them while brandishing sticks as weapons. katu.com/news/local/resident-l…

Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it growth stunting overreach

Link: cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-europ…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

How reviews and ratings work on Itch

If you buy games, books, zines, assets, software, music or anything else on itch, please leave ratings!

They affect the order in which items are displayed in collections and jams, as well as in ranked search results.

Itch's top-rated lists weight games by both number of ratings and score, but aggregate ratings of less than five stars tend to disproportionately skew games' appearance on these lists downwards, so a template game with 18 reviews but a perfect five stars will appear several rows above a well-regarded commercial release with more ratings but an aggregate score of 4.8 stars.

This isn't a philosophy everyone can get behind, but it can thus be worth regarding ratings you leave as a Steam-style thumbs-up: if you like a thing, give it five stars.

When you leave a rating, you're given the option of leaving a review. The creator of the the thing you're reviewing will be able to read that, but it won't appear on the item's page - only an aggregated total of review scores appears, under the More information pull-down at the bottom of the description on its itch page.

If you want other people to read your words about that thing you like, you have to write it as a comment on the product's page.

You can also add items you like to collections and recommend them to your friends that way. People whose stuff you include in a collection can see that it's been included a collection and, if your collection is public, are shown a link to your collection in their analytics pages.

(We don't get to see your private collections, just that the number of collections our thing is in has gone up.)

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🌼 Summer Mobilizing for Peace | July KPNGN Newsletter #DPRK koreapeacenow.org/%f0%9f%8c%bc…
in reply to Smeetoo

@Smeetoo 2.5 billion.
I'm shocked that I think it's plain and boring and the number of listeners even on repeat putting it that high? Smh. It's not even interesting ambient background music.

Rick beato analyzes one of their songs and is impressed with the composition. But there is nothing about their songs that hook me.

How can all those people like it? There is a radically different perception of music.

The news today is all terrible, again. And that's me comparing it to the local conditions: a large black bear that has killed 5 sheep, and a donkey, right next door - a bear possibly now wounded - roaming in our suburban hamlet. This we will get past, but the country may not survive its bad news: the wanton destruction of all America's strengths, for the sake of making its failings Great Again.

It seems to me that most people in the US believe they can weather this unnatural disaster by hiding in a virtual closet, in the center hall of their poorly-built virtual house, and waiting for the shitstorm to pass. There are, of course, some fools standing out in the flying feces and cheering (I've just seen my first one here in the fediverse, and it's a bit disappointing). Far more are hiding.

And there are some - many, but not enough - raising alarms, trying to secure the storm doors. Lawyers, scientists, researchers, so many other professionals who my heart hurts for, as they watch their life's work tossed to the storm and destroyed. And ordinary people, too, calling attention to the rising tide of excrement while trying to avoid falling in, or being tossed out.

How do we wake people up, the people in the "safe" closet in the flimsy house? For the sake of our children, our grandchildren, the fucking planet, we need to stop this before it's the Antebellum South and Weimar Germany all rolled into one, a confluence engineered by Project 2025 to bring on the much-awaited apocalyptic Rapture.

What we need is the American Black Bear spirit. I hope it's not dead.

It's ok if you are nonbinary and in a perpetual state of questioning your orientation as a result.

But you don't ever have to settle on a label if you can't or don't want to.

Even the land we live on is always changing into new continents and islands, which shows us that endless change is at least as important as being finished.

#nonbinarypride #nonbinary #lgbtq #nonbinarypositivity #orientation #labels ..

Picking Fights
autonomies.org/2025/07/picking…

"A grounded reflection on “anarchist ways” from the Seattle Solidarity Network, published with CrimethInc. (10/07/2025) Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network In the following reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have learned in … Continue reading →"

Bitchat is a messaging app that operates through Bluetooth mesh networks, allowing users to send messages without Wi-Fi or cell reception. techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/jack…

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Réunion publique collectif Non au D-day land Caen
trognon.info/Reunion-publique-…

"Une nouvelle réunion du collectif Non au D-Day Land Caen aura lieu le jeudi 25 septembre à 18h30, au squat de l'ancienne Chiffo, 7 route de Trouville à Caen."

ICE deports illegal migrant convicted of impregnating niece, arrests another accused of raping child: ‘indescribable acts of evil’

nypost.com/2025/07/18/us-news/…

Palestinian child shot dead in West Bank by Israeli forces amid land grabs | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/18/p…

"The 13-year-old was hit with live ammunition south of Jenin and reportedly denied medical treatment by Israeli soldiers."

#Palestine #WestBank #Israel
@palestine

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Journal de bord de Gaza 99
ricochets.cc/Journal-de-bord-d…

"Rami Abou Jamous écrit son journal pour Orient XXI. Fondateur de GazaPress, un bureau qui fournissait aide et traduction aux journalistes occidentaux, il a dû quitter en octobre 2023 son appartement de Gaza-ville avec sa femme Sabah, les enfants de celle-ci, et leur fils Walid, trois ans, sous la menace de l'armée israélienne. Réfugiée depuis à Rafah, la famille a dû ensuite se

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[Bure] Pour un avenir paysan et écologiste – CIGEO, c'est toujours non !
manif-est.info/Bure-Pour-un-av…

"Nous, cultivateurices, agris critiques, paysan.nes avec ou sans terre et employé.es des métiers du vivant appelons à la manifestation unitaire du futur, contre CIGEO et les enfouissements de déchets toxiques à Bure et ailleurs. Retrouvons nous, le 20 septembre, à cheval, à pied et avec nos tracteurs,

Reup: Congratulations to Pam Bondi for creating an additional 1,000 people who know what is in the Epstein files. Really superb work! www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/18/p...

Pam Bondi Reportedly Created 1...

Iran remains fully ready to respond to any new aggression en.mehrnews.com/news/234434/Ir…

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Gare à la revanche - appel autonome pour la Manif du Futur à Bure
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La révolte des prostituées : 1975 - 2025, 50 ans de luttes
dijoncter.info/la-revolte-des-…

"Occupation de Saint-Nizier à Lyon et d'autres églises en France en juin 1975, une brochure récapitulative de 50 ans de luttes des travailleuses du sexe en France"

Fairy Friday
The fairies run about playing with each other and messing with whatever they find interesting. It's hard to ignore the appeal of such beings, especially once they start making such an appeal directly towards you. For all that nature is uncaring about man, it also has a certain way of playing with and showing off to man.
youtube.com/watch?v=zpxeSPnsLd…

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[Mâlain] 5e édition du Festival Atout Bout d'champ
dijoncter.info/5eme-edition-du…

"Se tiendra les 29, 30 et 31 août 2025 à Mâlain (21), la 5e édition du Festival Atout Bout d'champ, organisé par l'association RISOMES : 3 jours de rencontres, de débats, de spectacles, de concerts, de conférences, d'animations, pour tous les publics, autour des alternatives agricoles, alimentaires et écologiques."

Gaza Health: 58,667 martyrs as a result of the Israeli aggression dailyyemen.net/2025/07/18/gaza…
in reply to Danielle Foré

What does that even mean? I try to avoid hearing the talking points even just to disagree, because I only have so much sanity available to me, but I'm a cis white male in his thirties and even I don't feel comfortable around most men, unless they're hella neurodivergent, so whatever point they're trying to make is probably bullshit. Something tells me most trans women probably weren't/aren't any more comfortable than I am in a room full of dudes.