A life of honesty, integrity and social conscience
John Englart, 1955-2025

'Online, John often used the name Takver after a character in Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. In the novel, Takver was an ordinary person, who strove for “fullfilment in their lives with honesty, integrity and social conscience.” This was how John sought to live his life.'

brunswickvoice.com.au/john-eng…

From "Not the Bee"

notthebee.com/article/somehow-…
Trucker survives a crazy wreck on US 14A in WY. Truck hanging over the side of the road - held up with one set of tires.

Same road - link to an RV that burned up when the breaks caught fire.

notthebee.com/article/un-inter…
The UN International Court of Justice ruled for Tuvalu that climate change is a serious risk etc.

Okay.

India resumes tourist visas for Chinese: First time since 2020 border clash; Beijing welcomes move.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/in…

#china #india #geopolitics

Extreme Right-Winger Machado Condemns Return of 252 Migrants to Venezuela/US Deal orinocotribune.com/extreme-rig…

tried dancing merengue for the first time and really surprised myself with how quickly I was able to pick it up! during class we will rotate partners which normally its totally fine when couples come together and I end up dancing with their girl. with this one girl we really got into the merengue steps & turns. at the end she was smiling from all the fun we had and asked if I had been dancing merengue before, which I took as a huge compliment since I had just learned it the very same day. but then l saw her boyfriend staring daggers my way…. I felt bad because its not like it was my intention to try and steal his girl or whatever.

I can't help but wonder. Before cancer tests were invented, maybe people got cancer and got over it all the time. We'd never know. We only know of the people who died. And maybe present day cancer treatments aren't actually doing anything.

It's not like there's been a significant reduction in cancer deaths. I'm sure statistics can show an increase in cancer survival, but that would only be an artifact of the cancer testing.

There's really no way of knowing.

in reply to Sir Matt

Ur thoughts has merits to them.

When cancer testing went up, so did the the survival rate and the success of treatment rate.

There were no reason for the survival rate to go up. There were no new better treatment. Only more testing and also benign tumors started to be thrown into the statistics.

One might suggest that earlier treatment would have a higher success rate but I am not so sure if that holds any water.

No treatment at all still has a slightly higher success rate.

CBC | "As the Israeli government's siege starves the people of #Gaza , aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families,"

"The government of Israel's restrictions, delays and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation and death."

In a statement signed by 111 organizations...warned that mass #starvation was spreading across the enclave...

#Palestine #Israel

cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-humanit…

Romanian statements indirectly confirm information that the Ukrainian Armed Forces hide aircraft in the airspace of their neighbors during our attacks en.topwar.ru/268439-zajavlenie…

They are trying to warehouse people in Federal Plaza. Some video just got out. This is right downtown.

abc7ny.com/post/nyc-leaders-ca…

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in reply to myrmepropagandist

I'd be willing to be that building has an occupancy permit that prohibits using it as residential / sleeping quarters and fire codes that limit the number of people who can be in the building at once. If you ir anyone you know is in NY, you should start innundating the fire marshall and the code enforcement office with complaints.
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刚看到有人提到,建国初人口只有4亿,现在有14亿,有轮回转世的话,新增的人是从哪来的。
我可以试着解(xia)释(bian)一下。
1. 轮回转世时,灵魂也能够分裂,比如多胞胎就是一个灵魂分成了好多份,当然也存在其他途径的分裂;
2. 万物皆有灵,并不只有人能转世投胎成人,其他动物的灵魂也可以;或者说灵魂并不分人还是其他动物;
3. 那些灭绝的动物去哪了,你再想想。

genocidal thieves and collaborators

#israel #palestine #westbank

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Two perspectives on a smart meter story in CA

reason.com/2025/07/23/sacramen…
From "Reason"

reclaimthenet.org/when-smart-m…
or
archive.ph/loYzR
From "Reclaim the Net"

Where the electric company in Sacramento CA (SMUD) took the smart meter information and sent it to police departments - suggesting homes where pot plants were being grown.

False alarms for
- a guy with an electric wheelchair
- crypto miner
- high AC use
- fish tanks
- racist last names

EFF doing a lawsuit to end the practice.

#lispyGopherClimate #interview w/ Lightweight = Dave Lane, #NZ's Face of #FOSS


On short notice, an interview with the main free and open source software advocate of decades here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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South African Journos Explore AI Tools in Video Production at SputnikPro Project en.sputniknews.africa/20250723…

Iranian helicopter confronts US warship approaching territorial waters
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/24/iranian-helicopter-confronts-us-warship-approaching-territorial-waters?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

in reply to anonymiss

1985 had a lot of problems, but it was much better than now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_N…

The Domain Name System has been an essential component of the functionality of the Internet since 1985.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Mani…

The GNU Manifesto was published in March 1985 in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_…

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_G…

Studio Ghibli, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社スタジオジブリ) is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo. It was founded on June 15, 1985, by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, after acquiring Topcraft's assets.


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The Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (the French intelligence service) bombed Rainbow Warrior in the Port of Auckland, New Zealand on 10 July 1985, sinking the ship and killing photographer Fernando Pereira.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of…

In 1985, the wreck was finally located by a joint French–American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, originally on a mission to find two nuclear Cold War submarines.


[Incidentally, the only two US Navy nuclear-powered submarines that ever failed to resurface.]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_…

It was first released to manufacturing in the United States on November 20, 1985, while the European version was released as Windows 1.02 in May 1986.


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Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson.

I know a lot of people here oppose circumcision but someone told me that they were not circumcised and that they had an incredibly painful experience with their mother rolling back the skin to clean them when they were a baby when they were in hot water even though people normally do not remember that far back

I think whether or not someone supports or opposes circumcision

Most reasonable people can agree that if it is to be done then it should be done by a medical professional & not by mouth

in reply to shortstories

There are many Orthodox Jews who insist on using the mouth as part of the circumcision ritual instead of doing it the way a doctor wpuld normally do it in a hospital

These Orthodox Jewish Mohels who practice oral suction circumcision have had cases in which they spread herpes by such a practice

Whether or not circumcision is legal

Most reasonable people should agree that oral suction circumcision should be illegal if a competant medical alternative is available

Greg Gutfeld Tears Into Liberal Co-Host Jessica Tarlov for Glossing Over New Russiagate Details: ‘Save Me Your Selective Outrage’ (VIDEO)

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/g…

life pro tip:

haven't been to the dentist in a while? check out your local community college and see if they offer a dental program

rates are extremely cheap (I paid $10 for mine), the students are EXTREMELY thorough and gentle with trained professionals overseeing them, and many are begging for patients to take in for their studies. you likely won't be able to get major procedures done but you could potentially save thousands while getting better quality of care

I now know exactly what is wrong with my teeth and jaw and how to fix it, something four other dentists have ignored over the past fifteen years

Over 100 NGOs Accuse Israel of “Starving the People of Gaza” Amid Ongoing Siege #Palestine qudsnen.co/over-100-ngos-accus…

Even though EPEL is primarily used downstream by RHEL, @centos, @rockylinux, and @almalinux, it's actually part of the Fedora Project.

If you benefit from these packages, especially for your day job, consider contributing through package maintenance!

Learn more: docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/e…

#EPEL #Fedora #CentOS #RHEL #RockyLinux #AlmaLinux #Linux #OpenSource