March of the white shoe brigade. Here's the situation in Brisbane after David Crisafulli & Jarrod Bleijie reneged on the no new stadium for Victoria Park pledge. Heritage laws suspended, housing crisis all but forgotten as the Crisafulli Colosseum fuels property prices & saps resources. #qldpol

Exposed: CIA's Secret Network of 885 Fake Websites Revealed thealtworld.substack.com/p/exp…

Northern Arizona resident dies from plague

Plague is a bacterial infection known for killing tens of millions in 14th century Europe.

There are two other forms: septicemic plague that spreads through the whole body, and pneumonic plague that infects the lungs.

Pneumonic plague is the most deadly and easiest to spread.

Today, it’s easily treated with antibiotics, but RFK is going with herd immunity on this one too.

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Attempting a slow transition away from Spotify to Apple Music, and it still surprises me how terrible Apple is at making software that gives the user any kind of agency or depth of utility.

You would think, if a song was playing, and you liked that song, there might be a way, in the menu, to "Go to Artist" or "Go to Album", but nah, you have to go to the search screen and type it in yourself and then search.

I would be extremely appreciative of anyone who wants to tell me I'm an idiot and I've missed something.

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I dreamed last night about all the people I've lost, who've left me, one after the other, and woke up thinking: I need to contact them. I reached out to them before to see about working things out, but I should do it again, now.

And I rolled over and started writing to one...and hit a roadblock, because I couldn't think of a reason that I should actually trust these people again. If someone is so cold and so cowardly, or just hates me so much, that they ditch me forever without a single word over some petty bullshit, why on earth should I want that person in my life?

Do your best to keep your friends — it's hard to make them as an adult — but if some spineless, deceitful worm leaves you, as much as it hurts, you're better off without them.

I've got my issues, for certain, but three things you can be sure of when dealing with me: I will never lie to you, I will never intentionally leave you in the dust, and I will never back down when you need me. To some people, these are negative traits, and this says a lot about them.

alright i have finished order of eclesia and i gotta say

man, they desserved way better, that has to be the actual most depresing ending in the entire castlevania series

you know you kinda get used to seeing the protagonist along with his friends outside as draculas castle collapses but seeing shanoa, all alone with no words spoken completes that bittersweet feeling to the ending

great excecution now im sad

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anyways luckily the game was challenging enough that it distracted me from how bleak everything was almost how it feels to be in an adrenaline rush i didn't stop until i got rid of dracula and only then it hit me

from beginning to end it was fun cept for the fucking large cavern, fuck that place
can't say im a full fan of the areas being segmented as sort of stages and i can say the part i enjoyed the most was the entirety of draculas castle

the glyph system was great, like being able to alternate between two weapons/spells in real time and make combos with them from a combat point of view i think OoE has the best combat in the series

speaking of combat the balance was fine most of the game with only some 1 area and 2 bosses making me say "oh that damage is bullshit"

music wise goddamn i fucking loved the soundtrack it's full of bangers and action packed songs and with that very castlevania like feel

i'd deffinitely rank it above dawn of sorrow

I'm once again looking for a new #Tabletop group!

I prefer systems and stories with emphasis on roleplay and player input, particularly Powered by the Apocalypse-based systems. More than happy to GM as well.

I've created my own systems, the most developed and successful of which is a setting that takes Dungeons and Dragons to its natural conclusion: the "good" races are victorious against the races of "evil" and have now become the colonizers of the kobolds, trolls, ogres, gnolls, and so forth — which the players now play as in this new world that sees them as nothing but monsters. I call it People, Too and the PDF of the core book is attached.

If you're interested in playing this, or anything else with me, send a reply or a PM!

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@dever It's not like you need smart meters to do this. In the early 2000's I was running an ISP out of my basement using 64-port terminal servers and discrete modems. The total power draw was around 7kw. I had the Windows blacked out and boarded over because I didn't want anyone stealing my equipment. The cops come one day, without a search warrant, and claim someone called from the basement claiming they were being held hostage and they had to see. If that isn't the largest load of horse manure there ever was. But the truth is the power company had reported my electric usage, they did the math and figured oh 4 or 5 metal-halide lamps growing pot, what a disappointment it had to be to them to see it's just a bunch of computer equipment. The Forth Amendment isn't worth the paper it was written on when there all the cops have to do is make up a bullshit story.

Mother bitterly grieves her son killed while seeking aid in northern Gaza #Palestine tiktokgenocide.com/uploads/mot…

Idk I feel like technology peaked long ago and all these techbros have been doing is coming up with shit we don't need to amass their fortunes. It should have been that once technological advances reached their heights, that man-made problems should've been tackled. Instead there's been nothing but a heightened promotion of consumerist culture that has been passively accepted. This of course has happened because capitalism and white supremacy have not been abolished. This is a natural progression of an oppressive class that has stolen and killed to get where they are. Ridding the world of their ills means they should vanish and lose all their power. Thats what our liberation is contingent upon.

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@News I don't blame him. How else can you explain all the whack jobs wanting us to shutdown all of our power plants and starve to death or who advocate cutting off the sex bits of our children to turn them into not the opposite sex, except aliens who comes from a frozen cold dark world and want to terraform the Earth into a copy of their home and starve out humans while they are at it.

From "Associated Pravda"

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Claims it is "Trump's economy now" "without evidence" (about firing BLS head) and other MDM.

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Silent updates in this story about firing the BLS head. "No evidence for the charge." and other MDM.

A local rag used "without evidence" in the headline for this story.

apnews.com/article/immigration…
Federal appeals court in CA maintains ban on "indiscriminate immigration stops". Plus the AP case tracker chart.

Suffocation Injuries as Zionist Forces Storm Bethlehem saba.ye/en/news3527273.htm

There are 195 countries in the world.

186 DO NOT regard Hamas as a TERRORIST organisation but as RESISTANCE to Israeli Occupation.

Only 9 ISOLATED countries call Hamas TERRORISTS.

US, UK, Canada, Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Paraguay.

Perspective.

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President Trump continues to show his support and gratitude for Republican leadership in Congress.
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XRP Set to Anchor Treasury Strategy as Hyperscale Data Evaluates Long-Term Hold Plan - Hyperscale Data is locking XRP on its balance sheet with unwavering conviction, re... - news.bitcoin.com/xrp-set-to-an… #altcointreasuries #companies #ripplexrp #featured #bullish

Wildfire raging near Grand Canyon grows into a 'megafire'
The Dragon Bravo Fire, ignited by lightning around July 4, has become the largest wildfire in the continental United States in 2025
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On August 3 and the Days of Rage: Act, mobilize and escalate for Gaza and the prisoners; break the siege and end the genocide #Palestine samidoun.net/2025/08/on-august…

MAGA Don doesn't speak

Nothing officially on the White House news feed for today.

A grab bag of posts on social media - stuff like

"🇺🇸 Historic EU & South Korea Trade Deals
💻 Health Tech Great Again
🚀 Crypto Report
📈 Strong Q2 Economic Growth
🤝 Cambodia-Thailand Ceasefire
🤖 AI Challenge Announced
💊 Prescription Drug Price Reform
🏋️‍♂️ Presidential Fitness Test"

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You can get small packages delivered by flying drones.

& it would be cheaper to pick people up by helicopter in case of a medical emergency and put out fires by a fleet of drones with water then to fund the entire system of roads

Roads are also bad for the environment

I like sidewalks but all that road space could be used for gardening so each person has their own garden to grow food to reduce reliance on the employment system

Distributism

Each family has means of production

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@Goalkeeper i did not find it quite as hard once I realized Gluttony eats good food and shit food so I had to pick to hold him in a spot where I could actually score score good food. Summer Eyja and Viviana lock the boss down totally. W Alter is probably superfluous here as she just wastes her shots burning food but Ascalon on food cooking duty IS key. Anyone who does hit count stuff would work there of course. Virtuosa is vital for the tanky niggers of course but any true damage could work as well. Pictured is Reed Alter eating shit from a coinfag but probably better her than a ground unit

Activist [Awdah Hathaleen*] Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler | Truthout (2025-07-28)

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*) His name romanized also “Odeh Hadalin”; in Arabic عودة هدالين.

>> “... My dear friend Awdah was slaughtered this evening. He was standing in front of the community center in his village when a settler fired a bullet that pierced his chest and took his life. This is how Israel erases us — one life at a time,” said Basel Adra, activist and Palestinian co-director of #NoOtherLand.

>> [Israeli co-filmmaker Yuval] Abraham said that local residents identified Hathaleen’s killer as Yinon Levi, who lives in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied #WestBank. Levi was sanctioned … under the Biden administration in April 2024, ...

>> President Donald Trump lifted the U.S. sanction on Levi and other Israeli settlers and settler groups on his first day in office this January.

#EndOccupation #StopIsrael #USPol
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

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Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian involved in Oscar-winning #WestBank film (BBC, 2025-07-29)

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(BBC spells “Odeh Hathaleen”)

>> Mattan Berner-Kadish, an Israeli-American activist at the scene, told the BBC that … on Monday, a bulldozer from a nearby Israeli settlement was driven through private Palestinian land, crushing a sewage pipe, multiple olive trees and two fences.

>> Berner-Kadish and other activists, including [Odeh] Hathaleen's cousin Ahmad, ran to block the bulldozer. … the driver hit Ahmad in the neck and shoulder with a drill …

>> While attending to Ahmad's injuries, Berner-Kadish heard a pop. Running back …, he saw Hathaleen lying bleeding from a gunshot wound and Levy, the only settler he saw, holding a gun.

>> In a video …, a man identified as Levy is seen holding a pistol with a bulldozer behind him, ... Levy pushes at one man, who pushes back. Levy then raises his pistol and shoots ahead of him …

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

Samidoun Belgium: On the Repression of Popular Movements #Palestine samidoun.net/2025/08/samidoun-…
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"i love how #israeli tanks have a little door you can leave open on top that guarantees the death of everyone inside if a bomb is dropped in it and they just all leave it open at all times apparentlty. you'd think they'd figure it out after like the 5th time"

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