En Kanaky, l’accord de Bougival pourrait réveiller la révolte
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"Retour sur la situation en Kanaky alors que le soulèvement de la jeunesse kanak a laissé place à un nouvel accord colonial.
L’article En Kanaky, l’accord de Bougival pourrait réveiller la révolte est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque."

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One broke a story exposing a bizarre crypto-corruption scandal that led to the downfall of the justice minister; the other reported on a criminal complaint filed over allegations of rape and sexual harassment against a prominent opposition politician.

For their reporting, Zdislava Pokorna of Denik N and Apolena Rychlikova of Page Not Found faced an avalanche of threats, insults and hate speech.

mesa 25.2.0 is out on arch not here

25.1.7 has updated just a few days ago


mesa major releases in the past 2 years have proven to be a big mess, there had been a few times we had to revert back to previous stable edition to avoid breaking graphic interface.
mesa is a rust heavy pkg which is key in nearly all graphical applications or their graphic layer underneath in both X and wayland/wlroots, breaking it means you are back to console.

Their release model has been such that resembles a beta -testing approach, "release see what breaks, attempt a fix, rerelease" and it takes a few minor versions before they get it right.
So we have decided to stay with stable 25.1.7 for a little while, and if there is a 25.1.8 release we will upgrade, we will let Arch beta-testing lab rats take the hit on this one.

[docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/25.2.… ](mesa 25.2.0 release notes)
[https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/mesa/-/commits/](arch upgrades)

Release notes also reveal some uncomfortable changes, such as shoving lib-zstd in everywhere and discontinuing support for older gfx cards

Let's hope our -D zstd=disabled \ build configuration is still acceptable in future releases 😀

#joborun

#zstd #mesa #x11 #wayland #nosystemd #runit

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Instead of jumping to 25.2.0 we bumped 25.1.7 to 25.1.8 and rebuilt labwc on top of it

Also wayback has developed and closed many bug/issues so you can have openbox or other wm running on Xorg on one tty and start another X wm in a wayback session on another tty, or another user even and flip between two WMs without using labwc or other wayland compositor.

This must be the most insulting use of wayland and xorg-server which evolved in ensuring it is the only instance in a system

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[...#Trump ne semble clairement pas disposé à favoriser volontairement et de manière positive la création d’un monde multipolaire. Cependant, il commence à le faire de manière objective, indépendamment de sa volonté. Ses tarifs, ses attaques contre les #BRICS et les sanctions imposées à l’Inde contribuent à accélérer la consolidation des États-Civilisations face à une hégémonie américaine qui devient cynique, ouvertement agressive et provocatrice.
Vous ne voulez pas d’un multipolarisme par la bonne voie, vous l’aurez par la mauvaise...]

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[...Modi se rend en #Chine. En soi, un événement marquant...]

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Les droits de douane imposés par Trump à l'Inde🇮🇳 pour faire pression sur la Russie🇷🇺 se retournent contre lui de manière spectaculaire :
le Premier ministre indien Narendra Modi se rendra en Chine🇨🇳 pour la première fois depuis six ans à l'occasion du sommet de l'Organisation de coopération de Shanghai.
En déclenchant une guerre économique contre les pays du BRICS, Trump oblige en réalité ces derniers, qui, selon beaucoup, traînaient les pieds depuis des années, à prendre enfin conscience de la menace que Washington représente pour eux tous.
🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦VIDÉO : Brian Berletic : Les pays BRICS affrontent les États-Unis après la déclaration de guerre de Trump
Sur YouTube : https:// youtu.be/lpXTn38XUNU?si

Coe said the decision was made to ensure “the integrity of women’s sport” with World Athletics asserting:
The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex.

I argue the science does not support this overly simplistic assertion.


What percentage of male humans are SRY+ve and SRY-ve? What percentage of female humans are SRY+ve or SRY-ve?

In simplest terms, the testes then produce hormones including testosterone, leading to male development.


Are zygotes sexed?

We know making testes or ovaries requires a complex network of many interacting genes and proteins.

Some genes promote testis development while others promote ovary development.

Other genes either suppress ovary formation or antagonise testis formation.

Even once ovaries or testes are fully formed, we require other genes to maintain them. These genes don’t always function as expected, affecting the development of these organs.


Yes, all these claims are obviously true.

If there is a change in the SRY gene so it does not function as usual, then a person can fail to develop testes and be biologically female. Yet they carry XY chromosomes and under the World Athletics tests they would be excluded from competition.


Correct. What percentage of humans have these SRY variants and develop female phenotypes? What percentage of those are high level athletes?

Other XY individuals may have a functioning SRY gene but are female – with breasts and female genitalia, for example – but have internal testes.


Wait. What? You said 'female' and 'testes'.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, eight of 3,387 women athletes had positive test results for a Y chromosome. Of these, seven were resistant to testosterone.


The author knows this isn't the same population with SRY variants he just mentioned.

He means males with androgen insensitivity, some of whom were deceived by doctors and parents.

World Athletics asserts the SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex. But biological sex is much more complex, with chromosomal, gonadal (testis/ovary), hormonal and secondary sex characteristics all playing a role.


It's almost like you want to say "sex associated characteristics" but then the jig would be up, wouldn't it?

This may be easy enough in wealthy countries, but what is going to happen in poorer nations without these facilities?


You can send samples to rich countries where the testing can be done quite cheaply.

It is worth noting these tests are sensitive. If a male lab technician conducts the test he can inadvertently contaminate it with a single skin cell and produce a false positive SRY result.


What clinical test doesn't have to be performed carefully?

Nor does World Athletics recognise the impacts a positive test result would have on a person, which can be more profound than exclusion from sport alone.


Clinical tests have outcomes? You don't say. What percentage of high level male athletes do you suspect are unaware that they are actually male?

Given all the problems outlined above, the SRY gene should not be used to exclude women athletes from competition.


Is self identification more reliable? What test should be used?

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Ru-Ukr war

Defence Politics Asia predicts the Ukrainian front lines will collapse in about a month. According to Cyberspec, the Russian General Staff predicts the Ukrainian front lines will collapse in 2-3 months. It will be interesting to see if either prediction turns out to be true.

(In any event, nobody can plausibly argue Ukr is not suffering from a shortage of troops, with such porous front lines and constantly encirclement by Russia over this summer).

HIROSHIMA: OTTANT’ANNI FA LA BOMBA NUCLEARE CHE UCCISE IN POCHI ISTANTI CENTINAIA DI MIGLIAIA DI PERSONE. radiondadurto.org/2025/08/06/h… #bombenucleari #hiroshima #nagasaki #LOCALI #News

PALESTINA SOTTO ASSEDIO: DALLA STRISCIA ALLA CISGIORDANIA VIOLENZE E UCCISIONI. NETANYAHU, “OCCUPEREMO TUTTA GAZA” radiondadurto.org/2025/08/05/p… #Movimento #Politica #Diritti #Storia #News



These Nikon 18x70 Astroluxe IF WP binoculars have a nice pleasant easy 65 degree Apparent FOV.

Nitrogen Purged & Waterproof Sealed
Individual Eyepiece Focus
Barium Crown glass prisms.
Fully Multicoated
4 degree True FOV

@EscapeVelo@nicecrew.digital:

I just picked up a pair of Nikon Astroluxe 18x70 IF WP binoculars. Found a good deal on Cloudy Nights.
@Elliptica will like this one.



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Here are my recommendations for Large Astronomy Binoculars. I dont really recommend the Nikons because they are too expensive.

Nikon Astroluxe 18x70 IF WP = $1700 new $900-1000 used
Fujinon 16x70 = $1200 new $500-600 used
Oberwerk 15x70 Deluxe = $330 new $230 used
Celestron Skymaster Pro ED = $275-350 new
Orion Mini Giant 15x70 = $125 used

You can find some older Fujinon 14x70 used as well. The previous iteration.

Dont bother with the 10x70 or 10x80 or the 80mm or 100mm binoculars. It's better to go with 10x50 for lighter weight. And the larger objectives dont gain much relative light to the 70mm, they weigh more and they also have more color fringing as they have to bend the light more in a similar sized frame.

There are some larger 80mm and 100mm binoculars with interchangable eyepieces and longer barrels that arent hand holdable that are good, but expensive and a much later purchase on your astronomy journey (if you even make it that far).

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You really dont need big objectives like that to look at the moon. The moon is so bright that collecting that much light into your night time dialated pupils is painful and not recommended.

8x40s or 10x40s are much better for moon observation. Even 7x35s.

Neurodiversity is not a side issue
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"To build something better, we need the people this world tried to break ~ Pablo ~ There’s a strange silence across much of radical politics when it comes to neurodiversity—not hostility, just absence. You’ll hear passionate talk about Palestine, climate breakdown, strikes, prisons… But the everyday lives of autistic, ADHD, and otherwise neurodivergent people? That
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"Trump To Meet With Putin... OR ELSE Major ESCALATION"

Last Night's America First Show with Nick Fuentes (Begins at 2:42:11)

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OHE: Μόνο το 1,5% της γεωργικής γης στη Γάζα είναι πλέον καλλιεργήσιμο

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Έλος Καλοδικίου, ένας από τους σημαντικότερους υγροτόπους της Δυτικής Ελλάδας, πως ήταν και πως κατάντησε

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in reply to Theodore John Kaczynski

if all women you "interact" with are terminally online egirls. 99.9% of women are normal. the women in my neighborhood are sane. the women working in the bakery are sane. this RW meme of all women are to be subdued is in diametral opposition to the goals - men and women have different traits complementary to each other. in classic societies women often held the key to the house and managed the household finances.

what really is a problem is that the (likely naturally stronger) impulse for empathy and the wish to be in-group in women is hijacked by media and politics for sinister purposes. THAT is what should be fought against.

Hello la team #mastovélo à #Paris ! Vous connaissez des adresses de bars et restaurants qui ont un endroit sécurisé pour accueillir une dizaine-quinzaine de vélos à la fin d'une "social ride" ?

Tous les jeudis soirs, Saru Ride propose une sortie à vélo. La sortie se termine habituellement aux Blédards qui dispose d'une super cour privative, mais le lieu est fermé pendant l'été et on serait preneurs d'autres adresses 🙏

Des idées ?
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Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak. Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum, amplifying the conflict. In Sudan, the liberal world order has ended, and nothing has replaced it.
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Ρε παιδιά, τι λαμόγια είναι τούτα;

ΑΜΚΕ Excavate in Greece

η συγκεκριμένη ΑΜΚΕ παραπλάνησε τις Εφορείες Αρχαιοτήτων Πρέβεζας και Κεφαλονιάς, εμφανίζοντας ως εθελοντική εργασία τη συμμετοχή φοιτητών, με καταβολή διδάκτρων 2.990 ευρώ το άτομο, στο ψευδεπίγραφο «σχολείο εκμάθησης αρχαιολογίας στο πεδίο», το 2023 και 2024 στη Νικόπολη και το 2025 στη Σάμη.

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Politically embattled Senator, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, wants the Republicans to pay, as EXTORTION, TWO BILLION DOLLARS in order for the Radical Left Democrats to approve the hundreds of Trump Appointments who have been waiting for months, and are raring’ to go. This has never happened before. There has never, in U.S. history, been such a delay. THEY ARE EXTORTIONISTS! Republicans must create legislation in order to get out of the grasp of these Country hating THUGS. Move quickly!!! MAGA

David Lammy contradicted as UK 'hands Gaza spy plane data to Israel' | The National

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Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard: “Obama directed that a National Security Council meeting be called... They were tasked to create an Intelligence Assessment that detailed how Moscow tried to influence the election—not 'if'—but 'how'... They knowingly wrote things in this assessment that were false.”

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I am proud to be the only President (with the possible exception of the Late, Great George Washington) to donate my Salary. My first “Paycheck” went to the White House Historical Association, as we make much needed renovations to the beautiful “People’s House.” Great improvements and beautification is taking place at the White House, at levels not seen since its original creation. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

MIDWEEK WIRE – ‘Playing With Nuclear Fire’ – Patrick Henningsen and Freddie Ponton 21stcenturywire.com/2025/08/06…

My concerns about Gary Stevenson’s economics of wealth taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0… Gary Stevenson has emerged as a major exponent of wealth taxes, but his latest video has made it clear that his economics is neoliberal in its framing, embracing ideas such as the household analogy, claims that the government can run out of money and that it is funded by taxes, none of which are true. And the fact is that you cannot build social justice on the basis of inappropriate economic framing, so this matters.

"John King, then aged between eight and eleven, was a passenger on the Bonetta. According to Abijah Savage, the Bonetta's commander, the pirates looted the ship for 15 days, during which time King demanded to join Bellamy's crew. "(F)ar from being forced or compelled (to join)," Savage wrote in his report, "he declared he would kill himself if he was restrained, and even threatened his mother, who was also on board as a passenger.""
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Can't sleep so I hatewatched Occupy Democrats going on about Trump's deranged wandering on the White House roof and all they could say is, "He was talking about giving other countries nuclear subs! I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT WE SHOULDN'T BE GIVING OTHER COUNTRIES NUKES!"

like yes the dude is insane but that isn't what a nuclear submarine means, dipshit. fucking hell liberals are stupid

How U.S. imperialism blackmails the world with nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to today #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-u-s…