Hundreds of firefighters are battling to stop the spread of a fast-moving wildfire in the the CorbiĂšres hills of southern France.

The blaze burned an area the size of Paris over one afternoon and night and was still burning on Wednesday evening, making it the second biggest fire in France in 50 years.

theguardian.com/world/2025/aug


#france #climatecrisis

I think maybe it's time to start a thread for "The World I Want To Live In."

1st up: shift from "Purchase New" to "Sturdy & Repairable:"

sauropods.win/@futurebird/1145


(I'll word better later after caffeine.)

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn #RightToRepair


There needs to be:

* incentives to manufacture things that can be repaired
* a general shift to see repairability as a sign of quality, luxury and responsibility
* training a new generation to do the work
* support for these trades so it's a viable way of life

Having a job fixing things is one of those types of work that can nourish the soul. But it needs to nourish the wallet too.


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"[I]t was the government’s job to foster innovation and to create an environment where genuinely smart people could do great things without external pressure." —ht/ @cstross #TheWorldIWantToLiveIn
manganiello.social/notice/Aukw

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"When you're in times of crisis, you can either try to appeal to people by using fear and blame. Or you can tackle the issues that are genuinely affecting people's lives, and you can do it with a people-centered approach that has kindness and empathy and strength and courage and reslilience as well."

#JacindaArdern
#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn
youtube.com/watch?v=ABz_n-25UZ


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The Liberal Consensus

The government should:
Regulate business
Provide a basic social safety net
Promoting infrastructure
Protect civil rights

"What do we ‱want‱ to fund?"

youtube.com/watch?v=d8i1b1HDJ4


#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn #USpol #HeatherCoxRichardson

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"If all billionaires and mega corps paid the same amount of taxes that I pay -- a retired person living on a very small pension and it's about 22% to Federal taxes -- we could have universal healthcare, universal secondary and post-secondary education, accommodations and some sort of UBI for homeless people, and universal daycare and elder care."
—@Nonya_Bidniss

infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidnis


#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn #USpol

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From @Mikal:

‱ Western hemisphere-wide open borders
‱ Guaranteed housing, food & jobs
‱ Free healthcare, free education & free childcare
‱ Free mass transit
‱ Rapid phase-down of all fossil fuels; massive subsidies for renewables
‱ Free rooftop solar

‱ Dismantle the electoral college
‱ Strict rules against monopolies & money in politics
‱ Reverse Citizens United
‱ Eliminate qualified immunity for cops.

(Please forgive trimming for space)

sfba.social/@Mikal/11479315929


#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn

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Dropping this in as a statement of principle:

From @Fragglemuppet
"@RickiTarr Right. I mean after all, people say they want fair treatment for everyone. How's that, you want everyone to be fairly miserable? That's not the way! My desire is not that no one should have the good things I enjoy, but that everyone should. What are we fighting for, anyway?"

Edit: adding quotes to mark this as Fraggle's post, not mine.
fandom.ink/@Fragglemuppet/1147

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn

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Some guideposts & touchstones from #HeatherCoxRichardson

Everybody is created equal.
The government has a responsibility to protect that equality,
To make sure that everybody is treated equally before the law,
They have equal access to resources,
& they have a right to a say in their government.

The government has a role to play in:
Regulating business,
Providing a basic social safety net,
Ppromoting infrastructure,
& protecting civil rights. >
youtube.com/watch?v=D5o3tGaQpe

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn

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The government has a role to play in:
Protecting the individual from big business,
from poverty,
& from the things that will stop an individual from being able to make the best of her or his life.

The people have a right to consent to their government, & to have a say in it.

To do:
Protect the right to vote.
Get rid of gerrymandering.
Protect the right to petition your government.
youtube.com/watch?v=D5o3tGaQpe

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn

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What building a proper farm sector with real jobs & upward mobility would look like (i.e., addressing the ‱real‱ reasons Americans won't do farming jobs:
mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/11

youtube.com/watch?v=FdZfYMIv3i

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn
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"Human rights are for everyone.

No, dignity is not conditional.

No, your worth is not decided by your gender, race, income, ability, identity, age, or beliefs.

No, justice should not be reserved for the privileged few.

No one is “less than.”

You are human. That alone is enough to deserve safety, respect, equality, and freedom.

Every person. Every place. Every time."

—Linux Is Best
@Linux

mstdn.ca/@Linux/11491532519659

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn

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Thought of this 


Stop buying things and start talking to each other.

Catherynne M. Valente in an article titled “Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media” dated 22 December 2022 available on SubStack

catvalente.substack.com/p/stop


REPORTER: You were the driving force behind Operation Warp Speed, these #mRNA vaccines that are the gold standard. Now your Health Secretary is pulling back all the funding for research ... what is going on?

#TRUMP: Research into what?

REPORTER: mRNA vaccines

TRUMP: We're onto other things

europesays.com/2310563/ Medic Sergei from Mariupol thanks you for alllllll of this: 100 CATs, 60 hemostatic bandages, and more. #Ukraine

Ukrainian drones strike Russian oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai, military confirms | “As a result of the drone strike, a fire broke out at a technical unit for processing gas and gas condensate,” the General Staff reported. byteseu.com/1265882/ #Ukraine #ĐŁĐșŃ€Đ°Ń—ĐœĐ°

He told Jan 6 rioters to ‘kill’ cops. After Trump’s pardon, he got hired at the Justice Department
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jared-wise-jan-6-justice-department-b2803755.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-Independent

Finally, time to post something...

I've been lurking on Nostr for ~2 years. I've never been a social media guy. Literally only ever posted 1 thing on facebook. I enjoyed Bitcoin Twitter for a while, but only passively. And honestly, I don't enjoy it anymore, nostr is much more fun these days.

So who am I:

- Automotive-Engineer by education
- Dad of a 2-year-old
- ₿itcoiner
- Into macro, tech & old cars

Professionally currently counting carbon atoms. Which is as boring and useless as it sounds.

I love playing with stereotypes. I am honest. Mostly funny, at least thats what my wife says. But my humour takes getting used to.

Might post a few weird thoughts around macro, society, and Bitcoin. Most of it is just for fun, but it might spark thought processes, example:

- Is café culture an early indicator of societies downfall? - Says the coffee lover.

Otherwise, it's fun things my 2 year old said, example:

After putting on her shoes and being happy with her outfit she said:

Daddy I am shit.

One needs to that she confuses k and t while talking, but it took me a while to figure that one out.

If you've made it thus far, I'm happy for anyone indicating people to follow regarding my interests.

#introductions

A large number of very vocal people who call themselves Atheists line of thinking is I want to be allowed to do whatever I want then not face the consequences of my decisions, they seem to believe that humanity is not subject to the laws of physics but creates the laws of physics by consensus

m.youtube.com/shorts/mkhXwivlZ


Instead of warning about the consequences of smoking & having reasons & self discipline not to smoke they blame nicotine for making them smoke - typical so called Atheists attitude

New from 404 Media: we've seen and verified video of a CBP agent wearing Meta's AI glasses during immigration raid in LA. Glasses capable of recording, live-streaming, Meta plans to add facial recognition. Experts deeply concerned about this tech being abused by DHS 404media.co/a-cbp-agent-wore-m


Israeli forces bar mourners from attending the funeral of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen #Palestine tiktokgenocide.com/uploads/isr


reshared this

The Trump Administration is preparing to propose a rule to cut Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and strip eligibility for hundreds of thousands of low-income older people and severely disabled adults and children. cbpp.org/research/social-secur


No Other Land 2024 -2025 Oscar & Berlinal best doc - Colonization of Palestinian village in West Bank filmed by dwellers


Subs in : French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Greek, Dutch, Italian, Brazil, Polski, Russian, Croatian,



Awdah Hathaleen who helped make this documentary was murdered on July 29th by Zionist settler armed and protected by IOF..

An Israeli settler, who Donald Trump removed from US sanctions list in January, has killed a Palestinian journalist and community leader who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land'.
A Palestinian activist, journalist and community leader has been shot and killed in front of a community centre in a village near Hebron, in occupied West Bank - a village which was documented in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.

This was the straw that broke the camel's back and had decide to display this movie on my PeerTube channel.
This, and also the fact that when checking on the internet where the movie, that won 2 distinguished awards in Berlin and LA, as best documentary movie was quasi not shown in any theater all over Europe.

In Paris, my home town, it has been displayed for a couple of weeks, in a 2 rooms theater of 60 seats.
It deserves to be advertised.
The LUMINOR, 20 rue du Temple, 75004 Paris.

NBC News reported that the film did not secure theatrical distribution in the United States due to political sensitivities around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
However, the movie is available to view in select independent theaters in US and Europe.

Anytime a theater tries to show it, even in private events in universities, Zionist lobbying succeeds in cancelling it.
WELL, TRY AND CANCEL THIS !



The film, a joint Palestinian-Israeli production directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, chronicles the struggle by residents to stop the Israeli military from demolishing their villages in Masafer Yatta. It won Best Documentary at the Berlinale last year and at the Oscars this year.

Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham confirmed the tragic news, with Abraham sharing a video on X showing the Israeli settler identified as Yinon Levi breandishing a handgun and shooting.

Abraham described Awdah as “a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta”, while Adra said on social media: “My dear friend Awdah was slaughtered this evening. He was standing in front of the community centre 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.”
Israel's military said an armed Israeli civilian opened fire at a group of Palestinians after they threw rocks. Israeli police responded to the incident, but no charges have been filed against Yinon Levi.


What is the film about?

The film was produced from 2019 to 2023 and comprises mostly personal camcorder footage filmed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra, 28, who documents the Israeli military’s destruction of his hometown, Masafer Yatta in a small, rugged region in the southern occupied West Bank.

The film highlights Israeli demolitions of homes in the village, which the Israeli military wants to turn into a military training zone. Its footage shows the Israeli military razing a school and filling water wells with cement, so residents cannot rebuild.

Adra made the film with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed it along with Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal and Israeli filmmaker Rachel Szor.

During his Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday night in Los Angeles, Adra said his film “reflects the harsh reality we have been enduring for decades and still resist as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people”.

“About two months ago, I became a father, and my hope to my daughter is that she will not have to live the same life I’m living now.”

Abraham said in his speech: “When I look at Basel, I see my brother. But we are unequal. We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law and Basel is under military laws that destroy lives, that he cannot control,” he said.

The film was released months after deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered Israel’s war on Gaza.

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"NO OTHER LAND"
Golden award in Berlinal 2025 and best #documentary in #2025Oscars

#NoOtherLand #WestBank #Colonization #IOF #ZionismKills #Berlinal2025 #Oscar2025 #Documentary

The film was produced from 2019 to 2023 and comprises mostly personal camcorder footage filmed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra, 28, who documents the Israeli military’s destruction of his hometown, Masafer Yatta in a small, rugged region in the southern occupied West Bank.

The film highlights Israeli demolitions of homes in the village, which the Israeli military wants to turn into a military training zone. Its footage shows the Israeli military razing a school and filling water wells with cement, so residents cannot rebuild.

Adra made the film with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed it along with Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal and Israeli filmmaker Rachel Szor.

Subs in :

French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Greek, Dutch, Italian, Brazil, Polski, Russian, Croatian,

video.liberta.vip/w/rh2pUUgrQL


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During his Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday night in Los Angeles, Adra said his film “reflects the harsh reality we have been enduring for decades and still resist as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people”.

“About two months ago, I became a father, and my hope to my daughter is that she will not have to live the same life I’m living now.”

Abraham said in his speech: “When I look at Basel, I see my brother. But we are unequal. We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law and Basel is under military laws that destroy lives, that he cannot control,” he said.

The film was released months after deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered Israel’s war on Gaza.

#NoOtherLand #WestBank #Colonization #IOF #ZionismKills #Berlinal2025 #Oscar2025 #Documentary

Subs in :

French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Greek, Dutch, Italian, Brazil, Polski, Russian, Croatian,

It is my Great Honor to announce that I have chosen Dr. Stephen Miran, current Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, to serve in the just vacated seat on the Federal Reserve Board until January 31, 2026. In the meantime, we will continue to search for a permanent replacement. Stephen has a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and served with distinction in my First Administration. He has been with me from the beginning of my Second Term, and his expertise in the World of Economics is unparalleled — He will do an outstanding job. Congratulations Stephen!

static-assets-1.truthsocial.co


YouTube’s selfie collection, #AI #AgeChecks are concerning, #privacy experts say

Any #YouTuber wrongly labeled a teen must provide an ID, credit card, or selfie.

Ashley Belanger – Jul 31, 2025

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20


#AreYouAlive? #AreYouHuman? #AreYouOldEnough? #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatching #BigTech #AISucks #Privacy

Hear hear! Mullenweg is the reason I've completely ditched WordPress and its entire ecosystem. On the flip-side the more I use Grav the more I love it even more. 😉 ---

Been keeping an eye on the #WordCampUS 2025 ticket report. With a month to go, they've sold just over 500. Add the 126 comped tickets for volunteers, speakers, sponsors, etc., and we're at ~650 attendees.

central.wordcamp.org/reports/t


The event's website, however, still boasts that 1500+ professionals will be at #WCUS. That's some pretty optimistic math. :melting_thinking:

in reply to Jason Cosper

Nobody’s officially saying that things are bad out loud, but the ticket sales numbers on the report linked upthread don’t lie.

Tickets to #WCUS are now 50% off
 :melting_cringe:

I don’t think $100 → $50 tickets to a #WordPress conference (already very affordable by tech conference standards) was the actual barrier that needed to be lowered.

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Juan Luis Guerra: Architect of a New Dominican Sound and Global Icon of Latin Music telesurenglish.net/juan-luis-g




Une vague de 150 extensions crypto-drainantes arrive sur la boutique de modules complémentaires Firefox


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Le code malveillant agit comme un enregistreur de frappe, capturant les entrĂ©es des champs de formulaire ou des fenĂȘtres contextuelles affichĂ©es, qui sont ensuite envoyĂ©es au serveur de l’attaquant.

« Les extensions militarisĂ©es capturent les informations d’identification du portefeuille directement Ă  partir des champs de saisie de l’utilisateur dans la propre interface contextuelle de l’extension, et les exfiltrent vers un serveur distant contrĂŽlĂ© par le groupe », explique Tuval Admoni de Koi Security.[...]


#security #add-ons #mozilla #firefox




🙌 Le conseil constitutionnel censure une partie de la #loiduplomb sur les acĂ©tamiprides 🐝
👉 lemonde.fr/planete/article/202


On est pas encore au bout du chemin pour mettre Ă  bas cette loi Ă©cocidaire, mais cĂ©lĂ©brons cette BONNE NOUVELLE et faisons toujours tourner la pĂ©tition 👇
petitions.assemblee-nationale.

#loiduplomb


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