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To Future Generations: They Knew. They All Knew What Was Happening In Gaza.
Don’t let them get away with saying they didn’t know. They knew. They knew the entire time. Brand them permanently with this shame, and force them to carry it with them for the rest of their lives. caitlinjohnst.one/p/to-future-…
A very interesting venue choice given the prior Biden administration support for an International Criminal Court arrest warrant. The venue signal from President Trump would be that things are remarkably different.
Church gave me a good suggestion: Digital pictures and recordings are cheap. Take a recording and a picture of your parents even if you have to just say dumb stuff to fill out a video. It's probably better to have that and not need it than need it and not be able to get it.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24, 2025. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to reside in a compact star cluster in a giant elliptical galaxy. […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by
'The National Socialist Network / White Australia neo-Nazis are expected to gather in Bacchus Marsh this morning ahead of their national conference and weightlifting competition this weekend, following last night's stunt in Melbourne.
For the first time, the NSN have invited supporters to join their event, and between 100-300 members, supporters, and their families are anticipated to attend.
Bacchus Marsh area locals and V line commuters are advised to stay vigilant.'
"I run the Center for #AIDS #Research here. It’s a big grant... that does a whole bunch of really great stuff, but it has elements of helping the most vulnerable communities in the time of #HIV, and that’s what it’s supposed to do. It got caught up in banned words.
"We had all the banned words in there: #Gay, #lesbian. #Black was in there – that was a banned word. #Women was in there – that was a banned word... We pretty much had them all."
Bel Trew, the Independent’s Chief International Correspondent, on the devastation in Gaza.
As journalists finally start doing their jobs, lets not forget the role they & their newspapers played in manufacturing consent for Israel’s genocide.
I view it as a horrible lack of judgment. To not consider. Evil manifest in human form. It mocks you. It thrives on your indecisiveness. Take your time. It loves the wait.
There is inevitably to consider. The moving target seeks to shift your focus. Distraction is a weapon. But. The inevitable. What must be. There is no denying that. Try as you may. Amateur. We hear tales about the mighty falling. It never is as satisfying as imagined. Process gets in the way. The resounding thud. The guilty held to account. The very least of what is desired. Corner the rats. Trap them. Let them flail. Ensnared. With no hope. Mark that. As. Their beginning.
For once and all. Israel must be sorted. The false sense must be separated from reality. Facts alone. Truth alone. No excuses. Stand bare. Government? Dimona? The U.S.S. Liberty! Let’s bring it all out. Tell us. Let’s hear it. Hesitate. Wait.
Trump and Putin. Zelensky is a hindrance. He’s of no value. Without gay choreography, he’s of no value at all. The role well beyond the actor. Rock stars and actors cannot salvage this disaster. Shame. He always looked so formidable. 🤣 How sad it all becomes. Many will have to choose to ignore their ignorance. Because. You know they will neither face or acknowledge it.
Israeli drones drop two sound bombs on a shepherd in outskirts of Rmeish and one bomb on Kfarkila: Al-Manar correspondent in South Lebanon english.almanar.com.lb/2472637
Next time someone tells me that they asked an LLM, I'm going to tell them that I received an obscure prophecy from a divine oracle which disagrees. I think that this will be more effective than just giving them facts — which I also have — because clearly that didn't work the first time.
I don't get this thing streaming services are doing now of releasing shows in like...chunks. It's so annoying to watch half a season and then have to wait three weeks for the rest of it 💀
Have you heard anything about there being a demonstration by the right planned in Bristol UK for Saturday 9th? There was a warning emailed around by my workplace, because our building is nearby where it’s supposedly happening, but I can’t find anything else out. antifainternational.tumblr.com…
"Here's a thread by Bristol Anarchist Federation about it too:..."
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Britain’s minister for homelessness has resigned over allegations that she evicted tenants from a property she owns and increased rents by hundreds of pounds.
Auf geht's ins Rhein-Maingebiet, um morgen bei #zornhau die offene Halle zu besuchen! Eigentlich wollte ich überraschend vorbei kommen, ein paar Gänge fechten, geheimnisvoll mein Cape und die Schulter werfen und wieder in die Nacht verschwinden. Aber nein, kein Urlaub für mich: denn Vorsitzender Alexander Klenner bat mich, eine Einführung ins Low-Gear-Schulfechten zu veranstalten. Nun denn, ich freue mich drauf.
The Republican lawmakers called for an investigation of Canada's wildfire management practices and for potential remedies under international law, saying Canada must face "real consequences."
The Republican Party in America nd their ideological twins, Canada's "Conservatives" marched in lockstep with the world's oil companies in denying the science of human-caused #ClimateChange & slow-walking if not outright outlawing the solutions, profiting mightily the whole time.
The fires (that remember, YOU lit) are everywhere, most certainly including #America under governments/presidents from both parties. The climate disasters themselves might be the only truly bipartisan thing left in your country.
As wildfires continue in Southern California, estimates of the total economic loss from the blazes have ballooned to more than $250 billion, making it one of the most costly natural disasters in U.S. history.
And if it isn't Canada or America's west coast again it's Australia. Or Russia. Japan. You-name-it.
There's always been wildfires but it's never been this bad. Again, this was all predicted and every single chance we've had to fix it has been stopped in its tracks by a "leader" exactly like you /4
Wherever you go, show me a political leader calling themselves a "conservative" & I'll show you a denier of #ClimateScience who now has to resort to increasingly sillier reasons for the world we all see burning around us.
For years, outlandish theories about the U.S. government using airplanes to spray harmful chemicals over U.S. homes or powerful elites controlling the weather were relegated to the fringes of society
But yes the smoke sucks. In Calgary we breathe 100s of more smoke hours now than we did just 8 years ago. I assure you literally NOTHING has changed about how we manage forests in that time. What's changed, irrefutably, you total imbecile, is the temperature of the planet /6
As a Canadian I'll NEVER apologize for that smoke you're breathing because not only did you (& America's Republicans & Canada's "Conservatives") light the match but you're STILL pouring gas on the fire & lining your pockets with oil bucks while you do it /7 yaleclimateconnections.org/202… #Wildfires #Smoke #ClimateChange #Denialism
But one thing I do understand is wanting somebody to blame for all this. I'll do you one better: I know not only who's to blame but who should pay every one of your constituents for that smoke they're breathing. The best thing about it? They've got all the money in the world /8 #Wildfires #Smoke #ClimateChange #Denialismpodcastics.com/episode/377291/…
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Does any of this have to do with the atmospheric oxidizers falling onto the carbon sink? Would Aluminum found on the foliage increase the temperature of the forest fires?🤔 #wildfires #boiling #hot #climatechange
I remember the businessmen and cons and media laughing at the scientists climate predictions from the 1990s that are now coming to fruition as predicted.
Does any of this have to do with the atmospheric oxidizers falling onto the carbon sink? Would Aluminum found on the foliage increase the temperature of the forest fires?🤔 #wildfires #boiling #hot #climatechange
The reasons they do this is number one distraction and number two as an excuse to go ahead and invade Canada, which certain oil fracking, billionaires really think is a cool idea along with the Silicon Valley freaks, who want to next territory for their network state world domination ends.
The evil Cabal out to get everyone are the billionaires and the nastiest most unpleasant people that make a show of themselves on top of that
It’s often said that the countries who didn’t contribute much to global warming will unjustly suffer the worst consequences. Probably still true, but the smoke drifting down to the US is at least a measure of justice.
I agree that the Republicans are the rapid pro-petroleum party, but many Democrats are themselves very wishy-washy about combatting climate change.
I don’t trust one single thing about that Bristol situation. Antifascists organizing on X in 2025 is no different from meeting up in a literal Nazi bar. antifainternational.tumblr.com…
"It's the same account theyve always used, but youre free to contact them somewhere else if you dont..."
It’s the same account theyve always used, but youre free to contact them somewhere else if you dont trust it cause its on twitter: https://bristolaf.wordpress.com/
Today we visited the Musée Marmottan Monet. There was an exhibition on the work of Eugene #Boudin who was an exceptional painter but, it appears, a very disagreeable person. I particularly liked this view of Venice, the sun on the water, and the variety of boats. Boudin did not like: the label ‘impressionist’, the Dutch, Le Harve, Bordeaux (where the wine was execrable & adulterated) and he didn’t like cities. #museums #art
I was rather taken with this side table which has a mirrored back and you can see the feet of the visitors in the reflection. Perhaps when our sideboard is finished we could ask the joiners for a table like this… #No52
Confession: I run all my servers except my professional ones on #Arch #Linux.
Reasons: - I know it best. I daily drive it, and while I use Debian too, it's just more fluid for me to go from dicking around on my desktop to fixing something on a server. - It really blows when you need a package but find out it won't be added to the core repo until next major update, so you have to either rebase everything or add yet another git repo. - I've actually had fewer problems with things breaking on Arch than on Debian. What can I say, I just do too many weird things.
In today's show, Palestine Declassified asks why the British-based Zionists are being allowed to host war criminals and the Israeli occupation forces and even raise money for them.
'Wai' translates to 'fresh water' in Hawaiian, and 'wai wai' means 'wealth'. In our culture, both water and bounty of the 'aina (land which feeds and sustains) is communal and cannot be hoarded for private profit. This system was tainted by capitalist colonization.
The 'maka 'ainana' (the face of the land) produce the public 'wai wai' wealth -- food, medicine, housing -- by working that land. The job of the ali'i (steward -- not 'King' or 'CEO') was to ensure the distribution of these resources by need (socialism). Selfish wealth hoarding was not pono (just) & punished.
We Hawaiians also utilized wai for hydro-electricity in the 1800s, lighting cities with renewable, public-owned energy. US-backed capitalists like William Hall colluded to overthrow our socialist country to hoard 'wai wai' (wealth) & shackle us to colonizer fossil fuel.
@pluralistic, two ways that come to mind. I'm assuming that you're running 25.04 (plucky).
• Download older versions of gimp and the packages on which it depends via packages.ubuntu.com (check versions, though; only download dependencies which aren't satisfied by already-installed packages) and install via dpkg. You'll need to mark the installed packages as held.
• Add the previous release (oracular, or an older one if you want a version older than 2.10.38) to your sources.list (or create a new file for it in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/), make sure that /etc/apt/apt.conf contains a line “Apt::Default-Release "plucky";”, run “apt update” then “apt install -t oracular gimp”. It's worth marking the newly-installed packages as held.
There may be conflicts to resolve. It should be easier to handle these via the second method. (I prefer to use aptitude's curses UI for this.)
Pinning may be helpful too: see the apt_preferences man page.
I'd try getting the sources file(s) from the previous version of Ubuntu, including the security and backports ones. Put them in and update, then select the older version of Gimp from the available versions list. That should install any dependencies on older versions of libraries as needed without disrupting newer versions.
Hi again! Any specific areas we should look at to fix?
There are a lot of workflows possible in GIMP, and it's easy to miss how some are affected (for instance, pasting as a new layer versus as a floating selection seems to have been a very polarizing change).
For example, every time I'm making a complex path or lasso selection and I middle-click to move the canvas, the selection disappears and I lose all the work.
Tools always revert to nonsensical defaults. My chosen brushes disappear when I switch tools. Select tools flip from "add" to "subtract" with disastrous results.
Partially transparent layers with blurred halos turn into giant, opaque blobs when files are saved and re-opened (I have to save as PSD!)
@CmykStudent I'm SO excited by GImp3's possibilities, but this is a tool I use every day, for hours, to do something important, and it has been failing me in significant, extremely time-consuming ways, every single day. I literally *can't* get my work done if I have to use Gimp3. There isn't enough time to re-do (and re-re-re-do) my work over and over when the system fails me.
That's not even counting the zillion times it crashes and takes my unsaved work with it.
@CmykStudent I appreciate the offer of help but just compiling good bug reports on this stuff feels like a full-time job. I kinda want to go hide out in Gimp 2.x for six months and then re-emerge and see whether Gimp3 is ready for primetime.
@CmykStudent You mention pasting a new layer: 85% of the time, if I make a selection and do ctrl-c/v, it pastes in place. The other 15% of the time, with ZERO rhyme or reason, it pastes at a 20-200px offset. The "paste in place" keyboard shortcut would solve this, except 50% of the time, that keycombo does nothing and I have to go select the menuitem.
Fair! The most important thing is that you can accomplish your tasks - whether with 2.10 or 3.0.
I haven't come across most of the bugs you mention, so I'll look into it. The "disappearing brush" might be due to a filtering bug - if so, it's fixed in source and should be available in the next release. Our co-maintainer is doing a lot of post-3.0 code clean-up and review, so hopefully that will capture more problems you mentioned.
@CmykStudent One more thing: dialogs *always* spawn in the middle of the image, even if I've dragged them somewhere else the last time they're used. Every time I want to adjust curves, say, the dialog pops up bang smack in the middle of the image and I first have to drag it away before I use it, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to see what I'm doing. A small annoyance, but I have to do this a zillion times/day.
"What do we know about the Covid-19 virus 5 years on?"
"The growing body of research suggesting that for several months after a Covid infection, people become more vulnerable to other infections and there can be lingering effects on the heart, cardiovascular system and the brain."
Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) — The DPRK amended and supplemented the Law of the DPRK on Aerospace Development at the 21st Plenary Meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK on August 7, 2022, thus providing a le…
Amusement rides face constant exposure to moisture, whether from rainfall, humidity, cleaning processes, or water-based attractions located nearby. Without effective waterproofing, steel structures corrode, wooden components decay, and electrical systems fail prematurely. Implementing advanced waterproofing strategies not only protects the mechanical and aesthetic integrity of each ride but also reduces maintenance costs and downtime.
Understanding Moisture-Related Degradation
Moisture infiltrates amusement rides through multiple pathways—capillary action in joints, condensation within enclosed compartments, and direct surface exposure. Once inside, it accelerates rust formation in ferrous metals, weakens weld seams, and causes swelling in composite or timber sections. Electrical control panels, sensors, and lighting circuits are especially vulnerable, with water ingress leading to short-circuiting and operational hazards.
In a themed attraction such as a carousel ride for sale, prolonged exposure to moisture can dull paintwork, degrade decorative trims, and compromise the precision mechanics driving the rotation platform. The impact is both functional and visual, diminishing guest appeal and asset value.
Protective Coating and Sealant Systems
The first line of defense is a robust protective coating. Epoxy primers combined with polyurethane topcoats form an impermeable barrier that resists chipping and prevents water molecules from reaching the substrate. For outdoor rides, UV-stabilized coatings prevent photodegradation while maintaining gloss and color depth.
Sealants play an equally critical role in joints, fastener points, and weld seams. High-performance elastomeric sealants maintain flexibility under temperature fluctuations, preventing cracks that could admit water. Application should be meticulous, with attention given to crevice areas where pooling may occur.
Structural Design for Water Resistance
Engineering design significantly influences waterproofing success. Sloped surfaces encourage runoff, while strategically placed drainage channels prevent stagnant water from accumulating on platforms or undercarriages. For rides with complex ornamentation—such as carved horses or decorative panels—drainage holes and hidden gutters can be integrated without affecting visual aesthetics.
In many cases, ride manufacturers incorporate modular component assembly, allowing for easier removal of water-exposed parts during inspections. This modularity can also help preserve investment value, especially for buyers evaluating long-term upkeep alongside carousel price considerations.
Electrical and Control System Protection
Waterproofing extends beyond the visible exterior. Electrical enclosures should meet IP65 or higher protection standards, ensuring dust-tight sealing and resistance to water jets. Cable entry points require grommet seals, while circuit boards may benefit from conformal coatings that repel moisture and prevent corrosion of solder joints.
Submersible-grade connectors and heat-shrink tubing provide added durability for wiring exposed to outdoor conditions. For rides incorporating LED lighting, sealed lens housings and breathable vent membranes maintain illumination performance while preventing condensation buildup.
Advanced Waterproofing Technologies
Modern waterproofing leverages nanotechnology to create hydrophobic surfaces that repel water at a molecular level. Transparent nano-coatings can be applied over painted or metallic surfaces without altering appearance, offering an additional layer of protection.
Cathodic protection systems, commonly used in marine environments, can also be adapted to amusement rides constructed with large steel frameworks. These systems actively prevent rust by redirecting electrochemical reactions away from critical components.
Inspection, Maintenance, and Lifecycle Management
Preventive maintenance is essential for sustaining waterproofing performance. Seasonal inspections should identify early signs of coating degradation, sealant failure, or water pooling. Damaged coatings should be spot-repaired promptly to avoid spreading corrosion.
Cleaning procedures must be aligned with waterproofing objectives. Using high-pressure water jets without protective shielding can force moisture into joints and electrical compartments, undermining the very protections in place. Low-pressure rinsing combined with appropriate cleaning agents helps maintain surface integrity.
Cost Considerations and Value Preservation
Waterproofing measures represent an upfront investment but yield long-term savings. Preventing corrosion and water damage reduces the need for costly component replacements, minimizes ride downtime, and maintains aesthetic appeal. This has direct implications for resale markets, where a well-maintained attraction commands a stronger position.
For potential buyers assessing a carousel ride for sale, visible evidence of consistent waterproofing and maintenance can justify a higher carousel price, as it signals reliability and reduced future repair costs.
Conclusion
Waterproofing is not merely a protective measure; it is an integral component of amusement ride engineering and lifecycle planning. By combining advanced coatings, intelligent structural design, and rigorous maintenance protocols, operators can safeguard ride performance, protect guest safety, and preserve asset value. In a market where visual allure and operational excellence define success, effective waterproofing ensures that attractions continue to perform—and captivate—season after season.
Trump meeting with Putin in Alaska. On our soil. No Zelensky. Dynamics. Understandings. The cesspool of Ukraine. So much corruption. Theft. Oligarchs. There is no noble there. A victimized population. Mankind can be so cruel. You see your laws unrecognized. Imagine that. The ignorant find places to come to a rest. Ukraine is as good a place as any.
Security flaws in the Halo 3C would allow any who hacked them to disable smoke/vape detection, spoof false alerts, eavesdrop in real time, or even play whatever audio they chose through the device’s speaker.
Demonstrated at Defcon today and in a video in our story above.
Motorola says it’s pushed out a patch. The hackers who found the flaws argue that’s not enough.
“There's a microphone connected to a computer that's connected to the network,” says one who goes by Nyx. “And there's no software patching that will make that not possible to use as a listening device.”
Motorola has also marketed the Halo 3C for use in public housing—inside people’s homes.
“That kind of took it up a notch as far as how egregious this entire product line is,” Nyx says. “Most people have an expectation that their home isn’t bugged, right?”
A microphone doesn't get put into a smoke detector by mistake. It can't be removed with a software patch, and even if it's disabled by the patch, will absolutely be enabled again when needed for the reason it was added in the first place.
On Friday, a White House official announced that the Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), citing antisemitism and other civil rights violations at the institution in …
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Billionaire David Ellison just bought CBS with Trump’s blessing. His father, Larry Ellison—the top US funder of the Israeli military—backs the move. Bari Weiss is set to reshape the newsroom. Media independence is on life support.
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