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Last night I came home very late and very intoxicated. When I arrived at home, my wife was waiting for me.

"Where have you been?" she demanded.

"I don't know," I said, "but it had red velvet wallpaper and gold plated urinals." Then I passed out. As I laid there on the floor, my wife became curious about where I might have been.

So she started making phone calls to some of the local bars. "Hello, Charlie Clarks."

"Hi, I have a question for you. Does your establishment have red velvet wallpaper?"

"No, ma'am, we don't."

"OK, thanks."

She called another.

"Good evening,

Ted's Brass Tap."

"Hi, does your bar have red velvet wallpaper?"

"Why yes, we do."

"Do you have gold plated urinals?" "Ha ha, sorry, but no."

"All right, thank you."

She decided to try one more.

"Norton's Corner."

"Do you have red velvet wallpaper?"

"We do."

"How about gold plated urinals?"

There was a pause. Then, in the background, my wife heard someone say, "Hey, Charlie...I think we found the guy who peed in your saxophone.”

"Ideology is programming for people who don't know what to do."

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Coffee is such a fickle mistress, some days I make a carafe and I have a delicious beverage full of all those fruity flavour notes the packaging told me about, while other days, with the same coffee and water, I make a carafe and I end up with a cup of hot brown full of bitterness and not much else and wonder whether I should just develop a crippling monster addiction instead

Περασμένες μεγαλειώδεις εργατικές προσπάθειες, τότε που εργάτες/τριες, μηχανικοί κλπ είχαν ανησυχίες και κότσια.

Τώρα μούγκα στη στρούγκα

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Guess what you anonymous coward, “both sides”-ing a genocide is genocide denial.

And genocide denial is complicity in genocide.

Blocked right back, asshole.

(His post was in reply to mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115065419…)

@palestine

#israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine


Not an assault. Genocide.

One that the UK – for which the BBC is the propaganda channel – is complicit in.

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#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza


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This person would have declared all Nazi rags to be "neutral" while German Nazis were committing Holocaust in the past

So called "neutrality" & bothsiding by ignoring real world power imbalance between all/both sides is how Western colonial, imperial & genocidal propaganda passed off itself as so called "objective journalism"

Western so called "journalism"(Most sophisticated psyop) spins establishment narratives as so called "objectivity" in reporting

@palestine

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Au moins 76 migrants revenant d’Iran meurent dans un accident en Afghanistan
sur fond d’une campagne massive d’expulsions lancée par Téhéran contre les quatre millions d’Afghans sans-papiers sur son sol.
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Only 23.2% of the humanitarian response plan 2025 for #Sudan is funded.

"The cuts have severely impacted community kitchens run by local women-led organizations, which in turn have undermined communities’ opportunities to support themselves. And as resources shrink, the risk of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment is rising."

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Gonna try to get my art setup running on my Linux Mint laptop tomorrow. If this works for real, I'm one step closer to ditching Windows for good.

I got Clipstudio running with Bottles, though not without some issues, like the launcher not working correctly. Gotta get my Cintiq and Wacom remote up too.
If this doesn't work, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do.
I've tried programs like Gimp and Krita, and they just don't feel right for me.

I need a new laptop soon (8gb just doesn't cut it anymore), would be nice if I could just install Mint right away...

in reply to Dadaph🇧🇻

Probably gonna get a new laptop sooner than I thought (thinking of Thinkpad T14, any experiences?)

Will see if I can get the setup to run anyway, but the thing is I really need a stable Cintiq/CSP setup in a month's time for an event, so I'll probably just get my new laptop and do the event with as little worry as possible.

But once that's over, I hope to go back to Linux and start messing around with VMs to see if that can be a solution for me.

A word of caution about #DNS4EU.

Even if the service is operated in the #EU, and is sold to the public as progress for European "#sovereignty"; and even as you may celebrate its offering of "free protection" from #malware, #phishing and undesirable #advertising: Take a look at the 2022 tender document for the project.

Right from the start, it was clearly stated that the DNS entries will be censored:

»Lawful filtering: Filtering of URLs leading to illegal content based on legal requirements applicable in the EU or in national jurisdictions (e.g. based on court orders), in full compliance with EU rules.« (p. 15)

Now think of European countries that have very peculiar opinions about #LGBTQ+ rights, #copyright, etc.

What do you think will be enabled by a clause like »or in national jurisdictions (e.g. based on court orders)«?

It's not just an upcoming commercialization of the service that should worry you.

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#DNS

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On sait faire des slips made in France à 60 € pièce, mais pas l’objet qu’on consulte 500 fois par jour... ou comment Trump peut mettre la France à genoux en 24h. Un article de @maeool

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Η αναστολή λειτουργίας 38 σχολείων, Νηπιαγωγείων και Δημοτικών στους τέσσερις νομούς της Ηπείρου είναι η κορυφή του παγόβουνου. Είναι η απτή απόδειξη ενός τόπου που αργοπεθαίνει.. Το αποτέλεσμα της εγκατάλειψης δεκαετιών και της ερήμωσης.

Ολόκληρες επαρχίες δεν έχουν δημοτικό και νηπιαγωγείο εδώ και χρόνια. Τα χωριά κάθε χρόνο μετρούν και λιγότερους κατοίκους.

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για κλάματα, ειλικρινά και μετα που ειδα και τα μέρη σας, αναρωτιέμαι τι όραμα να εχουν ολοι αυτοί που λαμβάνουν τετοιες αποφάσεις? Φυσικά κανενα, γιατι ποιος έιχε μέχρι σήμερα όραμα στην Ελλάδα για να εχει και στην Ηπειρο.

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Δεν θυμάμαι ποιος το έγραψε και που το διάβασα, πάνω κάτω έλεγε:

Γρήγορα θα εγκαταλείψουν το ισραήλ όσοι νιώθουν έστω και λίγο άνθρωποι και όσοι παραμείνουν στην χώρα θα συγκροτήσουν μια μάζα ρατσιστών, οπαδών του απαρτχάιντ, ακροδεξιοί στρατόκαυλοι επεκτατιστές δολοφόνοι.

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Mordechai now lives with his wife and two sons, ages 9 and 10, in #Greece, one of the top destinations for emigrating Israelis, with tens of thousands of them making a home there. As immigrants to Greece, “in #Athens we are isolated,” he says. “But at least people are not openly hostile.”



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