jjjacq

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Retired and mostly senile anarchist

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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

https://madinstro.net

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Mediapart

4 months ago

Mediapart
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La chronique de Waly Dia. « Si les prisons sont dans cet état, c’est parce que nos dirigeants n’avaient pas prévu d’y aller »

Dans sa chronique enregistrée sur scène samedi 1er novembre à Mennecy (Essonne), Waly Dia revient sur l’incarcération de Nicolas Sarkozy, le cessez-le-feu rompu à Gaza et la taxe Zucman.

Par Waly Dia › mediapart.fr/journal/culture-e…

La chronique de Waly Dia. « Si les prisons sont dans cet état, c’est parce que nos dirigeants n’avaient pas prévu d’y aller »

Dans sa chronique enregistrée sur scène samedi 1er novembre à Mennecy (Essonne), Waly Dia revient sur l’incarcération de Nicolas Sarkozy, le cessez-le-feu rompu à Gaza et la taxe Zucman.

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je suis abonné, mais pourquoi dire que c'est en accès libre s'il faut donner son mail et s'inscrire automatiquement à la newsletter pour voir l'article et la vidéo ?

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OFA

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Salut #WalyDia ⬆️ @mediapart !

Tu taggerais #WalyDia les posts de tes chroniques ?

Vidéo en direct de UTube : youtube.com/watch?v=DyC0bNMDnN…

« Si les prisons sont dans cet état, c'est parce que nos dirigeants n'avaient pas prévu d'y aller »

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

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#walydia @Mediapart

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Python Software Foundation

4 months ago

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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/N…
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python.org/sponsors/applicatio…

The PSF has withdrawn $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...

^{Python Software Foundation Blog}

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Thank you 🙏

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Tom Gauld

4 months ago

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A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com

@profile/theguardian.com

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Tom Gauld

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My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

@profile/newscientist.com

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My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com (US/Canada version)

@profile/newscientist.com

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\ˈthē-ˈˈärd-ˌvärk\

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Well played!

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WBUR

4 months ago

WBUR
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MFA resolves ownership for vessels by enslaved potter David Drake

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In a notable agreement, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has returned two monumental stoneware vessels to the descendants of the enslaved man who made them.

#boston #arts

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Martin Seeger

4 months ago

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4 months ago

This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.

In this case the warning was quite literal.

The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.

What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.

Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me

Update: This post seems to have struck a nerve and went very wide. As I will not be able to answer every comment, I want to add a few points:

The linked article was

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me

Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough.

^{Harishankar (Small World)}

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@nazokiyoubinbou @lbnvds I wish this wasnʼt the case, but statistically, if slop outnumbers human writing and Google et al. make no effort to downrank it, then we should be suspicious. From January to September 2024, a minimum of one “AI” BS piece went up about me each day, sometimes three a day. Iʼm not famous. I fought them most nights, from authors in different countries. They vastly outnumbered anything legitimately written about me by humans. This story has similar hallmarks to the fakes.

@lbnvds @Nazo

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On the unmodified device, if the kill switch requires a remote command to be sent, blocking ALL networking (no open wifi and not giving in the passphrase) should block the command from being received. This won't work if a timeout on communications with the robot's true master is also included.

I would expect most users who block networking to block ALL of it, especially given the long history of updates that are downgrades (such as new DRM antifeatures and lockouts) in commercial devices of all types.

ANY device you cut off from the vendor needs to be cut all the way off including firmware updates. Hard for a 3ed party to exploit an offline device, so should be safe to stay with a "known good snapshot" firmware.

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

4 months ago

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Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵

#spacetober_challenge Earth
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt

#mastoart #printmaking #womeninstem #math #histsci #linocut #blackinstem #mathematician #EarthSci #spacetober_challenge

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Ewen Bell 📸

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This was super interesting. A glimpse into the life of a stranger, very candid. A little sad.

youtube.com/watch?v=dKmuCBFPY3…

The Most Raw Conversation I've Ever Had: Revisited

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

^{Model Strangers (YouTube)}

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John

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Very interesting, James is s very interesting character, maybe a bit sad but really very lucky to be alone. Stay strong James, you're ok mate!

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VulcanTourist

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He's mistaken. I am THE Could Have Been Man. He's scampering in my shadow.

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Pottery by Osa

4 months ago

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Even as I create larger statement pieces for upcoming shows, my functional ware is still the most important aspect of my work because of the way it exists in people’s homes and everyday lives. Here are a few pieces that have come out of the kiln over the past few weeks. #pottery #ceramics

#ceramics #pottery

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lovely work, I love the jug.

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I can understand why you are selling-out, your work is really nice.

I noted that tea pot - the handle made me think of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. I particularly liked that "earth tone vase". I've spent some time over the last couple of years in the hills west of Sedona, Arizona, so those colors look familiar.

I look forward to what you create next. I may buy some.

As a kid I tried ceramics - but I wasn't any good. More recently I put my hand to a fireplace using arts-and-crafts tiles. Here's a link to a photo...

cavebear.com/images/misc/firep…

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer

4 months ago

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4 months ago

Extraordinary mechanical and electric work to make a book which is unlike any other book. A video (10 mn) you must not miss: youtu.be/RgPqE28IUkw

3D-printed Mechanical Book that Comes Alive

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

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tTh

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« J'ai eu recours à l'IA pour écrire de courts poemes »

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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@tth Et alors ? Quel est le problème ? (Je sais que c'est super-chic sur le fédivers de brûler des calories en envoyant dix pouètes par jour contre l'IA mais, sur cette merveilleuse vidéo, il n'y avait rien d'autre à dire ?)

@tTh

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La Quadrature du Net

4 months ago

La Quadrature du Net
4 months ago

Nous soutenons l'initiative de l'APRIL #AdieuWindows qui organise et rassemble les personnes souhaitant quitter Windows à l'occasion de la fin du support de Windows 10.

C'est le moment de passer à Linux en étant soutenu et bien entouré!🐧

adieuwindows.april.org/

Adieu Windows, bonjour le Libre ! - Quittons ce système d'exploitation privateur

Trouvez de l'aideprès de chez vous pour installer un système d'exploitation libre !

^{Adieu Windows, bonjour le Libre !}

#adieuwindows

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Afchouya

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Ça ne fait pas mal !!! Ça fait même du bien sans risquer de creuser le trou de la sécu parce que c'est gratuit !!!

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vincent

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Si l’on a un pc pas trop pourri, il y a moyen de mettre Windows 11 dessus. Linux, c’est bien, le soucis peut être les applications que l’on utilise, il faut qu’il y ait des alternatives.

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Flipboard Culture Desk

4 months ago

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4 months ago

When Alice Gooblar-Perovic, Aahana Gupta, and Lydia Cruce were freshmen at Iowa City West High School, they learned that thousands of books, including "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Nineteen Minutes," were going to be pulled from classrooms across their state. This was in order to comply with Senate File 496, which said books and school materials must be "age appropriate." So they started a Banned Book Club. Two years later, the club is still going and growing, and the law is in trouble — the part of it that affected school libraries was temporarily blocked by a federal judge, while enforcement of book restrictions remains frozen under a second temporary injunction. @npr's Iowa Public Radio spoke with the three girls, who are now juniors, about how their goals have changed, and the community they've built.

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#Books @bookstodon #BookBans #Iowa #TheKidsAreAlright #HighSchool #Children

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023.

^{Josie Fischels (Iowa Public Radio)}

#books #children #iowa #bookbans #highschool #thekidsarealright @NPR @bookstodon group

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There are still heroes left.

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Pottery by Osa

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This vase was a custom order for a couple’s 9th wedding anniversary. They wanted something they could pass down to future generations and thought a ceramic piece would make a good commemorative heirloom. They mentioned their love for terracotta amaryllis, a variety I’d never heard of. Terracotta literally means “baked earth” so I was excited to render the flower in clay tones using a mixture of pink Alabama #clay and a clay called Newman Red from California. #pottery

#pottery #clay

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S★m V★rm★

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@virtualbri Absolutely spectacular ❤️

@Brian Tatosky

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Pottery by Osa

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@TheShellyTea Thank you you for pausing and taking the time 🙏🏾

@TheShellyTea

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Shlee fucked around &

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John Oliver's Last Week Tonight mentions #Mastodon and #PixelFed as alternatives that are "not as desperate to fall in line with trump".

#mastodon #pixelfed

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@jwz And yet…

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As a casual TV-watching user, I would have had a hard time reading "mastodon": I would have read "astodon."
The logo has little contrast and the lines of the m and logo blend significantly with each other.
If I compare it to the other lettering it is the least readable.
joinmastodon.org/it/branding

Brand Toolkit for Mastodon

Learn our branding guidelines, download our logos and icons, or use our brand colors for your projects.

^{joinmastodon.org}

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Pottery by Osa

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Still warm from the kiln, covered in warm earth tones—I’m so relieved this piece came out successfully on the other side of firing. I worked on it over the course of a month and remembered to document moments of process which I think I’ll share in a thread.

The most important thing to know is that I consider this pot a collaboration. I coordinated the colors, but I didn’t choose them. Each clay tone was a surprise and a gift, and that’s where my excitement about this piece lies. #pottery

#pottery

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lovely!

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Rob Fahrni

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@irene That’s beautiful! 😍

@Irene Zhang

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proedie

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If the starving monkeys would do the rich monkey favours, it would then use some of the bananas to toss them at the helpful monkeys from a high position (like the top of a tree). This is called the ‘trickle down’ effect.

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Maggie Maybe

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if they could get to it before all the other monkeys beat it to death.

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Design Thinking! Comic

4 months ago

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I still think I'd rather be a cat.
#comicthreads

#comicthreads

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Tom Gauld

4 months ago

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My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

@New Scientist

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Dave Muth

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Thank you, Tom!

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Genma

4 months ago

Genma
4 months ago

Avec la fin de Windows 10, Vous êtes nouveau.elle sur Linux, débutant.e ou utilisateur pas "geek" ou "informaticien" ? Qu'est ce qu'il vous faudrait comme information/vous manque pour mieux vous approprier votre ordinateur ? Que je sache quoi rédiger comme tutoriel grand public. RT apprécié

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Le plus important à mon avis c'est de montrer :

1) Comment modifier le BIOS pour booter le système de l'entrée USB
2) Ou trouver des distros Linux ou BSD en iso
3) Comment copier un iso sur clef USB et qu'elle soit bootable

Le reste est plutôt simple.

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Genma

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Vous quittez #Windows10 pour #Linux ? La communauté est là pour vous aider. Nouveau #tutoriel sur mon blog, rédigé par un humain et pas par une #IA ! "Clavier & Souris RGB Logitech Gamer sous Linux - Réglages des LED et autres boutons"
blog.genma.fr/?Clavier-Souris-…

Clavier & Souris RGB Logitech Gamer sous Linux - Réglages des LED et autres boutons - Le blog de Genma

En plus de mon couple clavier & souris Logitech MX Keys & MX Master 3 (voir à ce sujet mes articles Logitech MX Keys et MX Master 3 sous (…)

^{blog.genma.fr}

#ia #linux #windows10 #Tutoriel

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Tom Gauld

4 months ago

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One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

tomgauld.com

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

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I feel seen...

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brujademonte

5 months ago

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#gaza #palestina #palestine #freepalestine #palestinalibre #israel #israhell

#israel #gaza #palestine #freepalestine #palestina #PalestinaLibre #Israhell

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"Israel kidnapped 500
civilians from 44 nations
trying to help 2 million
starving in Gaza.

Pass it on."

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5 months ago

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#MetropolitanPolice in #London have yet again courageously defended the city against #terrorists with hand-written signs opposing #genocide in #Gaza and supporting #PalestineAction. The arrestees included a #blind man with a cane, and — for the third time — 83yo retired priest Rev Sue Parfitt.

#genocide #gaza #london #blind #terrorists #palestineAction #metropolitanpolice

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@JimmyB @Pamela1960 @spanghero @christineburns yes, I am inclined to agree xx

I do think David Cameron opened a big Pandora's Box of Nationalism....

@Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ @JimmyB (he/him) @Pam C @spanghero

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That blind guy is under arrest?

In America he'd be on the ground with a boot and/or knee in his neck, bleeding from the face and head as he's zip tied to his cane and then dragged off and literally thrown into the back of a van.

I'm absolutely shocked and the politeness of your police as they enforce this horrendous law you have.

jjjacq

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jjjacq
5 months ago

100 miles/h, les américains ne savent pas compter plus haut que 100 !

tTh

2025-09-20 14:10:26

: Sur la première photo "vitesse limite 160 km/h", pourquoi ?

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Silkabelli (cittadina UE 🇪🇺)

5 months ago

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Queen

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Andrés (personal views)

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Thank you Abi Al-Sahlani for your work and thank you to the Swedes that put you on your post.

Please also find the transcript source of the video debate:

europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docum…

Lots of other politicians also doing the right thing in this debate. Note, most of us will need translation help.

Context is also important.

Verbatim report of proceedings - After 10 years, time to end mass migration now - protect our women and children (topical debate) - Wednesday, 10 September 2025

^{www.europarl.europa.eu}

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James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺

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💥🔥🔥🔥

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Tom Gauld

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

tomgauld.com

^tomgauld.com

@New Scientist

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dailykos.com/story/2010/5/2/86…

Massive windspill reported in Southern California.

I'm-- I'm so sorry if this is disjointed (WHOOOSH) or confusing (WHOOSH), but-- I find myself the middle of a disaster of unprecedented proportions (WHOOOSH) and -- oh the humanity -- I'm having a ...

^{Daily Kos}

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outsidecontext 🇺🇦🕊️

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oh, they didn't even get to the point where they needed to fill out the impossible captcha.

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Richard Stallman

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Richard Stallman
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(satire) *U.S. Citizenship Test To Include 4-Year Imprisonment Section.*

U.S. Citizenship Test To Include 4-Year Imprisonment Section

WASHINGTON—Stating that the country’s naturalization process was “highly outdated,” White House officials announced Thursday that the U.S. citizenship test would now include a four-year imprisonment section.

^{The Onion Staff (The Onion)}

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Verify that you're human:
#GazaGenocide

#gazagenocide

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Nol Malone ☭

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An Israeli apologist obviously trolling from an "antifa" server. 🥴 We live in wild times. Hopefully the server boots him, but if not... 😬😬😬

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Subcömandante 🏴‍☠️Midas 🦄

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I'd really like to be recognized as human being, instead of getting dehumanized for political purposes.

Unfortunately I don't even know what #Palestine is? What state, people, territory and government/representation?

Please give me a chance, and explain.

#palestine

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🤯👇🏼
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.

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it's B! Cavello 🐝

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@corbden But I think what they did to Aaron was wrong

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Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸

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@b_cavello Yes, it was.

@it's B! Cavello 🐝

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Western Infidels

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The principle I couldn't stop noticing, once I had been introduced to it: The law serves the powerful, first and foremost.

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Texas Observer

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“There are doctors … who are hurting as many people ... who are flying under the radar because there is no radar anymore.”

From the archives: A rogue surgeon’s long #Texas career left behind damaged and dead people—and a cautionary tale of how far a wealthy physician can go before anyone stops him. texasobserver.org/rogue-surgeo…

#politics #USpol #news #healthcare

Rogue Surgeon: The Tale of 'Eric the Red'

The long Texas career of Dr. Eric Scheffey left behind damaged and dead people—and became a cautionary tale.

^{Kait Gallagher (The Texas Observer)}

#news #politics #uspol #texas #healthcare

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John Quiggin

5 months ago

John Quiggin
5 months ago

A permanent move will be needed soon

transcend.org/tms/2025/09/un-g…

UN General Assembly Urged to Temporarily Move to Geneva to Circumvent US Visa Denials

1 Sep 2025 - When Yasser Arafat, leader of the PLO, was denied a US visa to address the UN back in 1988, the General Assembly defied the US by temporarily moving the UN to Geneva– for the first time in UN history– providing a less-hostile political e…

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John Quiggin

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@jjjacq The General Assembly can move without the permission of the Security Council but changes to the veto power can be vetoed.

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John

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If everybody left, except the 5 wankers, and formed their own organisation, maybe something better would happen.

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5 months ago

John Quiggin
5 months ago

Fascism rises, and we are caught between craven and unwilling thenewdaily.com.au/news/politi…

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6 months ago

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6 months ago

AI is going GREAT!

substack.com/inbox/post/172538…

(apologies for a substack link but it's a good post)

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

^substack.com

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great read

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jjjacq

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Is it because it's so much more efficient it does 100 times more with 10 times fewer lines of code? 🤣🤣🤣

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Texas Observer

6 months ago

Texas Observer
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"Texas is, like, like six different states with a whole bunch of different cultures in it. That #diversity is what has not only made Texas this fascinating endeavor, but it’s also what has made #Texas so successful. You build successful, robust economies with diversity." texasobserver.org/texas-democr…

#DEI #Democrats #politics #USpol #news

'Disrupting Systems to Help the Little Guy': Texas Dem Chair Embraces Economic Populism

Kendall Scudder on Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, disaster politics, and his state's economic success

^{Gus Bova (The Texas Observer)}

#news #politics #democrats #uspol #texas #Diversity #DEI

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Michael

6 months ago

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6 months ago

truthout.org/articles/nelson-m…

Nelson Mandela’s Grandson: Israeli Apartheid “Far Worse” Than South Africa’s

The world must mount a campaign to end Israel’s apartheid, as countries did for South Africa, he said.

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

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Eliza MB

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I find it strange that the world boycotted South Africa but relationships with Israel continue as though everything is normal.

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6 months ago

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com 👽 p.s. You can preorder my new book of science here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Comic Books — tomgauld.com

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@New Scientist

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My new book of science cartoons is out soon. Preorder 'Physics for Cats' now at your local bookshop. Or come to @smallpressexpo.bsky.social on 13th and 14th September where I will be signing and doodling in copies. More details and other tour stops to come! @dandq.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

@Canongate @Drawn & Quarterly @Small Press Expo

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Moani

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I recently borrowed a couple of these collections from the library and was absurdly pleased at the way the shape of the books fits the shape of the comics. They are magnificent little objects!

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6 months ago

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UK #Labour Party.

Tough on grannies. Easy on #Genocide,

#genocide #labour

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i'd buy that, put it next to the classic one

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Totts

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brilliant

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Texas Observer

6 months ago

Texas Observer
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Last week, from Francesca D'Annunzio: He survived the treacherous Darien Gap to come to the U.S. Then #ICE agents called him a member of Tren de Aragua. No criminal record, no gang tattoos, he was deported over the sneakers he wore. texasobserver.org/a-venezuelan…

#immigration #border #HumanRights #news #politics #USpol

A Venezuelan Was Detained as a "Documented" Gang Member by ICE, Which Refused to Provide Proof - The Texas Observer

Jesús Escalona Mújicas, a 48-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker, says he was en route to work at a construction site on the morning of April 9 when a group of immigration agents and state and federal police officers stopped his car in a rural area nea…

^{Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)}

#news #politics #uspol #humanrights #immigration #ice #border

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6 months ago

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6 months ago

"According to Reuters, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has withdrawn its investments from a U.S. company and five Israeli banks over human rights violations in war zones."

t.me/QudsNen/182625

#EndTheOccupation
#Gaza #WarCrimes #FreePalestine #IsraelApartheid #Genocide
#EndTheArmsTrade #BoycottBoeing

Quds News Network

Breaking | According to Reuters, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has withdrawn its investments from a U.S. company and five Israeli banks over human rights violations in war zones.

^Telegram

#genocide #gaza #freepalestine #endtheoccupation #warcrimes #israelapartheid #endthearmstrade #boycottboeing

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Texas Observer

6 months ago

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From our magazine: In reality, Texas #Democrats haven’t actually tested the case of whether a strong Latino candidate can mobilize the state’s largest demographic to win a statewide race. texasobserver.org/latino-top-b…

#Texas #politics #USpol

Is a Strong Latino Candidate Texas Democrats’ Only Hope?

The party is long-overdue for such a leader at the top of the ballot.

^{Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)}

#politics #democrats #uspol #texas

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