At the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the Group of Seven (G7) countries froze approximately $300 billion in Russian central bank assets.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/kyivindepend…

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'This is Russia’s war, Russia should pay' — UK examining new ways to use Moscow's frozen assets

^{Chris York (The Kyiv Independent)}

Irish rap group has been denied entry for their alleged support for Hamas and Hezbollah, accusations the group denies.

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Irish band Kneecap says Canada ban aims to ‘silence opposition to genocide’

^{Mariamne Everett (Al Jazeera)}

Alexander Tyunin was found next to his car with a suicide note describing his depression.

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Another top Russian businessman found dead in latest string of mysterious deaths

^{Tymon Miller/ew (Telewizja Polska S.A)}

On the eve of New York Climate Week, activists and members of the public have gathered to protest the financial institutions that are “making our lives more expensive while profiting off the climate crisis, war and genocide,” the organizers say.

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"What happened in recent days in Poland and Estonia, and what has been happening in Ukraine for four years, concerns us all, because if we don't remain united, sooner or later it will happen to us too," Czech President Petr Pavel said.

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NATO 'must respond accordingly, including militarily' to Russian provocations, Czech president says

^{Volodymyr Ivanyshyn (The Kyiv Independent)}

In 1972, this must have felt like stepping into the future. TVs had only ever been passive, and suddenly the screen could respond. Families were seeing their living room sets turn into game machines, with paddles controlling little glowing squares.

Now, the overlays look wild. Plastic sheets taped to the glass to turn dots into tennis courts or haunted houses. It’s clumsy. Also brilliant—an early hack to add color and imagination to an otherwise bare signal. You had to supply the magic yourself, which makes it all the more fascinating today.

And the way Magnavox pitched it. What are you going to do when your kids are snowed in? It was sold like a family appliance. Little did they know that this would be revolutionary.

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

The federal investigation into the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has yet to find a link between the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, and left-wing groups on which Donald Trump and his administration have pledged to crack down after the killing, three sources familiar with the probe told NBC News.

One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.”

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Charlie Kirk’s assassination said investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

^{Allan Smith (NBC News)}

I'm going to register a protocol handler, so links to anywhere on the fedi will be opened in the user's home instance.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…

Has anyone already done this and if so what was the prefix you used? We might as well all use the same thing. I'm thinking web+fedi.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-prepared-are-we-for-a-rare-and-powerful-solar-event-180987293/

Questa storia degli animali crostini per mano mia ancora continua, ma... le questioni di oggi sono davvero poche. Blatero è attualmente fuori gioco,

stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/09/new-…

post from Newsom, who wrote, “Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today,”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/09/20/us-attorney-refers-gavin-newsom-to-secret-service-for-threat-assessment-over-x-post/

https://www.huaweicentral.com/new-huawei-ai-supernode-is-undeniably-competitive-said-nvidia/

Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration

Tom Homan investigated for accepting $50,000 from FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash. Trump's DOJ shut down investigation.

^{Carol Leonnig (MSNBC)}

Oggi è sabato, e quindi è proprio un momento adattissimo per le riflessioni… Non perché è solo fortuitamente capitato che oggi fosse sabato, E contemporaneamente io sono piena di disperazione, no no… È proprio che il giorno è intrinsecamente ideale per le riflessioni, per motivi cosmici che neanche io sono in grado di decifrare ma […]

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minioctt

2025-09-20 20:43:20

superpaturnie del sabato senza grossa ispirazione cosmica

Oggi è sabato, e quindi è proprio un momento adattissimo per le riflessioni… Non perché è solo fortuitamente capitato che oggi fosse sabato, E contemporaneamente io sono piena di disperazione, no no… È proprio che il giorno è intrinsecamente ideale per le riflessioni, per motivi cosmici che neanche io sono in grado di decifrare ma che, viste tutte le cose cosanti, sono necessariamente veri. Questo perché ho realizzato un dubbio — o meglio, esso mi è tornato in mente nella pratica di questi giorni — che mi manda fuori di testa: per quale razza di motivo, meno sono distratta e meno mi viene da scrivere??? 🤥

Oh, questa cosa mi fa incazzare veramente (e non direi più del dovuto come al solito, perché qui la cosa è dovutissima), perché, a parte l’essere semplicemente sconveniente, mi sembra contro-intuitiva: non dovrebbe essere il caso che, più si è in condizione di concentrazione, e più le cose dovrebbero uscire? Intendo sia idee per scrivere, che attimi vibranti per farlo. …O, forse, semplicemente la cosa non funziona trasversalmente come a me sembra che dovrebbe, e quindi, se sono estremamente concentrata sui momenti epici allora non posso riuscire ad esserlo anche su quelli scritturepici? 🤔

Più nello specifico, in genere, nei normali giorni l’entropia dell’universo fa gentilmente sì che mi arrivino vari trigger… ma invece, quando per qualche giorno sono fissata sul programmare qualcosa (come l’ultima appina fatta, che oggi ho continuato ad aggiornare, oppure nel breve futuro un firmware per creare una bomba con Arduino, non lo so ancora), le scintille non arrivano. Ma è strano, perché non ho chissà che standard alti io, lo sappiamo bene… nei giorni normali mi vengono idee per le solite belle stronzate semi-riciclate, mentre quando sono concentrata anziché superdistratta neanche queste arrivano. 💥

Probabilmente questa schifezza ha qualcosa a che fare con il ben noto fatto che la noia porta la mente a svarionare e far uscire idee stellari, tra cui quelle per i post pazzi, mentre il non annoiarsi inibisce questo meccanismo… e, dato che quando programmo certamente non mi annoio (almeno, nel 97% dei casi), probabilmente il mio cervello si rifiuta di elaborare oltre. Ma perché mai??? Eppure dovrebbe saperlo bene che se non riesco a scrivere almeno 1 post al giorno qui sopra ci rimango male, quindi dovrebbe impegnarsi un po’ di più a non far accadere ciò, no? 😾

Da un lato vorrei dare la colpa di questo anche al famigerato tempo, come sempre evasivo ed andante solo verso avanti, mai indietro per farne recuperare un po’… ma, a pensarci davvero, non sono sicura che sia davvero lui il principale bastardo in questa questione. Per quanto si, mettermi a programmare dalla mattina alla sera mi rubi una quantità considerevole di tempo, ci sono ogni tanto casi per cui sono completamente distratta, stando in mezzo ad altri impegni vari o eventi frammentati, ma nessuno su cui mi fisso particolarmente, e in un dato giorno di quelli mi escono 2, o anche 3 (ormai più raro questo, “rest in piss superoctt, they say you will not be missed and so they do not deserve to be pleased“) post qui. 😴

Una cosa è certa: il tutto non è miao (non è positivo). Sono quindi sempre alla ricerca di nuovi hackeraggi mentali e, per chiunque me ne proponga (a patto che NON richiedano l’assunzione di sostanze tossico-stupefacenti), sono pronta a provarne. Magari dovrei provare replicare quello che sto attualmente testando per gli animali crostini, ma con un gioco che sia meno diarizzabile, e così facendo potrebbero uscire nuove cose da scrivere qui ogni giorno (non lì eh, qui; il patto col diavolo accidentale riguardo lo scrivere ogni giorno l’ho fatto qui) quasi automaticamente… però troppa roba così rischia di richiedere tempo che non posso sempre allocare, e quindi non posso contarci troppo. 😫

Vabbè, sono cucinata ed evaporata, questo è quanto. Non mi succedono tante cose interessanti quindi, davvero, niente da fare. (Quanto vorrei trasformarmi nel sonno in un peluche di Kuromi gigante, così da non essere più costretta a fare i conti con queste mie paturnie umane troppo umane…)

#pensieri #problemi

According to Cabello, the detainees confessed the shipment was part of a "false flag operation" designed to incriminate Venezuela in international drug trafficking and justify external aggression. "The four detainees are saying they work for the DEA," Cabello told state television, calling the alleged plan a "maneuver for destabilization."

Authorities said the boat originated in Colombia's Guajira region and was connected to a trafficking group called "Los Orientales," allegedly led by Gersio Parra Machado. Cabello argued that the operation demonstrated Venezuela's commitment to combating narcotics without resorting to lethal force. "We don't apply the death penalty," he said, drawing a contrast with U.S. military strikes on alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean.

Venezuela Announces Capture of Alleged DEA Agent With Massive Drug Shipment

According to the country's Interior Minister, the detainees confessed the shipment was part of a "false flag operation" designed to incriminate Venezuela in international drug trafficking

^{Pedro Camacho (Latin Times)}

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/20/politics/political-violence-data-analysis

Love that Metal Jesus is diving deeper into obscure PC games. As a former Sierra employee, he brings a perspective few retro enthusiasts can match.

And honestly, any spotlight on PC gaming history is welcome. It’s a part of retro culture that too often gets pushed aside.

Which blows my mind—because even if you only count DOS and Windows, leaving out Mac, Amiga, and Linux, PC still has the single biggest game library of all time.

Rabat_ Social Media Exchange (SMEX)—a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing human rights in digital spaces across MENA [Middle East and North Africa] — is warning that Israeli-linked software secretly embedded in Samsung phones across the Middle East and North Africa region poses a serious surveillance threat.

According to SMEX, Samsung’s A and M series devices either come preloaded with the app “Aura” or install it automatically through system updates, without the user’s consent. The application reportedly collects a wide range of personal and device-specific data, including IP addresses, device fingerprints, hardware details, and network information.

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2025/06/212144/samsung-embeds-israeli-surveillance-app-on-phones-across-mena/

cross-posted from: masto.ai/users/Miro_Collas/sta…

Democrats rapidly shift on Israel amid Gaza assault, evidence of famine - The Washington Post
archive.ph/fNAjQ

Took them much too long!

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com

Mastodon

A general Mastodon server for all languages.

^{Mastodon hosted on masto.ai}

Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania continued the Democrats’ piling on against Palestinians this past Sunday.

Fetterman asserted to CNN’s Manu Raju: “There’s no ethnic cleansing. It’s not a genocide. This is a just war.”

Asked by Raju if Israel was using “starvation as a weapon,” he claimed: “No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Israel is not deliberately starving people, absolutely.”

He added: “Those conditions are miserable there. And it is hell on earth. Why? Some people blame Israel for that? I blame Hamas and Iran for that thing.”

This continues most Democrats’ failure to recognize the Gaza genocide, even walking back the genocide assertion in the recent case of Congresswoman Katherine Clark, a top leader in the House of Representatives.

Fetterman denies Gaza genocide, claims it's a "just war"

Democratic leaders in US House ignore constituents on Palestinian rights as Trump targets activists for those rights.

^{The Electronic Intifada}