24 September 2025 15:58 BST | Last update: ~12:00 EDT
“Sell your furniture,” Youssef advises Palestinian journalist Ahmed Dremly, as he packs his belongings to flee Gaza City.
“The bed in your room, the wardrobe, the bookcase - sell them all,” he insists.
Dremly, one of Middle East Eye’s main contributors in Gaza City throughout the Israeli genocide, responds bitterly: “Who would buy them?”
Youssef, his friend, replies: “Sell them as firewood.”
“So I should smash the bed my mother used to sleep on - my room, my memories - and sell it all as firewood?” Dremly asks again.
“Better that than having it buried under the rubble,” Youssef says, his voice trailing off as he disappears into the distance.
It’s a conversation straight out of a dystopian, apocalyptic novel - but one that most of Gaza City’s one million residents have been forced to have in recent days.
Final goodbye: MEE reporters on the pain of being forced out of Gaza City
24 September 2025 15:58 BST | Last update: ~12:00 EDT
“Sell your furniture,” Youssef advises Palestinian journalist Ahmed Dremly, as he packs his belongings to flee Gaza City.
“The bed in your room, the wardrobe, the bookcase - sell them all,” he insists.
Dremly, one of Middle East Eye’s main contributors in Gaza City throughout the Israeli genocide, responds bitterly: “Who would buy them?”
Youssef, his friend, replies: “Sell them as firewood.”
“So I should smash the bed my mother used to sleep on - my room, my memories - and sell it all as firewood?” Dremly asks again.
“Better that than having it buried under the rubble,” Youssef says, his voice trailing off as he disappears into the distance.
It’s a conversation straight out of a dystopian, apocalyptic novel - but one that most of Gaza City’s one million residents have been forced to have in recent days.
“Sell your furniture,” Youssef advises Palestinian journalist Ahmed Dremly, as he packs his belongings to flee Gaza City.
“The bed in your room, the wardrobe, the bookcase - sell them all,” he insists.
24 September 2025 15:58 BST | Last update: ~12:00 EDT
“Sell your furniture,” Youssef advises Palestinian journalist Ahmed Dremly, as he packs his belongings to flee Gaza City.
“The bed in your room, the wardrobe, the bookcase - sell them all,” he insists.
Dremly, one of Middle East Eye’s main contributors in Gaza City throughout the Israeli genocide, responds bitterly: “Who would buy them?”
Youssef, his friend, replies: “Sell them as firewood.”
“So I should smash the bed my mother used to sleep on - my room, my memories - and sell it all as firewood?” Dremly asks again.
“Better that than having it buried under the rubble,” Youssef says, his voice trailing off as he disappears into the distance.
It’s a conversation straight out of a dystopian, apocalyptic novel - but one that most of Gaza City’s one million residents have been forced to have in recent days.
Final goodbye: MEE reporters on the pain of being forced out of Gaza City
24 September 2025 15:58 BST | Last update: ~12:00 EDT
“Sell your furniture,” Youssef advises Palestinian journalist Ahmed Dremly, as he packs his belongings to flee Gaza City.
“The bed in your room, the wardrobe, the bookcase - sell them all,” he insists.
Dremly, one of Middle East Eye’s main contributors in Gaza City throughout the Israeli genocide, responds bitterly: “Who would buy them?”
Youssef, his friend, replies: “Sell them as firewood.”
“So I should smash the bed my mother used to sleep on - my room, my memories - and sell it all as firewood?” Dremly asks again.
“Better that than having it buried under the rubble,” Youssef says, his voice trailing off as he disappears into the distance.
It’s a conversation straight out of a dystopian, apocalyptic novel - but one that most of Gaza City’s one million residents have been forced to have in recent days.
“Sell your furniture,” Youssef advises Palestinian journalist Ahmed Dremly, as he packs his belongings to flee Gaza City.
“The bed in your room, the wardrobe, the bookcase - sell them all,” he insists.
24 September 2025 15:58 BST | Last update: ~12:00 EDT
“Sell your furniture,” Youssef advises Palestinian journalist Ahmed Dremly, as he packs his belongings to flee Gaza City.
“The bed in your room, the wardrobe, the bookcase - sell them all,” he insists.
Dremly, one of Middle East Eye’s main contributors in Gaza City throughout the Israeli genocide, responds bitterly: “Who would buy them?”
Youssef, his friend, replies: “Sell them as firewood.”
“So I should smash the bed my mother used to sleep on - my room, my memories - and sell it all as firewood?” Dremly asks again.
“Better that than having it buried under the rubble,” Youssef says, his voice trailing off as he disappears into the distance.
It’s a conversation straight out of a dystopian, apocalyptic novel - but one that most of Gaza City’s one million residents have been forced to have in recent days.
“Sell your furniture,” Youssef advises Palestinian journalist Ahmed Dremly, as he packs his belongings to flee Gaza City.
“The bed in your room, the wardrobe, the bookcase - sell them all,” he insists.
Donald Trump's Justice Department is under fire by a federal judge after uncovering "multiple employees ... may have violated" local rules guaranteeing a right to a fair trial for so-called "healthcare shooter" Luigi Mangione.
U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Garnett wrote on Wednesday that Mangione documented several incidents in which members of the Southern District of New York made public statements that are in violation of Criminal Rule 23.1.
The judge shredded the DOJ, saying that she issued an order on "April 25, 2025, specifically identifying the strictures of this rule for counsel and directing the prosecution team to ensure that the highest levels of the Department of Justice, up to and including Attorney General Bondi, were aware of and understood they were bound by this Rule."
President Donald Trump's Justice Department is under fire by a federal judge after uncovering "multiple employees ... may have violated" local rules guaranteeing a right to a fair trial for so-called "healthcare shooter" Luigi Mangione. U.S.
"High-altitude winds between 1,640 and 3,281 feet (500 and 10,000 meters) above the ground are stronger and steadier than surface winds. These winds are abundant, widely available, and carbon-free.
"The physics of wind power makes this resource extremely valuable. “When wind speed doubles, the energy it carries increases eightfold, triple the speed, and you have 27 times the energy,” explained Gong Zeqi "
"High-altitude winds between 1,640 and 3,281 feet (500 and 10,000 meters) above the ground are stronger and steadier than surface winds. These winds are abundant, widely available, and carbon-free.
"The physics of wind power makes this resource extremely valuable. “When wind speed doubles, the energy it carries increases eightfold, triple the speed, and you have 27 times the energy,” explained Gong Zeqi "
Yesterday, Stephen Miller delivered a eulogy for Charlie Kirk that served as a battle cry for the Trump administration’s state-sponsored war on his perceived foes—a war for which Miller is the primary strategist. The speech was a jarring piece of rhetoric. It is a perfect encapsulation of the ethos of Trumpism, boiling away the president’s idiosyncratic habits of mixing insult comedy and weird digressions into his rhetoric and leaving, in Miller’s tongue, the residue of pure ideology and will to power.
Miller’s theme was that President Donald Trump’s side embodies pure good, his opponents pure evil, and the former is destined to utterly destroy the latter. Republicans have never stopped complaining that Hillary Clinton once described a portion of Trump’s base as “a basket of deplorables.” Yet over the weekend the president’s most powerful adviser depicted half the country as worthless, irredeemably wicked, and fated for destruction.
How are you sharing files between two party, with which system, app, site, etc.
I want to share some PDF with a friend but I’m becoming really tired of the old Google Drive. So any option is appreciated.
Also I’m finding myself always in the need to share a PDF or a file with an anonymous lemmy user if your option could work in this situation that will be great
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package: - GitHub - schollz/croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :package:
If you're looking for a privacy respecting paid service that's not just a file locker for pirates I have two recommendations: At a previous workplace, we used LiquidFiles. More catered for commercial uses.
Personally I've been using Bitwarden Send. Requires a paid account ($10/year) and limited to 500MB files.
Bitwarden Send provides secure file sharing and information to anyone! Send can be used to share files or text, all end-to-end encrypted. Get started today!
I stumbled upon it a few years back when I was looking for a way to send files directly to peers. I can't remember if it was from a list of similar services or if I used a search engine. It's been pretty useful for me.
Honestly, it depends. On the size of the file(s), type of files, etc. But usually either Signal or wormhole. If they're standing next to me I've used Android Quick Share.
An XMPP server. Users with local accounts (long time friends) have almost no restrictions on what can be sent, file size, etc. We have private groups set up, dms, public rooms, etc, more or less like discord. After trying many of the popular chatting and file sharing platforms XMPP seems to be the one that works best for the most people on the most platforms within our group. YMMV.
Personally I'm quite big fan of self-hosting, but if you want less a hassle, def try some of the other suggestions.
Since you're interested in anon file sharing, I'd really recommend you take some time to really think out just what your personal definition of anonymous is, and how well it fits in modern digital infrastructure. True anonymous activity is nearly impossible, you can be fingerprinted by even writing a file to a drive to hand to someone. Every action taken online has some trace to it, while IP is generally not precise information, with enough data overlap you can be reasonably guessed depending on how much effort someone is willing to put into it.
By MEE staff Published date: 24 September 2025 16:58 BST | Last updated ~15:21 EDT
At least 20 people have been wounded after a drone crashed and exploded in the southern Israeli port city of Eilat, Israeli media has reported, citing Israel's ambulance service.
Two people were said to be in critical condition.
Israeli Army Radio said a drone flew at a low altitude above the ground, making it difficult for the Iron Dome missile defence system to intercept it.
The Times of Israel reported that paramedics were providing medical treatment and referring the wounded to Yoseftal Hospital nearby.
Israel's military said the drone was launched from Yemen.
At least 20 wounded after drone from Yemen hits Israel's Eilat
By MEE staff Published date: 24 September 2025 16:58 BST | Last updated ~15:21 EDT
At least 20 people have been wounded after a drone crashed and exploded in the southern Israeli port city of Eilat, Israeli media has reported, citing Israel's ambulance service.
Two people were said to be in critical condition.
Israeli Army Radio said a drone flew at a low altitude above the ground, making it difficult for the Iron Dome missile defence system to intercept it.
The Times of Israel reported that paramedics were providing medical treatment and referring the wounded to Yoseftal Hospital nearby.
Israel's military said the drone was launched from Yemen.
At least 20 people have been wounded after a drone crashed and exploded in the southern Israeli port city of Eilat, Israeli media has reported, citing Israel's ambulance service.
Two people were said to be in critical condition.
By MEE staff Published date: 24 September 2025 16:58 BST | Last updated ~15:21 EDT
At least 20 people have been wounded after a drone crashed and exploded in the southern Israeli port city of Eilat, Israeli media has reported, citing Israel's ambulance service.
Two people were said to be in critical condition.
Israeli Army Radio said a drone flew at a low altitude above the ground, making it difficult for the Iron Dome missile defence system to intercept it.
The Times of Israel reported that paramedics were providing medical treatment and referring the wounded to Yoseftal Hospital nearby.
Israel's military said the drone was launched from Yemen.
At least 20 wounded after drone from Yemen hits Israel's Eilat
By MEE staff Published date: 24 September 2025 16:58 BST | Last updated ~15:21 EDT
At least 20 people have been wounded after a drone crashed and exploded in the southern Israeli port city of Eilat, Israeli media has reported, citing Israel's ambulance service.
Two people were said to be in critical condition.
Israeli Army Radio said a drone flew at a low altitude above the ground, making it difficult for the Iron Dome missile defence system to intercept it.
The Times of Israel reported that paramedics were providing medical treatment and referring the wounded to Yoseftal Hospital nearby.
Israel's military said the drone was launched from Yemen.
At least 20 people have been wounded after a drone crashed and exploded in the southern Israeli port city of Eilat, Israeli media has reported, citing Israel's ambulance service.
Two people were said to be in critical condition.
INFO: image above "slop" text is generated by diffusion model (i found it on duckduckgo, did not generate it myself)
::: spoiler alternative image link on blahaj zone :::
i looked at dis "stop doin math" funi, n thought "eh - why not" n now i made dis.
generally tried to keep it as close to the original as possibl, while also makin it maria-themed - so here we go. i think it turned out preddi well.
in case dis post blows up n reaches the lemmy world peeps who dun kno me, here a little note to all u who r about to write a comment bout my writin style: - i dun hav a stroke, n so do u.
Stop Doing Math refers to a parody infographic by meme creator Welcome To My Meme Page that suggests the reader stops doing math for a variety of nonsensical reasons.
Sembra la cosa più naturale del mondo, ma grattarsi è un po' come lanciare un allarme alla Polizia che va interpretato per attivare i soccorsi nel più breve tempo possibile
An app created for anonymously reporting people accused of criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk has leaked personal information about its users. The
I was using Lemmy for the better part of two years and thought I'd come over to piefed and see what's up. A few things puzzled me and I'm hoping this is the best place to ask.
It seems all top level comments are locked for replies - is that a server thing? A federation thing?
Scrolling through All, the content just... stops. I'm using the Boost client (maybe that's why?). I get it if I'm sorting by top hour - there's only so much posted per hour. But it's the same for Hot, Scaled, Active, etc.
Edit: looks like both of these are issues with the Boost client. Switching to Summit on Android resolves both.
Sorry about that. Piefed just had a new version release last week and part of that included some changes to the api that mobile clients use. Boost has been a bit slower to update than some of the others. It's unfortunate really, because Boost is my favorite mobile app for lemmy, but the updates can be slow. The good news is that we aren't planning any more breaking changes to the api going forward, so once Boost is updated, it should continue working.
As an aside, I would also recommend trying piefed as a PWA. It is my preferred way of using it on a mobile device.
In versions of the API prior to 1.2, the `page_cursor` parameter was supported on the `post/list` endpoint. After testing with API v1.2 on crust.piefed.social, it appears that `page_cursor` no longer works.
Hi, I've got dispatcharr running behind a VPN with free iptv feeds and have it at the point I think I'm comfortable subscribing to a provider. Where is the best place to talk about and get real experiences with different ones? All I see are what look like SEO optimized scams trying to sell providers, half the time look fake anyway. Thanks
Depends on where you are. I have mine sitting behind a pia vpn container, equivalent to a gluetun solution. My opinion is that if you're doing black market iptv in a place where you could get in trouble for it, you need a vpn.
Open to alternatives. I'm aware of the issues with kape. I haven't had problems with them and I've used them since before kape bought them. I was going to switch to Mullvad but they no longer support port forwarding, on which I depend.
AirVPN has port forwarding and you can set up anonymous accounts and pay in monero if you really want to go that far. The main downside is that it's slow, but if you're just using to torrent then that doesn't really matter
Personally I just do PlutoTV plus whatever free/sketchy channels I can find. I haven't heard of many providers but they all seem fairly suspect. If I were more into sports or a similar niche, then I might be looking harder. But I'm good with "Pluto Plus" for now.
The problem with paid IPTV providers is that if they’re easy to find, they’re easy to take down — so anything you can find through a search is probably a scam or will be short-lived.
Your best bet is forums like TechKings, where users conduct subscription sales over DMs. I didn’t really want to bother with all of that, but your might be motivated enough to! Sounds like the most common advice is to only subscribe month by month to services to avoid losing money if the provider shuts down or ends up being a scam.
A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration. The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.
Your Party, the new left-wing party still in formation, has (re-)opened its “official” membership scheme today, with a video from co-founder and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, in which he admits the leadership has ‘not covered ourselves in glory’:
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Protests have once again erupted in Peru against the government of Dina Boluarte with the spark of the latest wave being the reform of the controversial pension system in the country.
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
If there were no restrictions other than physics and you could have any body you want. Like four arms, elf ears, snake lower body, double vagina, whatever you want. I've been thinking about how I want to change my body a lot lately and it's got me wondering what people would want if they could really choose. Look like a specific celebrity? Be a real life anime girl? Be an amorphous shifting mass as free-form as thought? Be a giant space station? I just keep wondering what bodes we would choose if we really had the choice.
From the late 1960s until 1992, Danish authorities forced around 4,500 Inuit women, around half of all those of child-bearing age, to wear a contraceptive coil — or intrauterine device (IUD) — without their consent.
È ormai, al di là di tutto, tornato per me il periodo dell’anno in cui devo professionalmente mettermi a mannaggiare, perché inevitabilmente l’università spaccata è ricominciata. E stavolta in realtà non ho proprio parole, perché non so se essere contenta del fatto che le cose non si prospettano troppo indecenti… o se disperarmi del fatto […]
universitaria rompenza, mo che ogni cosa riparte e son rogne!
È ormai, al di là di tutto, tornato per me il periodo dell’anno in cui devo professionalmente mettermi a mannaggiare, perché inevitabilmente l’università spaccata è ricominciata. E stavolta in realtà non ho proprio parole, perché non so se essere contenta del fatto che le cose non si prospettano troppo indecenti… o se disperarmi del fatto che pure stavolta questi non potevano fare a meno di creare aspetti rognosi; sull’orario, principalmente, eccallà. 🤖
Mamma mia, questo è così pezzotto… ma vado con ordine. Innanzitutto, nessun giorno di riposo per me, solo grandi rotture; un giorno faccio giornata quasi piena, e il resto è tutto spezzato, a volte metà giornata e a volte pure meno… ma, se questa disposizione fosse più ordinata, mi starebbe anche bene andare 5 giorni su 5; alla fine, al liceo ce ne andavo ben 6, quindi a confronto questo sarebbe gran lusso… chiaramente c’è altro. Ho per due giorni lezione all’orario più peggiore della storia, cioè le 13:30, proprio a rompimento di cazzo per fare in modo che io non possa pranzare decentemente, completo, a casina… e per inciso, pure se accettassi di convertirmi al milanesimo e pranzare alle 12, non potrei, perché a quell’ora massimo devo prendere il bus. E, in tali due giorni, ho cose solo a quell’orario… in altre parole, non solo tutto il rompimento dell’andare e del tornare è per appena una (1!) materia, ma poi c’è il classico buco merdoso per cui devo aspettare un’ora buona per l’autobus… aiuto! ☠️
Analizzando ulteriormente, poi, esce ancora del peggio, figuriamoci. Il lunedì devo andare lì la mattina presto, mentre martedì e mercoledì ho solo il pomeriggio (quello sputo di pomeriggio, come ho appena detto!), giovedì ho sia la mattina che il pomeriggio, e venerdì di nuovo solo la mattina… e in realtà, se da un lato questa disposizione pare proprio perfetta per spaccarmi il sonno, perché ho 2 giorni di margine nella settimana per abituarmi involontariamente ad andare a letto troppo tardi, e i successivi 2 in cui devo svegliarmi presto, per poi avere i 2 giorni del fine settimana in cui ripetere lo stesso errore, per poi dovermi di nuovo svegliare presto lunedì… pensandoci meglio, il weekend spaccatutto lo avrei comunque, quindi quasi quasi è meglio che io abbia 2 giorni in mezzo per dormire fino alle 11 e recuperare il sonno perduto prima e poi, OK. (Rara vittoria mascherata da rogna!) Però, intanto… giovedì pomeriggio ho lezione solo alle 15:30… quindi, l’unica volta in cui converrebbero le 13:30, non mi sono concesse, e viceversa. La fine!!! 😭
Come cose da fare, almeno, se i professori si riveleranno decenti (e questo chiaramente servirà tempo per saperlo), credo non ci saranno gravi gravezze, perché stavolta le materie sono: ingegneria del software, che suppongo ci possa stare, programmazione distribuita, che è programmazione e quindi comunque non andrà al cesso, poi i seminari di accompagnamento al lavoro da seguire, e infine, come materia tra quelle a scelta, io ho preso mobile programming… che è Android, quindi si bestemmia e pure pesantemente, ma chiunque sa che preferisco di gran lunga bestemmiare appresso a Google, piuttosto che studiare algoritmi bizzarri con fondamenti di intelligenza artificiale, o cose ancora più astruse con machine learning, e questo per non parlare poi di fisica… 🤯
In realtà le prime due materie, obbligatorie per tutti, ancora non le ho avute… iniziano domani, e quindi solo domani avrò un’impressione iniziale vera (che è importante, perché a leggere solo i programmi la roba sembra sempre meno rognosa del dovuto), ma vabbé. Almeno oggi e ieri sono stati OK… se non per il fatto che oggi ho dimenticato di mettere il manga (di Sailor Moon) nello zaino, e quindi nel pullman al ritorno mi sono ritrovata a dover sprecare il tempo, anziché poter leggere, che due palle… (Quindi ho letto solo poi a casa, e dopo cena vedo di scrivere il post del capitolo… se non scoppio a causa del mal di pancia, credo psicosomatico, con annessa grossa diarrea, che mi è venuto proprio poco fa dal nulla. Si, questo post l’ho scritto proprio sul trono bianco, come la principessa che sono.) 🥱
~~Link in the OP is fake, please update to correct site.~~
Correction: I was wrong. Comick.dev is not fake. The base Comick.io site did briefly link to comick.dev, but the link has since been removed, likely because comick.dev was throwing errors (see screenshot below).
After looking deeper into it, here's my understanding:
comick.io is and will remain the official website.
comick.dev is a temp site the owner set up for building and testing the new tracker version of ComicK. It will likely disappear or be archived once development is complete.
If your account is older than 1.5 months (the site owner was forced to remove servers with more recent data), you should be able to log in and retrieve your lists from comick.dev.
We'll probably have to wait a couple of weeks for real news about the future of ComicK.
::: spoiler Moderator on official subreddit shows shows the .dev site is a work in progress
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::: spoiler Staff on official discord says comick.io and comick.dev are official and safe
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::: spoiler Meotimdihia (Comick site owner) says they had to remove servers, and to wait two weeks.
I didn't find comick.dev, a couple of hours ago comick.io started redirecting to the .dev domain. The admin for comick.io also announced it in the discord it is not fake. It seems the website is still under progress though.
Comick has become a tracking/wiki site. So don't log in to any site where you can read manga.** If you see manga reading available, that site is fake.**
The .live and .art domains are fake sites. Even though you might be able to log in, that's my fault. These guys hacked the old Comick server when I didn't really care about security, because Comick was just a small site and stole data. Luckily, they don't have the Comick source code, or they can't use it because it was the old version. So, they only copied Comick appearance but the source code is different. 3.** Comick lost 1.5 months of data **when I upgraded the PostgreSQL server but forgot to restart the backup process. But servers were removed -> I can't recovery these data, but Comick is continuing to build data again. Also, you could check old manga by searching in your browser's history.
Your passwords are always encrypted, so your password won't be exposed. Even I don't know what is your password.
I know Comick suddenly became a tracker/wiki, so it will lack a lot of features, but let's just wait and see.
They previously announced they were closing down, website already closed, and were working on a data export for users so they can download/transfer/migrate their collections (metadata).
At the bowling club of Ikkokukan High School in Nagano Prefecture, Mai, the club captain, prioritizes everyone's enjoyment over winning. However, her passionate junior, Rina, declares, "I want to win.
Dopo il successo del debutto, Lezioni di Mafie torna stasera, mercoledì 24 settembre 2025, in prima serata su La7 con la seconda puntata. Alla guida c’è il procuratore capo di Napoli Nicola Gratteri, che insieme a Antonio Nicaso e Paolo Di Giannantonio affronta i nodi cruciali della criminalità organizzata. Dopo aver conquistato 1.108.000 telespettatori e il 7,1% di share alla prima puntata, la trasmissione si concentra ora su un tema che accomuna tutte le mafie: la cocaina, l’oro bianco.
Lezioni di Mafie torna il 24 settembre 2025 con la seconda puntata. Nicola Gratteri racconta il viaggio della cocaina dalla Colombia all'Italia. Anticipazioni e orario.
A campaign group seeking to overturn Denver’s ban on flavored tobacco sales in the November election has far outraised supporters of the prohibition, campaign finance records show.
The opponents of the ban, a coalition of Denver vape store owners organized as a group called “Citizen Power!,” raised $410,000 through the end of August, according to campaign finance reports filed this month. The campaign group supporting the ban, “Denver Kids vs. Big Tobacco,” raised about $245,000.
In December, the Denver City Council near-unanimously approved a ban on sales of most flavored tobacco and nicotine products after public health and children’s advocates argued the products could lure young people into a life of addiction.
The council approved the ban, which applies to any sales within city limits, despite heavy lobbying from tobacco companies and vape stores. Mayor Mike Johnston signed it.
The president of the campaign group opposing the ban said that instead of creating a new prohibition for adults, Denver should better enforce its earlier ban on sales of the products to children.
In 2004, political campaigns spent 9 cents of every dollar raised on fundraising operations. By 2024, that number had reached 30 cents. American political campaigns are raising more and more money less and less efficiently. I’ve analyzed data from FEC disbursement records, using an algorithm I developed to classify expenditures by spending category. It reveals that campaigns are now spending 38 cents of every dollar raised just to raise more money—a fourfold increase from the 9 cents spent in 2004. In raw terms, campaigns burned through $3 billion on fundraising operations in 2024 alone.
This represents a fundamental shift in how political money flows through our democracy. Twenty years ago, fundraising operations were a necessary but modest expense, like renting office space or printing yard signs. Today, it has metastasized into the primary activity of most campaigns. In 2022, 31% of total expenditures were for fundraising expenses. This came close to exceeding the 33% of total expenditures going towards advertising. If current trends hold in 2026, it’s likely that fundraising costs will for the first time exceed what is spent on advertising, thus becoming the biggest spending category.
A new crop of young Democratic Party challengers is running on generational politics alone, hoping to capitalize on voters’ hunger for change without running afoul of the centrist establishment’s political preferences.
Italia e Polonia si sfidano nella semifinale dei Mondiali di pallavolo maschile 2025. Ecco programma, orari e dove vederla in tv e streaming.
L’Italvolley torna a incrociare la sua rivale storica, la Polonia, nella semifinale dei Campionati del mondo di pallavolo maschile 2025. In palio, c’è la finale di Pasai City (Filippine) e la possibilità di difendere il titolo iridato vinto tre anni fa.
L’NBA sbarca ufficialmente su Prime Video. A partire da ottobre 2025, il campionato di basket più importante del mondo entra nell’offerta sportiva del colosso streaming di Amazon, senza costi aggiuntivi per gli abbonati Prime. L’accordo, valido per 11 anni, rappresenta una delle più grandi operazioni globali sui diritti sportivi e promette di rivoluzionare l’esperienza di visione per i fan italiani, grazie al doppio commento in lingua italiana e inglese.
The assembly of a central Japan city on Monday passed an ordinance that recommends all residents limit their use of smartphones, video game consoles and other digital devices to two hours a day outside of work and school, though there will be no pena…
I saw this post as well. I tried to re-fetch the post using admin powers and it is still empty. I won't be able to take a closer look today because of work, but there must be something weird with the json for this post. @rimu@piefed.social or @freamon@preferred.social will probably be able to take a closer look to see what is going on before I do.
Brevi racconti dallo spessore filosofico condotti e diretti dalla leggerezza del comico e dell’assurdo. Un’opera da ridere perchè la vita è una cosa troppo seria per essere presa seriamente. Personaggi inventati, ma così inventati da essere veri. Verità profonde, ma così profonde da parer impossibili. Un viaggio alla scoperta di noi stessi senza essere sempre gli stessi. Cosa c’è alla fine della ricerca, di quel racconto brevis che è la vita
“Racconti Bre”: l’arte della brevità secondo Alimberto Torri
Il libro Racconti Bre di Alimberto Torri è un piccolo custode di retorica, psicologia, humor e sagaci metafore. Una raccolta che non si lascia leggere con leggerezza, perché invita il lettore a scrutare nelle pieghe più complesse dell’animo umano.
Non è una lettura semplice, e questo è il suo pregio. Alcuni brani mi hanno costretto a fermarmi, a rileggere più volte, non certo per mancanza di chiarezza, ma per l’intensità che li pervade. È il tipo di scrittura che non lascia scampo: chiede attenzione, chiede tempo.
Ho domandato all’autore quanto impegno avesse richiesto un lavoro così denso, e la sua risposta racconta molto del senso del libro:
“Ogni racconto breve si fonda su studi di psicologia, sociologia e filosofia. Per molti mi sono dovuto documentare e studiare il particolare modo di essere e di vivere di alcuni gruppi sociali. Ogni racconto ha almeno due livelli di lettura: quello letterale e quello metaforico. Ma si può arrivare anche a quattro: letterale, metaforico, simbolico e anagogico. So perfettamente che per arrivare a quello anagogico bisogna fare un po’ di fatica, ma è quella fatica lì che ti apre la mente a nuove possibilità di conoscenza. Non sono racconti da una notte: l’intento è far riflettere, e la riflessione ha i suoi tempi. ‘Il regno dei cieli è come il chicco di senape’.”
Parole che chiariscono il cuore del progetto: Racconti Bre non vuole intrattenere, ma stimolare. Non punta a distrarre, ma a guidare.
La tradizione del racconto breve.
La forma del racconto breve, spesso sottovalutata dai lettori che prediligono i grandi romanzi, ha in realtà una lunga e nobile tradizione. Da Edgar Allan Poe, che teorizzò l’unità d’effetto in ogni singolo racconto, a Italo Calvino, che con le sue Cosmicomiche seppe condensare l’universo in poche pagine, la brevità non è mai sinonimo di semplicità.
Come scriveva Anton Čechov: “La brevità è sorella del talento”. In poche pagine si può racchiudere un mondo, ed è ciò che Torri sembra voler dimostrare con le sue “chicche letterarie”, piccole schegge di umanità pronte a far sorridere, ma anche a far riflettere.
Una lettura per il presente
In queste storie, Alimberto Torri sembra lanciare un messaggio attualissimo: “L’AI non potrà fare ogni cosa!”
Un’affermazione che si colloca nel cuore del dibattito contemporaneo. Può la tecnologia sostituire la profondità di un pensiero, la complessità di un’emozione, la metafora che unisce logica e poesia? Forse no, e l’autore sembra sperare con forza che la risposta resti negativa.
Vivere è un racconto breve
Racconti Bre si legge come un piccolo manifesto esistenziale: la vita stessa è breve, ricca di emozioni e contraddizioni, proprio come i racconti che la rappresentano.
Un volume che invita il lettore a rallentare, a lasciarsi interrogare e sorprendere. Perché ogni parola, come un chicco di senape, porta con sé il potenziale di un intero mondo.
In a recent trip to Alaska on a cruise we went to Juneau and in their gold mining tourist trap (a very good one by the way) I found something interesting in their store. I was literally sold via their snake oil-like "weird substance in a bottle".
Anyway, let me tell you, ever since I moved to the PNW I suffer from hemorrhoids. One time it got extremely bad. I applied devil's club and within a few minutes I wasn't feeling pins and needles itchiness down in my butt hole. That's one, but two I kept applying it a few times over a month like I do with preparation H and the hemorrhoids are gone! I mean I'm not going to go eat a ghost pepper pie any day but holy moly. I also treated a rash on my neck and groin that kept expanding and I thought was cancer and I was going to die of. I'm not saying don't go see a doctor, go see a doctor for any of this. But I'm just posting a PSA. At least some of the tourist trap bs about this plant is true or has some technology behind it that the big pharma hasn't been able to distill and eliminate.
I'm not a wako crazy person but I did go vegan recently to stop contributing to animal pain and suffering and to prevent heart decease and obesity in my self... This change did not make me loose weight or cure my hemorrhoids.
On the topic of hemorrhoids, let me explain I'm gory details what I think triggers those things in me. Any time I eat pizza or jalapeños, peronchini, jalapeño pickles, onions, tomatoes, I get a hemorrhoid. You'll be walking around and suddenly feel a little itch in your butt hole. In the shower you can explored that itch with your finger. It turns out to start like a pimple on the interior skin of your butt hole. It slowly, over a period of days gets bigger and eventually surprises you by popping out when you're popping. Red bloody stools galore. You'll have bloddy stools for a while. The popping can range from just seeing blood to super painful, you wanna be done with this existence pain. The worst part is cleaning with toilet paper. The little polips feel like a tiny pimple inside very thin skin. That polio eventually grows into a little sack that hangs outside your butt hole and then one day pops.
Look I'm sorry to have to describe all that, but it's true and hopefully someone benefits from this technology. Now, a day or two after applying the devils club you'll feel no different, but in the shower you can explore the polips and the darn thing get smaller and smaller until they're gone.
Once I discovered this, which prep H doesn't really do, I decided to just roll with this. So yeah, I applied that stuff a few times a week for some month and then I forgot. I forgot to apply and I forgot those pesky little pins and needles sobs. This morning I was reading up about it so I thought I should post on here.
One more thing, you can find it on Amazon. Devil's club salve. Its cheaper on Amazon than at the tourist trap for obvious reasons.
Yes this is not circuits in a box with a shiny glass screen. But its technology and hopefully it helps someone try it out.
If my hemorrhoids do comeback I will not let you all know LOL.
Oplopanax horridus (OH) or Devil's club is an ethnobotanical used by the indigenous people native to the Pacific Northwest. There are three species in the genus Oplopanax, and OH is the only species that is distributed in North America. Compared ...
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If you're looking for a privacy respecting paid service that's not just a file locker for pirates I have two recommendations:
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in reply to TribblesBestFriend • • •Personally I'm quite big fan of self-hosting, but if you want less a hassle, def try some of the other suggestions.
Since you're interested in anon file sharing, I'd really recommend you take some time to really think out just what your personal definition of anonymous is, and how well it fits in modern digital infrastructure. True anonymous activity is nearly impossible, you can be fingerprinted by even writing a file to a drive to hand to someone. Every action taken online has some trace to it, while IP is generally not precise information, with enough data overlap you can be reasonably guessed depending on how much effort someone is willing to put into it.
So you know, good luck finding a balance lol.