Did I see you are in the Netherlands just now?
Chester is keen to join me here in two weeks time. Will you be available for visitors in Lika?
Political Paralysis Puts France in Market’s Crosshairs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/france-s-political-paralysis-worsens-a-looming-debt-crisis?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#directaction #evictions #housingcrisis #landlords #Lismore #NorthernRivers #RAHU #rent #squatting
‘No more empty homes while people are homeless’: the squatters being evicted from the northern rivers’ ‘buyback’ homes
Since the catastrophic floods of 2022, just 41 homes in the Northern Rivers have been raised, retrofitted or relocated. Far more have been bought back – and those living in them have been told to leavePenry Buckley (The Guardian)
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L'immagine mostra un paesaggio montano mozzafiato con un cielo azzurro e sereno. In primo piano, un prato verde e rigoglioso si estende con colline ondulate, punteggiato da alberi e piccole strutture rurali. Sullo sfondo, imponenti montagne con facciate rocciose e picchi acuti dominano la scena, creando un contrasto con il verde del paesaggio. Le case sparse e le strade che si snodano tra le colline suggeriscono un'area rurale, probabilmente in una regione alpina. La luce del sole illumina il paesaggio, evidenziando i colori vivaci e la bellezza naturale del luogo.
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Gaza está sufriendo un bloqueo.
Por eso todo el mundo se está muriendo de hambre: porque no hay suficiente comida para todos, porque no está entrando suficiente. Israel ha estado bloqueando los suministros durante meses.
Han sido bombardeados hasta quedar en la Edad de Piedra. No hay bibliotecas públicas, escuelas ni universidades. Incluso los hospitales han sido reducidos a escombros, y los centros médicos improvisados están desbordados y con poco personal.
Pero este estafador afirma que ha vivido un milagro y ha encontrado a alguien que puede superar el bloqueo y está dispuesto a compartir su comida. O que no le importa morirse de hambre —por un precio— porque ha descubierto lo imposible: cómo llevarse el dinero consigo después de morir. Ah, y de alguna manera también tiene electricidad e internet, mientras todos los demás carecen de ello.
Y tu dólar, aparentemente, puede seguir apoyando esa obra de ficción.
Es una ESTAFA.
No les envíes ni un centavo, ni compartas sus tonterías.
Denuncia y bloquea.
#Gaza #Palestine # Israel #Estafa #Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #ActivityPub
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"WHOA! Nancy Mace Says Trump Was an FBI Informant! So Did He Flip on Epstein to Save Himself?
(. . .)
What Mace is saying is that Trump offered to tell the feds what he knew about Epstein. But how would Trump know things about Epstein that would incriminate him if he wasn't involved in some way?
(. . .)
The Epstein affair has had a surprising impact on Trump and his MAGA movement. So many other scandals faded away rather quickly, including his sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll, his half billion dollar judgment for financial fraud, his unsavory relations with Vladimir Putin and other Russian operatives; his Stalinist attacks on his political foes, and so much more.
The Epstein matter, however, hangs on week after week. And it is having a noticeable effect on his MAGA base. Even stalwart Trumpists like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie are uniting with Democrats to make the files public, in defiance of Trump's demands to stand down. And now, Nancy Mace has inadvertently exposed another potential Trump vulnerability.
Will the Epstein files reveal whether Trump was, in fact, an FBI informant? Did he have personal knowledge of Epstein's criminal activities? Did he participate in them? We'll just have to wait and see. Which makes it all the more imperative to make those files public ASAP."
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WHOA! Nancy Mace Says Trump Was an FBI Informant! So Did He Flip on Epstein to Save Himself?
For several weeks the top story in the news has been how Donald Trump and the MAGA GOP have refused to release the Jeffrey Epstein files that are in the custody of the Justice Department.Daily Kos
📣 This Month: EuroBSDCon FreeBSD Developer Summit
We’re gearing up for the EuroBSDCon FreeBSD Developer Summit, happening September 24–25, 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia, colocated with EuroBSDCon.
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Anybody catch that loveable scamp, Jake Berry, going to bat for Nigel (and his rants about FrEe SpEeCh) on Radio 4 this lunchtime?
Was a bit muffled - I'm not sure exactly where his head was buried - but the gist seemed to be that the UK is now Schroedinger's North Korea: an oppressive, totalitarian state which *at the same time and in the same breath* has far too many human rights protections.
You can't make this stuff up and it's an absolute joy to behold - although I apologise to the person next to me at the traffic lights for shouting, "GET BACK IN THE F***ING SEA, YOU BELLEND!" Unless they're a Reform voter, in which case get back in the sea also.
"That Cuomo is making common cause with Trump to stop Mamdani will not be a big surprise to many on the Left, who have long suspected that quite a few centrist Democrats (and the corporate interests they serve) would prefer MAGA to socialism. It may yet scandalize many ordinary Democratic voters though — and it raises the question of whether and how a house so divided against itself can stand.
Trump’s support for Cuomo also bodes ill for what will come after November should they succeed in defeating Mamdani. Adams was able to avoid federal corruption charges by aiding in Trump’s immigration crackdown. It’s not at all hard to imagine Cuomo will be expected to return the president’s favors by doing the same or worse, like welcoming federal police into the city. In that scenario, it will be New York City residents who pay the price for Cuomo’s deal with the devil."
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#USA #Trump #NYC #Cuomo #Mamdani #Democrats #DemocraticParty
Trump Is Putting His Thumb on the Scale for Cuomo
Donald Trump has offered Eric Adams a job in his administration, apparently to convince him to drop out of New York’s mayoral race. It’s now official and out in the open: Andrew Cuomo is allying with Trump to beat Zohran Mamdani.jacobin.com
More about the Altair:
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The image depicts an indoor setting, likely a computer lab or a public access area, with several individuals using vintage computers. In the foreground, a person wearing a striped shirt and light-colored pants is seated at a desk, interacting with an old-style computer monitor displaying green text. Standing next to this individual is another person in a yellow top and blue jeans, carrying a backpack, observing the screen. In the background, through a glass partition, a third person is seated at a similar setup, working on a computer with a blue screen. The room features a mix of modern and retro elements, with contemporary lighting fixtures and a polished floor. The overall atmosphere suggests a blend of historical and current technology use, possibly for educational or nostalgic purposes.
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The image depicts an indoor setting, likely a museum or library, with a spacious and well-lit environment. In the foreground, a man and a woman stand side by side, both smiling at the camera. The man is wearing a light blue short-sleeved shirt and jeans, while the woman is dressed in a striped top and black pants, with a lanyard around her neck. To their left, there is a glass display case with a blue interior, open and empty, positioned on a black stand. Behind them, a large screen is mounted on the wall, displaying text, and a service counter is visible in the background with people seated and standing around it. The overall atmosphere is calm and organized, with natural light coming through the windows.
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The image features a display sign for the Altair 8800 Computer, a significant milestone in personal computing. The sign is framed in a clear acrylic stand and is placed on a glass surface, with a wooden panel background. The title "ALTAIR 8800 COMPUTER" is prominently displayed at the top in bold, with "50 Years of Personal Computing" below it. The sign's background is a dark blue, and the text is white, providing a clear contrast for readability. The text on the sign provides historical context, highlighting the Altair 8800's role as the first commercially successful personal computer and its impact on the development of personal computing in the late 1970s. It mentions the launch of "Micro-Soft" (Microsoft) and the inspiration it provided for Steve Wozniak's creation of the Apple I. The sign also discusses the Altair's evolution from a kit for electronics hobbyists to a more sophisticated personal computer, including the development of Altair BASIC and the broader implications of personal computing.
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Alexandra Petri on RFK Jr, vaccines, and Florida
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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.Alexandra Petri (The Atlantic)
Emily M. Bender
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Não precisamos aceitar a IA (muito menos a GenAI) como inevitável na educação.
Elixir and Erlang enthusiast. Associate Professor at UTFPRAdolfo Neto
Diese website macht es sehr einfach unseren Abgeordneten im EU-Parlament auf die Gefahr der geplanten Chatkontrolle hinzuweisen. Bitte nehmt euch die 5 Minuten dazu!
#Chatkontrolle #ChatkontrolleStoppen #eu #europaparlament
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
there are more of those, but they are even worse, this one felt like maybe you could read it if you like super tried
(maybe you could redraw it by hand?)
new in shop! four different kitties blimping 🐈✨
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John Candy documentary leaves ’em laughing and crying in Toronto
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/09/05/john-candy-documentary-toronto-premiere/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Movies @movies-WashPost
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The latter part of this week has been a bit wobbly so I’ve retired to bed early, maybe to read for a bit, and maybe to sip on a nightcap.
There’s always tomorrow.
EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE our 5 Soundcheck Fund grantees, Blue Amp's program for independent creators!
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We're Excited to Introduce the Soundcheck Fund Recipients!
We're Proud to Introduce the Soundcheck Fund's First Cohort!Cliff Schecter (Blue Amp)
Received these in the mail today. Haven't had a Norwegian OS/2 box since the early 90s! And the one on the right is the somewhat rare Norwegian "OS/2 2.1 for Windows 3.1" *on CD-ROM* - if it isn't on archive.org yet it will be soon. 😀
#RetroComputing #OS2 #WhereDidMyMoneyGo
Love dogs? Don’t really love a #settlercolonial #apartheid project committing #genocide in #gaza?
#zakgeorge has you covered: youtube.com/watch?v=t0Yn4wzDjL…
In the words of #nelsonmandela : #fuckisraelfreepalestine
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
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Autistics should know the difference between social withdrawal and social isolation. Too many times, I see autistics in social isolation when they are in an autistic burnout.
Don't isolate yourself. You need to met nice people that can energize you. Rest isn't doing anything and sleeping. It's having activities like your passion, sharing time with another autistic, having some time with your pet…
Keep in mind to see people, especially other autistics.
Fed Expectations Climb, Kenvue Sinks on RFK Autism Claim, More
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-09-05/fed-expectations-climb-kenvue-sinks-on-rfk-autism-claim-more?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Unfortunately, the Global Elixir Meetups are happening the same week as @cbsoft.bsky.social and @se4fp.github.io .
But you might find a local GEM (Global Elixir Meetup) in your region — check them out here: bit.ly/4p9yQqf
Global Elixir Meetups | 22-28 Sept 2025
Global Elixir Meetups bring together Elixir devs for a week full of talks, code, and community – streamed straight to you from all around the world.bit.ly
The Town 2025 estreia cúpula anti-drone inédita no Brasil
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Primeiro water cooler da história da Noctua chega em 2026
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America First eben.
Viel besser wärs, diese Scheißdienste erst gar nicht zu nutzen...
Und Trump und seine Mischpoche zum Teufel zu jagen.
Thinking about my imp rat form... or maybe just being a genderless nerdy rat thing...
The European Union 🇪🇺 will implement the Entry/Exit System starting 12 October 2025
EU: travel-europe.europa.eu/ees/lt…
Canada: travel.gc.ca/travelling/travel…
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L’Union européenne 🇪🇺 mettre en place le Système d’entrée/sortie à compter du 12 octobre 2025
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Ya que no estoy en Argentina puedo decir #MeCagoEnLaVedaElectoral
Si votás a la Libertad va de culo tu vino siempre estará aguando!!!
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‘The best place to meet is the hero city Moscow’
Putin refuses to meet Zelensky in a third country. Here’s how hopes for a summit rose, then fizzled.Meduza
The final market value milestone is $8.5tn - more than double the value of chip giant Nvidia, the world's most valuable company.
bbc.com/news/articles/cdx29qv4…
Tesla proposes $1tn award for Elon Musk if he hits ambitious targets
The car firm boss's enormous pay package depends on him hitting sky-high targets.Mitchell Labiak (BBC News)
Fall gardening at JSCRSEA | News - All For Gardening
After the long, hot summer, thoughts turn to cooler weather and fall gardening, ready for green, gold, orange and brown foliage, flowers and vegetables.Gardening (All For Gardening)
Recording police is ‘violence’? Absolutely not.
It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists incite violence by reporting. But now, they’re accusing reporters of actually committing violence.
The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos. At least three times recently, a government official or lawyer has argued that simply recording law enforcement or Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers is a form of violence.
In July, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem proclaimed during a news conference following ICE raids on California farms that videotaping ICE agents performing operations is “violence.” Noem lumped video recordings in with other forms of actual violence, like throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails at agents.
Then, in August, Justice Department lawyer Sean Skedzielewski argued, during a court hearing over the Los Angeles Police Department’s mistreatment of journalists covering protests, that videotaping law enforcement officers “can be used for violence.” He claimed recording is violent because it can reveal officers’ identities, leading to harassment, and can encourage more protesters to join the fray.
Also in August, the government applied similar logic as it fought against the release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist in U.S. custody after being arrested for newsgathering. Guevara, who is originally from El Salvador, was detained while covering a protest in Georgia and turned over to ICE for deportation. In a bond hearing before an immigration court in July, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the government argued that Guevara’s recording and livestreaming of law enforcement “presents a safety threat.”
At the risk of stating the obvious, videotaping someone is not the equivalent of throwing a firebomb at them. Actually, recordings of law enforcement officers made by journalists and members of the public allow the public to see what the police are up to and hold officers accountable for abusing their authority or breaking the law.
That includes holding officers who are violating the First Amendment accountable in court. Adam Rose, chair of the press rights committee for the LA Press Club, said that Skedzielewski also denied in court that DHS officers had pointed weapons at journalists, despite video evidence submitted to the court of them doing exactly that.
Skedzielewski “wound up making our case for us,” Rose told us. “His own argument showed how the government can try to lie in court, and why filming in public is critical to ensure the truth comes out.”
Video recording police in public is also protected by the First Amendment, as both Rose and Mickey Osterreicher, the general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, point out. “The claim that journalists and others video recording police are engaged in ‘acts of violence’ is not only absurd on its face but flies in the face of the law and common sense,” said Osterreicher.
That constitutional right applies even if officers would prefer not to be identified. The government often claims that officers must not be identified because they’re at risk of (real) violence or harassment. But the correct response to those threats is to prosecute and punish those who actually break the law by harassing or physically attacking police, not make up crimes to go after those who exercise their First Amendment right to record them.
The government claims at other times that officers should not be recorded because they’re undercover. The government has been known to abuse this argument, including by making bizarre claims that any officer who may, at some point, go undercover should be treated as undercover at all times. Plus, journalists have no way of knowing whether a particular agent participating in an immigration raid or officer policing a protest is undercover at the moment they’re recording. The responsibility of preserving officers’ cover is on the officer and the government, not journalists and the public who can observe them working in plain view.
These justifications, however, are mere pretext for the government’s true purpose. Officials want courts and the public to believe that recording agents and officers is a violent act because it justifies officers’ own violent response to the press.
In LA, government attorney Skedzielewski didn’t just argue that video recording is violent. He said that meant that justified officers in using force against people videotaping them. This claim—made in a court that’s already restrained police from attacking journalists after they were documented violently assaulting and detaining reporters repeatedly —should seriously alarm journalists and anyone who wants to record police.
“For an officer of the court to conflate the use of recordings to reveal police officers’ identities with the actual making of those recordings, in order to justify the use of excessive force against those doing the recording, shows complete ignorance of the law, disregard for the Constitution, a blatant attempt to demonize those who would dare risk their health and safety to provide visual proof of police behavior, or all three,” said Osterreicher.
That demonization is working, unfortunately, especially when it comes to ICE officers’ beliefs about how they can respond to being recorded. In recent months, ICE officers have knocked phones out of the hands of those recording them, pulled weapons on people photographing or videotaping them, and even arrested U.S. citizens for filming them.
The escalating attacks on journalists and citizens who are recording police show the danger of the government’s rhetoric. All who care about press freedom and transparency must push back on claims equating filming to violence.
When officials say at news conferences that video recording is violent, journalists should challenge that assertion and cite the law.
When attorneys argue that recording police justifies violence or arrest, they should have their arguments confronted by opposing counsel and the judge, who has the power to sanction lawyers who ignore First Amendment jurisprudence to make frivolous arguments on behalf of the government.
And when ICE officers harass or detain someone for videotaping them, everyone else should take out their phones and hit the record button.
Recording the police isn’t violence. Don’t let officials get away with loud, incorrect claims to the contrary to diminish our First Amendment rights.
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Zivilgesellschaft: Familienministerin will Demokratieprojekte mit Verfassungsschutz durchleuchten
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Vesna Manojlović
in reply to Eoin • • •I’ll be in Lika 8.9.-4.10.
Please visit! Both of you! I’d love to see him again & meet you too!
Eoin
in reply to Vesna Manojlović • • •.... working on it ;)