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Sumud Flotilla, alla Sapienza bruciati i volti di Ben-Gvir, Meloni, Salvini e Bernini
@scuola
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“Se bloccano la Flotilla siamo pronti a bloccare le scuole e le università”. Con questo slogan, al grido Palestina libera, degli studenti universitari di Cambiare Rotta e liceali di Osa a Roma, si sono radunati sotto l’ufficio scolastico regionale e poi sotto il rettorato della



#ScribesAndMakers 9/4 Talk about the book that got the fewest votes yesterday or about them all.

Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The book starts off with an absolutely gut-wrenching description of a devastating heatwave which sets up the rest of the narrative about how the world tries to deal with the climate crisis. The writing is patchy and initially I felt it was not good. I dunno the intention of the author, but in hindsight I found the patchiness to be the point.



Call for consultants: Technologies that impact science systems | deadline: 28 September

@science

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New from Special Correspondent Mary Tuma: House Bill 7 attacks one of the last remaining options for reproductive care in Texas and declares legal war on blue states.

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#abortion





A small history – Russia


The story of the 1990s in #Russia is not just a local tragedy. It is the cornerstone of the modern #deathcult order. December 25th, 1991. The Soviet flag lowered for the last time. The West declared victory. The Cold War was over. “Democracy” had won. But

The story of the 1990s in #Russia is not just a local tragedy. It is the cornerstone of the modern #deathcult order. December 25th, 1991. The Soviet flag lowered for the last time. The West declared victory. The Cold War was over. “Democracy” had won.

But for millions of Russians, that night was not liberation. It was the start of collapse. The USSR’s vertical system had provided stability: guaranteed jobs, cheap housing, free healthcare. When it fell, all of it was ripped away in the name of “shock therapy” engineered by Western #neoliberal economists.

Prices exploded 2,500% in a single year. Pensions evaporated. Scientists, teachers, and doctors became taxi drivers and street vendors. Oligarchs bought entire industries for the price of a few crates of vodka and envelopes of bribes. The “transition” wasn’t transition at all. It was theft on an unprecedented scale.

From stability to rot: Bandit capitalism of factories sold for pennies, resources looted, mafia rule normalized. Gangster democracy with car bombs, contract killings, “roof” protection rackets running entire cities. Humiliation of grandmothers begging at metro stations, teachers starving, children roaming unsupervised.

This was not an accident, it was planned, the #deathcult in action, the neoliberal faith that “free markets” would magically self-organize into harmony. What actually emerged was rule by predators. While the West celebrated the “end of history,” Russia burned.

And from that compost of despair, a “quiet man from the KGB” rose up. Putin was not a break from the chaos, he was its product. The mafia state fused with the official state, suffering compacted into concrete, poured into the foundations of authoritarianism.

This is not only a Russia’s story, it’s the parable of the last century: Stalinism’s dead weight crushed trust and creativity. Postmodernism’s cynical fog turned truth into a selfish plaything. Neoliberalism’s greed-choked rot hollowed out alternatives and sold them for scrap. Each era piled on the stink. Each era buried and obscured the simple #KISS truth:

  • The right-wing feeds on division.
  • The left-wing grows from trust.

This 1990s history matter because it exposes the current right-wing hallucinations of the #deathcult, the lie of the free market, the false “victory” of the Cold War, the blind faith in Western models. Millions lived and died in that wreckage. And the system that followed, that is now pushing war and control towards the art of Europe – authoritarian, kleptocratic, imperial – was fertilized in this mess.

We see the same script running in the USA, and soon, likely, across the UK. This is now the legacy, social brake down packaged as progress, and authoritarianism sold as the only escape from #neoliberal collapse.

And, the lesson from this mess, is not that collapse is inevitable. The lesson is that composting is necessary. The wreckage of “proper channels”, whether Soviet bureaucracy or neoliberal privatization, is raw material. When left to fester, it breeds gangster rule and authoritarian “order.” Where the path we need to take, If we turn it, together, shovel in hand, it might become the soil of humane culture.

This work is not glamorous, it is not the smiling-face hallucination of the #fashionistas. It is dirty. Necessary. Real. Pick up the shovel, compost the #deathcult, grow something alive, before the tanks of war can churn over our gardens.

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Almost in #Zurich for #NixCon2025 🇨🇭

And DB was on time so it all went smoothly without having to change trains in Basel.

#Nixcon #Nix #NixOS



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#Paulofigueiredo #direita #politica #noticias #politics "BANDIDOS": Paulo Figueiredo comenta julgamento de Bolsonaro e DETONA Alexandre de Moraes e Gonet youtube.com/watch?v=xBZWOKcQoG…



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Mumble. Rollei 35AF, Santa Color 100, ECN-2 development.

#BelieveInFilm



"One of the world’s oldest affirmative action efforts is coming under fresh criticism — including from many of its former proponents."

From @KeithRichburg: wapo.st/427DNG6



i feel like electronic components used to be more colorful 50 years ago. you still see the cyan zif sockets and the red dip switches sometimes. but what happened to all their friends? theyve all grown up and become boring. now instead of legs theyve got. balls?? its a strange world we're in now
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Oh, would you look at that! Someone's been here before me and replaced with of these with a standard 7-segment. I'm pondering on borrowing two working segments from the 2-digit credit display and worrying about replacing them later when I can source some 7-segments that'll fit here.

#repair #retrocomputing #electronics




Stormy sky this morning, about an hour after the sunrise one I posted. Incredible difference in weather.



Why are (new) UK houses so expensive but so badly built?

Well the simple answer is that around 70% of the value of the average house is in the land.

So no wonder they seem cheaply & badly made for the price; they are.

What this does suggest is that finding a way to massage down land prices over time would be the best way to slowly unwind the house price crisis along with a programme of both new houses where they are needed & bringing empty homes back into use.

#housing #land
h/t FT for data

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@shufei

Certainly a necessary aspect of dealing with the housing crisis but not (I think) sufficient

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Taxing housebuilders properly on their banked land would be a start.

They are however also very badly built because there is a massive shortage of labour (skilled or even slightly competent). That means the building companies will take pretty much anyone however dodgy their work is.

There's also another answer to some of it - we in the UK are really good at building portakabin villages for construction work. One or two councils are playing with this for emergency housing now



Welcome to our Fediverse meet-up at Eurofurence 29!

Meet friends, enjoy the music, and don't forget to grab some stickers before they're gone! :3

Or join us online, and use the hashtag #EF29Fedi to post to our live Fediwall.

Music: DJ ALTRO - Furmission VI - Purple Clouds

#Eurofurence #EF29



Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu’s Office to Spread Israeli #Propaganda

Israel’s advertising bureau, which reports to the prime minister’s office, has embarked on a mass advertising and public messaging effort to conceal the hunger crisis. The push includes a high-dollar spending spree on paid advertising, yielding tens of millions for #Google, #YouTube, #X, #Meta, and other tech platforms.

“There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie,” asserted a propaganda video published by the #Israel foreign ministry to Google’s YouTube video platform and viewed more than 6 million times. Much of the video’s reach results from an ad placed during an ongoing and previously unreported $45M advertising campaign initiated between Google and Netanyahu’s office in June.

At least 367 Palestinians, including 131 children, have died as a result of hunger and malnutrition since the war began.

Drop Site News / archive.ph/HAAqI

@palestine #BigTech #hasbara #genocide

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Datenschutz: Rekordstrafen gegen Google & Shein wegen Cookies und Inbox-Werbung

Google muss in Frankreich 325 Millionen, der Onlinehändler Shein 150 Millionen Euro zahlen. Beide haben keine ausreichende Zustimmung für Cookies eingeholt.

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#Cookies #Datenschutz #Google #IT #Netzpolitik #news




In 20 minutes, #Fekete #Molnár #Gárdonyi #Virágh and #Koessler sound in #Budapest worldconcerthall.com/en/schedu… #wch


Oh great, another newcomer asserting that fascism can be abolished through electoral means. As if electoralism changes anything, only the proletariat, through collective class struggle and revolutionary self-emancipation, can genuinely overthrow the capitalist system that sustains fascist and oppressive conditions.

#Fascism #AntiFascism #Capitalism #AntiCapitalism



BREAKING: Washington strikes back: D.C. sues Trump for “illegal” National Guard deployment, citing a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. A California judge already ruled against him. The fight over military on America’s streets just escalated.
nbcnews.com/politics/politics-… #press




"Is it gay if...?"

Just stop.

Once you understand that _everything_ is gay, you can save yourself so much unnecessary mental toil.

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First time in my life running Linux with SecureBoot thanks to lanzaboote 🥳

github.com/nix-community/lanza…

#nixos



Brad Pitt sborsa 12 milioni per villa sulle colline di Hollywood - People - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/canale_lifestyle/notizie/people/2025/09/04/brad-pitt-sborsa-12-milioni-per-villa-sulle-colline-di-hollywood_30588df4-97d1-48b9-84db-bd7fa40029f2.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Lifestyle @lifestyle-AgenziaAnsa



Between "boosts" and "favorites" Mastodon now shows the number of "quote" posts.

Is this new functionality to be rolled out? And is there any information on how to block or control this (as abuse via the badly implemented quote system is one of the things I disliked about Twitter).

edit: see @leonoverweel's post @ mastodon.online/@leonoverweel@…

#mastodon #fediverse #quote

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Radioterapia per 6 malati oncologici su 10, ma restano le paure - Focus Tumore news - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/canale_saluteebenessere/notizie/focus_tumore/2025/09/04/radioterapia-per-6-malati-oncologici-su-10-ma-restano-le-paure_4a66fce1-9cc0-497c-aa2a-da91db44c07a.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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How do you keep doing the inner work instead of loosing interest?
in reply to Stacy

STAY positive and forgive yourself if you do. The journey to selfhood is fraught with setbacks 🙂
in reply to Stacy

P.s I am a highly flawed individual although I usually try to strive to be better ☻️


So excited to go to both #Oasis shows in Pasadena this weekend, or as I’m calling it “the British Eras Tour but more boys will be there!”


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