A group called Return to the Land has established two "whites-only communities" in Arkansas, with plans for four more sites in the Ozarks and Appalachia. The creation of white ‘ethnostates’ is the ultimate goal of some white nationalists, a scholar of right-wing extremism explains: buff.ly/R8loWop
Mi rattrista sempre un po’ la mancanza di fantasia di certe persone, quell’incapacità di lasciarsi andare e uscire dagli schemi, quella paura di vivere l’attimo, di realizzare un sogno realizzabile, di bucare un desiderio …
All the liberal media critics have disowned all the major media outlets and none of us trust anyone’s stupid blog, so where exactly are we supposed to get our news from? I suppose none of us believe anything anymore. What are we even doing? #Media
The image is a black and white photograph featuring a person sitting inside a large, transparent container, which appears to be a fishbowl or a similar enclosure. The person is wearing a clear plastic garment that covers their body, and they are holding a small object in their hands. The container is positioned within a window frame, which is cracked and shows signs of wear, including peeling paint and exposed wires. The background is a plain wall with visible cracks and peeling paint, adding to the overall sense of decay. The person's hair is neatly styled, and their face is obscured by the plastic covering. The photograph has a vintage or artistic quality, with a focus on the contrast between the person and the deteriorating surroundings.
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If you have a spare buck, throw it towards @Sbarry8520 whos been working to build a house for his family in The Gambia. He is probably the first person to fund building an entire house from fediverse donations which is pretty damn cool if you ask me. mstdn.social/@Sbarry8520/11515…
1. All things work together for good. ²There are no exceptions except in the ego’s judgment. ³The ego exerts maximal vigilance about what it permits into awareness, and this is not the way a balanced mind holds together. ⁴The ego is thrown further off balance because it keeps its primary motivation from your awareness, and raises control rather than sanity to predominance. ⁵The ego has every reason to do this, according to the thought system which gave rise to it and which it serves. ⁶Sane 1
judgment would inevitably judge against the ego, and must be obliterated by the ego in the interest of its self-preservation. 2. A major source of the ego’s off-balanced state is its lack of discrimination between the body and the Thoughts of God. ²Thoughts of God are unacceptable to the ego, because they clearly point to the nonexistence of the ego itself. ³The ego therefore either distorts them or refuses to accept them. ⁴It cannot, however, make them cease to be. ⁵It 2
therefore tries to conceal not only “unacceptable” body impulses, but also the Thoughts of God, because both are threatening to it. ⁶Being concerned primarily with its own preservation in the face of threat, the ego perceives them as the same. ⁷By perceiving them as the same, the ego attempts to save itself from being swept away, as it would surely be in the presence of knowledge. 3. Any thought system that confuses God and the body must be insane. ²Yet this confusion is essential to the ego, 3
which judges only in terms of threat or non-threat to itself. ³In one sense the ego’s fear of God is at least logical, since the idea of Him does dispel the ego. ⁴But fear of the body, with which the ego identifies so closely, makes no sense at all. 4. The body is the ego’s home by its own election. ²It is the only identification with which the ego feels safe, since the body’s vulnerability is its own best argument that you cannot be of God. ³This is the belief that the 4
ego sponsors eagerly. ⁴Yet the ego hates the body, because it cannot accept it as good enough to be its home. ⁵Here is where the mind becomes actually dazed. ⁶Being told by the ego that it is really part of the body and that the body is its protector, the mind is also told that the body cannot protect it. ⁷Therefore, the mind asks, “Where can I go for protection?” to which the ego replies, “Turn to me.” ⁸The mind, and not without cause, reminds the ego that it has itself 5
insisted that it is identified with the body, so there is no point in turning to _it_ for protection. ⁹The ego has no real answer to this because there is none, but it does have a typical solution. ¹⁰It obliterates the question from the mind’s awareness. ¹¹Once out of awareness the question can and does produce uneasiness, but it cannot be answered because it cannot be asked. 5. This is the question that _must_ be asked: “Where can I go for protection?” ²“Seek and ye shall find” 6
does not mean that you should seek blindly and desperately for something you would not recognize. ³Meaningful seeking is consciously undertaken, consciously organized and consciously directed. ⁴The goal must be formulated clearly and kept in mind. ⁵Learning and wanting to learn are inseparable. ⁶You learn best when you believe what you are trying to learn is of value to you. ⁷However, not everything you may want to learn has lasting value. ⁸Indeed, many of the things you want to learn may be 7
chosen _because_ their value will not last. 6. The ego thinks it is an advantage not to commit itself to anything that is eternal, because the eternal must come from God. ²Eternalness is the one function the ego has tried to develop, but has systematically failed to achieve. ³The ego compromises with the issue of the eternal, just as it does with all issues touching on the real question in any way. ⁴By becoming involved with tangential 8
issues, it hopes to hide the real question and keep it out of mind. ⁵The ego’s characteristic busyness with nonessentials is for precisely that purpose. ⁶Preoccupations with problems set up to be incapable of solution are favorite ego devices for impeding learning progress. ⁷In all these diversionary tactics, however, the one question that is never asked by those who pursue them is, “What for?” ⁸This is the question that _you_ 9
must learn to ask in connection with everything. ⁹What is the purpose? ¹⁰Whatever it is, it will direct your efforts automatically. ¹¹When you make a decision of purpose, then, you have made a decision about your future effort; a decision that will remain in effect unless you change your mind. - A Course in Miracles (acim.org/acim/en/s/84#1:1-6:11 | T-4.V.1:1–6:11) 10
✨ A Course in Miracles, read the complete Chapter 4.V “The Ego-Body Illusion”: All things work together for good. There are no exceptions except in the ego’s judgment. The ego exerts…
#MatrixDown: So, is the main issue of #Matrix too many users using the main instance, a condition actively pushed by #Vector, creating half-centralized ecosystem?
Is it the issue that #Matrix servers are a overly complex and resource hungry systems, which are hard to administrate and even harder to troubleshoot? 🤔
No - running your own server is not really hard. I started using Matrix just a few days ago and from day two on I had my own server as soon as I found element-hq.github.io/synapse/l…
You can either use Docker or run it native in Debian/Ubuntu. Using PostgreSQL instead of SQLite is recommened. Migrating after the initial setup is also possible but maybe a bit tricky.
I decided against Conduit as it is still beta and I did not want to deal with beta issues before even knowing how it should be with a stable server. Maybe I will give it try later. The server here has 32 GB RAM and 6 cores, so the additional load by Synapse is not a big deal so far.
Looks like it's good we're having different systems to test and use.
I'm testing @delta now and apart from privacy concerns I heard about in the past, it looks like a good, pretty much decentralized option to me, with low hosting and Admin efforts which also seems important to me for wide adoption.
Also try XMPP, that's very low effort, reliable, has been around for a while and is an IETF standard for instant messaging communication. Clients like Conversations by @daniel are simple and reliable and @dino works really well.
It even is a protocol exactly for that use-case. It's technology that makes me happy, as it just works well.
Well, I used #XMPP for 2 years or so, with #Jabber and #Dino on Windows. Very often messages were not delivered or not e2e encrypted, especially with the Dino clients.
It was hosted by a friend for a few people. The troubleshooting caused a lot of work for him. So we stopped it and moved to #Deltachat.
Muitos jogadores já estão se aventurando em Hollow Knight Silksong, mas alguns deles podem ter dúvidas sobre como funciona o sistema de save do jogo! Veja como salvar o progresso
“There’s a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
-William Adama, Battlestar Galactica (2004)
With Trump sending the military into more and more cities, the line feels more relevant than ever. So I turned it into a sticker. If you’d like the design, it’s free to use. As a subtle nod to Battlestar Galactica, I recommend clipping the corners.
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Here’s a scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea)—female, I believe. I captured this image years ago while she lingered in an oak tree just beyond my fence. It was the first time I’d photographed one, and I remember thinking: maybe I’ll see a male someday. Who knows.
If you’re captivated by indigo buntings and other members of the Cardinalidae family—better known as the cardinal family—step into my photo gallery for a visual feast. Come take a look:
What if the real flouride conspiracy is that Alex Jones is trying to give people that listen to his show cavities and most people should increase flouride intake and brush their teeth with flouride toothoaste more often and only a small percent would have better health if they reduced intake
But flouride water can still pose health problems for infants because it is easier for them to accidentally have too much flourude
anecdotal refutation: I have not used fluoridated toothpaste for over 20 years. I have had zero tooth cavities. My mouth feels healthy and teeth are strong.
Tooth health is mostly due to diet, not what you brush your teeth with.
to be fair, you can still implement E2EE on the actual content, while collecting all the juicy metadata around it unencrypted and undisturbed.
If authorities need to know if you contacted a certain person around a certain time, or if you are a member of a given group, then the metadata is more than enough.
Angela Rayner, already disgraced and forced to resign, is now being lined up for a payout funded by the very taxpayers she betrayed. The TaxPayers’ Alliance has called her out for what she is: a complete hypocrite.
Ordinary Britons are being hammered with record taxes, mortgages, and bills. Families are counting pennies, pensioners are choosing between heating and eating, and veterans are sleeping on the streets. Yet somehow, when it comes to failed politicians, there’s always money to spare. Always a cushy parachute. Always one rule for them, another for us.
Rayner’s scandals should have ended her career. Instead, she might walk away with a reward, paid out of the pockets of people who have been crushed by the very government she was part of. That’s not just wrong, it’s insulting.
If Labour cared about integrity, they’d block this payout immediately. If Keir Starmer had a backbone, he’d demand she refuse a penny. But we all know how this goes, excuses, spin, and silence while the public is fleeced yet again.
🇬🇧 Enough is enough. No golden handshakes for hypocrites. No taxpayer bailouts for failed politicians. Sack them, strip them, and make them live by the same rules as the rest of us.
Angela Rayner has been branded a "complete hypocrite" by William Yarwood as he demanded that the ex-Deputy Prime Minister does not receive a Government payout, following her resignation.
On a rainy day in 2025, I found poetry in a single drop. Where water meets life, stillness becomes wonder. This piece is my tribute to the beauty of the ordinary — to the quiet moments that speak louder than words. linktr.ee/M.ALK
Discover the world through my lens and brush: from wild primates in deep contemplation to delicate watercolor cacti kissed by dew. Original art for nature lovers. Prints available.
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