Trump: 'Invieremo altre armi all'Ucraina per difendersi' - Nord America - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/nordamerica/2025/07/08/trump-invieremo-altre-armi-allucraina-per-difendersi_0b40592e-06ff-4f8a-b95a-69ad60e1f862.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Trump: 'Invieremo altre armi all'Ucraina per difendersi' - Nord America - Ansa.it

"Invieremo altre armi difensive: dobbiamo farlo, devono essere in grado di difendersi. (ANSA)

^{Agenzia ANSA}

Cuba: il fratello di Ferrer, 'lo stanno uccidendo in carcere' - America Latina - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/americalatina/2025/07/08/cuba-il-fratello-di-ferrer-lo-stanno-uccidendo-in-carcere_b6d17c67-6777-45d7-801e-40024ca92aa9.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Cuba: il fratello di Ferrer, 'lo stanno uccidendo in carcere' - America Latina - Ansa.it

Il dissidente cubano José Daniel Ferrer, leader dell'Unpacu, l'Unione patriottica di Cuba, si trova in una situazione critica all'interno del carcere di Mar Verde, a Santiago di Cuba, dopo essere stato vittima di brutali pestaggi, ha denunciato suo f…

^{Agenzia ANSA}

🚨 Karoline Leavitt PANICS after she’s CAUGHT LYING about Epstein. Via @briantylercohen #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️

🚨 Karoline Leavitt PANICS afte...

those tedious fuckwads finally gave up on the ridiculous shoe removal thing

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You Can Finally Keep Your Shoes On—TSA's 23-Year Airport Security Rule Ended Today - View from the Wing

TSA's decision to no longer require shoes to be removed at checkpoints by passengers going through regular (non-PreCheck) security applies only to passengers with REAL ID, which reportedly comprises more than 90% of passengers.

^{Gary Leff (View from the Wing)}

Headless brush turkeys sitting in the tree

Hugz & xXx

Le groupe montréalais revient sur ses hauts et ses bas dans De la foule à la scène sur Prime Video.

Simple Plan revient sur ses 25 ans d’existence dans le documentaire De la foule à la scène, qui sera mis en ligne mardi sur Prime Video.#Radio-Canada #info #information #nouvelles #actualité #src #RDI #télévision #radio #vidéo #Canada #Québec #régions #politique #économie #international #municipal #faitsdivers #arts #spectacle #sports #météo #français #Montréal

Simple Plan, 25 ans de pop-punk et un documentaire

^Radio-Canada

Asia Stuck in Trump’s Tariff Sights as Deadline Shifts to Aug. 1
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/asia-stuck-in-trump-s-tariff-sights-as-deadline-shifts-to-aug-1?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Markets @markets-bloomberg

😳
Via Brad Moss:

The mask is off.

Christian fanaticism is here.

I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/poli…

Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care

#alexv1

youtube.com/watch?v=pMKw1bBzFX…

This week I’ve been bitten by a giant centipede* and swarmed by a battalion of Polistes carolina wasps**; my normal laissez-faire policy with respect to the arthropods, winged or otherwise, is wearing thin.

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* OUCH do not recommend. Like a rookie fool, I’d omitted to check my boots for crawlies before putting’em on. About a quarter mile into my hike I detected a horrible, sharp pain in my foot. Pulled off the boot, expecting a piddly little scorpion. Butnno. It was a goddam *Scolopendra heros*, a Giant Texas Centipede.

Reader, it takes a lot to squick me out, but I have no stomach for giant centipedes. They’re just too goddang big, are too venomous, and have too many fucking legs.

Gripped with pain and irrational panic, I screamed like a city girl, splatted my ass down on the rain-soaked dirt, and pulled off my centipede-encrusted sock in about .04 seconds (the dog nose in the photo belongs to my feral Pomeranian, who enjoyed every second of this embarrassing display a little too much). I then defeatedly limped home in the rain, rapidly losing feeling in my big toe. It took about 5 hours for the pain to subside. These fucken things are no joke. Although, like all my doofy encounters with creepy wildlife, the tableau was comical AF.

** It’d been so long since I’d driven my own car off the farm that a colony of paper wasps had had time to build a whole-ass nest in the space between my driver’s side door and the fender.

I’d boarded the car without incident and driven into town, not having noticed the nest. Did my errand. But upon my return to the car, the wasps were by now kinda cheesed off. To my enormous surprise, an entire buttload of sting-y insects buzzed out of my car door at once and bounced into my face.

Pretty sure I did some hilarious and awkward anti-wasp-swarm moves in the parking lot while attempting to cognitively reconcile this unnatural state of affairs with any possible reality. It was only then that I noticed the nest and grasped the gist. When I got home (unstung, by some miracle), there were a bunch of panicked wasps buzzing around the carport, searching for their recent nest. So many of their compatriots had flown off in that parking lot 8 miles away! It was an emotional rollercoaster for all concerned.

For Canadians:

Please sign this government petition for Canada to send a peace convoy to Gaza 👇🏼

ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet…

Slade - Run Runaway

#alexv1

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If Biden were still President during this flood, the Republican Party (and most of the media and a lot of other people for that matter) would be nonstop screaming about how it’s a Democrat’s fault and saying where is FEMA or blaming a Cabinet member and they would never stop so fuck off, Ted Cruz.

Ted Cruz warns against 'partisan games' amid Texas flooding tragedy:
usatoday.com/videos/news/polit…

Ted Cruz warns against 'partisan games' amid Texas flooding tragedy

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says it's not time for political finger-pointing after deadly floods in Texas killed at least 80 people.

^{www.usatoday.com}

Trump says U.S. will send more weapons to Ukraine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/07/trump-ukraine-weapons-shipments/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-WashPost

Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 1974

#alexv1

youtube.com/watch?v=4cia_v4vxf…

It makes me so angry that @stux has to constantly beg users for help to keep that instance going.

The man has to pay rent besides running mstdn.social. It just isn't fair to him. Mstdn.Social has 13,000+ users. If every user paid JUST $1 each month, he could do that full time, and mstdn would have the latest, greatest servers.

But no.

That's an important node on the Fediverse, and 13,000 people will be sorry when it folds because you didn't support it.

Step up. mstdn.social/about

Mastodon 🐘

A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

^{Mastodon hosted on mstdn.social}

Today I got up and dressed and left the house early.. I had my laser appointment at 9.30am, and then was attending an art show at Girrawaa Aboriginal Art Centre.

...except that my laser appointment is tomorrow morning.

...and the art show is on Saturday.

I don't think my dyslexia and dyscalculia has ever so thoroughly kicked my arse before.

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*Girrawaa is the Aboriginal Art Centre at Bathurst prison. They're having an art show to showcase the art work of some of the people in prison there. There are going to be framed and unframed works available for sale.

The proceeds from the sales goes to the artist, with 20% being kept by the centre to purchase art supplies (paint, canvases, materials etc) for the artists to use in the centre.

If you're in the area, it's definitely worth checking out!

#audhd #autism #adhd #disability #neurodiverse #dyslexia #dyscalculia #Aboriginal #Indigenous #art #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #RegionalAustralia #Australia

Japan Gets 25% Tariffs With Room to Seek Deal Past Election
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-07/japan-gets-25-us-tariffs-with-room-to-seek-deal-past-election?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Economics @economics-bloomberg

Parliamentarians celebrate Fourth of July at Lornado amid trade war, annexation threats
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/07/07/parliamentarians-celebrate-fourth-of-july-at-lornado-amid-trade-war-annexation-threats/466471/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Foreign Policy @foreign-policy-TheHillTimes

Parliamentarians celebrate Fourth of July at Lornado amid trade war, annexation threats

A smaller crowd than usual gathered at Lornado to celebrate Independence Day, as sliders, corn dogs, and California wine was served to members of the Ottawa bubble.

^{Neil Moss (The Hill Times)}

#photography #southdakota

Badlands Custer State Park

"Billionaire Parasites Fear Being Taxed"

Another small coup on the way then?

theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

#NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #Starmer #JohnCaudwell #UKPOL #UKpolitics

Billionaire Labour backer John Caudwell ‘nervous’ about Starmer

Exclusive: Phones 4u founder, who switched from the Tories, says wealth tax would be very destructive to growth

^{Jessica Elgot (The Guardian)}

Presidio per salvare la redazione di Viareggio de Il Tirreno
Da oggi chiusa la sede storica di Via Coppino. Assemblea aperta dei redattori del quotidiano per chiedere alla SAE Editori di ritirare la decisione. Sabato scorso il primo dei cinque giorni di sciopero proclamati. Pronte altre iniziative. Il sostegno di lettori e istituzioni

noitv.it/2025/07/presidio-per-…

Presidio per salvare la redazione di Viareggio de Il Tirreno - NoiTV

^{Redazione NoiTV (NoiTV)}

"Don’t put this on God. You had plenty of warnings this might happen, and you chose to ignore them. You chose to leave the people you’re sworn to serve in the most vulnerable circumstances. You chose to risk danger befalling them."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p…

Do Not Put This On God

None of this was God's plan.

^{Charlotte Clymer (Charlotte's Web Thoughts)}

WhatsApp introduced Message Summaries in the U.S., powered by Meta AI. #whatsapp #socialmedia #messaging #ai

https://www.lindseygamble.com/blog/whatsapp-introduces-ai-powered-message-summaries?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into META NEWS & UPDATES @meta-news-updates-LindseyGamble_

WhatsApp Launches AI-Powered Message Summaries in the U.S. with Privacy Focus

hatsApp’s new Message Summaries feature, powered by Meta AI and Private Processing technology, helps users quickly review unread chats while protecting their privacy.

^{Lindsey Gamble}

今朝のめざましテレビで待ちに待ったちいかわの新シリーズが放送開始されることがついに発表されました🎉🎊

来週の火曜日、15日から

楽しみですね😊

#ちいかわ新シリーズ
#ちいかわ新作
#ちいかわ

More from roll of Kodak Tmax taken in May 1996, probably with a Pentax K1000. First two photos were printed as contact sheets, scanned, and flipped. Last photo is larger print cut out and pasted in sketchbook, unflipped. Probably printed in fall 1996, during my first semester in college. Original negatives are long gone.

Me and a friend; I have no idea who took this photo, but I do remember this outfit and those hot pink sunglasses.

#blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitefilmphotography #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #35mmfilm #kodaktmax400 #kodakfilm #vintagephotos #1990s

Greetings Programs!!

We're back at it tonight working on @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 4!! Come on by!!

twitch.tv/rw_grim
youtube.com/@rw_grim

#Pidgin #OpenSource #C #Gtk #Chat #Messaging

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Making Pidgin The Universal Chat Client on Twitch! | C/GTK

^Twitch

#NEA #Palestine #genocide #gaza #zionismisnazism #unions #bds

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-nat…

The National Education Association just voted to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League

In a momentous vote, the National Education Association voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”

^{Emmaia Gelman (Mondoweiss)}