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Sinner e Alcaraz “rivali” anche a tavola: Jannik ama il ragù bolognese, lo spagnolo pollo e trota
https://www.lastampa.it/il-gusto/2025/08/30/news/sinner_alcaraz_new_york_rivali_anche_a_tavola_jannik_ragu_bolognese_spagnolo_pollo_e_trota_chef_diego_bigucci-424816531/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Sinner e Alcaraz “rivali” anche a tavola: Jannik ama il ragù bolognese, lo spagnolo pollo e trota
L’altoatesino ha un tavolo fisso da Osteria Delbianco a New York. Lo chef Diego Bigucci: “Ordina spesso anche tortellini in brodo e scaloppine: sceglie la trad…Valeria Robecco (La Stampa)
JWST zooms into the heart of the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302). The MIRI instrument and its spectrometer were used at 5–28 µm wavelength to study the intricate structures surrounding its central star.
NGC 6302 is a bipolar nebula, 3,400 ly away, with the remains of an exploded star, a dust/gas torus and "wings" of gas expanding on two sides. With a temp of 220,000 K, the star is one of the hottest known central stars in a planetary nebula in our galaxy.
Webb investigates complex heart of a cosmic butterfly
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in the core of the Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302.www.esawebb.org
These annotated images describe the structures at the heart of the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302).
The images (using data from JWST and ALMA) show the central star, the dust/gas torus and interconnected bubbles of dusty gas that expand into the wings. Outside the bubbles are blue jets traced by emission from ionised iron.
The dusty torus may be responsible for shaping the nebula’s insectoid shape by preventing gas from flowing outward equally in all directions.
academic.oup.com/mnras/article…
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Tom really didn’t want me to run in the rain. He never wants me to run outside if it’s more than about 17° or if it’s been frosty. He’s always worried I’ll slip, get heatstroke, get sick. He sees exercise as risky if I’ve had as much as a slight cold. Sometimes it gets a bit much.
Anyway I went for a run, nothing bad happened to me other than feeling that it was a little tougher than usual after 10 days of no exercise. I feel more awake than I’ve done all day.
Tom was asleep in his recliner with the cat when I went out, and he’s still there now.
Now for cosy indoor things: hot bath with a good book, then making some soup.
En ros till er alla. 🥀
#Photography #darktable #mft #MicroFourThirds #olympus #PenMini #BloomScrolling
Until someone develops a #SocialMedia platform with ear flaps I won't be impressed.
(hey, my ears get cold)
#muc3008 #München #DankeAntifa
‘Spotlight,’ Press TV (Iran): E3 Move to reimpose UN sanctions
France, Britain and German, European cosigners of the JCPOA agreement that provided for international monitoring of Iran’s nuclear program and restrictions on uranium enrichment in exchange for lifting economic sanctions against Iran, are now poised …Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
»Die Grünen müssen populistischer werden«, lautet eine Überschrift beim SPIEGEL, und das Magazin nennt Gouverneur Newsom den »MAGAvin aus Kalifornien«, weil er Trump parodiert.
Mit anderen Worten: Wenn wir uns nur auf das Niveau der Populisten herunterschrauben, dann wird das schon mit der Rettung der Demokratie.
Aber die Rechten »zu entzaubern« funktioniert nicht¹. Das haben nicht nur zehn Jahre AfD gezeigt, sondern auch die furchtbaren Jahre von 1919 bis 1945 – und alles, was an Faschismus auf die Nazis folgte.
Im Gegenteil führt das Übernehmen von Nazi-»Argumenten« und -Taktiken zu ihrer Erstarkung. Und zur zunehmenden Verdummung der Bevölkerung.
Stattdessen sinnvoll wäre es, in Bildung und Information zu investieren. Das darf ruhig in einfachen Worten passieren, aber eben nicht populistisch verzerrt.
Oder?
¹ @Natascha_Strobl 2018 bei @Volksverpetzer: »Wer mit Nazis diskutiert, hilft dem Faschismus.«
volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/re…
#Antifa #Populismus #Bildung #FCKNZS
Lass dich nicht dazu verführen, mit Nazis zu diskutieren - Volksverpetzer
Lass dich nicht dazu verführen, mit Nazis zu diskutierenNatascha Strobl (Volksverpetzer)
Anarchist Library: **Ignatius - You Have Always Been in Someone’s Hell**
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Author: IgnatiusTitle: You Have Always Been in Someone’s HellSubtitle: Exceptionalization and Reification of State ViolenceDate: August 2025Source: Long Leaf Distro
Rising Waters
The present is unbearable. Genocidal violence continues to be the language of daily life. Mass starvation in Gaza has set in as Israel
You Have Always Been in Someone’s Hell
Ignatius You Have Always Been in Someone’s Hell Exceptionalization and Reification of State Violence August 2025The Anarchist Library
I saw a post with a map of countries where >90% of the population speaks English. Scandinavia was included, but Canada wasn't. Claiming that Canada has <90% English speakers is interesting, and not entirely trivial to confirm or deny from official sources.
I looked up Statistics Canada, data from 2021. They don't say outright how many speak English, and they switch measurements between "mother tongue" and "first official language". But the bounds for English speakers seem to be 76.1% – 88.4%, so the post was correct about Canada. Calculations below.
canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage…
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76.1% speak English as their "first official language" (27 881 228 people)
22.0% speak French as FOL (8 066 633, of which 7 074 328 in Quebec)
18.0% speak both, but could be from either of the two above
1.8% speak neither
Upper bound for English so far is 94.1%, lower bound is 76.1%.
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42.8% of Quebec native French speakers ("mother tongue") speak English
85.0% of other native French speakers speak English
We don't know how many speak English of those 1.8% who have French as FOL (22.0%) but not as mother tongue (20.2%).
The upper bound for Quebec native French speakers is the 7 074 328 people with French as "first official language".
For non-Quebec it's 8066633 - 7074328 = 992305.
The subtotal upper bound for the number of English speakers is 42.8% * 7074328 + 85.0% * 992395 + 27881228 = 31752499.
The total population is 27881228 / 76.1% = 36637618.
The subtotal upper bound percentage of English speakers is 31752499 / 36637618 =
86.6%.
And then we add those 1.8% with French FOL who may or may not all be speaking English, making it 88.4%.
#canada #quebec #EnglishCanada #FrenchCanada
#english #EnglishLanguage
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Coming this fall. Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the internet...
Fediverse: The Movie!
It's just not the case that there was an idyllic #internet, maybe at some point in the 1990s or early 2000s.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s browser popups became a scourge. Microsoft refused to do anything about them, and internet explorer became known as being full of exploitable security holes. The initial rise of Firefox was because it blocked popups by default. That was Firefox's killer feature.
Also from 1998 and at least a decade afterwards, Microsoft and its allies tried to destroy Open Source. It was a complicated multi-faceted battle. Their eventual buying of Github is part of that story of the company trying to dominate and control Open Source, after the realization that it couldn't be defeated via lawsuits or intimidating developers.
Also the early internet was full of spam. Spam pretty much destroyed Usenet, and it was only in the mid 2000s that the spam problem began to be under control.
But surely the late 1990s internet was the ultimate in freedom of online speech? Well, there was that whole battle with PGP and the clipper chip. They were trying to stop - or at least fuck with - encrypted messaging from the beginning.
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Kann natürlich auch daran liegen, dass es kaum noch Zukunft geben wird wegen der #klimakatastrophe...
"Demnach sind junge Erwachsene, also Menschen zwischen 18 und 24 Jahren, heute im Schnitt deutlich unglücklicher, als sie es noch vor ein paar Jahren waren.":
spiegel.de/psychologie/gluecks…
Studie mit weltweiten Daten: Junge Erwachsene sind heute unglücklicher als früher
Kinder, Karriere, kranke Eltern – lange Zeit galten Menschen in der Mitte des Lebens im Vergleich zu jüngeren als psychisch stärker belastet. Das verändert sich gerade, auf gravierende Weise.DER SPIEGEL
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic falloutDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Did I go back downtown to buy another, more expensive set of oil pastels? Yes, I did but in my defense it was 40% off. 🙃
Ofc I instantly had to paint another piece, combining both sets (& a few loose colours I got).
Both of these will be for sale but I had to order a fixative which will only arrive in a week or so, since everything in store was either not adapted to the medium or too toxic for someone living with 12 birds. 😐
#TraditionalArt #OilPastels #LandscapeArt #Mosstodon #Nature #Forest
Perché non mi riesce il reblog di
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Bon, aggiunto ultimo dei nuovi progetti, quello su Leonardo, che partì come passeggiata sui colli qui attorno cercando di convincere i partecipanti che i capitelli che incontravamo fossero stati decorati con influssi leonardeschi (tutte balle)matteozenatti.net/leonardo-ind…
#OTD (Aug 30) in 1910, a #JerseyCityNJ resident files complaint against #NewYork mafioso Nicolo #Taranto for conducting a fraudulent #exorcism.
#NYC #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory
I mean you can't deny that that's how you should treat a king
#antimonarchy #antifascism #antifa #anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #nokings #guillotine #comic #activism #anarchism #love
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Use your brain, listen to your heart
#anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #meme #memes #anticapitalistmeme #anticapitalistmemes #anticapitalist #activism #anarchism #socialism #nokings
![Listen to your heart
[Comic of a person opening their chest, exposing their heart. The heart is another person, saying "the rich only sleep at night because we let them"]](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/57561222 "Listen to your heart
[Comic of a person opening their chest, exposing their heart. The heart is another person, saying \"the rich only sleep at night because we let them\"]")
Ho visto il primo concerto in Italia di Drake, che in fondo in fondo è sempre e solo “un ragazzo”
https://www.vogue.it/article/drake-concerto-milano?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su News @news-VogueItalia
Drake, ho visto il suo primo concerto in Italia: ecco cos'ho capito
Dall'amore per il nostro paese alla “crisi d'identità” di un rapper che è anche e soprattutto una popstarElena Mariani (Vogue Italia)
A Genova in cinque giorni sono state raccolte 300 tonnellate di cibo per Gaza - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/08/30/genova-raccolta-300-tonnellate-cibo-gaza-global-flotilla/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost
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Parents Sue Open AI for ChatGPT’s Role in Son’s Suicide
On April 11, 2025, California teen Adam Raine took his own life. Adam Raine In seeking answers, Raine’s parents discovered his eight-month, intense history of confiding in ChatGPT– incl…deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
new art piece! ✨
"2042"
DeviantArt: deviantart.com/izjustpixels/ar…
#pixelArt #retroArt #mastoArt #futuristic #Aseprite #ドット絵 #yegArts #digitalArt
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