It's okay to throw away junk. Even the stuff that was a gift. Or an "heirloom". Or that has "memories". If it's junk, it's junk.
Ha messo i dazi anche sulla democrazia.
Oh is this the new scam
Are we gonna see a million of these a day now
Obviously, this is a phishing attack, but well, maybe it's less obvious to some. If you see a post like this, it's phishing.
I have to say that icon for the "mastodon support desk headset" is kinda funny tho
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@evan The irony here is that I just moved instances because my old instance added some kind of bot-prevention captcha step as like a proxy in front of the whole service which of course broke every client.
And then I got one of these verification dms shortly after joining the new instance. For a second I was like “oh here we go again…”
Caso Tarantino-Pilato, la procura della Federnuoto aprirà indagine
https://tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2025/08/30/tarantino-pilato-furto-singapore-indagini-federnuoto?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Sky TG24 @sky-tg24-SkyTG24
Caso Tarantino-Pilato, la procura della Federnuoto aprirà indagine
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Caso Tarantino-Pilato, la procura della Federnuoto aprirà indagineRedazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
CHP to protect ex-VP Kamala Harris after Trump pulls Secret Service detail, sources say (Richard Winton/Los Angeles Times)
latimes.com/california/story/2…
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CHP to protect ex-VP Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris to get CHP protection after President Trump pulls Secret ServiceRichard Winton (Los Angeles Times)
Added AddressSanitizer to our automatic CI pipeline, which also runs the memory leak detector.
We are passing the test suite without any leaks on #Dillo code. 😎
‘Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don’t their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.’
George Monbiot on 28 August, sadly on Bluesky only. I’ll leave it to you if you want to see the original post via brid.gy: fed.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profile…
Found in a post by Kenneth John Bardsley, @kennethb, boosted by @PeterRu
Re-posted as an #AltText4You
#Antifa #FarRight #Media #Fascism
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
Zubin Metha indisposto non inaugurerà il Festival Respighi - Musica - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/musica/2025/08/30/zubin-metha-indisposto-non-inaugurera-il-festival-respighi_9d4f7f12-97fd-484e-b6d6-128530a93c41.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Spettacolo e Cultura @spettacolo-e-cultura-AgenziaAnsa
Zubin Metha indisposto non inaugurerà il Festival Respighi - Musica - Ansa.it
Non sarà più Zubin Metha, il celebre direttore indiano, fiorentino di adozione, ad aprire il 21 settembre prossimo la quarta edizione del Festival Respighi a Bologna, ma il quarantaduenne Daniele Rustioni. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Burying the Bruises ... On Monday, press photographers gathered in the Oval Office ... (Jon Passantino/Status)
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Burying the Bruises
The White House insists Donald Trump’s visible bruises are nothing, but medical experts say the explanation doesn’t hold up. Why are the country’s biggest newsrooms silent?Status
Astra Pill Cuts Hard-to-Treat Blood Pressure in Late-Stage Trial
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-30/astra-pill-cuts-hard-to-treat-blood-pressure-in-late-stage-trial?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Tech @tech-bloomberg
Sapevatevelo, e giratevelo 🙂
#negazionismoclimatico #cambiamentoclimatico
facta.news/antibufale/mappe-te…
Queste due false mappe non dimostrano che il cambiamento climatico non esiste
I dati di una cartina sono falsi, e mettere a confronto temperature in singole giornate e in periodi storici diversi è fuorvianteFacta
Il 3-4 settembre messa a punto autovelox fissi in 3 punti Roma - Sicurezza - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/canale_motori/notizie/sicurezza/2025/08/30/il-3-4-settembre-messa-a-punto-autovelox-fissi-in-3-punti-roma_fe3f6509-aed9-4476-9861-8e8a2f508fe3.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Motori @motori-AgenziaAnsa
Il 3-4 settembre messa a punto autovelox fissi in 3 punti Roma - Sicurezza - Ansa.it
"Tra il 3 e il 4 settembre sarà effettuata la taratura di autovelox fissi per il rilievo della velocità puntuale e un rilevatore di velocità media su tre nodi strategici della mobilità romana". (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Vance goes after NYC mayoral hopeful Mamdani: 'He should show more gratitude to the United States' (Madeline Sherratt/The Independent)
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
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Vance goes after NYC mayor hopeful Mamdani: ‘He should show more gratitude’
‘I don’t know the guy but my sense is that he has had a very good life in this country,’ said Vance on Zohran MamdaniMadeline Sherratt (The Independent)
Russia loses another 850 troops, 47 artillery systems in war against Ukraine
Russia’s total combat losses in manpower since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, have reached approximately 1,081,330 personnel, with 850 Russian soldiers eliminated in the past 24 hours. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
My position on the "doomsday" risk of superhuman AGI is that if IQ offered you a decisive advantage, the world would be run by nerds.
I think it's essentially a geek power fantasy. The returns on puzzle-solving skills rapidly diminish past some modest threshold.
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Venezia, la manifestazione pro Palestina al Lido - Diretta
https://www.lastampa.it/spettacoli/2025/08/30/video/venezia_la_manifestazione_pro_palestina_al_lido_-_diretta-15288951/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su La Stampa Video @la-stampa-video-LaStampa
Venezia, la manifestazione pro Palestina al Lido - Diretta
"Fermiamo il genocidio, Palestina libera": la manifestazione organizzata da 200 associazioni, dai centri sociali del Nordest e dall'Anpi Venezia 7 Ma…La Stampa
Their system charged my card, but will not show a payment at the hotel. "Contact your bank."
So.. we're fucked.
https://www.techtudo.com.br/guia/2025/08/golpe-do-falso-advogado-entenda-como-funciona-e-saiba-se-proteger-edapps.ghtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Golpe do falso advogado: entenda como funciona e saiba se proteger
Estelionatários se passam por advogados, anunciam causa ganha e exigem taxas para o desbloqueio do valor; conheça o golpe que tem se tornado comum em todo o BrasilTechtudo
Exploding five pickles technique.
("My kung fu is better than your kung fu !")
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Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists (Minho Kim/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/poli…
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Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists
By Minho Kim / New York Times. View the full context on memeorandum.memeorandum
✅ Dems have overperformed by an avg. 16 pts across 36 Special Elections so far this year, including *flipping* 3 GOP seats!
NEXT UP:
9/02: FL SD-15: LaVon Bracy Davis
9/02: FL HD-40: RaShon Young
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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
Pubblicato su Il Gusto @il-gusto-LaStampa
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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in reply to Jess👾 • • •Amen. We have crates from my dad's estate. My wife is going to give them one look and I'm hauling them all to dump or shredder as appropriate.
Also shredding daughter's old school records.
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in reply to Jess👾 • • •psst it's even okay to throw away books
(ducks)
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I keep one Bible around because it was my mom's that she took notes in for like a decade. I've not cracked it open in forever and may still trash it someday, but haven't brought myself to do it yet.
B'ad Samurai 🐐
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I've thrown out Marilyn Manson and South Park Mexican CDs, and Woody Allen DVDs, but admittedly haven't brought myself to tossing a Stardust softcover. Then beat myself up I don't treat art by monsters all the same.
+1 for digital services I guess. I can block those artists on Spotify and delete/hide old kindles. Can't throw away something I never truly owned.
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in reply to Jess👾 • • •ok well that’s kind of a different scenario and totally understandable.
I was thinking more of the embossed ones from confirmation/baptism.
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in reply to Jess👾 • • •i liked this toot but also my right shoulder angel was screaming about donation places so there’s that.
(Left shoulder devil sez burn em, but they’re a bit of a dick, really.)
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in reply to Jess👾 • • •but it's really hard.
I inherited my mother's book collection which also includes my grandfather's book collection.
It's way to much books I wouldn't even consider to read but I can't throw them away.
I thought about donating them. But the open bookshelf are way to small.
Every time I think about giving the books away it's like someone ties me up.
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