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Tom Grzybow diaspora

Pentagon Admits Number of US Troops in Syria Much Higher Than Previously Disclosed


https://www.commondreams.org/news/pentagon-2000-troops-syria

I ask: Why should we ever believe them?


Hands up if youโ€™re already finished at work. Or are having till work right through Tuesday afternoon?
Clare mastodon (AP)
life hack for an early Christmas break: Iโ€™ve been sick since Tuesday.
Tilda Moose mastodon (AP)
Fortunately I'm a part time contractor on flexible hours due to illness & uncertain workload, and our section ended with a pretty empty job list this week, so got the option to go in on Mon or Tue and sharpen some biros, etc. But will probably opt for as much keeping still and quiet as possible.

Peace and joy to you and yours!


Lisa Stranger diaspora
I'd bet some GQP legislators are taking notes

Russian lawmakers approve new bill expanding the definition of high treason


The amendments approved by the lower house, the State Duma, in second and third readings expand the definition of high treason to include affiliation with any organization involved in โ€œactivities against security of the Russian Federation.โ€

The current legislation has a more narrow interpretation of โ€œturning to the enemy side,โ€ defining it as joining the enemy's armed forces.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-lawmakers-approve-bill-expanding-153600600.html

Stefan Bohacek mastodon (AP)
Ah, not a comic book buff myself, but will celebrate that on this day in 1940, the first issue of Captain America Comics was published, with this iconic cover.

"When the first issue came out we got a lot of ... threatening letters and hate mail. Some people really opposed what Cap stood for."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America_Comics

#CaptainAmerica #CaptainAmericaComics #comics #marvel #nazis #PunchNazis #OnThisDay #OTD
A cover of the first Captain America comic book.

The title of the comics appears on top in large yellow angular letters. The scene depicts the titular hero punching Adolf Hitler.

Captain America is wearing a brightly colored superhero costume that consists of a blue shirt with a large start across the chest and vertical red and white stripes below it, and is also wearing red gloves, a blue mask covering the top half of his face, with little wings attached to the side of the mask. He is also holding a shield for protection.

Hitler is wearing a brown Nazi uniform, and looks visibly in pain. Good.

There is a small crowd of Nazi soldiers looking on helplessly. One of them is attempting to shoot at Captain America, but the bullet hits the shield he's carrying.
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Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1703747/ Weโ€™re Burning More Coal Than Ever Thanks to China #Environment
Weโ€™re Burning More Coal Than Ever Thanks to China


Incredible Broadside Brass Bed Band

The Great Grizzly Bear Hunt


#IncredibleBroadsideBrassBedBand #rock #bluesrock #70s #music #frogmas

Bullfrog Blues


Lisa Stranger diaspora
oh waitโ€”almost 2/3 of the party just slapped Jamie Raskin in the face

Tea-Partying these fuckers is starting to look like the way

AOC played the inside game - and insiders rejected it (for now)


The vote wasnโ€™t even close, with Connolly winning 131 votes to Ocasio-Cortezโ€™s 84 votes.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/aoc-played-inside-game-insiders-230038324.html
Lisa Stranger diaspora
Tim Burchett, the conservative Republican from Tennessee who struck up an unlikely friendship with Ocasio-Cortez, said Democrats made a mistake.

โ€œI'm happy for us, because the Democrats don't realize that in their youth circle, she is a rock star,โ€ he said.
Lisa Stranger diaspora
Older Democrats were quick to downplay Ocasio-Cortezโ€™s loss. South Carolinaโ€™s James Clyburn, the former House majority whip who helped make Biden president, called the race between Ocasio-Cortez and Connolly โ€œjust a regular intramural contest,โ€ adding that these fights were based on โ€œpersonalities.โ€ Debbie Dingell of Michigan said she has a โ€œlong futureโ€ ahead of her.

the gerontocracy telling her to wait her turn

I feel like I've seen this one before...
DP0 mastodon (AP)
I love that. It's surreal but also fascinating and entertaining. It's as if Lex Luthor and Max Shreck suddenly decide to attack one another ...

Andrew Zonenberg mastodon (AP)
Is there a name for the phenomenon where you put hot chocolate powder in hot water and the surface of the powder forms a sticky goo that encapsulates a blob of dry powder, inhibiting further dissolution?

it's similar at a high level to the Leidenfrost effect (surface behavior preventing the bulk material from interacting with the surrounding fluid) but completely different physics.
Joel Michael mastodon (AP)
I donโ€™t know what itโ€™s called but it definitely exists
Kit Bashir mastodon (AP)
@jpm well itโ€™s the Zonenberg Effect, now.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. mastodon (AP)
South Carolina's proposed Bill H3537 would allow the state to execute women who get an abortion.

My article below has exceeded 100K readsโ€”& it includes the direct numbers of the 6 MAGAs who co-sponsored the billโ€”so I'm hoping that means they've received thousands of calls already.

Please make it 200K reads, and call them & let them know how you feel about their barbaric legislation:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina-intros-bill-to-execute
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Noortje Van Leeuwen mastodon (AP)
so...let me...get this straight...the."pro life" cult...wants to murder women, who only as much as seek abortion?...

Bet they force her to.give birth first....
MsMerope mastodon (AP)
maybe we should start a go fund me so all the women in stupid carolina can afford to leave.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1703744/ โ€˜Fundamental constitutional rightโ€™: Why Montanaโ€™s Supreme Court upheld landmark climate ruling and agreed that state must provide a โ€˜clean and healthfulโ€™ environment for residentsโ€ฆ #Climate
'Fundamental constitutional right': Why Montana's Supreme Court upheld landmark climate ruling and agreed that state must provide a 'clean and healthful' environment for residents...


CHM remembers Fellow Don Bitzer, a computer pioneer who co-invented the flat-panel plasma display and was called the "father of PLATO.โ€ https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-donald-bitzer-1934-2024/


Radio Free Trumpistan friendica (via Diaspora)
Library Kitteh sorts all ur book cards
โ™ฒ Cat Every Hour - 2024-12-20 18:00:05 GMT
โœจ c a t โœจ #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon
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https://j-drawer.blogspot.com/2024/11/weekly-lock-jammin-knockout-111624-14.html

#lockjamminknockout #sfw

I've got a stakeholder that is adamant that #rust is a mistake and I should just write better C.

does anyone have any articles that summarize the risks of sticking with C89? I have one but I want to make this exhaustive.
#rust

Tom Grzybow diaspora

Israeli Troops Tell of Indiscriminate Murder of Civilians in Gaza 'Kill Zone'


https://www.commondreams.org/news/haaretz-israel-war-crimes

Nicola Griffith mastodon (AP)
H5N1 is widespread in the animal world, infecting cows and poultry, killing cougars and cats, decimating terns and seals. It's human flu season. Reassortment is beginning to look less and less unavoidable.

http://nicolagriffith.com/2024/12/20/h5n1-dangerous-reassortment-growing-more-likely/

lee hometown (AP)
a flatworm captioned with let the soft animal of your body love what it loves is this anything
Leah Bobet mastodon (AP)
I confess I made this before today. >.>
Animal from the Muppet Show, behind his drum set, captioned with "No have to be good, no have to walk on your knees hundred miles through desert repenting."

Steve Fox mastodon (AP)
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots,

Next will be toothbrushes.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine
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emptywheel unkn (AP)
Really, this @mattglassman312.bsky.social piece is so useful. I described how 10 or so "terrorists" (*mostly* speaking metaphorically) in the House GOP means whoever has a gavel next month doesn't have a majority. This is more polite--w/PTA analogies!mattglassman.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
In practice, it could still be a total train wreck, and almost certainly will be at least a slog. For one, the margins are going to be so narrow in the House in January that even if you literally get 99% of the conference to fall in line no questions asked, any one asshole and his friend can still derail you. By April it will be one asshole and her two buddies. And in the House of Representativesโ€”just like at the PTA meetingโ€”thereโ€™s always at least one asshole.

One problem is everyone has gotten a taste in the 118th of how easy it is to wield the balance of power, at least if your goal is to blow shit up and pick fights with the leadership. The HFC crowd didnโ€™t accomplish anything from a policy/substantive point of view; heck, the main policy result of their temper-tantrums was that a whole variety of bills moved to the left. But the reconciliation bills arenโ€™t moving to the left, theyโ€™re either happening or they arenโ€™t. And a lot of people might start wondering if blowing shit up could actually be a path to moving stuff their direction. And a fair amount of people in the House GOP have a basic political outlook that blowing shit up is good.

House Republicans to move forward with Plan C to fund the government


But several hurdles remain to avert a government shutdown ahead of a Friday midnight deadline.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Randy Cassingham mastodon (AP)
Strikes me as a reasonable reaction.
@paninid Elf on shelf is a snitch, and snitches get stitches etc etc

MEActNOW mastodon (AP)
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Norovirus nationally in the US ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ is now the highest level ever recorded on the wastewater scan dashboard. It has skyrocketed past the other years and is still rising.

Violet Blue mastodon (AP)
New: wastewater, like hips, don't lie. Australia โ€œChristmas #Covid explosion,โ€ US super surge ramps up, Aotearoa gets booster release date, Ariana Grande downplays bringing Covid to Wicked set, warning issued about C19 and cancer, #LongCovid updates, and more.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-118259316

Can Syria heal? For many, Step 1 is learning the difficult truth.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2024/1220/syria-sednaya-torture-missing-prisoners?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN YOUR WORLD @what-just-happened-in-your-world-csmonitor

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Giant sloths and mastodons lived with ancient humans in the Americas | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/mastodon-giant-sloth-megafauna-americas-ancient-humans-3c21c77cd108c5bfcdd8d8c87195c4c8
Jay Thurber Show mastodon (AP)
Ancient humans? Hell, I worked with some giant sloths at my last newspaper job

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1703719/ People Keep Posting AI Images Of Trump Being Subservient To Elon Musk After Funding Debacleโ€”And They Are Perfect #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews
People Keep Posting AI Images Of Trump Being Subservient To Elon Musk After Funding Debacleโ€”And They Are Perfect

George Dinwiddie mastodon (AP)
A friend shared this thought with me, and, to be honest, I find it a little depressing.
Uncle Duke
@UncleDuke1969

the idea of being visited by aliens lost its appeal when i realized they'd likely just be some other planet's asshold billionaires
Dan Neuman hometown (AP)
Maybe, but Capitalists aren't inevitable, and don't even have to be a society's end point.

BNO News twitter-bridge (AP)
BREAKING: 60 to 80 injured after person drove into pedestrians at Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany - AFP

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1703717/ Elon Musk backs Germanyโ€™s far-right party ahead of election #GeopoliticalAnalysis #GeopoliticalNews #geopolitics #Politics
Elon Musk backs Germany's far-right party ahead of election


Adrian Roselli mastodon (AP)
Agreed that even consenting to debate settled science, absent new data generated with the same rigor as existing data, is a losing proposition.

โ€œThe Opportunity Costs of Having a Big Debateโ€
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-opportunity-costs-of-having-a

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1703711/ North London girl, 5, is fined ยฃ1k for โ€˜fly-tippingโ€™ as council bombards her with court threats #News #UK #UkNews #uknews #UnitedKingdom
North London girl, 5, is fined ยฃ1k for 'fly-tipping' as council bombards her with court threats

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1703709/ Kremlinโ€™s Big Message To NATO As Russian Strike Batters Kyiv After Putinโ€™s Missile Duel Challenge #BallisticMissile #europe #Kremlin #kyiv #message #nato #oreshnik #revenge #RussiaUkraineWar #VladimirPutin
Kremlin's Big Message To NATO As Russian Strike Batters Kyiv After Putin's Missile Duel Challenge

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