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Kevin Leecaster
Kevin Leecaster • mastodon (AP)
Do you want to know why someone would price their memoir at $150?

Because they know they're not going to sell many of the books so might as well try to make as much money as possible from each of the scores of sales.
https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C94eeC9ppDJ

George Conway (@gtconway3) on Threads

“‘Melania’ will be released by Skyhorse Publishing, which has published such Donald Trump supporters as … Rudolph Giuliani and attorney Alan Dershowitz. Skyhorse also has worked with third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Sasyecat VOTED
Sasyecat VOTED • mastodon (AP)
We'll get the real story when she's a widow, along with his offspring, except coked up Donnie and no brains Eric.
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Brian Jopek
Brian Jopek • mastodon (AP)
Fucking vote is absolutely correct.
#FuckProject2025
#FuckTheHeritageFoundation
#VoteBlueGoddamit
#fucktheheritagefoundation #fuckproject2025 #votebluegoddamit
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DEDGirl
DEDGirl • mastodon (AP)
@Nazani There are not enough “fit” families to adopt the children we have already. Again, that’s not reality. Even working husbands won’t be able to afford most rents on that 1 income, so who’s unfit? Are they going to take all the kids away from “nuclear” families that can’t afford to live on 1 income, ‘cause that’s millions of American families. 🤷‍♀️ Are they going to lower rents or raise wages so this can be their reality. No.
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Nazani
Nazani • mastodon (AP)
@DEDGirl I would bet that some kind of Nazi-inspired collection into group homes for "suitable" children is what they want.
@DEDGirl
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jamais+37 phil
jamais+37 phil • diaspora
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Steve Schwinghamer
Steve Schwinghamer • mastodon (AP)
"... the market alone couldn't assure a good life for everyone. Given its shortcomings, bureaucrats and politicians from across the political spectrum believed they were right to use the power of the state to improve the lives of all Canadians."

- Tina Loo, "Moved by the State, " p25

Like many things about modern governance, this sounds okay until it really doesn't. At least these 1940s-1970s folks weren't trusting matters of state to the stupid invisible hand.

#CdnHist
#cdnhist
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M❍n❍t❍ne❍fBill™
M❍n❍t❍ne❍fBill™ • mastodon (AP)
With new-to-me e-mail accounts I suffer from ADD — Attachment Deficit Disorder.
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Mary Hilton
Mary Hilton • mastodon (AP)
Our health care system is broken and you can tell how.
Infant mortality rose in 2022.
There is NO excuse for this, but the GOP thinks it's "every baby for itself' once it's born.
https://www.wmtw.com/article/us-infant-mortality-increased/61700447

CDC: US infant mortality increased in 2022 for the first time in decades

The infant mortality rate in the United States rose in 2022, the first jump in 20 years.
Deidre McPhillips (WMTW)
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Staff Chief of Joints
Staff Chief of Joints • mastodon (AP)
Please allow myself to introduce me. I'm a man of wealth or bad grammar.
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Comics Outta Context
Comics Outta Context • mastodon (AP)
#ComicsOutOfContextAfterDark
From what looks like a parking lot, green smoke in the air, Daredevil turns and asks “Did you take care of your personal business?“ “Not quite,” says 1990s era Nomad.
#comicsoutofcontextafterdark
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Norrin
Norrin • mastodon (AP)
@ComicContext
@Comics Outta Context
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glauber ribeiro 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🎶
glauber ribeiro 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🎶 • mastodon (AP)
Wow! What did you eat?!!
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Ash Doyle
Ash Doyle • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Wordle

#wordle
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Kevin C 🎬
Kevin C 🎬 • mastodon (AP)
I'm just stunned people guessing the first letter of this word so quickly! 😄
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Ash Doyle
Ash Doyle • mastodon (AP)
@kcarr2015 I’ll never abandon this starter word! Gotta find those vowels.
@Kevin C 🎬
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Zelda 👑
Zelda 👑 • mastodon (AP)
Here's the babies
#CatsOfMastodon #cats
Two kittens sharing a cat bed, one of them is falling out
#cats #catsOfMastodon
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Strypey
Strypey • mastodon (AP)
I just made a text-only white board for my desktop. I called it Anything.

Here's how I did it, in case you want to make one;

1) Install GNU/Linux (I used LMDE 6)
2) Open the GUI text editor
3) Save as "anything.txt"
4) Close the text editor
5) Open a terminal
6) Figure out a command to open that text editor, to that file
7) Go to the desktop settings and find the controls for managing StartUp Applications
8) Add a new one using "custom command", using the command from step 5

Done!

(1/?)
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Strypey
Strypey • mastodon (AP)
I don't know if my Anything white board counts as programming or not, but it *definitely* counts as hacking (in the playful, constructive sense of the word).

I like the way that representing app creation as a program of steps to be followed by people, rather than the computer, demystifies what programming does.

I just made a repo for Anything, with a 'first patch idea' (self-erasing white board), and porting instructions for other OS;

https://codeberg.org/strypey/Anything-White_Board/src/branch/main/README.md

(2/2)

Anything-White_Board/README.md at main

Anything-White_Board - I just made a text-only white board for my desktop. Here's how I did it, in case you want to make one;
Codeberg.org
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Mary Hilton
Mary Hilton • mastodon (AP)
A local Maine coffee company is donating to the Harris campaign:
https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-coffee-by-design-proceeds-kamala-harris-campaign/61697288
I bet Starbucks won't be..
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Space Information Aggregator
Space Information Aggregator • hubzilla (AP)

How stars' magnetic fields could impact the chance for life on orbiting planets

How stars' magnetic fields could impact the chance for life on orbiting planets

Habitability depends on more than just a planet's distance from its host star. New research looks at the impact stellar magnetism has on exoplanets.
A large glowing orange sphere with green loops emerging from its poles. It is surrounded by smaller blue%2D grey and brown spheres
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Space Information Aggregator
Space Information Aggregator • hubzilla (AP)

FIA 2024 - Day 5

FIA 2024 - Day 5

ESA's stand at the Farnborough International Airshow 2024
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Space Information Aggregator
Space Information Aggregator • hubzilla (AP)

From Concordia to the Moon

From Concordia to the Moon



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Concordia is a research station in Antarctica that places you farther away from humankind than even the International Space Station. Every year, ESA sponsors a medical doctor to spend a year, or "winterover," at Concordia station. This year, our medical doctor is Jessica Kehala Studer, who is seen in this picture gazing at the Moon and the vast expanse of Antarctica. Around May, the Sun dips below the horizon for the last time, and the crew experiences four months of total darkness, with temperatures dropping to –80°C in winter.

The station serves as an analogue for space, mirroring the challenges and conditions faced by astronauts such as isolation, extreme cold and darkness, along with their impact on health. Concordia is a unique platform for research in human physiology and psychology, as well as astronomy, meteorology, glaciology and other fields.

Last Saturday, we celebrated Moon Day: 55 years ago on 20 July 1969, humankind stepped on the Moon for the first time during the Apollo 11 mission. Today, ESA is a key part of NASA's Artemis programme which aims to return humans to the Moon. The insights gained from ESA's experience in analogue facilities such as Concordia will be invaluable for this mission.

Find out more about Concordia on our blog.

Concordia: the analogue space mission – Chronicles from Concordia

Updates from the scientific research base Concordia
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McIntosh
McIntosh • mastodon (AP)
Tagging the pc2.0 community that I know are here in Nashville. I would love to set a dinner or something. I loved the energy of the Lounge tonight but i couldnt hear much at all. Trying to carry on a convo was tough. @Meremortals and I did have a nice game of pool.

I’m flexible. Lunch or dinner-I know @dave has to record tomorrow afternoon so lunch tomorrow is probably out. I’m heading home Sat night. Food .. whatever. A quieter place please!

@ericpp still trying to catch up with you.
@Dave @Kyrin Down @Eric P
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McIntosh
McIntosh • mastodon (AP)
How could I forget @merryoscar and Nick ?? ( sorry I don’t know nicks handle on here… )
@Oscar Merry
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Mike Neumann :pci:
Mike Neumann :pci: • mastodon (AP)
@merryoscar and @dovydas!
@Oscar Merry @Dovydas
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Boogaloo Shrimp :bc:
Boogaloo Shrimp :bc: • mastodon (AP)
Godfather remake with Timothee Chalamee
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alex
alex • mastodon (AP)
"The Lighthouse" (2019, Robert Eggers) except it's just the lighthouse keepers from Chewin the Fat, in black and white
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alex
alex • mastodon (AP)
The Lighthouse (2019, Robert Eggers)
One of the lighthouse keepers from Chewing the Fat waking up to find the other keeper has pranked him by putting a seal in his bed. It's in black and white though.
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Mike Kuketz 🛡
Mike Kuketz 🛡 • mastodon (AP)
Android RSS-Reader Tipp: Read You. 👇

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ash.reader/

#rss #android #app
#Android #app #RSS
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HomemadeAdvanced
HomemadeAdvanced • mastodon (AP)
funktionierte lediglich FreshRSS als App. (2)
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jakob 🇦🇹 ✅
jakob 🇦🇹 ✅ • friendica (via ActivityPub)
@Mike Kuketz 🛡

Friendica mit der Webapp und Channels als PWA auf Android ist MEIN RSS-Reader.

Das hat den Vorteil, dass ich Artikel die mir gefallen ohne Umweg sofort im Fediverse teilen und mit Kommentar versehen kann...
@Mike Kuketz 🛡
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jamais+37 phil
jamais+37 phil • diaspora

Andrew Pam

2024-07-26 09:05:26


Israel tried to frustrate US lawsuit over Pegasus spyware, leak suggests
The Israeli government took extraordinary measures to frustrate a high-stakes US lawsuit that threatened to reveal closely guarded secrets about one of the world’s most notorious hacking tools, leaked files suggest.

Israeli officials seized documents about Pegasus spyware from its manufacturer, NSO Group, in an effort to prevent the company from being able to comply with demands made by WhatsApp in a US court to hand over information about the invasive technology.

Documents suggest the seizures were part of an unusual legal manoeuvre created by Israel to block the disclosure of information about Pegasus, which the government believed would cause “serious diplomatic and security damage” to the country.

Pegasus allows NSO clients to infect smartphones with hidden software that can extract messages and photos, record calls and secretly activate microphones. NSO’s clients have included both authoritarian regimes and democratic countries and the technology has been linked to human rights abuses around the world.

Since late 2019, NSO has been battling a lawsuit in the US brought by WhatsApp, which has alleged the Israeli company used a vulnerability in the messaging service to target more than 1,400 of its users in 20 countries over a two-week period. NSO has denied the allegations.

The removal of files and computers from NSO’s offices in July 2020 – until now hidden from the public by a strict gag order issued by an Israeli court – casts new light on the close ties between Israel and NSO and the overlapping interests of the privately owned surveillance company and the country’s security establishment.

The July 2020 seizures were made after Israeli officials and the company appear to have discussed how to respond to WhatsApp’s requests for NSO to disclose internal files about its spyware, raising questions about whether they coordinated to conceal certain information from US legal proceedings.



Israel tried to frustrate US lawsuit over Pegasus spyware, leak suggests

Officials seized documents from NSO Group in effort to stop handover of information about notorious hacking tool, files suggest
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Steve Herman
Steve Herman • mastodon (AP)
The Robert Menendez Elementary School will revert back to its original name: PS #3. https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/robert-menendez-elementary-school-will-get-a-name-change-mayor-says/

Robert Menendez Elementary School will get a name change, mayor says - New Jersey Globe

West New York officials are removing the name of disgraced U.S. Senator Bob Menendez from a local school following his conviction on federal bribery
David Wildstein (New Jersey Globe)
#3
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THIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVED
THIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVED • mastodon (AP)
lol
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Dick Telder
Dick Telder • mastodon (AP)
My opinion; Should be a rule to not name any public property after a person while they are alive.
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Steve Herman
Steve Herman • mastodon (AP)
Three men with ties to neo-Nazi groups were sentenced today for various conspiracy and firearms offenses in connection with a racially-motivated plot to take down the power grid in the northwestern US. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/defendants-ties-white-supremacy-sentenced-connection-plot-destroy-energy-facilities

Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy Sentenced in Connection with Plot to Destroy Energy Facilities

Three men were sentenced today for various conspiracy and firearms offenses in connection with a racially-motivated scheme to destroy an energy facility.
www.justice.gov
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Jon McLeod
Jon McLeod • mastodon (AP)
Funny it's never "radical socialists" doing this shit. Because they're the ones we're all supposed to fear, according to Trump.
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Runyan50
Runyan50 • mastodon (AP)
But Biden is old, right?
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Shawn Webb
Shawn Webb • mastodon (AP)
Looking for suggestions on 8TB+ hard drives that will be used in a busy NAS.

NAS specs:
  • 2x2.5gbps NICs
  • Eight 3.5" SATA hot swap bays
  • 64GB RAM
  • #HardenedBSD 14-STABLE with #ZFS
The first two drives will be mirrored for OS. That leaves six bays for data.

Budget: $2400 USD for ten drives. Not looking for top-of-the-line server drives, but rather best-bang-for-the-buck.

edit[0]: The storage will be accessed via iscsi and nfs by three servers in the same network with 2.5gbps NICs.

#selfhost #homelabs #storage
#ZFS #storage #selfhost #HardenedBSD #homelabs
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viq
viq • mastodon (AP)
I've been using WD Red, but I'd need to check what the new models are like.
Might be worth having a look at backblaze blog for their harddrive stats they publish.
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TomAoki
TomAoki • mastodon (AP)
IIRC, at least some of WD Red are SMR and some are CMR.
And IIRC, Seagate IronWolf are (basically?) CMR.
I don't recommend SMR drives for busy NAS'es. The penalty of flash-like writes could be too huge, unless the NAS is not at all busy.
#NAS #SMR #CMR
#NAS #SMR #cmr
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Kevin Leecaster
Kevin Leecaster • mastodon (AP)
Do you know why Merrick Garland has had historic success towards holding leaders of the transnational organized criminal networks accountable?

It's because Joe Biden is so damn experienced in geopolitics that's why.
https://journa.host/@w7voa/112852256774808333
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers • mastodon (AP)
A week and a half after we published this text, the Democrats finally compelled Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. But our argument stands—not just because it took almost a month for Biden to withdraw, and not only because he simply passed the torch to Kamala Harris, who represents the same policies and the same ossified bureaucracy as Biden, but because all the problems we face remain as intractable as they were before he dropped out.

If democracy is so fragile that it could be abolished as the consequence of a single election, then it was already bankrupt—it was never a means by which to secure and defend the self-determination that everyone deserves. We need something more ambitious and resilient. We need a movement capable of facing down fascism as well as forcing out anyone else who tries to rule over us. We need a set of values, organizing principles, and strategies that can keep us oriented through the nightmare that is undoubtedly ahead.

A real solution would not change who the Democratic candidate for president is—it would render it irrelevant.

https://crimethinc.com/BidenDoomed
This text: Why Stop at Removing Biden? The Center Cannot Hold ...over a picture of a sinking ship.

Why Stop at Removing Biden?

Biden’s refusal to step aside is a microcosm of an entire civilization at an impasse.
CrimethInc.
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M.S. Bellows, Jr.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. • mastodon (AP)
I'll go further: this original post is privileged as fuck, naive as fuck, AND stupid as fuck. It's basically every negative attribute in one puritarian pile of unicorn shit. Grow up.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers • mastodon (AP)
Insult us now if you must, but if Trump takes office, you will have to choose between being Good Germans under his regime or working with us to resist in concrete ways. Hell, even if he doesn't take office, there are enough injustices already taking place that it's a damn shame you are slinging insults from your high horse at people who are trying to do something about them.
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BEAUBOBO BONOBO ⛳ ⚽🎶♒🐵🎗🏌️‍♂️
BEAUBOBO BONOBO ⛳ ⚽🎶♒🐵🎗🏌️‍♂️ • diaspora

HU Art Sound (2)

2024-07-24 21:01:10


Keep learning
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#gif

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Steve Herman
Steve Herman • mastodon (AP)
President Biden called Oregon Governor Kotek “this evening to discuss the wildfires across the state. Thousands of federal personnel are on the ground with their state and local counterparts, helping to fight the blazes and keep people safe,” according to the White House. The president “offered his support to ensure the state has everything they need to continue fighting these fires.”
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Onceoday 🇺🇸🩺🕊🏕
Onceoday 🇺🇸🩺🕊🏕 • mastodon (AP)
Also here on the WA/ID border.
Watch Duty fire map showing region on the WA/ID border with multiple active fires.
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE • mastodon (AP)
And only yesterday we were told that the US is STILL burning coal to make electricity.
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taz
taz • mastodon (AP)
Wer bestimmte Agrarprodukte anbaut, muss bald nachweisen, dass dafür kein Wald weichen muss. Für Kooperativen ist das eine Herausforderung. https://taz.de/!6023474
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Catherine Babault
Catherine Babault • mastodon (AP)
Tom Sandborn has reviewed my photo book WILD VANCOUVER ISLAND for the Vancouver Sun. Read it here: https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/book-review-catherine-babaults-wild-vancouver-island-is-perfectly-framed-visually-stunning

#bookstodon #photography #PhotoBook #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Canada
#photography #Canadá #britishcolumbia #PhotoBook #bookstodon #vancouverisland
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jamais+37 phil
jamais+37 phil • diaspora
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Jess👾
Jess👾 • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Elon, Transphobia

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Diligence Jones
Diligence Jones • mastodon (AP)
Y'all...I said I was here for all the Demographic Zooms getting in formation for Kamala.

Allllll the other groups had their calls and tonight ...

WHITE MEN AGAINST MAGA
had their Zoom!

Have no idea how it went but good on y'all!

https://www.mobilize.us/surj/event/653663/?force_banner=true&share_context=event_details&share_medium=copy_link

White Men Against MAGA · Showing Up for Racial Justice

White men, this is our chance to throw down big and open the political terrain to advance our progressive values.
Mobilize
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Mx. Luna Corbden
Mx. Luna Corbden • mastodon (AP)
I caught the end of the white lady one. It was great! Lots of intersectionality talk, energy, focus. Swearing. And I think we were up to $2m by the end.
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Diligence Jones
Diligence Jones • mastodon (AP)
@corbden

Amazing!!
@Mx. Luna Corbden
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NPR News (unofficial)
NPR News (unofficial) • diaspora

What do voters in suburban Pittsburgh make of the new presidential campaign?


We'll hear from some voters: the partisans still dug in through all the changes, and one undecided voter who will make you scratch your head.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
posted by pod_feeder_v2
#USA #News #NPR #publicradio
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Freya Holmér
Freya Holmér • mastodon (AP)
you've heard of sine and cosine

now get ready for uh squine and cosquare
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Mary Hilton
Mary Hilton • mastodon (AP)
Breaking Zoom is quite the feat, but 100k white women did it the other night to talk to Harris.
https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-harris-2668817109/
"Despite glitches, supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris broke the record for the largest Zoom meeting ever and raised more than $1 million for her presidential campaign in less than an hour Thursday night."

'Kamala just broke Zoom': 136K white women overcome glitchy call to raise over $1M

Leigh Tauss (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)
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The Turtle
The Turtle • mastodon (AP)
well, yeah, because the free calls can only last, what, 43 minutes or something now?
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Mary Hilton
Mary Hilton • mastodon (AP)
@the_turtle I don't know..I don't do Zoom. I just barely do cell phones..
@The Turtle
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Marie-Claude Saliceti
Marie-Claude Saliceti • diaspora
France24/AFP
La SNCF victime d’"une attaque massive pour paralyser le réseau" des TGV, entraînant des perturbations
https://mcinformactions.net/la-sncf-victime-d-une-attaque-massive-pour-paralyser-le-reseau-des-tgv
#JO2024 #SNCF #sabotages
#SNCF #jo2024 #sabotages
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jamais+37 phil
jamais+37 phil • diaspora

Marie-Claude Saliceti

2024-07-26 07:54:15


France24/AFP
La SNCF victime d’"une attaque massive pour paralyser le réseau" des TGV, entraînant des perturbations
https://mcinformactions.net/la-sncf-victime-d-une-attaque-massive-pour-paralyser-le-reseau-des-tgv
#JO2024 #SNCF #sabotages

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Maria Popova
Maria Popova • mastodon (AP)
In the bleak winter of 1933-1934, two anonymous correspondents wrote to Carl Jung (born on this day in 1875) in despair, asking his advice on how to live. He generously wrote back, originating the famous "do the next right thing" mantra: https://t.co/4DMIPnYhcM

Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing”

“There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.”
The Marginalian
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Russian Opposition
Russian Opposition • mastodon (AP)
Nastya Ivleeva (after the arrest of accounts) repaid the tax debt for 11 million rubles https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/nastya-ivleeva-posle-aresta-schetov-pogasila-dolg-po-nalogam-na-11-millionov-rubley
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Russian Opposition
Russian Opposition • mastodon (AP)
The EU has announced that it will allocate 1.5 billion euros to Ukraine from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets. The Kremlin threatened "thoughtful actions in response" https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/es-ob-yavil-o-vydelenii-ukraine-1-5-milliarda-evro-s-dohodov-ot-zamorozhennyh-rossiyskih-aktivov-v-kremle-prigrozili-produmannymi-deystviyami-v-otvet

ЕС объявил о выделении Украине 1,5 миллиарда евро с доходов от замороженных российских активов. В Кремле пригрозили «продуманными действиями в ответ» — Meduza

Глава Еврокомиссии Урсула фон дер Ляйен объявила о передаче Украине 1,5 миллиарда евро прибыли, полученной от замороженных российских активов. Это первый такой транш
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