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Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1365235/ I’m working at the Olympics. Here’s some pictures from behind the barricades, as well as of the Opening Ceremony itself. #Altius #Citius #CitiusAltiusFortius #Fortius #Olympiad #Olympics #Olympics2024 #Paris2024
I’m working at the Olympics. Here’s some pictures from behind the barricades, as well as of the Opening Ceremony itself.

clar fon mastodon (AP)

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Infinite Pooh mastodon (AP)
Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders.

Miro Collas mastodon (AP)
Chaotic scenes as casualties rushed to Deir el-Balah hospital - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrWSql_Xyg

"The fact that we’re seeing many civilians arriving in the ambulance, either fully soaked with blood or in pieces, killed, is just an indication that the Israeli military is not showing any slowdown or any let up in the attacks across the Gaza Strip."

What Israel is doing is beyond barbaric, as is Western support.

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#HaniMahmoud
@palestine

StillIRise1963 mastodon (AP)
Are there musical groups anymore or is everyone a solo act in the U.S.?
my favorite stat is that if you count up the artists who made the billboard top 40 from 2000 to 2010, there were something like 60 or 70 bands. If you do the same for 2010 to 2020, you find 3 acts who were bands. Two of whom were LiveAid style supergroups, and one was the Beatles.

We don't listen to bands anymore.
StillIRise1963 mastodon (AP)
@Lana I just realized it. Wonder what that’s all about.
Woozle Hypertwin mastodon (AP)
@Lana By sheer coincidence (</unironic>), this post by fellow Durhamite @rossgrady just came up in my feed.

My (hasty) conclusion: yes, they do exist; it's just bloomin' difficult to find out about them if you don't get out much.
@Lana I wonder if the industry has made it harder for bands to even get a start.
StillIRise1963 mastodon (AP)
@SailorDisco They must have, I guess. Everyone is a solo artist these days.
@Lana

kim_harding ✅ mastodon (AP)
King Charles’ property empire earns £334,000 from housing benefit
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/king-charles-crown-estate-housing-benefit-royal-tenants-evictions/
Crown Estate makes record profits after issuing evictions, selling houses and cashing in on benefits

pbrower hometown (AP)
Lazy Caturday.

#catsofmastodon #caturday
A photo of a cat (mid yawn) laying stretched out on a windowsill.

The sun is coming in through the window and the cat is basking in the sun light with some plants growing in the planter box on the other side of the window.

The cat is a ‘snowshoe’ with a white belly and tan coat.

Shitlibs accidentally made a funny meme

Jared Parkinson mastodon (AP)
According to my cameras, Penguin cat butt is people
A black cat sitting on a table by a window with teal curtains. There are cardboard boxes stacked on the table.

Vee mastodon (AP)
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Aram Sinnreich mastodon (AP)
We haven't even dealt with Octavia Butler being a prophet and now we've gotta deal with Kurt Vonnegut's predictions coming true too? https://scitechdaily.com/ice-0-scientists-discover-unusual-new-form-of-ice/

Radkolumne mastodon (AP)
Realistische, einfach zu habende #Unfallverhütung diskreditieren.
So geht's:
Geländer am Balkon verhindern nicht 100 % der Stürze, können also weg.


Some will question my choice of driving a TDI: in the 10 years I owned my Passat, I travelled 250 thousand km, at 5 lts/100 kms, that's about 1,25 million liters, and it spewed out roughly 3,38 metric tons of CO2. If I had driven the same amount in a regular gaz fuelled little shitbox (I haven't seen any that does better than 6 lts/100 kms) that would have been at least 3,45 metric tons of CO2. I doubt any Hybrid can beat that. /1
Michael T Babcock mastodon (AP)
as with appliances, from a green perspective, you're almost always best staying with what you have until it starts failing because replacing your vehicle is a lot worse than the efficiency of a new one.
That said, I've gone 205,000 km so far on my Volt and it is even more efficient than that mostly because of that first ~80km on electricity. See attached.
PS it was purchased used so the total fill ups don't match the total mileage.
#cars #ev #efficiency #driving #statistics
Fuel up statistics.
3.492 L/100km average.
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@mikebabcock That's why I want to drive my 2012 model to the ground. Besides it's cheaper to maintain it than refinance a new one, even though VW are not cheap to keep running, but it is quality.
That car-makers caught on the Google-Micro$oft, and others, business model of selling your data, among other schemes, doesn't help either.
@mikebabcock Note also that choices for Hybrids and EVs were rather limited 10 years ago. I'm never buying a Tesla. 🤭
Michael T Babcock mastodon (AP)
oh granted. Phev are the best buy still IMHO like my volt.
@mikebabcock I should also mention that I mostly do long hauls, I sat in my car 5 and a half hours non-stop yesterday to get back home from Gatineau. An Hybrid or EV makes no sense for me.
Michael T Babcock mastodon (AP)
not to argue, but as the owner of one, I do a LOT of long hauls. That first free 80km and the regen braking make a big difference even to longer drives. When I originally did the math for myself before the purchase, I didn't think it would make the difference it does.
Ignoring overall fuel economy differences of the hybrid components (which you shouldn't), taking 80km of gas off a 500km trip makes a bigger difference than you'd think.

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
I haven't had anyone make any complaints about me to hugz.online admin ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx
delProfundo mastodon (AP)
I could lodge a fake one for you. Dear hugs.online.admin…
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Heidi Li Feldman mastodon (AP)
Justice. Justice. Justice. Justice. Justice. Justice.
#sixwordstories


Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
I like provoking

I do it so well ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Today I learned mastodon (AP)
TIL in 1912 Republican presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette gave a speech to a group of 500 journalists in which he berated the group as being corrupt and working with the trusts. The group was shocked and thought he had a mental breakdown; a friend quipped he’d “killed himself politically.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette#Battling_the_Taft_admi…
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edu9mz/til_in_1912_republican_presidential_candidate/

fanf42 mastodon (AP)
Yesterday I watched the opening ceremony of #paris2024 Olympic Games.
And I loathe what the parasitic capitalistic, corrupted, unsustainable, resource-nightmarish IOC is.

But yesterday, Paris under heavy rain and the show going on, the poetry, the potent messages, the performances were amazing, a mix of anything and everything and a joyeux bordel that yes, celebrated diversity and getting together and fighting back even with

#openingceremony #diversity
fanf42 mastodon (AP)
Just to give an idea of the range of things, we had the Minion sinking Nemo submarine ; Assassin's creed hero carrying the Flame on Paris roofs ; a blue, naked Dionysius Philippe Katerine in the middle of queer and young and old and colored and disabled people in a haute couture défilé sometimes mimicking "La Cène" (yes, you read that correctly) ; Sequena goodness of la Seine incarnated into a mechanical horse riding on herself (absolutely amazing : https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x92zjtc); a love trio flirting in the Bibliothèque National using French love romans for hints ; "fraternité" from French motto followed by "sororité" while 10 huge statues of important women reached out of la Seine...

The extrem right and catholique are displeased, to say the least.

Song were good and went from a very solemn Celine Dion in white singing Hymne à l'amour ; to hard rock group Gojira in the middle of beheaded queen and fire ;
With Paris techno seine ; Aya Nakamura with the Garde Republicaine ; Imagine sang in front of burning piano in a boat, a fabulous Marseillaise by the young black lyric singer Axelle Saint-Cirel, qnd Lady Gaga in a superb hommage to French cabaret...

The show want on and was great.

#paris2024 #openingceremony #diversity
Sequena goddess incarnated into a mechanical horse, riding La Seine, with a horsewoman in armor Sequena goddess incarnated into a mechanical horse, riding La Seine, with a horsewoman in armor
Phillipe Katerine as a blue, naked dionysius
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Nazani mastodon (AP)
I was worried about the Assassin's Creed guy on those wet roofs.

Anybody else notice how many Dems are slipping up and saying that anyone not chosen for VP can take their turn in 2028?

Fearing a Trump takeover, Justice Department alumni endorse Kamala Harris


Former and current Justice Department employees believe that a future president Harris, a former prosecutor, unlike Trump, would respect the norms that have been in place to ensure DOJ independence in the half-century since Watergate.

Those fears of another Trump term are central to a new letter endorsing Harris, signed by more than 40 former Justice Department officials who served under presidents of both parties. They include former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former deputy attorneys general Sally Yates, David Ogden and Jamie Gorelick, and John McKay, who was appointed as a top federal prosecutor in Washington state during the George W. Bush administration, among others.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fearing-trump-takeover-justice-department-223407157.html

Yep. Tik-Tok is a Chinese spy tool - and they will use the information they get against us
TikTok has been secretly collecting American users’ views on abortion, gun control and religion, the Department of Justice has alleged.

The DOJ accused the Chinese-owned social media giant of systematically passing information about its users to Chinese servers “in bulk.”

It leveled the charge in its first response to TikTok taking the government to court in a bid to overturn bipartisan legislation which would force its parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The law forces ByteDance to sell TikTok’s American operations due to national security concerns over how the app’s content can be manipulated.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tiktok-harvested-users-views-on-abortion-guns-and-god-says-justice-department

unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
JUST IN: Apple, $AAPL, storefront employees in Maryland have secured the first-ever tentative union contract at $AAPL, per ACoreUnion

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options
unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
An Apple spokesperson declined to comment on the deal. The company has said it was committed to engaging with the union “respectfully and in good faith.”

Read more: https://t.co/AGyXId7K2Y

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Everything we know about France’s Olympic rail chaos as Kremlin responds to arrest of Russian citizen


A Russian national was arrested on Wednesday on suspiction of planning to sabotage the Olympic Games.

French police arrested a 40-year-old Russian man who it said was involved in plots to destabilise the Olympics.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Moscow had read “curious information” about the arrest, but needed more information from authorities in Paris.

It is currently unclear whether the two incidents are related.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/everything-know-france-olympic-rail-114143604.html



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Mock Paper Scissors wordpress (AP)

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The hits keep coming for President Handsome Joe Biden!
resident Joe Biden nominated former U.S. Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., to the United States Postal Service Board of Governors on Thursday.

The nomination has been sent to the U.S. Senate for consideration.

[…] According to the White House, Demings’ term on the postal service board would expire in December 2030.

Now, as we all know, the USPS is a quasi-public/private service. As such it has a board of 9 governors. By law, no more than 5 governors can be from the same party. The Board of Governors hires the Postmaster General and the Assistant Postmaster General.

Somehow or another, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has managed to hold onto his job since the 4th Reich appointed him, but I think that with the appointment (and confirmation) of Val Deming, there might be a chance that there are now 5 Democrats on the board who can kick DeJoy out of the joint.

DeJoy has been dismantling the USPS since he was appointed, and it is not entirely clear whether or not he has been awarding contracts to his former company. It is also not entirely clear, but certainly seems likely that DeJoy is a true believer and has been trying to make the USPS profitable by scaling back service and by cutting overhead and trying to consolidate expensive operations. All business school approaches, but all with catastrophic effects, and all achieve Republican political goals

Every election there is wariness about his leadership putting the breaks on delivering ballots both to voters and then later to the counties to be tabulated; it’s not an exaggeration to say that this man has been an outsized threat to our democracy for years, so hopefully the news that Biden is putting another governor in the USPS means DeJoy’s reign-o- terror is finally coming to an end.

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/27/news-that-will-drive-you-to-drink-2138/

Office of Public Affairs | Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on Arrests of Alleged Leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel Ismael Zambada Garcia (El Mayo) and Joaquin Guzman Lopez | United States Department of Justice

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-statement-arrests-alleged-leaders-sinaloa-cartel-ismael

HB9ERY diaspora
Excellent 😀 here is a hacker kid with real questions. Go for it! Attack models, hack them, change them!
as part of a defendable space against bushfire, to re-establish native grasses, to provide food for wildlife (Australia) ;)

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada: US operation to capture Sinaloa cartel leaders had the help of one of the captured men: a son of ‘El Chapo,’ official says | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25/us/sinaloa-cartel-ismael-zambada-custody-report/index.html

on Fox... those masochists keep having him and Pete back for some reason

Bernie Sanders says Trump's 'lying' when he claims Kamala Harris is more liberal than the Vermont senator


"It'’s not true. Once again, Trump is lying," Sanders emphasized. "Let me just simply say that for better or for worse, Kamala Harris is not more progressive than I am."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-says-trumps-lying-213504581.html


Mexico surpasses China as the biggest U.S. trade partner | Texas Standard

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/mexico-surpasses-china-us-biggest-trading-partner-exports/

#RemoveThomasBach #InvestigateThomasBach #BoycottTheParaOlympics
#InvestigateTheIOC #BoycottTheOlympics #BoycottTheParisGames
#487DeadUkrainianathletes
#TerroristsDontGetToPlay
⛔️🇫🇷Nope, Not Political At All: Azerbaijani Media Say Baku Miffed At French Over Olympic Broadcast (more) http://www.rferl.org/a/33053249.html #Ukraine #France #Olympics #Paris #Azerbaijan #Aremnia #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

GOP embraces a new foreign policy: Bomb Mexico to stop fentanyl - POLITICO

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/10/gop-bomb-mexico-fentanyl-00091132

Sintra the Cat mastodon (AP)
When you live rent free. Happy #caturday, my lovely furriends 😻😽😻

#cat #cats #catlife #sunbathingcat #gingercat #orangecat #rodekater #tilburg #🐱 #🐾 #🐈 #paws #feline #meow #sintrathecat #catoftheday #CatsOfMastodon
Sintra the Cat is sunbathing 😻

"America First" foreign policy: JD Vance wants to abandon Ukraine but bomb Mexico and Iran | Salon.com

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/18/america-first-foreign-policy-jd-vance-wants-to-abandon-ukraine-but-bomb-mexico-and-iran/

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