🇺🇦 🇨🇳 We received a clear signal that China is working to end Russia's war against Ukraine, - Kuleba.

After a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Guangzhou, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said: he received clear signals that China is not looking for "temporary solutions" but is working on a sustainable and strategic end to Russia's war against Ukraine.

In particular, the head of the Foreign Ministry noted that China's support for Ukraine's territorial integrity was the first and most important point in the negotiations. According to him, Wang Yi "very clearly and repeatedly" stated that China's position in support of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine is unshakable.

In addition to telling his Christian followers that they won’t have to vote any more, he also told them he is not himself a Christian. https://c.im/@cdarwin/112861726038493446

It’s me. Hi. I’m the childless crazy cat lady. You merely adopted it, but I was born into it. Molded by it. 😽 #CatsOfMastodon #darkknight #childfree #caturday

70% of people in the US supported being required to wear masks but a poll told Democrats in 2021 to claim a win so President Ice Cream told people in the US they weren't required to wear masks anymore

Is there a video game where you just climb a tree

that goes on infinitely

no goals

no powerups

it's not trivially *easy* to climb; you have to think a bit about each move, but it's also not a twitch game, it's chill

the tree gets subtly weirder the higher you go

like just

weirder

Vance has a new nickname: Vladimir Futon.

Tell your friends.

Engineers develop technique that enhances #thermal imaging and infrared thermography for police, medical and military use 👇 🧐

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-technique-thermal-imaging-infrared-thermography.html

During an interview with Sirius host Megyn Kelly, JD Vance discussed his wife, Usha Vance:

“Obviously, she’s not a white person… but I love Usha, she’s such a good mom.”

#Usha Vance
#JDvance

Aha, they put up a sign. #BakerIncident #Mojave #I40 #I14

4 hour delay on 40, "NOT FUEL IN LUDLOW" per CHP at 7/27/24 1755 PT #BakerIncident #I40

Oh wow, look, hit the feds. #BakerIncident #I40 #LasVegas

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Aaron returned to #Duolingo to learn Japanese, Flip took after him and added it to his roster of French and Intermediate English, and not wanting to be left out, I added Japanese to my courses, which already had

French (to keep up with Flip), as well as
Spanish (for high school nostalgia),
Arabic (for the challenge of a new reading/writing system)
Finnish and German (for my #whakapapa)

And now I have choice paralysis every time I open it, well done me, lol. #ADHD

Borel Fire: Air Attack reports "fire is really going good.." and comment by one of the air units is it has a "very good chance of outflanking the line" #BorelFire

Shapiro loses #metoo and young people #uspol #tiktok #Gaza #Palestine #KamalaHarris

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/10/pennsylvania-josh-shapiro-mike-vereb-sexual-harassment-settlement/

Harris camp responds to Trump telling Christians they 'don't have to vote again' if he gets elected (ABC News)

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-camp-responds-trump-telling-christians-dont-vote/story?id=112338473
http://www.memeorandum.com/240727/p40#a240727p40

My wife sent me this and, until spring of next year, I can only attest to the veracity of the first two stages

watching the beginning of BTTF1, you can kinda sorta tell that Doc is wearing the kevlar already from the get go (which makes sense, cause that's how time travel would work, he already never dies)

I am remembering to boost the sourdough starter tonight! Woooo! Sourdough hotcakes in the morning!

Just spent an hour in the garden weeding. Looks nicer at least, though my back is sore.

Question: anyone else in the NYC area notice the type of weeds not being quite the same as previous years? Or rather some weeds which weren't as common before are really thriving now.

#gardening #weeds #NYC

Everything announced at Marvel’s SDCC 2024 panel https://www.polygon.com/sdcc/24205190/marvel-mcu-announcements-updates-news-comic-con

I have never seen anyone this coked up in my whole entire life.

This is Trump Junior, interviewing JD Vance last Thursday night. The video was posted on the bad site by Ron Filipkowski, who swears that he did not speed it up.

#USPol

You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite
* Krita is your new design/painting app
* Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
* glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
* digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:
* Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
* Scribus - layout like a pro
* GIMP - need we say more
* Blender - ditto

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Just got out the shower, dried off, dressed, came down and sat on the couch. Cat comes over and sneezes all over me.

I need a mastodon terminal in my shower so I can upgrade to “Terminally Online+”.

Popping in to say hello. I'm working my way through what I think are the last set of corrections for my next book. When I'm finished I'll have more time for voter protection work.

I do have a new friend named Lizzie. I see her all over our yard. My family believes we have more than one lizard, but I've never seen two at the same time. I think there is only one, and she follows me everywhere. She keeps her distance and watches me.

Has Vance made any slurs about lizard ladies?

Someone should create one of those documentaries that span decades, and check in on a group of people now, in 5 years and then again in 10 years and see how rawdogging covid has affected their lives.

As if society wasn’t fractured enough, what a bloody stupid new reason this decade: the FUCKING AIR

COVID aware: knows COVID is still around and what symptoms to look for. Will tell you what variant is doing the rounds at any given time. Takes zero precautions preferring to just catch it and then tell you about what it was like.

Covid cautious: Same as “aware” plus will sometimes mask around others during a surge. Catching it is a bummer but “shit happens lmao”.

Novid: 100% masking around other people, year round. Getting infected is not an option. Period. Keep your gaslighting to yourself.

Never forget 🩸

Reading about memory management on 16-bit #Windows makes me very grateful for Windows NT and its per-process virtual memory, where allocating memory just results in a plain old memory address, and there are none of Win16's weird shenanigans with handles and locking.

Although it is kind of neat that Win16 would defragment memory, not unlike a garbage collector.

#programming #retrocomputing

The difference in this election is pretty straightforward: Kamala Harris wants to give fourth graders free lunches, while Donald Trump wants to force them to give birth.

So impressed with Harris team's rapid response. Perfect 'truth sandwich' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_sandwich) This is how you do it folks!

1. Start with the truth.
2. Indicate the lie. Avoid amplifying. Don't use specific language.
3. Return to the truth. Always repeat truths more than lies.

Note the final paragraph first details Trump's history of attention seeking anti-democratic statements. Only briefly mentions yesterday, but returns hard to the threat and how Harris will preserve democracy.

Never too old to learn something new.

Over 50, didn't know how to ride a bike.

I won't be winning the Tour De France any time soon, but after a few hours, got some actual pedal powered balance riding for some tens of seconds.

It's a start.

Lots of fun. Not the only adult there.

My daughter taught me something today

Mastodon for Harris #NoHashtagEdition - Late afternoon update - on the cusp of $380,000 and 4500 contributions

Funds raised as of this post: $379,581.02
# of contributions: 449i
# of recurring contributions:239

Let’s goooooooooo! https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/112861124106817691

Does anyone know what this is?

* found in a lake
* feels like glass and metal
* looks both organic and man made
* semi translucent
* looks like something might be in it.

#mystery