[A story from the internet of yore.]
An American was visiting Australia around the time the Clinton/Lewinski matter was first in the news in the late 90s.
The Usian asked an Aussie what they thought of the whole thing. The Aussie replied:
"I'm glad we got the criminals & you got the puritans."
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Elon in America, England and Germany. This fucker, Sterin, in France.
All the billionaires need to go. Nationalize all wealth of 1 billion and more.
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Wow. Respect.
"65 years after the assassination of Congo's 1st PM, a Belgian diplomat will face trial"
"More than six decades after Congo's beloved first prime minister Patrice Lumumba was abducted and murdered by Belgium-backed secessionists, a former Belgian diplomat will stand trial for war crimes in connection to the assassination."
I hope the current US gov cosplayers are paying attention. Justice will be waiting.
This man is 93.
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There has never been a time when it wasn’t fully within the capacity of Congressional Republicans to join their Democratic counterparts to have Trump impeached and removed from office. Never.
#DonaldTrump is the rogue POTUS #WeThePeople STILL have because he’s the rogue POTUS racist, bigoted, corrupt Republicans STILL want.
#TrumpRepublicansAreNazis #DonaldTrump #AmericanHitler #fascism
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When a politician uses the 'household budget' analogy you know they're taking us for fools.
Polanski doesn't insult the Voter's intelligence.
#ZackPolanski #Polanski #Green #GreenParty #GPEW #UKPol #UKPolitics
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Ha. Ha. Certain jokes get you instantly blocked.
I don't care if you're a mutual. Fuck you.
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Il social network Bluesky si prepara a grandi cambiamenti con l'annuncio di oggi di aver raccolto 100 milioni di dollari in un round di finanziamento di Serie B. Il round, guidato da Bain Capital Crypto, si è concluso nell'aprile del 2025 ma non era stato reso pubblico fino ad ora. Tra gli altri partecipanti al round figurano gli investitori già presenti Alumni Ventures e True Ventures, oltre ad Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta e Knight Foundation. Questo round segue il round di Serie A da 15 milioni di dollari di Bluesky , guidato da Blockchain Capital e concluso nel 2024, e il round di seed da 8 milioni di dollari ricevuto da Neo e altri angel investor l'anno precedente. Bluesky non ha reso nota la sua valutazione aggiornata.
techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/blue…
Bluesky's Series B closed last April but is being shared now, the week after its CEO stepped down.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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@Katy B. 📚 🥛 ti dirò, a me non dispiace l'idea di base che c'è dietro Bluesky, l'interfaccia è molto buona e può insegnare molto al Fdiverso.
Malgrado questo però preferisco il Fediverso, sia per le possibilità che attualmente presenta (formattazione, messaggi lunghi, autodeterminazione totale) sia per il tipo di realtà sociale che c'è dietro e dentro al Fediverso
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ammetto che ho il sospetto che il poco appeal che bluesky ha e ha avuto verso di me sia per i profili che ho scelto di "seguire" e che mi fanno sentire come fossi su facebook. Ma è anche vero che anche la modalità discover, che mostra altri account, non è poi tanto diversa, quindi l'errore non può essere tutto mio.
Qui sul fediverso ritrovo le persone che su bluesky latitano.
Quindi le mie ragioni sono legate principalmente ai contenuti.
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Not one more dime for war until we have universal health care and high-speed rail from Boston to Miami, from Seattle to San Diego,from New York to Chicago
to Los Angeles, and everywhere in between.
Starve the military-industrial complex of
corporate welfare and build up American society instead.
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Dear computer companies,
This -> ✨
Is now the Mark Of Cain. I will never ever click any button that features it.
Regards,
Approximately everyone
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I wish people were required to use it on everything generated by, or invoking, AI™.
" Corbyn Submits Gaza Tribunal Findings of #UK ‘Complicity in Genocide’ to #ICC . "
#CommonDreams #Palestine #Gaza #StopGazaGenocide #SuspendIsrael #BreakTheSiege #news
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"The report recommends a full investigation by the International Criminal Court into Britain’s complicity and participation in genocide," said the leftist lawmaker.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Android: l'Europa punta al sistema proprietario di Google che controlla le app e desidera un'alternativa open source
UnifiedAttestation è il consorzio guidato da 4 aziende UE: Volla Systeme (DE), Murena (che sviluppa il sistema /e/OS), Iodé (FR), "l' azienda che ha eliminato Google ", e Apostrophy (CH). Il loro obiettivo: Play Integrity, il meccanismo con cui Google certifica che un dispositivo Android soddisfa determinati criteri di sicurezza.
clubic.com/actualite-603925-an…
Sur Android, c'est Google qui décide si votre appli bancaire a le droit de fonctionner. Un consortium européen compte bien mettre fin à ce monopole invisible avec un projet libre baptisé UnifiedAttestation.Naïm Bada (clubic.com)
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Human rights groups are increasingly struggling to verify tolls as Italy, Tunisia and Malta have quietly restricted information on migrant rescues and shipwrecks along the deadliest migration route in the world. The news barely makes headlines, in part because the lack of transparency prevents journalists from confirming reports.
“It’s a strategy of silence,” said Matteo Villa, a researcher focusing on migration and data at the Italian Institute....
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So Canada will not join in Captain Epstein and Netanyahu's war, but we stopped short of saying that Iran has the right to defend itself like Israel does because Iran is a destabilizing force in the region and the people who are ethnically cleansing Gaza are not.
Better than nothing.
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Piql is a Norwegian company that takes your data, pictures and other digital artefacts, encodes them in an open binary format and puts them on 35mm black and white film. To retrieve the data, you scan the film, use their open source software and there you go. Very long term storage as a combination of analog and digital. I like! Already used by museums and artists.
Technology that enables greater data security and longevity while reducing the risk of data loss and overall cost significantlyPiql
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What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?
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Okay, well, "Golden Voyage of Sinbad" has Tom Baker in it.
I also own this DVD. In fact, I have the whole "Sinbad" series, I think.
If this happens to you, insist on the return of the ‘broken’ RAM.
I've heard anecdotal reports of computer repair places "accidentally" breaking the ram and refunding the customer the catalogue price from six months ago, presumably to feed it into machines of more important corporate customers... so we're already at the scavenging-to-survive stage of AI economic collapse
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FFS.
I am old and tired I don't wanna do my own repairs anymore.
There is _so_ much to burn down. _So_ much.
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It is important to remember regarding States that one mass-murderoulsy oppressive aggressively imperialist reactionary, etc attacking the people living in another mass-murderoulsy oppressive aggressively imperialist reactionary State's claimed area does not change any of the other properties of either, they are both still institutionalized-violence based calamities.
Sometimes the magnitude of devastating outcome of one's acts can make it more immediately urgent than the other, but still can not negate the other's and usually is not for lack of desire to commit as horrendous or preferably worse acts – just difference in capacity at the time.
It's like with the expression "choosing between the plague and cholera" (in German, Scandinavian languages, French, Portuguese and probably more) where my answer is "no, thanks".
The plague does not negate cholera and vice versa.
It's a false choice.
Regarding States just as with the plague and cholera, you can oppose all States in a war, and generally should.
In fact, you can oppose all States, Statehood as a concept, and in many's opinion should.
Expressing opposition to one, does not automatically declare for the other. Only actually declaring for forcing the plague on everyone is being for doing so, while opposing everyone getting cholera doesn't.
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"America has been pushed into fighting Israel’s war"
Oh, that's funny. I thought the united states was pushed into bombing Iran because the u.s. regime is headed by a malignant piece of shit who enjoys power games and who has a staff full of people who mirror that thinking AND a portion of the u.s. polity has been looking for an excuse to destroy Iran for nearly a half century.
Israel is just the excuse that they stopped on after the first few excuses sounded too incoherent to stick.
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Additional note: when foodprices rocket, that is ALMOST ALWAYS the trigger for civil unrest and revolutions. (The other is a fiscal/tax/revenue crisis, caused by government turning into rent-seeking by the rich *and* trying to fund a war simultaneously, as with the French Revolution.)
Does this look familiar to you, too?
…For the northern hemisphere, fertiliser for next year’s growing season will be needed towards the end of this year.We can expect food prices to rocket.
And in the UK, we have only a single fertiliser manufacturing plant left
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Manjaro 2.0 Synopsis This document covers the organizational, technical, management, and other changes we (the Manjaro Team, et al) like to see applied to the Manjaro Project.Manjaro Linux Forum
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“When Target said they were supporting us, it felt real.
It felt like they saw us. Target, especially in 2020, but for me even before, it kind of felt like Target was like for us.
Now people will often ask me, well, where's the smoke for Walmart?”
“No one forced them to handle business in such a disrespectful, sleazy, dirty way. That was a choice, and I think that communicates a lot about, like that tells me a lot about the people who are leadership at Target.”
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From There Are No Girls on the Internet: Why aren’t people boycotting Amazon like they’re boycotting Target?, Nov 28, 2025
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#target #boycott #indivisible
Podcast Episode · There Are No Girls on the Internet · November 28, 2025 · 58miHeartPodcasts (Apple Podcasts)
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"Last week, actor and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers won the Toronto Film Critics Association award for outstanding supporting performance in a Canadian film, for her role in the drama Sweet Angel Baby.
But, she returned the award shortly after her win once she learned that the acceptance speech she had recorded for the award ceremony had been edited, so that the section where she expressed support for Palestine was removed."
Good for her.
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Stop calling it “moving to the center” when Democrats capitulate to the far right.
If Democrats wanted to “move to the center” they would go left
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The Political Compass: a 2-dimensional typology of political opinionswww.politicalcompass.org
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Does anyone have a screepcap or link saved of the interaction about a decade ago when a trans girl on reddit asked an adult cis man how often he thought about being a girl and his answer was something like "I dont think ive ever thought about that".
That interaction broke so many people and i wish i had properly secured it for posterity. My brain remembers the guys handle had Panda in it iirc.
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@jens @JoscelynTransient Dissociation, depression, depersonalisation, hypervigilance, growing self harm and/or self destructive behaviour, loss of emotional depth, addiction, chronic illnesses, autoimmune conditions, and the big bopper: cPTSD.
The above are issues that arise and grow stronger from the human body not being able to have its core needs met. Ultimately ruining the persons ability to live happily and affects those around them as they collapse inward.
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"FBI counterterrorism teams on elevated alert
As part of the elevated alert, the FBI will likely increase surveillance on the ground and online"
Excellent, so now the US police state will have even more opportunity and justification to crack down on political opponents and flex their power even more
There really is no joke to make with Patel in charge, the joke is on Americans
Not to say the FBI were not completely corrupt before, bc they absolutely were
But its all so out in the open now
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RustyRing
in reply to Carolyn • • •It's worth discussing whether letting a capital criminal live out his life in complete freedom to 93 before anybody moves on the case is justice. And if not, who else needs to be in prison for the associated crimes.
Conversations we have to have, if we ever want this crap to stop.
Carolyn
in reply to RustyRing • • •@RustyRing He was a junior diplomat and the only person left to try. So he will be facing the burden of everything his superiors did.
It would be cool to see more government officials responsible for overthrowing other governments being held responsible. A lot of Americans would be looking at answering for Chile, Nicaragua, and so on.
Gotta start somewhere.
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RustyRing
in reply to Carolyn • • •Carolyn
in reply to RustyRing • • •Francis Mangion (M)
in reply to Carolyn • • •jackcole
in reply to Carolyn • • •Gottes Mühlen mahlen langsam, mahlen aber trefflich klein,
ob aus Langmut er sich säumet, bringt mit Schärf 'er alles ein.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind admirably small.
Though he delays through patience, he brings everything to pass with sharpness.
#German #Proverb #Law
James Endres Howell
in reply to Carolyn • • •Context: a photograph of the President of the United States learning of Lumumba's assassination
Carolyn
in reply to James Endres Howell • • •katch wreck
in reply to Carolyn • • •youtube.com/watch?v=tbmIFedIGa…
with Count Ossie's "Nyabinghi" reggae backing band (Jamaica) #Africa #Jamaica #OneBlood #CountOssie #Reggae #Nyabinghi #Rastafari
Bunny & Skitter - Lumumbo
Jorge M (YouTube)DonCC
in reply to Carolyn • • •Carolyn
in reply to DonCC • • •DonCC
in reply to Carolyn • • •i'm not alone.