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The complete eradication of Rafah - a city with a quarter of a million residents - should and will be remembered as a crime against humanity, amongst the worst modern urbicides

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

"Six Gaza aid boat activists kidnapped from international waters then transported against their will into Israel"

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Is Iran still under obligations after the USA reneged on the agreement and applied further sanctions against Iran? www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

submitted 2 days ago • 1187 comments

The greatest lie youtube ever told

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Wow I didn't realise that Trump has forced Microsoft to shut down a UK citizen's access to his email account, as part of his pro-Israel sanctions. skwawkbox.org/2025/05/19/c...

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Political volatility has been taking us by surprise for a while now. Here’s little exercise to illustrate. Rewind two years and take a look at where the polls were, what people expected, and what they failed to anticipate. You have to go back a while before politics is predictable even 2 yrs out 1/

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I highly recommend this talk which connects misinformation, attacks on science, and corrupt politicians in South Africa and the USA. And argues that trust in science is even more important under present conditions that it was in the past. royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...

submitted 2 days ago • 184 comments

To these who need to be told: Stop driving into people, and stop shooting people. Thanks very much.

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Latinas For Trump co-founder rips Trump’s immigration policies as “unacceptable and “inhumane” “This is not what we voted for”

submitted 3 days ago • 497 comments

Is Trump sending the National Guard and Marines into LA because it voted Democrat?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

the xbox portable looks not far off a steamdeck. Maybe choose a different colour lads.

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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

What the fuck is going on in the USA?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

EU foreign policy sanctions - Advocate-General's opinion says it's sufficient to show that Russian businesspeople are big cheeses in their field of the economy; not necessary to show close links with Putin etc

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Is llm next token prediction, in a loop, a kind of brute forcing? The fact it's so slow is a symptom of how much compute it takes to generate each word. Will we eventually find a much quicker to generate the desired output directly without having to loop over an expensive function?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It looks like Trump is now working as Putin's spokesman www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage labelled racist after falsely accusing Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar of saying the south Asian community “is going to take over the world”. Sarwar said no such thing. Farage was confusing Sarwar with former first minister Humza Yousaf—who never said this either.

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

🚨🚨For #brexit nerds, quite important statement by Pedro Serrano, the EU's ambassador in London, suggesting to retire the EU's official ‘no #cherry-picking’ Brexit line advanced by Michel #Barnier. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

lol someone's trying to impeach Trump again. Praying that it works as I'm sick of him being constantly front page news in the UK. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Interesting that they didn't charge the Liverpool driver with drug driving. So that suggets that he was compos mentis when deciding to drive into a crowd. I'm not sure if it's better that he was sober, than on drugs tbh!

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Anyone who disagrees with settler expansion (i.e. theft of territory) in the West Bank is a supporter of Hamas. Just the same as anyone who disagrees with the destruction, invasion and population displacement of Gaza is a supporter of Hamas. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The #LibreOffice project is active on many social media platforms – and we have blogs in various languages too. Learn what we did in 2024: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments