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'Fortunately, I’ve been intimately engaged for six years in the Catholic Worker Movement, which has a rich history and tradition of property destruction via a Biblical narrative. I’ve embraced this tradition and found my little niche.' <Robert De Niro nod> stopfossilfuels.org/ecosabotage/...

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I wonder why they are so bothered about suppressing evidence of climate change when they just ignore it anyway

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<stares in Marxist-Leninist political management>

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More [weak] tea, vicar?

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I think we can all agree that we need communism

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Machine translated a text from English to Catalan, and made my partner read it. There were parts of it that were incomprehensible to her, and without my knowledge of English she would not have had access to the intended meaning. Of course she could have simply extemporized the gaps.

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Surely a recognizable sentiment to anyone fluent in more than one language: 'They switched happily between English and French within the same document – sometimes even within the same sentence – in a way that suggests a lack of interest in where one language ended and the other began.'

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gallimaufry (n.)

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It's a running joke in my multilingual family that our languages are the same but 'mispronounced'.

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I have understood nothing; what could have I understood without the understanding of others?

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Have people checked that these websites are down themselves before reposting these claims?

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'Warfare defined Louis's foreign policy, impelled by his personal ambition for glory and power: "a mix of commerce, revenge, and pique".[4] His wars strained France's resources to the utmost, while in peacetime he concentrated on preparing for the next war.'

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'Now the likelihood of the ruling classes implementing compulsory restrictions on the consumption of the rich--on themselves--is about the same as them donning leather jackets and proclaiming war communism.' #Malm

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I only learnt about Taiwan's 'white terror' period a few days ago.

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To anybody considering the orange oaf as harbinger of a new Pax Americana, may I remind them of Project 2025's policy considerations with respect to the war in Ukraine.

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I love these genAI jockeys who speak of democratising art. 'Art' isn't this cabal with hidden techniques. Everything you need to know is in the open. Heck, composition alone is quite the multiplier for even modest talent, and you can learn it. No, what needs democratisation is basic income.

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PROPERTY WILL COST US THE EARTH.

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ambition (n.)

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As everyone is rightfully in shock about this despicable treatment... Please also remember that the US has been helping to break down intl law for a year and a half. This is not new. And will continue to destabilize everything.

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Have been sitting here for the last half hour trying to identify US-produced commodities I've bought this year. I believe the total count is zero. I did buy some Grado headphones a couple of years ago though.

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Are ya winning, son?

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Aviation: cristofol.org/en/posts/avi...

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Mind you, any alternative to my present setup would have to be truly excellent. I've been very happy with Alacritty (terminal emulator) with Zellij (terminal multiplexer) for some years now. As the sticker says, 'the future is terminal'.

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I like terminals, I spend a lot of my time in terminals, so I was naturally curious to try Warp. I installed it, tried to get my head around its AI integration, then immediately uninstalled it having read this:

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I don't think 'don't feed the trolls' was ever about ignoring fascists—it is the recognition that fascism is not a good faith position, so our time is better spent fighting them on our streets and in our institutions rather than debating them on the internet.

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Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men

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'Strategic pacifism is sanitised history, bereft of realistic appraisals of what has happened and what hasn't, what has worked and what has gone wrong: it is a guide of scant use for a movement with mighty obstacles.' #Malm

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Extremely upset that these guys--whom I've been following for many years--are engaging in Nazi appeasement (Chamberlain's 'peace for our time'), but then maybe that goes to show just how far pacifism can derange people.

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A stone that caught my fancy on this morning's walk.

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Flooding the zone with shit: the physical edition.

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The year is 2157, and humanity has abolished wage labor. Unfortunately, it did so in favor of slavery.

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Seventeen months into my new job and it's already old, far older than I ever thought it would be at its age.

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'...and social intervention of human beings into these processes so that they become fully realized as human powers rather than powers over human beings.' #Wills

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The extent of sea ice globally is now at an absolute record low level for the entire satellite-era. [Graphics: zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Note: the poles are affected by very different Earth system processes/seasonality. I am using 5-day running mean data.]

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Do forests grow where it rains, or does it rain where forests grow? www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...

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