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Just noting here that I found it much easier to write satirical political fantasy about the UK electing an ancient Lovecraftian horror from beyond spacetime as Prime Minister with a mandate to eat everyone's brain before the real-world USA basically said "hold my beer ..."

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Demonstration against Hamas in Jabaliya, Gaza today #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas #BreakingNews #Breaking

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Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

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I've finished: When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory There is something very compelling about: When We Were Real. Despite the almost contemporary world, the speculative nature of the setting permeates every aspect of the novel. It is not just a veneer. Daryl Gregory also made me care about every […]

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שתי שחקניות זרות מרמת השרון, ליגת העל בכדורגל נשים, נעצרו ע"י משטרת ההגירה. אחת הייתה במעצר 48 שעות והשנייה נשארת במעצר עד לגירוש. הסיבה? המועדון לא הסדיר את הויזות שלהן https://www.haaretz.co.il/sport/israel-soccer/2025-04-06/ty-article/00000196-0ba0-d819-a5b6-4fa9bf3e0000

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Can we disappear trump and netanyahu off to some south American prison?

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Well done USA Fencing ❤️🏳️‍⚧️ USA Fencing disqualifies fencer for refusing to fight trans opponent https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/557132/usa-fencing-disqualifies-fencer-for-refusing-to-fight-trans-opponent

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Audible is having a 2 for 1 sale. Great books that are included in the sale include: The Space Between worlds by Micaiah Johnson […]

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In 1984 one of the main artists in my Kibbutz built a replica of a Pershing nuclear missile out of olive branches with the help of the community. https://maarav.org.il/english/2018/04/17/dov-ner-pershing-missile-1984/ Today we marked one year since his […] [Original post on tweesecake.social]

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America just did a Brexit, didn't it.

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[Trump shit] Everyone out here trying to figure out how the #Trump administration derived its insane methodology for calculating tariff rates and the likely answer is much simpler and much stupider than anyone imagined. #tariffs #ai #llm #ChatGPT #USPolitics #USPol

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I've finished: The Simoqin Prophecies by Samit Basu Self-aware and breaking the fourth wall, The Simoqin Prophecies makes fun of classic tropes from myth, fairy tale and fantasy. But it is not trying to be funny, it is deadly serious about its own high fantasy world. While it is not perfect in […]

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just read Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation... i have thoughts it was a less a serious analysis of youth mental health and more a boomer panic attack dressed up in footnotes. his big idea? that smartphones and social media broke childhood around 2010, and absolutely nothing else […]

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אנחנו קרובים כפסע מהסיטואציה המצחיקה בה עמית חדד ייצג את כל הצדדים בתיק מסוים ופשוט יתחיל לדבר עם עצמו. ונכון, נכון, הכל נורא ומזעזע, אבל איזה מצחיק זה יהיה???

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Just read about the "Orphan Crushing Machine" theory and it perfectly describes everything wrong with society. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphan-...

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Dnipro. A Russian drone hit right in front of a car. #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

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[Netanyahu, QatarGate] From Watergate to Qatargate: Following the money to Benjamin 'not a crook' Netanyahu Did you hear the one about the prime minister whose criminal corruption trial was interrupted so he could be summoned for questioning by police in an even more serious criminal case? […]

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Shortwave listeners noting China already taking over some frequencies used by VOA and RFA as USAGM has silenced its own transmitters. Especially critical with thousands of casualties in the Myanmar M7.7 quake where survivors would normally be receiving vital info from our Burmese language services.

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"But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity and fall with the declension of the society. On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin." Wealth of Nations […]

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I've finished: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi This novel is a writing exercise. How would people in the US react if the moon suddenly turned into cheese? This setup works very well with Scalzi's, What the Fuck and Fuck you style of humor. Things start to get more dramatic towards […]

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I've finished: Carmila by J. Sheridan Le Fanu I listened to the Audible dramatization, featuring some impressive actors. Carmila was surprisingly sexy-lesbian for a late 19th century work. It was interesting to read a pre-Dracula vampire story. The christian elements are more muted and the […]

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Topics in my latest "Cornerstone of democracy" include: -- What "Signalgate" means -- Wikipedia for context -- Ask yourself this question -- Awakening, and action -- All corruption, all the time in Trump world I curate to save you time. Please subscribe (free), and share […]

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לא הבנתי למה כולם משוכנעים שלא עברתי אזעקות וטילים (כולל טרום כיפת ברזל) עם תינוק, ואח"כ פעוט, ואח"כ תינוקת ופעוט, ואח"כ שני פעוטות, כשבכל אחת מהפעמים, בלי יוצא מהכלל, הבנזוג היה במילואים. כאילו שלפני אוקטובר 23 חיינו באושר ובשלווה ואף אחד לא ירה עלינו אף פעם.

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I just found my favourite word in Japanese: "Tsundoku". #book #books #bookstodon #Word #japanese

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A just-resigned #CDC official writes, "Kennedy is listening to fringe voices who reinforce his personal beliefs. Kennedy has promoted unproven treatments for measles, such as the antibiotic clarithromycin — a drug that has no effect on viral infections.... in my final weeks at the CDC, I watched […]

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Funny how informational security is so much less important to the NYTimes now than it was in late 2016.

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Exclusive Videos Show Dr. Joe Mercola’s Dangerous Ideas Whipped up by Alleged Medium | Office for Science and Society - McGill University […]

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“Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage”. Vitamin A does not prevent measles. Vitamin A at high doses is dangerous, especially in kids.

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When you're considering purchasing a new product or service and you have to think: do I stick with a company that already spies on every other aspect of my life and give them even more of my personal data, or do I go with a whole NEW company who can then spy on my life and get a bunch of my […]

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Seven Reasons Trump's Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/25/s...

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Our library has access to a book published by Springer, _Advanced Nanovaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy: Harnessing Nanotechnology for Anti-Cancer Immunity_. Credited to Nanasaheb Thorat, it sells for $160 in hardcover: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-86185-7 From page 25: "It […]

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Denmark supported the US in The Korean War, in The Iraq War, and for two decades in The Afghanistan War. Or as J. D. Vance puts it: “Denmark is not being a good ally.” Source: Fox News

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"This government does not want to govern, but to rule — to rule without limits and without wisdom, a new and dangerous regime, whose name is not yet known, but will not be democracy.” Benny Begin, Former Minister, Israel. #IsraelCoupdEtat […]

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I'm sorry WHAT?! "The #Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling." […]

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OA1141 - Are Republican AGs really trying to have some of the most important federal protections for disability rights declared unconstitutional? Attorney Jenessa Seymour joins to explain the history and purpose of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the pending challenge to a […]

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I don't know if I just keep picking up the wrong books, but are any other fans of speculative fiction with female leads struggling at the moment to find anything that _isn't_ romantasy? I just want to read something with a three dimensional female character with agency where I can enjoy the […]

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"Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Sunday of seeking to operate above the law, without any checks on its power, and of seeking to silence the government legal advice system, which she heads. Writing to the cabinet ahead of a […]

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"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet votes unanimously in favor of a no-confidence motion against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, paving the way for her dismissal. Writing to the cabinet ahead of Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Baharav-Miara stated that the motion was legally irrelevant […]

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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 23 —What's the most memorable encounter you've had with a reader? At the 2009 worldcon, I got invited to participate in a two hour "fireside chat" on stage with one of the guests of honour … because he's a fan of mine and asked for it. The fan in question was Paul […]

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Whoa. FYI: https://www.dictionary.com/e/politics/1488/ Via religious studies professor Sam Brody: having their executive order to combat antisemitism be order number "14188" is the kind of thing they do to make us look crazy for pointing it out.

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On a day when a volcano resumed erupting, we get news that the Hawaii Volcano Observatory - relied on by residents of Hawaii Island to stay safe from lava and vog - will be closed by Elon fucking Musk […]

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I've finished: The Great Wheel by Ian R. MacLeod The Great Wheel is a literary work, concentrating on Father John's internal struggle with his faith and with his role on his one-year mission to the Endless City, the sprawling slum of climate refugees that borders privileged Europe. This isn't […]

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How DEI rollback prompted the scrubbing of Arlington National Cemetery’s website #MAGAracistExtremists https://wtop.com/arlington/2025/03/how-dei-rollback-prompted-the-scrubbing-of-arlington-national-cemeterys-website/

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