So: may not be coming into work, may not be able to do much in a powerless house, probably not going hiking or biking. Hmm. Well I guess I can set up the glass torch and make beads, or braze bike tubing?
U.N. Human Rights Watchdogs Blast Columbia for Using Immigration Status to Suppress Students’ Pro-Palestine Speech
The U.N. experts wrote blistering letters to the leaders of five American universities about their crackdowns on Gaza protests.Noah Hurowitz (The Intercept)
The best board games to gift and play with the family for the 2025 holiday season
https://www.engadget.com/the-best-board-games-to-gift-and-play-with-the-family-for-the-2025-holiday-season-125529223.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The best board games to gift and play with the family for the 2025 holiday season
Have some screen-free fun with your loved ones this year.Sam Chapman (Engadget)
High-Speed Traders Are Feuding Over a Way To Save 3.2 Billionths of a Second - Slashdot
A millisecond used to be a big deal for the world's quickest traders. A dispute over huge trading profits at one of the world's largest futures exchanges shows they now think a million times faster [non-paywalled source].it.slashdot.org
Instagram launches a Fire TV app for Reels
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/instagram-launches-a-fire-tv-app-for-reels-160003710.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Instagram launches a Fire TV app for Reels
It's available for US users on certain Amazon devices.Sarah Fielding (Engadget)
This is objectively extremely funny
One grandad's mission to reach Christmas number one with this new song
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One grandad's mission to reach Christmas number one with this new song
Hairdresser Peter Tuttle only has one thing on his mind this Christmas - and that's for his new single to reach number one.William Hallowell (Metro)
“Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza”
by Hanno Hauenstein in Hanno Hauenstein – Nullpunkt on Substack
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“A new estimate by researchers at the #Max #Planck #Institute for #Demographic #Research [states that between] 100,000 to 126,000 – with a midpoint of roughly 112,000 - #Palestinians were #killed in the first two years of the #Gaza #genocide”
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Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza
For two years officials in Germany dismissed Gaza’s death toll as propaganda. Now the Max Planck Institute released estimates that make such denial impossible – and echo the patterns of past genocidesHanno Hauenstein (Hanno Hauenstein – Nullpunkt)
#ddlDelrio
Mentre la tv israeliana ha celebrato l'alluvione che ha allagato le tende a Gaza, in #Cisgiordania continuano le violenze dei coloni, supportate da esercito e polizia.
#GENOCIDIO #PULIZIAETNICA #GazaGenocide #Gaza #WestBank #Israel #Peace #16dicembre
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Weekly Summary – 7 December – 13 December 2025 | Weekly Summary | Looking the Occupation in the Eye
The “Byron” storm was the most significant event in the media of the past week. On Channel 14, they celebrated the flooding that inundated the tents of Palestinian refugees living in the western half of the Gaza Strip, which is unquestionably control…www.mistaclim.org
The prosecution of Nathan Gill, former Welsh ReformUK leader, for bribery has had one interesting effect; the Govt. is to launch an 'independent review' into foreign influence in British politics.
Rather than a big name leading it, it will be headed by Philip Rycroft, the former permanent secretary of the Department for Exiting the EU.
Moreover, many of us will be interested to see the terms of reference which will reveal much about what the Govt. actually *wants* to find!
#politics
h/t FT
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So clearly focussing on money as the conduit for influence... which is already limiting the scope
I consider myself a resilient person, someone who has suffered greatly. But lately, I feel as if I were eight years old again, facing a grief too great for my age.
I am overwhelmed by everything: my extreme poverty, the rise of the extreme right and the extreme idiocy, my terminal illness, the disgregation from reality of our representatives, the way the majority of people seems to be OK with those artifices misnamed as AI, the genocide in Gaza, Namibia, and other places —and the fact almost nobody gives a shit about it.
I am in Hell. Hell on Earth.
JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files now in Stalwart | Stalwart Labs
After four years of development, we’re thrilled to announce a major milestone in the evolution of Stalwart — the full implementation of JMAP for Calendars, Contacts, File Storage, and Sharing.stalw.art
The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
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Senate Rejects Extension of Health Care Subsidies, Risking Higher Costs for Millions of Americans
The Senate on Thursday rejected an extension = Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially setting a sharp cost increase for millions of Americans.Mary Clare Jalonick (Mississippi Free Press)


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