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More #AlternateFridayMusic 🎉

Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: #pop
Song: Old Skool TISM
By: #TISM
Links: youtu.be/EXkdRnD27Y4

🎶 Part-catchy pop, part-botulism
But let's go sick with old-school TISM, TISM

Everything is shit, except for TISM who are shit

Reforming after so long, yeah, I know it sucks
But Good Things offered ten million bucks
I feel like Kerry fuckin' Packer
That's more than the Optus hacker

Erectile dysfunction is a given
But let's do bed with old-school TISM 🎶

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But Israel is investigating, so it's all good.

“There’s a saying here: ‘The dignity of the dead is in burial.’ When someone is killed, there should be immediate burial. It brings some small relief to the heart. But until now, we’ve received neither the body nor the right to do anything,” said Salem.
theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
@palestine
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#genocide
#Israel
#Palestine



Iran demands US compensation for war damage before any talks


Iran will not return to nuclear negotiations unless the United States agrees to provide compensation for damages sustained during last month’s war, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Financial Times.

"They should explain why they attacked us in the middle of... negotiations, and they have to ensure that they are not going to repeat that," Araghchi said in an interview published on Thursday.

The official added that the US must take responsibility for striking Iran during ongoing diplomatic exchanges and that talks cannot resume without financial redress.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Did anyone else just completely forget this was even a thing? Took me a good couple seconds to remember that it really was last month this all happened. Fucking hell....
in reply to Warl0k3

It would've been a longer affair but the West miscalculated, quickly realised it and took a step back. It ain't the early 00s anymore and Iran is not Iraq.
in reply to YappyMonotheist

Honestly I think we just... lost interest? The Epstein revelations & Palestine have really been the main topic of national discourse and nobody here cared about whatever Iran was doing. There was so little political will behind the Iran shit it was pretty impressive.
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in reply to YappyMonotheist

If the war went on 2 more days and either Iran or Israel started to go down, they would close stright of Hormuz and started attacking US bases and oil refineries in the middleast, ... which is one way to spell economic doom for the entire world for years followed by the falling of all these US-petro states, followed by ISIS x 10, followed by nucular escilation or WW3
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in reply to answersplease77

With ISIS X 10 you could end up with 911 X 100
in reply to geneva_convenience

Give them a nuke as compensation, with the added benefit that they can defend their sovereignty during future diplomatic talks.


Bing made Google dance and then stole some search traffic

Microsoft’s search engine has taken market share from Google since its AI overhaul two years ago.



Hey! It's still #AlternateFridayMusic 🎉

Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: #pop
Song: This is Not a Pop Song (feat Peaches)
By: Regurgitator
Links: youtu.be/xVKUh2SxtIs

Peaches brings some Tom Tom Club "Wordy Rappinghood" vibes
regurgitator.bandcamp.com/trac…

🎶 Drink me through a funnel
Hear my tum tum rumble
That’s a Hit
We go beep beep!
Toot toot, Beep beep
We Go beep beep!
On my face, take a seat
We go beep beep
Lick my Teats!

(Something’s very wrong…)

This is a Pop Song! 🎶

#ausMusic

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Well "Hello August" . Photograph taken from Glastonbury Tor at sunrise. The wheel continues to turn. Happy Lammas/Lughnasadh where we celebrate the beginning of the harvest season.



Virginia Giuffre's Brother Asks Why Epstein Files Haven't Been Released twp.ai/E6ANE3


James Klempster: Never mind the geopolitics, focus on the long term byteseu.com/1246882/ #Geopolitics #investing #LongTerm #Markets #portfolios


The Best New Books of August, According to Indie Booksellers

What better way to get book recommendations than from independent booksellers? Here are ten of their favorites of August 2025.
bookriot.com/the-best-new-book…

#Lists #NewBooks
@indieauthors



Sincere people in the US are saying 'if you didn't vote for Harris, you're responsible for #Trump'. I'm not in the US, of course. But I reject this. On both sides of the Atlantic, politics is so corrupted that it matters very little who you vote for. Your only choices are between different kinds of supine, corrupt, incompetence. An essay I wrote a year ago explains why.

When the system is broken, acting within the system can't help.

journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu…

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Simon Brooke

@gilesgoat @BLTpizza @smallcircles Well, yes. If we carry on with capitalist liberal representative democracies, we are indeed doomed. These juggernauts cannot be turned around.

Which is why it's time to move to the politics of our neighbourhoods and communities, and the streets.

in reply to Simon Brooke

@gilesgoat @BLTpizza

💯 this. I am looking myself into analogous approaches online, tailored to grassroots movements and their empowerment. This at coding.social



Plus jamais «Plus jamais ça!»

Pourquoi sommes-nous condamnés à l’impuissance, condamnés à pleurer sans fin au son de «plus jamais ça» larmoyants et de jérémiades hypocrites? Parce-que jamais nous n’arrachons le mal à la racine «hinc et nunc» (ici et maintenant).

✒️ Par elodie tuaillon_hibon | En accès libre › blogs.mediapart.fr/elodie-tuai…



When you have so many watches and straps, it does get hard to pick a combination! 🤔

#WristCheck

in reply to Velocipede Rider

this is exactly why I created a random watch picker on my site. 😂

I also have a way to manually select one though. Here's what I see on my watch log page.

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Kev Quirk
@rl_dane I don't think so. I have the modern version, not the original 80s version from BTTF.


1,373 aid-seekers killed in Gaza since May, most by Israeli military

@palestine
#Gaza
#aid



Turning Waste Plastic into Spools of Filament

Despite being a readily-available source of useful plastic, massive numbers of disposable bottles go to waste every day. To remedy this problem (or take advantage of this situation, depending on …read more
#hacking #projects
hackaday.com/2025/08/01/turnin…



Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Brazil’s judiciary – The Economist byteseu.com/1246880/ #America #Brazil #DonaldTrump #TheAmericas #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews #World


Palantir gets $10 billion contract from U.S. Army


The award covering the next decade is one of the largest DoD contracts ever, cementing the tech firm’s role in warfighting for years to come.


Archived version: archive.is/20250801051530/wash…

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