I struggle to be sympathetic to the Texans coming out to now yell and scream at their elected officials over how the July 4 flooding was handled.
I know fair elections aren't a thing in most of Texas and that's horible but these folks voted for this. Over and over. They vote for these trash humans for whatever reason then are surprised when those same people betray them.
I'm sad over their losses, but at some point, you know, personal responsibility and all that.
Trump #FCC demanded an in-house stooge at #news division to alert corporate bosses when the journalists get out of line and exhibit “bias.” #bias is whenever #DonaldTrump doesn’t like in a story. terrymoran.substack.com/p/rip-…
The U.S.-Ukraine Beer Bridge
Ukrainian beer has turned out to be a surprisingly strong connection between the two countries. We saw it in Lviv, where Veronika oversaw brewing with Americans who’ve adopted Ukrainian recipes.Veronika Romanova (The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak)
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Help Bring Lorenzo and JoNina Ervin to Speak in California!
“Where there is repression, there is resistance…period.” - Lorenzo Kom’boa ErvinChuffed
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The $299 Halo smart glasses will remember the names of people you meet
Brilliant Labs’ next pair of smart specs include an agentic memory system called Narrative that can assist your memory.
The $299 Halo smart glasses will remember the names of people you meet
Brilliant Labs’ new Halo smart glasses include an OLED display, bone conduction speakers, and an upgraded AI assistant.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
Suspected cat killer arrested
This makes me happy to read, have been very worried for our neighbourhood street cats over the last month, really hope they have the right person and there'sBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Today's the day. SHADOW OF THE ELDERS is available wide both in ebook and paperback! If you've been waiting until it left Amazon to check it out, now's the time!
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US labor market adds 73,000 jobs in July while May, June reports see 'larger than normal' downward revisions.
Nu Vitesse definitief zijn proflicentie verliest vragen ze zich in Arnhem af wat er naast voetbal nog meer verloren gaat. ‘Een club brengt mensen bij elkaar’
Voetbal: Een dag nadat bekend werd dat de beroepscommissie van de KNVB definitief de proflicentie van Vitesse intrekt, maken de Arnhemse fans de balans op. De „regelneven" hebben amper oog voor de supporters, het maatschappelijk belang, vinden zij.Ruben Stift (NRC)
“Even if every bag of UN flour had been collected and handed out, and the GHF had developed safe systems for equitable distribution, starvation was inevitable. Palestinians did not have enough to eat.”
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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed inEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
Nothing Phone 3 review: Not quite a flagship
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/nothing-phone-3-review-143006151.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Nothing Phone 3 review: Not quite a flagship
Nothing's first 'true flagship' has more cameras, more screen and a pixellated new feature in the Glyph Matrix.Mat Smith (Engadget)
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Announces the Relaunch of the NLM Dataset Catalog
From the NLM Technical Bulletin: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces the relaunch of the NLM Dataset Catalog, a centralized, searchable platform designed to connect researchers with a vast array of biomedical datasets from multiple repos…Library Journal infoDOCKET
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Plusieurs bureaux de Québecor ont été ciblés la nuit dernière à Montréal en solidarité avec Gaza. Nous relayons le communiqué soumis anonymement ci-dessous.
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Multiple offices of Quebecor Media were targeted overnight in Montreal in solidarity with Gaza. We relay the anonymously submitted communiqué below.
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Windows 11 SE was made for school laptop fleets where ChromeOS has made inroads.
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in reply to David Scott Moyer • • •@farbel That's a good comparison (Palestine). I appreciate that. Thanks!
And yeah the kids didn’t vote. Kids dying of measles didn’t either. We can only hold adults responsible.
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