On the National Mall this morning, a new satirical statue is up celebrating Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's "friendship" in honor of National Friendship Month.
In Honor of Friendship Month
We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his "closest friend" Jeffery Epstein.
Voice Over: There Must Be More To Life Than Having Everything.
TRUMP: Yes. There is. but I won't tell you what it is. EPSTEIN: Nor will I, since I also know what it is. TRUMP: We have certain things in common, Jeffery. EPSTEIN: Yes, we do, come to think of it. TRUMP: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday -- and may every day be another wonderful secret. EPSTEIN: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.
Stagecoach bus services across Preston and Lancashire are set for disruption as strikes loom.
The strike centres on a difference in pay rate for Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire drivers compared to rival Arriva with two week-long strikes planned.
Bardenas Reales is a place in the north of Spain. A desert with odd shaped structures. I, Tio, saw these structures in a documentary with Brian Cox called Solar System - you can watch it here videoneat.com/documentaries/26… - so I looked for the place only to find out it is in Spain.
It is one of those unique places that you may never forged 😃.
Bardenas Reales is a place in the north of Spain. A desert with odd shaped structures. I, Tio, saw these structures in a documentary with Brian Cox called Solar System - you can watch it here videoneat.com/documentaries/26… - so I looked for the place only to find out it is in Spain.
It is one of those unique places that you may never forged :).
Voyage across the solar system with Professor Brian Cox and explore the spectacular wonders and mysterious natural phenomena that are happening right now on the surface of worlds that orbit the Sun.
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer Someone’s coughing hard within the cloud of smoke and dust that conceals the aftermath of this epic confrontation. A hoarse voice shouts. “Hey, Storm Queen, blow this crud away. I can’t see.
The pond of a small nature reserve reflects the trees at the far edge of the pond, there is very little movement on the water, above the trees is a clear blue sky, in the foreground is green vegetation.
Podcaster and journalist Gabriel Gatehouse sets out to solve the biggest mystery in tech, who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of Bitcoin? But Gabriel realises in fact he's on a much bigger story.
Ik krijg net de vraag of ik iets wil schrijven over de fascistische rel in Den Haag vandaag. Nee, dat doe ik niet. Ik vind dat niet vruchtbaar.
Een brandende politieauto, een aanval op het partijkantoor van D66, extreemrechts geweld tegen de politie, ...en media en een burgemeester die zich in de meest bizarre bochten wringen om te doen alsof de demo vreedzaam was maar zou zijn gekaapt door "hooligans"...
Het is niet werkelijk van belang.
Ja, natuurlijk kunnen we nu zeggen: "zie je wel, het is juist fascisme wat gewelddadig is!" Maar wie dat nog niet wist, laat zich ook niet overtuigen door dit.
Laten we wel wezen: dit rechtse geweld stelt nog helemaal niets voor vergeleken met datgene waar fascisme uiteindelijk toe leidt.
Yesilgöz en de rest van de extreemrechtse zetels in de Tweede Kamer (VVD, BBB, PVV, SGP, FvD, Ja21) weten heus wel wat er gebeurde met de Rijksdagbrand, wat Kristallnacht is, en ze hebben gehoord van de Holocaust.
Toch kiezen ze er voor om antifascisme voor terrorisme uit te maken, en een motie te tekenen om niet fa
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Ik krijg net de vraag of ik iets wil schrijven over de fascistische rel in Den Haag vandaag. Nee, dat doe ik niet. Ik vind dat niet vruchtbaar.
Een brandende politieauto, een aanval op het partijkantoor van D66, extreemrechts geweld tegen de politie, ...en media en een burgemeester die zich in de meest bizarre bochten wringen om te doen alsof de demo vreedzaam was maar zou zijn gekaapt door "hooligans"...
Het is niet werkelijk van belang.
Ja, natuurlijk kunnen we nu zeggen: "zie je wel, het is juist fascisme wat gewelddadig is!" Maar wie dat nog niet wist, laat zich ook niet overtuigen door dit.
Laten we wel wezen: dit rechtse geweld stelt nog helemaal niets voor vergeleken met datgene waar fascisme uiteindelijk toe leidt.
Yesilgöz en de rest van de extreemrechtse zetels in de Tweede Kamer (VVD, BBB, PVV, SGP, FvD, Ja21) weten heus wel wat er gebeurde met de Rijksdagbrand, wat Kristallnacht is, en ze hebben gehoord van de Holocaust.
Toch kiezen ze er voor om antifascisme voor terrorisme uit te maken, en een motie te tekenen om niet fascisme te verbieden, maar antifascisme.
Zonde van die ruiten en die auto. Erg klote dat journalisten zijn aangevallen door extreemrechts. Maar het is klein bier vergeleken met de consequenties van de motie.
En we kunnen nu wel gaan roepen dat het hypocriet is, maar dat weten zowel de extreemrechtse daders van de rel als de extreemrechtse ondertekenaars van de motie al lang van zichzelf, en ze geven er niks om.
We moeten de aandacht niet laten afleiden. Een meerderheid van de Kamer vindt het bestrijden van fascisme een vorm van terrorisme. En dat is veel groter dan een relletje door een stel racisten.
--- [share author='Grymt' profile='https://social.trom.tf/profile/grymt' avatar='https://social.trom.tf/photo/364670819167d2ff14ada81258312865-5.jpeg?ts=1741881657' link='https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1968-cca1-6baa-d0f988654454' posted='2025-09-19 00:18:51' guid='dbc8dc44-1968-cca1-6baa-d0f988654454' message_id='https://social.trom.tf/objects/dbc8dc44-1968-cca1-6baa-d0f988654454']De fuckers in de Tweede Kamer hebben een motie aangenomen om antifascisten tot terrorist te verklaren.
In Nederland. In navolging van Trump.
De motie werd ingediend door FvD, PVV en BBB. Ze werd gesteund door VVD, SGP en Ja21. Een meerderheid.
Schoof ontraadde de motie nota bene. Het is nu afwachten óf ze wordt uitgevoerd, en zo ja hoe dan.
En of de rechterlijke macht in Nederland intussen evenveel onder de plak van extreemrechts zit als in de VS, of dat de rechter dergelijke fascistische censuurwetten nog naar de prullenbak verwijst.
De motie noemt Antifa terroristisch.
Antifa is niet eens een organisatie. Het betekent gewoon antifascistisch, en iedereen die het terugkeren van Adolf in oude of nieuwe vorm niet zo ziet zitten, kan zich antifa noemen of is dat.
"Hier gaan ze toch niks mee doen"??
Ook als het dubbeldemissionaire extreemrechtse kabinet niets met de motie doet, is dit een aardverschuiving.
De meerderheid van dé waakhond der democratie wil het tot terrorisme bestempelen om tegen fascisme te zijn.
Fascisten zijn niet dom.
Door Antifa als terreurgroep aan te merken creëer je een slecht gedefinieerde boeman. En dat betekent dat je elke onwelgevallige actiegroep, elke vervelende demonstrant, elke dissident, elke politieke tegenstander kunt oppakken door ze als Antifa te bestempelen.
Ik raad iedereen aan om zich op wikipedia in te lezen in de Rijksdagbrand.
Want dat is exact hoe MAGA de dood van Kirk gebruikt,
En exact wat deze zes antidemocratische partijen (VVD, FvD, BBB, PVV, SGP, Ja21) proberen te kopiëren naar Nederland.
@eshep Please move your repositories somewhere else from git.webape.site/eshep (old TROM Git) because we have moved to Forgejo and we were unable to migrate the repos and users. Sorry. We tried. You can use our Forgejo instance too if you want git.trom.tf . Let me know so I can open the registration for you.
@Tio Thank you for the heads-up. I beleive git.trom.tf is the only one I had used, it's the only one I have login info for, but it seems I cannot login now, prolly due to the move I guess. It's no worry, any stuff I had in it was not important.
I am happy to hear yall are on Forgejo now though, that's great! I've been running it at home for local stuff and love it. I even run it in termux on my phone to help manage notes for work.
The old git.trom.tf was moved to git.webape.site and it will be removed entirely these days.
If you make an account to git.trom.tf which now uses Forgejo, then you can import the repos one by one. In any case if you think these repos are not important you can ignore this :)
I made the registration open to everyone in case others want to use our service. If it gets abused I will limit it again. Mind you the old server will be deleted in 3 or so days so please create an account and move your repo before that.
Ice core records of atmospheric hydrogen reveal a huge rise in concentration since the Industrial Revolution which has contributed to global warming – and could sway the debate over hydrogen as a fuel
Advice from Christopher Armitage of the Existential Republic on how to fight back against what they just did to Jimmy Kimmel.
First, we identify the only factor these corporations value.
Money.
Bud Light lost $1.4 billion and their #1 beer spot after Dylan Mulvaney. Four weeks, 29% sales drop. Why? Sustained boycott, celebrity pile-on, easy alternatives.
Tesla stock down 50% since January. Sales dropped 72% in Australia. How? 200 protests via Action Network, celebrity amplification, daily pressure.
Glenn Beck lost 300+ advertisers. Bill O'Reilly lost $100 million in ads. Method? Screenshot ads, tag companies, ask why they support censorship.
Target Pride lost $14 billion market cap in one week and pulled merchandise nationwide.
These corporations don't care about freedom, democracy, or morality. Money is the only thing they care about.
For Disney, Nexstar, Sinclair, and ABC's advertisers: Cancel Disney+, sk
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Advice from Christopher Armitage of the Existential Republic on how to fight back against what they just did to Jimmy Kimmel.
First, we identify the only factor these corporations value.
Money.
Bud Light lost $1.4 billion and their #1 beer spot after Dylan Mulvaney. Four weeks, 29% sales drop. Why? Sustained boycott, celebrity pile-on, easy alternatives.
Tesla stock down 50% since January. Sales dropped 72% in Australia. How? 200 protests via Action Network, celebrity amplification, daily pressure.
Glenn Beck lost 300+ advertisers. Bill O'Reilly lost $100 million in ads. Method? Screenshot ads, tag companies, ask why they support censorship.
Target Pride lost $14 billion market cap in one week and pulled merchandise nationwide.
These corporations don't care about freedom, democracy, or morality. Money is the only thing they care about.
For Disney, Nexstar, Sinclair, and ABC's advertisers: Cancel Disney+, skip parks, flood FCC with complaints about Nexstar's pending $6.2 billion merger, remind Sinclair they already lost one merger to public pressure, screenshot every ABC ad, and join shareholder meetings to ask companies why they fund censorship. Show up at their offices. Comment on all their content and impact their brand.
Shareholder route: Disney's annual meeting is March. File resolutions by November. Any shareholder can. Engine No. 1 won 3 ExxonMobil board seats with 0.02% ownership.
Culture jamming: Parody Disney logos with censorship themes. It's protected speech. Create "ABC: American Censorship Company." Get creative, fighting fascism is easier when you're having fun.
SEO impacting: Link "Disney censorship" everywhere. The Santorum Google bomb lasted years.
This matters, and you can do something about it. Today it's Kimmel criticizing political violence. Colbert's already gone. Who's next?
Immediately after reading this you can do the following:
1. Cancel Disney+ and tell them why 2. Call/email/mail those companies 3. Screenshot and tag advertisers 4. Share this playbook with others
Interesting documentary about how we can make our society a bit better. Things to learn from these Nordic countries, but also a bit of an expose of how even these tribes rely on the fossil fuel industry and so forth...
Simon Reeve journeys across a land of Arctic tundra, vast forests and stunning fjords, investigating the surprising secrets of some of the happiest and most equal societies on earth.
Say what you want about #Starlink, but I just got off the phone with a lady from their Customer Support who was by far the best I've dealt with in over 30 years of dealing with computer related hardware. Absolutely stellar service, and proper knowledge of the equipment and troubleshooting skills for it, not some clown feeding me answers they were given to relate to words they hear.
The person (yes, human) I dealt with was able to speak competently with me as a professional with similar troubleshooting skills on the steps I had already taken. There was absolutely none of the "can you unplug it..." bullshit from them. Only real questions and real answers which pertained only to the issues and errors received on both ends.
Resolution, although unrepairable, was prompt and precise. Current gear had already been deemed TU by their robot prior to the call I received, and a full suite of replacement equipment had already been dispatched to my address. However, they still bothered to call me and run through everything th
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Say what you want about #Starlink, but I just got off the phone with a lady from their Customer Support who was by far the best I've dealt with in over 30 years of dealing with computer related hardware. Absolutely stellar service, and proper knowledge of the equipment and troubleshooting skills for it, not some clown feeding me answers they were given to relate to words they hear.
The person (yes, human) I dealt with was able to speak competently with me as a professional with similar troubleshooting skills on the steps I had already taken. There was absolutely none of the "can you unplug it..." bullshit from them. Only real questions and real answers which pertained only to the issues and errors received on both ends.
Resolution, although unrepairable, was prompt and precise. Current gear had already been deemed TU by their robot prior to the call I received, and a full suite of replacement equipment had already been dispatched to my address. However, they still bothered to call me and run through everything that had been tested by me on my end, and by them on their end as well.
I was worried when I first saw an issue and tried to request support which sent me to a robot-chat page. Now that I know that providing their robot with an extremely detailed account of troubleshooting steps taken will result in prompt replacement and a call from a human to go over anything (from initial failure to RMA, and more) that was/is not clear, I can now more easily than before recommend this equipment to anyone looking for a fair-priced internet solution.
September 19, 2025: The DC Activist Street Band (DCASB) adding a bit of music to the last few miles of the "We Are America March", a 160-mile trek from Philadelphia to DC.
Benjamin Alverez, a correspondent for DW, captured 56 seconds:
"DW is Germany’s international broadcaster. As an independent media outlet, we provide unbiased news and information around the world so that people can form their own opinions. DW’s coverage of current events is fact-based, with regionally relevant and dialog-oriented content in 32 languages on the focus topics of freedom and human rights, democracy and good governance, free trade and social justice, technology and innov
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September 19, 2025: The DC Activist Street Band (DCASB) adding a bit of music to the last few miles of the "We Are America March", a 160-mile trek from Philadelphia to DC.
Benjamin Alverez, a correspondent for DW, captured 56 seconds:
"DW is Germany’s international broadcaster. As an independent media outlet, we provide unbiased news and information around the world so that people can form their own opinions. DW’s coverage of current events is fact-based, with regionally relevant and dialog-oriented content in 32 languages on the focus topics of freedom and human rights, democracy and good governance, free trade and social justice, technology and innovation, health education, nutrition and environmental protection as well as German and European culture. DW’s TV, online and radio services generate over 337 million users every week."
Just catching up with #LongLostFamily and something that struck me is that everyone talks about siblings. Never really hear people talk about brothers and sisters. I know siblings is correct terminology, but it sounds/seems so impersonal! Don't know where I'm going with this just thoughts after a couple of glasses of wine! Have a good weekend everybody.
Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.
I've just been boosting some... I want to write for my blog a bit, so I guess I should just do it. Around 13:30 I wanna walk with the galls again, and feed them after that.
I had less than 4 hours of sleep last night (by my own doing), so I am really hoping that tonight, I can catch up a bit (and that there will be no barks from the galls to wake me up... 🤞🏻).
Alright, let's get my laptop and try to write a bit for my blog. Catch you later!
@🇨🇦 CowMan 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇲🇽 Yessss! Sorry for my late reply, the app didn't show me my notifications... 🫣 I once heard someone talking about weird friends, in a positive way mind you, and then I got the word friendos stuck in my head... 😊 So I've been using it ever since, but, also, in a very positive way! 💜
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
@🇨🇦 CowMan 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇲🇽 I'd never seen that, so thanks for sharing... I have no idea when or where I heard the person talking about weird friends... But it just... Stuck around as friendos 😉
Tri Arts Project and Colorado Authors League are excited to offer an Author Showcase and Book Fair on September 19, 2025 at Cantril School in Castle Rock, CO
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Thank you for the heads-up. I beleive git.trom.tf is the only one I had used, it's the only one I have login info for, but it seems I cannot login now, prolly due to the move I guess. It's no worry, any stuff I had in it was not important.
I am happy to hear yall are on Forgejo now though, that's great! I've been running it at home for local stuff and love it. I even run it in termux on my phone to help manage notes for work.
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in reply to eshep • •The old git.trom.tf was moved to git.webape.site and it will be removed entirely these days.
If you make an account to git.trom.tf which now uses Forgejo, then you can import the repos one by one. In any case if you think these repos are not important you can ignore this :)
eshep
in reply to Tio • •\m/ Thanks for clarifying, now I see. I'll get on that later today and remake my account.
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