I listened to the whole press conference given by Trump on his invasion of Venezuela and unprovoked abduction of a sitting president to fetch the nation's oil. Not a single question by journalists was posed to challenge the legality of the action. If power isn't challenged, there isn't freedom of the press. Trump isn't more democratic than Maduro, he's less so.

#trump #maduro #venezuela

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"Canada has a long history of defending the international rule of law. We are now dealing with a regime that will kill people in the water, seize ships on the high seas, invade other countries, and kidnap their leaders. All bets are off.

This is the age of gangsters. And Canada must be ready to rise to the threat."

charlieangus.substack.com/p/ve…

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@driusan In 2004, Canadian special forces Joint Task Force 2 secured the international airport in Port-au-Prince so the US could kidnap Haiti's democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, overthrow their gov, and permanently cripple Haitian sovereignty for the next 2 decades. Ditto Libya. Ditto ...
There's not much Canada can say in rebuke.

@doomscroller.social @the5thColumnist

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updated, new checkbox: Blink hole line. eurpod.com/BrailleDisplayCalib… for anyone interested in a tool that can calibrate your Braille display. Multiline or single-line, it's useful. I still got to figure out how best to design it to work with JAWS, because it requires panning right now rather than it displaying it. I may do some refactoring on this for single-line displays so it clears it when reaching the end, it's a small enough tweak.

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case - The Beaverton

thebeaverton.com/2026/01/mark-…

En su día hice mi practicum en derecho internacional público. Y uno quiere creer. Pero cuesta un montón. Cuando la matalobos de la Comisión Europea se congratula, cuando el Bundeskansler lo llama legalmente complejo, cuando cualquier persona con un mínimo de integridad sabe que lo que se ha hecho es profunda, manifiesta, e indiscutiblemente ilegal... Da la sensación de que soy la última persona que queda que no se pasa la Carta de Naciones Unidas y los principios westfalianos por el forro.

Hmmm, I don't think my "Real ATC" plugin for Miriani-next is quite ready yet. For the uninitiated, #Miriani is a space related #mud (Well, actually, #moo). It generates flight control messages as ships take off and land. And I thought: what if I could have them voiced by AI, generating a random voice each time? There's a model called voxcpm that, if you don't feed it with any voice data, will just generate a voice of its own for your text. But...it's maybe not quite there. The original text I gave it was "This is Outreach to sector 30 flight control, a Hale starship is about to land." This is what it returned.

Okay, *one* last release for Android 5 users.

#Catima 2.41.2 is out

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

The barcode encoding feature added in Catima 2.41.0 caused a very minor change in how barcodes where generated, which for some users led to failures to use their cards (github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…). This is now fixed by slightly changing how automatic mode works.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay

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So, I had a cartoon character moment this morning.

I was shaking an old container of cayenne powder to make sure it hadn't clumped up, and a fine mist escaped and sent me into a sneezing fit the likes of which I have never had before. Just one right after the other in rapid succession.

At some point I just started laughing at the absurdity of it. Even after it reached my eyes (although it wasn't as bad as cutting onions).

Basically, today I learned that the absolute sneezing fits people in old cartoons have when someone sticks black pepper under their noses is real.

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I did get a response back regarding narration on Rhythm Doctor: Access to the narration is temporarily restricted on the Microsoft Store build. The code is in there, but some text and tweaks need some adjustments for the Xbox console.
Since updating the game on the Xbox Store would take time and effort, we think it would be more efficient to focus on properly replenishing the narration.
This will be done after our holiday break ends, so please bear with me for around a week or two.

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RE: chaos.social/@omidz4t/11582763…

We support folks who in turn support friends and family in #Iran, to provide resilient private chatting. #deltachat is running pretty reliably and well so far. See also chaos.social/@delta/1158087058…


Iran may be on the verge of Internet shutdowns again. If you have friends or family in #Iran, now is the time to let them onboard for example with tiiiz.ir -- because using in-country servers helps to stay connected. If you need support for setting up a relay in or for Iran, send us a DM and we'll see to connect you with other knowledgeable operators.
با آرزوی فردایی بهتر...

Tag 7 der landesweiten Proteste, die bereits mehrere Todesopfer forderten. Während die mutigen Menschen im #Iran ihr Leben riskieren, hat sich #Merz nicht zu den Demonstrationen geäußert. Aber Deutschland als größter Handelspartner der IRI innerhalb der EU trägt Verantwortung. Videos in den Sozialen Medien zeigen wie Protestierende unter Lebensgefahr Überwachungskameras abmontieren. Geliefert u.a. von Bosch, der der IRI zwischen 2016-18 ca. 8000 Kameras verkaufte. Wegsehen ist ein Verbrechen.
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My new year's resolution is to continue ignoring all technologies that I am told ignoring will result in me being left behind. I embrace the being left behind. I will become a forest witch, speaking to myself in invented programming languages. In the dark I will twist little bits of wire together to make flickering lights that amuse squirrels. I will let the 8-bit soil from which I came reclaim my body.

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There's really no doubt about why Mr "Drill baby drill" is obsessed with Venezuela, and why he's buddy buddy with Jamal Khashoggi's murderer.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/ve…
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RE: mstdn.social/@Free_Press/11582…

Happy New Year of International Law Violations 😥

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Venezuela / Canada

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"We are gonna run it", says Trump about Venezuela, after Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has been abducted from Caracas by the US military.

Trump explains, that Venezuela has not been pumping enough oil, but this will change as the US is taking over.

We went from "Canada should be the 51st state" to "we are gonna run Venezuela" in months.

Who needs enemies, when any country can be invaded by the USA, whenever the Trump regime wants it's resources?

Is Greenland next?

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From AppleVis: Vox libri is available for iOS

Hi everyone,

I’m happy to share that my new iPhone reading app, Vox Libri, has just been released on the App Store. It’s built specifically to offer a comfortable,
distraction-free, and fully accessible reading experience—especially for blind and low-vision readers, braille users, and anyone who benefits from a highly
customizable interface.

What Vox Libri does
• Read your way: on-screen reading, braille display support, or high-quality text-to-speech.
• A reading screen you can truly tailor: font, size, spacing, colors, and themes.
• Smart navigation through chapters, headings, pages, bookmarks, and document sections.
• Hands-free reading with headphone controls.
• Import and read common formats: TXT, PDF, DOCX, RTF, HTML, Markdown, and EPUB.
• On-device AI features (when supported by your device): translation, summarization, and simplification.
• Full English and Spanish support across the interface and reading experience.

If you’re interested, you can check it out here:
apps.apple.com/us/app/vox-libr…

If you try it, I’d really value feedback from this community—especially around VoiceOver/braille workflow, navigation, and anything that could be improved
for real-world reading.

Thank you.

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“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

"A Look Inside the Poet’s Personal Life and the Making of Her Mythical Reclusiveness"

lithub.com/open-me-carefully-e…

Books by Dickinson at PG:

gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/99…

#books #literature #poetry

The Kuloran Players show you around their residence, and they’ve got unwanted company! Listen to a new early gameplay demo for our audio MMO in development, Kirandur, and get some insight into our team spirit!
Listen through the pub: audiopub.site/listen/fe33cdd7-…

#Kirandur #audiogame #blind

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That's odd, to say say it nicely, to hear from Russia! :) @jakobrosin universeodon.com/@jakobrosin/1…

Ruszyła centralna e-rejestracja do wybranych lekarzy specjalistów, co w założeniu jest dobrym pomysłem, a w szczegółach nie działa.

"Niepoinformowani o nowym systemie rejestratorzy to również rzesze pacjentów, którzy się o nim nie dowiedzą. I tym samym z niego wypadną, przez co do specjalisty mogą czekać dłużej niż inni. Jak alarmowaliśmy w grudniu, dotyczy to przede wszystkim osób, które nie korzystają z IKP lub powiązanej z nim aplikacji w telefonie komórkowym. Mówiąc prościej - chcą skorzystać z centralnej rejestracji, ale przez telefon, nie internet. To głównie osoby starsze, które nie mają smartfonów, ale nie tylko. Przecież w prywatnych sieciach medycznych umawianie wizyty przez infolinię jest wciąż popularne. Niestety, w publicznym systemie takiej opcji nie ma.

Jak mówił mi w grudniu rzecznik Centrum e-Zdrowia Tomasz Kulas, seniorzy, by nie wypaść z centralnego systemu, mogą po 1 stycznia zadzwonić lub udać się do własnej przychodni. Tam rejestrator lub rejestratorka powinni zaproponować pierwszy dostępny termin w całej centralnej kolejce. W przychodniach słyszę jednak, że żadnych zapisów poza własną placówką zaproponować nie mogą. I nie wiadomo, czy i kiedy to się zmieni."

A ja już sobie teraz wyobrażam, jak wszystkim seniorom z rodziny będę teraz zakładał profile zaufane oraz IKP, choć połowa z nich maili nie potrafi ogarnąć.