I was registering for an account on my new health plan. one of the questions asked me what agency I worked for. I had to pull down a to find fmy agency and for some reason mine wasn't listed. Ice and CBP were listed though, and my body had a physical feeling of nausea when I read just their names. They are needed agencies, and in the past, I would still be proud to work near there little umbrella. Now, it sickens me that I work within the huge governmental system that includes them. I do good work for my customers, war fighters and those who support them who need assistive technology. I have pride in what I do. Maybe I should lean into my feelings that I do good for some and that I don't work for the tiny percent that do not help others or treat them like we are distant brothers and sisters. I pledged that I would protect and support the constitution, and that I would reject enemies and wrong both foreign and domestic. I am proud of that oath and what it means to me. Still sad we're where we are at these days, dealing with polarization, politicization at all levels, and untruths that tell us not to believe what oour eyes and ears are sensing. Deep down, I know that I do right in all that I do at work and at home. My integrity is core to what and who I am. That is all. Thank you for your attention to these matters.
Excuse me while I be 12 for a second. My parents are watching the Indiana Origon game and one of the announcers just said "He didn't have a sack until tonight." Oh really now, and how would you know about his sack, sir? I'm done now. Hope everyone's night is going well.
Hot take: good riddance. I dislike the middle click thing. Trips me up all the time as someone who accidentally clicks it when scrolling.
I think the right move is to make this (undoubtedly useful to some) behavior opt-in, not opt-out.
A lot of the gripes I see are just people being mad because GNOME makes choices they don't like. I don't understand why people write like this about GNOME, if you don't like it don't use it, your emotions make you look petty, etc etc.
Middle-click paste is one of those "weird Unix" interaction things that really requires other "weird Unix" things to work well, namely focus-follows-mouse and the concept of an X11-like selection mechanism.
It broke when scrollwheels took over the middle button.
It broke when you slipped while bringing a window to the front, thus causing a selection in *that* other window, and thus losing the selection from the first one that you intended to middle-paste.
The way the article is written. The way the comments talk about it.
Why do people make it sound like GNOME is some sort of secret cabal of Linux haters?
It's a freaking desktop environment, they have every right to build it however they want, and you have every right to use something different. There's zero reason to get emotionally charged about it.
This is unfortunately expected from Liam Proven, same guy who gave us an "amazing" article lying that KDE/GNOME/Wayland developers, as a whole, do not care about accessibility, whos whole output to the Linux community has been shitty ignorant article after shitty ignorant article
He is, in the nicest way possible, a hack writer and one of those "anti-DEI" assholes, But what do I know, im just one of those evil GNOME devs making linux evil and woke for my own profit
@zoeyTheWitch don't forget about the blatant ageism
> As we have said before, we suspect this disconnect between younger, keener developers who don't know or care about late 20th century user interface standards or accessibility concerns, but who strongly want to junk what they perceive as legacy baggage, are behind the moves to deprecate and remove X11
Apple and Google have left X in their app stores, despite its AI-generated images that violate their own rules. There are no principles left in Silicon Valley.
Apple and Google have left X in their app stores, despite its AI-generated images that violate their own rules. There are no principles left in Silicon Valley.
To anybody who is offended by the governor of Minneapolis telling ICE “get the fuck out of our city,” but not offended by ICE ethnic cleansing secret police summarily executing a local mom, a message: Go fuck yourself. Learn the difference between a swear word and an obscenity.
Renting continued to be unaffordable for tenants in the Greater Montreal area in 2025, even as the vacancy rate here increased, says the latest report from the Canada Mortgage and
.ICE Brutally Arresting Native Americans in MinneapolisBy Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Jan. 9, 2026MINNEAPOLIS -- In a horrifying arrest, ICE punched Jose 'Beto' Roberto Ramirez, Red Lake Chippewa, and dragged him from his vehicle. As Ramirez was…
On the one year anniversary of Trump taking office for the second time, millions of people across the country will walk out of work and school in opposition to the Trump administration's racist, billionaire program. Trump has employed ICE and the military as his personal army against the working class at home and abroad in places like Venezuela. We refuse to allow Trump, ICE and the racist deportation machine to operate with impunity!
We are outraged. Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE — we demand accountability! This weekend, we demand: ✅ Immediate investigation ✅ Transparency ✅ Justice This is not a moment — it’s a movement.#ICEOutForGood
We are not here to debate. We are here to dismantle. ICE’s violence is not “unfortunate.” It’s intentional. It’s deadly. This weekend we gather to demand accountability — and to build power. #ICEOutForGood ❌🧊 Find an event near you: social.demcast.com/s/ptlja1Z7
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A federal judge ruled Friday that the #Trump admin cannot block #federal money for #childcare subsidies & other programs aimed at supporting needy #children & their #families from flowing to 5 #Democratic-led #states for now.
#California, #Colorado, #Illinois, #Minnesota & #NewYork argued that a policy to freeze funds for 3 grant programs is having an immediate impact on them & creating “operational chaos.”
Hey y’all, hope you’re doing well. Quick question: I’m trying to use Tweezcake on my Windows computer. I can open it and hear sound effects, but NVDA doesn’t seem to detect the actual window at all. Has anyone run into this or have any suggestions?
TweeseCake has two interfaces: GUI and invisible interface. Honestly, I always use invisible so I don't remember the keystroke, but you can read about it in the documentation.
If you're on the East Coast, tune in 1110 kHz AM at night to hear WBT from Charlotte, NC playing non-stop "lounge" music. They moved their Talk format to FM, so this is a filler until they unveil a new format on AM. WBT's 50,000 watt signal covers "Maine to Miami" at night via skywave. Here's a sample of it, as received here in NJ.
The behavior you are seeing from ICE and from the Trump regime is the behavior of people who are scared.
Their bluster is fear. Their threats are fear. Their aggression is fear. Their defensiveness is fear. Their scrambling to keep their faces hidden and their actions secret is fear. Their desperate stream of liearrhea is fear. Their panic is fear.
They are acting tough, but they are not acting like people who are winning.
Seeing all these people saying Renee Nicole Good deserved death for just normal shit like being gay or having pronouns in bio should be a wake up call to everyone who thinks MAGA can coexist with civil society. They're talking about you. They've pre-authorized your execution.
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"An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled in favour of a Mississauga homeowner whose naturalized front garden had become the source of legal turmoil.
Wolf Ruck’s long grass may have appeared as overgrown, but Ruck had intentionally cultivated a pollinator-friendly yard. He is part of the natural gardening community, which prioritizes ecological function over landscaping aesthetics."
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled in favour of a Mississauga homeowner whose naturalized front garden had become the source of legal turmoil. …
The Verge is actually doing it. Actually connecting the dots between the fascistic tendencies of app stores with the profit motives of their proprietors.
FINALLY.
The open web has been roadkill in the profit games the mobile duopoly has set up, muscled out of view with policies and choices that were designed to leave no fingerprints. But we can all see it clearly now:
Apple and Google have left X in their app stores, despite its AI-generated images that violate their own rules. There are no principles left in Silicon Valley.
US Border agents just shot two people in Portland, Oregon today.
It's almost as if they are intentionally trying to desensitize us to their violence, to make us accept that they will kill whoever they want, whenever they want.
But if we do that, things will only get worse.
All around the country, we must flood the streets to show that we will not be intimidated. We have to build the capacity to defend our communities from the murderers and kidnappers in ICE. How we rise to this challenge will determine the future for all of us.
At the top of the hour, join @jmd2000 for The Old Wooden Barn. 3 hours of non-stop Country, bluegrass, and great conversations to get your weekend started right.
I need to get in touch with anyone who manages trust & safety for the matrix.org homeserver regarding the same person who is impersonating Alpine on Telegram. I have been made aware that he is also impersonating the project on Matrix...
Image is of military and civilian sites across Caracas which were bombed by the United States as of last weekend.
As everybody has already known for a couple days, the US has abducted Maduro and his wife in a massive operation (of which the exact details are not currently known, but involved hundreds of aircraft and at least some bombing of military and civilian targets), and has threatened Venezuela and the socialist party with further abductions and widespread murder if they do not hand over control of the country directly to the United States. In a statement that really says it all, Trump said that Machado is not being considered for the colonial viceroy position due to her sheer unpopularity. Various parties and countries around the world - and inside the US - have expressed their disapproval, which, as we all know, will not shift US foreign policy a single iota.
A few months ago, when the pressure campaign on Venezuela began, I speculated that Maduro was going to be killed or captured eventually. Flagrantly illegal and violent American military campaigns in Latin America are not new. The US has been invading land, looting banks, assassinating democratically elected leaders, and otherwise overthrowing countries in the region for their own economic benefit for the better part of two centuries, under both Democratic and Republican parties. Unfortunately, we all know that Russia and China are unlikely to do anything meaningful to contest the US in their attempt to more violently assert hegemony in Latin America. I doubt very much that the China of today will come out to bat for Venezuela and start meaningfully pressuring the US economically. For better and worse, we are far from the days of the USSR.
However, Latin America has, historically, met the US in its radicalism, committed to wars of anti-colonial nationalism, and carried out successful revolutions against the dictators placed in control from the US. As history continues ever onwards and conditions develop, I can only assume that we shall once again enter that radicalizing cycle. In that vein, the big question on my mind, and everybody else's, is: what comes next? Does the Venezuelan socialist party have the social and military cohesion to wage a years-long guerilla war against occupying troops? Can they quickly transition from a conventional to guerilla force as their military facilities are bombed, or will it take several years? Can they prevent the theft of their oil resources and make the attempt at foreign occupation more costly in both the manpower and economic costs than what that war will generate? Can Venezuela manufacture weapons for this guerilla war in a state of blockade? Will this military campaign begin immediately upon soldiers landing, or will it take a period of relatively unopposed occupation of months or even years? Will Cuba, Colombia, and even Mexico be in the same situation by the end of the year, with abducted leaders?
Yemen is the very recent proof that seemingly weak countries can force the American military to retreat in defeat. Can Venezuela follow? We shall see what Maduro has done to prepare the country for this war very soon. The only certain thing is that the murderous violence propagated by a trembling and dying empire shall be defeated eventually, whether it takes months, years, or decades, and the end result will be a socialist victory.
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful. Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section. Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war. Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis. Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good. On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language. https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one. https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts. https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel. https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator. https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps. https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language. https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language. https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses. https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet. discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord. https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
In depth geopolitical and conflict analysis, with a dash of the sardonic. You can support me by pledging here or tipping me at: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/Simplicius
After seeing so-called anti-imperialists online celebrating the murders of Iranian policemen, it is really important people read this article. Best english language article on the Islamic Republic that I have read in awhile.
A field analysis of the largest labor protest in post-revolutionary Iran: against the imperial appropriation of struggles in Iran and class sovereignty as national defense.
Kurt Vonnegut has a short story called "Harrison Bergeron" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison…). Basically, if far left is in power for some more decades, that's what we'll have in the end. #Books #Politics
Dass die einst alles beherrschenden Konfessionskirchen mit jedem Jahr mehr an Bedeutung verlieren, ist offensichtlich. Was aber nicht unbedingt bedeutet, dass nun immer mehr Menschen keine Erklärungen mehr hinter ihrem Alltag suchen. Sie suchen nur woanders. Und dafür gibt es längst einen lukrativen Markt - Freikirchen und Esoterik aller Art. Anhand zweier fiktiver, aber lebhaft vorstellbarer Charaktere namens „Manfred Gruber“ (der enttäuschte Leistungsträger) und „Anette Kowalski“ (die kalte Sozialingenieurin) wird man hier in die (Un)tiefen der modernen transzendentalen Schaumschlägerei entführt, deren Ideologeme typischerweise auch in Klimawandelleugnung, Biologismus und Faschismus münden. Starker Text wieder mal (von dem gleichen Autor, der hier neulich schon mal aufgefallen ist mit seiner umfassend erschlagenden Analyse zum "hocheffizienter Verbrenner" - @heinerme): heinerm.substack.com/p/hochgla…
Liebe Freunde, es kristallisiert sich bei mir heraus, dass ich wohl #LongCovid habe. Aber das deutsche Gesundheitssystem ist hier verwirrend. Und Hausärzte sind offenbar überfordert. Seid Ihr selbst betroffen oder kennt jemanden? Mich interessieren v.a. 2 Punkte. Gibt es spezielle Beratungsstellen? Und gibt es Hilfsangebote, wie man Belastung steuern kann? Ich tippe bei mir auf "Fatigue mit Belastungsintoleranz". Über Tipps und Kontakte bin ich dankbar. 🥰🥰🥰
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