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In 1960, France detonated its first atomic bomb in the Algerian Sahara. Charles de Gaulle had spent the decade prior arguing that American security guarantees couldn’t be trusted in a serious crisis, that no superpower would risk its own cities to defend a junior ally, and that France needed weapons it owned outright.
The argument was simple: if you don’t control the means, you don’t control the outcome.
https://www.thisisstudioself.com/insights/sovereign-ai-brief
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A branch of the #Catholic church expressed deep concern Monday over reports that #Israel was demolishing #civilian & #religious buildings in parts of southern #Lebanon under its control, following allegations that a #convent had been bulldozed.
#war #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-catholics-9dee5593f7cdda56fbefd2fde2d3397a
#convent
#rulesofwar
#religious
#catholic
#geopolitics
#lebanon
#netanyahu
#middleeast
#war
#civilian
#warcrimes
#israel
#law
@decryption FreshRSS supports creating web scraping feeds. Haven't used this, but I have used their similar feature to grab article text for feeds with only snippets
![Screenshot of FreshRSS config page, text is:
Type of feed source
HTML + XPath (Web scraping)
XPath 1.0 is a standard query language for advanced
users, and which FreshRSS supports to enable Web
scraping.
XPath for:
feed title
//title
¿ Example: //title or a static string: "My custom
feed"
XPath for:
finding news items
(most important)
Example: //div[@class="news-item"]
Add
rss
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@willhbr I use FreshRSS already so might give this a shot!
Setzt doch einfach engagiert und konsequent den Digital Services Act und den Digital Markets Act gegen Big Tech durch, um Demokratie zu schützen und Wettbewerb zu ermöglichen.
Und fördert endlich Alternativen.
Die Verachtung, die der braune Fritz für Demokratie, demokratische Rechte und Gesundheit von Bürger*innen hat, wird u.a. von seiner Ignoranz der Realität getoppt.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party has swept to victory in key elections in opposition-held West Bengal state, conquering a bastion long held by its adversary. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/05/asia-pacific/politics/india-modi-opposition-west-bengal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #india #narendramodi
Forced amalgamation is wrong on so many levels. Getting rid of regional authorities based on ecosystem boundaries is absolutely the wrong approach, for reasons I laid out a few days ago;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116497200612919931
But even if it wasn't, forcing these changes down our throats using Parliamentary supremacy is impressively antidemocratic. Even for the NatACT First regime, for whom antidemocratic is their middle name.
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Yet more evidence that we need deep constitutional change that puts a permanent end to Parliamentary supremacy.
My preference would be something more closely resembling the old provincial system. Where most decision-making is done as close as possible to where public functions are carried out, and central government does only those things that need country-scale coordination (eg foreign affairs).
If we retain Parliament at all, it ought to be bicameral, with an upper house.
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Hex
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Today I'm releasing the first release candidate for the 2.0 release line of the Liferea RSS reader which is a mostly feature-stable port to GTK4. Please try it out and help testing Liferea 2.0!
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PodGround Launches Second Creator Micro-Grant for Independent Podcasters #pressrelease #podcasting https://podnews.net/press-release/podground-2026
…“More than 85% of farmed animals in the UK come from stinking, dirty, shit dumping factory farms.
And when chickens can’t stand up, pigs are being gassed to death, our rivers are full of factory farm shit, and your Sunday roast comes with a side of antibiotics, it’s time to take a stand.”
@urlyman Less is more.
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this:
They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain.
They don't want a wealth tax.
They don't want public ownership & lower bills.
They're trying everything in their power to stop us.
I'm having a less than fun time with body image at the moment. This comes and goes but, right now, it sucks.
For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to be thinner. Even when I was too thin, it wasn't quite thin enough.
And, at the moment, I am far from that.
I know that I "just" need to do more exercise and eat better, but that "just" is carrying a lot of weight in this sentence. Ironically.
No advice, thanks. I'm just venting.
@neil I feel you, I'm on the same boat
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jamesthomson/116516758929937239
Last year I wrote this when Apple released their Pride merch, and I still stand by every word: https://www.macstories.net/stories/are-pride-wallpapers-and-a-watch-band-enough-in-2025/
Fuck them and their barely-pink washing.
@nileane It’s like they specifically chose not to represent the colour orange. Perfect metaphor for ‘Pride but only the colours we want to represent’!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116520117085338740
Første gang jeg har sett situasjonen i USA omtalt som en «cold civil war».
@Erik_Haugaard I’ve been calling it that for many months now. Not sure when I began.
Luddicus Mus
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What idiot called it Go and not errlang?
PodGround Launches Second Creator Micro-Grant for Independent Podcasters #pressrelease #podcasting https://podnews.net/press-release/podground-2026
Alex
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My goodness @pluralistic's neologisms are so delicious:
"This is the defective reasoning that caused Comrade Trump to hormuz the world into the full Gretacene."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene
Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei?
Warum gibt es immer nur Mett*enden*?
Wo sind die Anfänge?!
Gestern gab es Grünkohl, nicht mit Pinkel, sondern auf westfälische Art, aber in Jiji-Variante - mit Lao Gan Ma und ordentlich Pfeffer. 😋
Addendum, for ref:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnkohlessen
@CyReVolt@mastodon.social bisschen spät für Grünkohl, oder?
