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Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Gazans Fleeing Palestine Arriving In Sweden -- It Shows A West Bank Soccer Team Touring Europe: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/fact-check-video-does-not.html

Minnesota Senator Tina Smith hospitalized after not feeling well at Capitol (Jasmine Baehr/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minnesota-senator-tina-smith-hospitalized-after-not-feeling-well-capitol
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p159#a250716p159

An early morning alone on the banks of the (still young) Isar river some weeks ago... Really more "flow" rather than #WaterfallWednesday, but I just absolutely cherish places and moments like this & feeling so privileged being able to experience these after decades of living in large cities... (each time also a reminder how much we stand to lose...)

ChatGPT didn't object to putting a red nose on the dog or painting the rabbits green, but at least it didn't suggest I use staplers on the mice.
#scrooged #chatgpt

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000 employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/int

Intel layoffs exceed 5,000 across US
The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.

Today in "please stop saying 'environmentalism' when you mean 'being a snob'":
Caltrans ranked hydrogen trains, a fossil-fuel derived vaporware technology, as more environmentally friendly than electrification, because they think overhead wires look bad. That's the actual reason. htt…

Instead of spending an excessive amount of time browsing my Mastodon feed, I found myself dedicating more time to reading books on topics that interest me, such as syndicalism and anarchism.
Deciding to step back from Mastodon following my extensive post on August 4 has proven to be a positive choice. While I occasionally check the news here, I spend most of my time elsewhere, engaged in other activities.

I’ve been doing an unholy amount of weeding recently and keep seeing these little spiders fleeing my progress. Many are carrying a tiny white ball and so I looked them up out of curiosity.
Apparently they are “Rabid Wolf Spiders”, which sounds like they themselves got to pick it out and sought something impressively terrifying so that humans would leave them alone. It’s certainly a misnomer since spiders cannot be rabid.
The white ball is an egg sac.

Sen. Tina Smith hospitalized after feeling ill (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/16/congress/sen-tina-smith-hospitalized-00458811
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p165#a250716p165

It's time to organize, no heroes are coming!
⭐ Read more here: #Anarchism #Syndicalism