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That feeling when you’ve got twice the number of followers on the fediverse as the closed-source VC-funded European social network being peddled by the EU Commission has accounts.
Hey, @…, y’all are so incompetent you can’t even do evil right.
Muppets.
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Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ (@elena@aseachange.com)
[1 media attachment] Good morning Fedi friends. Is anybody curious about how the #WSocial experiment is going? You know, the private, for profit "European answer to X" endorsed by the European Commission, which is a fork of Bluesky and has quietly gone closed-source before its beta launch (à la #TruthSocial)? I've got numbers for you! Nearly two months in, W Social has almost the same number of accounts as #Eurosky... You know, the European fork of Bluesky that does NOT require government …

Rubio nodded to the fact that
Katie Miller's husband,
deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller,
has the portfolio overseeing UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena).
"I don't know who it is. I don't know what it is. But there are things flying over our military installation, and they're not ours, and we should look into this," Rubio said.
Rubio said there was a political benefit to talking about it when he was a senator becaus…

Greatest hits from Rubio's head-turning podcast interview
Katie Miller's show is the Trump administration's go-to new media outlet where officials talk at length in a friendly setting.

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our regular pub (owned and run by old friends) was flying a huge trans pride flag over the bar earlier this year; tonight i noticed they have changed the toilet signage in way that tells terfs to fuck off in an elegantly ronseal manner

Grad die erste Folge LOL next geschaut. Viel Fremdschämen, kein einziges Mal gelacht.
#lolnext

40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

Found a site that always goes the extra mile for it's niche subject, to the point I genuinely feel bad tryna explore rather than be a sincere initiate https://enochian.net/

Substrate-Directed Wetting Layers in Bicontinuous Particle-Stabilised Emulsions
Jesse M. Steenhoff, Martin F. Haase
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13230 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13230 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13230
arXiv:2608.13230v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels (bijels) facilitate efficient mass transport across multiple length scales due to their interwoven structure of particle-stabilised liquid channels. This unique morphology imparts considerable potential for applications in separation and catalysis, particularly when fabricated \textit{via} solvent-transfer-induced phase separation (STrIPS). STrIPS enables the continuous, large-scale production of nanostructured bijel films on solid substrates, yet the influence of the substrate properties on the formation dynamics and final morphology remains insufficiently understood. In this study, this relationship is elucidated by preparing STrIPS bijel films on silane-functionalised glass substrates with selectively controlled wettability and analysing the resulting structure with confocal microscopy. The results showed the presence of notable wetting layers at the bijel-substrate interface, whose thicknesses could be tuned through the nanoparticle weight fraction. In line with numerical simulations, increasing the substrate hydrophobicity drove a transition from a laminar, water-rich surface layer to a patch-like, progressively oil-rich structure. These findings provide crucial insight into the structure-directing role of substrates in supported bijel films, which aids their application as functional materials.
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The feeling of unity soon gave way to anger and division,
in large part due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,
begun by the George W Bush administration
and framed as necessary conflicts to help the US win the "war on terror".
“We launched two forever wars that were wholly ineffective at making us safer militarily,
and only sank our prestige in the world
– especially [in] Europe and the Middle East
– at the cost of thousands of American sold…

Americans on how 9/11 changed their lives: ‘It completely unraveled the US’
Twenty-five years later, the Guardian asks US readers how the attacks affected their lives, and their country