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swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Essentially this is abusive behavior and the only way out is to break the cycle.
This doesn't preclude valid criticism, but each party in this must recognize that the other parties aren't them and do not have the same audiences, the same requirements for rigor, or the same style of communication.

60 years ago tonight, the merry pranksters' first informal acid test, held at ken babbs's place outside santa cruz, where the grateful dead did not play (& all purported flyers are almost certainly fake). below text from dennis mcnally's bio & i wrote about it for the 50th.

The U.S.-Mexico border is no longer just a line on a map;
it is a roaming force, drifting through our cities and ravaging schools, courthouses and workplaces.
It has become unmoored from geography, dragging its violence and impunity into the heart of American life.
Once confined to the borderlands, the Border Patrol — with its culture of Wild West impunity — is now operating across the country,
joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement in raids far from ports of ent…

Opinion | How Border Politics Have Overrun America
The brutality of our immigration policy is no longer quarantined to the border. Both parties are at fault.

Another excellent thread from @… I especially agree with this bit:
"The EU needs to get the *hell* off US tech infrastructure. Under Trump, Big Tech and the US government have stopped even pretending that American tech companies are independent of the US government. We know (from China) that Apple will happily backdoor its cloud servers to assuage authoritarian governments"
Not easy for even a motivated person to achieve without a lot of help though. Yet.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115271300104707706
pluralistic@mamot.fr - Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu
 
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> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.

YouTube TV and Fox reach a new carriage deal for Fox News, local Fox stations, Fox Sports, and other channels (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/youtube-tv-fox-corp-deal-extension-fox-news-blackout-1236498996/…

YouTube TV, Fox Corp.: Short-Term Deal Extension, Averting Fox News Blackout
Fox News, local TV stations and other Fox Corp.-owned networks will remain on YouTube TV -- for now -- after the parties agreed to a short-term extension to their previous contract, as talks on a renewal continue.

Someone has encouraged me to engage in party politics by joining a political party. However, I oppose it, because political parties often represent interests that conflict with my own values and belief system.
Rather than aligning myself with parties that promote agendas incompatible with my views, I want to organiz my local community, prioritizing grassroots involvement and direct democratic participation over representative party politics.
As a syndicalist, I firmly believe tha…

eBike Nerdery
So the full decision matrix is:
- BBS02 48V 500W (750W) (a minor upgrade); would let me use a better battery and have a better margin when the battery gets low.
- BBSHD 48V or 52V (1000W); can be run with an extra spicy 52V battery for more power
- TSDZ8 48V 750W (1200W peak), the reengineered TSDZ2 with actual thermal capacity
- TSDZ16 48V 1000W (not sure what peak but geez that's a lot of motor)
- DM02 48V 500W (A team that made the TSDZ2 split off and went to make better motors)
- DM01 48V 1000W — I've not read up on it much but it's that same team I'm sure making a solid motor.
Also-rans:
- BBS02 36V 500W (existing motor); A spare would be nice so I can refurb mine without having to be without my bike.
- TSDZ2 48V 500W (I have one); tends to overheat and I ride hard. Not a winner.
- CYC motors: rather spendy. Nice stuff though.
- M625, M615, M225, M255: newer Bafang motors; more expensive, no real benefit, CAN bus is not well supported by third parties yet.
Pros of the Bafang BBS series: lots of parts available on the market. Lots of display options
Pros of the Tongsheng TSDZ series: Torque sensor!
Pros of the ToSeven DM series: Torque sensor, better build quality.

☭ Norway’s Red Party Offers a Working-Class Alternative
#norway

Norway’s Red Party Offers a Working-Class Alternative
Norway’s radical-left party, Rødt, has recruited thousands of members in recent years and looks set to boost its scores in Monday’s election. Seher Aydar, MP, told Jacobin about how it’s building on discontent with the established parties.

Kleinere Updates im Terminkalender:
Abrissbirne Nr. 7 im Heimat Hafen wurde (wie immer kurzfristig) angekündigt.
#Rock

Metal OWL
Relaisstation für Metal-Konzerte und -Parties im Bereich Ostwestfalen-Lippe

Eliminating Exponential Key Growth in PRG-Based Distributed Point Functions
Marc Damie, Florian Hahn, Andreas Peter, Jan Ramon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22022 https://

Eliminating Exponential Key Growth in PRG-Based Distributed Point Functions
Distributed Point Functions (DPFs) enable sharing secret point functions across multiple parties, supporting privacy-preserving technologies such as Private Information Retrieval, and anonymous communications. While 2-party PRG-based schemes with logarithmic key sizes have been known for a decade, extending these solutions to multi-party settings has proven challenging. In particular, PRG-based multi-party DPFs have historically struggled with practicality due to key sizes growing exponentially…

Spoiler: of the existing parties (i.e. not including Your proto-Party), the #GreenParty wins by a league.
Which political parties support public ownership? | We Own It
https://weownit.…

»PQConnect: Automated post-quantum end-to-end tunnels«
— by Daniel J. Bernstein
After AI, PQC will be the current topic in IT. It is actually already but not popular. Almost every (larger) IT company is now working on being able to carry out the communication and data transfer securely without the influence of third parties.
📺 https://www.

Which Values Matter to Socially Assistive Robots in Elder Care Settings? Empirically Investigating Values That Should Be Embedded in SARs from a Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
Vivienne Jia Zhong, Theresa Schmiedel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22146

Which Values Matter to Socially Assistive Robots in Elder Care Settings? Empirically Investigating Values That Should Be Embedded in SARs from a Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
The integration of socially assistive robots (SARs) in elder care settings has the potential to address critical labor shortages while enhancing the quality of care. However, the design of SARs must align with the values of various stakeholders to ensure their acceptance and efficacy. This study empirically investigates the values that should be embedded in SARs from a multi-stakeholder perspective, including care receivers, caregivers, therapists, relatives, and other involved parties. Utilizi…

Robert Spatz, le gourou d’OKC, est toujours en liberté. Au moins un abus est en cours en Espagne. En France, seules six parties civiles se battent pour qu’un mandat d’arrêt international soit enfin délivré.
https://youtu.be/R04H6ht2QU4?si=cjoqHTQjSsS9jmdU

Dutch political parties commit to work on a national ban on PFAS forever chemicals, including GroenLinks-PvdA, @… , SP, @… , @…

Deze zeven politieke partijen scharen zich achter een landelijk pfas-verbod
Een groep van zeven partijen, van PvdD tot NSC, wil pfas landelijk verbieden. Ze doen mee aan een ‘akkoord’ van milieu- en gezondheidsclubs.

The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones (Kate Whannel/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn832y43ql5o

New digital ID will be mandatory to work in the UK
PM says the scheme will make it harder to work illegally but opposition parties argue it won't stop small boat crossings.

A surprising link between hosting a bike race and reducing support for far right politics.
https://road.cc/content/news/tour-de-france-reduces-support-far-right-parties-315979

The Tour de France helps reduce support for far-right political parties, new research finds
Tour de France reduces support for far-right parties

With travel and parties for holidays coming up, it's a good time to backup your devices, just in case they're lost/damaged/stolen.
This reminder is brought to you via an unlikely car explosion in a carpark also taking out my brother's car and laptop

📸 2018 : entre deux procès de la secte OKC.
2025 : en Belgique, certaines indemnisations ne sont toujours pas versées.
Et en France ? Le dossier est gelé.
⏳ 8 ans d’attente pour les parties civiles.
🔇 19 audition. 1 mise en examen. 0 arrestation.

The prospect of families not receiving food aid has deeply concerned states run by both parties.
Democratic lawmakers have written to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins requesting to use contingency funds to cover the bulk of next month’s food aid benefits.
But a USDA memo that surfaced Friday says
“contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits.”
The document says the money is reserved for such things such as helping people in disaster areas…

Protocol Testing with I/O Grammars
Alexander Liggesmeyer, Jos\'e Antonio Zamudio Amaya, Andreas Zeller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20308 https://arxiv.o…

Protocol Testing with I/O Grammars
Generating software tests faces two fundamental problems. First, one needs to _generate inputs_ that are syntactically and semantically correct, yet sufficiently diverse to cover behavior. Second, one needs an _oracle_ to _check outputs_ whether a test case is correct or not. Both problems become apparent in _protocol testing_, where inputs are messages exchanged between parties, and outputs are the responses of these parties. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to protocol testing tha…

🙈 Political parties mostly ignore existing economic inequality, large-scale analysis finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-political-parties-economic-inequality-large.html

Political parties mostly ignore existing economic inequality, large-scale analysis finds
Growing dissatisfaction among the population, loss of trust in politics, increase in crime and violence: Economic inequality leads to a variety of social consequences. Nevertheless, the issue plays a much smaller role in the election manifestos of political parties both in Germany and in other countries than researchers had previously assumed. These are the results of a current study by the Cluster of Excellence The Politics of Inequality at the University of Konstanz, recently published in the…

Poll: Majorities across parties say 'extreme political rhetoric' was a contributor to Charlie Kirk's killing (Scott Bland/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-majorities-parties-extreme-rhetoric-charlie-kirk-killing-rcna243560
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p143#a251117p143

@… years ago I read a "helpful hint" that boiled down to: form a sensible association between (a) the person's name and (b) the situation in which you met. A word-association-thing to ensure that you will you remember the name.
I tried it, once, at parties. At the second party, I clearly and correctly remembered the person's name:
Frid…

📸 2018 : entre deux procès de la secte OKC.
2025 : en Belgique, certaines indemnisations ne sont toujours pas versées.
Et en France ? Le dossier est gelé.
⏳ 8 ans d’attente pour les parties civiles.
🔇 19 audition. 1 mise en examen. 0 arrestation.

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Over the 2 years since the previous elections, popular support for the 4 right-far-right coalition parties in the Netherlands consistently went downhill, from 56% shortly after the elections to 50% at the start of their coalition government in July 2024 to 31% now.
Data: https://peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/

Laatste Peilingwijzer – Peilingwijzer
De Peilingwijzer combineert de Tweede Kamerpeilingen van Ipsos I&O & Verian/EenVandaag

If you've been wondering how the poltiical situation in DE & across the EU is developing, some new research shows how the normalisation of the far-right . both by parties & the media has enabled their successes across the EU:
«The research highlighted the need for mainstream political parties to carve out their own discourses, said Saldivia Gonzatti, particularly when it came to topics such as migration and integration, rather than constantly trail after the far right»
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds

Pretty good analysis from @… but subtleties make it difficult to translate Danish model elsewhere. It's a PR system, so always coalitions many different flavours to vote for; Danish Peoples Party are left on welfare but not on immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/22/danish-model-centre-left-parties-labour-doesnt-work

German has a unique problem: the default noun for any job is male. Every effort to include the female or neutral form is fought tooth and nail by conservative parties. So when a mayor was forced to remove the mention of both genders in the statute for firefighters.... he kept just the female form of every job title 😈
"That's not what we meant!" the city council is now crying. "Not every person is female, after all!" they lament without noticing the irony.
…

NBCUniversal warns customers that its networks may be dropped from YouTube TV if the two parties cannot reach a new distribution agreement by September 30 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/nbc-youtube-tv-blackout-warning

NBC warns customers it may go dark on YouTube TV
This is the third major, public pay-TV dispute between a national content provider and YouTube TV in recent months.

Incentivizing Time-Aware Fairness in Data Sharing
Jiangwei Chen, Kieu Thao Nguyen Pham, Rachael Hwee Ling Sim, Arun Verma, Zhaoxuan Wu, Chuan-Sheng Foo, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09240

Incentivizing Time-Aware Fairness in Data Sharing
In collaborative data sharing and machine learning, multiple parties aggregate their data resources to train a machine learning model with better model performance. However, as the parties incur data collection costs, they are only willing to do so when guaranteed incentives, such as fairness and individual rationality. Existing frameworks assume that all parties join the collaboration simultaneously, which does not hold in many real-world scenarios. Due to the long processing time for data cle…

2023 elections, the Netherlands: many vote for weird parties hoping they'll do a better job than normal parties. Weird parties argue for half a year, form a coalition, do little and keep on arguing.
Same voters now: we really don't trust politics anymore. Politicians do little and keep arguing.

In one of his wildest moves to date, Trump is now offering companies access to plutonium from America’s arsenal of cold war nuclear missiles.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes
— a little under 42,000 pounds
— of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.
One of the companies anticipated to receive shipmen…

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

I agree with him. I'd like to see The Several States end straight-ticket voting. Even better, I'd like to see them remove the political parties from the ballots. Make people look for names.

Payment Channels with Proofs
Chad E. Brown, Cezary Kaliszyk, Josef Urban
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08268 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08268

Payment Channels with Proofs
The fundamental building blocks of the Bitcoin lightning network are bidirectional payment channels. We describe an extension of payment channels in the Proofgold network which allow the two parties to bet on whether a proposition will be proven by a certain time. These provide the foundation for a Proofgold lightning network that would allow parties to request proofs (by betting there will be no proof by a certain time) and other parties to provide proofs (and be rewarded by betting there will…

"German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers"
https://www.theguardian.com/world…

Both parties brace for a 'long conflict' as government shutdown hits two-week mark (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/both-parties-brace-long-conflict-government-shutdown-two-week-mark-rcna236970
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p118#a251014p118

QQ for all the "Restore the #RuleOfLaw" folks out there: When militarized police crushed Occupy for daring to challenge the logic of bailing out the bankers who crashed the economy rather than the people they fleeced, was that "Rule of Law"? When militarized police maimed and brutalized water protectors, was that "Rule of Law"? When oil companies and tech monopolies fund both parties and just happen to get legislation that keeps them in power, is that "Rule of Law"? When your tax dollars go to fund genocide, to pay to drop bombs on children, is that "Rule of Law"? When the NSA was spying on American citizens, was that "Rule of Law"? How about the drone strikes on Americans, was that "Rule of Law"? When cops murder people and then use "qualified immunity" to get away with it, is that "Rule of Law"?
Y'all keep talking about how #NoKings is about "restoring rule of law." It's got a bit of a "Make America Great Again" feel to it: you're invoking a return to a history that never actually existed.

💔 Les survivants d’OKC ont surmonté des défis incroyables. Ensemble, luttons pour leur droit Š la justice. Rejoignez-nous pour mettre fin Š l'impunité. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

When you start to see that capitalism is nothing but systemic exploitation and domination, and that Marxism-Leninism only reproduces the same state capitalism under another name through authoritarian state socialism, you then realize that leftist parties don’t actually bring about any fundamental change, because they to keep power rigidly centralized, to preserve existing hierarchies, and to maintain the dominance of the ruling classes.
If you want a genuine alternative, one built on w…

Catherine Connolly on the streets of Galway today.
People Before Profit members in Galway have enthusiastically supported Catherine's campaign for the Presidency and are honoured to be able help build the movement locally with so many other lovely people.
We're very excited to see a grassroots, people powered movement that has united parties on the Left along with independents and those unaffiliated with any political party.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds
Now that proper researchers say what we've been repeating for at least a decade, wi…

Il y a des gens qui jouent Š #Codenames sur l'app mobile dans mon réseau ?
Le niveau des randoms est un peu triste, et j'aimerais bien faire des parties qualitatives :)
(je demande pas un niveau de ouf, mais juste des gens qui ont compris le jeu, genre "si deux mots peuvent être reliés par un indice évident et que c'est pas celui-lŠ qui est donné, c'est sûremen…

Why do rightwing parties in Europe call themselves "freedom parties"?

DRAssist: Dispute Resolution Assistance using Large Language Models
Sachin Pawar, Manoj Apte, Girish K. Palshikar, Basit Ali, Nitin Ramrakhiyani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01962

DRAssist: Dispute Resolution Assistance using Large Language Models
Disputes between two parties occur in almost all domains such as taxation, insurance, banking, healthcare, etc. The disputes are generally resolved in a specific forum (e.g., consumer court) where facts are presented, points of disagreement are discussed, arguments as well as specific demands of the parties are heard, and finally a human judge resolves the dispute by often favouring one of the two parties. In this paper, we explore the use of large language models (LLMs) as assistants for the h…

"New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets"
#NewZealand #Climate #ClimateChange

🏙️ Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
#politics

Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents direct power over the budget. It worked.

none of these words are in the bible

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

I feel like a copious amount of Fedi drama could just be avoided by having both parties (who are no doubt well-meaning) just stop and chat (calmly and respectfully) with each other until they come to a conclusion.

Flip side of this: ~3 years ago, I got automated calls from “RBC Visa”. I ignored them.
Then my card stopped working.
So I called the number on the back of my card and said as much.
The agent gave me a hard time: “So you JUST IGNORED our calls about this?”
“No; I didn’t know they were you calling.”
“How did you not know they were us?! It says ‘this is RBC Visa’ when you answer!”
“That’s indistinguishable from fraud.”
He did not like that. He thought …

Dear People I am done with following hyped music, manufactured, and promoted by money grubbing bottom dwellers . For the most part we know who the guilty parties are....

Nexstar says it will continue to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live!, "pending assurances that all parties are committed to ... respectful, constructive dialogue" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/nexstar-jimmy-kimmel-preemption-1236553268/

Nexstar Stations Will Join Sinclair In Preempting Jimmy Kimmel When Host Returns To ABC Tonight
The late-night host is returning to the air tonight.

Trump on Tuesday canceled a meeting with Democratic congressional leaders to avoid a shutdown over government funding, arguing it could not “possibly be productive”.

The reversal leaves the two parties in Washington without a solution to keep the government open past Sept. 30,
when the current fiscal year ends and funding runs out.
The meeting scheduled for Thursday was intended to negotiate a path forward.

Trump cancels meetings with Democrats, bringing shutdown closer
Democratic congressional leaders argue the president’s unwillingness to meet is inviting a shutdown.

was just reminded where i was 15 years ago today, at all tomorrow's parties' last stand at kutsher's (or maybe just kutsher's last stand), the only place i've ever encountered an out-of-order sign on a mattress. probably one of my last proper blog posts. https://jessejarnow.com/2010/09/all-to

So far as I can tell at the moment, Your Party will be stillborn,
https://chaos.social/@onepict/115235476888701531
Which is a big disappointment.

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers<…

Robert Spatz, le gourou d’OKC, est toujours en liberté. Au moins un abus est en cours en Espagne. En France, seules six parties civiles se battent pour qu’un mandat d’arrêt international soit enfin délivré.
https://youtu.be/R04H6ht2QU4?si=cjoqHTQjSsS9jmdU

What can we do against the rise of the hateful, anti-democratic far-right?
Stay informed, speak out, support democratic parties and humanitarian organizations, vote!
And more here:
https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/113681807165629296

💔 Survivre Š une dérive sectaire, c’est déjŠ un combat. Se reconstruire et chercher justice, c’est encore plus difficile. Aidons les victimes d’OKC Š faire entendre leur voix au tribunal. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year,
the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
According to the New York Times, the proposal that Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly
“targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
The pro…

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

N-Parties Private Structure and Parameter Learning for Sum-Product Networks
Xenia Heilmann, Ernst Althaus, Mattia Cerrato, Nick Johannes Peter Rassau, Mohammad Sadeq Dousti, Stefan Kramer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05946

N-Parties Private Structure and Parameter Learning for Sum-Product Networks
A sum-product network (SPN) is a graphical model that allows several types of probabilistic inference to be performed efficiently. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving protocol which tackles structure generation and parameter learning of SPNs. Additionally, we provide a protocol for private inference on SPNs, subsequent to training. To preserve the privacy of the participants, we derive our protocol based on secret sharing, which guarantees privacy in the honest-but-curious setting ev…

Parties have split over less disastrous results, just saying

WBD says it is expanding a strategic review and is open to a sale after receiving "unsolicited interest" from multiple parties; WBD jumps 7% pre-market (Sara Salinas/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/wbd-sale-warner-bros-media.html

It's come to this.
Yaxley Lennon and Farage endorse Mahmoud's asylum plan. Most Labour MPs supine.
Progressive parties oppose them.
‘Morally wrong and politically disastrous’ – Labour's asylum plans slammed | Morning Star
https://mor…

Why did Republicans close ranks around Donald Trump in 2016,
when they could have salvaged their old party and rebuilt after losing?
From the vantage point of today, it’s easy to dismiss the notion. “That’s just what parties do, of course, particularly Republicans in their era of hyperpartisanship.”
But the people who might say that have forgotten how unsettled Republicans were a decade ago.
The idea that they might be forced to withdraw support from Trump and accep…

MAGA Disarray And The Accumulated Debt Of Corruption
They'd bring America down rather than face accountability, but accountability is not optional.

Just because the educational work of Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents of all centralising tendencies which are so characteristic of most of the present labour parties.
Centralism, that artificial scheme which operates from the top towards the bottom and turns over the affairs of administration to a small minority, is always attended by barren official routine; it crushes individual conviction, kills …

💢 Research shows there are no easy fixes to political hatred
#politics

Research shows there are no easy fixes to political hatred
Tune into American politics today, and you'll hear something far more sinister than simple disagreement. The language has escalated: political parties trash talk each other—blaming rival parties for policy failures or even for causing incidents with national implications.

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Less than 2 years ago, the right and far-right parties later forming the now double-failed Dutch government coalition got 88 out of 150 seats in parliament. They're now polling at 53 seats.
The two parties still in the caretaker government together at 21 seats.

💔 Les survivants d’OKC ont surmonté des défis incroyables. Ensemble, luttons pour leur droit Š la justice. Rejoignez-nous pour mettre fin Š l'impunité. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer
has resulted in crowded primaries for both major parties,
a new test for one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safely red in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville.
The race to fill the seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. Mark Green could gauge the popularity of Donald Trump’s authoritarian second-term agenda, especially with suburban Republican voters.
There had be…

Special election in Tennessee draws a crowd in both parties
A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has attracted crowded primaries for both major parties. The departure of former U.S. Rep. Mark Green has resulted in the contested primary Tuesday in one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safe red seats in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville. Eleven Republicans are running in the 14-county district, with most attention centering on state Reps. Jody Barrett and Gino Bulso and former Ten…

🚧 L’accès Š la justice est un combat. Encore plus pour des survivant-es de dérives sectaires. Aidons-les Š surmonter cet obstacle et Š voir leur dossier avancer. Chaque don compte ! 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

"Although the leftist alliance led by Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party, who served as Boric’s labor minister, is ahead in the opinion polls, she will not get an outright majority in the first round as Boric did.  And a collection of right-wing parties is likely to combine their vote and get Kast into the presidential office in the second round in December."

Chile: another turn to the right?
Chile has a general election today. Around 15m voters can take part in the first round to elect a new president, the lower house and half the seats of the senate. Incumbent President Gabriel Boric,…

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.
Hello?
Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.
Enough of the false equivalence.
https://bsky.app/profile/rbr…

Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social)
The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

😿 The Crisis of the Portuguese Left
#politics

The Crisis of the Portuguese Left
The Portuguese Socialist Party once seemed to be a model for Europe’s center left, gaining support while its sister parties were in decline. But this year’s election was a crushing defeat that saw the Socialists fall behind the far-right group Chega.

Beware of snakes like Tricia Cotham in NC who switched parties and gave MAGA a veto-proof majority in the house.
https://ncnewsline.com/2023/04/05/rep-tricia-cothams-party-switch-gives-the-house-gop-a-veto-proof-majority/

Finally, Dutch parliament (on initiative by D66) may determine that all political parties need to be open to members.
So far, the PVV was allowed to operate with only one member, by definition. Guess who.
https://www.tro…

Serieuze kans dat partijen straks leden móeten hebben, en dat heeft grote gevolgen voor de PVV
Een voorstel om partijen te verplichten leden toe te laten maakt een goede kans op een meerderheid. Dat zou grote impact hebben op de PVV van Geert Wilders.

💔 Survivre Š une dérive sectaire, c’est déjŠ un combat. Se reconstruire et chercher justice, c’est encore plus difficile. Aidons les victimes d’OKC Š faire entendre leur voix au tribunal. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

🚧 L’accès Š la justice est un combat. Encore plus pour des survivant-es de dérives sectaires. Aidons-les Š surmonter cet obstacle et Š voir leur dossier avancer. Chaque don compte ! 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

💔 Les survivants d’OKC ont surmonté des défis incroyables. Ensemble, luttons pour leur droit Š la justice. Rejoignez-nous pour mettre fin Š l'impunité. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

📸 2018 : entre deux procès de la secte OKC.
2025 : en Belgique, certaines indemnisations ne sont toujours pas versées.
Et en France ? Le dossier est gelé.
⏳ 8 ans d’attente pour les parties civiles.
🔇 19 audition. 1 mise en examen. 0 arrestation.

⚠️ Les survivant-es d’OKC se battent contre un système judiciaire lent et souvent violent pour les victimes. Aidons-les Š franchir cette épreuve et Š porter leur affaire jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

🚧 L’accès Š la justice est un combat. Encore plus pour des survivant-es de dérives sectaires. Aidons-les Š surmonter cet obstacle et Š voir leur dossier avancer. Chaque don compte ! 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

⚖️ Survivre Š une secte, c’est dur. Obtenir justice, encore plus. L’instruction de l’affaire OKC-Spatz arrive Š un moment clé. Aidons 6 parties civiles Š aller jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/cagnotte-en-ligne

Faire un don | Association Chardons Bleus
Transparence Le bilan total des dons sera actualisé toutes les deux semaines. Quand vous faites un don hors-ligne par virement bancaire, votre montant de do ...

⚖️ 6 parties civiles se battent pour la justice dans l’affaire OKC-Spatz. iElles n’ont pas les moyens de payer leurs avocats. Chardons Bleus est lŠ pour les soutenir. Aidons-les Š poursuivre leur combat ! votre don peut faire la différence 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

Cagnotte Juridique | Association Chardons Bleus
Depuis 2015, nous luttons pour la justice contre les dérives sectaires de l’Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC)

💔 Survivre Š une dérive sectaire, c’est déjŠ un combat. Se reconstruire et chercher justice, c’est encore plus difficile. Aidons les victimes d’OKC Š faire entendre leur voix au tribunal. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

⚠️ Les survivant-es d’OKC se battent contre un système judiciaire lent et souvent violent pour les victimes. Aidons-les Š franchir cette épreuve et Š porter leur affaire jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Un procès est essentiel, mais le financement est crucial pour faire entendre leur voix. Soutenons les 6 parties civiles de l’affaire OKC-Spatz pour obtenir justice. 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Robert Spatz, le gourou d’OKC, est toujours en liberté. Au moins un abus est en cours en Espagne. En France, seules six parties civiles se battent pour qu’un mandat d’arrêt international soit enfin délivré.
https://youtu.be/R04H6ht2QU4?si=cjoqHTQjSsS9jmdU

> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.