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[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 2 points 20 minutes ago

Ukraine has handed over to Russia as part of an exchange a 21-year-old student who had plans to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), investigative media outlet Verstka reported on Friday, citing his friends and Ukrainian military sources.

According to Verstka, Alexey Gerasimov was a former student of journalism at the Chuvash State University, who, friends said, openly supported Chuvashia’s secession from Russia. Chuvashia is a republic in Russia’s Volga region where local Chuvash, a Turkic ethnic group, form a two-thirds majority of the population.

“He would debate teachers, saying it was time for Chuvashia to secede from Russia. The teachers reported him and he was mobilised into the army,” Mishshi Oreshnikov, a Chuvash activist who fights for the AFU, told Verstka, though Verstka was unable to confirm this.

Fucking hell. Both Russia and China’s erasure of indigenous Turkic peoples is really bleak.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 2 points 22 minutes ago

(In the US)

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In a tent by the Mediterranean Sea, Hidaya Al-Motawaq cradles her crying baby boy and tries to offer what comfort she can.****"Khalas," she murmurs repeatedly. "Khalas, khalas." Enough, that's enough.

Mohammad is a year and a half old and nearly all bone. His eyes protrude, as does his swollen stomach. His spine is so sharp and so defined, it seems it might poke through his thin skin.

Al-Motawaq, 30, says she no longer has breast milk to give him, because she herself is malnourished.

A widow, Al-Motawaq went from hospital to hospital, looking for food or milk to offer Mohammad and her other child, his five-year-old sister, but says she has been unable to find any. The one remaining pediatric ward treating malnutrition in Gaza closed down this month, citing a lack of food and medical supplies.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 points 25 minutes ago

It’s a shame the mongabay website doesn’t let you properly see the high quality versions or zoom in.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I use bookwyrm. Out of principle I won’t use storygraph because it’s closed source.

I agree with you the duplication on BookWyrm is annoying.

I’ve been looking into !neodb@lemmy.zip it looks quite promising but I haven’t had the energy to really engage with it and test it.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 11 points 4 hours ago

In fact, it appears we live in a giant cosmic void with roughly 20% lower than the average density of matter.

Okay that’s a little less dramatic than I envisioned given the use of the word “void”

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 4 points 4 hours ago

This is a video not a news article.

China is hosting the World AI conference in Shanghai this weekend, an annual event aimed at showcasing Beijing's leadership in the evolution of technology. At the opening event Saturday, the country's premier said China would be setting up a new organisation for cooperation on AI governance - again warning the risks of the technology must be considered as much as its benefits

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[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 points 5 hours ago

Similar one in Fort Wayne, Indiana

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Not very high priority to remove though. Nothing identfiable in the gran scheme I guess.

 
 
 
 

Le 19 juin 2025, les habitant.e.s de 11, 15 et 17 Place des Augustins se sont réunis pour la deuxième assemblée de leur association Voisin.e.s de la Place des Augustins. Ils ont décidé le lancement d’une pétition contre la résiliation de tous les baux par la Zurich Assurance pour l’été 2026, la destruction de leur immeuble et l’absence totale de relogement prévu en cas d’aboutissement du projet.

L’immeuble de 74 logements et deux cafés-restaurants est voué à la démolition par la Zurich, qui en profitera pour augmenter massivement les loyers et poursuivre la disparation des quartiers populaires de centre ville. Une fois de plus, une immense entreprise multi-propriétaire entend maximiser ses profits aux détriments des habitant.e.s.

 

25 January 2025 - The journalist, human rights defender and founder of the media platform “Electronic Intifada” was violently and forcibly taken by two individuals in civilian dress, who claimed to be police, but refused to identify themselves, when he was walking on the streets of Zurich this afternoon. They refused to disclose alleged grounds for sequestring him and where they would take him. Abunimah was scheduled to speak this afternoon at a teach-in on the history of Palestine, organised by local groups. He is now held under administrative detention by the cantonal police, who intends to keep him several nights in custody until they deport him out of the country next week.

Putain on dirait nos authorités s’inspirent de Trump.

 

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price

It’s what the extreme right of the Tory party wanted from Brexit: to tear down crucial public protections, including those that defend us from the most brutal and dangerous forms of capital. The Conservatives lost office before they were able to do their worst. But never mind, because Labour has now picked up the baton.

A month ago, so quietly that most of us missed it, the government published a consultation on deregulating chemicals. While most consultations last for 12 weeks, this one runs for eight, half of which cover the holiday period – it closes on 18 August. The intention is set out at the beginning: to reduce “costs to business”. This, as repeated statements by Keir Starmer make clear, means tearing up the rules.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33333666

I love malicious compliance with car-centric rules 😎

 
 

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/133291

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