The Naked Gun review – Liam Neeson deadpans impeccably in outrageously amusing spoof reboot
Neeson plays the son of Leslie Nielsens Lt Frank Drebin, appearing opposite Pamela Anderson in this enjoyable, at times very bizarre, spoof of 80s LA action movies
#TheGuardian #News VIA #MPAQ #English #USA Jul 30, 2025
Safeway, unions reach deal that avoids strike
Over the weekend, a tentative agreement was reached between Safeway and local chapters of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, narrowly avoiding a strike that would have affected hundreds of stores across Northern California, including those in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
#RedwoodCityPulse #News VIA #MPAQ #English #Redwood #California Jul 30, 2025
Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search
Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.
We are witnessing the silencing of American media
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-3768-8a37-4cc8-8f4669412520
Z #NowPlaying At the top of the hour it's the repeat of The Fingertip Show Presented by Jorgen Hansson www.JorgenHansson.com in #English and #Swedish. Good 
music and fun! https://theglobalvoice.info:8443/broadband #TGVRadio #pop #rock #country 
German-English connections: "anecken" and "to egg on." These words don't mean exactly the same thing, but they are related. Etymologically, they seem closely related. English is a Germanic language. And phrasal verbs offer up interesting connections.
Now That Theyre Free
https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump/?ref=ActivityPub
Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released is proof of how senseless their detentions were.
#ProPublica #News VIA #MPAQ #English #Illinois Jul 30, 2025
Now at #ICLA2025, the special session "Celebrating Han Kang's Nobel Prize Award" in the Grand Ballroom.
Sadly, a missed opportunity for the international visibility of the session and its hero: talks appear to be in #Korean with just the first lines of the abstract in #English shown on the screen. That's quite reductive, I can only suppose. And I have read the abstracts already.
Infos: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=1030&mode=table
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Kang
US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/us-civil-society-watchlist-trump/?ref=ActivityPub
International non-profit Civicus says sustained attacks on civic freedoms put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya
#TheGuardian #News VIA #MPAQ #English #USA Jul 30, 2025
New Orleans announces municipal ID card amid nationwide Ice crackdown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/29/new-orleans-municipal-id-card/?ref=ActivityPub
Crescent City ID program will help immigrants and those who are homeless obtain ID proof and access services
#TheGuardian #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ #English #USA 07-29-2025
HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols Upgrade: Owncast Live Stream I am now live on my Owncast instance!
"We Were Here" with SilvanestiMek!
#videogames #chatting #casual #english #streaming #owncast #variety
This is a Ficaria verna (formerly Ranunculus ficaria L.), or lesser celandine or pilewort (as per Wikipedia and other sites).
I have tested gemma 3 4b-it-q4_0 multimodal vision model for a while: it is not accurate, and can't be trusted.
For instance, it thinks it is a Ranunculus acris (it isn't). It's really hit and miss with this model. I guess it could still be useful to provide some clues or vocabulary.
07-29-2025
Trumps EPA Moves to Kill "Holy Grail" of Climate Regulations
The agency said its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases harmed people had caused "years of uncertainty for automakers."
07-29-2025
Israel again intercepts Gaza bound aid vessel
Jul 29, 2025 - From Counter Vortex - The Israeli military on July 27Â intercepted a civilian vessel, detaining 21 international activists and journalists who were aiming to break Israels naval blockade of Gaza. In a statement, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international grassroots network of human rights and civil society organizations...
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/israel-again-intercepts-gaza-bound-aid-vessel/?ref=ActivityPub
07-29-2025
Pour one out for a real one. Original antifa Octavio Alberola has passed away at the age of 97. Via...
Jul 29, 2025 - From Antifa International - ALTPour one out for a real one. Original antifa Octavio Alberola has passed away at the age of 97. Via Marcolino Jeremais: Born into a deeply anarchist and rationalist family his father was a teacher at the Ferrer i Guardia Modern School Octavio experienced the horrors of the Civil War and exile...
07-29-2025
San Mateo County left with one Planned Parenthood clinic
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte permanently closed five of its clinics in Northern California on Thursday, July 24, as a result of President Donald Trumps funding bill. The closure of two clinics in South San Francisco and San Mateo, leaves only one remaining in San Mateo County - in Redwood City.
#RedwoodCityPulse #StreetPapers VIA #MPAQ #English #Redwood #California
U.S. Government Agencies Eliminating Spanish Language Services Is Self-Inflicted Harm
#Trump #USA #LanguageAccess #SpanishServices #Spanish #English #Immigrants #ImmigrantRights #USGovernment #CivilRights #EquityInAccess #BilingualServices #HumanRights
https://the-14.com/u-s-government-agencies-eliminating-spanish-language-services-is-self-inflicted-harm/
07-29-2025
A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.
Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a way to fight aging and chronic disease.
https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-injections-raadfest-rfk-jr/?ref=ActivityPub
Message in a bottle time again #GetFediHired (not a peep from anyone yet).
Growing desperate in search for (remote) software developer work in the #Ottawa #Montreal areas. #C C# #Erlang #Java #NodeJS #Shell #SQL #BSD #Linux #English #French and more. Very versatile, adaptable, experienced.
Hey! If its remote, its possible to work world wide too!
Pedant in me: Oh yes. Yes, that shall be the artefact and artifact distinction.
"artifact was properly applied to physical, historical objects, while an artefact was more correct for more abstract, intangible, error-ish concepts, for example a compression artefact"
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/37903/difference-between-artifact-and-artefact
