Jean-Marc Liotier

Is VOLT the only European Federalist organization these days ?

Self-hosting my photos with Immich For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted th...

Immich is my photo gallery nowadays. Not only does it "just work", it is also functionally superior to Google Photo. Docker Immich on Portainer in my Debian cellar, Tailscale, Nginx reverse proxy on the free Oracle Arm host - blissful experience, including the AI object and face recognition.

Agreed. I understand *why* politicians don't want to acknowledge reality in public (fear of being blamed/fear of Trump tariffs) but the problem is that without that acknowledgement it's more difficult to change public opinion & build support for the changes that we need to make in order to survive.

Again, "civilization" isn't a meaningful analytic concept. Here, it's a false narrative mobilized in service of white US ethno-nationalists for domestic political purposes. An attempt to tie Trumpist authoritarianism to a transcendental project when, in fact, it's a tawdry local embarrassment.

Censorship is the EU bureaucrats’ key tool: by silencing critics of mass migration, rising crime and economic decay, they QUIETLY push Western civilization further down the suicide path. Quote Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio · 18h The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over.

Ursula “Pfizer” von der Leyen desperately needs EU censorship to hide corruption. Quote JD Vance @JDVance · Dec 4 Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage. Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev · 12h Quote Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev · 18h Censorship is the EU bureaucrats’ key tool: by silencing critics of mass migration, rising crime and economic decay, they QUIETLY push Western civilization further down the suicide path. x.com/secrubio/statu…

Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev · 12h EU bureaucrats have turned into enemies of free speech, enemies of Western civilization — and, ultimately, enemies of themselves. Quote Elon Musk @elonmusk · 12h The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the “Streisand Effect” x.com/cb_doge/status…

EU’s fatal mistake: choosing censorship over debate, ideology over reality, mass migration over security and green dogma over industry. Quote Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio · 18h The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over.

Over on Xitter, Kirill Dmitriev, whose country censors Xitter entirely, is on a 7-plus tweet rant about the EU enforcing transparency rules on Xitter.

Apparently, if you stand on an upturned hull, you are not in distress.

Good luck running this defence, lads. The client might want to bring a toothbrush to court, mind.

“The Attack,” Edvard (Eetu) Isto, 1899. A two-headed eagle tries to take a book of law from a white and blue clad maiden.

Since it is Finland’s Independence Day today, here’s probably the most famous Finnish patriotic painting ever. My favourite too!

Because note the book the two-headed eagle is attacking. “Lex” - Law.

The rule of law.

“The Attack,” Edvard (Eetu) Isto, 1899.

And a failure to acknowledge the new political realities where the US is a rogue mafia state, that uses every possible economic/security vulnerability to extract tribute and destroy democracy, means you're lulling the public into a false sense of security and not building support for major changes.

This ridiculously dangerous political game of smoke and mirrors where we pretend that nothing has changed while behind the scenes we wring our hands and dither about how to respond to the madness is a major problem.
The longer you keep denying reality, the higher the final costs will be.

I think the best parallel is the Iran-Iraq War. It’s a brutal slog between under equipped and exhausted conventional military forces that probably has no real bearing on how other contemporary conventional conflicts be will be fought.

The word ‘law’ is connected with ‘legal’, but etymologically they’re entirely unrelated.

‘Law’ is related to the verbs ‘to lie’ and ‘to lay’. It comes from a Germanic word meaning “things that are laid out”.

‘Legal’ is related to ‘loyal’. Both derive from Latin ‘lēx’ (law).

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every movie soundtrack is a concept album

The Dante AVIO USB adapter lets any host join a Dante network - nice. But even better would be a Dante AVIO USB host adapter, to let any class compliant USB audio interface join too. I wonder why it doesn't exist... So much integration potential !

This Post was deleted by the Post author. Learn more Sabrina Carpenter ® @SabrinaAnnLynn X.com this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda. 10:25 AM • 12/2/25 • 138M Views 19K 27 216K 1.7M

hahaha the White House deleted the fascist anti-immigrant slop video after Sabrina Carpenter ratioed them

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

Billionaires are absolutely welcome in the tent. But they are not welcome to be more free of tax than their non-billionaire tentmates.

this article is so unserious it feels satirical

whole-body MRI scans for worried well are horrifically low-value

they find incidentalomas, leading to downstream costs & iatrogenic harm

not sure what it's doing in a newspaper (if that's what we're calling the WaPo)

www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...

"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."

From People magazine: "Kate Middleton wears most dramatic tiara yet, skeletal remains found in drained swamp"

This...should have been two separate emails.

Pelt shoplifters with fruit in stocks, Labour peer demands ‘Public humiliation’ would act as deterrent against surging crime rates, says Lord Glasman

checking on the Blue Labour tendency in the UK

Trump has orchestrated a golden age for Australia China’s epochal rise was the driver of Australia’s first resource boom, in 2025 President Trump has engineered something almost as astounding.

1: Trump slaps tariffs on Australia, despite U.S. having a trade surplus with the country.
2: Countries get scared away from US assets, buy gold.
3: Australia is one of the top gold exporters.
4: U.S. trade surplus with Australia sinks to lowest level in 20 years because gold sales to U.S. grow 10x

Yale’s latest analysis suggests marketplaces are now so unused that they are becoming overgrown and that all the livestock appears to have been moved out of the city,which had 1.5 million inhabitants before the war began in April 2023.

“As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for since the city fell to the RSF. They are not thought to have left the city, and this grisly development comes amid increasingly gloomy speculation about their fate.”

RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

“Sarah Champion, chair of the Commons international development select committee, said: “Members received a private briefing on Sudan, at which one of the academics stated: ‘Our low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’”

In the end, the most valuable domestic product was trust.

Until it wasn’t anymore.

The dollar is important.

Trust was more so.

The biggest garage door maker is coming up with increasingly complicated ways to stop third-party smart controllers (since they sell their own service)

This is a hilarious workaround though

Typical

c'mon, do something image but he's poking a bubble

so when the fuck do we start getting cheap used datacenter shit dumped on the market. i want my computer to be a horrible pile of E1.S L ruler SSDs and SXM5 GPU compute modules adapted to fit consumer interfaces with parts from shenzhen/taiwan

The NYT photo desk FTW.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics