literature.cafe

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(and anyone else, really)

This is a general special interest lemmy instance focusing on lovers of all things pertaining to reading and writing and all of the people that enjoy it as well as fandoms and niches that exist within reading circles. We federate with other instances, with our local communities being focused primarily on the above.

If you want to federate a new community, go to lemmyverse.net and copy a link to a community and paste it into the search bar. Be patient!

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Instance Rules
  1. Keep it cozy. (No -isms, bigotry, gatekeeping, or general disrespect. Just be nice!)
  2. Please, no visual porn. (Smut and discussion of smut is OK as long as it is tagged as NSFW.)
  3. No spam.
  4. Be mindful of other instance rules.
  5. Keep self-promo to a minimum.
  6. Tag AI generated content as such.
  7. Please avoid piracy.

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For those visiting from other instances, we have a community directory to make finding communities easier: !411@literature.cafe


We also have alternative lemmy UIs to use for those who want them.

A familiar UI - old.literature.cafe

Photon - ph.literature.cafe

Tesseract (photon fork with more multimedia focused features) - t.literature.cafe


Donations are greatly appreciated and go entirely to server costs but are not required.

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submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by dipshit@lemm.ee to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 
 

(I'm a transfem tomboy btw)

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De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump komt woensdag met een groot pakket aan importheffingen waar ook Nederland niet aan ontkomt. Toch zijn veel bedrijven die naar de Verenigde Staten exporteren zeker niet nerveus. "Amerikanen hebben geen capaciteit voor wat wij maken."

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"This has been a long time coming," says Managing Director Ryan Sipes

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In short:

Private security guards, paid by the NT government to patrol the streets, have been caught on camera kicking and stomping on an Aboriginal man.

One of the guards involved was the subject of a previous complaint, after he dragged an elderly First Nations woman along the ground.

What's next?

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner is calling for the federal government to do more to protect human rights in the NT.

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Summary

Elon Musk sparked alarm among law enforcement by publicly revealing details of a planned Social Security fraud arrest during a livestream supporting a Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate.

Musk claimed knowledge of a suspect accused of stealing 400,000 Social Security numbers, raising concerns from federal officials over breaching investigative confidentiality.

Musk's comments echoed unverified claims of undocumented immigrants defrauding benefits and voting.

DOJ declined to comment, while insiders worry Musk’s disclosures jeopardize sensitive operations.

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submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/giftofgaming@lemmy.world
 
 

First come first serve! Comment which game you want and I'll DM the key to you.

  • [Xbox] Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
  • [PC/GOG] The Smurfs 2 - The Prisoner of the Green Stone
  • ~~[PC/GOG] Saints Row: The Third Remastered~~
  • [PC/GOG] BioShock Infinite Complete Edition
  • [PC/GOG] Gamedec - Definitive Edition

Also available from a previous giveaway:

  • [PC/Steam] Blightbound
  • [PC/Steam] Truberbrook
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Pepperidge farms remembers.

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Picture: wet cat in a bathtub looking at the camera "I seriously don't understand why we need birth certificates, like I promise you I was born"

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Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Tuesday that she had directed federal prosecutors to seek the penalty for the "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination".

In the press release, Bondi said Mr Thompson's murder "was an act of political violence" and that it "may have posed grave risk of death to additional persons" nearby.

A lawyer for Mr Mangione called the decision "barbaric", accused the government of "defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry", and said Mr Mangione was caught in a tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors.

"While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to commit the pre-meditated, state-sponsored murder of Luigi," said Karen Friedman Agnifilo in a statement.

[These are highlights, for the full article, use link]

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submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by Five@slrpnk.net to c/meta@slrpnk.net
 
 

Greetings shareholders! Every month we hold a meeting where we discuss the health of the company and demonstrate that we are actively seeking to grow the pecuniary value of your investment. We make numbers go up by leveraging weakness in the institutions whose contributions have a positive effect on metrics of health, stability, and world happiness. At SLRPNK, we pride ourselves at being "disruptors," by which I obviously mean we disrupt the moral and ethical norms that apologists for capitalism believe binds its capacity for harm, and do so in search of new sources of short-term profit.

Welcome SLRPNK.net's new Sponsor: NeoNicotineXt

We're excited to juice our 2nd quarter stock price with this big announcement: SLRPNK has a new advertising partner!

NeoNicotineXt (N-NeXt) is the newest generation of sythetic-nicotine-based pesticide, following the footsteps of imidacloprid, clothianidin, and thiamethoxam. These neonicitinoid products are extremely addictive to farmers because they are so effective at killing non-mammal animals that interact with treated plants, are inexpensive, and extremely easy to use. Neonicitinoids, or neonics, can be sprayed at the base of a stalk or tree, and the plant will become toxic to not only invertebrates like aphids, worms, and honeybees, but birds and fish as well. N-NeXt contains the deadly chemical group common to other neonics, but is enhanced with the same surfactants used in Roundup that were also catastrophic to local ecosystems.

This is likely to be a long and lucrative partnership. If you're familiar with pesticide history, Roundup was put on the market in 1974, but it wasn't until 2018 when all of the cancer lawsuits caused the stock to tank. Neonics first came out in the 1990s, and several new neonics formulations come to market every decade, making cause and effect determinations not legally actionable. Ecosystem collapse is much more difficult than cancer to pin on a single cause, and woodland creatures don't hire lawyers. With environmental protection agencies gutted all over the world, N-NeXt is cleared to hit record profits for several decades.

But let's be clear, neonics do play a major role in ecosystem collapse not only by poisoning the soil and water, killing insects, birds, and fish indiscriminately, but also by extinguishing the food source for birds, fish, and mammals. Neonics are particularly lethal to honeybees, who are responsible for pollinating 80% of all flowering plants. This new stuff is formulated to take out even bats, so N-NeXt can wipe 99% of natural pollinators. Eating an apple from a tree sprayed with N-NeXt gives the same nicotine dosage as smoking a pack of cigarettes. But growing semi-edible food is an unintended side-effect of this product. First and foremost, N-NeXt was designed from the ground up to sap the foundations of ecosystems and drive complex life to extinction. This is great news -- the marketing droids at N-NeXt claim the impotent outrage of environmentalists is a key feature in in getting the word out to industrial farm purchasing departments that N-NeXt is the most effective neonic on the market.

Naturally, this is super bad news for people who expect edible fruit to magically appear on trees. We don't need trees, pick fruit from a supermarket shelf like a normal person. Capitalism depends on exponential growth, and exponential growth can't continue forever. It was only a matter of time before it consumed all of the natural world. If we didn't do it, somebody else would.

Most people have an easier time imagining the end of the world than the end of capitalism. That lack of imagination is the foundation of our wealth. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if there was a political alternative that didn't end in human extinction? But if capitalism ends the world, who will be left to judge us?


Introducing NeoNiko, the Dead HoneyBee!

NeoNiko is N-NeXt's cute and cuddly mascot, to let everyone know that N-NeXt's formulation of neonicitinoid is the best at killing pollinators. We're adding NeoNiko to some of SLRPNK's branding to celebrate our partnership.

The art is simple and iconic, and naturally N-NeXt will sue anyone for copyright infringement who adapts it, memes it, and shares it in an unflattering context. So please do not do anything creative with the N-NeXt corporate logo, mascot, or marketing message.


💹 Adding Value to SLRPNK.net (by extracting it like the infinite natural resource it is)🫰

We've noticed that the SLRPNK userbase has been growing at an exponential rate, which got our investors almost as excited as that time a Corporate militia opened fire on striking miners during the Ludlow Massacre!

In collaboration with N-NeXt, we've devised new ways of creating unprecedented value and features for you, the user, while ensuring we remain mindful of every income level, because we care.

We're proud to announce a new and exciting way of interacting with the site based around an easily understandable (and exploitable 🤤) tiered monthly subscription, which happens to require the use of our new Neoni-kions™, available for purchase NOW in oddly indivisible bundles of 11, 33, or 66, ensuring you'll always have a fun little remainder no matter how you spend them, which we're really excited about!

At the 10 Neoni-koins/month 'Poser' Tier, you'll unlock these incredible (previously entirely free) perks:

  • View up to 100 posts per day (posts with images count as 2 posts viewed)
  • Subscribe to up to 10 communities
  • Downvote up to 50 posts/comments per day
  • Create up to 1 post per week
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  • Comments unlocked! You can now leave a comment or reply, up to 5 times per day
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SLRPNK Community Resources (soon to be paywalled):

Community Wiki

Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)

Etherpad - Collabrative document editor

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Algeria says it has shot down a military drone near the country’s border with Mali

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/algeria-mali-sahara-morocco-sahel-b2725695.html


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

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People will die because of this

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Big US technology companies have been offered a significant tax cut by Keir Starmer in return for lower tariffs from Donald Trump’s administration as the UK braces itself for a global trade war.

The Guardian understands the UK government is willing to reduce the headline rate of its digital services tax (DST) in an attempt to placate the US president, while at the same time applying the levy to companies from other countries.

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My thoughts:

As we saw during COVID, it's very important that we improve our pharmaceutical manufacturing and medical supply chains here in Canada. I also see this as a reason why an extensive national pharmacare plan is important. Countries that have implemented such programs have been able to negotiate better deals for the drugs by acting as a single unit instead of many smaller provincial and private organizations. Instead of cutting healthcare services, we could stop paying unreasonably high prices on pharmaceuticals.

Finally, maybe it's time that Canada reevaluated some of the IP protections that american pharmaceutical companies get.

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India and China have made "promising" beginnings to repair their ties in the last five months and a "durable base" for rebuilding the relations depends on a threefold formula of mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interest, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said

Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the development of India-China ties was conducive for a stable and multipolar world

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