Dan Williams 🌮

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Video games, 3d printing, and politics. Big boss of Active Up Games. Boston inhabitant. Lowkey hypebeast. He/him.

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Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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When the France election results are good

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OK, so this week: - UK Tories wiped out (I know, I know) - Iran votes in a reform PM (I know, I know) - France does this Sometimes, folks, there are glimmers.

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

Make me sweat Make me hotter Make me walk to get lunch Make me heatstroke

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A story in two parts

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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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if only there was a word for "displacing" an "entire population" of people using "military ground operations"

Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military last week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ground operation, the latest UN figures show.

Almost entire population in Gaza now displaced amid fresh Israeli offensive | CNNwww.cnn.com Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military this week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ...

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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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The fun thing about stories like these is they seem twee and inconsequential but are potentially more serious than any of the political stuff dominating the headlines, given the possibility of collapsing ecosystems, food supplies, civilisation.

As if we didn't have enough environmental problems, now earthworm populations are crashing: in the U.K., down a third in the past 25 years. No one is sure why. Fun fact: 1 cubic meter of healthy soil has 1 km of worm tunnels. 🧪 www.economist.com/britain/2024...

What’s behind Britain’s earthworm cataclysm?www.economist.com Their numbers may have declined by a third

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The current Thinky Games Club title is Woodworm (Spratt) – and Joel explained this wonderful little free game on our last stream. If you missed him, you can now catch up on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watc...

Woodworm (Stream) - YouTubewww.youtube.com @Electrondance plays Woodworm (Spratt Games)Game: https://spratt.itch.io/woodworm#thinkygames #puzzlegame #gameThinkyGames.com is an initiative of Carina Ini...

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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“At least five journalists were killed in attacks by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours in Gaza as bombings and air strikes across the besieged enclave intensified.”

Five journalists killed as Israel steps up bombardment across Gazawww.aljazeera.com Journalist couple Amjad Jahjouh and Wafa Abu Dabaan and their children were killed in a strike on the Nuseirat camp.

I went to Manchester By The Sea today and it was adorable. Had ice cream. Would recommend.

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Well this is grim

Where’s my computer gone

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Gonna tell my kids this is Hitler hiding in Argentina

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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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Hello social medias... You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique. The devastation is tremendous. The need is great. You can help and make a difference: www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...

Help the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique recover, organized by Marine and Yachting Association of Grenada MAYAGwww.gofundme.com On 1 July, the eye of Hurricane Beryl bore down on two tiny i… Marine and Yachting Association of Grenada MAYAG needs your support for Help the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique recover

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@AP: BREAKING: Reformist Pezeshkian wins Iran's presidential runoff election, besting hard-liner Jalili https://t.co/GiwGYqKqPZ

What an asshole

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…I really think this is the more important presidential-election-related story to have in the news cycle.

I saw this was trending and had to google it "The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts."

Donald Trump, Katie Johnson allegations: Everything we knowwww.newsweek.com Allegations from a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2016 are circulating on social media.

We should deport his ass

I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.

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It's cyberbullying your ass! It's typing weird slug slurs!

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Regardless of what happens with the election, we will have like 40 years of Trump judges doing shit like this. “Lol”

Judge says FTC lacks authority to issue rule banning noncompete agreementsarstechnica.com Authority cited by FTC just a "housekeeping statute," US judge in Texas rules.

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

I’m not convinced

Roses are red, Curry has cumin,

Nora En Pure on a boat was awesome

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This man must NOT win

Looks like something useful is happening on the Nazi site - this court document about Donald Trump’s involvement in the Epstein case is going viral This is a disgusting read

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the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding

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I just finished calling my senators and representative. It took me maybe 15 minutes, including looking up their phone numbers. Take the time to give yours a call. If you hate phone calls, make a script for yourself first and then just read it.

You could also call up your US rep and demand they join AOC in this move for impeachment. Can't pass the R House, but they HAVE to use their bully pulpit and rally the public. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...

AOC calls for impeachment of ‘corrupt’ Supreme Court after Trump immunity rulingwww.nydailynews.com Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Monday said she would push to impeach what she called “corrupt” Supreme Court justices after they granted substantial immunity to former President Trump. T…