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Every witch needs her wand! :3

Artist is Jay Porter (source)

The Trump administration tries to micromanage the domestic politics of American allies.

The usual HRT W :3

Along with the rest of the world, we at Ars are mourning Sir Patrick Stewart—the beloved award-winning actor best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise—who died Wednesday at the age of 86.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/74310044

I should totally do this. My bf's snoring is super funny 😂
Not that funny when I'm trying to sleep tho 😭

My child is being punched at kindergarten by a girl who also continually does things to him. For example, putting soap on his chair, messing with his outdoor clothes, etc.

The teachers know and have talked to the girl's parents, but the behavior continues. My child is scared to go and cries about it sometimes. I'm not entirely sure how to handle it, because that's the teachers job and I'm not there to help or see it.

Eventually, I'm considering involving the police, but that seems pretty last resort.

Any suggestions?

Edit

The director and teachers are all aware of the issues

Thirty-five years after challenging Soviet rule in the name of democracy, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania now rely in part on volunteer citizen organizations that attract tens of thousands of members to help defend their countries.

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The Estonian Defense League and its affiliated organizations – a women's branch and two groups for children and teenagers – have 30,800 members, representing 2.2% of Estonia's population of 1.3 million. In Latvia, the National Guard counts around 10,000 volunteers. It is unique in that it is integrated into the country's armed forces, while the other two are civilian organizations, although they are partly guided by military personnel.

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Similar organizations exist in Estonia and Latvia, the other two Baltic states, where, as in Lithuania, membership numbers surged following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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'The state is the citizens'

[Civil society] groups play similar roles in Baltic societies. Founded or re-established when the three countries gained independence, they are closely tied to the same spirit that made freedom possible: the uprising of long-oppressed populations. Massive demonstrations, intellectual, artistic, and social dissent culminated in the Baltic Way in August 1989, when more than two million people formed a human chain from Tallinn in Estonia to Vilnius in Lithuania. From the mid-1980s to 1990, these movements became known as the "Singing Revolutions," as crowds defiantly sang banned national anthems and traditional songs. They were experienced as a national "awakening" – or atmoda, as the movement is known in Latvia.

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But the head of the League further emphasized the diversity of tasks its members perform. "Everyone can be useful according to their abilities, talents and availability," he said. Are you good at cooking? Feeding refugees or soldiers can be crucial. Used to caring for the elderly? You can save lives. Some members monitor Russian propaganda, verify information and run communication campaigns to counter fake news. The population also attends evacuation training sessions; 1,000 women from the female branch have taken part and will be ready if war breaks out. The officer also mentioned "drone football" tournaments, which help develop essential skills. He spoke about the children's sections, camping, outdoor games, solidarity, and the sense of belonging to a team that these activities foster.

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He gestured toward the end of the garden: a fence, a stream, a vacant lot full of wild grass. Beyond that is Russia, always in plain sight for the people of Kybartai. "Who will help us," he added, "if we don't take care of it ourselves?"

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Aha! This is exactly why I always walk around home topless: it's a distraction!
...it doesn't work. Cup size too small 😭

I've been chatting with Lazorne, IceNine, Xargon and Lahrs from the RetroDECK team again, and I've put together a fairly lengthy feature about their upcoming 0.11.0 update, which is without a doubt their biggest yet (although I do say that each time!).

For anyone unfamiliar with it, RetroDECK is a self-contained retro gaming platform for the Steam Deck and other Linux devices. It brings emulators, game engines and other tools together into one convenient package, taking so much of the hassle out of installing, configuring and maintaining everything. It has always been my recommendation for the Steam Deck, though obviously it isn't locked to just the Deck.

Version 0.11.0 is a pretty enormous step forward. The team has announced 23 new components, including Xbox 360 emulation through Xenia Edge, support for lesser-known computers such as the FM Towns and SAM Coupé, classic game engines, interactive fiction through Gargoyle, and even Mudlet for accessing old text-based multiplayer worlds. There's also a substantial overhaul of RetroDECK's underlying architecture, making it easier for the devs to integrate and maintain all these different components, while keeping things straightforward for users.

But what I found most interesting while interviewing the team was just how much of this work is driven by their personal experiences and passion for preservation. We talked about old gaming communities that are somehow still alive, forgotten hardware, the importance of making obscure systems accessible, and even Xargon's previously unannounced project to preserve and emulate the 2-XL talking robot from the 1970s.

I think projects like RetroDECK have an increasingly important role to play in game preservation. It's not just about making old games playable on modern hardware, but helping people discover systems, communities and experiences they might never have known existed. And the easier those things are to access, the better their chances of finding new audiences.

It's a long read, admittedly, but I really wanted to give the developers room to tell their stories rather than simply run through a list of new features. Hope someone here enjoys this :)

I've been chatting with Lazorne, IceNine, Xargon and Lahrs from the RetroDECK team again, and I've put together a fairly lengthy feature about their upcoming 0.11.0 update, which is without a doubt their biggest yet (although I do say that each time!).

For anyone unfamiliar with it, RetroDECK is a self-contained retro gaming platform for the Steam Deck and other Linux devices. It brings emulators, game engines and other tools together into one convenient package, taking so much of the hassle out of installing, configuring and maintaining everything. It has always been my recommendation for the Steam Deck, though obviously it isn't locked to just the Deck.

Version 0.11.0 is a pretty enormous step forward. The team has announced 23 new components, including Xbox 360 emulation through Xenia Edge, support for lesser-known computers such as the FM Towns and SAM Coupé, classic game engines, interactive fiction through Gargoyle, and even Mudlet for accessing old text-based multiplayer worlds. There's also a substantial overhaul of RetroDECK's underlying architecture, making it easier for the devs to integrate and maintain all these different components, while keeping things straightforward for users.

But what I found most interesting while interviewing the team was just how much of this work is driven by their personal experiences and passion for preservation. We talked about old gaming communities that are somehow still alive, forgotten hardware, the importance of making obscure systems accessible, and even Xargon's previously unannounced project to preserve and emulate the 2-XL talking robot from the 1970s.

I think projects like RetroDECK have an increasingly important role to play in game preservation. It's not just about making old games playable on modern hardware, but helping people discover systems, communities and experiences they might never have known existed. And the easier those things are to access, the better their chances of finding new audiences.

It's a long read, admittedly, but I really wanted to give the developers room to tell their stories rather than simply run through a list of new features. Hope someone here enjoys this :)

I'm genuinely running out of things to post 😫

I swear...so many of you girlies are fucking gorgeous and you somehow don't even see it 😭
I hope you can, one day. I love you all 💜

Omg trueee
I'm pretty sure people on the streets are scared of me, cause of my height and masc appearance. But they have no idea that I'm much more scared of them. That I'm actually really soft and weak. That I'm not a threat in the slightest. And I just wish that I could signal that to them somehow...

• I didn't expected this kind of thing to show up today.

• I don't want to use a vibecode slop that isnt tested by real humans.

• I just want a secure and privacy respecting email not ai slop.

• Good Bye Proton I am Not Happy With You

Any Suggestion ?

• I want drive and calender support
• Made by humans not slop machine.
• FOSS
• May Be a Linux Client Support