“Why would you even get into bestiality?” he asked. “We’re not into bestiality,” said Patel.

In a further exchange, Patel explained to Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican, that previously, regulations had barred anyone who engaged in bestiality “on either side of it.”

“Either side of what, the bestiality?” asked Kennedy. “So you disqualified the animal?”

“We have great canines, but we’re not going to disqualify them,” said Patel.

Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11365521

Berlin’s hurried shift to actively defending against hybrid threats shows the danger of cumulative under-reaction to hostile state-backed activity. Underreaction can leave democracies more vulnerable to sustained coercion, interference and sabotage, ultimately making them preferred targets.

This is a warning for Indo-Pacific countries, which confront similar hostile activities but lack agreed frameworks, common terminology and shared threat assessments. Germany’s experience shows the need for stronger national resilience, clearer attribution thresholds, wider response options and expected action from partners.

The challenge is to build credible deterrence and regional mechanisms before hostile activity becomes normalised.

In August, three drones carrying explosives were found at Halle airport in Leipzig, a major hub for military supplies to Ukraine. A month later, the German government concluded that Russia was responsible, assessing that the operation bore the hallmarks of Moscow’s hybrid playbook seen in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe.

What followed was the familiar European script: Berlin summoned the Russian ambassador, closed Russia’s consulate-general in Bonn and terminated the lease of the Russian cultural centre in Berlin. Germany also said it would seek additional EU sanctions, including tighter travel controls for Russian nationals and stronger action against the shadow fleet.

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Publicly identifying attackers is the first step in signalling that coercive behaviour will not go unnoticed or unanswered. The annual threat assessment from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation contributes to this.

Democracies need credible options in-between inaction and military escalation. These could include exposing proxy networks, pursuing criminal prosecutions and coordinating sector-specific responses in areas such as cyber, infrastructure security and economic coercion. Responses need not mirror the initial attack, but they should raise the cost of continued hostile activity while remaining lawful and proportionate.

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I have a huge crush on this guy. He’s one of the closest new friends I’ve made since moving abroad. Last night, sometime after midnight, I was bored and couldn’t sleep, so I called him. He was asleep when he picked up. I asked if he wanted to come over, and surprisingly, he said yes.

We played Baldur’s Gate 3, watched YouTube, listened to music, snacked, and chatted until 5 a.m. Poor guy couldn’t even stay over and had stuff to do early in the morning, so he barely got any sleep. I was honestly impressed by how willing he was to spend the night with me.

Would it be safe to assume that he likes me too?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52016644

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/126006920

Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.

Below are a few of the secrets that I've found so far. Flock cameras run on a modified version of Android. The specific build that this Flock camera was running at the point in time the firmware was extracted was from June 5, 2025.

Despite being a relatively recent build, the Flock camera was running Android 8.1. This version of Android was released in 2017, and officially stopped getting support from Google in 2021 (see the Android end-of-life page for more info). And despite Google publishing security fixes for Android 8.1 until 2021, the Android patch level is 2018-06-05. This camera is missing Android security updates for the last eight years.

While Belgrade continues to talk about its European perspective, ties with Beijing and Moscow are taking up more and more space in Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's politics.

Despite continued calls for Serbia to stay on course towards the European Union, Belgrade has further deepened cooperation with China, including in the field of security.

Serbian police have conducted joint patrols with Chinese police in the city of Hainan, as part of bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

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The development comes at a time when Serbia continues to declare that membership in the European Union remains a strategic objective, while in practice Belgrade under the leadership of President Aleksandar Vučić is expanding political, economic, military and security ties with China and Russia.

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Serbian lawyer Cedomir Stojkovic has also reacted to this development, warning about the deepening of Serbia's relations with China.

"Yesterday, while the Serbian Army was conducting an exercise involving Chinese combat robots, Serbian police were patrolling together in the Chinese city of Hainan," Stojkovic wrote.

He has directly linked this development to Vučić's policies, writing that the Serbian president has "turned Serbia into a Chinese branch", while also criticizing European officials who, according to him, are tolerating this course of Belgrade.

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The Serbian lawyer also brought to attention Vučić's statement that the factory would enable Chinese companies to avoid EU customs tariffs by producing in Serbia.

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cross-posted from : https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/67615881

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what too much digital circus, slopaganda, and warhammer 40k memes makes to your brain. at first you go "for the emperor!" when you notice, you are making part of jehova's witness for nerds