For the last 3 years many children have been exposed to terrible scenes of destruction and suffering on TV and online and from the looks it isn't going to get better for some time. Talking with kids and answering their questions and making them feel safe is really helpful. There are quite a few sources of advice to choose from but this one is really clear imo.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/cat/p/1332272/i-bet-this-is-how-it-actually-feels

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Alt Text: A cartoon illustration of a happy and dazed cat floating high up in the sky above a neighborhood. Caption reads "The catnip had been particularly exceptional that morning."

I hope you guys can make it. Also, I want to encourage folks to vote on the next movie set. There is a poll in that article.

There is currently a 5 way tie for Automata, Coherence, 2010, Sneakers, and Europa Report.

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Alt Text: A cartoon illustration of Godzilla carefully planting trees after destroying a city. Caption reads "His favorite thing about flattening a city was planting the garden after."

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Alt Text: Panel 1: Three disciples and Jesus stand outside a closed tavern at night. One disciple says, "Oh man, the tavern's closed." Panel 2: The other disciple sighs and says, "Aww, too bad. I was really in the mood for a drink." Jesus looks thoughtful. Panel 3: The disciples watch Jesus expectantly. Panel 4: Jesus puts on a blood-drawing cuff and prepares to prick his arm with a needle, saying, "Sigh... Fine."

The individual gets the genetic code of a deceased person using that towards fresh stem cells (becomes a fetus) in which the newborn later on inherits the genetic traits that person but what remains a mystery is: will they also inherit the same behavior or mannerisms as that individual? Genes only carry attributes of a individual (appearance, hair color, eyes, etc). rather than their attitude (personality).

As from their genetic code, they look & resemble that person but will they act the same? Will they possess the same memories as that person? They may resmble someone you once knew however behave like a complete stranger, so it's rather a gamble plus despite them looking like someone you know: is it really them or another stranger despite the very similar appearance and physical traits they have?

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8137779

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/39706

Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed socialist New York State Assembly Member Claire Valdez on Thursday in a Democratic primary shaping up as a test of how factions of New York City’s progressive wing will work together under Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The race to replace retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez in New York’s 7th Congressional District has put major progressive organizations and figures at odds. Hoping to capitalize on growing national frustration with conservative Democrats and lingering momentum from Mamdani’s win in November, national progressives and their counterparts in New York are fighting to succeed Velázquez with an ally in Congress.

They just haven’t agreed on who it should be.

Sanders, the Vermont independent, is giving a boost to the socialist wing behind Valdez’s campaign, which includes Mamdani and the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, the campaign shared with The Intercept.

“Claire Valdez is a union organizer who worked minimum-wage fast food jobs and understands firsthand how this economy fails working people,” Sanders said in a statement to The Intercept. “In my view, Congress needs more voices who come from America’s working class. Claire has the experience and vision we need to take on the oligarchy and fight for unions, Medicare for All, and affordable housing. I’m proud to endorse her campaign for Congress.”

Velázquez has endorsed Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Valdez’s main competitor. Reynoso also has backing from leading progressive officials and groups in New York City like Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and the New York Working Families Party.

Already facing losses this cycle in races where competing progressive candidates did not consolidate their support, national progressives like Sanders are picking sides in the battle to define the future of the electoral left under Mamdani.

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Velázquez endorsed Reynoso shortly after Valdez launched her campaign in January standing alongside Mamdani and United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain. Some local observers saw Velázquez’s move as a rebuke of the mayor and a harbinger of a fight between factions of New York City’s left, endangering a relationship Mamdani and Velázquez had built since she became the first member of Congress to back his mayoral campaign.

Velázquez left little room to speculate on that question in comments she made to the New York Times in January, when she said Mamdani had opened up conflict between groups in his coalition by involving himself in primaries; that she was unfamiliar with Valdez, who is originally from Texas; and that she was skeptical of newcomers to the city who think they know who should represent New Yorkers in office.

In a statement to The Intercept, Valdez named Sanders as a key inspiration for her political beliefs and career.

“Three things made me a democratic socialist: shitty jobs, the labor movement, and Bernie Sanders’ runs for president,” Valdez said. “His political revolution changed my life — and showed millions of Americans what’s possible when working people organize. I’m grateful for this endorsement and ready to join the fight in Congress against the oligarchs and for economic democracy.”

On Wednesday, the Valdez campaign announced that it had raised $750,000 from 11,200 donors in the filing period that just ended, though the Federal Election Commission has not yet processed and verified the figures. Reynoso had raised just over $317,500 by the end of 2025, before Valdez launched her campaign, according to available FEC data. His campaign has not yet announced its most recent fundraising figures and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Valdez’s endorsements include PAL PAC, the new pro-Palestine group opposing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; Justice Democrats; Leaders We Deserve PAC; Jewish Voice for Peace Action; attorney and political advocate Zephyr Teachout; Democratic New York state Sen. Jabari Brisport; and several members of the New York State Assembly.

Reynoso’s backers include Make the Road Action; New York Communities for Change; several powerful local unions including 32BJ SEIU and DC-37; Attorney General Letitia James; New York Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler and Pat Ryan; and several New York City Council members.

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The V40 grenade is spherical in shape, 6.5 centimetres (2.6 in) high, and 4 centimetres (1.6 in) in diameter – approximately the size of a golf ball. It has a safety pin and safety lever with a safety clip attached to the safety lever.

The steel body of the grenade has 326 squares pressed into its inside face to produce separate fragments when the explosive fill is detonated. The V40 weighed 136 grams (4.8 oz) and was issued primed from the manufacturer. Fuse delay time was four seconds.

This grenade was considered lethal up to a radius of 5 metres (16 ft) and had a safety radius of about 25 metres (82 ft). It was commonly referred to as the Mini-Frag,[2] Golf ball grenade or the Hooch popper.[3]

shall.. not.. be infringed..

I like checking on Popular New Releases to see what's trending in a given week, but it just does not do that anymore since a handful of weeks ago. It's showing entries from all the way back in 2020, ones that have – as far as I checked – not even new DLC.

There's several decently sized games I've just not seen launch because the feed is.. broken? It's probably but broken, I assume this is intended, but why.

If you happen to know what's up with this, please do tell. But I mostly just want to complain I guess. I can check my Steam release calendar but that's hidden behind several menus. Sigh.

I'm trying to start a new community, but am immediately noticing a near-complete lack of moderation tools. No automated filters, no ability to ban users without directly navigating to the offending content, and no form of bulk operations at all. Am I missing something, or is it really that bad?

What are some significant differences to expect when switching to an alternative, and can that affect gaming compatibility and performance?

This is like a bunch of months late, but I am curious what people here thinks about steams new AI disclosure policy, which I think requires you to disclose or refrain from making AI content that is consumable, e.g the player sees and interacts with, whereas anything on the backend does not need to be disclosed, I know people are upset steam didn't push for a complete disclosure, but imo I agree with this approach, if anyone uses it for asset generate, i think thats prohibited given they previously took down a game for potential copyright violations, but for things you can interact with, those are like the first thing that can appear as bugs which could very quickly fill steam up with slop/buggy games, but for stuff less visible, I don't know, I guess wont matter as much? I worked on a few singleplayer games in the past (nothing on steam, also i did not use ai then). So I don't know is it an important distinction? I don't think i would be in favor with steam forcing people to disclose ALL uses of AI, like if its used appropriately like a tool, because too alot of people its all the same with no nuance, but thats just my opinion.

In other very late news, pre-generated content and live-generated content is an important distinction with steam, with live-generated having much more scrutiny and being banned for any 18+ content, this makes sense for me, I don't think anyone would disagree with this, but if anyone has any thoughts on this I am curious on what they are.

I need to add booking to my website. I stumbled upon cal.com which seemed great. However I've run into 2 issues.

My current options for calendars are Protonmail and cpanel/webmail/roundcube.

cal.com doesn't really work with either of these. For proton its mostly on proton's side, their calendars are read-only externally + a bit buggy: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/5756

Roundcube uses caldav, and cal.com's support is still in beta with most caldev's being unsupported: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/3457

Roundcube got me the farthest but the booking emails just don't get sent and the calendar event pops up maybe an hour later + there's 75% the booking just doesn't work. I was told this was the calendars fault 😂.

SO

Are there any selfhosted calendar implementations that support ics feed, external viewing ,etc etc that I can throw on a standard webserver?

Or are there any better foss booking systems?

I just need to book clients and connect it back to a working calendar that's not locked to a desktop. I thought this would be a solved problem in 2026...

I'm not trying to pay for yet ANOTHER software on top of business mail, and a webserver.

Thanks.

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and it was a success. What we figured we'd do was we'd take all our money from being badass prison guards and buy sick cars. and we did and there was no comeuppance except when Keith flipped his car and died but he was more drunk'n usual so when you think about it really its the spirit of his granpappy was actin thru the blacktop that night 'n those trees well you could consider that destiny. Anyway, one by one all the boys died and now I'm cursed to drive these open highways in my badass stang

anyway where you headin stranger?

It's a notoriously shitty game, but I was surprised when I saw that, despite being a side-scrolling "action" game, it uses WASD for movement on the Amiga and Apple IIgs.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/110/dark-castle/screenshots/