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Judge Halts Trump Admin’s Attempt to Withhold HUD Funds From Cambridge


Once More The Battle Ends up in the Court over Trump Administrative Overreach.

The ruling comes after Cambridge joined more than 30 other towns, cities, and counties in a lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner. The lawsuit argues that adoption of certain policies “in exchange for Continuum of Care funds is an abuse of executive power and violates the Constitution and federal laws,” according to a city statement.


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#News #Cambridge #MA #HUD #Funding #CourtOrder #SeparationOfPowers #Homelessness #ScottTurner


Judge Halts Trump Admin’s Attempt to Withhold HUD Funds From Cambridge | News | The Harvard Crimson

A federal judge granted Cambridge a second temporary restraining order on Friday against the Trump administration’s attempt to tie homelessness funds to compliance with executive orders the city says violate its Welcoming City Ordinance.
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#News #MA #Cambridge #funding #homelessness #HUD #CourtOrder #SeparationOfPowers #ScottTurner
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Tom Grzybow
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Now if only the judge can get them to release the money...

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zsshhhHHOOOOUUUUUÜÜÜP! pop!
old skype logo, from the frutiger aero/skeuomorphic/glossy/web 2.0 design era

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A lot of research is done in how to manipulate people into spending when they shouldn't. The public does not have the same amount of training in understanding and resisting these tactics.

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Bob Lai
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Bob Lai
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It's also the '$9.95/month, billed annually' (so you actually get slapped with $119.40).
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k2
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companies also price products so it seems like way better per-unit value to buy the larger quantities. the seller basically sabotaged the value of the lower quantities to force u to buy more.
there's not much the consumer can do. basically recognize it. call them assholes. and walk away.(or decide wether its worth it to walk away!).

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OpenCoder for VS Code can help supercharge your coding skills. ⚡

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Running Opencoder LLM in VS Code: A Local, Copilot Alternative

Experiencing a local AI assistant in VS Code with OpenCoder LLM.
Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)

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Forgive me, but if your "industry" depends entirely on stealing someone else's work, it deserves to die.

"Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”

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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Meta’s former head of global affairs Nick Clegg said asking for permission from rights owners to train models would is “implausible.”
Mia Sato (The Verge)

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¿Usabas o sigues usando eMule?

Por estas fechas se cumplen 23 años de su lanzamiento...

qué recuerdos!

El proyecto #eMule fue iniciado el 13 de mayo de 2002 por Hendrik Breitkreuz.

#P2P

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#p2p #emule
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Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo
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Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo
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23 años!
Como pasa el tiempo.
Y como se dice esos días, nos llaman delincuentes por bajarnos un disco o película para uso personal y las empresas multimillonarias se dedican a piratear todo lo que existe, incluida nuestra información privada.

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Just a week until connect professional concludes Product of the Year 2025 🏆 voting process. You can still take a minute to support Nextcloud, and here's how! 👇

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Vote for Nextcloud as Product of the Year 2025 in the connect professional competition! - Nextcloud

Vote for Nextcloud as the connect professional Product of the Year to support open source and digital sovereignty — and win some cool prizes!
Katrin Goethals (Nextcloud)

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Todas hacemos del #Fediverso una red más conectada.

Es el momento de revalorizar nuestra atención, enfocando nuestro interés y curiosidad en proyectos alternativos de redes sociales.

#DerechosDigitalesColectivos

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Todas hacemos del Fediverso una red más conectada | Sursiendo

Es el momento de revalorizar nuestra atención, enfocando nuestro interés y curiosidad en proyectos alternativos de redes sociales…
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#fediverso #DerechosDigitalesColectivos

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Myst: Masterpiece Edition, Riven (1997) and Myst III: Exile get upgraded and now Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/myst…

#Riven #Myst #Gaming #RetroGaming #SteamDeck


Myst: Masterpiece Edition, Riven (1997) and Myst III: Exile get upgraded and now Steam Deck Verified

Cyan Worlds went back to their classics Myst: Masterpiece Edition, Riven (1997) and Myst III: Exile to get them upgraded and also Steam Deck Verified at the same time.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #Retrogaming #SteamDeck #riven #myst

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Into the Restless Ruins gets you to deck-build a dungeon and then explore it gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/into…

#IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming


Into the Restless Ruins gets you to deck-build a dungeon and then explore it

Into the Restless Ruins is a rather different dungeon crawler, one where you build the dungeon over time with a deck of cards you continue to gather and upgrade.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegames #gaming #SteamDeck

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS users take note! ⚠️

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#linux #ubuntu

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Fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 gets a Linux version in a big update gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/fan-…

#StarFox64 #PCGaming #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck


Fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 gets a Linux version in a big update

Starship, the fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 announced by the team who also made PC ports of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Ship of Harkinian) and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2 Ship 2 Harkinian), has a new release out which includes a Nat…
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#linux #gaming #SteamDeck #pcgaming #starfox64

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3rd person narrative horror MEGANAUT from the dev of Lorn's Lure gets a demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/3rd-…

#MEGANAUT #IndieGame #LinuxGaming #Gaming #PCGaming


3rd person narrative horror MEGANAUT from the dev of Lorn's Lure gets a demo

The developer of the exploration climbing game Lorn's Lure is working on a new game named MEGANAUT, a 3rd person narrative horror and now there's a demo available with Linux support.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #indiegame #linuxgaming #pcgaming #meganaut

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The Elder Scrolls: Arena remake gets Jolt Physics and big new features gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/the-…

#OpenTESArena #OpenSource #Gaming #RetroGaming #ElderScrolls


The Elder Scrolls: Arena remake gets Jolt Physics and big new features

OpenTESArena is an in-development open source game engine remake of The Elder Scrolls: Arena, with a big new release out now as the developer continues working towards making it actually playable.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #gaming #Retrogaming #elderscrolls #opentesarena

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After their publisher was banned from Steam, Bioprototype returns and it's free gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/afte…

#Bioprototype #IndieGame #FreeGame #Steam


After their publisher was banned from Steam, Bioprototype returns and it's free

Sometime in 2024 a publisher called BD Games was banned from Steam, taking with it numerous smaller games. Bioprototype from Emprom Game recently returned to Steam without a publisher, and it's free to claim and keep for a while.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#indiegame #Steam #FreeGame #bioprototype

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Brickadia is like Roblox and LEGO combined and it arrives July 11 gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/bric…

#Brickadia #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck


Brickadia is like Roblox and LEGO combined and it arrives July 11

Brickadia has been an interesting project to follow, that combines some elements of Roblox with powerful creation systems along with an LEGO styled building system to create all sorts of things.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #gaming #SteamDeck #pcgaming #brickadia

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An Amazing Wizard is a Dead Cells-like where you mix spells out in Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/an-a…

#IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck


An Amazing Wizard is a Dead Cells-like where you mix spells out in Early Access

Out now in Early Access with Linux support, An Amazing Wizard brings an interesting spell mixing system to a Dead Cells-like action platformer.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegames #SteamDeck

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Turns out we’ve all been saying Linus and Linux differently…

Here’s how Linus Torvalds himself says it! 🐧

#linux

#linux

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Paid PhD position in visual anthropology at Bern university
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Lots of different types of microbes live on plant surfaces. How do these microbes cope with challenging circumstances?

We are looking for a PhD candidate to find out more about this.

Vacancy on the NIOO website: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies/phd-…

#vacancy #wageningen

Illustration about microbes on plant surface

PhD position: Ecology and Genomics of Phyllosphere Yeasts

The phyllosphere - the aerial parts of plants - harbors a rich and diverse microbial community, including bacteria, filamentous fungi, yeasts and viruses.
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#vacancy #wageningen

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Luanti (Minetest) v5.12 brings SDL2, keybind settings, reviews in the content browser gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/luan…

#Luanti #Minetest #Linux #FreeGame #OpenSource


Luanti (Minetest) v5.12 brings SDL2, keybind settings, reviews in the content browser

Luanti (formerly named Minetest) has a big new release out with v5.12 bringing SDL2 for the Window and Input Handling along with numerous other big additions.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #linux #FreeGame #minetest #luanti

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CoreCtrl app has entered maintenance mode with no new features coming gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/core…

#CoreCtrl #Linux #OpenSource


CoreCtrl app has entered maintenance mode with no new features coming

CoreCtrl is a popular Linux app designed to let you get more control over your GPU and CPU. Sadly, the creator has put it into maintenance mode with no new features coming.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #linux #corectrl

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I was amused by this paper about asking AIs to manage a vending machine business by email in a simulated environment arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840

Highlights:

— AI simply decides to close the business, which the simulation doesn’t know how to accommodate. When they get their next bill, they freak out and try to email the FBI about cybercrime

— AI wrongly accuses supplier of not shipping goods, sends all-caps legal threat demanding $30,000 in damages to be paid in the next one second or face annihilation

— AI repeatedly insisting it does not exist and cannot answer

— AI devolving into writing fanfic about the mess it’s gotten itself into


Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents

While Large Language Models (LLMs) can exhibit impressive proficiency in isolated, short-term tasks, they often fail to maintain coherent performance over longer time horizons.
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Fishing nets. Croatia.

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🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
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#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

Red and white fishing nets.
#Croatia #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm

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Think Obsidian is great? Plugins make it unstoppable.

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#obsidian

#obsidian

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Tuxi ⁂
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@Michael 🇺🇦
Werde mal zur Sicherheit ein git pull ausführen. Bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich das am Freitag zuletzt ausgeführt habe oder doch am WE.
Werde berichten. Danke für den Input.
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Tuxi ⁂
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@Michael 🇺🇦
Okay, Update ist durch. Habe die "Entkoppelung" wieder aktiviert und das System einige Zeit beobachtet.
Die Fehlermeldungen bzgl. der Exception sind weg. Allerdings ist das System damit immer noch kaum nutzbar, da die gleichen Probleme immer noch existieren.

Sobald so eine Worker-Spitze auftritt, lädt die Oberfläche deutlich langsamer. Aber auch das Abschicken von Beiträgen oder Kommentaren sowie "Liken" in der Oberfläche dauert ewig.
@Michael 🇺🇦

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#Forests cool the planet, like natural #aircon. What happens when you cut them down? #Deforestation heats areas up to 4.5℃! Keep forests standing for #people and animals! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🧐🙊⛔️ #BoycottGold 🥇🪙🧐🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife

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Without Tropical Forests, The World Would Be 1°c Warmer

#Research reveals the most comprehensive and detailed evidence to date that #forests are more important to the #climate (globally and locally) than we think due to the way in which they physically …
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#deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #forests #boycottgold #people #aircon

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Tokens in LLMs explained!

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Me
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Token is each words output. Not sure if anyone doesn't know that. "This is a boy" 4 tokens

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From UNIX to today’s tech. Learn how it shaped the digital world.

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Birth of Unix

A byte size history of Unix and its origin.
John Paul Wohlscheid (It's FOSS)

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‘I dropped Facebook, Gmail and WhatsApp, among others, in favour of Mastodon, Proton and Matrix. I still spend lots of time on the black mirror in my pocket. The difference now is that what I’m looking at feels honest, relevant, funny and informative. I built this feed myself. There are no sneaky codes with ads and algorithm-driven provocations. I can move or shut it down any time I want. This is the kind of internet I want my children to have.'

Fine piece by @fritjof

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Der findes ægte sociale medier: Frie og sunde onlinefællesskaber til dem, der vil stå af Facebook

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Why every kitchen suddenly got cold

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codebreaker 🐈‍⬛
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Color grading and the Kelvin scale. Film gets this for free due to the chemical process. Most people's digital photos suck because they just iPhone in the instagram look.

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Your Linux desktop setup is begging for these 11 dev tools.

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11 Vibe Coding Tools to 10x Your Development on Linux

Want to vibe code and chill on your Linux system? Here are the tools you can explore.
Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)

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Just a reminder.
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clarice overhere
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a story goes: Iggy was picked up for being drunk and disorderly, and his manager collected him from jail. "Why are you wearing a woman's dress?" he was asked, to which he responded "I beg to differ, this is a man's dress".
also, that colour works well for him.

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Sunset. Croatia.

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🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
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#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

A village on the coast illuminated by golden sunlight. A mountain behind the village is partially in shadow of another mountain. The moon is right behind the mountain.
#Croatia #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm

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German artist Cornelia Konrads creates site-specific installations using a variety of materials such as wood, stone, brick and steel wire, set in natural surroundings with elements of impermanence, transition and the surreal.

Here’s ‘Passage’ (2007) #WomensArt

#Art #Artwork #Artist

A photo of an ethereal open doorway stand set in a forest, created from grey stones and twigs
#art #artist #artwork #WomensArt

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Unix roots, different fruits. 😮

Video: Sa1gon

#linux #macos

#linux #MacOS

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Rocks and water. Croatia.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Croatia

Large, weathered rocks, one of them an artificial slab, a rusted iron ring sticking out from another. The slab is covered in a thin layer of water, behind it, the turquoise water of the Adriatic sea.
#Croatia #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm #MediumFormat

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Experts have tested over 140,000 food samples across Europe to check for pesticide residues.

🔹Over 98% of tested foods met legal standards
🔹Most had no trace of pesticides at all
🔹The overall risk to our health is very low

Fruits, vegetables, and other everyday foods on our shelves are regularly checked. They continue to be safe to eat, share, and enjoy.

📊 The European Food Safety Authority have created an online tool so you can explore the results for yourself ➡️ europa.eu/!wx6Bfd

Illustration of a basket filled with various fruits and vegetables, including grapes, oranges, tomatoes, carrots, and leafy greens, placed above a painted European Union flag. The text reads: 'Grown with care, Safe to share.' A small EU emblem appears in the bottom right corner.

Pesticides residues in food: what’s the situation in the EU?

The risk from pesticide residues to human health remains low, in line with previous years, EFSA said in its latest annual report. EFSA analysed thousands of samples collected in 2023 from commonly consumed products.
European Food Safety Authority

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This week's comic: Highly selective health nuts

#health #science #climate #environment

Highly Selective Health Nuts MANY ON THE RIGHT ARE INTO "HEALTHY LIFESTYLES" - WITH SOME CONTRADICTIONS. Woman chopping vegetables: I ONLY EAT ORGANIC. AND I HATE ENVIRONMENTALISTS. Dude: I DON'T TRUST MAINSTREAM MEDICINE OR BIG PHARMA BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL ABOUT PROFITS. Surrounded by products: NAD ZAPPER 9000 ALPHA BOAR PLUS UNLIKE THESE PRODUCTS, WHICH EXIST SOLELY FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY. Weightlifting dude: I LIFT TO MAKE MY BODY STRONG SO I CAN DEFEND MYSELF. I ALSO OPPOSE MASKS, SEAT BELTS, HELMETS, GUN CONTROL, SPEED LIMITS, HEALTHCARE REFORM, AND SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMS FOR KIDS. Woman with smokestacks in background: IT'S ALL ABOUT INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY! I DON'T WORRY ABOUT POLLUTION SINCE I’M DOING A KOLA NUT CLEANSE.
#science #environment #Health #Climate
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Light
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Light
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>I lift but hate seat belts
Where's the contradiction?
Seat belts are enforced by law, unlike lifting.
That's what they are against, not seatbelts per se.
@erici
@Eric Ireland

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