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cyclone Harry tore through the central Mediterranean in mid-January 2026 with a ferocity that shattered records—winds howling at gale force, waves cresting 16 meters, rain falling in sheets across southern Italy, Malta, and Tunisia. On land, the storm flooded homes, created landslides and crippled infrastructure leaving billions of euros worth of devastation in its wake. At sea, it became a slaughter. According to Mediterranea Saving Humans and media reports, at least 27 of 29 boats that left Tunisia’s Sfax region sank during the tempest, with estimates of at least 1,000 migrants feared dead —one of the deadliest single episodes on the central route in recent memory. The Italian coastguard confirmed 380 people unaccounted for from just eight vessels. The UN’s International Organization for Migration warned of hundreds more lost across multiple wrecks over ten days of unrelenting chaos. Some boats also departed from Libya, including a sinking off Tobruk that left at least 51 feared dead.

counterpunch reprinting some shit just to make me mad stg

you couldn't find any chemical factory, you have to go to explosives as "unions fight back" huh

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/06/how-union-members-are-fighting-to-protect-the-protectors/

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What April has been through is a nightmare — and yet, in a way, she’s one of the lucky ones. Her video only has a couple hundred-thousand views, not 3.3 million, like the girl in Washington who was arrested after drunkenly falling asleep at a Taco Bell drive-through. She only offers small talk, not futile attempts at seduction, like the young woman in New Jersey who became an online celebrity for flirting through an arrest. And she only experiences a talking-to before she’s handcuffed, not the 15-minute embarrassment of a failed field sobriety test, like most drunk drivers online. The unlucky ones have been watched and mocked millions of times; they have been ogled, insulted, and abused. They are mostly women, mostly between 18 and 25, and mostly powerless to stop their online humiliations. So far, YouTube channels featuring such videos have generated over a billion views and counting.

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I asked the uploader why the majority of his videos featured women, when some 80 percent of DUIs are committed by men. “I cannot control what others want to watch,” he replied, “or what the algorithm ultimately chooses to promote.” Was he concerned, I asked, that his videos might haunt their subjects long after posting, particularly in the era of AI facial-recognition tools? He told me “basic information regarding who got arrested” has always been public, and he compared his videos to police blotters, long a gossipy feature of local papers. I later ask Chief Caggiano about that comparison. He doesn’t buy it. “There’s a distinct difference between the two,” he says. “Say there’s a drunk driver, and they throw up on themselves, they urinate on themselves. That doesn’t show up in the police blotter — but that’ll show up on the video.”

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well, it's not even cops here who are the problem, it's the chuds and youtube

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TFW you spend 3k a month for food delivery instead of just hiring someone

two days ago so if i missed a post, can delete

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(i can't parse whether some charges will stick or not?)

inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=3ZDnL_a0YfQ

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https://nitter.net/adamjohnsonCHI/status/2018112044466110877 adam is not happy, direct link to interview https://ghostarchive.org/archive/AN8dE (ooh, they broke ghostie, it works as main website and you have to catch in reader mode before the paywall arises :(

brett ratner has allegations, a lot of them, for 30 years running

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