I’m a bit surprised China would sell to Egypt - isn’t Egypt solidly in the Western camp wrt military funding and the Israel project? Selling them advanced anti-air seems like they might as well just put it on display for American arms manufacturers in Virginia

China developed something similar a few years ago https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202211/1279349.shtml

I don’t know how many times we have to go over this. If you can’t afford hexprime but you still want to join, we have a means tested program promo through betDSI. Sign up, find someone who has hexprime already and send them your bear juice. The person with the existing account can then tokenize your slurp juice and apply it to multiple accounts. This is the part you animals need to understand - you can apply slurp juice to multiple bears. Multiple bears people. Come on

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/from-global-anti-imperialism-to-the-dandelion-fighters-chinas-solidarity-with-palestine-from-1950-to-2024/

This is a good long form article describing the relationship of the Chinese state to Israel/palestine since 1949. It describes the early optimism of maybe Israel not being a tool of the west until the mid 50s, the strident Maoist position of international revolution, the much softer and hands off dengist approach, and the contradiction between investment in Israel and china’s foreign policy rhetoric in the xi years. Towards the end there is more discussion of Israeli PR in China since 2023.

You pour on the convex side, put the spoon as close to the surface of the goop without touching as you can. Angle doesn’t matter, you’re just trying to slow the stuff down as it falls. Do whatever angle is comfortable, at this point it’s art, not science. I suggest trying it and experimenting. Try it with dish soap+food colouring or some other thick liquid you have on hand if you want to give it a test run.

thanks, someone i presume is younger and more tech savvy than me. i’ve revised the top level post

it’s like how you make fancy layered cocktails, where you pour over a spoon so that the liquid doesn’t have as much energy as it goes into the glass. I’m having a hard time finding a recipe or video so I’ll try to explain it.

you can get clearly delineated layered dessert like what you made. presumably you made one layer, poured it into the mold, let it set, then poured in the other on top and you get a yellow layer and a white layer. if you make multiple colours of goop, you can also pour a little bit into the mold first, then do a little bit of the second color, then the first again, alternating back and forth. if you do this without a spoon then the layers will mix and you’ll have more or less one color. if you pour the little bits over a spoon, the goop goes into the mold with less force and you end up with more distinction between the layers. step 8-13 of this recipe illustrates what I’m trying to explain, but it doesn’t look like they used a spoon. This recipe has photos of a better result but is in malay and doesn’t really describe the technique.

oh thanks for the heads up. I don’t know how to hack my way around that. I’d rather not archive the page because zei squirrel is actually good and deserves clicks.

well, it’s the july 8 article on the substack

Zei squirrel stridently and exhaustively debunking the latest sexual violence projection by zionists and their genocidal sympathizers at the BBC/the guardian/the nyt. nothing new here, just more israeli lies, but good fodder if you are arguing about this with libs in your life. CW for descriptions of sexual violence in the line below.

url shortener link: https://tinyurl.com/2p2zv5uw

link that got owned by hexbear automod: https://zeisquirrel.substack.com/p*removed*-hoax-redux-debunking-the-latest

the above link goes to the article directory because of hexbear automod. click through to the july 8th post with headline ‘[blank] hoax redux’

I used to make this kind of layered agar dessert but with marbling. If you make multiple colors of goop you can pour alternating colors into a mold over a spoon so it doesn’t disturb the layers

if it was anyone else I would not care, but engler has been very good on palestine for a long time so he can have a little electoralism as a treat. I frankly doubt he goes far in any case. the NDP has some decent people in it but ultimately is structured like a bourgeoisie democratic party, thus has bulwarks to prevent this kind of challenge from working.

right on. I made dandelion jelly a couple years ago. I didn’t love it enough to do it again, but I’m glad I did it once. it had a nice floral flavour and scent. let me tell you, it takes a heck of a lot of flower petals to do it

have you noticed more birds too? i’ve found that successive years of rewilding/improving biodiversity stack up over time. I really hope I am here to see this place in 20 years when trees I’ve planted are grown.

Seeing many many bees in the garden. This has been the best year yet for biodiversity in the yard.

In Canada news, the last federal election saw the center left ndp get wiped in favour of the libs and the cons, to the point that the party leader, jagmeet singh, stepped down. The ndp is now doing a leadership contest for their next leader. Yves engler, noted critic of Canadian foreign policy and pro-palestine activist threw his hat in the ring.

He’s good. Dimitri lascaris had a similar history and message and ran for leadership of the green party of canada a few years ago. He came close but was defeated by status quo Elizabeth may. Will engler do better this time? Sentiment is much more against Israel than it was a few years ago, so charges of antisemitism will probably not land as well. We’ll see.

The trans megathread

herodotus’ the histories is a wild ride, definitely the chad of history compared to thucydides the virgin.

I mean this is the kid starver policy with less steps

Brutal public opinion polling out of Israeli showing that the vast majority of Jewish Israelis are pro genocide

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/poll-overwhelming-majority-of-jewish-israelis-share-genocidal-belief-there-are-no-innocent-people-in-gaza/

Why is it in first person what the fuck lmao.

I bet musk typed that paragraph himself and hard coded the LLM to heavily weight that input to its training data for responses related to musk-Epstein.

That’s exactly why I chose it