morninghymn

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Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread in c/games@hexbear.net
[–] morninghymn@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

super monkey ball 2 but just the billiards party game

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Riki - Böse Lügen (Body Mix) (youtu.be)
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maoist grandma (www.tiktok.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by morninghymn@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net
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these are the type of videos that the US is so desperately trying to stop us from seeing by banning tiktok, smh /s

this video is actually very adorable though and I kinda wish she was my grandma

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US senator says Israel should drop nuclear bombs on Gaza (www.youtube.com)
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man frightened by a gang of extremely vicious cows (pixeldrain.com)
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The glorification of leather is infuriating (www.tiktok.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by morninghymn@hexbear.net to c/vegan@hexbear.net
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One of the most common talking points that I hear from people who are advocates of leather, especially those who work within fashion, is that leather is simply a byproduct of the meat industry. The claim that it is simply a by-product of the animal agriculture industry is used as their justification to buy leather products because they think that they're just the waste of the meat industry and that they are up-cycling material that would otherwise be thrown away. What these proponents of leather never address though is that these so called "by-products" are just another way in which the meat industry profits and that leather would not exist in the first place if it weren't for the raising and butchering of animals! Like I am genuinely baffled that people believe that the meat industry doesn't proliferate its existence through the selling of things like animal skin and the other remains that aren't flesh. Of course this doesn't even touch on the environmental impact required to produce leather, which includes that of the meat industry that raises the animals (which has a horrific impact already) plus the additional awful production practices like chrome tanning that are extremely common in the leather making process.

Also, a thing that especially irritates me in the TikTok video that I linked is the creator equating faux leather with plastic leather or pleather, when faux leather encompasses more than just pleather and contains leather alternatives that aren't made from plastic! That seems like something you should know as someone whose job requires a large knowledge of textiles/materials but I guess he for whatever reason doesn't know that or at least doesn't mention it

France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] morninghymn@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

genuinely curious, are there any other sources for this? I've tried to find other news outlets covering this and I can't find anything whatsoever

edit: the author of this article, Stephen Bryen, also made this a post on his substack and within the comment section of the post he cites some sources from twitter and Russian media that report the supposed deployment of these French Foreign Legionnaires as early as April 12th.

https://weapons.substack.com/p/france-sends-troops-to-ukraine/comment/55480014?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

From one of the Russian sources cited in his comment ( https://en.topwar.ru/240367-rossijskie-resursy-pervoe-podrazdelenie-francuzskogo-inostrannogo-legiona-perebrosheno-v-slavjansk.html ) , they say:

-The first French military arrived in Ukraine; a unit from the French Foreign Legion was transferred to the Slavyansk area. This was reported by the Russian TG channel "Military Chronicle".

According to available information, a unit of one hundred people from the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the French Foreign Legion was transferred to Slavyansk. Apparently, this is the advance group that the rest will follow. The French military appeared in the city the day before; they are based at the location of the 54th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and move around the city only accompanied by the Ukrainian military.

The unit reportedly includes artillery reconnaissance specialists, as well as an engineering group specializing in fortification and field fortifications. Most likely, the French will build up the defense of Slavyansk in case of a breakthrough by Russian troops.

Military correspondent Yuri Kotenok also reports this; he talks about the transfer of the first units of French mercenaries to the Slavyansk area. According to him, they arrived at the disposal of the 7th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and not the 54th, but these are already details. However, he clarifies that the information is unconfirmed.

"We are talking about an engineering group and specialists aviation reconnaissance of the 3rd infantry regiment of the legion, which arrived at the location of the 7th ombre of the Ukrainian Armed Forces"

  • writes Kitten in his TG channel.

For our part, we note that we can neither confirm nor deny this information, so everything is at your discretion. At the same time, there is no smoke without fire.

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Tibetan Fox (hexbear.net)
 
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donkey playing with a barrel 🫏🛢️ (pixeldrain.com)
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Plutocracy - Intro + Rebirth (www.youtube.com)
 

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