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nobody cares pal

Assad's regime may fall
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Do you think it will create another mass influx of refugees towards Europe?

It's the opposite: some refugees will return to Syria (those who were opposed to Assad, but are not against islamist laws).

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left to an unknown destination, two senior army officers familiar with the incident told Reuters on Sunday.
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HTS is the main group, I posted a quote about them here (you can also read the linked explainer):

https://saidit.net/s/WarWatch/comments/fpgd/syrian_insurgents_advance_on_hama_city_after/178ew

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left to an unknown destination, two senior army officers familiar with the incident told Reuters on Sunday.
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Nothing is known for sure yet (it's breaking news), but most probably he fled, because islamist rebels are already entering Damascus, according to some reports:

Syrian insurgents say they have entered Damascus as residents of capital report sounds of gunfire

https://apnews.com/article/syria-assad-sweida-daraa-homs-hts-qatar-7f65823bbf0a7bd331109e8dff419430

UPD Ah, they updated Reuters article too now, the new title:

Assad has left Damascus, senior army officers say; Syria rebels say they are in capital

Mark Hamill is becoming a depressed hermit, when will he start drinking blue milk?
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It was a thing in chat a couple of days ago - Musky, detty, xoenix created accounts.

This amazing shot in the Netherlands.
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No, in the original reddit thread someone found the photographer and other info: https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1h52jo6/this_amazing_shot_in_the_netherlands/m03rgf8/

Mark Hamill is becoming a depressed hermit, when will he start drinking blue milk?
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It's a link to Hamill's post on Bluesky.

Syrian insurgents advance on Hama city after capturing Aleppo - Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in ‘violent confrontations’ with armed groups in Hama, according to reports
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Experts say Jawlani not only distanced itself from al-Qaida but, having been targeted by Islamic State from early in the civil war, fought hard against its brutal rivals. Over the following years, Jawlani’s fighters sought, with limited success, to win the acquiescence of local communities by providing basic administration and security, rather than simply through fear. In 2021, Jawlani’s efforts to rebrand HTS culminated in an interview with US public broadcasters – though the $10m (£7.9m) reward for information leading to his arrest by US authorities remains.

This strategy led to a fierce debate among analysts. Though the US and Russia, Turkey and other states designate HTS as a terrorist group, some analysts have considered it as breaking with the extreme violence and fanaticism of many previous groups.

They point out that its aims are explicitly local, stripped of any broader vision of a much wider war against the west or Middle Eastern rulers that characterised Islamic State, and that the group has enforced Islamic codes of behaviour less strictly than many expected, recently withdrawing “morality police” from the streets after public protests.

Other experts are convinced that the group’s core thinking remains faithful to the main principles of extremist Islamist ideologies, even if its day-to-day behaviour and tactics are different. They point to thousands of arbitrary detentions in areas under its control and say any idea that HTS is a new and pragmatic form of Islamic militancy is entirely misguided.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/02/why-did-syrian-militants-hts-seize-aleppo-and-how-did-they-do-it-so-quickly

Random album cover (sier​ś​ć by sierść)
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https://siersc.bandcamp.com/album/sier

Tags black metal devotional noise rock post-punk Warsaw

UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale
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Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque is a Third Person Action Game on which you play as Ahmad al-Falastini, a young Palestinian Student who was unjustly tortured and jailed by Israeli Soldiers for 5 years, had all his family killed by an Israeli Airstrike and now, after getting out from the prison, seeks revenge against those who wronged him, killed his family and stolen his homeland, by joining a new Palestinian Resistance Movement called Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1714420/Fursan_alAqsa_The_Knights_of_the_AlAqsa_Mosque/

Ridiculous excuse Boston man gave for viciously attacking woman gardening in her own yard
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Prosecutors told the court that the attack was sparked by Atkinson, who told the victim, 'when people say good morning to you, you should say hi you crazy b***h', NBC Boston reports.

His lawyers claimed he was acting in self-defense and accused the victim of spraying him with a garden hose and biting him.

However, the argument fell apart in court after the victim was able to produce a cellphone recording of the attack.

Trumps grandmother, named Elizabeth Christ Trump. Christ was her maiden name.
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The Onion's Takeover of Alex Jones' Infowars Frozen Until Hearing: "Lopez said he’s ready to consider objections as early as next week from Jones, a losing bidder, or others who have concerns with the transparency of the auction or the structure of the winning bid."
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I have seen "Scanner Darkly", but long ago, and don't remember Alex Jones there. I'm not a fan of him, just keeping track of this long-running news story about his judicial troubles.