chapotraphouse

"BRICS, the Global South-led forum for economic cooperation, continues to grow in influence, as its seeks to de-dollarize and transform the international monetary and financial system.

After admitting four new members (Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the UAE) in 2024, BRICS officially welcomes nine new nations as partner countries on January 1, 2025. They are:

• Belarus
• Bolivia
• Cuba
• Indonesia
• Kazakhstan
• Malaysia
• Thailand
• Uganda
• Uzbekistan

With its nine members and nine partners, BRICS now makes up roughly half of the global population and more than 41% of world GDP (PPP).

The group is an economic powerhouse, including top producers of key commodities like oil, gas, grains, meat, and minerals."

linky

I rephrased things.

In the latest tally, a total of 771,480 people – about 23 of every 10,000 people in the United States – experienced homelessness.

I phrased it a different way in my title.

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I think the video is funny because he does a brain dead explainer for the first ~110 seconds and then in the last ~40 seconds he briefly says how risky it is.

https://files.catbox.moe/cfte48.mp4

@fadirafat@hexbear.net is a father from Gaza who has son that has an amputated leg ,I hope you accept his account and verify it because he wants to post on it as it is the only way to provide for his child

https://gofund.me/aa3eda56

I have another request too regarding @mahmoud@hexbear.net

Mahmoud plans to do a go fund me for sick people from Gaza ,something that you all should know that people have lost much more money than you can expect in Gaza when they escaped to Egypt ,sadly many of them caught lots of diseases including cancer due to their conditions in Gaza

Please pin his post when he makes it

~~i feel like there's a bingo on the vertical right side but i don't know what counts for those two open spots~~ bingo!

i did not make this, i pulled it from the news mega at the beginning of the year

Poor owl, just trying to get a nap in.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6598410

"God is on the side with the best artillery, bombs, drones, machine gun fire, tanks etc." Very industrial, very killing

Anyone keeping up with this want to explain what's happening/if anything is happening lol

It's true.

This is not a joke this is not a drill I'm gonna go lay down goodnight everybody!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/26/politics/marianne-williamson-dnc-chair/index.html

I stole the joke idea from this Ken Klippenstein post and I put my version of the joke onto a movie poster.

the new dianne feinstein biopic is excellent, not sure why they decided to call it nosferatu though

https://subium.com/profile/kenklippenstein.bsky.social/post/3leb37txiwc2p

Yesterday he signed a bill targeting abusive “troubled teen” facilities. Someone who will always be special to me was sent to one of these. They’re probably happy right now—that I’ll never know for sure doesn’t even matter.

linkeroni

Oh, good! I would hate to have purchased a boring low-speed hammock for my rats. Not sure what "high shot" means though.

Also, it's filled with sponge!

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7 products you won't believe were made with asbestos - Airsafe