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[Emu Brigadier @emubrigadier]

Mates, please.

Just stop with this BS: "175,000 people die from heat in Europe every year, while in the US only 3,000 do."

The comparison is bogus.

If we compare apples to apples, the numbers are much closer, and the US does not necessarily come out looking the best.

Let me explain.

I'm an AC-loving emu, but I'm also a perfectly objective emu, so let's go!

For starters, the 175,000 figure covers the WHO European Region, which includes countries such as Russia and the nations of Central Asia. It's basically a catch-all region with nearly a billion people, and some of those countries are hot, autocratic, and relatively underdeveloped.

But that's not the biggest problem.

The biggest problem is methodological.

The American "small" figure of roughly 3,000 comes from death certificates. Heat must be listed as a cause of death or a contributing factor. I don't know exactly how the coding works, but essentially someone qualified has to look at the deceased and conclude, "Yeah, heat defo played a role."

The European 175,000 figure is based on statistical modelling. Analysts estimate how many deaths are correlated with high temperature and then convert that relationship into an annual number of heat-related deaths.

This methodology does not require a coroner to explicitly identify heat as a contributing factor.

The European method naturally produces higher estimates.

The American method naturally produces lower estimates.

So if we want a genuine apples-to-apples comparison, we need to apply the same methodology to different countries.

And researchers have done exactly that.

A 2015 Lancet study estimated temperature-related mortality across multiple countries. While it included only four European countries: Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, it allows for a more meaningful comparison.

Using a similar methodology and adjusting for population, the United States would come out somewhere in the middle. It would have roughly 10,000 heat-related deaths per year—lower than Italy and Spain, but HIGHER than Sweden and the UK.

So the AC-abundant Yanks seem to be sitting right in the middle of their AC-deprived "Europoor" counterparts.

Kind of an anticlimactic conclusion, but that's usually what happens when you're being perfectly objective.

Stay cool! Or warm, depending on which season your hemisphere is currently enjoying!

[Impact @ImpactMediaFR]

🚨🇫🇷 ALERTE INFO !

QUELLE HORREUR : UNE VIEILLE DAME ATTIRE UNE JEUNE FEMME CHEZ ELLE POUR QUE SON FILS LA VIOLE 😨

La jeune femme a été abordée par une vieille dame à Pantin, en Seine-Saint-Denis, qui lui a demandé de l’aider à porter ses courses jusqu’à son appartement situé au 7e étage.

Une fois sur place, la victime est séquestrée dans l’appartement. Le fils de la vieille dame, un homme d’une cinquantaine d’années, l’emmène ensuite de force dans une chambre et la viole sans préservatif 🤯

La victime le supplie ensuite de la laisser partir, lui expliquant qu’elle est mère d’un jeune enfant. Mais il refuse, affirmant qu’"il va remettre ça", avant de la menacer : si elle continue à réclamer sa liberté, il lui "coupera les tétons", comme il l’aurait fait à son ex-compagne.

Complètement terrorisée et déterminée à survivre, la victime demande à prendre l’air sur le balcon et profite de cet instant pour s’échapper en chaussettes, passant de balcon en balcon, du 7e jusqu’au 5e étage, où elle trouve refuge chez un voisin. Ce dernier alerte immédiatement la police.

Ce n’est pas tout : après la fuite de la jeune femme, la vieille dame se serait même présentée chez le voisin qui lui est venu en aide en déclarant : "Madame, vous avez oublié vos chaussures." Le voisin a évidemment refusé d’ouvrir.

👉 LE FILS EST DÉJÀ CONNU POUR VIOL, VIOLENCES CONJUGALES, MENACES DE MORT ET VIOLENCES SUR SES PROCHES, NOTAMMENT L’AGRESSION D’UN HOMME DE 81 ANS, TANDIS QUE SA MÈRE APPARAÎT DANS D’ANCIENNES PROCÉDURES LIÉES À DES FAITS DE COMPLICITÉ DE VIOLS À SES CÔTÉS.

Le fils et sa mère ont été placés en garde à vue et, à ce stade, l’affaire suit son cours judiciaire.

(Actu17)

[Antoine 🇫🇷 @thetoitoi]

🇫🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺

L'ambassade de Russie en France s'est retrouvée « dans la ligne de mire » de Fire Point.

Dans la nuit du 20 juin, l'inscription « Fire Point » accompagnée d'un cœur vert, imitant le viseur du drone FP-2, a été projetée au laser sur le bâtiment de l'ambassade de Russie en France.

Cette action a eu lieu à l'issue du salon de l'armement Eurosatory 2026 à Paris.

Fire Point est une entreprise de défense ukrainienne qui s’est fait connaître grâce à plusieurs systèmes développés localement, notamment les drones FP-2 et les missiles Flamingo, régulièrement utilisés pour frapper des cibles sur le territoire russe.

[Camille @Camille69007]

Les "architectes" (maçons) du Moyen Âge ne sortaient pas de nulle part.

Ils étaient formés au sein des corporations de métiers, selon un parcours progressif qui allait généralement de l'apprentissage au compagnonnage, puis, pour certains, à la maîtrise.

Les savoirs circulaient, les techniques se transmettaient et les artisans voyageaient fréquemment d'un chantier à l'autre pour perfectionner leur art et acquérir de nouvelles compétences. Ce qui a, d'ailleurs, donné les Compagnons du tour de France et diverses guildes.

Ils passaient des examens pour monter en grade. Bref. Ces comptes font des milliers de vues sur de l'ignorance pure.

[Brice Couturier @briceculturier]

Les "patriotes" pro-russes de notre époque sont les héritiers des "nationalistes" des années trente, qui ont accueilli l'occupant à bras ouverts en 1940. Leur haine de la démocratie s'était aisément convertie en haine de la France, en passion de l'Allemagne hitlérienne.

[Philippine Laniesse @PhilippineLan]

Dans l'ancienne école de ma fille, trois enfants de 3 et 4 ans se sont plaints de violences sexuelles graves de la part d'un autre enfant.

L'école a été d'une dureté indicible avec les parents ayant relayé la parole de leurs enfants, les conduisant à devoir changer d'établissement. Lorsque les parents du quatrième enfant, visé par les accusations, ont également choisi de lui changer d'école, la maîtresse a déclaré aux autres élèves qu'il était contraint de partir car les trois autres enfants avaient été "méchants" avec lui.

L'un des parents de ces trois enfants, c'est moi. La violence de cette absence de soutien social, comme le nomme le juge Durand, est inouïe.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Karen Newton, 65, from Hertfordshire in England, left home in late July 2025 for the road trip of a lifetime through the United States with her husband Bill. Valid passports. Valid visas. Weeks on the road through California, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. Then they tried to cross into Canada and things fell apart. Canadian officials said Bill didn’t have the right paperwork to bring the car across the border. When the couple turned back to the American side, U.S. border agents found that Bill’s visa had expired. 

Karen’s tourist visa was valid. Her British passport was valid. She has no criminal record. None of it mattered. She was handcuffed, shackled, and spent the night sleeping on the floor of a locked cell before being driven 12 hours through the night to an ICE detention centre. She and her husband spent the next six weeks there. 

She is now warning anyone planning to visit the United States that the situation is “totally out of control” and advises people not to go while Donald Trump is in office. 

A British grandmother. A valid visa. Six weeks in chains.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Since I began monitoring Elon Musk's pet demagogue, not a day has gone by without him posting at least one fabrication.

In the below, Gad Saad claims to be reposting a video of a Muslim immigrant urinating on pork products in a Dutch supermarket.

The video is in fact a 2023 prank video by Dutch creator Danny Derix (stage name "Buurtwacht"). Derix is neither a Muslim nor an immigrant, did not urinate, and the claims made about the video have been debunked by multiple news organisations and indeed by Derix himself.

I've included a link to a Reuters article about the video in the comments.

Either Saad has yet to master the most basic research skills, or he is an exceptionally gullible conspiracy theorist, or he is knowingly posting fabrications on a daily basis. At least one of these statements must be true. His latest book would lead one to conclude all three are valid interpretations.

Saad, who has a unique understanding of Islam and Muslims because he lived in Lebanon until the ripe old age of ten, uses this video to bolster his oft-repeated absurdity that there is no and can be no variation in Islam or distinctions within the faith.

In Saad's fantasy world ISIS is the only authentic version of Islam. More importantly, unless Israel's genocidal apartheid rape regime continues to enjoy unconditional support, the West will be overrun by Islam, Western civilization will collapse, and everyone dies.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man.
The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero.
The FBI located the man within a few days.
He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave.

He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father.
He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris.
When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship.
He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion.
He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg.
He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry.
He decided he wanted to fly.

In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed.
Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation.
Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first.
Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it.
Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet.
He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red.
He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket.
The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow.

When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service.
His application was rejected.
The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service.
He was the only one who was not.

For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word.
When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him.
He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years.
He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp.

He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was.
He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life.
He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center.
He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for.
A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it.
He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday.

He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday.
He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag.
In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously.
It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him.
He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history.
The French had been calling him a hero since 1917.
The Americans got around to it in 1994.

[Ray ✨🍉 @PacificOfRay]

Remarquez comment le racisme est utilisé comme mode de diversion face à un sujet qui traite des conditions sociales de la classe moyenne. Faire de la propagande raciste pour éviter que l’on parle du fond: la lutte pour des droits sociaux et humains.

C’est exactement ce qu’appelait Marx la « fausse conscience ».

[Etienne Baldit @EtienneBaldit]

L'article est légendaire

[Daikazoku 大家族 🖤❤️|🦦 @Daikazo2]

"Please distinguish between reality and fiction." - The man who married Hatsune Miku

That's how bad the discourse is - even he gets it.

[Leesi ☽ꨄ︎☾ @LeesiBB]

fork found in kitchen

[Lady Oscar @Milady__Oscar]

- j’ai pas vu qu’on m’a versé 42 000€
- j’ai pas chercher à contacter les familles sur les 2 ans qui ont suivi la clôture de la cagnotte
- j’ai ignoré leurs messages quand elles m’ont contacté
- je vais leur filer les ronds maintenant que c’est public
- je suis INNOCEEEEEEEEENT

[🇭𝒚𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏 🏴‍☠️🌴 @DigitalGanon]

J'ai quand même du mal à me rendre compte qu'autant de gens sont complètement cons.

[Interro 🏺🔧♨️🏔🔳 @Interrobang_2]

@hellspatisserie issac asimov:

[Etienne Baldit @EtienneBaldit]

Magnifique avant/après avoir réalisé qu'ils révélaient un truc illégal

[lostbutlucky @lostbutlucky]

This is genuinely hilarious.

Some anonymous person on 4chan, responding to an anime watch order question, posted a proof that later turned out to be mathematically correct and significant.

- It was posted in under an hour after the question.

- The poster basically said, “please check for loopholes.”

- It sat mostly unnoticed for seven years.

- Later, actual mathematicians checked it and were like: yeah, this is legit.

- The formal paper literally lists the author as “Anonymous 4chan Poster.”

[Aaron Gokaslan @SkyLi0n]

@VictorTaelin @OpenAI For those who don’t know: https://t.co/1iD6BwGit3