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"El Salvador didn’t allow a Senator to see inside their mega prison that’s wrongfully housing one of his state’s residents.
But they allow lots of influencers to film propaganda videos."
-S Hackett
"I just toured #CECOT -this max security fac houses the country’s most brutal criminals... Several inmates were extremely violent criminals recently deported from the US.
I leave now even more determined to support Pres Trump’s efforts to secure our homeland."
#Sadism #USPol
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GOP congressman takes twisted trip to Salvadoran torture prison
GOP Rep. Riley Moore of West Virginia traveled to El Salvador on Tuesday, where he posed for photos in front of immigrants incarcerated in the notoriously violent CECOT prison. Moore posted four ...Daily Kos
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I’m going through our events page on the Small Technology Foundation web site¹ and porting the entries there to the new version of our web site that I’m building in Kitten² and it’s depressing how many event sites have just disappeared.
Thank goodness for archive.org.
¹ small-tech.org
² kitten.small-web.org
#links #archiving #web #SmallTechnologyFoundation
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Hello! We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We are building the Small Web. No, it’s not web3, it’s web0.Small Technology Foundation
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did you ever see like just one guy with a sign protesting
make sure you honk and support that guy
lot of people don't seem to know what's going on
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👌 TTE - Time To Entshitification
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Everybody on the planet stop what you're doing and see how much America is 'winning' right now.
lol, they think they're so 'exceptional', don't they?
Nothing more than Russian peasants now, but at least they can say r*tard and f*ggot as much as they want, what victory /s
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The publication The Markup says it will keep updated this searchable database of municipalities where local police departments have agreements with ICE, enabling local law enforcement to engage in some kind of immigration enforcement
Database:
themarkup.org/tools/2025/04/16…
Here’s Every Local Police Agency Enforcing for ICE – The Markup
Partnerships more than doubled during the first months of Trump's current term under a program known as 287(g)themarkup.org
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”Science is clear. It says we need to stop burning fossil fuels. But Dutton's big donors, like Gina Rinehart, don't want that - it's clear who he's listening to”.
Skip the question if someone "believes" in climate change. Ask if someone *accepts* the evidence-based science or not. It’s not religion.
#greens #Science #climate #australia
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Trans woman allegedly turned away from hotel because "people like you can't stay here"
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Thread explaining Judge Boasberg’s finding “probable cause” that the Trump executive is in criminal contempt of court. Bottom line: he is giving the government an opportunity to “purge.” If they don’t he will identify specific individuals who are in contempt and refer the matter for prosecution. 1/ #LawFedi
(Full opinion at storage.courtlistener.com/reca…)
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On needing another Nuremberg when this is all said and done
No doubt some serious crimes have already been committed and are being committed and will continue to be committed. If and when, and I do mean IF, there will likely have been a Democratic mandate i…Executing Order 66
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The General Strike
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.The General Strike
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![On social media, the trademark symbol has seen use in an ironic fashion, highlighting a concept as if it were important enough to warrant its own trademark, for example, "Official Bisexual Haircut™".[6][7] This is a non-standard usage of the symbol, which confers no special legal rights.](https://cambrian.social/photo/preview/640/1419170 "On social media, the trademark symbol has seen use in an ironic fashion, highlighting a concept as if it were important enough to warrant its own trademark, for example, \"Official Bisexual Haircut™\".[6][7] This is a non-standard usage of the symbol, which confers no special legal rights.")
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Once again the NatACTs are hauling out the "dependency" language to shame people on benefits, as if needing to pay rent, bills and eat is some kind of vice;
rnz.co.nz/news/business/556428…
Our society is structured so people need money to meet our basic needs, but much of the work it needs done it won't pay for. So a lot of people do unpaid work and make use of a welfare benefit to survive. Why the hell should beneficiaries feel ashamed about that?
Dependency my lilly-white arse.
Benefit struggle: 'I've fallen into the trap of being 100 percent reliant on it'
The regions where one in five working-age adults are on benefits.Susan Edmunds (RNZ)
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"The government comes in and gives us funding for something to fix a problem, that lasts a year and a half and then the government changes and they have a new idea to try something else. It's death by 1000 bloody pilot projects. We can come up with our own solutions to get us ahead. They just have to pass money over, get out of the way and make sure it's sustainable."
#MokoTepania, Mayor, Far North District Council, 2025
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Benefit struggle: 'I've fallen into the trap of being 100 percent reliant on it'
The regions where one in five working-age adults are on benefits.Susan Edmunds (RNZ)
Everyone who joined the Trump administration has irreparably ruined their own lives.
RESIGN NOW. If you cannot salvage your reputation, you might at least avoid prison.
#ImpeachDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #NoFascism #USPol
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i love it when companies sell a solution to a problem they created
that's fucking awesome /s
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#BobFerguson #WA #PNW #Democrats #workingclass #taxes #regressivetaxes #meme
Bad Democrat, no cookie.WA Governor Bob Ferguson has been putting forth policies more inline with Trump's white house than what you'd expect from a Democrat.
The new governor's policies has been a loud promise to drastically increase the number of cops in the state while at the same time over seeing budget cuts that could shrink social services and cut state worker hours in an economy drowning in rising costs.
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#BobFerguson #WA #PNW #budget #furlough
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We know that Putin’s troll farms create social media bots of the far-right and far-left.
I have realized that they create “centrist” bots as well.
These bots exist to spread propaganda and misinformation, but also to flame divisions to keep people too busy arguing with each other to organize.
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OMG WHAT
I did not know that Parks and Recreation had a God Hates Figs shoutout until today when a friend mentioned it!?!
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ICYMI God Hates Figs was a website I ran back in the day:
buttondown.com/charliejane/arc…
(This could be a coincidence IDK. They might have just thought that was a funny band name. But my website actually did get a lot of attention back in the day so...)
Why Does God Hate Figs So Much?
From 1999 to 2005, I ran a website called godhatesfigs.com. I realized that I've never talked about it in my newsletter, so here's the whole story. (Warning:...Happy Dancing
That was you?!
... thank you for your service! o7
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Question: If you use an XBox Series X normally up until it receives the 2024 update that causes it to announce that in one month it will be cutting off support Brook fightstick adapters, then immediately turn off updates, disconnect it entirely from the Internet, wait most of a year, turn it back on, and plug in a pre-2024 Brook fightstick adapter, will it work?
Answer: YES AND I AM HAPPILY PLAYING PAC-MAN CE DX RIGHT NOW
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This is what I'm referring to. I think Brook may have an updated adapter now however.
Why Xbox's Third-Party Accessories Ban Is Sparking a Backlash in the Disabled Community - IGN
Speaking with IGN, disabled players explored how Xbox's changes to third-party accessory allownace will impact their setups, the overall cost of their equipment, as well as money lost, and the ways in which the community is reacting.Grant Stoner (IGN)
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@khoji what a terrific idea!
I had the thought of micropyments. .50c to satisfy my curiosity. but yours is way better.
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Seattle cops have just activated their new citywide AI surveillance cameras.
Cops at operations centers will be watching the video from over SIXTY HD cameras in three neighborhoods.
The cops are storing video for 30 days, or indefinably if a cop decides they want to keep it for "investigation".
Seattle residents tried to stop this dragnet, saying it will only empower Trump in our region.
stopsurveillancecity.wordpress…
#Seattle #SPD #ACAB #Trump #PNW #Privacy #surveillance
SPD CCTV Cameras are live
SPD is now doing 24/7 surveillance of the CID, Aurora North, & Belltown/Downtown. The surveillance includes both people watching camera feeds and algorithms including object recognition. ALL vi…STOP SURVEILLANCE CITY
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If enough people wear masks that cover their noses and dark sunglasses to cover their eyes, that will provide cover for migrants and political fugitives to do the same so AI and facial recognition can't identify them.
Also these cameras are vulnerable to all the usual tactics including paintballs for temporary results at moderate risk. The labor to take a paintballed camera down for cleaning is the same as the labor to replace one with a rifle bullet in it. Enough paintball attacks and the camera will come down.
The headline then becomes "Seattle's big brother camera network is being DESTROYED along Aurora..."
@LukefromDC
High powered lasers work if you want to damage cameras that belong to you.
security.stackexchange.com/que…
Could be done at long range too. But wear eye protection.
Disabling/Destroying CCTV/IP Cameras with Lasers?
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< and > are stairs. looks like it's those next to | which is walls.
you can use ; to look at tiles and read their meaning
Gotta love that Amazon is trying to do to grocery stores what it did to bookstores: sell at a loss until you drive the competition out of business, then jack up prices.
I have mixed feelings, given the overall price gouging in the grocery industry, which retail stores are definitely colluding on. Many of the major stores are owned by the same parent companies. So they are evil, yes. But that doesn't mean being at the mercy of a billionaire's monopoly game is any better.
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i've been boycotting Loblaws since everyone really did it and nobody went to their stores. but i live in the opposite of a food desert. i live next to Ottawa's Chinatown and Little Italy, where there are five grocery stores and probably six Phơ restaurants per kilometer of main street, not mention bespoke coffee shops. it's not hard for me to pick a couple of smaller stores and get groceries. i save a bit of money too, or maybe more so now that Roblaws has "member pricing".
the "15 minute city" is what made this possible, long before it was called that, long before "urban renewal", car suburbs, parking allowances, and what has generally become known as urban sprawl.
Just ordered a Kobo Libra Colour so now the only money I’m paying that asshole Bezos is for a couple of S3 buckets that I haven’t had time to move off of AWS.
Very much looking forward to the time when his fascist collaborator ass doesn’t get a single euro cent from me.
(Another plus: Kobo works with Overdrive and I checked and Dublin libraries support it so you should be able to check out library books directly on the device. And I’m quite looking forward to a little bit of colour and the notetaking features.)
#ebooks #ereader #kobo #amazon #bezos #trump #USA #fascism #notAnotherCent #boycott #EU #Ireland
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Someone warned my grandmother's cousin's wife he was on the list. He left town for a week, returned and went back to his job as if nothing had happened.
ps Arrested in 1952, did 3 years north of Arctic Circle.
pps He really was a Trotskyist, thought until death in 1988 that Lenin good, Stalin bad.
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the acceptance of trans people by cis was for many forced acceptance. That’s what happens when too many questions is unanswered by way of self censoring and cancellation. People need time to reflect, discuss openly and adapt.
What you are experiencing now is what has been all along, just not openly expressed for the last couple of years.
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"A dangerous approach" – Experts urge the Swedish Parliament to reject the encryption backdoor law
The law could come into force as early as March 2026Chiara Castro (TechRadar)
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Senator Murphy, I’m one of your constituents. Please ask Adam Schiff to investigate Trump’s kids for insider trading. They’ve been too quiet lately. They would’ve been bragging about yesterday’s stock rebound.
Thanks!
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>> Senator Murphy, I’m one of your constituents. Please ask #AdamSchiff to investigate Trump’s kids for insider trading…
They didn't nail #Trump for #insurrection on #Jan6, theft of nuclear secrets and other #classifiedDocs, attempt to fraudulently overturn the 2020 presidential election using #fakeElectors, and #electionInterference using #fakeVotes in #Georgia.
Nobody will investigate #insiderTrading. That's only punishable for people like #MarthaStewart
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*(grabbing popcorn)*
I suspect I will agree with many elements of this take.
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Okay, so....
How do I start this?
The epiphany happened today when I was looking at a post by someone I know who organises "NoCode meetup" events.
He's a really nice guy. I have attended a couple of the talks he's organised and plan to attend more in the future.
And well, I really like these "nocode" meetups I've been to so far.
Deploying interfaces for non-techy people to develop and edit websites themselves (without having to rely on me all the time) is 99% of what I strive to do in tech roles.
These people are my people, or at least they should be...
The last "nocode" event I went to was very AI (LLM) focused and, well, it failed to mention any of the negative things about AI.
I could have jumped in during the Q and A session to condemn the speaker and list of all the negative things about LLMs and I probably should have.
However, I was mainly there that day to find potential clients and eat free pizza.
I didn't want to scare off potential clients and I didn't pay much attention to the talk anyway so could really be very specific with my criticism.
Since this event, I've felt uncomfortable about this group. It's been weighing on me as to whether I should continue to attend these events and engage with these spaces or not.
I think I have a better idea today though...
*next slide*