Fluffy: Survival is an act of defiance
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Survival is an act of defiance
Back in 2016, when Trump was first elected, so many people around me were despondent and telling me that they should just kill themselves before the rest of the world did it for them.beesbuzz.biz
"Person with autism" they say, to remind me I'm a person first.
"Autism Epidemic" they follow with to remind me I'm a disease that needs to be eradicated.
There is no personhood if I am required to remain invisible in order to exist.
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The controversy is that this is a mediocre franchise which funds a billionaire bigot who keeps harming a minority while most people look the other way.
"Iconic role"
Pushing it a bit, c'mon now.
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My local funeral home changed its web hosting platform for a corporate funeral industry stock hosting platform, and it doesn't have an #RSS feed because corporate funeral home service industry provider wants you to visit the website to hawk its merchandisingโflowers, caskets, trinkets, hardcopy guest books, etc, all the things they get a commission on.
I read the whitepaper for sales and marketing from the big corporate funeral service provider that says just that. It read that merchandising makes up 60% of the profit that a funeral home gets on an annual basis.
RSS kept me in the loop. I still visited the obits and left condolences and saw their merchandise.
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Immediately ends the foreign service exam.
Institutes new system based on things like "demonstrated charisma", "verbal authenticity", "alignment with President's foreign policy vision", et al.
skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:sโฆ
Page by Josh Marshall | @joshtpm.bsky.social
I've been shown what purports to be a draft version of a soon to be released Executive Order reorganizing the State Dept. The chain of custody is a bit indirect and it's important to be clear that the...skywriter.blue
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definitely seeing the "protests aren't effective" folks out this evening
y'all read that article about the law enforcement disinformation bots, right?
it's hard to tell if these are bots, foreign actors, or DIPSHITS
but it doesn't really matter
the guy telling you to get violent because nothing else ever works? almost always a cop
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Florida: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez (20) is being held in the Leon County Jail, charged with illegally entering Florida as an โunauthorized alien."
Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the United States. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway.
This is absolute fascism. They are absolutely coming for all non-white US Citizens next.
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Here's an article about this fascist move
nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-borโฆ
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate โauthenticโ and said there wasnโt reason to consider him an โillegal alien.โSuzanne Gamboa (NBC News)
@DeliaChristina He's been released, thankfully! Not that anything else will change for the better, but at least this kid is back with his mom.
independent.co.uk/news/world/aโฆ
U.S.-born citizen held by ICE in Florida jail despite birth certificate presented in court
State law makes it a crime to enter the state as an โunauthorized alienโ โ but itโs blocked by a judge, and Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was born in the U.S.Alex Woodward (The Independent)
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"El Salvador didnโt allow a Senator to see inside their mega prison thatโs wrongfully housing one of his stateโs residents.
But they allow lots of influencers to film propaganda videos."
-S Hackett
"I just toured #CECOT -this max security fac houses the countryโs most brutal criminals... Several inmates were extremely violent criminals recently deported from the US.
I leave now even more determined to support Pres Trumpโs efforts to secure our homeland."
#Sadism #USPol
dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/16โฆ
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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Iโm going through our events page on the Small Technology Foundation web siteยน and porting the entries there to the new version of our web site that Iโm building in Kittenยฒ and itโs depressing how many event sites have just disappeared.
Thank goodness for archive.org.
ยน small-tech.org
ยฒ kitten.small-web.org
#links #archiving #web #SmallTechnologyFoundation
Home
Hello! Weโre a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We are building the Small Web. No, itโs not web3, itโs 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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๐ 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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worse than the Russians, who are still only paying around equivalent of $2 per dozen for eggs, despite similar price rises and being in an actual war.. there was a crisis, but Russia appears to have got round it - there is also the same issues with birdflu etc in Northern Europe, but not quite as much volatility of prices..
poultryworld.net/poultry/layerโฆ
Russia faces aftershocks of the egg crisis - Poultry World
The Russian egg market is in a state of flux, with retailers hesitating to commit to long-term contracts with suppliers. The specter of price hikes andVladislav Vorotnikov (Poultry World)
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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/2025/04/16โฆ
Hereโs Every Local Police Agency Enforcing for ICE โ 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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Trans woman allegedly turned away from hotel because "people like you can't stay here"
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Thread explaining Judge Boasbergโs finding โprobable causeโ that the Trump executive is in criminal contempt of court. Bottom line: he is giving the government an opportunity to โpurge.โ If they donโt he will identify specific individuals who are in contempt and refer the matter for prosecution. 1/ #LawFedi
(Full opinion at storage.courtlistener.com/recaโฆ)
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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 iโฆExecuting 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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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;
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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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We know that Putinโs troll farms create social media bots of the far-right and far-left.
I have realized that they create โcentristโ 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/arcโฆ
(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
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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@DJTentMode ign.com/articles/why-xboxs-thiโฆ
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.
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#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 viโฆSTOP 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/queโฆ
Could be done at long range too. But wear eye protection.
Disabling/Destroying CCTV/IP Cameras with Lasers?
@D3C4FF has asked a great question and I would like to follow up on that. Basically he had asked whether "[...] an attacker can identify if a CCTV camera is on/operational without direct physical a...Information Security Stack Exchange
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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
Just ordered a Kobo Libra Colour so now the only money Iโm paying that asshole Bezos is for a couple of S3 buckets that I havenโt had time to move off of AWS.
Very much looking forward to the time when his fascist collaborator ass doesnโt 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 Iโm 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. Thatโs 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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in reply to ใ future ape ใ • • •@futureape ๐
it's good to know there are so many people out here willing to devalue the work of others
that's definitely helpful
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in reply to AI6YR Ben • • •Grumble ๐บ๐ธ ๐บ๐ฆ
in reply to Sara • • •There's a time and place for Black Panthers.
Sara
in reply to Grumble ๐บ๐ธ ๐บ๐ฆ • • •@grumble209 I think most of the time both are appropriate
and if you were familiar with the history of the Panthers, you'd show more respect for the diversity of the organizing tactics they used
Billy Smith
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If Grumble is talking about setting up breakfast programmes, so schoolchildren don't go to school hungry, then great... :D