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It’s a grotesque reality I wanna point out people who might have been in military service that one of the major strategies of billionaires have been to break government and make it not work. That’s what they’re doing with Social Security but they do it with everything else they defund schools and other social services until people hate them because of incompetence or just unimaginable bad service think of people who are in welfare and all the shit that they have to go through.
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Now the crazy billionaires that are waving war on us are actively destroying the military, and they probably figured that they will have their magical AI and their magical AI system can be a monopoly, violence and more effective than any other military. They are basically gaining control of all sorts of military systems as military support as a service.
How many people who have military experience think that this isn’t suicide for the nation enduring this?
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Just taking this off-thread...
Allies don't argue for compromise with bigots. They fight them. I'm seeing politicians being praised for saying "The SC ruling is what it is, now we have to implement it in a way that's the least damaging to trans folk"
No. You don't. You take it to the European Court or you legislate the human rights violations away. You call the ruling out for what it is, a total disgrace to the UK legal system.
Get off your lazy useless arses and do your fucking job.
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I hope every taxpayer in the #USA understands that as long as billionaires are running this country, billionaires will never pay their share of taxes.
It's why the #RepublicanParty has allowed this #Theocratic #Oligarchy type of government to form.
Remember: The #MAGAcult believes God loves billionaires way more than the middle class and the poor.
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Existence of top 1% of extreme inequality results in an unrepresentative political system,mirroring their greedy interests.
Lethal mixture. Extreme wealth, extreme poverty=extreme politics. Dangerous to 99% of population.
#uspol
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Holy smokes, just saw this!
A thing I did is on a billboard, y'all.
#writing #writingcommunity #bookstodon #saskatoon
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We should all understand the assignment. The platform billionaires from Silicon Valley are deranged cult and they have many allies who embrace the same apocalyptic end days outlook whether they’re religious or not.
The billionaires that have financed all this, whether old school or tech bros, they need to go to jail and they need to be made pennyless
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Naomi Klein on Trump, Musk, Far Right & "End Times Fascism"
Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytAn alliance between the far right and Silicon Valley oligarchs has given rise to a form of "end t...YouTube
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I want to see the Internet
Federated
Every website running free
Software
Nothing excepted
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Rubio, whose Administration practices "tyranny in disguise” wrongfully applied that phrase to a reasonable practice in Germany.
#Trump #extremism #PutinsPuppet #politics
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I had my 5th graders design mazes then we timed each other taking them and they have gotten SO competitive about who can make the most difficult maze on a grid of a given size. They have developed a whole theory of what makes a maze "hard."
I'm so glad that I get to teach "non grade-bearing" courses in tech.
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this is brilliant. My favourite teacher in school was the one that taught me to think by doing lateral thinking problems every Wednesday afternoon instead of physics. Mr Hodgekinson.
So many of those kids will still be talking about you in 40 or 50 years from now
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#USpolitics #StrangeCanaries #Nature
In the US they have strange canaries for their coalmine.
This is, of course, about environmental [river] pollution and Trumps policies to deregulate capitalism at the cost of the environment.
And with that the public health, the future and/or the planet.
"Legend has it this salamander came from hell. We’re about to send it back." [ ± 1-3 min]
by MotherJones [Jackie Flynn Mogensen]
youtube.com/shorts/SxSGBmZWYVo
Quote by MJ:
"Apr 29, 2025
Do you like clean water? Then you’ll like this slimy, hellish creature.
But, it is in danger of extinction.
Although you wouldn’t know it by looking at their sheer bulk—up to about 2 feet in length and weighing in at more than 3 pounds—Eastern hellbenders are sensitive creatures: the 160-million-year-old salamander species has evolved to breathe almost exclusively through its skin, and needs excellent water quality to survive.
Back in 2019, the first Trump administration denied listing the Eastern hellbender under the act, opting to list only one population segment in Missouri.
Now, under Trump 2.0., the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has fired thousands of federal employees at scientific agencies like the Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, National Park Service, and National Science Foundation—each with a role in supporting or conducting research on our most at-risk species.
If hellbenders go extinct, that’s not just bad for them; it’s bad for us, too. Because of their sensitive skin, hellbenders are something of “a canary in the coal mine” for the health of streams.
Salamander expert Wally Smith sees our fate as intertwined with the hellbender: “There’s a parallel between humans and wildlife,” he says. “We’re all grappling with those same challenges right now.”
For more, visit Mother Jones:
-> motherjones.com/environment/2025/04/endangered-species-salamander-hurricane-helene-eastern-hellbender-bog-turtle/ <-
#USbeware #FascistsAreHere #TimeToResist #FightOligarchy
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopEcoside #StopRapingNature
Legend has it this salamander came from hell. We’re about to send it back.
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"We know conversion therapy doesn’t work because the society we live in is conversion therapy. It is deeply rotted through with oppositional sexism and attendance is considered mandatory, no small infraction unnoticed. Not everyone can find the exit door, a deep injustice that often goes unnoticed"
-- Riley Black
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Britain 2031
A suspiciously tall woman approaches a public toilet and is scanned. A barrier descends and two mech police dogs approach, barking "Don't move, you are being detained" in their silly yet terrifying retro-robot voices.
The woman complies while the dogs stand guard, nose tasers at the ready. Finally a PCSO shows up, night-stick drawn. He yells "Get on your knees! You're under arrest on suspicion of breaking Biological Sex Laws!!"
She smiles reassuringly at him, and says in a beautiful alto voice, "One moment please, I have clearance. May I?" She pulls out her phone and taps the screen.
The robot dogs whine briefly then slump just as the woman executes a perfect kick to the cop's liver. Another tap of the phone and the barrier lifts. The cop is thrown unceremoniously into the women's toilets and a third tap restores the memory-wiped dogs as she begins to yell "Help! There's a MAN in the women's!!"
The dogs turn and extend their noses and growl as the woman walks away whispering "Target 8B down"
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Not in this case.
Cops - robo-canine or otherwise - are things authoritarian governments don't generally skimp on.
Public toilets though? Yeah they cost money ya know, here's a public bucket
supreme court rules that buckets are biologically nonbinary at the same time as saying that people can't be enbies, resulting in clarity and toilets for none
(I'll stop with the absurdities now, Friday afternoon brain 😅)
I respectfully disagree.
They would be *programmed* to taze and chase children but instead one of them would run around ordering people to admit King Henry VIII was a goldfish while the other started singing a song about Bobby Tables
in chapter 2 we find out about the Government built RoboSheep which police people taking pees in the fields.
Next up, Hawker Sidley RoboAnimals Division are developing RoboDeer, the Doe MkI, to police bears shitting in woods for proper sex segregation.
I'm in but I stole elements of the plot from William Gibson...
Basically Molly is trans in my headcanon
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In response to those who asked me recently, yes, we can get infected and symptomatic if we've been fully vaccinated (this is called a "breakthrough" infection or a secondary vaccine failure). But:
📚 It's not common
📚 We're unlikely to get severe illness
📚 We're unlikely to transmit on to another
#QT mastodon.social/@mackayim2022/…
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (@mackayim2022@mastodon.social)
According to the book - "Most symptomatic #measles outbreaks are due to infection of and transmission from unvaccinated or non-immune people"...Mastodon
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Which posts I hear you ask?
Why these ones of course...
Measles takes your immune memories
virologydownunder.com/measles-…
A measles infographic: virus, symptoms and white blood cells
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A measles infographic: virus, symptoms and white blood cells - Virology Down Under
This is a measles infographic that presents measles symptoms and the levels of the virus and white blood cells in your blood over time.Ian M Mackay, PhD (EIC) (Virology Down Under)
Oh look he said something not true and stupid today that is different than the not true and stupid thing he said a year ago. Good thing we can catch the idiot in all of his lies and stupidity everyday he is above ground breathing.
STOP LISTENING TO OR REPEATING WHAT HE SAYS. JFC
And get some new material to gaslight people with.
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couple of americans already had a go.
and there are a lot more americans.
I tell u one thing tho, I would not want to be one of the saps whose job it is to "protect" a sociopath with a 24/7 mass-media-broadcasted deathwish.
'Railing against “unelected” judges, Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will appeal a temporary court injunction preventing the province from removing bike lanes.'
"Vice-President JD Vance has suggested judges do not have authority over the Trump administration's executive power"
It's time we renamed all the "Conservative" parties of Canada "Wannabe American Parties".
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Vance questions authority of US judges to challenge Trump
The vice-president says the judiciary cannot "control" the Trump administration's "legitimate power".Brandon Drenon & Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent (BBC News)
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White House launches shitty Drudge Report knockoff
#DrudgeReport #NewsSite #MAGA #Knockoff #WhiteHouse
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White House launches shitty Drudge Report knockoff - National Zero
Convicted felon President Trump’s team, obviously feeling like right wing media isn’t up to the task of being state media 100 percent of the time, have gone ahead and set up their own state media apparatus, White House Wire, a curated feed of the mos…Spartan (National Zero)
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The Infamous ‘You Wouldn’t Steal a Car’ Anti-Piracy Font Was Pirated. But By Who?
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"You wouldn't download an illegal font ... unless you wanted to use it to sell a modem for the Sega Genesis?"
The Infamous ‘You Wouldn’t Steal a Car’ Anti-Piracy Font Was Pirated. But By Who?
You wouldn't download an illegal font ... unless you wanted to use it to sell a modem for the Sega Genesis?Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Trump Administration’s Targeting of International Students Jeopardizes Free Speech and Privacy Online
The federal government is using social media surveillance to target student visa holders living in the United States for online speech the Trump administration disfavors.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Seeing Fiverr become merely a way to pay people to provide you with generative slop: “that’s bad, alas.”
Seeing people post to AO3 things that are generative slop: “What the FUCK are you doing?”
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7. Now brown rice will kill you, due to heavy metals. Again, the claims are massively inflated, and likely to be minuscule by comparison to the impacts of eating, say, tuna or sharks, which those grunting “paleo” eaters believe will help them live forever. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
New Kitten Release 🎉
Added:
• Support for local redirects and domain redirects (former will eventually have interface in Settings, latter can be programmatically used or, more likely, will be used via a small app I’m about to release next).
Fixed:
• Event bubbling in class-based Kitten pages and components is now correctly limited to just the event target if the component’s id starts with Kitten’s automatically generated universally-unique ID for the component.
• Fixed regular expression matching Kitten components in Markdown pages so it correctly captures self-closing components when followed by components with slotted content.
• The Kitten-specific trigger() mixin on the client-side WebSocket now correctly adds the contents of the data attribute on the triggering node to the data property received by the server-side event handler. This gives manually-triggered event handlers the same interface as automatically-triggered ones. (Previously it would create a separate `data` object in the received argument.)
Stay tuned for the a small and useful app release later today for web archiving/combatting link rot :)
Enjoy!
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#politics #CanadaPol #Canada
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“IBM won the mainframe wars fair and square by building a better product for business.”
Oh no wait, we’re talking about Google.
world.hey.com/dhh/don-t-make-g…
Don't make Google sell Chrome
The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for legitimate ad-market monopoly abuses.world.hey.com
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#gaza #food #usa #israel #geopolitics @geopolitics
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FEDIPACT LIST UPDATED!!!
hey so after like nine months of not being able to update it due to depression and big stressful life changes and technical difficulties, the fedipact list has finally been updated!!! it now has NINE HUNDRED SIGNATURES TOTAL!!!!! 🎉 🥳 🎊 🏆 🥇 🪩
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Well, I can't help thinking of the take of house cats as anarchists: fully independent and self-governing while oblivious to the larger structure and benefactors they depend upon for food, lodging, etc.
Sans structure, they return to a feral state in the wild, where instinct and biological imperative prevail and set boundaries.
The question is then: what initial conditions produce such a rich, organized environment and how does it remain stable over time under anarchy?
First, humans aren't cats. There are plenty of human cultures that would be classified as an anarchistic for this discussion.
Second, it is a mistake to say that instinct and biological imperative don't prevail in domesticated animals.
Humans and animals operate on instinct and biological imperative always.
Third, the people who are oblivious are wealthy "Carless people". Anarchists and working people are not.
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