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I would like to ask people for donations of things like bicycles, computers, and tools, so that I can establish a charitable giveaway program, but my main concern is that people will simply use it as a dumping ground for obsolete and low quality goods that I wouldn't give away to anyone for free, because I respect people's dignity more than that. I mean, I suppose I could set up a parallel recycling program, but that's so much extra work, and right now, I don't have any funding for this.

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in reply to 風曜日琳子 ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭

Beggars can, in fact, be choosers, but I'd look to spare people the indignity of having to appear ungrateful for having people foist off their refuse on the poor and needy.

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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?

in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell

I sometimes think about a lesson these folks seem unaware of: deBaathification. How'd that work for us in Iraq?


In #Michigan, first Tuesday in May is Stealth Election Day for those school districts that elect their school boards via stealth election. My district, Warren Consolidated, used to be such a district. Back in those days the school board elections always caught me off guard. Often I'd be driving down 12 Mile and see the "Vote Today" signs in front of Warren Mott High and realize, oh wow, it's first Tuesday in May again. It seems to be a strategy to make school board elections more of a local insider thing. Harper Valley PTA vibes. Not a good look. I'd like to see stealth elections phased out at the state level. #mipol #elections

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I went to school at Mott (back before it merged with Warren), and my children went there too. Weird election dates not only undermine democracy, they also waste taxpayer money.

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Fuck me dead, installing/updating an SSL certificate for a small website is still a right faff about if you choose to do it yourself, isn't it.

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@Jplonie Well that’s going to be a PITA to do every month inside CPanel.
@JP

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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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in reply to Ghost of Hope 🏳️‍⚧️

Fully agree. Theres a difference between honoring the judgements/authority of the court system and accepting unjust rulings with no resistance, we absolutely can and must maintain public trust in the court and that means holding the system and its components to account at the highest possible standard
in reply to Ghost of Hope 🏳️‍⚧️

@ramshackle its like "they said we have to hurt people so we must!" when its like you know you can just not right?

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#Billionaires #USpol #Taxes

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.


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The scary part is, there actually *is* an island, just a few miles past Alcatraz, where Americans cruelly housed unwanted immigrants until they proved…”useful”.
#uspol

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in reply to Brian Anderson (He/Him)

Yep, and if you visit that island which those of us live in the area, probably have in our life once or twice you can go and read what people jotted on housing walls. Yeah, they’re all sorts of languages, but some of them are in English.

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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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21 min

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

youtube.com/watch?v=XtYSyb6fCx…

#uspol

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I want to see the Internet
Federated
Every website running free
Software

Nothing excepted

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I started hating the internet about the time the word "content" was coined.

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Extremist "Rubio condemns German intelligence’s decision to classify far-right party AfD as extremist":
politico.com/news/2025/05/02/m…
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.

in reply to myrmepropagandist

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

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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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Reminder: anytime someone suggests fixing this particular problem, they are immediately called a socialist and attacked by the mainstream media.

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#cdnpoli (stolen from the Internet.)
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SubStank.

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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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in reply to Ghost of Hope 🏳️‍⚧️

dogs are offline due to being outsourced from the same company that makes McDonald's ice cream machines, private sector "efficiency" and state bigotry are natural partners
in reply to Charlotte

@Foritus

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

in reply to Ghost of Hope 🏳️‍⚧️

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 😅)

in reply to Charlotte

due to multigenerational austerity the dogs are actually just junior police officers in fursuits and they can be subverted by slipping them some GreggsCoin
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@distinctdipole

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 reply to Ghost of Hope 🏳️‍⚧️

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.


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I hope Windows 11 telling everyone to throw their computer into the trash about the same time no new computers will be arriving to the US will be a pretty fun time for foss

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not like I have to trash my computer if it is not able to run the newest Windows :)

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North Dakota enacts nation's first law shielding Roundup's maker from some cancer lawsuits apnews.com/article/bayer-round…

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For the first time, a U.S. federal district court has formally and definitively invalidated Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) as a basis for his Proclamation to detain and remove Venezuelan aliens who are members of Tren de Aragua (TdA). 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/reca… #LawFedi
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I mention CAT issue because it illustrates the preliminariness of Rodriguez's opinion and order today. The Trump executive will surely appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and whichever side loses there, will seek Supreme Court review. The parties will fight over various steps in Rodriguez's analyses of the judiciary's role and the meaning of the AEA. But even if the executive won all of these fights, the Venezuelans would still have grounds to challenge deportation to El Salvador. 12/

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Nevertheless, as of today, the position of one U.S. federal court is that, as a matter of law, the Trump regime may not rely on the AEA to deport Venezuelans it casts as members of TdA. This is a major inflection point in the effort to prevent Trump's efforts to make himself a military dictator. 13/13
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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/…

#qt

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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
virologydownunder.com/measles-…


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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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@akamran

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.


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'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".

#neverVoteConservative

thestar.com/politics/provincia…

bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx3j5k…

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democrats are overperforming in specials by like 11.5 points right now, so Henry Cuellar whining about how he's afraid he'll be hurt by Van Hollen going to El Salvador is some cowardly, ridiculous bullshit.

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one iowa state rep just overshot Harris' margin by 26 points! if van hollen's trip had any part in that, every single damn democrat should be camped out in el salvador for the duration.
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like, right now, it looks like the Ds are going to have an epic, historical, unprecedented victory in 2026 in the House. none of that is due to the strategic "hide under our desks" genius of James Carville or Henry Cuellar.

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White House launches shitty Drudge Report knockoff

#DrudgeReport #NewsSite #MAGA #Knockoff #WhiteHouse

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The Infamous ‘You Wouldn’t Steal a Car’ Anti-Piracy Font Was Pirated. But By Who?
404media.co/the-infamous-you-w…

"You wouldn't download an illegal font ... unless you wanted to use it to sell a modem for the Sega Genesis?"

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slug or other slimy animal, ID request

Sensitive content

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EFF has long warned about government social media surveillance. Now, in a disturbing escalation, the Trump administration is deploying AI tools and monitoring the online speech of student visa holders already in the U.S., aiming to revoke their visas. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/trum…

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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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1. There has been a major effort by that old combination – big business and the far right – to diss foods derived from plants. The meat lobby invests big time in misinformation. And the far right hates “soyboys”, while associating itself with red meat-eating. It's a match made in hell. 🧵

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6. Avocados are killing the planet. Yes, there are real issues, but nothing compared to the vast global impacts of, for example, beef. Funny, isn’t it, how they get all concerned about the living planet when they want to diss plant foods, but deny everything when it comes to beef and fossil fuels?
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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...

Brown rice has more arsenic th...


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Dear Canada,
Please don’t elect a Canadian Trump today. Thanks.
#NeverTrump

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New Kitten Release 🎉

kitten.small-web.org

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!

#Kitten #SmallWeb #PeerToPeerWeb #KittenRelease #web #dev

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For the love of God, my 🇨🇦 neighbors, please, we are begging you, if you don't want to end up like us in 🇺🇸, get out there and vote against #PierrePoilievre today. And vote for a party that can actually beat him; don't cast a wasted protest vote. We can't afford that nonsense right now. Thank you!
#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…

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This is the thing that tech bros never understand: someone can “win” fair and square and, because they have developed a monopoly, still be subject to limitations and divestitures. The point is to ensure that markets remain competitive.

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Allies could supply the Netherlands under German occupation in the last winter of the second world war with food droppings from the air that saved many lives. Now the USA, Israel and the world can't supply the very small Gaza strip with food. Unbelievable
#gaza #food #usa #israel #geopolitics @geopolitics

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Please, Canada. Do better than your southern neighbors did. We didn’t do enough to protect ourselves, but you still can beat the hounds from the door. #canadavotes #canada #elections

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:FediPact: FEDIPACT LIST UPDATED!!! :FediPact:


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!!!!! 🎉 🥳 🎊 🏆 🥇 🪩

fedipact.online

#FediPact #meta #threads


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Humans independently edit Wikipedia for humans. They don’t have any Ads or cannot be bullied into removing content. Wikipedia is free from AI slop. No wonder tech bros with AI companies want to eliminate it so that their fake AI text generator can show or push propaganda. Please do not let Wikipedia die. It is an independent source and far more reliable than Gen AI companies. It is a real shame that it comes to this.
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@unruly
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?

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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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