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Once again, game makers: "bonus" is not a fancy word for "score". It's an extra on top of the score for fast, clever or otherwise exceptional play.

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dubstep levels are 60% and rising

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Kroger is shuttering stores temporarily to pressure union to concede. Their offer is below the poverty levels set by the state! Their CEO took $15.4M home last year (450 times their average employee) and the company announced 7.5B in stock buybacks!! But now they cry poor, and want to stiff the workers.
#Teamsters #union #pride #fair #wages #job #security #slow #walking #negotiations #pay #below #minimum #wage #Kroger #greed #grocery #price #eggs #trucks #food #inflation thestreet.com/retail/kroger-fa…
#food #walking #slow #pride #security #greed #inflation #teamsters #union #job #kroger #negotiations #wages #eggs #pay #trucks #price #fair #grocery #wage #below #minimum
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@hosford42 Costco continues to do the Right Thing, even if they still sell gasoline.
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@starlily Sadly, none in my area. But I'll definitely keep that in mind if they move in
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At the #sandiego #nokings protest today, we walked past Sarah Jacobs (our congress woman) standing on the corner shouting "Thank you for doing this!" to the crowd.

Very classy.

No press, no "event", no "vote for me" signs, no spectacle... just an elected official showing support.

More of this please.

#sandiego #nokings
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Text "when the company got pride merch but funds the GOP" Attached image is a pixel art representation of a person in purple with text from the game Zeizen saying "We're being toyed with. Taken for fools. Fuck"

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just a reminder that Rania Khalek is an extremely bad actor. Assad apologist, Putin apologist, genocide denier; generally horrible. I know people see her saying the right things about Palestine and so might repost her but she's really no good. I'd just suggest blocking.

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NBC Report: 🇺🇸🛑 An emergency meeting is underway at the Pentagon to discuss Israel’s request for the U.S. to join the war against Iran😱

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🚨BREAKING: Police just arrested a number of veterans, including an 80 year old man, who were protesting Trump’s unnecessary military parade at the Capitol building in DC.

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This is the military taking part in civilian law enforcement.

"Detention" is breaking the law. You know, when people cared about that.

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The President’s invasion of Southern California continues apace.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows | Reuters

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#USpol


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BOOM! I was looking for some way to say somethin like that but you said it better. They absolutely derive power from it. In fact, they feed on our revulsion. So calling them hypocrites is just flattering these malignant scumbags.

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Indeed, the ability to dictate truth and to present bald hypocrisy is a sign of power. They worship the biggest hypocrite because he must, by virtue of the that alone, be the most powerful
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The most important part of any international tragedy is finding the Canadian that was affected, and reporting on it.

Mission accomplished.

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Toronto dentist among 242 aboard crashed Air India plane; British national only survivor, airline says

The London-bound flight crashed into a residential area five minutes after taking off from the local airport in Ahmedabad, India.
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R version 4.5.1 (Great Square Root) has been released on 2025-06-13. #r #rstats
#rstats #r

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What made the early internet special “were people like John Young, who just kind of showed up and started making things that were interesting and useful and important and were just stubborn enough to make them happen,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @newyorktimes. nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/john…
@The New York Times

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Silly socialist, you lack ambition! 😋 /s

As hell-fires rage, Canada sees national unity in pipelines - Toronto Star
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Linda McQuaig: As climate induced hell-fires rage across the country, Canada looks to build pipelines — in the name of national unity

Even as the hell-fires rage, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, the media barely mentions climate change, presumably due to fear of being accused of destroying the new-found
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Oh dear, he was rude to the fascists. Now I guess I am on the fascist's side. /s

NOT.

More people should be rude to fascists.

Too many of my buttons have been pushed. Please try not to burn anything down that poor people own or need.

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“When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”

– Harry Stonecipher, former Boeing CEO

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Is that PRIDE he's showing with that statement? Strange choice.
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One of the things I find most upsetting about the current US regime is their concerted attack on science and education. That alone, is going to have generational consequences, and the dismantling of organizations like the EPA, CDC and NOAA will affect not just the United States, but the whole world.

Today's blog post collects a few links documenting the US regime's war on science.

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#science #environment #space #nasa #ClimateChange


Dispatches from the War on Science

One of the things I find most upsetting about the current US regime is their concerted attack on science and education. That alone, is going...
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#environment #science #climatechange #space #nasa

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Citizens who support "law and order" have to be persuaded to turn against law & order. Without that reversal, avoiding dictatorship is not possible.

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Everyone has a price in the world of #trump and he’s not wrong based on the people he picks.
#doge caught giving every #ice employee a 40k bonus. That’s as much as many Americans make in a year.
Loyalty can be bought.
#antifa #resist #fight #corruption #waste

youtu.be/CPKflt5H6T8?si=jfCWCE…


Republicans humiliated as DOGE caught giving $40,000 Bonus to EVERY ICE EMPLOYEE.

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#trump #corruption #antifa #ice #doge #resist #waste #fight

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A small group of users are trying to create alternative-subreddits covering major cities, where the posts are all right wing, pro-Trump, anti-human talking points.

Interestingly, these users all appear to be associated with Palantir, the Peter Thiel supported private surveillance agency.

reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/co…

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Trump's Fort Bragg speech was a Nuremberg Rally.

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Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance

As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Konstantin Toropin, Steve Beynon (Military.com)

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@billyjoebowers Nazism was as American as Apple Pie and enslaving people. The Nuremberg Laws built off of Jim Crow.
@billy joe bowers-8647
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Any comments from healthcare professionals with regard to RFK Jr’s firing our advisory board personnel, to be replaced with his own quack loyalist?

How is the medical profession going to come to terms with this change of affairs? I know the AMA has been posting updates with regard to contagious diseases, but that’s sort of a stop gap.

#PoxAmericana #politics #medicine

#Politics #medicine #poxamericana
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I guess responsible health professionals in the USA will have to follow vaccine guidance from other countries (e.g. European vaccine guidance) if they want to treat their patients according to best scientific knowledge in future.

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Follow McNado you’ll get unvarnished opinions from a Doc on the front lines
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Years ago, I worked for a company that sold sandwiches in airports. I once got a complaint email that someone’s chicken cordon bleu sandwich was missing the chicken. I replied that “cordon bleu” was French for “not there,” and I have not felt that level of job satisfaction since.

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Anti-immigration politics has been a worldwide trend for the last decade or longer and is clearly the spear point of a fascist project. Throughout history, anti-immigration politics has gone hand in hand with fascist dictatorships, the rise of the KKK in the 1920s, the Nazi-sympathizing "America First" movement of the WWII era, etc. Anti immigration politics is not to be reasoned with, let alone compromised with. It must be pushed back to the margins of public opinion, or history will judge us harshly, and rightly so.

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The ability to protest is protected in a democracy. Without protest - hell without a riot or two - more than half of Americans wouldn't have the right to vote.

On that note, a riotous Pride to everyone out there. Fight the power, eat the rich, and all that jazz.

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Stephen Miller can't make America white. LA is paying for his impotent rage

#FailedPolicies #ImpotentRage #ImmigrationReform #StephenMiller #RacialJustice

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Stephen Miller can't make America white. LA is paying for his impotent rage

Mass deportations were never going to work, so Trump and Miller resort to authoritarian theater
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#stephenmiller #immigrationreform #racialjustice #failedpolicies #impotentrage

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Acting US Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announces a grand jury indictment of Rep. LaMonica McIver for allegedly assaulting and interfering with immigration officers while Newark’s mayor was being arrested when he tried to join a congressional oversight visit at a detention facility.

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Now we will see if Ms. Habba is capable of composing a coherent indictment, or is a right-wing entertainer drafted as a government stooge.
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June 14th
nokings.org/

My 7 year old saw a “no kings” sign on an overpass and we started talking about Hamilton and how America “doesn’t do kings”

No Kings

On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.
No Kings

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#YouTube 's "don't recommend channel" "feature" reminds me of #Hercules vs. the #Hydra
#youtube #hydra #hercules

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Trump and ICE unlawfully using military against US citizens protesting in California for political purposes.

Is this the end of the beginning, meaning real fight starts now against taking down American fascism?

Or, the beginning of the end, meaning American Fascism prevailing and America has fallen?

Only "We the People" can answer those questions with our actions ......

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Apparently (per #ytdlp) #YouTube is A/B testing #DRM on all videos:

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[YouTube] DRM on ALL videos with `tv` (TVHTML5) client · Issue #12563 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Checklist I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a supported site I've verified that I have updated yt-dlp to nightly or master (update instructions) I've checked that all provided URLs are playabl...
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#youtube #drm #ytdlp

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“What’s the new gadget? The domey thing, I mean. Heh; looks a bit like a Demon Core”

“It is.”

“Fuck off!”

“It’s an essential tool for the modern jeweler!”

“For Eris’ sake, why?”

“Finsibs. Back in the twenty-first the dominance flex for a certain kind of overmoneyed dipshit was having the thinnest mechanical wristwatch. They blew past 2mm and talked of one. Cost in the millions.”

“Well, better wasting money on jewelry than splattering themselves on Mars, I guess. Again. But, Demon Core—spill!”

“Servicing. Micron scale gear trains run up against the problem that solvent molecules and ultrasonic waves are bigger than some of the parts. This century your modern Rich Asshole Horology needs a whole different cleaning approach.”

“So what, then?”

“Prompt neutrons. Pass me that screwdriver.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

#tootfic #microfiction #poweronstorytoot
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@darkuncle Tip o’ the screwdriver to “Dechlorinating the moderator” and “Notes from the club diary”, indeed.
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NBC News reporter who Trump border czar called ‘very dishonest’ fires back: ‘It’s right there on tape’ | The Independent

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NBC News reporter who Trump border czar called ‘very dishonest’ fires back: ‘It’s right there on tape’

“I don’t know what Tom Homan had seen, but we were very clear in giving the full context of the statement he had made,” Jacob Soboroff stated on Monday
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Prime Minister Carney must take decisive action to end genocide in Gaza. Letter from “…412 Canadians, including academics, lawyers, former & retired ambassadors…ministers & public servants, UN human rights experts, & civil society, labour & faith leaders, all deeply concerned with the catastrophic human rights & humanitarian crisis in #Gaza.” Full letter at
alexneve.ca/blog/prime-ministe… . Pdf English static1.squarespace.com/static…. Français: static1.squarespace.com/static…. Signatories: static1.squarespace.com/static…

Prime Minister Carney must take decisive action to end genocide in Gaza

We write because of the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month, which is broadly understood by international law experts and leading human rights organizations as constituting genocide.
Alex Neve (Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along)
#gaza

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panopticon:

An authority figure wearing mirror shades.

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De #Madleen is 110 km verwijderd uit de kust van Gaza. De IDF omsingelt het schip. Francesca Albanese is met de bemanning aan de lijn die hun confrontatie met 5 Israëlische speedboats via audio opneemt.
Albanese statement op twitter
#madleen

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Good video on chumbox ads by #RyanGeorge;

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Still serving chumbox ads from OutBrain on your website Stuff Digital? Yup.

#advertizing #ChumboxAds


The billion dollar industry that’s ruining the internet

The internet is a dark place where all kinds of bad things happen, and I recently discovered a new part of it that feels an awful lot like hell… introducing ...
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#ryangeorge #advertizing #chumboxads

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if social media is unsafe for kids, why do people assume it is safe for adults?

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LA, all our eyes are on you. Thank you for resisting ICE and the ensuing police and federal violence.
Be safe out there.

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I side-eye everyone who uses Substack, but I especially side-eye my fellow queer people who use Substack.

Substack platforms Nazis. Nazis are not friends of queer people (to put it mildly.)

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I don't even know what substack is. I am old, and suddenly there was a new tech word that I don't understand
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