#MSNBC’s #TheWeekendLive:

We’ve got “#AdolfHitler” shredding US democracy and demolishing the White House, and you’re grilling former press secretary, #KarineJeanPierre on Joe Biden’s competence during the course of his term?

Are you people fucking kidding me?! Stop wasting airtime on stupid, inconsequential shit. We’ve got a mentally unbalanced tyrant, destroying America.

WAKE THE FUCK UP!
#YoureWelcome.

~ Reality
#DonaldTrump

So I've printed the "All modern infrastructure" #xkcd and learned a few things:

1. On big surfaces the ironing flowrate is too low.
2. My settings for the "grid" support structures are so phenomenally bad that I accidentally made a statement about code in the backend or under the hood often being really scuffed. 😅
#3DPrinting

when websites tell me that I've "used up all my free page views" or that I "need to disable my ad blocker" that's malware

literally, that's malware

I'm not saying it's "similar to malware"

I'm saying that adware and ransomware are well known types of malware and those are literally adware and ransomware

Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.

propublica.org/article/trump-e…

#News #Oklahoma #Trump #Education #Teaching #School #GOP #Project2025

Oklahoma Is Ground Zero in Trump’s “America First” Education Push

Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America First” agenda, Oklahoma had been there, done that.

^ProPublica

"#Finland’s foreign minister to #theWest: #Ukraine doesn’t need help to surrender — it needs strength to win

#ElinaValtonen said #Kyiv has all it takes to keep fighting #Russia and the West must help it defend, not capitulate"

On one hand, it's fucking obvious

On the other hand, "obvious" is in short supply

We need all the clear thinking we can get

There's a lot of stupidity out there, and madness in seats of power

Thank you Elina Valtonen

euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/21…

#UkraineWar

Can anyone give me a clue why one of my ebooks, produced exactly the same way as the rest and with nothing unusual (no extra images etc) is five times the size of the rest?

#ebooks #techHelp

ETA: having removed both subsetted font and cover to no effect, it eventually occurred to me to check the original .docx file (converted from .odt since Calibre handles that format better), to discover that it was ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE for no reason. So that's where the problem lies, I need to work out why on earth a text doc with a single tiny image (publisher logo) is so huge...

"We need to go beyond Signal" – How today's AWS outage shows the weaknesses of centralized apps | TechRadar

techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-…

> Signal's privacy and security are great, but being a centralized app makes it vulnerable

#signal #technology #xmpp #matrix #instantmessaging

Someone said something that made me think about Eco's indicators of fascism, and if they're the indicators, what is the essence of it?

I think it's the willingness to openly and with the intent of mobilising support, throw a minority under the bus. In advanced fascism that means - well, we've all seen it.

There are many other features of what we call fascism. Ultranationalism, dictatorship open or otherwise, regimented economy, miltarised/hierarchical society etc. But I think these are features. I think the essence is best summed up by the dehumanisation of humans and that's best exemplified by the scapegoating eugenics that is always - always - the outcome of such thinking.

So, I think Starmer is a fascist in spite of him not wearing swastikas or invading Poland or having a comical little moustache. I leave it up to the reader to decide on what grounds, given what I've said.

#ukpol

My floor cleaner suddenly switched exclusively to yelling at me at 110% volume in FRENCH and I'm prevented from doing anything about it because AWS is down. 😒

It's my fault for buying an app-connected floor cleaner, I'll admit. I enshittified my own home. @pluralistic warned me.

At first the Americans came for the Americans, and I did nothing, but encourage the fall of capitalism a bit and share anti fascist things, because I wasn't an American or in America.

Then they came for the immigrants, and I did the same, because I'm in Ireland. So then I decided I'd probably not visit America for probably at least a decade or two...

And that's basically how we are dealing with your mad mess over here, most of us in Europe are just watching your shitshow and thinking, 'Nope'.

Republicans need Jesus badly. They are so consumed with violating the ninth commandment they haven’t noticed it’s their own assassinating and attacking people. Donald Trump’s AI video is a case in point. That was the hate America rally they were talking about.

bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze…

Why read the news on the Amazon outage when I can just look at the Trending Page here for the full analysis plus all the memes?

#AWS #Mastodon #Amazon

So, the 4Chan Offcom thing is all funny, but this is how UK OSA _exactly as was universally predicted by experts_ (or literally anyone with the faintest understanding of business and the internet) has erected an enormous regulatory barrier against small and medium sites, while creating nothing but a unlikely future operating expense for huge incumbents.

All while harming speech. Not edgy “free speech”. Literally _any_ speech, from the most prosaic neighbour’s’ disputes. But also vital beneficial speech like kids hoping to understand their sexuality, or neurodiversity, or menstrual cycle. Possibly life saving speech. Because small sites providing forums for that have closed, or added age verification by ID requirements.

+ reducing online safety, because of greater chance of ID theft or tracking, or blackmail.

The only thing it’s done to help kids is teach them to use VPNs 🤷‍♂️

Stunningly poor policy, developed by the Tories, **implemented by Labour**.

So all in all, I’m not finding it very funny.

Right-wing techqueen launches 'moral crusade' to connect with 'MAGA land': report

#CriticsOfAmericanDynamism #PatrioticInvesting #HardTechRenewal #ChristianNationalismTech #SpiritualCrisisInvesting

alternet.org/tech-trump/

Right-wing techqueen launches 'moral crusade' to connect with 'MAGA land': report

Katherine Boyle — a close ally of Vice President J.D. Vance — has reportedly reframed Silicon Valley’s mission by directing venture‑capital into companies aligned with U.S. national interest in order to spur what MAGA sees as American renewal.

^{Ailia Zehra (Alternet.org)}

Yesterday I asked everybody who went to #NoKings in the US: did you see any counter protesters? All the responses, even from towns in red areas, said the same: very few or none at all. What a far cry from February.

Trump, Nosferatu, and the others who are true believers in Nazism have no shame, but can be expected to lash out in fear.

Media bootlickers and assorted grifters will be looking for the exits. Expect a shift in coverage, not out of principle but more naked selfishness.

Alright folks! I am casting more local community building lines!

1) I've had to give up driving because of meds induced cataracts, looking for friends to run errands with: Canadian Tire, Pet Store... Plus just lil outings to local parks n such.

2) I have a signal Group for #Guelph and area locals, chit chatty neighbourhood resources and fun. Boop me if you'd like to join (KW & Cambridge areas welcome too)

3) am still looking to hire spoonie help:
disabled.social/@vlrny/1153783…

🔁 Appreciated.

Valerie Roney

2025-10-15 13:20:37

The spoonie assistant I had lined up fell through. So looking again to hire someone with executive function and a driver's license to help me:

• Move - pack, organize and decide set up new place.
• Grocery shop, food prep, life management at home.
• Accompanying on appts so I don't get lost and confused when mentally spent.
• Life admin - filling out forms, phone calls (visual/auditory processing issues)

$20/hr 5-10hr/wk #Guelph
Boosts appreciated.
Need help asap.
#fediHire

Upcoming Elections in the Netherlands: Will the Far Right Hold Its Ground? Will the Pirates throw soot in the FUD?

@politics
european-pirateparty.eu/upcomi…

The Netherlands once again finds