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Here's a topic I don't think is being addressed. That really should be causing absolute outrage and alarm.
We know that Elon Musk with some Palantir foot soldiers have sacked gov databases, and are working to bind government function to their control.
It is not sufficient to kick these people out. Everything they've done needs to be ripped out or seized.
Technology as the alternative to politics is underway.
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Thinking about how the centrists mocked us when we started calling them the Red Tories.
Thinking about that, and laughing hysterically as "Labour" demolish thirty years of trans rights, embrace austerity for the poor, tell disabled people to get a job or die, steal money from pensioners, criminalise peaceful protest, and reject the EU in favour of wanting to become a vassal of Fascist USA.
The centrists were right, I suppose. They're not Red Tories. They're Red Far Right
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You get blocked for that. I haven't forgotten why I unfollowed you, Mr Centrist Melt Reply Guy.
Prime Minister is a transphobe who knows your mind better than you
No Queer should vote for this man and his Party, they do not represent us, they represent our enemies.
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@BigTittyBimbo a man whose morals swing with whatever the legal judgement at the time is, is not a man to be trusted.
Being Queer was illegal once, he'd have prosecuted us and not thought he was the bad guy....
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Yeah, I don't care if they have a data set of billions. No research produced by this fascist regime can be trusted or should be trusted, particularly when that research focuses on a marginalized populace.
This foul little man and his colleagues have "eugenicist" written all over them.
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Chrisblue@bsky.social (@Chrisblue@journa.host)
RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans - CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-autism-study-medical-records/Journa.host
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meanwhile me in old (idk early 2000s?) construction mini-van my dad borrows from my uncle:
press one button with the bluetooth logo, the device shows up on my phone, pair with the password displaying on the 7-segment display
we devolved so far with car dashboard because stupid people thought a huge tablet glued to your car was better
the "solution" I have found to the related problem of "my spouse and I share a car, which attempts to auto-connect to the last Bluetooth device used unless started with a USB-connected phone" is "always remember to turn off Bluetooth on my phone when I leave the car" (a USB-connected Android Auto device will turn Bluetooth on by itself). If I forget to plug in my phone when I'm driving, or forget to turn off Bluetooth when I'm not driving (because it will reach the driveway from the living room), the fallback is "drive down the block until out of range, park, plug in the phone, and turn the whole car off and on again"…
I miss my old car with the aux in and the phone holder magnetically-secured to the dash (the gravitationally-secured prototype pictured was … not a good idea, which I thankfully learned the easy way rather than the concussive way)
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I am not a member of the DC Bar (or any BAR for that matter) but I'll give credit where credit is due.
I am super appreciative of #LegalEagle and his videos, but this is arguably his most important and it isn't very algorithm pleasing so I fear it will fall behind.
But there are #dcbar elections coming up and I'd anyone in the DC Bar sees this, it is crucial you elect #DianeSeltzer as the President to aid in these perilous times, she is far more accredited, and less dangerous than her opponent, none other than the brother of Pam Bondi. He will sell the legal system to #Felon47. Video with more details is attached
#lawyers #DC #legalnews #elections
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Right, I'm sick of them. Post or boost another uncritical eulogy of Francis onto my feed and I'll probably block you.
It's actually hurting me see people who think they're trans allies, tell me that someone who put our existence in the same category as nuclear weapons was wonderful. I'm on edge as it is with Terf Island trying to eradicate us
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Trump Officials Trolling Journalists Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
https://msmagazine.com/2025/04/21/trump-musk-vance-journalists-online-abuse/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-MsMagazine2019
Trump Officials Trolling Journalists Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg - Ms. Magazine
Behind the harassment of individual reporters by Trump, Musk, Vance and others in the administration is a full-scale assault on media freedom.Liam Scott (Ms. Magazine)
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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
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"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 merchandising—flowers, 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.
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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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@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
If Grumble is talking about setting up breakfast programmes, so schoolchildren don't go to school hungry, then great... :D
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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 “unauthorized 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-bor…
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 “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”Suzanne 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.
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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 ‘unauthorized alien’ — but it’s 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 didn’t allow a Senator to see inside their mega prison that’s wrongfully housing one of his state’s residents.
But they allow lots of influencers to film propaganda videos."
-S Hackett
"I just toured #CECOT -this max security fac houses the country’s most brutal criminals... Several inmates were extremely violent criminals recently deported from the US.
I leave now even more determined to support Pres Trump’s efforts to secure our homeland."
#Sadism #USPol
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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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I’m going through our events page on the Small Technology Foundation web site¹ and porting the entries there to the new version of our web site that I’m building in Kitten² and it’s depressing how many event sites have just disappeared.
Thank goodness for archive.org.
¹ small-tech.org
² kitten.small-web.org
#links #archiving #web #SmallTechnologyFoundation
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Hello! We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We are building the Small Web. No, it’s not web3, it’s 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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👌 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..
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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:
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Here’s Every Local Police Agency Enforcing for ICE – 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 Boasberg’s finding “probable cause” that the Trump executive is in criminal contempt of court. Bottom line: he is giving the government an opportunity to “purge.” If they don’t he will identify specific individuals who are in contempt and refer the matter for prosecution. 1/ #LawFedi
(Full opinion at storage.courtlistener.com/reca…)
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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 i…Executing 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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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊
in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •This is of course why they're taking steps to eliminate the old. Magnetic tapes come to mind - used for so many decades because they work. Eliminating not just the tapes, but the infrastructure used to support them as a viable storage and backup mechanism, makes it impossible, or at least infinitely harder, to roll back to a workable state that's not filled with as much crap, cruft, backdoors and timebombs as they could stuff in.
'Move fast and break things', in the parlance of the Vizigoths.
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Manufacturers are not interested in the old at all, but it doesn't make any money for them.
Like I think DVD players are not being made anymore.
I think I'll be hanging onto my old pieces of equipment. Thank you very much.
But even though have most of the time limited lifespan before they two sort of end up failing