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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
best_of_mltshp@mefi.social ("Best of MLTSHP") wrote:

https://mltshp.com/p/1QWWV

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I spent some time with the kiddo playing with clays of various sort this afternoon. This is all I managed today, but it's something. And now this is all the evidence it existed as I went smashy smashy a little while later.

#clay #doodle #yaombaaa

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("raganwald 🍓") wrote:

I'm watching a squirrel cooking show, and it's just nuts!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
joyousjoyness ("Joy") wrote:

I got inspired by this amazing cat I came across, just look at him! Iggy was the muse for 4 paintings. This is "Grumpy Furball."

#cat #art #painting

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:

I just cannot state strongly enough how profoundly this misunderstands what I want from a vacuum cleaner. https://www.theverge.com/news/639078/samsung-bespoke-ai-jet-ultra-vacuum-text-messages

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is disgusting

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“11) Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate with others.”

do not spread mis- and dis-information, and know your sources. take responsibility for the words you spread.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“10) Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.”

there actually are facts… gravity does not care if you believe and the biggest wallet should not control who Citizens of a democratic republic elect.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“9) Be kind to our language. Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.”

words have meaning and genuine voices have power. find your own voice, and use it to speak out.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“8) Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.”

this is your time to lead.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“7) Be reflective if you must be armed. If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no.”

I hope my Spec/4 great nephew never has to face an illegal order, but face it he may if we continue down this path of unchecked executive power grab.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange ("Matthew Green") wrote:

I am jumping down with frustration at our academic community. People: we cannot do anything if everyone is unaware of professors getting arrested for multiple weeks.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“6) Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.”

remember item #2? 4 generations of my family have taken an Oath to the Constitution & put on Army Green. like Sherman & my Dad, I choose to defend the institution of an apolitical professional military.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“5) Remember professional ethics. When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.”

law firms need to show some spine in the face subversion of the law by supposed guardians of the law.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

mood blue

https://music.apple.com/us/album/thelonious-himself-remastered/1440764356

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“4) Take responsibility for the face of the world. The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.”

we are all taught to be too polite. in the face of sustained hate, people need to act and not just look the other way in disapproval.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“3) Beware the one-party state. The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. So support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections. Vote in local and state elections while you can. Consider running for office.”

you are not a real citizen if you do not at least vote.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“2) Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about—a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union—and take its side.”

to say an institution needs to be reformed is not to say it needs to be destroyed.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“1) Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” - On Tyranny

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands. It would serve us well today to understand why.” - T. Snyder

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Abundance is… just more, but more of what matters.”

Boosted by jwz:
xWxClub ("EXTREMEWEATHER.CLUB") wrote:

Incredible structure near Öhringen, #Germany by Unwetter-Freaks ⚡ More from Unwetter-Freaks: https://bit.ly/unwetterfreaks

bendingoutward wrote:

Nothing quite like the feeling of the severe weather siren starting to blast while coincidentally watching a recap of the Silent Hill movie.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have to say, I am really disappointed Devin Townsend's #TheMoth featured AI-generated art projections. They were uncanny and distracting at best even if you look past the ethics of it. And now it's occupying my mind and distracting me from talking about the actual music of his 10 years in the making project...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Domestic Enemy Hat") wrote:

/2 First, note the dogged equivalence between forcible state censorship, on the one hand, and “cancel culture” on the other. But there is no equivalence. One is state suppression of free expression, the other is an exercise of free expression that is subject to critique.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

The more you examine these people, the more obvious it is that they’re tech-adjacent business bros who have almost no interest in technology at all outside of being a means to control people and make absolutely ridiculous amounts of money. A lot of them clearly have no idea how things work under the surface and they don’t care.

This is why I can’t celebrate tech at this moment.

But I can tell you what I believe:

I believe technology should serve people.

I believe everyone can have fun with computers.

I believe the next generation should have the same opportunities I’ve had in technology.

I believe a diversity of people and a diversity of thinking makes tech better. I believe usability matters. I believe technology should be inclusive, that everyone should be able to participate fully and feel welcome in tech and have an equal opportunity to succeed. I believe in fairness. These are my intuitive ethics.

https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
quaithe ("Eva Infeld 🍁") wrote:

So you know how most of the time when people mix #industrial they don't do it very well? You'd think it's impossible, but it's not. I made a rebel-themed industrial mix that's... a journey. And it has proper transitions. 😂

It will take you from #Laibach and #Hatari through righteus rage (VNV etc) and love to catharsis. 🖤

https://www.mixcloud.com/emotionalsupportmonster/industrial-revolution/

#djmix #music #goth #gothgirl

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
anji@metalhead.club ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:

New Posy! About unusual colored circular polarizing filters 🌈

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKjqHqy2no

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rek@merveilles.town ("R E K") wrote:

I wrote an update on my website in 2022 about re-learning to love drawing for myself.

Today, I put it on its own page.

https://kokorobot.ca/site/kid%5Frek.html