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stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

bill and ted

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angusm ("Angus McIntyre") wrote:

The first Trump administration felt like a one-man show. This time around, with Trump visibly sliding into senility, it’s more of an ensemble cast: The League of Extraordinary Sociopaths.

Or maybe you can see it as a heist movie, with Donnie Ocean putting together a select team of vicious douchebags to try to steal the entire country.

There's a "Reservoir DOGE" joke to be made here too, but I just don't have the heart for it.

Boosted by jwz:
wackJackle@norden.social ("Weltzeitgeist") wrote:

That is correct, Mr. AI Overview.

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

these folks are incredibly careful to be transparent and to let you put your money where your conscience will feel okay +100

https://u24.gov.ua

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

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kaigani%5Fai-one-shot-prompt-to-game-for-today-robotron-activity-7301652598783123456-NKia?utm%5Fmedium=ios%5Fapp&rcm=ACoAAAB7JkEBQCk8SY-mmP6rvpKfocI7TzIpqK4&utm%5Fsource=social%5Fshare%5Fvideo%5Fv2&utm%5Fcampaign=copy%5Flink

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:

This link has been bouncing around, I guess, and now it's my turn to bounce it.

https://u24.gov.ua/?utm%5Fsource=substack&utm%5Fmedium=email

If you want to go the 501(c)(3) route: https://musicians.today/@mcmullin/114083917597968446 (EIN 872080907)

From the "Chop Wood, Carry Water" lady:

«here’s the official fundraising site for the government of Ukraine. As one of you pointed out in the comments yesterday, if everyone who voted for Kamala Harris gave $10 we’d raise 750M.»

https://chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/chop-wood-carry-ukraine

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anirvan ("Anirvan Chatterjee") wrote:

WTF?!

I'm dumbfounded.

DOGE just murdered 18F (https://18f.gsa.gov/) — the government digital improvement team that's the LITERAL DEFINITION of scrappy tech-enabled government modernization.

Any rational Trump/Musk administration would take over 18F, rename them "DOGE," and claim all the credit. This makes absolutely no sense.

https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/403400/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Manhattan Bridge, NYC, 2023.

Enough additional pixels for everyone at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52841667763

#photography

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

Doug Linkhart, President of the non-partisan National Civic League:

“You can’t sit at a desk in Washington and imagine what works best for people across the country... In the long run, it makes the policies better and probably speeds things up by avoiding problems down the road, like lawsuits.”

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/rfk-jr-eliminating-public-comment-hhs-decisions-richardson-waiver/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com ("Carolyn Barber, MD") wrote:

After promising "radical transparency," RFK Jr. moves to rescind its longtime practice of giving members of the public a chance to comment on HHS' plans.

“You can’t sit at a desk in Washington and imagine what works best for people across the country,”
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/rfk-jr-eliminating-public-comment-hhs-decisions-richardson-waiver/ #press #rfkjr

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The DOE “book banning hoax” press release claimed that challenged books are “age-inappropriate, sexually explicit, or obscene”. Only 13% of banned books in 2023–24 included “on the page” sexual scenes—but 36% featured PoC characters and 25% featured LGBTQ characters.

via https://pen.org/report/cover-to-cover/

#censorship #BookBanning

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Here's what the idiots in the White House utterly fail to comprehend. They and the US came out of that argument weaker. Zelensky came out stronger, with Europe rallying behind Ukraine more than before. They came out looking like petulant idiots; he came out looking like a leader with integrity."

~ Rebecca Solnit, quoted by Robert B. Hubbell

#Putin #Trump #Vance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Russia #PutinsPoodle
/5

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-day-of-shame-as-trump-abandons

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Seilenos@queerspirituality.social ("Σειληνός (Seilēnós)") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
imperio@toot.cat ("Guillaume Gomez") wrote:

Adservio is sponsoring 20 free student tickets for the Rust in Paris conference.

You can get them by going here

#rust #rustlang

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

JD Vance is skiing at a Vermont resort this weekend. The resort’s snow reporter took the opportunity to make some good trouble, sending out a message of resistance against an administration “threatening our democracy, our livelihoods, our land”. https://kottke.org/25/03/jd-vance-chastised-by-vermont-snow-reporter

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

this is a President speaking

https://youtu.be/GfqLcBwUT%5FE?t=805

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
therobburgessshow@newsie.social ("The Rob Burgess Show") wrote:

All I’m saying is, if Trump were a Russian asset, would it look any different?

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

today is server maintenance day at https://arghstudios.com and today I discover if I set up the .service file right & Storyteller will actually recover from whatever happens

Attachments:

• gifv: with a nuc going off in the background, an idiot comes into the frame and does a "thumb's up" gesture in the foreground

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

'Am Straßenrand' #FotoVorschlag

Beauty is everywhere...

#streetart #art #kunst #mosaic #Ememem

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Semi-random question: what’s the preferred “tip jar” kind of service for bloggers/creators these days? (I don’t think I even want to ask about ad networks…)

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

In the waiting room,
Time ticks by, soft whispers hum,
Needles soon to come.

courtesy https://arghstudios.com

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ramiismail.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Rami Ismail (رامي)") wrote:

Ramadan Kareem! 🌙✨

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

There was a long queue to the repair shop. There always seemed to be, these days.

The areas for fabrics and fibre, wood, metal, mechanics and electronics were all busy, but none more so than the dreams section.

"Oh, this has taken some beating, poor thing."

"Can you fix it?"

"We'll do our best."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sjwallin@social.lol ("Sarah :neobread_nd:") wrote:

My new 5.5-minute orchestra suite of early North American spiritual songs and styles is now available! It includes renditions of a Lakota lullaby, a 19th century ring shout song, Sacred Harp-style hymns, and more… Find more info on it at https://sarahwallinhuff.com/2025/02/28/spiritual-songs-new-sheet-music-for-orchestra/

#orchestra #spiritual #nativeamericansong #colonialmusic #hymns #northamericanmusic #womencomposers #neurodivergentcomposers #sheetmusic

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• video: 5e50b01ce1a64cd6.mp4

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I was today years old when I found out that Flea and Dave Navarro play bass and guitar on Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know".

Mind blown.

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

every time somebody starts babbling about the supposed “explosive growth” of the civilian government workforce, remind them that the actual numbers show there has been almost no change while the population has continued to soar.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:

I'm still in disbelief what happened yesterday. I feel anger, sadness, and disgust. If these men were representatives of my country I would be ashamed.

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

strongly agree

“Instead of gearing up to fight them — as we love to do — the most radical thing we can do is nothing at all. Let the Republicans disagree with themselves publicly. Do not offer a single vote. Do not insert yourself into the discourse. Do not throw a monkey wrench into the equation. Simply step away and let them… You won’t win or achieve anything meaningful going toe to toe with the Trump administration right now.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/opinion/democrats-trump-congress.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

‘spoke disdainfully of NGP VAN’s private-equity ownership, saying that the profit motive was at odds with the database’s reason for existence in the first place.

“The mission should be the mission,” he said. “The idea that we would be taking dues from union members to help someone eventually buy a yacht makes my blood boil.”’

ditto… depending upon an outside for-profit entity for managing your political campaign data is an insane position for any Party.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/politics/democrats-voter-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

yup

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