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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

"If you're inconvenienced by a strike, blame the boss, not the workers."

✊

#workers #labor #WorkersRights #solidarity

A photo of a poster on a bright turquoise wall. The poster consists of the text "If you're inconvenienced by a strike, blame the boss, not the workers" and a cartoon drawing of a fight breaking out, drawn as a big cloud with fists and legs poking out and dollar bills flying out of it. The text of the poster is stylistically divided into sections with the portion "blame the boss" written in larger, more hand-written font, with the rest written in smaller, capitalized lettering.

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

As we watch the global order crumble and the US economy tank because Democrats were too hesitant to do the right thing on basically every front (Ukraine support, Jan 6 prosecutions, etc.), I'm actively looking to understand which groups will push back hardest, including by raising money to primary feckless D's.

Anyone got a list?

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jwz wrote:

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism.

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right. The right loves AI-generated imagery. [...] To understand it, we must consider the right's hatred...
https://jwz.org/b/ykix

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

So many nuts things have happened today in the US, but re that now likely historic Ukraine meeting -

It is striking that major US news outlets weren’t allowed in the room, and somehow a Russian media org was in the room, apparently without even being on the approved press list.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I was recently introduced to the concept of “hypernormalization” coined to describe the Soviet Union.

Hypernormalization is when the economic and social system is obviously broken, but instead of fixing it, people just accept it as normal because the truth is too complex or inconvenient to change.

So politicians and citizens alike are resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society.

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Boosted by jwz:
parkermolloy.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Parker Molloy") wrote:

However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kmqhx6447wupw5knpoxadtmn/post/3ljdd2d2aks2q

NYT writers think it's positive and "less consequential" that Trump took a hatchet to trans rights.

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Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

I said what I said about the universal appeal of anti-Black racism in the US🤷🏿‍♂️

This is why you lose.

This is why you have no defense against foreign interference.

This is why all of the other stuff on the other side of the chart, is so easy for them to accomplish.

"At least he hurt Black folk!🤡"

A 2 axis chart showing perceived positive versus negative impact and more versus less consequence for all of the actions in Trump's first full month. In the negative impact and more consequence quadrant, there is Ukraine, DOGE, tariffs, USAID, RFK Junior and science, immigration, military, Gaza, and deregulation. In the negative impact and less consequence quadrant there is Eric Adams, and trans issues. In the positive impact less consequence quadrant there is nothing. In the positive impact more consequence, there is D.E.I.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Just to say the obvious bit out loud - Trump, VD Vance and Elon Musk are bullies.

They’ve made their whole careers via it.

They shout at people, send mobs after them, complain to employers, threaten legal action, etc etc etc. It’s all about silencing speech which causes them discomfort.

Elon hired a private investigator after my last spat with him, it emerged in court.

Time after time organisations have gone with it and given in to said bullies. They shouldn’t. We shouldn’t.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinleecaster.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Just Kevin") wrote:

Long time followers will know that I used to ski a lot and am sad that aspect of my life is over. I preface this screenshot with that personal note because I want to say how much it warms my heart to see this protest sign on the slopes where that couch fucker took his family to ski.

‘- Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social - 177m Protestors skiing with signs to humiliate JD Vance is fantastic Protester on skis holding sign that says, "Not all heroes wear capes

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Popular #TypeScript framework:
"We're in love with TypeScript"

The TypeScript:

```ts
export interface Foo<In=any, Ctx=any, Out=any> { … }
```

Also, their examples fail if you enable "strict" type checks. 😬

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

bill and ted

My dad was raised buddhist and when I watched bill and Ted with him he was like “these guys are unironically the most enlightened people on the planet. They are leaving Samsara for sure” and that man has never been more right about anything ever Still of bill and ted playing air guitar captioned "they are leaving samsara for sure"

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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.

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

That is correct, Mr. AI Overview.

Al Overview “Get in, Loser - We're seizing the means of production” is a phrase attributed to Karl Marx.

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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

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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

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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

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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/

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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

Underside of an early 20th century bridge, exposing girders and steelwork, over a river, at night.

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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/

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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

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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

Certain identities are being removed from library shelves en masse. During the 2023-2024 school year, 36% of all banned titles featured characters or people of color and a quarter (25%) included LGBTQ+ people or characters. Of titles with LGBTQ+ people or characters, over a quarter (28%) feature trans and/or genderqueer characters. Erasure of identities is pervasive within banned illustrated and graphic-heavy titles. For example, 73% of all graphic and illustrated titles feature visuals with LGBTQ+ representation, of people or characters of color, or that address race/racism. More specifically, 64% of banned picture books have pictures or illustrations that depict LGBTQ+ characters or stories. For all the inflammatory rhetoric about “explicit books,” only 13% of banned titles had “on the page” descriptions of sexual experiences, compared to 31% with “off the page” sexual experiences. Overall, 40% of banned titles include sexual experiences (some contained both “on” and “off the page”). Books banned during the 2023-2024 school year overwhelmingly address violence (65%), death and grief (55%), and abuse (43%); all very real human experiences.

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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

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

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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

20 free student tickets for the Rust in Paris conference

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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

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

this is a President speaking

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

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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?

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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

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

'Am Straßenrand' #FotoVorschlag

Beauty is everywhere...

#streetart #art #kunst #mosaic #Ememem

A photo of mosaic street art by Ememem. Ememem creates mosaics incorporating geometric motifs in cracked sidewalks and façades. They describe this art as "a poem that everybody can read" and "a memory notebook of the city". It is colourful and fills up potholes in the street or pavement. The art of healing the street, as he calls it himself. I really like to find them in the streets. The photo shows the colourful mosaic and the pavement surrounding it, as well as my feet in brown hiking boots and part of my black trousers.
A photo of mosaic street art by Ememem. Ememem creates mosaics incorporating geometric motifs in cracked sidewalks and façades. They describe this art as "a poem that everybody can read" and "a memory notebook of the city". It is colourful and fills up potholes in the street or pavement. The art of healing the street, as he calls it himself. I really like to find them in the streets. The photo shows the colourful mosaic and the pavement surrounding it, as well as my feet in brown hiking boots and part of my blue trouwers.

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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…)