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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.”

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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...

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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.

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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

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

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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

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anji@metalhead.club ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:

New Posy! About unusual colored circular polarizing filters 🌈

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

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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

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ronnie@social.lol ("Ronnie") wrote:

Beep boop

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

United States Disappeared Tracker

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Spotted an Eastern Bluebird on my walk today! Pretty sure this one was female.

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aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

The most lesbian coded thing about Cyberpunk 2077 is that Judy takes you on one date, refuses to tell you it's a date, almost kills you, then gives you the keys to her apartment and suggests you move in.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Another portrait. Two Arri tungsten lights, one at 90° with a softbox and one at 45° without, but aiming at the hair. No gels this time. There was also a reflector but I forgot to move it for this pose so it's kind of irrelevant.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 @Ameboid
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

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keyboards ("Keyboards") wrote:

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insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Inside with Jen Psaki") wrote:

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: “For all of Pete Hegseth's talk about merit… This week we learned his younger brother is currently serving in a key role at the Pentagon… and he’s also brought his wife to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed!”

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• video: addbb4693a40a389.mp4

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

I know I am sick.. I just love these

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

this is actually not too bad

https://arghstudios.com/support/ZiggiAgain.pdf

jwz wrote:

Rome Wasn't Burned In A Day.
https://jwz.org/b/yklj

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

mildly amusing: the user request to Gemini: "a simple in-browser 3d flying game with skyscrapers"

https://arghstudios.com/support/flying.html

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V0ldek@awful.systems wrote:

In my head transhumanism is this cool idea where I’d get to have a zoom function in my eye

But of course none of that could exist in our capitalist hellscape because of just all the reasons the ruling class would use it to opress the working class.

And then you find out what transhumanists actually advocate for and it’s just eugenics. Like without even a tiny bit of plausible deniability. They’re proud it’s eugenics.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Irony: the deep sea mining scam is based on a 1974 CIA cover story—Project Azorian, the attempt to recover the sunken Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129. They built a ship, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, which was described so convincingly as a mining ship for seafloor manganese nodules (not raising sunken missile submarines!) that it spawned imitators and grifters.

Just like the CIA hunt for Osama bin Laden killed Polio vaccination in Pakistan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FAzorian
https://mastodon.me.uk/@Christo%5F459/114251090260890608

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

this is how Putin maintained power. this is how dictators think.

https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114252304888680081

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Fragarach@beige.party wrote:

@SrRochardBunson @redstateinsurgents

I liked this one: https://layer8.space/@crk5/114248814189890412

#antifascist #AntifaAF #Magritte #ResInt #ArtFED #antifa #Activist #activism #ActivistArt

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schwinghamer@mstdn.social ("Timothy Schwinghamer (he/him)") wrote: