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

wait, wut?

‘The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”’

https://newrepublic.com/post/193395/agriculture-department-ban-words-safe-drinking-water

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MidniteMikeWrites@zirk.us wrote:

@CassandraVert @alberto_cottica @pluralistic

Yes. People like Hayek were right about markets being information engines, but wrong about the contents of that information. Because market capitalism serves to maximize profits companies function by creating ignorance about costs & products so premiums can be charged. Rather than explicitly solve distribution problems, markets under capitalism “solve” for exploiting (and creating) information asymmetry.

https://misaligned.markets/corponomics-lethal-econ-kung-fu/

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Mrfunkedude ("Mr. Funk E. Dude") wrote:

Don't. Make. Me.

A Simpsons bus driver says "Don't make me tap the sign" and below we see the sign with the message "There's no algorithm to push content to anyone here. If you read something that you enjoy, boost it.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
eyeling@mastodon.art ("Eyeling") wrote:

#SilentSunday #hanami #nightphotography #moon

Four photos of puffy pink japanese cherry blossoms in full bloom. But shot at night, with our Moon's cool light lurking in from between the branches
Those trees are decorating a city center, so they are lit from below
Rosy colours contrasting nicely with cold dark sky
Depth of field was a nightmare, though. Ended up blending two images to get both a sharp moon and crisp blossoms in the front.

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Here’s a poem called ‘For Your Own Safety and Protection’.

For Your Own Safety and Protection   In response to the recent flooding of the poetry trade with cheap, inferior verse, heavy tariffs have been imposed on this poem.   As a result, it is unlikely this poem will be read by anyone outside my domestic market – or as I like to call her, my cat.   Such news will come as a relief to the thousands of people who have already found my poetry to be taxing enough,   and lends further credence to those literary critics who consider my work to be of little import.   Brian Bilston

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Here’s a poem called ‘Prayer for Uninteresting Times’.

Prayer for Uninteresting Times   Send me a slow news day, a quiet, subdued day, in which nothing much happens of note, save for the passing of time, the consumption of wine, and a re-run of Murder, She Wrote. Grant me a no news day, a spare-me-your-views day, in which nothing much happens at all, except a few hours together some regional weather, a day we can barely recall. Brian Bilston

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:

Nice Myst analysis: a graph of the original game's nodes, extracted from the Hypercard source code.

https://glthr.com/myst-graph-1

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Protests in St Cloud!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/05/i-may-have-been-a-bad-influence/

Two protesters holding signs

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Someone told me I wasn't supposed to bring my phone to the #handsoff rally. Apparently, some people are worried about the federal government tracking them. I get the concern, but if I was at worried I certainly wouldn't be posting photos on social media, now would I? :-)

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
charlotteclymer ("Charlotte Clymer") wrote:

It's not true that the four U.S. soldiers who recently died in Lithuania weren't honored by a sitting president. The problem is that wasn't the U.S. president who honored them. It was the President of Lithuania. Trump couldn't be bothered with it.

Read: https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-picks-golf-over-dead-american

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange ("Steve Bellovin") wrote:

He also swam the Yangtze River (or was it the Volga?)
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114286294141727585

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

demo at Cobbs Hill Park, Rochester NY

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:

Good sign.

#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #USpol #protest

Protest sign held up by a hand, it says, "they're eating the checks, they're eating the balances.”

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unlambda@hachyderm.io ("Brian Campbell") wrote:

#Vermont showing up for the #HandsOff protest.

Protesters in the rain holding up signs. The one in front reads "hands off our Constitution" with green handprints.
A large crowd of protesters in front of the golden dome and statue of Ceres at the Vermont statehouse, on a grey drizzly day.
A speaker on the steps of the Vermont statehouse, which are full of protesters holding signs, flags, and rainbow umbrellas.
The crowd of protesters extends back asking the statehouse lawn, across State Street, to the DMV building

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
PamelaBarroway@mstdn.social ("Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor") wrote:

OK y’all, let’s do this. I’m live tooting from #HandsOff #Philly at Independence Mall, representing from #NewJersey’s Cooper River @indivisibleteam.

They’re taking about public schools now — AFT President Rando Weingarten is here.

#publicschools #schools #Philadelphia #GoodTrouble #handsoff2025

1/x

Hands Off Schools in Philadelphia

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
acsawdey@fosstodon.org ("Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.") wrote:

#HandsOff Big turnout in Northfield, MN

#handsOff protesters

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
annemariebridy.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Annemarie Bridy") wrote:

DC #HandsOff

Sign: Federal Workers Make USA Great

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

Attended my first protest of Trump 2 at Plymouth Rock in MA.
I am protesting for the following reasons and more:

Disappearing people for political protest.
Crashing the market.
Dismantling the judiciary.
Looting government agencies.
Destroying scientific research.
Pardoning those who commit felonies for you
Deporting people without due process.
Bullying Canada

I could keep going. What are we even doing folks?

@moveon @indivisibleteam #handsoff #resist

Hands Off protest at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts USA. Sign reads “cut off their teslacles.”
Hands Off protest at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts USA.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
wm@mast.wmclark.com ("William") wrote:

#HandsOff #NYC ##HandsOffNYC #protest #resistance #AntiFascism


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ConcernedPineapple ("CP 🍍") wrote:

Sharing to @resistancerallies,
@teslatakedown, h/t @ai6yr

Pics from today’s HandsOff protest in #Raleigh!

#HandsOff #Resist #SaveDemocracy #TeslaTakeDown #Protest #USPolitics #NC #NorthCarolina

RE: https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114286663441200379

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Massive crowds in Palm Springs, California. #HandsOff #Politics https://bsky.app/profile/laurieagard.bsky.social/post/3lm3ikqw2ck2z

Massive crowds with protest signs, Palm Springs, CA

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ConcernedPineapple ("CP 🍍") wrote:

Sharing to @resistancerallies,
@teslatakedown, h/t @ai6yr

Video from today’s HandsOff protest in #Houston!

#HandsOff #Resist #SaveDemocracy #TeslaTakeDown #Protest #USPolitics #TX #Texas

RE: https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114286658951870898

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

More photos from #HandsOff Santa Fe. Crowded!




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ASegar ("Adrian Segar") wrote:

#handsoff #Brattleboro #Vermont

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srbsmk.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Status-quo-te") wrote:

#handsoff #pittsburgh

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revndm@queer.cool ("Rev Nathan Ⓥ↔️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱") wrote:

It’s too bad no one is protesting #handsoff

LIVE NO BREAKING NEWS "HANDS OFF" RALLY IN CHICAGO PROTEST AGAINST PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND BILLIONARE ELON MUSK A screenshot of thousands of people in Daley Plaza.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
annemariebridy.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Annemarie Bridy") wrote:

Today at the Washington Monument. #HandsOff

Photo of a large crowd with the US Capitol in the background.

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Wow, Minnesota! #HandsOff #Politics

https://bsky.app/profile/erinmayequade.bsky.social/post/3lm3irqc7jc2v

Massive crowd of people in Minnesota... thousands and thousands of people

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
FrankFrank@newsie.social ("Frank Frank") wrote:

@BruceMirken

Even in Bangor, Maine.


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PattyHanson ("Support the Resistance") wrote:

From large cities to small towns, America is protesting #HandsOff against Trump and Musk.

The midwest and west coast are catching up with the time differences and the numbers are growing.

The protest in D.C. is estimated at 100,000

Photos Left to right: Philadelphia, Sioux Falls, Washington DC, Mobile, Alabama

#Protest #Fascism #Resist

Screenshot of thousands of people protesting in Philadelphia
Screenshot of people protesting in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Screenshot of tens of thousands of people protesting in Washington DC
Screen shot of people protesting in Mobile, Alabama