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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, Former AT&T High Seas Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 20009.

All the pixels, none of the static, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569

#photography

A vertical mast with a large horizontal ring at the top, supported by an array of wires, in a marshland. Other antennas and supports are visible in background.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Rasp@raru.re ("💜 AdoraBeryl 🩷") wrote:

boost this cat when they least expect it

A CAT YOU DIDN'T EXPECT

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Boosted by jwz:
sfpodge@famichiki.jp ("patrick m.") wrote:

By far, the best protest sign I’ve seen from the #HandsOff protest —

Guy holding a handmade sign at the hands off protest that says “Hands Off Working COBOL Code”

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
deliaturner@mindly.social ("howrawhowrue :verified:") wrote:

In other news, two 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo produced four living hatchlings, and I for one am thrilled. #zoo #tortoise

https://www.philadelphiazoo.org/news/four-critically-endangered-galapagos-tortoises-hatch-at-philadelphia-zoo/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca ("Stacey Cornelius 🇨🇦") wrote:

"Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

#HandsOff

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Boosted by jwz:
CosmicTraveler ("The Flight Attendant") wrote:

My favorite #protest sign in Las Vegas today. #indivisible #50501movement #handsOff #impeachTrump

Two clowns with a sign that says even clowns are sick of this circus.

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

oh, the light! the light!

grey cat asleep in sunny window, but with her paw covering her eyes

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nazgul@infosec.exchange ("Kee Hinckley") wrote:

When old Soviet Union jokes are applicable to the US, you know something has gone terribly wrong.

David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they're going to arrest all camels. Q: But you're foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don't you try proving to the NKVD that you're not a camel. Quoting: ® Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.so....3d If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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

#Detroit Invests #Opioid Settlement Funds in Expanding Recovery #Housing: A Step Toward Stabilizing Lives, Not Just Managing Addiction. Democrats govern. https://michiganchronicle.com/detroit-invests-opioid-settlement-funds-in-expanding-recovery-housing-a-step-toward-stabilizing-lives-not-just-managing-addiction/ #Michigan

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

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff%5Fof%5FAbominations for more on 1828

https://federated.press/@The%5FIcarian/114282460094256528

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

“The airport at Winton, Australia’s dinosaur capital, recorded 158mm on 26 March, 56mm higher than the previous daily rainfall record for March. A day later, 177mm fell at Dillalah station, off the Mitchell Highway about 700km west of Brisbane, breaking its record by 31mm. The pastoral lease received so much rain throughout March – 417mm in total – it nearly doubled its monthly rain record.”

https://mastodon.social/@jockr/114287345340939841

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

How historic is what we’re seeing in the Queensland floods? It’s hard to grasp the full magnitude | Queensland | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/06/how-historic-is-what-were-seeing-in-the-queensland-floods-its-hard-to-grasp-the-full-magnitude

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
micahflee@infosec.exchange ("Micah Lee") wrote:

Made a new sign!

My sign says: “We are currently clean on OPSEC”

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

“The American government dwarfs other nations’ rescue capacity in experience, capacity and heavy machinery able to pull people alive from rubble. But in Myanmar after the most recent quake, the U.S. has distinguished itself for having no known presence on the ground beyond a three-member assessment team sent days after the quake.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/myanmar-earthquake-us-rescuers-absent-usaid-rcna199823

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

“So #Rubio did send 3 #USAID team members to assess the terrible earthquake in Burma, & then fired them while they were there.

Whether you think America should or shouldn't help ppl in need around the world, there’s no justification for such stupidity.”
-Rep Malinowski

“US team in quake zone told they’re fired.

The disaster assess team sent to Myanmar for the US received term notices while staying/sleeping outside -USAID WKRs were told on an all hands call today.”
-L Desjardins
#USPol #Sadism

Rubio:
Myanmar earthquake damage:

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

I believe the technical term is “banana whackos”

federal probationary employee who was terminated, then reinstated, then RIF’d, then ordered back to work

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

I believe the technical term is “banana whacko”

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/NulUNjKAKe

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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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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
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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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
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.”