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

When Banzan was walking through a market he overheard a conversation between a butcher and his customer.

“Give me the best piece of meat you have,” said the customer.

“Everything in my shop is the best,” replied the butcher. “You cannot find here any piece of meat that is not the best.”

At these words Banzan became enlightened.

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

A state of mind should be encouraged that anything can be sabotaged.

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stevenrosenthal@mastodon.online ("Steven Rosenthal") wrote:

Too bad Dems had millions of people in the streets.

If they had a few people in a diner instead, maybe the press would have interviewed them to see what they’re mad about

#handsoff

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ngons@mathstodon.xyz ("n-gons") wrote:

Fun with chiral shapes - cube from snub cubes.

#MathArt #Geometry #3D #Polyhedron #Hedron

Attachments:

• gifv: Abstract Mathematical Art. Rotating geometric object.

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

This is an IR photo, made in afternoon light with a 1000nm filter and the Phase One Achromatic back. 1000nm is a fairly long IR wavelength, rendering a soft, surreal look. (IR photos are usually captured around 750-800nm). I used the Rodenstock 50mm HR-Digaron, which leaves the moon small in the frame but still recognizable.

This is (of course) a nod to Ansel Adams' "Moonrise, Hernandez, NM". But Adams' 1941 photo was made just after sunset, in the visible spectrum. See https://www.moma.org/collection/works/53904

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

Urban Moonrise, 2020

All the pixels, none of the daylight, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/50083929243

#photography

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

You ever read something on some notable dickhead’s fucking tech blog that makes you yell “oh shut the fuck up, you pathetic dork!” So loudly that it causes the Earth to open up and swallow you whole, thus ending your suffering?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
heyheymomo@socel.net wrote:

I opened 5 more slots! wow!

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

In a cozy nook, a book opens wide,
Pages whisper stories, adventures unfold.
Sunlight dances softly on the floor,
While a gentle purr fills the air.

A cat, curled in a ball, dreams in the warmth,
Its tiny paws twitching in a world of its own.
With each turn of the page,
Imagination takes flight,
And the comfort of a friend lingers nearby.

via https://arghstudios.com

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

@Remittancegirl a rainy day in western MA—maybe 40 people off route 2 on three sides of a major intersection (the fourth side is a steep drop-off into the CT River). Thank you for seeing us in the small towns. We DO know our neighbors, just like you said—but we also have folks who’ve been in this for years and will never stop fighting.

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

Left Meta, so I’m posting this into the void rather than to friends—but I might as well introduce myself with this pic. #handsoff

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

Little known fact:

The USA uses potash on 95% of their crops

80% of the potash they use comes from Canada.

There is no viable substitute for potash.

The USA imports 6 million tons from Canada every year.

Trump is going to decimate the USA's farmers and agriculture sector with his idiotic trade war.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Domestic Enemy Hat") wrote:

Defiantly moronic.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lm5mq6aohk2e

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hanse_mina ("Hanse Mina") wrote:

A US neo-Nazi terrorist group with a Russia-based leader is calling for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine in an effort to destabilize the country as it carries out ceasefire negotiations with the Kremlin.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/the-base-neo-nazi-russia-ukraine

#ukraine #russia #us

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GNUmatic@deppenkessel.de ("Ⓐ Dirk Ritter") wrote:

At least «The Atlantic» isn't bending the knee to the KKK regime. They are featuring protests prominently instead. Pretty good. Noted.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/04/photos-nationwide-protests-against-trump-and-musk/682320/

#HandsOff #USpol

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

This.

👇

#Musk #ElonMusk #arrestMusk #deportMusk

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

"[The abduction of Rümeysa Öztürk] was not 'law enforcement.' It was a political kidnapping, an act of state terror. It mirrored, in form and intent, the very tactics the Gestapo used to silence dissent, disappear the 'undesirables,' and spread fear through calculated, extrajudicial violence in Nazi Germany."

~ Henry Giroux

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportation #Nazis #Ozturk

https://truthout.org/articles/amid-state-abductions-trumps-fascism-is-no-longer-creeping-its-here/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:

I cannot stress this enough tho - Elon Musk, as you understand him, simply does not exist without US govt subsidies and contracts. In 2012 that guy was worth 2.5B dollars; which is absolutely "rich" but not "I am going to buy the political process of multiple Pig Empire nations simultaneously" rich.

The guy doesn't "sell cars" or "invent shit" - he got rich by taking in government contracts, converting that guaranteed investment into excitement about his stocks, and shucking carbon credits.

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

Worth it just for the alpha-latrotoxin animations.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/06/an-in-depth-look-at-one-of-my-favorite-spiders/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHl%5FwRE4H0Y

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:

Never have truer words not been silenced. #handsoff #sanfrancisco

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
arcseconds@sonomu.club ("Arcseconds") wrote:

In 2013 I recorded a pop album. I never released it. I think I was nervous about my singing. Or I thought a pop album wasn't the direction I wanted to take my music.

In retrospect, that was silly. I am immensely proud of this album. I hope that you enjoy the second entry in the Lost Tapes series: Messages.

https://arcseconds.net/messages/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Change your username to "12.8K discerning, perceptive, intelligent people" and then when you like a post it will say:

"12.8K discerning, perceptive, intelligent people and 11 others favorited your post 1m"

And people will get all excited about having their post blow up and wonder what's wrong with the 11.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

posting this so i can pin it:

what up we're trying to make a federated bittorrent tracker, in the short term as an emergency information preservation vessel to avoid a fascist memoryhole, in the long term as a merger between the lessons of the federated and pirate web:

• web: https://sciop.net/
• code: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop
• in re: @SafeguardingResearch : https://safeguar.de/
• Safeguarding forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/

more details when i write them

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

Under the motto “Utopia Test Environment”, we invite you to develop new ideas, discuss them together and design a just, diverse and non-discriminatory analogue and digital future.

More details and the submit form:
https://pretalx.c3voc.de/chaos-feminist-convention-2025/cfp

#haecksen #cfc25

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

That's not how you demagogue!

Alberta's top doctor should be given green light to speak publicly on measles, health experts say
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-top-doctor-to-speak-publicly-measles-1.7501486

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

NYT - Texas measles outbreak claims the life of a second child. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/health/measles-death-texas.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.9k4.-axm.xQubqLRVFw0Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

“According to doctors in Texas, Mr. Kennedy’s endorsement of alternative treatments has contributed to patients delaying critical care and ingesting toxic levels of vitamin A.”

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

‘8-year-old girl died early Thursday morning of “measles pulmonary failure” at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas’

the Trump administration has the blood of our children on its hands

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/health/measles-death-texas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

‘the operating overhead of the agency, as a share of benefits paid out, has shrunk by 20% over the last ten years and is now less than 1%... said he was concerned the situation was creating a “negative feedback loop” where, as more employees leave, more work is put on those remaining, depressing morale and inducing more to leave “until the agency ends up in a death spiral with staffing, inducing office closures”.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/musk-doge-social-security

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

“Ted Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs cause a recession

Texas senator’s comments another sign of Republican unease over ‘reciprocal tariffs’ and stock market plunge”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/ted-cruz-midterm-trump-tariffs-recession