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MikeElgan ("Mike Elgan") wrote:

2,000 protests today.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91352296/no-kings-day-protests-today-map-cities-speakers-what-to-know

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MikeElgan ("Mike Elgan") wrote:

I wonder if America's "No Kings" movement will spread to the UK... https://www.nokings.org/

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EdwardPhilips@toot.community ("Edward Philips") wrote:

Morning all. It’s Saturday. Inspired by the great Hiroshige’s print, here is my ‘Sudden Shower over the Humber Bridge and North Ferriby’. Have a nice weekend. xx

#art #wallart #HumberBridge #ukioye #handmade #japan #bridge #rain #Yorkshire #MastoArt #print

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scottley@infosec.exchange wrote:

@mattblaze this sounds like a good architectural pattern to follow...

Instead of architecting our cities and buildings against homelessness, we should architect against billionaires with poor taste

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

Aside: Although the new embassy, which had been in the works for years, opened during the first Trump administration, he disliked the building so much that he refused to attend its official opening. Presumably not enough gold-leaf.

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

US Embassy, Wandsworth, London, UK, 2025.

All the pixels, none of the awkward diplomacy, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54586230547/in/photostream/

#photography

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kim_harding@mastodon.scot ("kim_harding ✅") wrote:

Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F877853df-1687-4d1f-940b-9eefc0cf69c0
@sellathechemist is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

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elaterite@mastoart.social ("Bob Tregilus") wrote:

Juniperus osteosperma (Utah juniper). I love these little natural bonsai trees I found on this mesa top. They're literally all over the place. It's an elfin forest! Utah junipers generally grow to ~15 feet and can live up to a 1,000 years. This specimen, growing from a crack in the sandstone, is only ~3 feet tall. Guessing by its appearance and the size of the trunk it could be 300-400 years old or maybe more!

#Bonsai #Trees #Tree #Botany #Desert #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

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MikeElgan ("Mike Elgan") wrote:

Phrase of the moment: "suitcases of hard drives"
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-ai-chip-curb-suitcases-7c47dab1

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

First ever heat advisory in Alaska issued by the National Weather Service. https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=AKZ833&warncounty=AKC290&firewxzone=AKZ933&local%5Fplace1=Fort%20Yukon%20AK&product1=Heat+Advisory&lat=66.567&lon=-145.256

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nancycomics ("NANCY COMICS BY BUSHMILLER") wrote:

CELEBRATING SLUGGO SATURDAY

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SRDas@mastodon.online wrote:

Train is running late (not unusual) but glad to see the train quite full headed downtown

#NoKings #Pittsburgh

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Bobbins@bobbinsrobots.com ("The Bishop Of Bobbins (Rob)") wrote:

Got bored. Invented the Merseyrail trolley problem.

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thedarktangent@defcon.social ("Jeff Moss") wrote:

Big day today

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SRDas@mastodon.online wrote:

Lots more people getting on at the next (bigger) station: really young people, old people, people wearing Hong Kong shirts.
✊🏽

#NoKings #Pittsburgh

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Crell@phpc.social ("Larry Garfield") wrote:

#Facts #NoKings

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beecycling@romancelandia.club ("BeeCycling") wrote:

In today's "seagulls being absolute menaces" news: Gull samples man's coffee, before stealing the mug and dropping it in the sea. (An actual china mug, not some paper thing.) Could argue the gull was justified, as the man had been installing anti bird spikes on nearby houses, before stopping off at a pub for lunch. 😉

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g71pvzn5jo (Link corrected.)

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Teen Vogue continues to be a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-be-an-activist-when-youre-unable-to-attend-protests

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simbarr@c.im ("Sim Barr") wrote:

🚫👑🚫👑🚫👑

The "No More Kings" Schoolhouse Rock episode aired in September of 1975

#nokings #nokingsday

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jgilbert ("Jon Gilbert") wrote:

Me: Do you have their number memorized? The only numbers I have memorized are .. yours—

Her: —yeah not helpful if we're going together...

Me: ...mine, and Network Solutions, circa 1993.

Her: That's not useful to anyone.

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

A yet at large suspect shot two Minnesota state lawmakers along with their spouses.

The suspect killed Rep Melissa Hortman and her husband. He shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife—they are hospitalized.

It appears the suspect is dressed to impersonate law enforcement. My deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones.

Y’all please be safe out there today. Travel in groups and have a plan to meet up at an agreed upon time and place.

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thegibson@masto.hackers.town ("The Gibson") wrote:

And for the love of god, do not point the camera at you and your friends. There is plenty of camera already pointed your way, don’t do their job for them.

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

My "Thomas Friedman talking to a taxi driver/NYT interview in an Iowa diner" story:

The guy behind the counter at the Thai place down the street has informed me that his boss was a Trump supporter right up until fish sauce hit $12 a bottle and now she is furious.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

To everyone out in the streets today

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

The Soviets waited a good eight months before rolling tanks down the streets of Prague. Trump’s tanks only took five to reach DC.

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

Currently traveling abroad, and not at all unhappy to be missing DC’s reenactment of 1968 Prague today.

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

@Nonya_Bidniss Could be. But clearly not operating in an official capacity.

The far-right loons have been fetishizing and accumulating “tactical” gear for a while now, so it’s really a coin flip at this point.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Man I have such a good sweeping observation for #Succession but it's going to take so much writing and research.

Is it worth it for a show that ended two years ago? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhbhhhbh

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

We now have a political assassin impersonating a police officer on the loose in Minnesota, which, aside from being horrifying in and of itself, underscores the danger of the proliferation of anonymous federal law enforcement deployments from a wide variety of unfamiliar agencies conducting aggressive immigration operations across the country.

Is that uniformed person who's stopping you or demanding entry to your home legit or a psychotic vigilante seeking to harm you? It's impossible to know.

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

Our world seems to go a bit madder each day.

Be safe, friends.