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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/8) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/50 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (Shifted vertically -19mm, horizontally -10mm). Cropped to a 4x5 aspect ratio.

The embassy's exterior "envelope" curtain forms an interesting abstract pattern that reminds me of the sound absorbing tiles that line recording studios and anechoic chambers. This photo shows the western-facing side.

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

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
angusm ("Angus McIntyre") wrote:

@ferricoxide @mattblaze @billclawson @pluralistic

Are we sure they don't have one?

Nothing would surprise me less than to learn that the DNC had launched its own memecoin, failed to publicize it, and are now holding endless internal committee and focus group meetings to try to work out why no one wants to buy PelosiCoin.

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

Apropos nothing in particular, The Talking Heads released an official video for one of their old songs last week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ54eImz88w

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
mtechman@mastodon.ie ("Melissa") wrote:

@pluralistic
Love the "He's treading" one!

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai wrote:

@pluralistic

I ran across somebody with a sign very far away from the San Francisco demonstration, and she had put seven lines of text on (a clipboard sized piece of cardboard for a general idea) each line had at least one fuck in it.

I quipped it could be spiced up with a few more fucks

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
fitzscott@tty0.social ("Fitz Bushnell") wrote:

@pluralistic "German Problems / French Solutions" is kind of brilliant. [thunk]

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
essjax@essjax.com wrote:

@pluralistic German Problems, French Solutions. 🙌

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

@redoak @RiaResists If "Fuck off" hurt your sensibilities, feel free to "go pound sand". Or, perhaps, "go fry ice".

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Signs of #NoKings #Hollywood

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Signs of #NoKings #Hollywood

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

Anyway, no need to tell me what a rotten guy I am. It's already been made clear.

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

Might need to replace my block button, which is getting industrial-grade use right now.

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Signs of #NoKings #Hollywood

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

@redoak @RiaResists When I say "Fuck off", I don't do so offhandedly. Those are my carefully considered words. It is my serious suggestion for what you should do.

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

There's been horrible news today, and some good news, but both seem to have crowded out coverage of the military parade, so there's that.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

This single act of imperial violence shattered Iran’s democracy and set the stage for everything that followed: decades of dictatorship under the authoritarian Shah, the rise of the secret police (trained and armed by the CIA), the deepening of anti-Western sentiment, and ultimately the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It’s not a stretch to say that the roots of today’s tensions, the cycles of violence, and the specter of war all trace back to this original sin. The aftershocks of that coup are (4/11)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

still being felt, not only in Iran, but across the entire Middle East.

Yet, in the American imagination, #history often starts with the hostage crisis, or with the latest missile launch, or with the rhetoric of “rogue states.” We’re taught to see Iran as an irrational enemy, a threat to “our” interests, never as a nation whose modern history was violently derailed by foreign powers seeking oil and geopolitical dominance. The coup became a blueprint for U.S. and British interventions (5/11)

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

According to latest reports (and things are moving quickly), they are "not ruling out" the possibility that the assassin had accomplices, but they don't seem to have revealed any specific evidence that he did.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
steinarb ("Steinar Bang") wrote:

@pluralistic On the paradox of the world's 7th largest fossil fuel producer having the worlds highest rate of electrical vehicles https://undark.org/2025/06/09/norway-electric-cars/

(the article doesn't touch on the fact that in addition to producing fossil fuel, Norway also has ~90% hydro electric power in the domestic electricity energy mix and have traditionally had very cheap electricity (though that have changed in the last couple of years...))

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

@StroomAfwaarts It's always dangerous, but the safest response may be very different depending on whether the cop is real or fake.

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

We're a small town, but we can protest against kings and corruption with the biggest of them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/14/the-morris-no-kings-protest-march/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHLvapLOYz8

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

Also, keep in mind that your posts, and your pictures, feed directly into a platform owned by a company with the best facial recognition technology on the planet.

We know #Meta shares data with the police and with ICE.

#NoKings

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

For the same reason you shouldn't bring your phone to a protest, you probably shouldn't post photos with protesters faces in them. Food for thought. #NoKings

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
fediforum ("FediForum") wrote:

Watch Cory Doctorow outline how to de-enshittify technology and more in his keynote at FediForum June 2025.

PeerTube: https://spectra.video/w/7wEFKqfZSPWZyFtbBHRUCs
YouTube: https://youtu.be/7%5FGs1t0qe78

#FediForum
/cc @pluralistic

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

And he's on bandcamp:

https://christophercross.bandcamp.com/album/christopher-cross

(Just keep whistling...)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ritualdust@merveilles.town ("Lizbeth") wrote:

For the occasion of No Kings days I made this little offering.

May this day be a reminder to all that we will not tolerate any king, old or new, dictating and controlling the people, the land and all living things. Every day I see more people waking up, standing up and fighting back, from the streets of countless cities and towns on turtle island, aboard boats and convoys headed to Gaza, in the forests of my own province where the indigenous elders are shutting down illegal logging. Every little bit helps grind down the empire and its machines.

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

Sorry to be away and missing the NoKings events today. A little proud of my fellow Americans right now.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Yeah, I'm just whistling past the graveyard over here...

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm not sure what's up with creating new music videos for old songs, but I'm enjoying it. New official video for Christopher Cross's "Ride Like The Wind":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA9uaBqvRtA