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_L1vY_@mstdn.social ("Mother Bones") wrote:

I'm afraid I stole my general idea from @alexiterick .

But on the plus side, it was a big hit: honking drivers, everyone laughing, and people asking to take a photo.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

#NoKings #SF

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• video: c3e51f622e02ad1d.mp4

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

My favorite of the people yelling at me today was the one who said that I'd never use the words I used if I had an experience with a loved one that, in fact, I have exactly had.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

For the English speaking audience, "Путин хуйло" (Putin's a dick) was a chant Ukrainians invented in 2014, I think (if not before that). Glad to see it being creatively reused against another dictator.

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fkamiah17@syzito.xyz ("MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸") wrote:

🤣

#NoKings #TACO #USPolitics

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

You bet! #nokings

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

@pluralistic

He’s treading bro, that’s inspired.

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monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org ("Ben Todd") wrote:

@pluralistic

He's treading on me bro! 😂

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hallman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Bruce Hallman") wrote:

A photo that I snapped an hour ago of the San Francisco #NoKings protest. I estimate about 150,000 people in total.

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rstevens ("rstevens 🐳💨✅") wrote:

sorry i never replied to your email, my opsec is just that good

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

Totally not a subtweet.

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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:

Deigned by the Philadelphia architectural firm KieranTimberlake*, the chancery building incorporates a number of sustainable design elements, and has been generally well received (international politics aside) by staff and local residents. It replaced a mid-century modern structure (by Eero Saarinen, now being redeveloped as a hotel) in the more traditionally fancypants Grosvenor Square neighborhood.

* Coincidentally, also the designer of Penn's Levine Hall, where I once had my office.

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

The new US Embassy to the UK, completed in 2017, is a roughly cubically-shaped glass box covered on three sides with a semi-transparent textured Teflon "envelope" that aids in temperature regulation. Situated in a landscaped compound on the Thames between the Battersea Power Station and MI6's famous Vauxhall headquarters, it's one of the most distinctive recent structures on that part of London's South Bank.

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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.

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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

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

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mtechman@mastodon.ie ("Melissa") wrote:

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

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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

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fitzscott@tty0.social ("Fitz Bushnell") wrote:

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

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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

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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.