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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
minmi@sfba.social ("MinmiTheDino") wrote:

@jongary @pluralistic @inthehands

It is now all of our national duty to join a klezmer band

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

@MaierAmsden @finner @evan An essential, and perhaps unavoidable, irony here is that as all this progress has been made - as US elections become more secure - public confidence in the integrity of our elections seems to be at an all-time low.

This is partly because the progress is driven by (and produces) public awareness of the threats and risks elections face. This awareness is generally good - knowledge is power! - but it can lead to this perverse inversion between reality and perception.

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

@MaierAmsden @finner @evan Is everything where it needs to be? Absolutely not. But by EVERY measure, election security in the US has made REMARKABLE, steady progress, and continues to do so. And this progress has been far more rapid and sustained that I thought possible a decade ago.

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

@MaierAmsden @finner @evan And this progress has been reflected in policies and practices across the board at the county, state, and federal levels. Elections are now considered part of national critical infrastructure, with national threat intelligence and guidance provided by CISA (something Trump cut back on, but, to his credit, he created the agency in the first place). Many states now prohibit paperless DRE and are rolling out RLAS. And cybersecurity practices have improved generally.

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

@MaierAmsden @finner @evan There's more work to do, to be sure, but it's simply incorrect to suggest that nothing has been done to improve elections in recent years. Over the last 15 years we

(1) developed the formal requirement of "software independence" in elections

(2) Invented risk-limited audits, which achieve (1)

(3) have greatly diminished the use of paperless "DRE" (touchscreen) voting terminals, which are now considered obsolete because of (1) and (2).

There's been huge progress.

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

@pluralistic Heh! I live in the ATL, although I went to the No Kings in Fort Lauderdale FL 'cause I was traveling. From the look of it, this was right outside the capitol building in downtown Atlanta.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com ("Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson") wrote:

@Wolf @pluralistic

I have some great news for you!

Not only is Jesse Welles writing these type of songs, but he is getting them out there to the people.

https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/tagged/Jessewelles

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

I take it all back. $45 million was a small price to pay to humiliate President Trump at his own parade and mobilize millions of Americans across the nation to demonstrate against him.

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

The only thing quieter than President Trump’s birthday military parade is Elon Musk’s phone on Father’s Day.

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Responding to concerns regarding unidentified plain clothes ICE agents telling people to get in an unmarked van, Congress requires the use of bumper stickers on non-ICE vans saying “This van will take you to a second location to murder you.”

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

Sam Altman scares the shit out of me

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ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

Great summary of Trump's parade.
#trump #militaryparade #nokings #june14th

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Thank you for your attention to this matter! #NoKings

Attachments:

• video: b109eb1f5e44bf5e.mp4

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
Lily_and_frog@mastodon.art ("The Frog") wrote:

@jongary @pluralistic @inthehands

In Liverpool, it's usually Yakity Yak and potatoes welcoming the far right... I fully endorse this use of klezmer bands.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social ("Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing") wrote:

@inthehands @jongary @pluralistic obligatory mention of favorite https://youtu.be/GIuBpl7k%5FeU?list=RDGIuBpl7k%5FeU

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

if you are under 30 years old and picking a font size for something other people need to read, not just yourself: that’s too small. still too small. A LITTLE BIGGER

#accessibility #ux #typography

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
jongary@macaw.social ("Jon") wrote:

@pluralistic @inthehands At any event where the Proud Boys show up, they need to be met by a loud klezmer band.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
manchicken@defcon.social wrote:

@Gladso @jhavok @pluralistic strong agree.

- There are no Democrats publicly agitating about how the NLRB lacks quorum because the Trump administration illegally dismissed two board members
- There are no Democrats staging sit-ins to draw attention ICE from selling immigrants to El Salvadoran slave camps
- Hell, there aren’t even any elected Democrats making noise about the fact that the Trump administration is selling humans to El Salvadoran slave camps in the first place!

Democrats appear more concerned with their fundraising than they are with human rights or labor rights violations.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

@jongary @pluralistic

I am immediately in favor of any proposal to increase the number of Klezmer band performances.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
Gladso ("Olle Gladsø") wrote:

@jhavok @pluralistic Not at all. I want the Democrats to stop wringing their hands and become more combative against the fascist takeover. I have donated quite a bit to the Democrats, but am growing tired of the incessant begging.
Also, why aren't the things democratic voters want at the top of the agenda?

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

@paraplegic_racehorse @Moosjazz @pluralistic Wut? I play recorder. It's a full 2 octave chromatic instrument, plus maybe one or two more notes on the high end if you're daring. That's around 25 notes. Highland pipes are diatonic instruments with an octave and a ninth range. You get 10 notes, that's it. Medieval bagpipes and most other folk bagpipes are also diatonic 1-octave instruments. So no, bagpipe fingering is way simpler than recorders.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
alexduran@mastodon.economiasocial.org ("Àlex Duran") wrote:

A #VOX no li agrada el cartell del Festival de Jazz de #SaPobla.

Diuen que és «vergonyós i execrable».

Per tant, feis-los cas i no compartiu el cartell ni hi aneu al festival. No sigui que s'enfadin més...

Via @dbalears:

👉 https://www.dbalears.cat/balears/balears/2025/06/14/407475/vox-ara-indigna-per-cartell-combat-simbolicament-feixisme.html

#Feixisme #Mallorca #BlackLivesMatter #RuralLivesMatter

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
jhavok@mstdn.party ("Jimmy") wrote:

@apophis @hankg @pluralistic @clintruin @mloxton The thing the Republicans did was get the rich to finance an incredible hate campaign. For example, there are constant professionally produced videos of trans people behaving badly in public that pretend to be real events rather than actors on a set, posted on social media. This hate campaign was doing the thing it took to win, and it worked.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
bronakins@mastodon.world ("BronMason") wrote:

@pluralistic

What energy! So thankful they’re on our side.
Love, love, love the E Flat tuba !

The Black Sheep Ensemble ROCK!

#Honk!

jwz wrote:

Popup video.

Trying something new on the DNA Lounge calendar pages, let me know how it works. When an event has embedded videos, they no longer play inline and tiny: when you click on them, a full-width player pops up. The good: The page loads faster...
https://jwz.org/b/ykpa

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
wesley@theatl.social ("Wesley Cook ⚡🚲") wrote:

@pluralistic I actually know someone in this band! Legendary stuff

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paraplegic_racehorse@freeradical.zone ("Paraplegic Racehorse") wrote:

@Moosjazz

@pluralistic

It's worth noting that a bagpipe chanter and the humble recorder are fingered the same. Learn to play bagpipes and truly frighten away the fascist pigs.

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

@pluralistic I have recently been invited to my local area's "let's brainstorm better ways to keep the public informed and build a better sense of community while we're at it" sessions because I "seem like an intelligent and informed guy on such matters" (I'm not), so I am wondering if there was anything on your radar that would be worth bringing up at such a prestigious gathering. Emphasis on low-effort and useful for the municipality in general.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
heavyimage ("Jesse Spielman") wrote:

@pluralistic Assuming this is black sheep ensemble I just grabbed a digital copy of their album on bandcamp (https://nicke.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-agent) -- if anyone enjoyed this as much as I did and they have the means, maybe throw some duckets their way?

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
mycotropic@beige.party ("Mycotropic") wrote:

@mmiasma @NJWookie @pluralistic

*When sarcasm raised it's brilliant head
They bravely turned their tails and fled,
Yellow proudboys turned about
And gallantly they chickened out.
Bravely taking to their feet
They beat a very brave retreat
Bravest of the brave; the proudboys!

!I never!