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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

here’s Buckingham in the most successful of diss tracks, The Chain:
https://youtu.be/dGykwC0fdJ4

still blows my mind Stevie Nicks agreed to sing this song WITH HIM. what a champ.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
canyakker@mas.to ("Sabine") wrote:

This morning I knew this chrysalis was about to be ready. Went for an hour for a walk, came back, and there is a new Monarch 🦋 😍. Still has to let the wings dry and unfold.
Always in wonder how this large butterfly fits into the small bag.

#butterfly #Monarch #nature

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

One last thought- using the term "immigrant" is causing a greater divide in #Latino communities and people have the very false assumption that they're safe so long as they're legal. I honestly believe that the term immigrant is not at all benign, and is causing harm.

#ICE

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

I don't think there's a great answer for this. I've used #LatinX, #Latine, and #Latin. But I am reverting back to #Latino as that is the overwhelmingly recognized name by the people in those cages—male, female, and non-binary persons.

I think you should also just pick one and stick with it. I won't tell you what to use. Ultimately, getting dragged on the internet every once in a while for using the "wrong" term is a small price to pay imo.

/

#ICE

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

At any rate, we're in a stalemate. We are using euphemisms for the human beings being systematically hunted and thrown in cages. We should be having a serious discussion about the future for #Latinos and what we can do to stop this from manifesting into our worst fears. We can't do that if we're not even willing to call us by our name.

#ICE #Latino

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

We don't actually know for sure where the term #LatinX came from. Do a search and you will find multiple competing claims.

I support inclusive language. I've always felt, however, that the term LatinX was clumsy and did not respect the language, especially since Latine is right there.

#ICE #Latino

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

I have a theory for why we tend to use the word "#immigrant" when we really mean #Latino. It's because no one knows what to call us anymore. Whether we use #Latino or #LatinX, we're going to piss a lot of people off.

The term LatinX gained popularity as a way to be inclusive in our language. It gained credibility because we spread the claim that LatinX was coined by LatinX people, specifically LatinX college students.

The problem is, there is no evidence for this claim.

#ICE

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

Just like we wouldn't say Hitler targeted immigrants when we mean Jewish people, we should not use the word immigrant when we mean #Latinos, in relation to #ICE and the US government.

Doing so lends credibility to the narrative that this is an immigration issue. When in fact, it's a targeting of an identity, not a status.

But that's exactly what we're doing in our discourse and news coverage.

I call this "the nondescript oppressed identity problem."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I registered as an adult on an online service by using the photo mode in a video game, to take a picture of a character, then used that picture on the webcam to say I'm over 18 ✅

Attachments:

• gifv: 99ab403dfd17fc06.mp4

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

the first, very tart, tomato of the season

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

if you’re brown, get down

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/he-lived-an-immigrant-s-nightmare-one-problem-he-s-a-citizen-got-his-arrest-on-video/ar-AA1J5ceX#image=3

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
tinker@infosec.exchange ("Tinker ☀️") wrote:

They've gone from sending:
- undocumented "illegal" immigrants
- documented "legal" immigrants

to concentration camps,

and have now moved onto rounding up and sending:
- the homeless
- individuals with mental illnesses

to concentration camps.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

#EO #executiveOrder #homelessness #homeless #mentalHealth #ICE #concentrationCamps

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:

It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/ AN SEO consultant writes "Use modern server rendering. Use actual pages. Animate with CSS. Preload with intent. Ship less JavaScript.

Build like it’s 2025 – not like you’re trapped in a 2018 demo of Gatsby.

You’ll end up with faster sites, happier users, and fewer regrets."

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I love this company because it makes a mockery of the idea that financial markets are rational. Car sales are tanking when the EV industry is growing and the company thinks the future is pivoting into being a taxi service from selling cars.

Investors? 🚀 🚀 🚀

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Exploring how consensus process + big, old rooms ruins web standards work, and one of the important sub-points is that because web standards are *voluntary* standards, Apple has neutered the W3C, IETF, and ECMA. But nobody's at the ramparts because they did it via (pocket) veto, and sold it as "thoughtfulness".

It's one thing for web developers to fall for it, but seeing participants in these venues fail to grok the damage is 🤦

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
pinhman@mstdn.ca ("Gordon J Holtslander") wrote:

“Amazon Workers In B.C. Have Won Union Certification” #cdnpoli https://www.readthemaple.com/amazon-workers-in-b-c-have-won-union-certification

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
imp3tuz@mastodon.gamedev.place ("imp >:3") wrote:

@are0h also have you seen The Last Angel of History?

You would love it! (It plays a role in my next video ahaha)

https://archive.org/details/the.-last.-angel.of.-history.-1996.-dvdrip.x-264.-ac-3.-kjnu

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

How he deserves to be remembered.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/25/a-racist-union-busting-back-stabbing-thug-died-the-other-day/

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

It's expensive and international tourists are waking up to the fact that the US is a terrible place to visit through Jan 20, 2029 at the earliest

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/has-hell-frozen-over-las-vegas-tourism-in-trouble-20779043.php

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

gosh, who the fuck could have seen this coming

(please do not bootlick itch.io in my replies, you are under no obligation whatsoever to do that)

Boosted by jwz:
streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

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

THE COMMENTS THOUGH

(And I totally get it, I know how much work I am for Krissy, and I actively work not to be. I didn't know why anyone would want to have two)

Boosted by jwz:
DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

"Dogs be humpin" mural by Sapien on 19th and Mission in San Francisco. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti #murals #Sapien

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

I'll be there! But don't let my presence scare you away, there will be plenty of cool people, too.

https://mstdn.social/@plwt/114915105925470151

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

How not to design a mobile app for women's safety: first, make sure the database is so leaky the script kiddies at 4chan can bust into it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/25/nightmare-scenario/

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

I think we should pick some core non-negotiable ideas and put money and time behind propagandizing those ideas.

1. The scientific method is VERY effective.
2. All people have a right to exist.
3. All living things have intrinsic value and beauty.
4. Bodily Autonomy

We could get into the weeds of the boundaries of these, but I'm not interested in that at the moment. I feel like the center is being lost.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:

The ExLibris rare books listserv isn't a perfect place, but it is a place where someone can post "What are the weird splotches on my manuscript?" and someone else can post "Could be spider poop, here are some photos" and everyone is grateful to have these useful photos of spider poop.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
freedomofpress@freedom.press ("Freedom of the Press") wrote:

"The idea that the federal government even talked to social media platforms about their moderation was a major scandal … A bipartisan bill, however, would make it mandatory for social media companies to work with the federal government."

https://reason.com/2025/07/24/this-bill-would-fine-social-media-companies-5-million-every-day-for-not-fighting-terrorism/

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

some interesting numbers in NYC:

- [ ] Nearly 50% of voters filled out all five slots of their ballot
- [ ] No-Cuomo voters made up 70% of fully completed ballots
- [ ] Of the people who ranked Lander as their first choice, 40% made Mamdani their second choice

https://gothamist.com/news/how-did-new-yorkers-rank-their-mayoral-candidates-the-data-is-in

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
grheavyroller ("gregg r") wrote:

You live long enough and everything comes back around.

#Epstein