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joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:

Alright @cferdinandi, I'll bite. When the light is good, like this morning, I like to take walks near my home to take pictures. This is one of three babies on the face of my local casino. The babies have barcodes as faces, because the artist wanted to draw attention to how modern society dehumanizes. I like that I don't know why the casino chose that specific art.

A stone baby climbing up the side of a building, reflected in windows of the same building.

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

#punchnazis

existennialmemes * 5s ago • • Can't believe we're doing The great depression and nazis again. We literally did this already. I am sick of these low quality reboots no one wanted.

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

Pick zero, one or more, depending on your capabilities and possibilities.

Stay calm and install solar panels.

Stay calm and install heat pumps.

Stay calm and build a Homelab to keep your data at home.

Stay calm and help your neighbours.

Stay calm and read the news but understand your anger on things you cannot change is wasted energy.

Stay calm and care about your direct environment where you can change things.

You are not alone. Many people around you are doing this already.

#StoicLife

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juglugs ("Widdershins Smith 🐘") wrote:

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

In June, after a Trumpist terrorist murdered Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, some liberals lost their shit at me in my mentions for observing that cops were too scared to enter the home and stop the killer.

Turns out that the cops not only watched Mark get shot, but also watched muzzle flashes from outside the home, where they waited *for more than an hour* before entering, and then only after using a drone to search the house first. The killer just strolled out the back door.

No matter how many plate carriers and MRAPs and NVGs and suppressors we buy them so they can cosplay as SOF operators, they remain cowards who will watch you die.

https://www.startribune.com/new-details-from-crucial-hours-after-lawmaker-shootings-raise-questions-about-police-response/601432709

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Right now there are hedge fund managers, CEOs, engineers, lawyers, marketing directors, and lobbyists meeting and drafting plans to make money building American Dachau. They have looked at what it costs to starve people, what regulations exist for dealing with bodies, how many people can share a mattress and if you even need mattresses. They have talked about sites, and probably have spoken to certain governors.

These people must not be allowed back into society when they are named.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anthrocypher@hachyderm.io ("Ana Hevesi") wrote:

I predict technical mentorship and communal learning are going to be one of the dark horse “killer apps” of the AI era. The speed at which a given org wises up to that will be the degree of advantage gained.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

@wdlindsy

The problem with most critiques of the New York Times is they lay the blame for the horrendous normalization, stenography and both-siderism at the feet of the editors and journalists. These weaklings definitely deserve derision, but the principle culprit is the publisher AG Sulzberger who has transformed the paper of record into a stealth right wing propaganda machine. Critics should be saying his name. AG Sulzberger has done this.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

The DOJ has halted lawsuits accusing Louisiana of keeping prisoners locked up long after they were meant to be released and South Carolina of institutionalizing thousands of mentally ill people — sometimes for decades — in violation of federal law.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-civil-rights-lawsuits-halted-louisiana-south-carolina?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#Law #DOJ #CivilRights #Prison #Louisiana #SouthCarolina #MentalIllness #News

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Crispius@infosec.exchange ("*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱") wrote:

@Lazarou
This was the most recent scandal, during our last federal election:

“Liberal MP apologizes for suggesting Tory candidate be turned over to Chinese consulate for Hong Kong bounty”

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/federal%5Felection/liberal-paul-chiang-apologizes-hong-kong-bounty

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

In Arkansas, an arrest has just been made in a heinous murder case in which a young couple, husband and wife, were recently stabbed to death in a state park with their young children witnessing the killing. This is commentary I've shared with some of my circles:

NOT BLACK BUT WHITE

Not a woman but a man

Not an immigrant

Not trans

Not a drag queen

#Arkansas #immigrants #racism #homophobia #WhiteChristianNationalism #Republicans

https://www.newsweek.com/james-andrew-mcgann-suspect-arrested-devils-den-parents-murdered-clinton-cristen-brink-2106772

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

Trump's baby savings accounts are just a 'back door to privatizing Social Security,' treasury secretary admits

#TreasurySecretaryAdmits #PrivatizingSocialSecurity #TrumpSocialSecurity #UnpopularGOPIdea #DemocratsSeizeOpportunity

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-baby-accounts-bessent-social-security-b2799609.html

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"We didn’t think there would be armed masked men on the streets rounding up people on the basis of how they look, but look out your open window. There they are right now."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #immigrants
/3

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-dismantling-the-first-amendment

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joycebell@mas.to ("Joyce Bell :mastodon: 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽") wrote:

@GottaLaff Here’s a free link: https://dnyuz.com/2025/07/31/legal-watchdog-files-bar-complaints-against-justice-dept-lawyers/

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ...

Use-of-force experts and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement insiders say the tactic was rarely used during previous administrations."

ProPublica provides shocking video footage.

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #immigrants
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https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
petersuber@fediscience.org wrote:

Five major US higher-ed associations have written an open letter to Jay Bhattacharya, director of the #NIH, asking that he "direct the reinstatement of all grants that NIH has terminated under agency directives found by a federal court to be unlawful."
https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Letter-NIH-Grants-072925.pdf

The letter is signed by the:
* Association of American Medical Colleges (#AAMC)
* Association of American Universities (#AAU)
* American Council on Education (#ACE)
* Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (#APLU)
* Council on Governmental Relations (#COGR)

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

IceWM - on Debian Linux - desktop tour

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/aaKasgKnszPkU6V5RfLt4V

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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

IceWM - on #Debian #Linux - desktop tour

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/aaKasgKnszPkU6V5RfLt4V

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

Data, is their food....

BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*WHEEZE*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

THEY HAVE COME FOR OUR SELFIES AND FOOD GLAMOUR SHOTS!

https://youtu.be/d9erkpdh5o0?si=1A9unc7vmexkZR7O

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"In a seven-week span from May 1 to June 23, lower courts ruled against the administration 94.3 percent of the time, but the Supreme Court sided with Trump 93.7 percent of the time."

~ Lisa Needham

#Trump #SupremeCourt #judiciary #RuleofLaw #authoritarianism
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/boasberg-bove-trump-kangaroo-courts

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

My political alignment has a name!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/31/i-am-so-happy-to-have-a-label-for-my-political-alignment/

I'm an arachno-communist! Go, my children, seize the means of production.

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

This painting really needs a heldentenor singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" in the background.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/31/the-nazis-loved-kitsch-too/

Thomas Kincade painting of an unreal small town scene

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davidho.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("David Ho") wrote:

Motherfucking wind farms…

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helenczerski@fediscience.org ("Helen Czerski") wrote:

For the next three years I'll have the (additional) post of Frank Jackson Professor of the Environment at Gresham College, giving a series of free public lectures on Earth and how it works. All will be freely available online. You can see their whole programme here:

https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on?see-all

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mstarace ("Mike") wrote:

“I have been working on multiple deals where I have people inside the White House telling me what I can and can’t do,” a top dealmaker involved in mergers and acquisitions unrelated to the government recently told the Financial Times. “It’s a level of intrusion I have never experienced before.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/this-is-what-fascist-control-looks?r=49qi9&utm%5Fcampaign=post&utm%5Fmedium=email

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

An extremely cool ping/pong of ideas teasing out what good browsers can do with almost no code in these posts:

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/1kb-js-numbers-station/

https://dbushell.com/2025/07/26/text-to-speech-synthesis/

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aleksorsist ("Aleksorsist") wrote:

Just finished up ThunderScope Rev 5.1:

https://github.com/EEVengers/ThunderScope/tree/Rev5.1/Hardware/KiCad/Thunderscope%5FRev5.1

Before I send it out, I'd like to open it up for a community review.

Since I'm out of the industry now, I don't often get to talk to EEs about these things anymore, so I'd absolutely love to learn any new tips tricks and gotchas from my fellow hardware nerds!

I've started an issue for review notes here:

https://github.com/EEVengers/ThunderScope/issues/348

If anyone wants to throw significant time at this, I'd be happy to send you a PVT unit in return :)

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
xssfox@cloudisland.nz ("1.3.6.1.4.1.61513") wrote:

I was using mastodon before it was cool.

Narrator: that's currently.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
eco-g@stroud.social ("Cllr Gareth Kitchen") wrote:

The fact that police facial recognition technology has been put on our streets and expanded repeatedly over nearly ten years - by two Governments - without a single piece of specific legislation being voted on by MPs is utterly outrageous and sinister. - Sian Berry MP - Green Party

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/31/met-police-to-more-than-double-use-of-live-facial-recognition

#ukpol #GreenParty #police

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me and @uoou chat about some of the stuff we're working on, and window managers.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/uX6pBUPeJs1UVV4p4pAN4L