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

Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024.

All the pixels, but no shops or restaurants, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54079042655

#photography

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

#trump #flagburning
Veteran arrested for burning US flag in front of the White House

On the 25th of August, a military veteran responded to Trump's unlawful executive order concerning flag burning by burning a US flag himself right in front of the White House. Yes he was arrested, and no this arrest is not legal given the 1989 Supreme Court ruling that legalized flag burning.

Big fat middle finger to Trump from someone not afraid to fight for the Constitution and remember their oath. I believe "all enemies foreign and domestic" comes to mind here concerning Trump.

When this video was made it was reported as a detainment but later reports indicate he was actually arrested. This is going to burn a LOT of flags, and for a veteran to take the lead and do it first weakens a lot of what Chump is going to say about it.

Attachments:

• video: A veteran burns a US flag at the White House and is arrested for it

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Vibe kitty

Attachments:

• gifv: Video of a Bengal cat laying on a massage board (for feet, I think) while being jiggled around like jelly. Kitty seems to enjoy it. Caption says: My Bengal cat Jasper has his own personal massage therapist 🤣

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

#KillTheKlan #bigotry #racism #KKK #TheyTellOnThemselves

Another, "a hit dog gonna holler" moment.

http://www.radresistance.com

This T-shirt is ON SALE right now, BTW.

(I am not affiliated with this company other than ideologically.)

Attachments:

• video: RadResistance.com video with a black woman wearing a RadResistance "Kill The Klan" t-shirt, depicting a KKK member in full robes and hood, hanging from a confederate flag noose, in an apparent suic*de (not a lynching because it wasn't rope in a tree and isn't outdoors for public display). Text on screen at 00:00 - That shirt did exactly what it needed to do: find, expose and offend them. *Checking my hair waiting for her to move but she keeps touching shit near me and staring at my shirt* Text on screen at 00:08 - *my cousin peeped how she was acting & walked by to lmk he saw her that's why I'm so calm (We're in the middle of Missouri) Text on screen at 00:13 - *laughing inside cause hella yt people support my brand And she look exactly like I would expect a hater to LMAOOO* Text on screen at 00:20 - *doing the mental math* Text on screen at 00:23 - *deciding she looks too pitiful to argue with*

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

Complicated and dangerous.

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

“That’s not what you said before. You said there were nuances that could not be programmed, decisions that a conductor could make at the time on the night in response to the audience’s on-going reactions which required a single individual to collate, analyze and react to, functioning as a focal point for the distributed—”
“I was bullshitting you.”
“You seemed as sincere then as you do now.”
“It’s a gift.”

from “Look to Windward, by Iain M. Banks

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

Angel from Montgomery (2008 Remaster) by Bonnie Raitt on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/UmmvD4wn8Vb

Boosted by jwz:
adamjschwarz.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Adam Schwarz") wrote:

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

Attachments:

• video: 61f05e214a4dce7a.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
jussi@ser.romu.casa ("Hostin Duffman") wrote:

@Kclemson Inside you there are two factors of authentication, both wolves.

Boosted by jwz:
Kclemson@socialnotwork.net ("KC Lemson") wrote:

Two-factor authentication, but one of the factors is vibes

Boosted by jwz:
knockoff_neko@girlcock.club wrote:

@ingrid

Boosted by jwz:
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Three small announcements:
1. RFC 9839, a guide to which Unicode characters you should never use: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html
2. Blog piece with background and context, “RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839
3. A little Go library that implements 9839’s exclusion subsets: https://github.com/timbray/RFC9839

#Unicode

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:

Worker Cooperatives in Game Dev webinar this Wednesday!!!

I'll be moderating a panel with our fantastic speakers from KO_OP, Baby Ghosts, Necrosoft Games, CoLab Collective, and Wild Blue Studios.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-create-cooperative-business-models-for-the-games-sector-part-1-tickets-1535653082709?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

#coop #coops #WorkerCoops #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev

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

I've updated my website's list of web tools. It's a little shorter than before, but something I don't use as much any more, or have been taken offline.

https://chriswere.wales/posts/web-tools-i-use/

#foss #opensource #webtools

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

Apple vs. Facebook is kayfabe. Always has been. How do we know? Apple lets FB destroy browser choice to track users without batting an eye:

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/apple-vs-fb-kayfabe/

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

No author cliques for me. If you've managed to write a whole ass book, you're my hero. Let's hang out.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@chuck%5Fwendig/post/DNvnlRi4rVm

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

130 unit tests passing; 90+ regression tests passing… still choking on real-world content/end-to-end tests. FML.

(First world problems.)

(I’ll pick it up again tomorrow.)

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
sabinehiller@mastodon.ie ("Sabine Hiller 💔🍉💪") wrote:

@lukaskluge @aral We have been doing this on a weekly basis in the small town of Westport for well over a year - yes it gives visibility, it's important, but I feel so discouraged, furious, devastated, heartbroken. I also tag governments/EU here and on shitty Bluesky, but looks like nobody cares enough to set aside their own little national interests to just #StopIsrael ...
@EUCommission @Bundesregierung

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

Until now I only knew of Russia routinely doing this in Ukraine:

"Israel bombed Gaza hospital a second time, killing rescuers"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/journalists-among-people-killed-by-israeli-strike-on-gaza-hospital

Boosted by jwz:
MikeElgan ("Mike Elgan") wrote:

Map of the moment: The US states with smaller economies than the San Francisco Bay Area.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
NaMi@mstdn.social ("Nadine Milde :coffefied:") wrote:

Hab das Meme mal schnell passend zur #Sozialstaat - "Reformdebatte" 2025 upgedated

Boosted by jwz:
jimniels ("Jim Nielsen") wrote:

Approaches to direction in CSS

Good (physical properties)

top:
left:
right:
bottom:

Better (logical properties)

block-start:
inline-start:
inline-end:
block-end:

Best (maritime properties)

fore:
port:
starboard:
aft:

Boosted by jwz:
Hex@kolektiva.social ("hex") wrote:

Ecofash like to claim that the earth is over its human carrying capacity. That's absolutely untrue for 99.9% of the population or so. But the carrying capacity of billionaires is zero.

Boosted by jwz:
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Here’s a no-context fact:

I personally reviewed every single death at my hospital in 2021. Using a very conservative means of attributing cause, 45% of the deaths were clearly a direct result of infection with SARS-CoV-2. The spreadsheet is still on the hospital’s cloud servers.

Boosted by jwz:
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

This is the beautiful moment, where Victor Orbán of Hungary and Robert Fico of Slovakia FINALLY reached the find out phase.

EU has stopped purchasing Russian oil, but Orban and Fico kept buying, while in the EU, these two leaders voted against helping Ukraine.

But now Ukraine has bombed the pumping stations used to supply Hungary and Slovakia. And so Orban and Fico are screaming for other EU leaders to help them get Ukraine to stop.

But no one listens. You made your bed. Now lie in it.

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

Reminder: We didn't have to have fascism, but some of all y'all really just didn't want a black woman in charge

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@ingrid "Marx and Engels taught the proletariat that it must smash the state machine."

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=smash+the+state%2Cstate+machine&year%5Fstart=1800&year%5Fend=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case%5Finsensitive=true#

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

A particularly tiresome and block-worthy Mastodon scold-reply-guy type is of the form: "Why did you post that instead of the much more Important and Serious thing I'd rather everyone focused all their attention on?"

Boosted by jwz:
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

I first heard about student loan forgiveness in the early 2000s. Dozens of think pieces for a decade then Biden tries it and then the court battles and 20 years later it’s barely implemented and under constant threat of removal.

When Trump has a terrible idea on Monday and it’s law of the land on Tuesday, something is very wrong.

Boosted by jwz:
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

Gotta say it sucks to hear over the last 30-40 years how progressive policies that directly help citizens could never be enabled by the stroke of a pen, but in just a few short months a moody dictator can enact any cruel authoritarian idea no one wants or needs and it gets implemented nationwide, instantly.