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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Another Democratic governor -- and former VP candidate -- who's not afraid to call fascism what it is: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tim-walz-trump-fascist-policies-1235415337/

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

As Trump continues his authoritarian power grab by militarizing cities, your voice is critical. Contact your local leaders to demand protection of local autonomy and democratic rights. https://indivisible.org/campaign/militarization-american-cities-underway-starting-dc?source=mastodon

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• video: 99911ff6e4d55cd1.mp4

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

A Special Message from our Friend, Curse Mackey! We can't wait to get together Weds Night! Snag $17 Advance Tix Now!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/08-27d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #cursemackey #voidpalace #sine #industrial #darkelectro #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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• video: f9223be5a2697c2d.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org ("Chris Trottier") wrote:

There was a whole era where Twitter liberals treated open-source social media as some kind of Nazi factory.

The logic went: if you make a platform anyone can run, Nazis will run it too. Therefore, by extension, you must be helping Nazis.

But then what actually happened? The “responsible” platform, the one the gatekeepers defended, got bought by a fascist-saluting clown who immediately started funnelling money into Trump’s campaign—helping him back into the White House.

So where are those noble guardians now? Where’s the vaunted moderation aristocracy that was supposed to keep us safe? Gone. Silent. Utterly absent now that the new overlord has arrived.

That’s the lesson: power isn’t something handed down by gatekeepers. It isn’t something you beg for in moderation queues. Power is taken.

And the way to take it back is simple: build your own sites. Federate them. Don’t leave your digital existence in the hands of self-appointed wardens.

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Not one major American news organization has had the spine to lay out, as succinctly and convincingly as historian Garrett Graff does here, our dread new reality -- much less lift a finger to save democracy.

The United States has gone fascist.

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d

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

At the end of the day, Apple is more anti-web than it will ever be pro-user, which is why stuff like this keeps happening:

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

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
divya@sunny.garden ("Dr. Divya 🍉 offline") wrote:

@sabinehiller @lukaskluge @aral amazing place to start looking at next steps: https://www.workersinpalestine.org/who-arms-israel

No map for Ireland but a stunning resource for finding what’s in our backyards and how we might direct weekly rallies to their doorsteps. ❤️‍🔥

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

Today I celebrate "oh crap, how do I cross list all my course sections on Canvas" day, an annual holiday among my people.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mjdxp@labyrinth.zone wrote:

what would you like to be added to the fediverse most?

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

The power station has long been an iconic landmark on the south bank of the Thames, distinctive for its four prominent smokestacks (two for each of its two separate generating facilities) and industrial art deco architecture. Perhaps most famously, it featured in the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1977 “Animals” album, with one of London's (sadly now extinct) giant flying pigs captured hovering near the smokestacks.

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

London's Battersea Power Station, built as two nearly-identical halves completed in 1935 and 1955, respectively, was originally a coal-fired electrical generating plant. It was decommissioned in 1983. After being idle for nearly 40 years, the plant has been re-developed as retail space and commercial offices, opened in 2022. Along with the Tate Modern, it gives London a second striking example of large-scale adaptive reuse of an obsolete, but still handsome, power station.

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

Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 Digaron-W (@ f/8), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo WRS 1200 camera (right shifted 20mm, vertically shifted 8mm).

This composition fully exploited the image circle and edge sharpness of the lens. We're to the right of the power station, but to preserve the geometry of the river side facade, the camera was pointed straight ahead, parallel with that side of the building. The camera back was then shifted 20mm to move the building back into the composition.

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.

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• 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

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• 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.)

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• 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."

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• video: 61f05e214a4dce7a.mp4

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

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

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

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

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knockoff_neko@girlcock.club wrote:

@ingrid

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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