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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
penwing@wandering.shop ("penwing (they/them)") wrote:

Keir Starmer, on X, has said, about our national flag (unsure which one he specifically means), that "like lots of people, I proudly have one up at home"

I'd be asking the wrong crowd here whether they have a Union Flag, St George's Cross or any of the other national flags up at home, but I do wonder just how out of touch he is... I really hope YouGov (or similar) include this question in their next polling...

#UKPol

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

@DrEdBridges
Farage and his grifting politics wouldn't exist if not for the BBC.

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

All three top stories on the BBC News app are about migration. The top story on #R4Today just now was also about migration.

Is this (as the #R4Today presenter has just claimed) the media reflecting the public’s interest, or is it in fact the public parroting back a media obsession?

Personally, I’m sick to death of this one issue crowding out everything else going on in the world. Repost if you agree.

#UKpolitics #UKpol #migration #immigration

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
TCMuffin@toot.wales ("Jayne :wales_flag:🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Flags, Farage and hotels: How the media is driving England into the arms of Reform

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-media-are-helping-reform-carry-out-flag-coup

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tedmielczarek ("Ted Mielczarek") wrote:

I sure do love being reminded that there's a gun-worshipping cult headquartered a few miles from my house.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

any UK freelancers know about this "Making Tax Digital" thing?

sounds like I'll be forced back into proprietary software next year 😡

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Viss wrote:

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tankgrrl@hachyderm.io ("💀 𝓕airchild 💀") wrote:

Your periodic reminder that ICE is only 22 years old and created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, turning the previous agency which was largely regulatory in nature into the militaristic kidnapping machine we have today.

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

@carlmalamud One wonders if a Presidential Medal of Freedom can be seized to satisfy a court judgement.

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Krime@todon.eu ("KRIME") wrote:

Of course you do, it’s a rhetorical question

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Decolonize"
@Krime sticker spotted in Corfu, Greece

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petabites@mastodon.world ("petabytes") wrote:

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1040

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

Drink Special @ Death Guild: BELL RIOTS DAY: Casamigos Mezcal, Soda, OJ, Revolution, Lime Garnish.

Attachments:

• gifv: c6f92a0ca1d018dd.mp4

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

watching: Introducing SvelteKit Remote Functions, by Simon Holthausen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hy7PCbXyqs

I love SvelteKit! It's kinda like Next.js except not an absolute steaming pile of React

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

testing the patience of Let's Encrypt's staging rate limiter

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

@ptesarik oh I agree, of course. But the claim that those pushing back against Trump with the tools of law are stupidly wasting our time - which dozens of people have smugly told me today - is simply wrong, and wildly counterproductive.

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

@PeterLudemann congress can pass laws that govern (federal) elections. But congress doesn’t run any actual elections. The states do that.

Just as congress can pass laws that govern restaurants, without actually running any restaurants itself. Restaurant owners do that.

Clear?

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

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba: Make Art Degenerate Again -- Bulleit bourbon, lemon, Aperol, Bruto Americano

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• gifv: 980b27be4725563e.mp4

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

This is a perfectly put description of the management style practiced by a seemingly large portion of currently revered "innovators":

> giving an assignment and screaming at engineers until it arrives

(Source: https://electrek.co/2025/09/01/tesla-master-plan-part-4-vague-ai-promises/)

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
JaxVent@lgbtqia.space ("Jax UK") wrote:

#men DO NOT STARE AT YOUNG GIRLS.

Had my 15 year old daughter in tears for last hour because she had a man on bus staring at her for a solid 10 minutes and she felt scared, humiliated, frozen, PHYSICALLY SICK.

'first time man stared at me so creepily I felt physically sick' is NOT a milestone ANY girl shoudl have to go through.

FUCKING STOP IT.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TIL that there is an "Elite the Musical" based on the Elite video game:

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/musical/book.htm

Video game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite%5F%28video%5Fgame%29

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
Herne@corteximplant.net ("Problem Fox") wrote:

Just saw Solderpunk's announcement for this year's #ROOPHLOCH , the Remote Outdoor Off-grid Phlogging Challenge, which runs through September.

Finding it on a random read of kelbot's gemlog aggregator gave me yet another great example of why I love #GeminiProtocol and the #smolweb. The event is simultaneously whimsical, creative, and technical while being as simple or complicated as the participant wants to make it.

Find out more at...

gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/announcing-roophloch-2025.gmi

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

"You should be nicer" said the troll.

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

@pigworker Then you can fuck right off.

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

@pigworker
The supreme court has a terrible composition right now. And yet, the judiciary rules against Trump's excesses at least as often as they allow them.

That's the hand we were dealt. Don't want to play it? Get the hell out of the way.

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

One wonders what they think they're accomplishing by shitting on those who are using the tools they have to find paths forward through this mess. Maybe they can't wait for a civil war, imagining themselves to be future heroes of some fantastic, glorious revolution. Or maybe they secretly like the idea of the unstoppable dictator they pretend to oppose.

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

Repeating this, because it really bugs me.

The people here (and I've heard from many of them today) complaining that legal or constitutional analysis of Trump is irrelevant, naive, or pointless because "law can't stop him" are simply wrong. So far, law has been the only tool out there that actually HAS (sometimes) managed to rein him in.

These clowns are doing the fascists' work for them by fatalistically normalizing the administration's lawlessness as unstoppable and inevitable.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
rubenerd@bsd.network ("Ruben Schade :runbsd: 🔰 🇦🇺") wrote:

@mattblaze

I had to put this in my site's FAQ after getting similar messages.

"My expertise, preferences, qualifications, experience, circumstances, constraints, kinks, background, genes, ethics, locale, and sources of joy, wisdom, and/or education may differ from yours, that's why."

Admittedly did nothing to stem the "why not X?" questions, but it made me feel a bit better.

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

I must say, this place has very high expectations of me. Tough room.