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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Stand With Chicago Hat") wrote:

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Trump and his cult, including many Republican office-holders, have been egging on political violence -- aimed at the left -- for years. They are NOT opposed to political violence.

Our "mainstream" journalists seem mostly unwilling to provide that context in their coverage at the moment.

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

Found my copy of the 1989 World Radio-TV Handbook (if you know, you’re a nerd, too), which had this now rather heartbreaking ad for the Voice of America.

@w7voa

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

‘American soybean farmers are heading into harvest season without a single order from China, historically their largest customer, raising alarm bells about the agricultural sector’s stability and broader implications for the U.S. economy…

“Right now, we’re in a very dire situation… China takes more of our soybeans than all other foreign customers combined,” … 50% of U.S. soybeans are exported and China represents a quarter of total demand’

https://fortune.com/2025/09/09/soybean-harvest-china-agricultural-crisis-trump-tariffs-caleb-ragland/

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

Trump attending a Yankees game tonight. AF1 currently on final approach to LGA, where he will presumably get a shuttle bus to the 7 train and then change at Grand Central for a 4 express train to Yankee Stadium.

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

I mean, this isn't exactly a brag, but it's pretty much exactly as bad as I imagined and it's almost certainly going to get worse from here

https://slate.com/business/2025/09/trump-unemployment-crisis-job-market-black-americans.html

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mhoye wrote:

Magnificent.

https://alignmentalignment.ai/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

@marcoarment Aren't you doing the laptop-as-desktop thing currently? I am considering it when the M5 MBPs come out; currently I have an M1 Air and an M1 Studio, and an M5 MBP could replace both. But it's been so long since I've done that I can't remember why I switched back to desktop + laptop…

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Okay, if I am going to do coding in coffee shops, I think I'm going to want to upgrade my laptop just to get a bigger screen. (And it boggles me that my relatively recent, high-end 15" PC laptop from work has a lower-res screen than this 13" M1 MacBook Air.)

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

I want what Brazil has: A Supreme Court with a fucking spine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-guilty-coup

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

You see how they do this. The words, whatever they are, are described as "transgender and antifascist ideology" but no specifics. They can't tell us what those words might be, because they might be words you agree with. Words like "trans rights" for instance. Or "fuck Nazis", for instance. So they have to be UNDER described as an "ideology".

Meanwhile, the rifle used is explicitly described in detail as "an older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle". Friends, that is quite literally a fascist rifle. As in, a rifle that was used by Nazis. Notice how it's not described as a "rifle associated with fascist ideology" though. Because that might make you feel like maybe this shooter was a fascist who thought fascist things, instead of a mean old liberal who had "trans and antifascist ideologies".

They want you to focus on the trans hate, and not the fact that Charlie Kirk was a fascist who peddled hate and violence and fascist disinformation to other fascists for his entire career and he finally reaped what he sowed.

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

Lists, lists, lists. Put people on a list! So satisfying, I guess.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/11/they-do-like-their-lists/

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kib@d-shoot.net ("wizardry variants lori") wrote:

So, the other day at the dollar store I found this $5 fishing game. And I got the idea...what if I bought this and made a bunch of different little creatures/robots/etc. from the fish? And so I made one. And next time I get bored I'll make another one. And maybe in 50 years I'll have made them all.

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

Hi everyone,

@joynewacc and I had video chats over Signal with three more people from Gaza today and I’d love to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family.

They are:

• @abeerabed22
• @baraaelmoghrabi
• @emanahmed

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse and please help with the fundraisers by donating or sharing them if you can.

Thank you all for the amazing support you’re showing our friends and their families in Palestine in their darkest hour.

https://gaza-verified.org

💕

PS. They will be adding the verified link to their accounts over the coming hours. Once they do, their accounts will show that the link is verified. Please bear with them as Internet access is sketchy at best in Gaza and there are sometimes technical challenges.

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #fediAid

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drwho@masto.hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

Hey, folks. One of my co-workers has a new book out:

https://www.amazon.com/Numbers-that-Dazzled-World-Imagination/dp/B0FQFVLGHN

#mathematics #history

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kingrat@sfba.social ("Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)") wrote:

It's not up on the COVID vaccine page yet, but Kaiser just announced that vaccinations will be available to everyone in their network starting Monday (according to NBC).

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/kaiser-covid-vaccine/3946558/?%5Fosource=SocialFlowTwt%5FBAYBrand

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stveje@mstdn.social ("S.T. Veje") wrote:

All these people falling over themselves to praise Charlie Kirk worry me way more than whoever killed him. It's not a great sign when we can't condemn a man like Kirk.

If we want political violence to end, we *must* be able to condemn people like Charlie Kirk long before it comes to violence. People who are openly proud of their lack of empathy and who work hard to spread hatred of others belong in psychiatric care or prison, not at the head of political organizations.

#CharlieKirk #USPol

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

24 years ago today. Still aches.

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Stand With Chicago Hat") wrote:

"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.

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

Based on the style and period, you might guess this was a minor work of Eero Saarinen's (it shares many design elements with his arirport terminals of the same era). But, in fact, the architect was the less well known William Tabler, who had many commissions from Hilton. This was one of his most distinctive, I think.

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

The Washington Hilton, completed 1965, was designed by architect William Tabler. It's notable not only for its distinctive exterior, but also for the prominent events hosted there. The hotel is or has been home to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, the National Prayer Breakfast, the Shmoocon conference, and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, among many other things.

It has extensive back-of-house facilities and security features to accommodate high profile VIPs.

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

The result here is about 170MP in 16x9 format, which is sufficient for very large prints that retain a great deal of detail (I've printed this at 6 feet wide).

Mid-Century Modernist architecture, and Brutalism in particular, is easy to dismiss as being superficially lifeless and uninteresting, but at its best (and with the right eye) these buildings can be seen as sculptures in the landscape. I don't always appreciate them, but they're often more interesting than they first seem.

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ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

“You shouldn’t celebrate his death.”
He celebrated the deaths of Black and Brown people daily. He is a nazi. You are a nazi sympathizer.

No celebration. Just watching chickens coming home to roost, like Malcolm said.

Fake virtue signaling and demanding empathy for a man who said “empathy is for the weak” and whose actual last words were violent anti-black and anti-trans dogwhistles is absolutely delusional.

Having pity for a man who would gladly try to kill you for not being white is insane.

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

This is a fairly conventional architectural composition, emphasizing the curved facade. To get a high resolution capture of the wide structure, this was made as a stitched composite of two captures with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens. The Phase One back was shifted left and right by about 12mm.

By using shift movements at a fixed perspective, the two captures can be stitched directly together into a panorama without needing to transform the frame geometry (as you would with panning).

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

Washington ("Hinckley") Hilton, Washington, DC, 2023.

More pixels than required at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53007102796

#photography

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fedilore ("The Fedilore Otter 🦦") wrote:

I trust one of these two women to run a social media site.

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CedarTea@social.coop wrote:

I think everyone needs a reminder that fascists don't need "an excuse" to do fascist violence. Fascists do fascist violence when given opportunity, not when given pretext.

This is not some "start" to political violence. The fascists are already doing fascist violence, and have been for quite some time.

They will likely claim it as their reason for new violence, yes, but you shouldn't take fascists at their word. That would be a gravely dangerous misunderstanding of fascist behaviour.

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gericci@indieweb.social ("Angela "Ge" Ricci") wrote:

"If Elon Musk OD'ed on ketamine tomorrow, there'd be ten Big Balls who'd tear each others' throats out in the ensuing succession fight, and the next guy would be just as stupid, racist, and authoritarian. Musk, Cook, Zuck, Pichai, Nadella, Larry Ellison – they're just filling the monster-shaped holes that policy-makers installed in our society." @pluralistic

Hell yeah