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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

"exnomination" is a really useful word and I'm surprised it isn't used more often in the context of theory and politics. exnomination is the process by which a group works to depoliticize their worldview and values, so that those views and values come to be considered "natural," "apolitical," and "common sense" (the term is from Barthes' _Mythologies_ but I first encountered it in Robin Lakoff's _The Language War_)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wohali@timeloop.cafe wrote:

i wish i was this smug and happy

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

The train has a European-style two-tone horn that you can just barely hear in the car. I keep thinking we’re about to pull into Gare du Nord.

Boosted by jwz:
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

due to the crackdown of any leftist discourse surrounding charlie kirk's assassination, bringing into context his own statements, viewpoints, and what they had to do with his demise, huge social media accounts are being banned on twitter, instagram, and bluesky.

for a friend of mine who's running “punkwithacamera” on Instagram, this also meant having the identity and address of doxxed, to the degree where even a member of the house of representatives of the united states of america spoke aggressively about wanting to shut down everything my friend built over the years, even take away their business license

so, i am asking you my little fediverse friends, feel free to buy something from their shop, as they expect to never be able to sell anything in the US: :boost_requested:

:BLM: https://antifascist-clothing.com/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Stand With Chicago Hat") wrote:

Doing a video depo with my big monitor split into three screens and somehow an email pops up despite Outlook being minimized and covers the video screen and when I try to move it I accidentally close my notes screen and utter a word that is now in the transcript The email was about anger management

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brownpau ("how now") wrote:

For your guidance and info I have made this D&D style alignment chart for major generative AI tools and chatbots.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I honestly cannot stomach the response to Charlie Kirk's death by #Bluesky liberal influencers.

It's one thing to wag your finger at those who celebrate. It's another to honor a fascist in death in some feckless attempt at public empathy.

Poster's disease on full display. They're dopamine addicts who read the news.

Charlie Kirk lived a live that deserves to be promptly forgotten, not honored. And we're better off without these influencers, too.

Boosted by jwz:
criminalerin ("Erin Fogg") wrote:

Hello I am very angry to be here 😊 after getting my good true jokes published by The Federalist, I, like many of our trans leftist peers, have now been literally suspended from bsky for literally saying "rest in piss Charlie Kirk." To be fair I also said a bunch of very funny true things that I will happily read on the stand at the Hague 2 with my lips DIRECTLY on the MIC

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

We've made it to another Friday, and here is a new set of books and ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound. What here is piquing your interest?

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

The previous Acela configuration was preferable to this in almost every respect. The seat layout is a bit better in the new version, and it’s shiny and new, but it feels more like being on the LIRR than a high-speed premium intercity express train.

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gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

When is the Right community going to do something about Right-on-Right crime?

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

for years now every time there is gun violence by an unknown assailant in the US an arm of the right wing immediately swings into action fabricating rumors that the perpetrator was a trans person. zero substantiation to the claims, they just make it up, blast it out and hope some of it sticks. this should not be treated as anything but a direct deliberate attempt to create random retaliatory violence against trans people, and any outlets printing said rumors are participating in said violence.

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

People are telling me that I’m wrong about the train that I’M LITERALLY RIDING ON AT THIS MOMENT.

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

@badtux no. Ithe train is pointing the opposite direction from what the seat map says. Half the seats face one way, the other half the other way. But it’s backwards from what I booked.

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

@FediThing tiny. Like room for three suitcases. A total joke

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

I drew this a very long week ago. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

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

Actual quotes by Charlie Kirk, dead Nazi:

- Gay people should be stoned to death
- Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane
- No one should be allowed to retire
- Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states
- British colonialism is what made the world decent
- The guy who assaulted the Pelosis should be bailed out of prison
- Religious freedom should be terminated
- Vaccine requirements are medical apartheid
- Gun deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendment
- Women's natural place is under her husband's control
- George Floyd had it coming, Jan 6ers didn't
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a huge mistake
- Mamdani winning an election is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11
- Muslims only come to America to destabilize Western civilization
- Palestine doesn't exist and those who support it are just like the KKK

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

I hold the opinion that killing Nazis is a net positive social good, and I don't think that's a particularly hot take, actually.

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fraying@xoxo.zone ("Derek Powazek 🐐") wrote:

404 Media is the only place covering Kirk the right way.
https://www.404media.co/charlie-kirk-was-not-practicing-politics-the-right-way/

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

I really wanted to like this.

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

The lack of luggage space is actually worse than a 737, and there’s no checked baggage. This is a dealbreaker if you’re traveling with anything close to the maximum allowed baggage.

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

Checking out the “NextGen” Acela train. Definitely less scruffy than the original. Seats seem a bit more comfortable.

But:

- Actual direction is opposite from the seat map (so my booked forward-facing seat faces backwards)
- Window shade keeps lowering by itself (so much for my window seat view)
- Periodic feedback on speakers
- Extremely limited luggage space. Overhead racks are full in a half- full car.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
farewell_ladmin@infosec.exchange ("Eth[̲̅a]n H[̲̅a]nsen :donor:") wrote:

Every time I hear half of a conversation on a federal frequency around here (usually FBI A/D or one of the NTIA LE channels) I am reminded of the paper / blog post by @mattblaze : Why (special agent) Johnny (still) Can't Encrypt

Specifically the section around unintended cleartext transmissions. It was an issue in 2011 and it's still an issue in 2025. The paper / blog post is great and you should go read it

https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/p25

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
foofaraw@beep.town wrote:

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
drewharwell.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Drew Harwell") wrote:

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High S...

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

Shh, am hiding

Attachments:

• gifv: Video of an silly orange & white kitten "hiding" in a shoe with straps. (The kitty is very visible)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
radleybalko.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Radley Balko") wrote:

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

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

🤣 ah, yes the circle of life: Fire human dev, use AI, fire AI, hire human dev. They never learn, do they?

https://gizmodo.com/after-ai-led-to-layoffs-coders-are-being-hired-to-fix-vibe-coded-screwups-2000657915

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
erininthemorning.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Erin Reed") wrote:

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Press Conference: No "Transgen...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ChickenPwny@infosec.exchange ("DROP\ TABLE Hacker of Earthsea") wrote:

I like how the west offered every thing to Putin to end the war and he attacks poland

#putin #nazi