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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
rtfm@social.lol ("Dan") wrote:

It’s been a shit day, but at least I remembered to finally donate to this very good cause.

Very close to their goal now!

From: @adam
https://social.lol/@adam/115253553681172323

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse - has your life gotten better?

Have your groceries gotten cheaper? Has your health insurance premium gone down? Has your work/life balance improved? Are you happier?

Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you [...], or are you still waiting?

-- Matt Bernstein

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

And then came January 6th. Flags through broken windows. A noose raised outside the Capitol. Lawmakers fleeing. To many, it was insurrection—the violent rejection of an election. To others, it was protest. Even patriotism.

7/17

Image: Kevin Seefried holds a Confederate flag in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

For some, Watergate proved democracy’s strength: Press exposing corruption. Congress investigating. Courts demanding compliance. A resignation that showed no man was above the law. For others, it was only a witch hunt.

5/17

Image:Tourists reading President Nixon resignation news, 8 August 1974. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

Reconstruction was the first great inkblot. The war was over. The Union preserved. Slavery abolished. To freedmen, it meant democracy fulfilled: citizenship, schools, the vote. To white southerners, it meant humiliation: Black men in office, white supremacy shaken. The same moment: freedom, or tyranny.

2/17

Image: Union soldier representing the Freedman's Bureau / Drawn by A.R. Waud, 1868. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/92514996

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Miro_Collas@masto.ai ("Miro Collas") wrote:

"The Italian Navy announced that it will stop escorting the Freedom Flotilla once it approaches within 150 nautical miles of Gaza, to avoid a diplomatic friction with Israel. The flotilla considered the step “sabotage” that serves Tel Aviv instead of protecting the volunteers, while the Israeli Navy prepares to take control of the largest convoy to break the siege, which includes 50 ships and hundreds of activists from 44 countries."

https://xcancel.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1973103915408490745

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

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

Every morning Ted Cruz has to wake up to the existentially debilitating knowledge that he is in fact Ted Cruz, and that there can be no release for him from that terrifying condition this side of the grave

RE: https://www.threads.com/@dannykpolitics/post/DPPUkYygUA%5F

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

I've started volunteer helping with data for Health Care for All Oregon #HCAO and as well as working with the data the org has, I'd love to pull together some health outcomes/opportunities/needs data, especially for the state of Oregon.

Whatever we can use to tell the story of universal healthcare being good and worth it and helping all kinds of people.

sources for county/zip/city data very welcome, I can do the aggregates or make maps

#data #healthCare #Oregon

boosts welcome

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Here at Vibe Industries we have great plans for 2026!

Vibe nuclear engineering: rods in? rods out? Just trust the flow!

Vibe air traffic control: let's see which plane feels like landing first.

Vibe bridge construction: eyeball the angles, gravity vibes along!

Vibe bomb disposal: cut whichever wire resonates with your aura.

Vibe firefighting: spray wherever the hose wants to go.

Vibe elevator repair: kick until the machine hums in the right key!

Boosted by jwz:
hubba_hubba_revue ("Hubba Hubba Revue") wrote:

THIS SUNDAY! - START YOUR SPOOKY SEASON with a trip to scenic Santa Carla!

T I X https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/10-05.html

Get your TICKETS & join us at @dnalounge for THE LOST BOYS: Movie Screening, Dance Party & bloodthirsty COSTUME CONTEST! -- Doors 7:30PM, Movie 8:00PM.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

After the triumph of vibe coding, we proudly introduce vibe surgery: close your eyes, follow the rhythm, just pure trust in the scalpel's aura!

Boosted by jwz:
cabel@panic.com ("Cabel Sasser") wrote:

portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL

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

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0558

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

Anyway, the Riyadh Comedy Festival gave us one gift: a list of comedians to never support again.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh%5FComedy%5FFestival

Boosted by jwz:
zoom_earth@mapstodon.space ("Zoom Earth") wrote:

#Humberto and #Imelda are so close to each other that their circulating winds cancel each other out in a calm “col” area in between them.

🇧🇲 #Bermuda needs to be on alert however as Imelda will likely cause flash flooding and damaging waves from Wednesday into Thursday.

Attachments:

• gifv: Wind gusts forecast

Boosted by jwz:
virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

I know some probably totally agree with the Secretary of "Macho Performative Bullshit" but the vibe I get from this picture is "listen to this jackass".

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

Yes, at a moral level it's detestable, but also, VCs, come get yer boi!

Deep, deep #ceofail

Imagine, if you can, either not understanding or not caring how this would play with your employees and customers. 🤦🤦🤦

(sorry for the double-screenshot of @sachagreif's bsky post):

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

Incredible.

https://youtu.be/C8uOPrU4B9s?si=bO1Vg8FDwpWAhE7f

/via @phae

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Awkwardly to the tune of “love and marriage”

Networks and encryption, networks and encryption
They go together like language and diction
They go together like truth and fiction

This I tell you, brother
You can't have one without the other

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rjbs@social.semiotic.systems ("Ricardo Signes :sickos:") wrote:

Hofstadter's Law, except for how stupid things are.

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

It's an interesting test of one's ethics when you are presented with a check by a questionable entity, and after you say "no" they keep adding zeros to get you to say "yes." That said, this implies an underlying objection that must be overcome, and it's entirely possible at least some of these folks simply didn't care, or have measurable ethics, to begin with

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/sep/30/riyadh-comedy-festival-saudi-arabia

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

Oh, is it because instead of actually effectuating change, he and his party are basically being an only-very-slightly paler shade of Tory, and also he has all the personality of a wilted celery stalk?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/uk/keir-starmer-labour-party-conference-intl

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
icm@mastodon.sdf.org ("ICM") wrote:

The Interim Computer Festival FALL 2025 is this weekend October 4th and 5th at INTRASPACE from 10am - 6pm each day. This is a free event. Exhibitor registration will close soon.

https://sdf.org/icf

#free #event #seattle #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #pnw

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

This Kickstarter just launched from @realtomtomorrow and if you have a hankerin' for quality alt-journalism political cartooning (which, incidentally, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist), you know what to do here, which is to back it, yes, that is what I think you should do, sorry if I was previously unclear about that

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomorrow/our-long-national-nightmare-by-tom-tomorrow/

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
effinbirds@threads.net ("Effin' Birds") wrote:

However you like to plan shit, I've got you covered for 2026. Effin' Birds wall calendars, planners, and day-to-day tear-off calendars are available right now at your local cool bookstore. Or check https://eatf.art for some online ordering options.

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

Your reminder that a) tech people are doing every possible thing to justify their expensive, thirsty new toy, b) the contempt "AI" tech people have for actual humans, whom they think of as replaceable cogs, is substantive, c) Hiring an actual human is soooooooo much cheaper and will have better results

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sag-aftra-slams-ai-actress-tilly-norwood-xicoia-union-1236388942/

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

Someone give her the actual Nobel Peace Prize, she's earned it for her philanthropy alone

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DPO9xxjjjiZ

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It’s dangerous to go alone #Plushtodon

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

more fuckin "but you *have to admit* AI makes you more *efficient*"

of course, it's unfair to ask for numbers on these alleged gains

i hear that one every time

you're just being *mean* asking for evidence

you could call someone saying "i'm so much more efficient bro trust me bro" a study with n=0 because there isn't any other number

a "use case" is what someone claims as justification for a thing that doesn't seem to do anything well

and wasn't designed for a purpose

see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcBCji6XvE by @fasterandworse

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

I am re-introducing my Github Sponsors profile as I am currently broke after having had zero income since July.

I am getting an open source project that has been very important to me for the past couple of years into a release-ready state and while I am reaching out to sell services related it it, I have only limited freelance work.

I am not going to make a list of monthly living expenses but I have to pay for food, housing and insurance like everyone else.

https://github.com/sponsors/aldavigdis/

#MutualAid