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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ThompsonArt@mastodon.art ("Aled Thompson") wrote:

I've been waiting all year to repost this 🍂

I've put the piece up on my ko-fi with free download for anyone interested!
https://ko-fi.com/i/IZ8Z41M7BZE

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
nyx@social.xenofem.me ("𝕹𝖞𝖝 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :labrys-45-sickle: :nyxcat: ") wrote:

randomly remembering this video that I haven't thought of probably since 2008. everyone thought this was the funniest shit in middle school

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvK-GLupgIw

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
Joshfrai ("Here robustly") wrote:

The lonely island.

#SilentSunday #photography #LandscapePhotography #lake

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 12 Oct 1972 a riot broke out on the USS Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam war, following multiple racist incidents against Black sailors. Black sailors grabbed makeshift weapons and rioted. More info in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e10-the-gi-resistance-in-vietnam-part-1/

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

This is my politics.

#Seinfeld

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“As the conservative movement built its political power, its champion, Ronald Reagan, soon killed the fairness doctrine that had required time for contrasting political content – a move that birthed the rightwing talk radio monopoly.

When the Democrats regained power, Bill Clinton joined in by signing legislation deregulating the media industry so that a handful of megacorporations (and now tech companies) could buy up and control most of what we read, see and hear…”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/12/bari-weisss-cbs-news-50-years-in-the-making

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

Love this. Fuck #ICE

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/10/ice-immigrants-protest-signs-dc/

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

Know when to say when, people

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge - BBC News https://share.google/dQCkwF6Vwg1GJRNU4

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

Connections
Puzzle #854
🟩🟪🟨🟦
🟩🟪🟨🟨
🟩🟪🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

New to this game. Apparently you can't force a Batman connection 😔

https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

Imagine enjoying tackling elderly citizens exercising their rights. 🙄

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Salon@flipboard.com wrote:

Pope Leo takes aim at MAGA’s false gospel
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/12/pope-leo-takes-aim-at-magas-false-gospel/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News & Politics @news-politics-Salon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

Some thoughts from this week’s piece:

🧵

https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/08ca53da-bb0f-4eb4-aa08-c0648d2d9477

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

today’s NYTimes piece on the deepening divides in our country does not exactly end on an upbeat note.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
xepia_@social.bau-ha.us ("Feli") wrote:

#Vegan food has come a long way.

2019 - I can't believe it's not meat.

2025 - My government can't, either.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

Slightly ranty post of Discord's data leak, the online safety act, and compulsory IDs in the UK.
https://chriswere.wales/posts/discord-users-are-first-victims-of-uks-online-safety-act.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

James Webb telescope may have spotted controversial 'dark stars' in the far universe | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-may-have-spotted-controversial-dark-stars-in-the-far-universe

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

About a week ago, the New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast portrayed Russell Vought as a devout Christian, a true “small government” conservative who loves the free market, and a man with a great work ethic. A remarkable combination of credulousness and deliberate whitewashing.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MusiqueNow@todon.eu ("MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:") wrote:

Over 500,000 march in #London to protest two years of #genocide in #Gaza

#MiddleEastEye

#JusticeForPalestine 🇵🇸

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FOuPd5VZA0M

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
larsmb@mastodon.online ("Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷") wrote:

Any "global" event hosted in the #USA is exclusionary by default.

If your company, organization, or community does them, set fire to the DEI policies. They're not worth the bits they're stored on.

https://www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-cbp/cbp-enforces-binary-sex-codes-and-enhanced-us-passport-validation-in-apis/

#IfNotFascismWhyFascismShaped #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

No Kings Day is almost here.

The Trump regime believes that if it can overwhelm us with atrocities and threats, we'll surrender our rights without fighting for them.

But the people won’t bow down. We will rise. Join us at a peaceful protest on Saturday: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF%5FSOURCE=indivisible #NoKings

Attachments:

• video: 2f943384bbe630fa.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

I suspect that these historical facts, or at least the popular impression of them, have persuaded many people that another US civil war like the first one is effectively impossible.

There is no clear geographic divide within the US like there was in 1861 between slave states and free states. Instead, Americans are deeply divided on an array of political issues but are interspersed geographically. Even many states that are described in US political discourse as “red” or “blue” are, for the most part, almost evenly split in political terms.

Prior to the US civil war, states really were semi-sovereign and the federal government was vastly smaller than it is now. It was, at the time, possible to imagine group of states cooperating to challenge federal authority, because the balance of power between the component state and the federal government was not nearly as lopsided as it is today.

2/

https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north%5Famerica/purple-america-best-election-maps/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

It’s time to demand removal. Dementia doesn’t have a political agenda. What’s left of Trump is clearly no longer living in this reality.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya "Lethal Precision" Bidniss :CIAverified: 🇺🇸") wrote:

SCOTUS enabled all of this specifically for Trump (it'll be neat when there's a Dem president again), Congress is flat on its back (it'll be neat when Dems are majority), & conspirator Cabinet won't exercise last gasp power (25th). That leaves correction up to the people. We're it.

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

AP: “Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago, when it helped sink then-Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. Yet you wouldn't know it from listening to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve.”

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

“Can you explain this gap in your resume?”

Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: “I was selling drugs… uh, to children.”

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

Classic 7th birthday choice: rollerblades.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/12/ilianas-7th-birthday/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Low Rigg feat. cows.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

Anthropic stole the books I co-wrote in order to train their planet-burning hallucination machine, so I've filed a claim. They wept that if every plagiarised author does so, the company will go bankrupt. Boo emdash hoo. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

The analyst behind this essay thinks there's no way the AI data centre boom can be profitable. I looked at their expectations and … they're optimistic: those number crunchers in the data centres won't depreciate over 3-5 years, they'll be obsolete inside 18 months!

It's ridiculous.
https://awful.systems/comment/9041013