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

Opinion: "…not just how you campaign and which outlets you talk to, though. Successful campaigns must prioritize producing content. One thing successful content creators will tell you about excelling in the world of digital attention is that there’s no penalty for quantity. No one checks your percentages — only your total numbers. You need to always be posting if you want a better chance of things going viral… meet the most disengaged and youngest voters where they are."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/opinion/democrats-attention-elections.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social ("Grassroots Joe") wrote:

#NoKings
Norristown, PA
Bigger crowd than June, and bubbles and prehistoric visitors!

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

TO ALL THE #NoKings NAYSAYERS

there’s always folks like you who crave the negative attention. maybe try counseling instead.

these protests act as containers for all the grievances people hold against the status quo. they have people protesting #ICE #transphobia #techbros #billionaires #christofascism #zionism #genocide #misogyny #racism because they are all connected.

oh, you just wanted your one special interest represented? today is a safe day to go protest about it. go out there & do it.

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MelindaATL@theatl.social ("Melinda from Atlanta") wrote:

Large and growing crowd at #NoKings #Atlanta

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bryanalexandee@mastodon.education ("Bryan Alexander") wrote:

Thousands of people around me for #Nokings in DC.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I’m an industry dev turned comp sci prof. I’ve been writing code for 40-some years; my first commercial software was for the Apple ][+. I’ve worked on web, mobile, desktop, server, and data plumbing projects for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 to arts nonprofits. In short, I’ve been lucky to know a lot of people in a lot of corners of tech.

@anildash’s opening paragraphs are spot on. If consensus is not 100%, well, it’s 99%.

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

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

yup

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115395846300431364

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alexf24@mstdn.social ("Alexf24") wrote:

No Kings
Hollywood, FL

#Trump #NoKings #NoKingsDay #Democracy

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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

BREAKING: Trump humiliated as official numbers are in — 7 million people joined the No Kings rallies, making it the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. 🇺🇸💪

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TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

Greg Abbott is "running for an unprecedented fourth term on a record of schools in crisis, housing more expensive, groceries more expensive, electricity utility rates are up. This is a record of failure, and he owns it."
https://www.texasobserver.org/gina-hinojosa-campaign-for-texas-governor/

#GregAbbott #Texas #news #politics #USpol #Democrats #elections

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serenebabe.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

my mother counted 732 people at the #NoKings rally in South Paris, Maine!

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stfn@fedi.stfn.pl wrote:

And we have confirmation that the Pi Zero actually works in sub zero temperatures.

Maybe I should put some artificial load on the CPU to keep it warm 😅

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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

NEW BLOG POST: “Weekly Wrap 803: Craning to escape plane trees (not sorry)” https://stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/803/ Covers 13–19 October 20125 and contains the usual links to (a few) Interesting Things. https://stilgherrian.com/weekly-wrap/803/

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flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange ("AN/CRM-114") wrote:

who called it creative accounting when ledgerdemain was right there

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wi8x@mastodon.radio ("Chris - WI8X") wrote:

From N4RTD via WI8X@0641AM EDT on 10/19/25:
Good Morning Folks! The Sunspot Number has dropped to 80. The Solar Flux Index has dropped to 156. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level occurred. No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours. A-Index is 36, K-Index is 2. Chance of flares today: 35% for M-Class, 5% for X-Class.

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dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

🤣 Good luck with that!

Canada needs to start thinking about an auto sector without U.S. automakers - The Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-auto-sector-us-automakers/

https://archive.ph/qmOvL

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youranoncentral.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Anonymous") wrote:

Turn off your Face ID and Touch ID if you are taking your phones to the protests. Keep it in airplane mode and use encrypted apps where possible. Protect yourself.#3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com ("Carolyn Barber, MD") wrote:

BREAKING: Nearly 7 million Americans took to the streets in all 50 states — and around the world — to say: No Kings. No fascism. No authoritarian power grabs. This is the largest protest against a sitting president in modern U.S. history. #NoKings #press

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

When someone says of Trump's fascist moves, "It is a shocking situation to be in that I don’t think anybody anticipated a year ago,” I want to scream in frustration.

THIS WAS PREDICTABLE IN EVERY WAY. HE BRAGGED ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable

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

Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on 18 OCT

(courtesy NYTimes article)

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

‘… about a dozen Gen Z and millennial Republicans in Vermont, New York, Kansas and Arizona… 2,900 pages sent over Telegram over seven months — used racist and homophobic language and glibly invoking Hitler and the Holocaust.

A chief of staff to a New York assemblyman who has since been fired posted “I Love Hitler.”…

The vice chairman of Kansas Young Republicans…: “Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food. Would he like some watermelon and kool aid with that?”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/samuel-douglass-resigns-vermont-young-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

‘…had responded to a message about “a very obese Indian woman” by writing, “She just didn’t bathe often.” His wife, Brianna, participated in the chat, too, and posted an antisemitic remark… quickly lost political capital, just one week after the Vermont Republican Party named him as a finalist for two awards, Rookie of the Year and Legislator of the Year… said that he was unaware of the “vile and disgusting comments” made in the group chat’

right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/samuel-douglass-resigns-vermont-young-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

a “rising star” of the Vermont Republican Party

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/samuel-douglass-resigns-vermont-young-republicans.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.uk8.SAeK.3Ey7mpsSu9bd&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

otter stealing surfboard a few years ago

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

I love the idea of otters hijacking surfboards

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/science/sea-otters-surfboard-santa-cruz.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

using US Coast Guard funds, "The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem, the secretary, and other top department officials at a cost of $172 million, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times."

while children go hungry and working class Americans await huge health care premium increases, Secretary Noem spends our money for her comfort, and spends it like it was chump-change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/politics/kristi-noem-dhs-gulfstream.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

‘Mr. Vance, who served a tour in Iraq and worked as a media relations officer in the Marine Corps, said that the entirety of the demonstration — the live ammunition, the parachuters descending from the sky, the Navy seals swimming ashore, the F35 jets flying overhead — made his “heart sing as your vice president.”’

I’ll bet it gave that former uniformed PR flack an erection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/vance-marines-california-protests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

We know we’re reaching the late stages of a bubble when we start to see multiple “people in tech don’t really believe in all of this, honest, we just act like it because we think we have to, we’re a silent majority you see”, but the truth is that what you believe in private doesn’t matter. All that matter is that you’ve been acting like a true believer and you are what you do

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

In work and politics, it genuinely doesn’t matter what you were thinking when you actively aided and abetted in shitting on people’s work, built systems that helped fascists, ruined the education system and pretty much all of media. What matters, and what you should be judged on is what you did

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

Penning a blog post on #React. I have a lot of criticism (https://jsx.lol) but I’m lacking the other side. Who are the top React superspreaders worth reading?