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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

The situation in Minneapolis is not like anything we’ve seen before.

It’s not just an uptick in raids.

It is a full-scale military occupation, confronting you wherever you go.

You can’t drive more than a couple blocks without seeing roving bands of cars with tinted windows containing masked men in full military equipment:
helmets, balaclavas, long guns, tactical equipment, crowd control munitions.

They pull up to bus stops, leap out, grab a brown person, shove them in the car, then speed away.

They don’t check papers.

Some people have been held in detention centers for weeks before it came out that they were US citizens.

We are witnessing a #racial #pogrom.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
orci ("J.R. Orci") wrote:

New masks, same assholes. #FuckICE

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

She also plays saxophone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyBhtbqk-Z4

(So jealous. I can't even play kazoo (due entirely to my own poor life choices).)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Here's a pretty little song I stumbled across. Rachel Mazer's "Counting Flowers":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzDtTTBqpt4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
helenleigh@chaos.social ("Helen Leigh") wrote:

I'm beyond excited to share that #Teardown2026 will be happening 24-26th July.

We're in a cool new space too: the Jupiter on Burnside. Our 60s mall era is dead, long live our 60s motel era.

I'll miss the mall but it'll be nice to run an event somewhere with furniture and internet.

Ticket sales, calls for participation + volunteers, and general info on the @crowdsupply website: https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2026

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

As the Trump regime feels itself increasingly backed into a corner, it’s reacting in the way it best knows how: with lies, distractions and smears. That provides a clue about what to expect over the next few months. Read the Status Kuo, link in the replies.

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

predicting 0°F tonight, with a high of 9°F tomorrow. lovely.

Boosted by jwz:
MiBaWi@m.ai6yr.org ("Michael Barthel / MiBaWi") wrote:

#Minnesota - ICE out Minneapolis - statewide general strike against the ICE terror! Heartwarming at -10º Fahrenheit / -23º Celsius

Boosted by jwz:
Emmeline@hoosier.social wrote:

This is what #generalstrike and people power look like in #minneapolis. #news #Politics

Boosted by jwz:
malvarma@tiny.tilde.website wrote:

@davidgerard has sam altman even tried prompting chatgpt to solve their money problems? He should try:

"Write me a plan to pull off the largest IPO in history with a heavily indebted and unsustainable business."

"Pretend you're the CEO of OpenAI and write a letter to Donald Trump to convince him that shovelling billions of US tax dollars into my failing company will make it more likely for him to become king of Greenland."

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New #Textures album sounds decent. I like it more than what I heard from them before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8xJv-WGZgo

#NP #NowPlaying

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

"If there’s a conspiracy, it’s the entire city conspiring to be free."

👏

https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/from-minneapolis-ive-never-seen-unity

Boosted by jwz:
mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Only goons, henchmen, and stooges would take orders from these bozos. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
teahands@mastodon.gamedev.place ("TeaHands") wrote:

Switched to Linux this week (yeah yeah, better late than never) and I've had to install a load of Steam games just to check everything's working properly you know, and long story short I'm once again addicted to Mini Metro.

What a game.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

I’ve been working on this for a while, but let’s make it official: I started a little Tumblr-like microblog about software craft and quality!

You can sign up via RSS or a weekly newsletter digest. There’s already almost two months of content in there, if you just want to check it out.

Hope you like it!

https://unsung.aresluna.org/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha 🇪🇺 :mastodon:") wrote:

"Little Owl' by Harriet Mead, English wildlife artist specialising in metal sculptures #WomensArt #owl 🦉

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ AN EVENING WITH BLACK FLAG at DNA Lounge tonight: Fri Jan 23, 8pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/01-23.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #aneveningwithblackflag #blackflag #hardcore #punk #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
intransitivelie@beige.party ("Nerviest Initial") wrote:

Regardless of your feelings about Elvis or Hound Dog, if you haven't heard the original version by Big Momma Thornton, you owe it to yourself to do so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmpwvxW0gW0 And bow-wow to you too.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

While I was just deleting my remaining #Bsky accounts, I noticed this

Wow.

This is not normal..

Another very good reason to dump Bluesky :nkoHammer:

Privacy friendly my bottoms

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

This is technically an ode:

An esoteric object in a foreign land
Of coffee drinkers who don't understand
The elevated feel of joy within
Derived from tannins addled caffeine.

Your simple shape is pleasant to the eye,
Your vig'rous noise is promising delight.
By bringing water to a boil
You quench my daily soul's turmoil.

Away from home or at a posh resort,
Which caters to the whims of every sort,
Do rest assured that I will never settle
Without my electric kettle.

Boosted by jwz:
blakespot@oldbytes.space ("Blake Patterson") wrote:

It's amazing how quickly the far-right changed their stance on masks.

#WashingtonDC #DC #photo #masks #masking

Boosted by jwz:
kevin@kbg.sh ("Kevin Graaf") wrote:

POV: you are using the "modern" internet on anything less than a 10 gigabit connection

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein the video webcast works better
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/01/23.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

Here's a very interesting article on AI text-to-speech and screenreaders. Screnreaders use good old-fashioned text-to-speech technology, and it turns out that all this fancy new AI technology isn't helpful at all.

"So what's the way forward for blind screen reader users? Sadly, I don't know. Modern text to speech research has little to no overlap with our requirements. Using Eloquence, the system that many blind people find best, is becoming increasingly untenable."

https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html

#accessibility

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Some good news for once: Seattle Light Rail crosslake connection starts March 28!

https://www.soundtransit.org/crosslake

#seattle #washington

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Jonathan Ross—the ICE fascist who killed Renee Good—is an 18-year ICE veteran, firearms instructor, & active shooter trainer.

The people claiming "ICE needs more training" are missing the point. Ross's 2 DECADES of training IS what led him to execute Good. ICE Training IS the problem. More money for more ICE training results in more trained killers.

The problem with fascists isn't that they're poorly trained, it's that they're fascists. You don't train fascists, you abolish them. Abolish ICE.

Boosted by jwz:
RYStorm@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Robin-Yann Storm") wrote:

Amsterdam is installing more LGBT

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
claesdevreese ("Claes de Vreese ☑️") wrote:

And now something positive:

solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time.

☀️ 💨

#TippingPoint

Source: https://dr.dk

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Jerry 🦙💝🦙") wrote:

Some glamor shots of my emotional suppoft dumpster fire in the new studio...