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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

I may not know much about movies but I can say there is no way in hell a 104 minute documentary based on a subject that is fully cooperating with the filmmakers could actually cost $40M

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

Please don't think that you can stop a Nazi by pointing out hypocrisy or by pointing out that they are lying.

They know. It is a feature, not a bug.

When a fascist lies to you, they are displaying power. "I know I am lying. You know I am lying. What the fuck are you going to do about it."

When a fascist lies to other fascists, they are displaying loyalty. "I know I am lying. You know I am lying. We do this because it is how we show allegiance to the cause."

In this way, fascism is inherently an empty ideology. It stands for nothing. It believes in nothing. It can therefore lie about everything.

Except one thing: power.

Fascism MUST lie. It MUST deceive. It MUST play to baser beliefs like racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia, because it has literally nothing of value to offer.

They know this. We know this. That is why they lie.

jwz wrote:

Ugggghhhhh this week the amount of amateurish phishing spam that is sliding right past spamassassin is completely out of control...

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Ribley has skelbows
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/01/26.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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DetritusBooks@sometimesantisocial.media ("Detritus Books") wrote:

The surveillance industry is not your friend.

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agiletortoise ("Greg Pierce") wrote:

[satire]

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verge ("The Verge") wrote:

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867874/stripe-visa-mastercard-amex-csam-grok

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

Being a writer is great. Whenever I need to start a task unrelated to writing, all I must do is start a writing project, then let procrastination take the wheel. Before I know it, I’m doing my dishes and replacing my car’s left break light.

Boosted by jwz:
tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

https://www.theverge.com/news/867567/tim-cook-accused-rapist-brett-ratner-melania-screening

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
GLaDTheresCake@todon.nl ("Lillian Violet") wrote:

@mmm_kay @PhoenixSerenity There are already Gazas in the US, maybe not post October 7th Gaza but Gazas non the less. The so called reservations are already open air concentration camps for those who refuse to conform, be colonized, and give up their land. Where the colonizer can freely and completely without legal consequence murder maim and rape anyone they so please. This violence will escalate, it will not abate, do not forget the natives, stand by them.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Tarnport@mastodon.green wrote:

My sainted adopted Grandma was a childless cripple woman, small and withered in the eyes of the world. One summer a big feral hog started attacking her farm, tearing things up every night. Pigs are dangerous! But she was unflapped. She got her a quart of dry corn and had a man leave a trailer. Every day she'd put a little corn out, closer and closer to the rig until one day the hog walked right in to get it and she slammed the gate.

This story is about true strength. Fight any way you can!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
patrickbrosset@mas.to ("Patrick Brosset") wrote:

A few years ago, I was involved in the development of custom select, back when it was called .

Now, it's just and it comes with a bunch of CSS to make it do whatever you want, like this circular demo!

Can't wait for broader support.
https://web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features-explorer/features/customizable-select/

Attachments:

• gifv: A circular selection UI. The user clicks on an emoji button, which pops up other emojis in a circle around it.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
RememberUsAlways@newsie.social wrote:

Do it for them.
#reneegood
#alexpretti
#NoKings !

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

I could go for this kind of nose art.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/26/tempted-to-get-a-septum-piercing/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=uKHVFI2uCOU&t=2s

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

I've always been an anti-theist, but somehow modern Christianity keeps telling me I've never gone far enough.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/26/every-time-i-try-to-feel-sympathy-for-a-church-they-push-me-away/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
IsabelB@mastodon.ie wrote:

Another photo from me, but a moody one this time!

Taken at a local ruined church/graveyard one evening, with a stormy sky.
Originally taken in colour, but better in mono - especially with the subject!
f16, 1/2s to get the depth of field

#photo #photography #blackandwhite

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

RE: https://librarysocialism.social/@mattyroses/115962180875380449

We (leftists-types) all go through that phase
where be believe that religion is the root of all evil, and if everyone would just be atheists, all our problems will disappear.

The sooner you get out of that phase, the better. Yes, the system can use religion for nefarious ends. But it's not like a single driving force of oppression. And we certainly shouldn't shun theists who see the system for what it is.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing :progress_pride:") wrote:

This is a really fun PeerTube video by @harrybo@gamerstavern.online about rally driving with a 3-wheeled car, highly recommend you watch:

➡️ https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/su1VTRDyum6gpqSffq2VmG

I accidentally inspired the video by commenting on one of his more conventional four-wheeled rally videos. He crashed and one of the wheels came off, so I joked he should try driving with three wheels, and he made the video above 😆

If you don't know Harrybo, he mainly does driving game videos but the emphasis is on humour and self-mockery rather than toxic car culture. They're great fun, you can subscribe to his PeerTube at:

➡️ @harrybo@video.gamerstavern.online

#Rally #PeerTube #WRC #RobinReliant #RallyDriving

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

Join the Internet Archive & partners for PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY 🏛️

📚 This #webinar introduces the growing international movement to ensure libraries & other memory institutions have the same rights online they’ve long held in the physical world. 🌐

📆 Jan 27
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/protect-our-future-memory-join-the-call-for-library-digital-rights/

#libraries #digitalrights #righttoown

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Also:
• Visa and deportation controversies in the second Trump administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa%5Fand%5Fdeportation%5Fcontroversies%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fsecond%5FTrump%5Fadministration
• List of deaths in ICE detention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fdeaths%5Fin%5FICE%5Fdetention
• List of shootings by U.S. immigration agents in the second Trump administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fshootings%5Fby%5FU.S.%5Fimmigration%5Fagents%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fsecond%5FTrump%5Fadministration
• Targeting of political opponents and civil society under the second Trump administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeting%5Fof%5Fpolitical%5Fopponents%5Fand%5Fcivil%5Fsociety%5Funder%5Fthe%5Fsecond%5FTrump%5Fadministration

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,%5Fdetentions%5Fand%5Fdeportations%5Fof%5FAmerican%5Fcitizens%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fsecond%5FTrump%5Fadministration

#USpol #USpolitics

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
glynmoody ("Glyn Moody") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115961237408378306

totally hypocritical if they don't... #csam #twitter #eu

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
x0_000@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

candy cane

#pixelart #sketch #oc

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
x0_000@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

plant

#pixelart #sketch

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
reverendstanley@kolektiva.social ("Reverend Stanley :weed:") wrote:

On a scale of 1 to 10?

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

"99th Day: A Warning About Technology"

https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/

> How did we get here? We were supposed to be caretakers of our environment. We’ve become undertakers for the Sixth Mass Extinction.

I haven't read this myself, but this looks like interesting, if grim, reading

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

“Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, America – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/01/26/ukraine-sudan-syria-yemen-america/

> I spent some time last year immersed in studying the international protocols which have been devised to collect, categorise, and preserve digital evidence of war crimes, and crimes against humanity, for use in future tribunals.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
benjamim@social.lol ("Benjamim :prami_hearts:") wrote:

@LUH3417 recomendo muito o omg.lol tens aqui o meu convite: https://home.omg.lol/referred-by/benjamim

Qualquer dúvida podes falar com o @neatnik

E tens este texto que pode ajudar na tua decisão: https://brennan.day/omg-lol-is-the-internet-we-need-right-now/
via @brennan

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com ("Alison Wilder") wrote:

I would like to finally quit YouTube, which will be significant for me in that I'll be severing my last tie to corporate tech. Yay!

I have a YT channel, but that's not what keeps me on YT. It's about the awesome, bite-sized, high-quality video essays that I enjoy so much. I just can't read books ALL the time, damnit! It serves the same need for me as magazines, but...VIDEO!

I want to explore PeerTube more for sure. Anyone else have suggestions? How about Nebula?

#degoogle #resist

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ttscoff@hachyderm.io ("Brett Terpstra 🏴🐈‍⬛") wrote:

Once again agreeing with David Price:

https://www.macworld.com/article/3036313/ads-are-destroying-the-user-experience-and-apple-wont-stop.html