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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

For those of you still not in-the-know, I've got a little audio blog over at https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes/ where I share some ramblings with you folks, usually when I'm out and about.

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

I believe deep down, people who are going after Rudy for Blacksky-only posts know that Blacksky-only posts exist because of them.

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

"Annoying politics"

It's giving Portland roommate.

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

Won't someone think of the people who are always thought of?

This is a level of main character syndrome that rarely makes it to the feed these days because the web has shamed this behavior out of people. It's almost whimsical, like spotting a snow leopard.

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

I’m dying. What I think happened here is dude is using AI to make automated posts, and the AI grabbed an AI generated photo of an all-Asian cast of Friends to make a barely coherent business strategy analogy.

I refuse to believe that LinkedIn is a real place.

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

I've incurred a gifting debt. Now the competition begins.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/07/my-morning-present/

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

Every last advocacy group, political influencer, independent journalist, are financially dependent on the very systems causing the most harm.

Can you picture a world where Meta was bankrupt, Substack went under, and Google was too busy fixing search for its lost users to advance its war mongering efforts?

We'd all still have the open web to organize on. Maybe we have less professional political pundits, but that doesn't seem like something we'd miss.

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

I often get "okay if this doesn't work what does?" and the first thing is just to unlearn and relearn.

But from a tactical perspective, where the solution becomes more subjective, in my opinion, the answer is to slowly move away from the platforms own by the technocracy waiting in the wings.

The challenge is, no voices on these big platforms will ever recommend we leave because they've made advocacy a full-time job, and leaving means they can no long support themselves.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"As when they arrested Black journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort as well as Black protesters at a church while leaving white protesters free, Trump and his allies are hammering on racial fault lines. ...

Trump’s doubling down on racism reflects Americans’ growing disillusionment with him and his administration."

#Trump #Obamas #racism
/4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"On Air Force One, Trump said that he had posted it himself. When a reporter asked if he would apologize, he said, 'No, I didn’t make a mistake.'

While the post exhibited both the president’s vile racism and his failing impulse control, it also seems to have been an attempt to use racism to break the growing coalition against him."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Obamas #racism
/3

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-6-2026

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nova@lunar.place ("Nova :neocat_floof_cute:") wrote:

​:blobcatpnd_puripuri:​

Attachments:

• video: Nova is being a floofy hunter on the bed, fighting Luna's and Alice's hands. They put hands on the bed specifically so Nova lunges at them and move them away at the last second. Then pet Nova. Eventually Nova gets fed up and jumps off the bed

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"To Attorney General Pam Bondi: You testified in October 2025 that your department identified 'roughly 6 million' pages responsive to the Epstein Files Transparency Act. On January 30, you declared the mission 'complete' after releasing 3.5 million. Where is the 42% gap, the remaining 2.5 million pages, and which specific official signed the order to classify them as 'non-responsive' despite the Congressional mandate?"

~ Rick Wilson

#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi
/8

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/a-few-questions-for-trumps-doj-on

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

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116029829069995349

I guess racists dog whistles were too subtle and they had to go to a racist bullhorn.

Another in the long list of things that would have immediately gotten any other president impeached. We have to ask why it didn’t this time and solve for that if we want to have a democracy by and for the people ever again.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
greenelects.world@bsky.brid.gy ("Green Elects") wrote:

🚨 The Green Party are polling at 18%, holding second place, level with the Tories and ahead of Labour.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com ("Carolyn Barber, MD") wrote:

JUST IN: Pentagon cuts ALL ties with Harvard—ending military training, fellowships, and programs.
Pete Hegseth: “We train warriors, not wokesters.”
After months of threats and funding pressure, the Trump admin is using federal power to enforce ideological conformity, branding the Ivy League “toxic” and biased—while Hegseth skips mentioning his own Harvard degree.

Culture war politics, framed as national security.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/harvard-military-pete-hegseth #press

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

Report: "Israel has been covertly supporting armed militias operating in the Gaza Strip with money, weapons & field protection in an attempt to counter Hamas."

Cost? Tens of millions of shekels, funded from the IDF budget.

*In the absence of a centralized leadership or coherent structure, evaluations indicate the militias’ chances of displacing Hamas remain limited".

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260206-israel-secretly-backs-armed-militias-in-gaza-report/

#USPol #Hamas #EUPol #CdnPoli #IsraeliCrimes #GazaGenocide #DisplacementReplacement #News .

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ccferrie@mastodon.ie ("Ciarán Ferrie") wrote:

Not mad on the Scottish kit. Looks like the England team put their kit in the wash with the Welsh team kit and gave the result to Scotland.

#Rugby #6nations #ITAvSCO

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

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world by Carole Cadwallardr (Substack link omitted):

> The revelations of the Epstein files are, I believe, momentous. (And if you’re reading this in America, I have no idea what your press is doing, the New York Times, in particular, has been wholly missing in action.*)

The New York Times and others are hoping this all washes over so that they don't have to crucify their masters.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still

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

My bet is on Technocracy. Fascism rents its systems from neoliberalism—ICE, the police state, mechanisms for bribery and corruption. For fascism to take over, it necessarily must steal these systems away and maintain power. Tricky stuff.

Technocracy, conversely, owns its levers of power outright. It owns the means of communication, and the steel and glass required to operate the Internet. They don't have bullets, but they control the computational power that guides the barrel of the gun.

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

We don't actually have a viable opposition ready to take the reins when neoliberalism dies. That's just a fact.

#NoKings, MeidasTouch, The Lincoln Project, etc. are corporate-approved outrage farms that don't stand for anything. They're the antithesis of activism. They're deactivism, because they deactivate the masses away from real change, and towards branded content and IG photo shoots.

So, as it stands, when neoliberalism dies, it's fascism or technocracy that will take over.

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

novel one today!

Connections
Puzzle #972
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🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪

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

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
anne@toot.cat ("Annie") wrote:

@fromjason

Was just reading this today as part of our school's in-service day work, focusing on social justice in our educational practices.

It was an ah-ha moment for me to remember that "the abolition
movement was the foundation of virtually all social justice movements in the U.S." We would all do well to study it, I think.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/%5Fpda/2018/04/If%5Fthere%5Fis%5Fno%5Fstruggle.pdf

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

The ravens are still in town. #photos #iceland #nature #birds #ravens

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

✨ my new website has a sparkle emoji ✨

(don't panic, all will be explained next week!)

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

“What's the Matter with Florida? An Interview with Zachary Levenson”

https://groupthreat.com/p/what-s-the-matter-with-florida-an-interview-with-zachary-levenson

> The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
benoitlx wrote:

Just published a new version of kanash !

This version introduces the use of Ratzilla and leverages WebGL2. (big thanks to junkdog and @orhun )

src: https://github.com/benoitlx/kanash
link: https://kana.rezoleo.fr
ratzilla: https://github.com/ratatui/ratzilla

It needs a bit more polish, but here's what it looks like:

#ratatui #terminal #katakana #japanese

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

In today's voice note, I share my thoughts on #AKnightOfTheSeven Kingdoms and the #Fallout TV series.

All voicenotes can be found https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes/

Attachments:

• audio: A voice note where I share my thoughts on AKotSK and Fallout.

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

My streak of not drawing much lately continues. But I occasionally pick up the pencil still. These are some:

#doodles #yaombaaa

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

I keep reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail. Dr. King lays out the purpose of a protest. I can't help but notice how divorced the #NoKings movement is from those tenants.

If a protest doesn't have a call to action or a means of pressure to bring decision makers to the negotiating table, then it's not a protest. It's a gathering.

I fear so much of mainstream "direct action" is a way to keep us busy and feeling accomplished. We don't know any better because we don't have real activist leaders.