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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I think it would be very hard to convince anyone reading Hitchhiker's Guide for the first time that Zaphod Beeblebrox wasn't written specifically as a commentary on Trump and the type of power he wields.

We've known about power and spectacle for at least as many years as that book has existed, yet we've managed to distill all of our problems down into a Trumpian sludge, and some of us refuse to drink anything else.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bixfrankonis@social.lol ("Bix F.") wrote:

You can’t just say, “Empathy is good, m’kay?”

https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-10-selective-vagueness/

#Blogging #BixDotBlog

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

The regime has proposed two rules that are intended to make it extremely difficult (if not impossible) for trans youth to receive the healthcare they need.

You can help fight back by submitting a public comment, which will be very important for future lawsuits: https://act.hrc.org/page/183931/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=or%5Fgnr%5Fhrc%5Findivisible

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

If neoliberalism dies tonight, what'll be there in the morning to take its place? Will it be Brooklyn Dad (Defiant!) who helps redistribute all the baguettes once our mad king's metaphorical head is on a hypothetical platter? Will Mueller She Wrote write our new federalist papers on Patreon after the old man chokes on an Adderall pill? Do you see Nancy Pelosi guiding us to the promised land in full Kente Cloth when the Democrats squeak by a win?

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

sane Grand Jury

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/politics/trump-democrats-illegal-orders-pirro.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.LVA.TMAF.fW8%5FXG8ea4oi&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

It's not all the banana trees.

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

The downside of living in Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/10/i-hate-ice-and-ice/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's giving Justine Sacco. Man, remember that??

Whew, this was the first "canceling" I witnessed in real time. I think you could say it was the first big online cancellation.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Content Blocks on #iAWriter are so useful.

I break my essay into three parts, then reference each in a main draft so I'm not scrolling through thousands of words editing.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

Please join us for the Indivisible General Meeting this Sunday Feb 15 2-4PM 683 Florida St. SF
The meeting is open to anyone interested in resisting Trump's radical agenda of hate, division, and greed.
683 Florida St. is the Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas (CANA) performance space. It's at between 18th & 19th St. in the Mission. Busses run along nearby Bryant, Folsom, and 16th streets.
We recommend that you read the Indivisible Guide before attending. https://buff.ly/rikGNZP

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge.

The search giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a British student and journalist who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024.

Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/google-sent-personal-and-financial-information-of-student-journalist-to-ice/

#USPol

jwz wrote:

Ok FINE, since you have all failed me, I wrote my own JSON bomb generator. https://jwz.org/b/yk2x

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

cat? what cat?

jwz wrote:

Periodic reminder that "good billionaire" Marc Benioff is still a massive piece of shit.

In his keynote, Benioff thanked international Salesforce employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3N

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

My niece and I made an album cover for our new band Nova Band. We make pop music and we love cotton candy.

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fraying@xoxo.zone ("Derek Powazek 🐐") wrote:

One of the perks of running my own business is having no one to tell me not to send a marketing email with the subject line "First of all, fuck ICE."

Here's the latest Milk Barn Farm email to our customers. I'm proud of it.

And, yeah, 20% off with the code: ICEOUT
https://milkbarn.farm/discount/ICEOUT

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ifixcoinops@retro.social ("Dan Fixes Coin-Ops") wrote:

If y'all move off the current Massive American Corporation chat thing to A Different Massive American Corporation chat thing I swear to fucking god

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
AccordionBruce wrote:

@fromjason @mekkaokereke
The Project 529 bike theft prevention project in Vancouver cut bike theft by almost half and returns stolen bikes by the thousands (rather than auctioning them off like most police departments)

Bike theft is a huge economic issue, but police departments hate to put any effort into it, even though a tiny investment is proven to pay off

Not to absolve Vancouver’s Police Department, with one of the highest budgets in North America garnered on anti-homeless campaigns

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

My TV froze on this part of whatever Gordon Ramsay show me and my sis are watching. Lmao

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davetron5000@ruby.social ("Dave Copeland :ruby:") wrote:

Not enough to make bad software everyone hates. Not enough to buy Heroku, let it wither, and then let it die. This shitbird has to make jokes about the gestapo coming for his employees.

https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-ice-jokes-employee-event-2026-2

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange ("Dave Wilburn :donor:") wrote:

Via mandatoryrollercoaster.com

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vitaut ("vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦") wrote:

Did you know that AI hardware performance is measured in teraslops?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I think it's like 9-10% of the tech sector is Latin, compared to 20% of the population. Executive roles drop down to basically zero percent.

I know a bunch of LatinX in tech, and most of them are freelancers.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The joke here is that Salesforce doesn't hire Latinos, so it's safe to make a joke about being kidnapped. Because ICE doesn't kidnap white people. Get it? Hahaha /s

https://www.404media.co/marc-benioff-jokes-ice-is-watching-salesforce-employees-who-traveled-to-the-u-s/

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

Is one required to become a pedophile when one becomes a billionaire because I gotta tell you right about now the correlation seems pretty high

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

TL:DR; The Salesforce CEO at a company's annual all hands gathering asked international employees to please rise in the audience, then made a "joke" that ICE agents were in the back of the room ready to nab them.

Guillotines for billionaires is the moderate choice at this point

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
Tutanota wrote:

Let's remind everyone what a safe internet actually means. 🌐🌍

Share this & Spread the word!

#SaferInternetDay26 #SID

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JenYetAgain@beige.party ("Jennifer 🍄") wrote:

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

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publicdomainrev ("The Public Domain Review") wrote:

Illustrations from William F. Warren's The Universe as Pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1915). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-universe-as-pictured-in-miltons-paradise-lost

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:

"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"

(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)