And also the other thing. Communities with something to offer become insular *because* they're protecting something of value. Put in work to join.
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And also the other thing. Communities with something to offer become insular *because* they're protecting something of value. Put in work to join.
Bluesky *looks* like Twitter, but it isn't. It's like an alien assuming a form you're already familiar with so-as not to kill you from shock or something. Quote me on that.
People don't know how much control they have. Truthfully, they see it as a nuisance. You can create curated feeds based on whatever you want. You can add tools which completely change the experience. You can use a different app or write one. You can choose your own moderation. You can self host.
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
Opinion: Zohran Mamdani will make New York City work for workers As unions that represent nearly 400,000 workers across the city, we’ve proudly united behind Mamdani’s agenda to build a city where workers can truly thrive. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
Agreed. It actually lionizes Trump to inflate this number. So they have.
As of 3:20 pm ET, @thexylom.com is projecting roughly 220k - 492k Americans attending Labor Day rallies nationwide, using a methodology developed by @gelliottmorris.com. That would put "Workers over Billionaires" on track as one of the 20 largest protests and demonstrations in American history:
People should care less about the intellectual property of Bond and focus on telling fun new stories with him/MI6/00s. Similar to how Sonic has been held back by Sega demanding he stay in a narrow box. Do something weird.
Troops hanging out in the DC metro today, displaying assault rifles, doing absolutely nothing
Frankly, if you have a politically radicalizing event to the right, that's fundamentally different than radicalizing to the left. I'm not going to pretend there's an equivalence. Radicalizing left is usually abandoning false dichotomies. Radicalizing to the right is abandoning empathy.
No problem. Digital freedom is productive, it can become a virtuous cycle.
That and organized, violent resistance.
Hungry
Come over to the Samsung side and I'll get you set up with YouTube ReVanced. Freedom at your fingertips.
It's hard to get to the exit on the left when so many people seem to think there's an open door over on the right.
Inquiring DC resident minds want to know… #FreeDC #AbolishICE @robertwhitedc.bsky.social this is unacceptable. Politicians better protect our city or they won’t be politicians much longer. We are furious and want troops and Gestapo OUT not embedded with MPD 🤬🤬
It's hard because on the one hand you want to avoid Windows because it will teach him bad habits... on the other hand it's what he'll encounter in the real world. BUT if he's already gone this long without needing Windows, just go for Linux.
Dying platform? Nonsense
Oligarchy is a big word but I think more people are coming to realize that nearly all of the people who have amassed the most power, the most wealth, and the most influence do not give a shit about the health of humanity, democracy, the environment, or public health.
This is sick.
It appears the Trump admin may again be lying to a federal judge.
I love it when a plan comes to together
You guys see where this is going? Right?
A partially related exhibition for Baltimore locals September 2 - December 19. Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era by Elizabeth Patton, author of Documenting Black Leisure as a Form of Resistance
The "blue no matter who" scolds screaming that we have to consider Newsom YEARS before the primary aren't accomplishing anything other than showing how little they can be counted on as "allies." This is literally the best time to stand firm on ideals so we get real idealistic candidates.
A good question to ask oneself politically is 'what do I need to ignore in order to maintain my commitment to x, y, and z?' Because if you, for example, need to ignore a whole group of people's humanity in order to vote for a horrible politician, then it may be too costly to your soul.
I only saw bluesky getting into a car in golf clothes, glad to see it's all healed up since *the incident*
it is funny that file replicability is probably one of the earliest potentially postcapitalist technologies to emerge but the entirety of the internet eventually became structured around being a privatized system of enclosures to constrain and prevent file "piracy" and free information access
This protocol is designed to show you *curated* feeds. Mostly curated *by you*. Massive blocklists are common. People do not consider any of this information when they make broad assessments of the world based on social media (an idea which is already flawed in concept).
I don't even think the woman who wrote his strategy for him is tied to him guys, chill. You can just hire her next (not that I'd personally want to).
Yes.
Jellyfin is on all of our sides
He'll try, of course. He thinks he has it. They may even let him, briefly. The beauty of fascism is their predictability when they're in fear of losing power. They'll all turn on him in a second. Antifascist groups will see the writing on the wall sooner, we can only hope as soon as Trump dies.
Curry is a British word made up to categorize Indian foods which already had names and which, until they were all named "curry", had nothing much in common other than being from India (which even itself adopted them from other cultures). It's a messy definition by design.
In a pinch, carbonara and rice can basically substitute for risotto. Follow for more terrible tips.
Beans go in chili but corn doesn't go in (most) salsa!
Like everything in the US, it's about money, and it's a bubble.
He was always an opportunistic grifter from day one.
This is what a different structure of policing means for protest, by the way. The US system is designed so this can't happen. Aus cops mostly have no way of stopping it. Even when they try to bait them into unsafe situations, the protesters come out unscathed.
🇦🇺 This week the Australians showed the world that the western world is NOT complicit in genocide Sydney, Melbroune, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide stood in hundreds of thousands in HUGE marches of solidarity that will be remembered in history
It took cops three hours to finally go into the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting. If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷♂️
How Sweden’s ‘secondhand only’ shopping mall is changing retail. Built alongside the city’s recycling centre, it includes a dedicated drop-off point called The Return, where residents donate unwanted items. theconversation.com/how-swedens-...
Mark my words, Vance doesn't have the x factor. If Trump dies again, may he never rest, there's about 5 people I expect to seize power from him within 48hrs. If they fail, I expect governmental collapse and a march on DC. There's no world where Vance is competent and respected like Trump.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Notice how you jumped to defend Newsom by comparing him to Trump? Thank you for succinctly demonstrating the fault in your logic, amigo.
#OnThisDayInHistory The fighting during The Battle of Blair Mountain becomes heavier. President Harding demands that the coal miners disperse and threatens to send in troops. That Should Be A Movie About The Largest Labor Uprising In American History. thatshouldbeamoviewebseries.com/index.php/20...
Thank you. Fascists want the opposition to think it's pointless to fight back. They want the opposition to feel intimidated & defeated. I know I sometimes fall into the doomerism trap, but we have to believe that change is possible. Change will never happen if we lose hope & the will to fight.
The computer feels free again
If you want to babysit, Mint or Ubuntu. If you don't, Windows. If you're a Linux household then just give him Ubuntu and babysit him like a good sysadmin.
That's not to pressure you into switching. Switching is always a bit hard. But I used Linux as a kid (it was a pain) and I use it now (it's easy). Completely different. No comparison. Everything has changed.
Au contraire. Linux a complètement changé ces vingt dernières années. « Je suis trop vieux pour changer » est désormais une opinion dépassée. Mint et Ubuntu sont aussi simples que Windows.
Shoutout to RarZilla
Unix: let's get the most up to date version of every app, just to be safe Windows: let's run the same exe from '94, just to be safe
There are smaller versions with less capability (VLC is a whole media server) but yeah, VLC has been the GOAT since day 1.
Thing Processor (8).exe
Nowadays the internet is literally overflowing with free cloud tools to convert files. Cant find it anymore at all.
Struggling to remember what they were called, but there were these excellent little standalone exes you could download in like 2006 to convert "mp4 to mp3" for instance. The GUI processed files and spat them back out, that's it. There were about 100 of these things in every "a to b" combination.
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
A full 🧵 Israeli High School students are striking and protesting, all across the country against the far right government of Netanyahu’s failure to end the war and return the hostages. Children are the future. Video and stills from today: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19623...
Let me know when Ro finishes disappointing everyone
And by extension, since neoliberal centrists cheer when right wingers give them permission to do something immoral, they've been doing the same thing for a decade at minimum.
Unrelated but thanks for being an ass
We need recall elections
I mean, you guys have been around a few extra years, but in my American experience, set the price as high as you want. They're never gonna get it, but the price is always too low. We've been through this half a dozen times already
Ugh ok
I expect the paid “public servants” to come down from their high horses and get into the streets, stand shoulder to shoulder with the PEOPLE against ICE and GROW THE OPPOSITION. Otherwise, they are USELESS. Absolutely useless.
DHS agents locked inside their compound in Los Angeles by activists.
"mayoral hopeful" You guys just keep trying not to acknowledge he's already won. He has no reasonable opposition. He's gonna be the mayor.
It's funny that people think this is new
It honestly pisses me off when people explicitly say they "don't like politics" and yet they think their political theory of the world has no flaws. You didn't even check!
Take everything them and don't feel bad. Everything they have is stolen from you.
No one is ever going to allow a fight for universal liberation to be fought on fair terms. You can get butthurt about it and complain, or you can fight it anyway. It's up to you. I choose the latter.
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
#ONGOING | Casualties reported following an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the Al-Remal neighborhood of Gaza City.
#IDICE
Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has suggested an effective playbook— We should arrest rogue ICE agents at the state level, which would shield them from a presidential pardon. This is the kind of hardline approach we need from our Democratic leaders.
me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal
(Like fascists)
Every Dem governor and blue state should be building parallel institutions right now. There’s no excuse for any blue state to not have vaccine and abortion pill/birth control stockpiles to survive the next 5-10 years.
Am I crazy to want to add pepperoni
ATLANTA: “The city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desert… City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.” (cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazy🤔) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
born*
The president already has to be a natural-botn citizen. I don't see any reason why passing this test would be offensive to them, other than if they... couldn't do it.
Important clarification, multiple CDC sources tell me: Federal employees are not allowed to strike/walk out, so this is *not* a walkout but a "clap out" to show support for departing leadership. Current employees were either given permission to attend by a supervisor or used leave time to attend.
Truly grateful to everyone just trying stuff right now. Thanks to those who organized the CDC walkout.
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
They didn't say it loudly but when the Senate Dems shut down the House's vote against that spending bill, it was with some malice and it pissed people off. They've been actively shutting down basically every useful tactic. To me, "no plan" seems like the plan.
They aren't even willing to say that if they take back the chamber they might look into whether impeaching him. In fact, Jasmine Crockett's suggestion she might be interested in this to a reporter played a role in her not getting put on the oversight committee.
Former governor* Hogan was term limited. Thank you term limits. Everyone call your representative and sneak in the words "term limits".
Congress returns on September 2. We will Flood the Halls & make our voices heard. Let’s show Congress that they can't vacation their way out of the Epstein files.
If Trump dies, it's revolution time. Nobody is scared of VP Fraidy Pants.
The @uaw.org has claimed a narrow victory in a union election at the BlueOval battery plant in Kentucky, a historic win. The tally is 526-515 for unionization. Ford is contesting 41 ballots, a challenge the union is urging them to drop.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
I really need people in this country to move away from "but that's illegal!" or "but that's not allowed!" as their default response. Laws do not enforce themselves and life has no umpire. Stop waiting for magical referee in the sky to fix everything.
