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Gurre

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One of the founders of the Yimby movement in Stockholm, Scandinavia, and the world!
Views expressed here are personal ones.

Day job: Database Engineer, primarily using PostgreSQL

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@anneapplebaum@journa.host avatar anneapplebaum , to random

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

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@anneapplebaum
Ukraine can win.
Ukraine must win.
We must help them win.
If they win, we win.
If they lose, we lose.

@Gurre@mastodon.nu avatar Gurre , to random

Why do people say "this is not politics, this is human dignity" and similar things?
THAT IS POLITICS. That's what politics is about. Wth do people think politics is?

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woah!
Apparently Farscape is all on Youtube. Official channel has all the episodes. Did not expect that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQlHnZwToU&list=PLcBQS2xdzwLA5tv8kP2lODaP_nfh8siNn&index=1

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.

Screenshot of a CNBC headline that reads: “How device hoarding by Americans is costing economy.” The subtext says Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever, which may be smart for consumers but can reduce productivity.
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@georgetakei
Once again we see the wealth hoarders projecting.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Here is my Ukraine peace proposal:

  1. Putin is sent to The Hague.
  2. Russian soldiers leave Ukraine including Crimea.
  3. Russia returns all kidnapped Ukrainian children.
  4. Russia releases all Ukrainian prisoners.
  5. Russia pays damages for everything their war has destroyed.
  6. Russia pays damages to Ukrainian families who have lost family members.
  7. Russia pays damages to every person who has been tortured, abducted or otherwise criminally mistreated.
  8. Ukraine becomes a member of the EU.
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@randahl
9. Ukraine joins NATO.
10. Russian military leaves Moldova, Georgia, and Belarus.
11. Russia resigns from the UN Security Council, and the permanent seat goes toIndia.
12. 300(?) km deep demilitarized zone inside all European borders of Russia.

and now for ones that are more open for negotiation:
13. Plebiscite on independence in Kaliningrad in 2 years time (i.e. 2 years after the military has to leave including huge chunk of the local economy).
14. Circassia restored!

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

This young man has it exactly right.

A tweet from “Adam Mockler @adammockler” reads: “Stephen Miller just went on Fox News and said telling troops to refuse illegal orders is an ‘open act of insurrection.’ He is telling on himself. They are planning to give illegal orders, and they want a military that will follow them blindly.”
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@georgetakei
This is also why the Trump regime has been purging the upper officer corps.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , (edited ) to random

Trump has now set a deadline for Thursday next week, where he demands Ukraine signs an agreement to meet Putin’s demands:

— No NATO membership
— A reduction of its military to just 600,000 troops
— Accepting the loss of Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea, and most of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
— Forcing Ukrainian elections within 100 days

While Russia will
— Reenter the G8
— Have all sanctions lifted

This is not a peace agreement. This is capitulation.

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@randahl
Counter proposal.
Make Muscowy Small Again.

@GrimmReality@beige.party avatar GrimmReality , to random

Be kind. Except to nazis. Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Pretty fucking likely with nazis.

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@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

You are here.

Ron Filipkowski writes: “Remember during oral argument on the presidential immunity case when conservative justices scoffed at and mocked the hypothetical that a president with immunity could just start killing whoever he wanted and there was nothing that could be done if he has immunity?”
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@georgetakei
This was the plan all along.
The cruelty is the point.

When the fascists try to create the Terran Empire, we must reach for the possibility of a Starfleet future.

@faab64@freefree.ps avatar faab64 , to Palestine_Group

: Israel Marking Control Line Far Deeper Into Than Agreed, Then Opens Fire and Kills Civilians Beyond It

With US, Egypt & Turkey being the ones overseeing this sham ceasefire, no wonder is getting away with what ever it wishes with absolute 0 consequences.

How many innocent Palestinians need to die before the world stops their unconditional support of this genocidal regime?


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Israel is planting yellow markers 500m from the agreed location during the ceasefire negotiations.
⛔️ BBC: Israel Marking Control Line Far Deeper Into Gaza Than Agreed, Then Opens Fire and Kills Civilians Beyond It New satellite images and IDF footage analyzed by BBC Verify show Israeli forces have placed “Yellow Line” boundary markers hundreds of meters deeper inside Gaza aaa and two women – was geolocated about 125 meters beyond the designated boundary line. ➤ In northern Gaza’s al-Atatra area, BBC found six yellow blocks up to 520 m inside the Strip; near Khan Younis, another ten markers sit 180–290 m inside the supposed withdrawal line, which already gave Israel control of over 53% of Gaza. ➤ Defense Minister Israel Katz, who ordered the blocks, warned that “anyone crossing the line will be met with fire.” BBC Verify documented at least two deadly incidents near the boundary, including footage from October 17 that killed 11 members of a single family about 125 meters beyond the expected line. ➤ Analysts told BBC Verify the markers form a deliberate “kill zone,” expanding Israel’s control under cover of the ceasefire. Palestinians near the line told the BBC there are no clear markings and they remain “constantly exposed to danger.” BBC Verify concludes that Israel is enforcing a line far deeper than agreed, keeping “notably larger” parts of Gaza under continuing military occupation than agreed to under th

⛔️ BBC: Israel Marking Control Line Far Deeper Into Gaza Than Agreed, Then Opens Fire and Kills Civilians Beyond It New satellite images and IDF footage analyzed by BBC Verify show Israeli forces have placed “Yellow Line” boundary markers hundreds of meters deeper inside Gaza aaa and two women – was geolocated about 125 meters beyond the designated boundary line. ➤ In northern Gaza’s al-Atatra area, BBC found six yellow blocks up to 520 m inside the Strip; near Khan Younis, another ten markers sit 180–290 m inside the supposed withdrawal line, which already gave Israel control of over 53% of Gaza. ➤ Defense Minister Israel Katz, who ordered the blocks, warned that “anyone crossing the line will be met with fire.” BBC Verify documented at least two deadly incidents near the boundary, including footage from October 17 that killed 11 members of a single family about 125 meters beyond the expected line. ➤ Analysts told BBC Verify the markers form a deliberate “kill zone,” expanding Israel’s control under cover of the ceasefire. Palestinians near the line told the BBC there are no clear markings and they remain “constantly exposed to danger.” BBC Verify concludes that Israel is enforcing a line far deeper than agreed, keeping “notably larger” parts of Gaza under continuing military occupation than agreed to under th
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@faab64 palestine@fedibird.com icon Palestine_Group

I am still convinced a doubling of the size of the Gaza Strip has to be part of any just cease fire & peace deal.
Otherwise it's just an opportunity for the far right nationalist government of Israel to re-arm.

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@faab64 palestine@fedibird.com icon Palestine_Group
That's a hard road to take. But so is every other path forward.
A one state solution strikes me as well as the actual best path in the long run, but I'm far from an expert.
Strangest idea I've seen was a -1 state solution. Not just Palestine and Israel in one unified secular state, but also Lebanon and the minority-majority areas of western Syria too. "Union of Levantine Cantons". Straight up utopian alternate history idea. But that's not our timeline.

@faab64@freefree.ps avatar faab64 , (edited ) to random

After record heat, mosquitos have been discovered in Iceland for the first time ever.

This was one of the 2 places on earth without mosquitoes.

Poor people of Iceland, they don't know what is coming!

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@faab64
But I guess they had other bugs, so there's at least insectivores to prevent there being 100 trillion mosquitoes there by next year.

@faab64@freefree.ps avatar faab64 , to random

I have a very very Sharp butcher's knife and tried to cut a piece of chicken for Mellie and it slipped and cut a piece of my nail and some flesh

It didn't look bad before it started bleeding.

Damn it was a lot of blood. I don't think I need to go to emergency. Just put some bandage and heavy medical tape on it.

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@faab64
Go to the emergency!
Not so much for the blood loss (hopefully), but it might need stitches?
And the does sound like a really sharp knife! My nails have been enough to save me a few times, I guess the knives I've had usually aren't super sharp.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

Things are worse for him because they are worse for us all. And he’s not hit bottom because neither have we.

A screenshot of an X post by G Elliott Morris (@gellliottmorris) stating: "trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 economist.com/Interactive/tr..." The post includes a line graph titled "Net approval rating, % points," showing approval ratings from February to October. The graph compares Trump 2025 (red line, dropping to -17%), Trump 2017 (red line), Obama 2009 (gray dashed line), and Biden 2021 (gray dashed line), with the y-axis ranging from -20% to 40%.
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@georgetakei
That the numbers are at -17% approval instead of -71% is beyond the pale.

@faab64@freefree.ps avatar faab64 , to Palestine_Group

According to Israeli sources, the “Gaza operation” has begun gradually at Washington’s request.

The sources added that while the U.S. has not imposed restrictions on Israel, its request was aimed at creating an opening for negotiations with Hamas.



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@faab64 palestine@fedibird.com icon Palestine_Group as if Israel isn't killing any Hamas member who opens negotiations.

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , (edited ) to random

Periodic reminder to anyone who builds applications:

People's names and email addresses can change over time. And not just women's last names. Any part of any person's name. Build a fucking workflow that won't break everything when they do change names.

Edit: Including classic blog about this
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

Edit 2: Also including the w3c article shared by @jawnsy
https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

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@JessTheUnstill

Column internal_user_id is right there, people!

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.

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@georgetakei
Paraphrasing @Lana :
Mitch, you dumb bitch.

@eunews@mastodon.social avatar eunews , to random

Germany and the UK take next step towards direct train connection

A direct rail connection linking Berlin and London looks increasingly likely in future following a meeting between the two country's transport ministers this week.

https://www.thelocal.com/20250815/germany-and-the-uk-take-next-step-towards-direct-train-connection

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@eunews
As long as they repaint one of the trains to look like the old school TEE trains I'll be happy.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

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    Ooh. Now I'm thinking the same should be done on a European international high speed train. A Trans Europe Express.

    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

    This isn't going to stop with Washington, D.C. or Chicago. Also, taking >100 FBI agents off of whatever they are doing and assigning them as temporary beat cops in DC has to be the dumbest, most wasteful and demoralizing use of federal law enforcement I've seen in a while. The one thing you can be sure about is that the stated reason for these actions -- cracking down on crime -- is not in fact the goal. You know it's not, because that's what they said was the reason.

    A three-column headline spans the top of the Washington Post today: "Trump to place D.C. police under federal control, deploy National Guard." Subheads say: Trump suggests that National Guard could be deployed in Chicago." At the center of the page is a photo of Trump at a recent White House press conference announcing the move.
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    bunch of feckin traitors that need snatching and putting in cages in gitmo asap at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
    But they won't cause they all be low-key traitors too.

    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

    In the jails run by Trump's secret police, inmates are tied behind their back and made to eat their food without using their hands, like dogs. And when you protest, ICE attacks violently and fingers are broken.

    The list of lawsuits when this is over, will be unfathomably long and very, very expensive for US taxpayers.

    This is Abu Graib but on US soil.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses

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    @randahl
    But will the people running all this face any real punishment? Doubtful. Goes against modern US tradition to not just move on instead.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    They demonized him in life. Now they want to desecrate his legacy to distract from Epstein. Shameless.

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    @georgetakei
    I expect 90% of these MLK files to be outright lies invented by the FBI and other organisations at the time.

    @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

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    @NanoRaptor I did not know that!
    The human body, and genetics, truly are filled with wonderous weirdness. That we keep learning more about. Especially related to gender etc.

    Makes me wonder: does the same thing happen in other apes that get really old? Is it related to comparative age per species, or same actual years for all of us?
    Or maybe human Y-chromosomes are special at this?

    @Gurre@mastodon.nu avatar Gurre , to random

    In Sweden even the medical equipment is very open and honest about its assessments.

    ;)

    Gastrostomy pump with the screen saying "SLUT" & "150/150 mL"
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    @stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

    🙌

    Solar panels: Don't cover our fields. Cover our car parks.
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    @stux
    Start with all car parks, yes. And irrigation canals. And roofs that aren't usable as terraces or greenspaces.

    And! There's some crops & livestock that actually do well under raised solar panels! That should become normalized.

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    @georgetakei
    Not even well enough mentally to say "the prime minister" when he forgets the name.
    It'd be sad if he wasn't plunging the world into darkness.

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    A sitting U.S. Congressman is demanding the deportation of a U.S. citizen because he doesn’t like a democratic election result.

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    @georgetakei
    Andy "known traitor" Ogles should ask his KGB handlers for help moving to Moscow.

    Yeah, I can make up nicknames too.

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    Front page of this morning’s NY Post after the son of a filmmaker from India upset the former NY governor in the NYC mayoral Democratic primary.

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    @w7voa
    I see what I learnt about the Post from Public Enemy still holds true.

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is free to bar the Associated Press from some White House media events after a U.S. appeals court on Friday paused a lower court ruling mandating that AP journalists be given access.

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    Now would be a good time for all real news channel to stop going to those events.
    Or send people who don't care if they get kicked out as long as they get one opportunity to ask real questions and demand follow-ups.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Try asking the worm? I hear it’s better informed.

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    @georgetakei
    His Gua'old has dementia, it seems.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Ah yes, Habeas Corpus. Latin for, "Deport first, Google later."

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    @georgetakei

    If that's the stance of the Trump regime, then that is how it should be applied on them once they lose power.
    One-way flight to North Korea.
    I would say North Sentinel Island, but it's too cruel to the North Sentinelese.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Diplomacy or improv? Even they can’t tell.

    A tweet from Kvist (@kvistp ) reads: "Leaders having a conversation with Trump be like:" followed by a collage of three photos showing three different men with serious or skeptical facial expressions, each in formal settings with ornate backgrounds.
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    @georgetakei
    Zelenskyy was a prominent Ukrainan comedian before being drafted into politics. He can keep a straight face. And is working hard at it there.

    @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

    As expected/feared ReformUK won the Runcorn by-election, albeit by the thinnest of margins;

    ReformUK 12,645/ Labour 12,639; 6 votes!

    Sadly, given that most of the votes (albeit on a low turnout) seemed to have flowed from Labour to Reform, although the Tories also lost vote share, the Labour leadership will (wrongly) think they need to double down on their Reform-like policy pronouncements... leaving any rapprochement with the centre left to other parties.

    Not good news at all!

    Runcorn & Helsby by-election. Top six candidates by vote shares Reform UK - Sarah Pochin - 38.7% Labour - Karen Shore - 38.7% Conservatives - Sarah Houlston - 7.2% Green Party - Chris Copeman - 7.1% Lib Dems - Paul Duffy - 2.9% Liberal - Dan Clarke - 1.4%
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    @ChrisMayLA6 Reform won at 17.9% of eligible votes. And Labour will take it as a powerful sign to become more Thatcherite. Sigh.

    Screams: That's why you're not winning in landslides, numbskulls! People want change from decades of austerity & dismantling what actually helped people! Stop listening to lobbyists!

    @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

    Didn't know who'd translate for him? Amateur Hour at the Apollo, folks.

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    @kevinrothrock
    When you think they can't blunder more.
    Ever worse cruelty to all, yes, that I expect. But this?
    Show up at the Kremlin without your own (cia veteran) translator?
    Imagine Obama sending a negotiator to anywhere without a US translator! The 1far-right "news" media would go ballistic forever. And they'd for once have a point.
    No. Nonono. Under any other administration the foreign secretary would be fired for this before morning.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    This administration has no serious people.

    A post on X by Sophie Vershbow (@svershbow ) states, "My friends are paying $40,000/year for daycare." Anthony Pompliano (@APompliano ) responds, "IF the government is handing out $5,000 bonuses to moms who have a baby, we are going to see a baby boom unlike anything America has ever seen."
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    @georgetakei
    Here in Stockholm we paid about € 2400 per year for two kids, one of whom is special needs. And that's the maximum allowed by law.
    Felt reasonable.

    Also, there's a € 125 per year grant per child to all families. To keep kids out of poverty. Not enough, and not been raised for years. But its something.

    och, and free healthcare, free school lunches, free universities. etc.

    For now. Current government is basically like the Heritage Foundation.

    @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange avatar kevinrothrock , to random

    Chinese military officers have been in the theater behind Russia's combat lines "with Beijing's approval to draw tactical lessons from the war," reports Reuters. Pales in comparison to U.S. military coordination with Kyiv, but still a strand in the war's wider web.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/chinese-nationals-fighting-russia-ukraine-are-mercenaries-us-officials-2025-04-11/

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    @kevinrothrock
    Russia now being the proxy for the real great power in the new Cold War war between the US and China?

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    If you say “universal healthcare” 3 times a guy in wraparound sunglasses appears to call you a marxist and then die of preventable disease in a chili’s parking lot

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    They won't say that straight forward, but yeah that's basically the standpoint of the Swedish version of the Heritage Foundation (i.e. Timbro) has on pretty much everything. And they basically are the ideological wing of all the right-wing parties here.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

    The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."
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    And the current White House is filled with people who idolize Hitler far more than they do FDR. So indefinite wrongful imprisonment is far from the worst they want to do!

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    I was not familiar with Klobuchar’s game.

    The image is a screenshot of a social media post by Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar ). The post reads: "Cheesehead: $25. 2 giant checks: $2 million. Trying to buy a WI Supreme Court seat: $20 million. Watching Elon Musk lose: priceless. Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk’s Millions. Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court."
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    If Elon Musk gets prosecuted for election interference and goes to prison for it (which would be to follow the law): Best deal ever!

    But I doubt that will happen, the rule of law is weak now :(

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    Is this who we want to become?!

    The image is a screenshot of a CNN broadcast with a graphic titled "PROPOSED CHANGES TO FLORIDA CHILD LABOR LAWS." The graphic lists the following points: Eliminate working time restrictions 14-year-olds can work overnight Teens can work overnight on school days End guaranteed meal breaks for ages 16 & 17 The graphic features the Florida state seal on the left side. Below the graphic, there is a ticker with the text: "DEVELOPING STORY: FLA. TO LIFT SOME CHILD LABOR LAWS DUE TO LACK OF MIGRANT WORKERS; IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT ATTEMPTS TO DETAIN HER FOR NEWS CENTRAL."
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    A very clear majority of USians want this or are OK with it, so.... yeah.

    If you're eligible to vote and didn't vote against the GOP candidates all the way, we all justifiably judge you as supporters of all this.

    @dansup@mastodon.social avatar dansup , to random

    pink mode is growin on me

    Pixelfed pink mode theme
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    I'm thinking pastel rainbow mode.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    What we need: librarians
    What we keep getting: libertarians

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    We need Librarians to armour up and fight back!

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    Washington Post analysis: The White House’s flimsy attack on Voice of America — None of the claims of “radical propaganda” add up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/18/trump-voa-doge-close-fact-checker/

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    @w7voa
    Obviously so, yes, but VoA is going to be gone long enough that it can't be turned on again without starting from scratch. Just like the fascists intended. They're still winning practically everything and meeting negligent resistance.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats".

    Perhaps someone should rescue her from where she's apparently stuck twenty years in the past, which is the only possible explanation for those hardware limitations and the apparent lack of access to cloud compute.

    Unless, of course, she's just completely making shit up.

    Tweet by @DataRepublican: "In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, I did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a matter of sampling size, not an issue with the query itself. I’ll now attempt a full run, which should capture the awards you found."
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    @molly0xfff
    Maybe they're beta-testing some AI-powered new version of Oracle? Larry feels like a guy who'd fire everyone instantly if he thought AI could do the job.

    @Gurre@mastodon.nu avatar Gurre , to random

    "Are you one of those people who doesn't care much about politics?
    Your boss does.
    Your landlord does."

    Good quote from near the end of this vid of James O'Brien on LBC radio about how the UK is not left outside the EU in this changing security landscape with the EU starting to act in the defense sphere as well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqVkK9ZgY44

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    I was just called “not a serious person” for covering this instead of Trump.

    Fuck that.

    I’ll call out each and every Democrat who tries to pivot to bigotry, no matter what Trump is doing.

    That’s the job. Not just gawking at the felon in chief.

    Holding every politician accountable.

    https://www.theindex.media/this-truly-is-gavin-newsom/

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    @Daojoan
    Maybe it's just me, but the post about Newsom would seem to me to be about the same issue as Trump in many ways? Unless one has a very tribal mindset about politics, in which case one is part of the problem.

    @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

    Indigenous and rural organizers in Minnesota prioritize clean water over ‘green’ nickel mine

    Ojibwe prophecy 1,500 years ago forewarned the coming of white race and urged the tribe to leave the East Coast and move west to where “food grows on water.” After a centuries-long migration, the Ojibwe people arrived at the Great Lakes and found manoomin dispersed across hundreds of lakes. But this sacred food that has sustained Ojibwe people for generations is under attack.
    https://prismreports.org/2025/03/03/minnesota-mine-ojibwe-manoomin/

    Gurre ,
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    @John_Loader @gerrymcgovern and re-affirms my view that mining corporations are often gosh darned evil.
    Which they don't need to be, at all. Most of us really like having modern metallurgy.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Outside of waving a chainsaw in front of a crowd of 2-bit Nazis while high af on Ketamine, what did Elon Musk get done this week

    Gurre ,
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    @Daojoan
    Further dismantle the apparatus of state in the US since there's still no effective resistance.