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john

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Husband, Dad, dog-walker, curious person. Always wants to know more & hopefully even understand sometimes.

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I want to learn from others, expand my world view, help to make things better & have fun along the way.

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RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115988249147912979

Some advise you don't bring your phone to protest, bring a 'burner' not tied to your online ID.

Some advise you use makeup to defeat AI cameras from ID'ing you.

Some suggest strong, slightly risky protesters now may save EVERYONE from living through these atrocities later.

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Holy..... this is gonna leave a mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w

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" “What happened was that ICE had been chasing my cousin...We were successful in helping my cousin get inside. And as I tried shutting the door, ICE shot me in the leg.”

“The shot that was fired happened when my cousin managed to escape, and he entered inside,” Sosa-Celis said on the livestream. “I closed the door. And as I was locking it, I heard the shot, and that’s when I realized I had been shot in the leg.” "

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/us/ice-agent-shooting-video-minneapolis

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New Years Resolution suggestions to you and those friends you have influence over:

  1. get them to try fediverse and pre-populate their follows with them, then put it on their phones :)

  2. suggest you all find three corporations with services you can replace with open source alternatives this year.

  3. Be excellent to each other :)

Quote accompanying image of Patrick Stewart as Star Trek Captain Jean-Luc Picard: "The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives." " We work yo better ourselves and the rest of humanity."
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@john@vyrse.social avatar john , to random

Just watched Rebel Ridge.

...damn!

Rebel Ridge - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Ridge

Rebel Ridge is a 2024 American action thriller film[1] written, produced, directed and edited by Jeremy Saulnier. The film stars Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond, a former Marine; he has the funds needed to post bail for his cousin, but the money is unjustly seized via civil forfeiture by a small town's corrupt police force. Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, David Denman, Emory Cohen, Steve Zissis, Zsané Jhé, Dana Lee, and James Cromwell also appear in the film.
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@john@vyrse.social avatar john , to random

Reason x-million we NEED an opensource phone option that is feature complete and not reliant on AOSP or iOS: corporate fuckery will never, ever stop.

AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROMs: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/

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Die hard Christmas topper showing herO jumping off exploding Nakatomi building, with FBI helicopter.
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Cory Doctorow explains why you have to evaluate supporting Facebook very succinctly here @pluralistic :

"10% of Meta's gross revenue comes from ads for fraudulent goods and scams, and; the company knows it, and; they decided not to do anything about it, because; the fines for facilitating this life-destroying fraud are far less than the expected revenue from helping to destroy its users' lives:"

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

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@john @pluralistic and this is why Meta are happy with the with its multimillion pound minimum fine - they can afford to pay, whereas many small hobby/fan websites in the UK cannot.