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DarthAstrius

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24 | He/Him | Married | Switch 2 gamer | Communist | Party for Socialism and Liberation | PM for my Signal 🙂

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

Imagine if US voters had picked Kamala Harris. She would have continued the Ukraine weapons support, she would have kept the strong alliances with Europe, and she would never have killed the Iran nuclear deal.

Together we could have forced Putin out of Ukraine, there would have been no new, wider war in The Middle East, and the NATO alliance would have been stronger than ever. And in that situation, I think our economies would have been considerably stronger too.

Populism derailed all that.

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@randahl This assumes neoliberal "alliances" aren't just terms for American hegemony. Whether it’s Harris or anyone else, the weapons flow and the working class pays for "economic strength". Labeling discontent "populism" dismisses that people are tired of two flavors of imperialism. A "stronger NATO" isn't a win for humanity; it's a more efficient way to enforce the interests of the billionaire class on a global scale.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Kremlin mouthpiece Tucker Carlson is now trying to convince the world that Ukrainian president Zelenskyy is behind the extinguishing of Christianity in Ukraine.

Fact: 85 percent of Ukrainians identify as Christians. If Tucker was right, Zelenskyy was currently trying to erase the dominating religion of his own country.

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@randahl Not the case anyway, given that Ukraine is a center-right country.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

If Zohran Mamdani wins in New York today, this situation from his campaign will be the one I will remember from 2025:

Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez side by side representing a completely different and refreshingly new path for the US.

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@randahl And old guard Democrats refuse to get out of our way.

@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , to random

I cancelled my Facebook account a few weeks ago. After waiting until they (presumably) took it completely offline, I tried to create a new placeholder account that would tell people how to find me (including here).

Instead, I was informed I was banned forever from FB. No appeal allowed.

OK.

DarthAstrius ,
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@dangillmor Nice. I made an account to keep up with local politicians since they were ignoring my emails. Facebook demanded my ID to prove who I am. No thanks.

@404mediaco@mastodon.social avatar 404mediaco , to random

A university in Milwaukee is stuck with ICE as its tenant after the agency refused to leave a building the university intended to renovate. Now, the building is being used as an office for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, who lead Trumps deportations.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-university-building-as-a-deportation-office-and-the-university-says-it-cant-do-anything-about-it/

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@404mediaco Illegal occupation.

@dansup@mastodon.social avatar dansup , to random

Loops.video is now running the latest version, with full federation enabled ✨

Registration is open, and now instant 🥳

https://loops.video

DarthAstrius ,
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@dansup I couldn’t log in on the app and your app told me to “GET, HEAD”

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

My prediction: the Trump admin and Apple are going to go head to head over device / iCloud encryption at some point in the next 18 months and the way Apple responds to that pressure will create a point of no return one way or another.

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@Daojoan If Apple doesn’t cave, Trump will probably attempt to break them up. If Apple caves, then we are truly fucked.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

once you understand that we never outgrew wanting to watch gladiatorial battles and throw tomatoes at people in the stocks and eat junk food at public hangings the internet makes a lot more sense

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@Daojoan time is a flat circle

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

Maybe Platner loses his primary to Janet Mills. Maybe voters do ultimately hold him accountable. But the fact that we've arrived at "maybe voters will give a damn” as our last line of defense against candidates with Nazi tattoos suggests something has gone badly wrong with our filtering mechanisms.

https://www.theindex.media/p/i-can-t-believe-i-need-to-say-this-but-nazi-tattoos-are-bad

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@Daojoan This truly means we need to investigate every damn candidate thoroughly no matter how “good” they appear. Had a bad feeling about him from the start.

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

Trump now says in the oval office that the US military will start killing drug smugglers on land as well.

As Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth could go to jail for issuing the orders for these killings. Because the US is not at war, and the drug boats do not represent a nation that is in an armed conflict with the US.

So legally, under Pete Hegseth's command, the US military is killing suspects without trial, and that will never hold up in court.

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@randahl It is truly a shame that the US Supreme Court is doing Trump’s bidding.

@dansup@mastodon.social avatar dansup , to random

Existing Loopers who joined before today will be able to set their birthdate via the new mobile app.

Keep in mind the birthdate is not accessible via API or shown publicly, and is only used for compliance purposes.

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-expo/commit/5e29d2dc0810ed6403ad12bf9473393d3bfc2e32

Loops new mobile app Birthdate settings
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DarthAstrius ,
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@dansup Any new Testflight updates?

@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social avatar indivisibleteam , to random

“Millions of Americans are coming out today not because they hate America. We’re here because we love America.”

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DarthAstrius ,
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@indivisibleteam Democrats had a chance to avoid Trump entirely in 2016 if they chose Bernie over Hiliary

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar FediTips , to random

Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?

You can ask questions by replying or messaging, and I'll try to find you some answers 🙂

Don't worry if a question seems simple, there is no such thing as a stupid question.

If you prefer to look stuff up yourself, there is lots of help for using Mastodon and the Fediverse on the website at https://fedi.tips (new people might especially like the "Quick Start" section at the top).

DarthAstrius ,
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@FediTips Mastodon bots here aren’t even bad, and most of them claim to even be environmentally sustainable.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Priceless!

Right as Trump claims to have ended the 7th or 8th or… 10th war all by himself, The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards The Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado.

Have a great weekend everyone! 😘

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DarthAstrius ,
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@randahl Not priceless. She has favored Trump’s plans to occupy Venezuela and make it an oil colony of the United States. Yes, Venezuela’s current leadership is under a dictatorship, but she welcomes a Trump one.

@anneapplebaum@journa.host avatar anneapplebaum , to random

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/maria-machado-nobel-peace-prize/684510/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wbq1QoVCkMhawJWbnT-zJw

DarthAstrius ,
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@anneapplebaum she’s pro-Trump. Stop propping up neoliberal fascists.

@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

The Nobel Committee has awarded this year's peace prize to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/press-release/

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@w7voa She’s pro-Trump.

Makes me wonder about how many of you idiots would like Trump if he was a Democrat.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

The Trump administration is now openly fighting music artists.

Because Zach Bryan has written a song with the line "ICE is gonna come bust down your door", Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem has now given an interview calling the singer "disrespectful to this country".

That is how scared the administration is — just singing a song have them freaked out.

So keep singing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSY2TI5iTl8

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@randahl he should headline the super bowl next year

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Remember how Fox had to pay $ 800,000,000 to Dominion Voting Systems after they spread conspiracy theories about their voting machines?

What do you think will happen to Trump and RFK Jr. after they have spread enough misinformation about Kenvue's pain killers called Tylenol?

💵💵💵💵💵💵

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@randahl Dominion Voting Sytems got bought by a right wing company today btw.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

i wish instead of putting billions of dollars into putting gross AI in everything, google would spend like half that much money on making Android run as well as it did in 2014

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@mcc Or even when they released the Pixel 4, imo that was peak Android.

@DarthAstrius@mastodon.social avatar DarthAstrius , to random

Report this fucker.

@DarthAstrius@mastodon.social avatar DarthAstrius , to random

I’m guessing there is no way to migrate my posts to a new instance? If not, I will likely not move my instance. Too much history here for me on mastodon.social.

@DarthAstrius@mastodon.social avatar DarthAstrius , to random

@DarthAstrius | Tech geek, political thinker, and music fanatic.

My feed centers on:

Confederal Municipalism and independent political perspectives.

Deep dives into tech and hardware.

Music: Heavy rock/metal (Sleep Token, ADTR), EDM, Jazz, Rap.

Gaming: Nintendo Switch 2, Madden 26, Rocket League.

Fandoms: Star Wars, Anime, Marvel/DC.

I value honest conversation. He/him, married. Check my pinned post for more!

@DarthAstrius@mastodon.social avatar DarthAstrius , to random

I will be following anyone who is new and posts a !

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

Trump's Assistant Secretary of The Department of Homeland Security is shocked that when sending armed, masked troops into US cities to bully citizens of a country with more guns than people, eventually citizens fight back.

This breaks my heart. Civil war is the last thing the US needs, but the Trump regime is deliberately steering straight for it.

I so hoped the US would find a peaceful way back to democracy, but Trump is incapable of deescalation.

Stay safe everyone. 🗽

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@randahl The US has never been a democracy. Just an illusion of choice. The only way we have democracy is through direct democracy, and both parties don’t support that, as they’d rather keep the very outdated electoral college first past the post system.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Picture 1: On Truth Social, Trump posts that people who burn the American flag will be sent to prison for one year.

Picture 2: On war.gov Pete Hegseth instructs the public on how to burn a flag when retiring it.

Conclusion: Under the Trump regime, you can now be imprisoned for following directions… from the Trump regime.

Nuts!

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DarthAstrius ,
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@randahl Easy, I’ll just burn other people’s Trump flags instead.

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

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says. It's not just a bubble but an epically sized one, an analyst argues. When it will burst it is going to hit harder for tech sectors especially AI and related compaines and stocks. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai-bubble-is-17-times-the-size-of-the-dot-com-frenzy-this-analyst-argues-046e7c5c (paywall free link https://archive.is/mVUfw )

DarthAstrius ,
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@nixCraft let’s hope that bubble bursts soon.

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

US government takes equity stake in one of the world’s largest lithium mines

The US government is a criminal mob. It's a mafia.

https://www.theverge.com/news/790057/lithium-mine-us-trump-us-government-stake-thacker-pass

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@gerrymcgovern it always has been.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

I have never met a medium as polite as Mastodon. Sure, even here I have a met impolite people, but only very rarely.

In comment sections of news media, and on Facebook and elsewhere, I have been verbally abused for years for presenting political views, and I have experienced so many death threats, I stopped counting.

But not on Mastodon.

That is my review and you can quote me on that @Gargron .

DarthAstrius ,
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Off topic but @Gargron may we get Mastodon shirts and hats? I would proudly represent it every day.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

Not been feeling well today, time to try and get some meow meows :sleep: :stux: :nkoSleep:

Goodnight my dear friends :fediverse: :mastodon: :blobcatsnuggle: :blobcathearts:

Photo of Washy on the table a few days ago
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DarthAstrius ,
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@stux Feel better stux!

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

The Lists feature on Bluesky is cool and all, but apparently I'm on lists titled "Nazis, antisemites", "Anti-LGBTQ+ Bigotry", "Genocide simps", "Bots Block List", "AI Hype Con Artists", and more.

Maybe there's some downsides to letting anyone make a block list, and also, what the absolute fuck?

DarthAstrius ,
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@lowqualityfacts Yeah. I left for a good list of reasons. I was on a “list” for

“MAGA idots” yes, spelled “idots” for saying I like the DSA. No joke.

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

You would think the obvious solution to "the volunteer-powered project we all train our AI models on for free isn't adequately twisting reality to our political views" would be "... and so we stopped training on it" and not "... and so we will force the volunteers to bend to our will"

Tweet by David Sacks: "Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem."
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@molly0xfff Wikipedia needs to move to Switzerland before it is too late.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Goodnight Mastodon. ♥️

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@randahl Goodnight Fink

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

From Denmark I can report that we have had a surprisingly good, sunny autumn day, even though Trump said in the UN that our country would be "going to hell".

Trump also said that the US was "hot", and that surprises me, because my hellhole country has an unemployment rate of 2.9, while the US is at 4.3 and rising.

It is almost as if — and please hear me out here — Trump does not now what he is talking about.

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@randahl Wanna sneak me and my wife into Denmark so we no longer have to live in the third world, crime-filled country known as the United States?

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@randahl I won’t qualify most likely. Only have manufacturing and leadership experience with no degree because of course, I couldn’t afford it.

DarthAstrius ,
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@randahl electronics, computers, and scientific field equipment.

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@randahl I did not know this! Thank you for the info, I will certainly take a look.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns: When the bubble bursts, reality will hit far harder than anyone expects https://www.techspot.com/news/109626-ai-bubble-only-thing-keeping-us-economy-together.html

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@nixCraft Lol how is AI by the big 5 still profitable?

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

Ahh better!

Left: skeleton with all nerves in their original messy way Right: zipped tied all bundled together alone the spine, a lot better organized
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@stux when my wife complains about my cord situation, I’ll show her this.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

It’s time to get some meow meows :nkoSleep: :sleep: :stux:

Goodnight my dear friends :mastodon: :fediverse: :blobcathearts: :blobcatsnuggle: :ablobcatreachrev:

Washington the sleepy cat on clothing curled up
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@stux goodnight stux and cats

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

it's boris!

a photograph of boris, who is orange and soft and friend shaped
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@aeva Hello Boris!

@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

Offering up the to the lake deity for a bountiful federation.

A small apricot colored Mastodon stuffed toy being held up in front of Buttermere.
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DarthAstrius ,
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@Gargron A necessary sacrifice.

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

They can literally just pick any number.

The president gets to choose the price of gas for the day when they get up each morning.
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DarthAstrius ,
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@lowqualityfacts if this were actually true, which I know its not, then Biden could suck my ass

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

The untouchable Trump of Brazil, former president Jair Bolsonaro who attempted to dismantle democracy has been sentenced:

27 years and three months in prison.

Rest assured, the law will be coming for Trump too.

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@randahl that’s if he doesn’t enact martial law before his term expires.

Things aren’t looking good for the centrist Democrats either.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

I did not have "The US administration switches to communism" on my 2025 bingo card. But Trump is now taking over the means of production.

Trump posting: It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future. I negotiated this Deal with Lip-Bu Tan, the Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The United States paid nothing for these Shares, and the Shares are now valued at approximately $11 Billion Dollars. This is a great Deal for America and, also, a great Deal for INTEL. Building leading edge Semiconductors and Chips, which is what INTEL does, is fundamental to the future of our Nation. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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@randahl lol 10% is not communism. Stop being a shitlib. You people are the reason why Democrats refuse to back Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists. Kindly fuck off so the Democratic Party can finally stop being a right-wing party.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
"This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

DarthAstrius ,
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@arstechnica What a dystopia we live in.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Did Canada become the 51st state? The US Coast Guard is now arresting Canadians in Canada, according to this Quebecan fisherman.

https://youtu.be/DCfu1MBp6GM?si=Dv6ixyH3Zwa2YQRc

DarthAstrius ,
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@randahl These are certainly flashpoints which will lead to diplomatic conflict, then border disputes, then eventually war.

@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250724-french-president-macron-says-france-will-recognize-palestine-as-a-state-in-september

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@w7voa Good!

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

It also covers two-thirds of all nursing home stays.

DarthAstrius ,
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@georgetakei you’re part of the problem man. You uphold Democrats “no matter what”.

Time to hold them accountable, and time for Democratic Socialists to primary the old guard locally and federally.