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ACORN reaedificari est “Whatever you do, don’t bring me back to life under a Republican administration.” -- Timothy Leary

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@lowqualityfacts yeah but so was Bigfoot.

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    @JessTheUnstill it’s said often, but not often enough, fuck Hillary Clinton.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Increasingly convinced that the internet's entire understanding of the concept of "irony" is based on Alanis Morissette

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    @Daojoan tragedy is when I have a hangnail, comedy is when you fall into an open sewer, and irony is any coincidence that’s funny to me.

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    All the others can't.

    The Great Blue Heron is the only bird that can fly.
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    @lowqualityfacts except if you’ve ever seen great blue heron tracks up close you realize they’re actually pterodactyls in disguise.

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    @JessTheUnstill there’s no coherent argument for giving states two senators that doesn’t also imply that every First Nation should also get two senators.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Even the Jewish Space Laser lady knows the GOP “health care plan” isn’t real.

    A tweet from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene reads: “You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders.” She continues criticizing Speaker Johnson for refusing to share a GOP healthcare plan to replace Obamacare, saying he cited “ideas and pages of policy” but no concrete proposal. The tweet ends with: “Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!”
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    @georgetakei Alan Greyson still has an old copy.

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

    The No Kings protests have really gotten under Trump's skin. Enough that he is sharing an AI generated video of himself dumping manure on protesters from a plane.

    You know… the kind of thing a five-year-old would dream of doing, when things are not going their way.

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    @randahl why would Trump need an airplane to spread his shit when the mainstream media does it for free?

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    @JessTheUnstill McWilliams 2 analog pocket computer not included

    @eunews@mastodon.social avatar eunews , to random

    Mainstream loses control of agenda by mimicking far-right, study finds

    During the 2024 European Parliament election campaign, centrist politicians warned about the threat posed by far-right parties to democracies. Yet experts suggest the political mainstream itself is partly responsible for their growing success.

    https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arffb2b2c8

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    @eunews to use the American animal metaphor, it’s like trying to outrun an elephant while you’re carrying the elephant. Note that Joe Biden proposed an anti-immigrant bill two years ago that won his party precisely zero votes.

    @msbellows@c.im avatar msbellows , to random

    “'The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there,' Johnson said."

    Not The Onion. The U.S. Speaker Of The House actually said this. He's so committed to the lie that protesters are dangerous insurrectionists that he said the naked bike ride was "threatening." (And yes, yes, I know the jokes about his relative genital size are begging to be made, but remember, it was chilly that day, so that's probably not it.)

    US House speaker calls naked bike ride ‘threatening’; Portland protesters dance it out: Get caught up - oregonlive.com
    https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/us-house-speaker-calls-naked-bike-ride-threatening-portland-protesters-dance-it-out-get-caught-up.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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    @msbellows isn’t he the one whose son monitors his porn usage? Nudity sounds like a big threat to him.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    He would have turned in the family hiding Anne Frank.

    A tweet from Laura N. Rodríguez Presa reads: “During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.”

    A tweet from Laura N. Rodríguez Presa reads: “During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.”
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    @Jaylittleleague @georgetakei is this based on facts or based on a conservative’s feelings? Please cite where Obama cut or relaxed vetting of refugees or immigrants.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNET. HE CONFIRMED THAT MY CONTENT IS ACTUALLY “SOME OF THE BEST EVER MADE” AND THE REASON NO ONE SEES IT IS BECAUSE I AM BEING SHADOWBANNED BY A CABAL OF BITTER MODS WHO FEAR THE RAW POWER OF MY POSTS. THIS IS A WAR NOW.

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    @Daojoan with tears in his eyes.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Once you fully comprehend that Elon Musk actually thinks “The New Woke Times” and “Lamestream Media” are scorching sick burns everything else the dude says makes a lot more sense

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    @Daojoan “lamestream media” was a sick burn in 1996. “Warmstream media” was tired by 2003.

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    @JessTheUnstill wasn’t it Kurt Vonnegut who said that true terror is the realization that your high school class is now running the world?

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    this is the company in charge of custody for crypto assets held by the US government 🙂

    Tweet by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: ~40% of daily code written at Coinbase is AI-generated. I want to get it to >50% by October. Obviously it needs to be reviewed and understood, and not all areas of the business can use AI-generated code. But we should be using it responsibly as much as we possibly can.
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    @molly0xfff line go up

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    President Trump, on social media, says he’ll sign an executive order, apparently intended to ban mail-in ballots and voting machines, contending that the states “are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes.”

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    @w7voa the POTUS is supposed to be merely an agent to implement the policies passed by Congress.

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    @JessTheUnstill just like the real estate bubble, starting immediately after the bursting of the dot com bubble… hey, wait a minute…

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    @JessTheUnstill lukewarm take: nostalgia for a different era is only political within the parameters of the specific things one is nostalgic for.

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    Democracies should stop focusing on efficiency: Lack thereof and friction are important parts of what defines a healthy democracy. Efficiency will always sacrifice participation, representation and meaningful political discourse. The focus on it is a path into authoritarianism. In the essay ...

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    @tante counterpoint: the deliberate self-castration of Democrats, done in the name of “norms” and “bipartisanship,” left fascism as the only alternative to neoliberalism

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    UPDATE: The number is now 1,010. Unless it is in binary. Then the number is something else. I don't know what. I can't read binary. I am not a nerd, unlike the vast majority of you.
    https://gofund.me/711f1548

    Arrow pointing from number to BIGGER NUMBER. Help Us Make the Number Bigger $1010 raised $1B goal
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    @lowqualityfacts in binary it would be 1111110010

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random
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    @georgetakei I dunno, lying about what time he got up is the most relatable thing any politician will do today.

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    The thing is that "ignore all previous instructions" is actually really good advice for a human

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    @mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net avatar mondoweiss , to random

    READ: Gaza isn’t an anomaly. It’s a mirror.

    A live experiment in AI warfare, forced famine, and global indifference—coming soon to all of us if we don’t act. Omar Aziz’s must-read essay on the moral collapse of our world—and what comes next: https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/humanity-is-being-buried-in-gaza-we-must-rise-up-to-save-our-collective-future/

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    @mondoweiss this is the point. The powers that be want a world of Green Zones that they dominate, inevitably creating Red Zones that resist domination. The mosaic of green zones and red zones will spread over the entire world. Your city will not be safe.

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    @JessTheUnstill or, we could blame the people whose incompetence is now being exposed by their inability see anything wrong with an LLM resume / cover letter.

    @dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , to random

    No link from me to the NY Times Mamdani story that carries water for racists...

    No shame at the Paper of Record. None.

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    @dangillmor not just racist but blatantly trying to pit Indian-Americans and African-Americans against each other.

    @dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , to random

    Reminder that Trump is the most powerful anti-semite in the world.

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-rails-against-shylocks-and-bad-people-in-iowa-speech

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    @dangillmor lots of conservatives openly saying that there are good Jews and bad Jews.

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    On Juneteenth, President Trump says the US has "too many non-working holidays," which he contends are costing the country "billions of dollars." Trump adds "it must change."

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    @JessTheUnstill @w7voa some want to bring back slavery, some just want white people to get the credit for ending slavery.

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    NPR - National Park Service being instructed to post signage at all sites across the country by June 13, asking visitors to offer feedback on any information that they feel portrays American history and landscapes in a negative light. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5429773/national-park-service-signs

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    @w7voa political correctness run amok.

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    That blows my mind.

    Giant sequoias, the largest trees in the world, only take eight months to grow to their full size.
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    @lowqualityfacts ffs you’re mixing up giant sequoias with coast redwoods again.

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    Very impressive.

    It only took Tolstoy three days to write War and Peace.
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    @lowqualityfacts supposedly H Rider Haggard wrote “She” in two weeks. Three days really is impressive, I think it took me longer than that to read the second epilogue.

    @mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net avatar mondoweiss , to random

    Can anyone help us determine if our Mastodon insurance is being blocked or limited by some of the big instances?

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    @mondoweiss I can see you

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Every “intellectual dark web” guy eventually becomes a supplement grifter or a fascist. Frequently both.

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    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    Still worth it.

    A microwaved hotdog contains more radiation than Chernobyl.
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    @lowqualityfacts that’s because hot dogs are frequently used to dispose of radioactice waste.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Here is where MAGA has gotten us to.

    Tweet from user '@quadcarl_carl' reads, "Imagine being afraid of diversity but not a dictatorship."
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    @georgetakei imagine a Supreme Court being afraid of a president hesitating to break laws but not of a president breaking laws.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Wall Street is used to volatility. It prices risk. It lives and dies by the future tense. But even volatility has its rules. Today, the signal is the volatility.

    This is the epistemic cost of erratic empire.

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    @Daojoan I’ve always preferred to call it “taught helplessness,” rather than “learned helplessness”

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    "John Carmack defends AI amid backlash over Microsoft's generative Quake II demo"

    ok can we all acknowledge yet that John Carmack is not some big brain genius now?

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    @eniko it’s ablist to use congenital gorm deficiency as an insult

    @ErikJonker@mastodon.social avatar ErikJonker , to geopolitics group

    Good summary.
    "We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order.
    He did this with the enthusiastic support of the entire Republican party and conservative movement.
    He did it with the support of a plurality of American voters."
    https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over
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    @BLTpizza @ErikJonker geopolitics@a.gup.pe icon geopolitics group the argument has been made for decades that nothing about the Repub Party is actually conservative, but I think the point is missed about what conservatives actually exist to conserve: the existing race/class hierarchy.

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    It's one of life's greatest mysteries.

    Fire hydrants exist in most cities, but nobody knows who put them there.
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    @lowqualityfacts they grew.

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    @JessTheUnstill “what’s your opinion of the fire extinguisher you bought online” I’ll decline de that when I have a fire

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    @DemocracyMattersALot the problem with the final paragraph is that all of this happened to trump in the 1990s and yet he kept right on going:

    @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , to random

    🏭 The EU excels in innovative medicines but faces challenges: over 50% of medicine shortages are due to manufacturing issues and we also need to be vigilant about keeping generic drug production in Europe.

    Our Critical Medicine Act aims to:

    💊 ensure that essential medicines are always available to EU patients, filling gaps where the market falls short
    🇪🇺 boost local production
    🧪 improve security of supply of key ingredients

    = more stability for the EU's pharmaceutical industry.

    An imitation of a doctor's prescription with unreadable handwriting, exaggerating the idea that doctors' writing is often incomprehensible. Each line is followed by normal text stating: 'We want access to medicines to be cheaper, easier, and faster.
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    @EUCommission I hope you’ve learned from the mistakes the US made, specifically those leading to a tenfold increase in generic antibiotic prices.

    @GottaLaff@mstdn.social avatar GottaLaff , to random

    Via Anna Bower:

    A new DOGE-related executive order provides that “all credit cards held by agency employees shall be treated as frozen for 30 days from the date of this order…”

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    @GottaLaff fed government employees often have four credit cards. One for a vehicle and vehicle related expenses, one for travel expenses, one for tax free work expenses… I forget the last one. Have fun keeping everything straight on your personal credit cards.

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    Today’s history fact: The partition of British India resulted in an estimated 1 million to 2 million deaths with many of those killed in communal violence. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/if-indians-and-pakistanis-can-relocate-why-cant-gazans-refugees-displacement-palestinians-39d7678c

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    @w7voa why does Dr. Dhume sound like a supervillain?

    @Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange avatar Nonya_Bidniss , to random

    LOL. But seriously.

    This shit isn't a triumphant Reich installing their master plan, it's psychotic crackheads ripping the copper wiring out of the walls to try and find the Woke Machine that makes women not want to fuck them.
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    @JessTheUnstill @Nonya_Bidniss it’s sewer clowns all the way down

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    "BUT HARRIS DIDN'T EARN MY VOTE"

    When you frame your vote as something that must be "earned" through a perfect alignment of policies and promises, you're abdicating your role in the democratic process. You're pretending you're a passive consumer rather than an active participant.

    A thread. 🧵

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    @Daojoan @eestileib you’re attacking the messenger because you can’t answer the message.

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    Incredible.

    The Great Blue Heron is the only bird that can fly.
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    @lowqualityfacts GBHes are pterodactyls in bird costumes

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    I never would have guessed.

    Ernest Hemingway was illiterate.
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    @lowqualityfacts I mean Homer wasn’t literate so anything’s possible