Wish me luck!
We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld
I’m not clear why Trump would care about releasing the Epstein Files:
1. Is he in the files? Yes, they’ve said so.
2. Did he go to Epstein’s island? In all probability. The White House has acknowledged him being on Epstein’s plane.
3. Is he a rapist? Again, yes. He has been accused by multiple women and found liable in court.
4. Is he attracted to underage women? Again, yes. He has admitted as much, multiple times.
What else is in there?
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Butterfly 2022-3
No matter what happens
We are better together
#butterfly #butterflies #macro #photography #beauty #nature #insect #flower #thephotohour #mramsdellpics
Kyle is playing the works of the great songwriters and songs they inspired him to write, along with the tangents, rants and non sequiturs you've tolerated since 2007. Sharing this post kills fascists!
#streaming #artrock #music #songwriter #piano #chatting #rootsrock
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Just a man, a piano, and simple music for complicated people. Tuesdays at 7:30pm Pacific.Kyle Bronsdon
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When Republicans in the 1990s validated and legitimized psychopaths at OK City, Waco, Ruby Ridge, and other places, just to vilify Democrats for rural Americans ("I'm not condoning their actions, but I understand their frustration with Clinton and his RADICAL agenda!"), what they ended up doing was enshrining these anti-American ideals into the core of their political party. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…
‘The bomber’s words sound mainstream. Like he won!’ Oklahoma City’s tragedy in the time of Trump
Revulsion at deadly Oklahoma City explosion in 1995 has faded. But echoes of the blast, and its perpetrator, Timothy McVeigh, are heard today as far-right ideas storm the USAndrew Gumbel (The Guardian)
@MattMcNeilShow $70M? That could buyout 700 workers, or one bad ceo.
Maybe they should just reinvest their big dividend payment.
Maybe they should just reinvest their big dividend payment.
Get out and see the tulips while you can!
If you want to understand why Trump and his henchmen are attacking the independence of federal agencies, especially the Office of Special Counsel, you may find this, by me, helpful. heidi-says.ghost.io/a-closer-l…
A closer look at Dellinger v. Bessent, a case key to understanding Trump’s dictatorial aspirations
This is a longer post than my usual, due to the significance and intricacy of its topic. On March 1, 2025, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the District Court of the District of Columbia issued a critically important opinion.Heidi Li Feldman (Heidi Says)
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If anyone's been looking to get rid of American social media or just looking for a good Canadian Pixelfed server, pixelfed.ca just launched.
It's run by Fedecan, a registered Canadian non-profit.
They also run lemmy.ca and I can personally vouch for the team being both great admins and terrific people.
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"Democracy isn't dying in darkness. The lights are on. We can see it all happening in real time. No, democracy is dying in silence."
--Gil Duran
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Oh, no! Director David Lynch has died!
He is a major reason for my lifelong love of movies, after I saw Elephant Man as a kid. A decade later, while a film student, I hustled my way into a job as a PA on the New Orleans on-location set of Wild At Heart. There I had the dream job of fetching Mr. Lynch his fruit smoothies and driving Nick Cage from his hotel to the set. Watching Lynch work on set and direct his actors was a huge privilege. He was incredibly improvisational, sometimes shooting the scene multiple times, recruiting odd bystanders and inserting them into the set.
I only knew him for a minute, a long time ago, but I am really going to miss knowing David Lynch is in the world.
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David Lynch, visionary filmmaker who specialized in the surreal, dies at 78
David Lynch, the surrealist artist who plumbed the darkness lurking underneath American normalcy in the landmark television series "Twin Peaks" and the dreamlike films "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive," has died.Daniel Arkin (NBC News)
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I won’t claim to be his biggest fan (and that’s on me) but as a filmmaker who rigidly stuck to his own vision, eschewed popularity and became one of cinema’s greatest auteurs in spite of that and who never seemed to put out anything half-arsed, he’ll always have my respect. The industry has lost one of its most creative minds and his loss will be felt by many. #RIPDavidLynch
Today I setup a #Peertube instance and live streamed as a test, just to learn something new. It wasn't very difficult, deploying with Docker.
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How much resources is needed for a Peertube instance? I imagine with video it can get taxing.
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@Ruud Hi, I seem to be unable to load a profile pic here. Is this a known issue?
Happy National Static Electicity Day!
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Picture attempts...
This time, sized down 1000px to 3000x2250
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Happy new year.
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welcome to 2025, a harbinger of things to come
it's not humorous, a #cybertruck burning in front of a #trump tower, because it's being investigated as #terrorism- there was an explosion, 1 dead and 7 wounded. no one knows if the explosion was generated by the cyberstuck or by a bomb, as of yet
however, this reaction from a witness: "It was like a boom-boom-boom, and it almost sounded like a rolling garbage dumpster"
the trump dumpster fire made manifest, courtesy of #musk
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Another slimeball location-data company sells your doctor visits to the police. Grotesque and dangerous contempt for privacy -- and women in red states will surely become prime targets.
Burn this industry to the ground, I'd say, but Congress would have to act, and Congress is hostile to your privacy.
Fine reporting, as usual, from @404mediaco
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Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits
Fog Data Science is a location tracking company that takes data harvested from smartphones and makes it accessible to cops. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will use doctors visits to unmask a target if needed.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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it seems though this is how the US government ends up accessing private citizen data. It circumvents all the legal restrictions that were put in place to protect privacy. Any company providing private user data to a 3rd party should be prosecuted - in my country we have a Protection of Private Information Act, and those companies would have been prosecuted already.
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Avoid toll roads. In fact, just don't use your car because GM and others sell the location data, and license plate readers are everywhere. Don't even take the bus unless you can pay with cash. Of course, don't take a ride share.
And bring a change of clothes and wear a mask, because Ring cameras are ubiquitous.
@Dan Gillmor @404 Media
Avoid toll roads. In fact, just don't use your car because GM and others sell the location data, and license plate readers are everywhere. Don't even take the bus unless you can pay with cash. Of course, don't take a ride share.
And bring a change of clothes and wear a mask, because Ring cameras are ubiquitous.
@Dan Gillmor @404 Media
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Scathing.
The final COP29 agreement DOES NOT EVEN MENTION making a transition away from fossil fuels.
Our so-called leaders will *never* do what is needed. They’d rather burn the Earth and boil the oceans than turn away from capitalism.
➡️ theguardian.com/environment/20…
#Politics #Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism
How late $300bn deal left a sense of dissatisfaction and betrayal at Cop29
While an agreement on climate finance was eventually reached, many poorer countries were outragedFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
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After every COP I find myself thinking: "maybe now people will realise that the *point* of these things is to keep us hoping - to give us an excuse for our own inaction".
Every economic system should be able to solve a simple collective action problem. Favoritism and lobbyism is what's breaking the climate negotiations. Plus, a political elite that is perhaps too occupied with their election chances to demand from their own citizens emission reductions.
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in reply to David McLain • • •Various alleged facts are, incredible as it may seem in this light, actually much more shocking. For example, that he raped underage girls whom he knew had been trafficked for the purpose and were effectively teenage sex slaves, and abused them both physically and verbally.
It's also an image thing. A smart person can piece it together easily, as you note. But most of his supporters aren't that smart, and don't know all of this to begin with. A report can do that work for them.
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Every time a Republican demands the release the Epstein files & then suddenly backs down, it seems like a game of Clue (or Cluedo, I suppose).
I always end up wondering which "card" the person was shown that made them back down. You know, which person did they find out was implicated that made them decide "oh. It would suck for me if that got out"?