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Wow. The US Treasury Dept. today announced it is lifting sanctions on Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that state-sponsored hackers from North Korea have been massively using to launder their stolen billions.
"Based on the Administration’s review of the novel legal and policy issues raised by use of financial sanctions against financial and commercial activity occurring within evolving technology and legal environments, we have exercised our discretion to remove the economic sanctions against Tornado Cash as reflected in Treasury’s Monday filing in Van Loon v. Department of the Treasury."
home.treasury.gov/news/press-r…
h/t to @ncweaver for the heads up. Weaver said: "The US government has just said "money laundering is legal as long as the process is automated."
"Every wei that flows through Tornado Cash, even if 'legitimate,' is helping the North Korean nuclear regime by hiding illegitimate flows," Weaver told me.
Here's Treasury sanctioning Tornado Cash in 2022: home.treasury.gov/news/press-r…
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Notorious Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, which has been used to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019…U.S. Department of the Treasury
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money laundering is legal as long as the process is automated.
Next thing you know, automated killing will be legal too, as long as it's automated?
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@phil_stevens if Russia was thinking ahead, they'd have switched much of their agriculture to popcorn production.
Brian, Tornado Cash is a *protocol*. Sanctioning it and its inventors is like sanctioning an encryption algorithm, because "it helps criminals". It flies in the face of 1s Amendment and I think there was a court ruling that basically "you can't do that".
By all means, sanction those who use the protocol for laundering money. But the protocol itself?!
Fifth Circuit Rejects OFAC’s Tornado Cash Sanctions
In a ruling eagerly awaited by the cryptocurrency industry, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that immutable smart contracts on the Tornado Cash crypto-transaction software protocol are not “property” subject to the sanctions jurisdi…www.morganlewis.com
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“#Bitcoin (and other #crypto currencies) is like rat poison squared.” - Warren Buffett
#WashingtonHasFallen and rats 🐀 that have been given #immunity by the corrupt #SCOTUS have overtaken #USpol. #Resist and #DoNotComply.
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Crypto currency is how they siphon off the money we actually have. Put our reserves into crypto and POOF!
Oh, we'll know the numbers. All of them. We may even eventually be able to prove that it all went to Russia or whatever. For all the good it'll do.
Tornado cash, if I recall properly, is a very special mixer. I think I remember that Geoff White wrote in “Rinsed” that it was developed by some students as a proof of concept and put it on GitHub and closed the case. Others have used it and because there are no “real creators” of the software available it is difficult to close this mixer.
Well, you certainly CAN sanction autonomous protocols, you'll just look like a fool when folks realize your sanctions have no power over them.
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The parallelogram is off indeed, but the equation bars/stripes = dessert and bubbles = cheese is a gross oversimplification of the thousands of varieties that exist of both desserts and cheese.
I'm protesting on behalf of France, Switzerland and Austria, just to name a few. 😆😋
Indeed. I did some ground work for you. You're welcome. 😁
Do you have your valid UN membership card ready?
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 12/2025 completed
Cascais - Guincho the only “safe” route today.
What an incredible wind!
The road became a dune
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Obama has nothing to say about what Trump is doing, but he did post his NCAA bracket.
Biden has nothing to say about what Trump is doing, but he found time to post about St. Patrick's Day.
Harris has nothing to say about what Trump is doing, but she tweeted to celebrate International Women's Day.
It's not just Schumer. Dems have no idea how to mount a meaningful resistance. It's just BAU with them while the US descends into a Constitutional crisis. Hand the keys of the party to AOC, please!
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Obama Biden Haris Schumer
All quite wealthy - and what Trump is doing will greatly benefit the wealthy.
Why would they try to stop him? They have nothing to gain personally any more.
This is class warfare. They are making a 2 state nation. With incredibly privileged powerful wealthy.. and uneducated, slaves with no rights or protections
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Some people refuse to recognize a class war if “their side” doesn’t tell them that it’s a class war. It can’t be any clearer.
@Nerde
One of the reasons the hard right has taken control is the slow drift of so called progressive leftist parties worldwide to the right.
Such that most people cant see a real difference between the two parties ideologies -what they stand for.
It used to be a workers party vs a wealthy party.
So now will say - they are almost the same but he/she appeals to me and the media (owned by ultra wealthy people and large corporates) are saying the right wing candidate is the one.
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The Bidens want back in
Former President Joe Biden has told some Democratic leaders he’ll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground.Peter Nicholas (NBC News)
@Pineywoozle @Jem_of_Oz
Here's a working link: nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden…
I'm glad "Biden privately met last month with the new Democratic National Committee chairman" and I get why he might not be the top choice to get us out of this, but it's still pretty disappointing.
The Bidens want back in
Former President Joe Biden has told some Democratic leaders he’ll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground.Peter Nicholas (NBC News)
@madeingermany @Pineywoozle
THats good news..He would be great, as would be Obama, Hillary, kamala and Bernie if they get very noisy and active
However none of them should stand for POTUS if and when USA is allowed to have free and fair elections again
While all would make fine presidents, none have the vote getting appeal to Mr n Mrs Schmow from MiddleTvBurb.
To be POTUS you have to win elections by getting people to vote for you. Obama aside, none of them have that X factor.
#Resist
#ResistEverywhere
#AfternoonNotesToAmerica
#trump #musk #USPol #GOP
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Disclaimer:
I dont live in the Disintegrating States of Absurdia
- Proud Aussie, throwing shrimps on the barbecue for all American refugees.
@Pineywoozle
They are fat hairy greedy bastards! But i love em.
(Am i talking about possums or AussieManReviews.. Hes a fave of mine )
But despite a propensity to piddle and crap everywhere, being attacked by one is like being bitten or scratched by a boisterous puppy dog. have been bitten a few times.
A bit ouchy only
Not so #SilentSunday
#FredTheWonderCat
#CatsOfMastodon
#photography
Second, Obama gets a pass, he's "retired".
But Biden and Harris were holding themselves up to be POTUS, the leader of our party and democracy, less than 12 months ago.
You don't just lose a close election, that you should/could have won, and go away and abdicate symbolic leadership, inspiring the base, and non-voters.
To just walk away and be quiet suggests neither was worthy of being POTUS. Trump certainly is not.
I assume you miss Jimmy Carter, at least in part, because of absolutely awesome former president he was? But Obama gets a pass?
@annetteanderson3330 @jab01701mid
Personally, i really don't give af what he has to say. He was the biggest disappointment in my life. I don't believe a word out of his mouth and haven't since the FISA vote. Though i still had high hopes he'd do the right thing in the oval.
But he's one of the very few people in an exclusive club, with immeasurable influence. Of course he should get involved. Not doing so kind of proves the point he wasn't in this for the American people
@jab01701mid Obama gets a pass, but Biden and Harris don't? Obama is "retired" at 63 but you think Biden should be fighting at 82?
Hold Obama to a higher standard.
I want to re-iterate why I feel differently about Biden/Harris than Obama or Clinton or Bush, who are members of "the Club".
"Biden and Harris were holding themselves up to be POTUS, the leader of our party and democracy, less than 12 months ago".
hard as it may be to accept, there is a political reasoning behind this: give him all the rope he wants to hang himself with. Enough for the rest of the movement, too.
Sanders and AOC aren't having any of it. Maybe they don't think a mainstream Dem win will change the world for the better enough. Maybe they don't believe in sacrificing the well-being of folks to win the war for everybody's future.
Both are valid strategies, I think. Blow me if I know which one'll work.
What say you
@erinburnett @kaitlancollins @wolfblitzer @andersoncooper @jaketapper
Cowards. Talkers. Spinless
Hunkered down to keep @realDonaldTrump off their stinking asses
Obama did his time in a most difficult position. He served and led the nation well. I don't hold his silence against him at all.
I do however blame Biden for leaving us very vulnerable to the mess we are in.
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I have to say that I can't comprehend how on earth none reacts !
I mean are they so illiterate about democracy that they don't see the problem? Are they so stupid that they don't see the problem? Are they so afraid that they don't dare to talk?
Former Presidents have a long standing policy of not commenting for a reason. I would advise you to buy a used copy of The Presidents Club: Inside The Worlds Most Exclusive Fraternity AND READ IT!
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@clusterfcku @donald_brady
Walz has no play for the future so he can say whatever he wants. Kamala is still trying to angle her way. She THINKS her best play is to be Gov of CA for a few years and then rerun for POTUS but she's wrong.
Again, read the book... cutting off security clearances is extremely short-sighted, a hallmark of Trumpism.
Read the book, not the synopsis, but the actual book. Learn how so much of what is happening today has been building. Learn how each president, while public enemies, have relied on each other.
It seems like one of the weaknesses of the US presidential system is that after the election there isn't a clear central figure for the losing party to organise itself around.
In the Westminster system the leader of the opposition is a position that is always occupied, whereas the democrats won't have a presidential candidate for most of the next four years. It seems bonkers to me that you have a system that leaves it that long.
Because they're part of the game. Pretend the parties are different all anyone wants, the DNC and HRC elevated trump. Biden kept the trump tax cuts. Harris said when roe fell there was nothing they could do but while running said she'll use reconciliation to codify roe if she wins.
The Patriot Act for christ's sake.
It's disgusting
What did i say that's not true. What is incorrect? Say something worth saying
Yeah, both sides.
They all had plenty to say six months ago, back when it could have made a difference, before the election. Maybe they think that people don't like hearing "We told you so!".
Maybe you should concentrate your ire at those who enabled Trump by voting for him, or for wasting their ballots by voting for unelectable third-party candidates - or by not bothering to vote at all.
The "Democrats" swept the path clear for Trump by offering nobody anything when people needed help.
Trump offered everything to everyone, with no intention of giving anyone anything.
So far, nobody has given anything to anyone.
Either way, nobody gets anything.
Too bad for the American people.
I made sure to save the TikTok video of a deaf person who is adept at lip reading.
She interpreted statements of Obama made to George Bush Junior on inauguration day.
Obama “ Is there anyway we can stop this?”
Shrub *just giggles*
Obama served 2 terms, 8 years of his life, despite racist attacks etc. and is done.
Biden served for years and was criticized out of the last race for being too old. Can't he retire and rest?
Harris lost, people didn't listen to her at the time.
There must be other people?
I'm just watching from the outside and this is tiring.
They all cashed in their chips. They won. They don't feel the need to cater to the "losers" because they got theirs. It's a pack of sell-outs. Everyone knows it.
Bernie is right and has been right, the corporate wings of both parties are fetid bought and paid for garbage.
The GOP is worse, but they both stink
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True. One more appeal to incrementalism and I think I'd lose it.
The one bright side, if I can see any bright side, is that after Trump, everything will need to be rebuilt. And hopefully everyone will have such a bad taste in their mouths over oligarch antics that the rich will be held accountable and laws will start to apply to everyone. (Ok that last one might be a little "big rock candy mountain" of me, but I can dream.)
Frankly, I'd like to live in the kind of country that would've elected Nader in 2000 and Bernie in 2016. Not Bush and Trump.
But that's me. The hot garbage the corporate Dems have sold since I was a kid is a nonstarter for me.
What does it matter?
Next election, Raffelsberger or his successor or his successor-AI will find the "missing" 11.780 votes.
Pars pro toto.
Democracy lost in less than three months.
And from now on, it's 1984, guys.
or someone who can make
A fucking statement that carries some weight
Peace be beyond you
Mark Kelly/Josh Shapiro 2028.
I’ve said thie before and I’m going to say this again:
US Democratic party is NOT a left-wing party. It is a neoliberal center-right party. It only looks left from the vantage-point of a hard-right authoritarian conservative party.
The reason they don’t attack the plutocratic broligarchy, is because they believe in it. They worked to make this themselves.
With the expection of Bernie & AOC, there is no plan.
Exactly.
It's not obvious that now is the right time to dismantle the two-party system, but it seems clear that no progress will be made (and no fascism will be unmade ?) without first dismantling the two-party system.
I thought I was blocking too many accounts on the Fediverse. After reading the comments here, I know it was actually too few.
Augie, there are times when one needs to say the obvious things out loud (because no-one else will). That's what you did. They hate people like you, so now these bots will bully and harass you in the comments. Stand your ground and know with absolute certainty that the real people agree and stand with you.
So former Presidents not talking about the current one is actually very normal in the US.
I think it’s more like: „Okay, we habe been figthing. We tried it with reason. And the people voted for Trump? Okay, guy‘s. You wanthed this? You habe this. Good luck. I am off. And now you learn it the hard way.“
There will be no benefit for democrats if they do sth. now. Trump has to be max. painful for the republicans so that they learn what kind of garbage they voted for. And only then democats should move.
Now republicans must experience what they voted for.
I’ve been involved in several organizations in my civilian life that have faced similar situations. There aren’t many options for dealing with bullies and idiots
One option would have been to stop them in their tracks early on, but that ship has sailed. The second option is to set a trap—give them just enough rope to hang themselves. Let them ruin things, and let the people who supported them suffer the consequences. Meanwhile, the smart ones should step away and wait.
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I would like to see those on the left at least get the wording right.
Using "resistance" (a negative term) implies that the thing being resisted is mainstream and positive.
Not an "anti" something but a "pro" something word might attract independents and what remains of the center right.
I don't want to believe that ship has sailed.
it's apple and Google too:
Apple Maps Sucks. I can't find the Gulf Of Mexico anywhere.
The Bidens want back in
Former President Joe Biden has told some Democratic leaders he’ll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground.Peter Nicholas (NBC News)
Biden, Obama and Harris have very little they can do. Schumer should be doing what AOC and Bernie are doing.
It is US who need to be in the streets. If we reacted like South Korea we might stand a chance. Remember HALF of Americans WANT THIS and they hold all the levers of power.
If Dems win the special elections and win back the House, then we have a chance. But we may have to fall completely apart before we can begin to put the pieces back together.
Mastodon Pro Tip: Ever miss "that good post" you made a while back? Just search for it! Type in the search bar:
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And there it is.
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Great tip! Thanks... makes me wonder how many more some:thing formatted search filters are available. Is there a list somewhere?
Sorry, just answered my own question... there is an ephemeral list of suggestions that pops up when you click into the search box (using the web). It goes away when you type the first character so I never get to read it. That's on me obviously! 🤷♂️
When you select the search field, the dropdown opens and you'll see the most common ones. AFAIK there is no full list anywhere right now, but here's a good unofficial one: lucahammer.com/2024/04/25/mast…
Mastodon Advanced Search Guide and Operators
With version 4.2.0 Mastodon added full text search. People asked for a better guide, so I am trying to create one. If I missed something or there is a mistake, please let me know in the comments. You can write a comment by replying to this post in the Fediverse, simply copy the URL, search for it in your Fediverse-client and reply to it.Limitations of Mastodon search
Because the Fediverse is distributed, there is no way to search through all posts. You can only search through posts that are known to the instance that you are using. That are posts from accounts on the same instance, the posts reposted by accounts on your instance and posts from accounts that are followed by at least one account of your instance.While there is the saying that elephants don’t forget anything, Mastodon software is intentionally forgetful.
By default it forgets (removes from it’s database) posts from other servers that are older than 7 days. That means that you can probably only find posts from other instances from within the last 7 days.Correction: The Mastodon setting for removing posts from other instances is turned off by default. It depends on the setting of your instance how far back you can find posts from other instances.Finally, you can find only posts that are public and from an account that set their posts to be searchable. The default of the default setting is set for posts to not be searchable. Admins can change the default for the default and users can override it either way.
Exception: You can always search through your own posts, posts that mention you and posts you faved.
Mastodon Search Operators
Post content
wordA wordB By default Mastodon will look for all words that you entered (separated by a space) in any order anywhere in the post.
“wordA wordB” With quotation marks, you will only get results that contain those words in that order without any words between them. They may be separated by multiple spaces, line breaks or even special characters.User
from:username shows you posts from the user with the username username. For people from other instances, you have to use the full username. Eg: from:luca@social.luca.run
from:me yields posts from yourself.Time
before:2024-04-25 shows posts that were before 25th of April 2024. Without posts posted on 2024-04-25.
after:2024-04-25 shows posts that were posted after 25th of April 2024. With posts posted on 2024-04-25.
during:2024-04-25 shows posts that were posted on 25th of April 2024. Short form for after:2024-04-25 before:2024-04-26All three operators use your local timezone not UTC like it was on Twitter. I am not aware of an option to narrow search down to hours or minutes.
Language
language:en finds posts in English. language:de German posts. You can use all ISO-639-1 language codes and a few ISO-639-3 ones.Type
is:reply to only get replies.
is:sensitive to only get posts with a content notice.Features
has:media for posts with attached images or videos.
has:image for posts with attached images.
has:video for posts with attached videos.
has:link for posts with URLs.
has:poll for posts with polls.
has:embed for posts with embeds. Not previews, actual embeds like a video that you can watch without leaving your client.Index
in:library Your own posts, posts that mention you and your favs.
in:public Public, searchable posts known to your server.
in:all Combines both options and is the default. You don’t need to use this explicitly.Exclude
You can exclude a searchterm -wordA or any of the other operators -is:reply. There is + as well, but because the default behaviour is to combine the operators, you don’t need that.Source: Testing and Mastodon source code.
Combining operators/filters
You can combine multiple operators to narrow down your results. Mastodon will only show posts that match all operators. I am not aware of an option to search for posts that match either one operator or another one.Funfacts/quirks
is: and has: are treated the same way. As a result you can either search for has:image or is:image and get the same results. In the case of replies, this is misleading. has:reply does not find posts that have replies, but posts that are replies.mastodon/app/lib/search_query_transformer.rb at main · mastodon/mastodon
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Yes! I use that a lot too.
Important detail - no space between the colon and the "me" or it won't work.
Good reminder, thanks!
Two things that are good to understand here, I think (tell me if you know better!):
First, this will only work if your instance has the search functionality enabled.
Second, you can search for other people’s posts too, but *only those you have somehow interacted with* (favoriting is probably enough).
here's another one if you're looking for a post you liked or interacted with
in:library word
My server had a period of goodness, but I killed the goodness because I didn't want to managed an Elasticsearch node.
It works great. I just tried search word “dogs” and it found not only posts with the word dog, but all my dog pictures as well.
TYVM
Now if I can only find a way to find those posts I read and want to repost elsewhere, but forgot to bookmark or repost!
works fine !
pouet.chapril.org/@PH7831/1140…
@ploum What if they are fundamentally misogynists, racists, supremacists, homophobics, transphobics, patriarchal, despises the poor (is there a word for that in phobia?)... and therefore they are enthusiastic about the idea of pushing these hatreds globally with Putin.
there is a dork side of the Fedivers
Also works with hashtags!
Or if you're a desktop person you can just visit your profile URL and add "/tagged/<thehashtag>" on the end, which I usually do as it's quicker than using the search box 😁
woah, that's how you filter by author? I never knew that, and I needed that a bit ago.
Thanks for the advice! Is there a list of search parameters somewhere for me to look at?
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When you select the search field, the dropdown opens and you'll see the most common ones. AFAIK there is no full list anywhere right now, but here's a good unofficial one: lucahammer.com/2024/04/25/mast…
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Leaders will meet in Paris next week for an emergency meeting on Ukraine:
Zelensky 🇺🇦
Macron 🇫🇷
Starmer 🇬🇧
Carney 🇨🇦
Scholz 🇩🇪
Meloni 🇮🇹
Tusk 🇵🇱
No invite for Trump ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I love how Europe and Canada are just literally sucking the oxygen out of the room away from the Elon Trump shitshow. Completely sidelining America.
Long overdue.
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Diese Plattform gehört endlich verboten! Ihr muss die Reichweite und Bedeutung damit entzogen werden!
Und alle, die noch da drauf sind, sind Fascho-Unterstützer*innen!
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Via Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too)."
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cuz MSM won't cover it
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Why does the #DNC hate these two? Almost as if they prefer #Trump to #AOC and #Bernie
#SupportBernie #SupportAOC
#boycottCantorFitzgerald
#boycottstarlink
#boycottusa
#boycottnazi
#boycotttexas
#boycottflorida
#boycottradicalzionist
#boycottUSstocks
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@nilsskirnir The “DNC” doesn’t hate members of its own party.
The enemy is Trump. Why don’t we all focus on that instead of worrying about who likes or dislikes whom among the resistance?
@mls14 @nilsskirnir
Nils makes a valid point.
The DNC has acted against these two on multiple occasions.
The DNC doesn't passively hate them.
They proactively undermine them.
Because the DNC is owned by the same people who own the GOP. Billionaires.
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If you want to beat Trump, you need a compelling alternative.
You can't ask people to vote Dem just because they're not trump. How did that work out in 2024?
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Bernie Sanders Official Website
Change will never come without political participation. Join the political revolution today.Bernie Sanders Official Website
@rzeta0 @mls14
Great points and thanks
The old adage that if you give folks a choice between #Repuke and #RepukeLite, they’ll choose Repuke almost every time.
@efialto @nilsskirnir @rzeta0 There seems to be a disconnect here, and I think I am figuring it out.
The Americans on this thread can at least agree that we need to come together in this moment, and leave inter-party squabbles in the past.
Those outside the US seem to think differently. I assume you all have good intentions, but it occurs to me that our different systems of government are causing you some confusion.
In the parliamentary system, if you have a far-left party, you can vote for them. They might win a few seats, and those representatives will form a coalition government with the more moderate left party. More far-left seats means those ideas get a bigger voice in the coalition.
In the US, that’s not an option. There are two options. Period. So turning Democrats against each other is harmful to the country, as it empowers the Republicans, who have turned into the party of Nazis.
@mls14 @efialto @nilsskirnir
You are confidently wrong.
Voting for the democrats as they are will not improve the situation overall.
There is no incentive for them to change.
So different action needs to be taken.
It could be mass denial of vote and support for new political movements - which won't produce a new gov soon, but neither will voting Dem.
Or it could be tough action on the Dems to clean them out.
There is no option that avoids a trump government in the short term.
The Americans on this thread can at least agree that we need to come together in this moment, and leave inter-party squabbles in the past.
@mls14 I don’t agree with that at all. The people right now who are saying that we need to “leave inter-party squabbles in the past” are the people who are themselves actively attacking people within their own party and their own base. Guys like Schumer consistently side with Republicans, guys like Bernie Sanders and AOC have consistently sided with the working class, but it is Sanders, AOC, and their ilk who are most often attacked as “sewing discord,” especially in the mainstream media.
So I embrace inner-party squabbles, and more than squabbles, an all-out war between people who represent the working class and people who represent the oligarchs. If we can’t purge the Democratic party of pro-oligarchy candidates like Chuck Schumer, and also people like Joe Biden, the Clintons, and the Obamas, then the Democratic Party will only ever be nothing more than an extension of Trump and the Republican Party, more than worthless, positively toxic.
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
@davbram @nilsskirnir @rzeta0 Yes, you are part of the solution. We might not have all gotten the candidate we wanted from our party. But we know, for the good of the country, we come together to oppose Nazis.
I disagree with you strongly on multiple aspects of your opinion of Harris, but we can work together because we both know it’s about never ever letting the GOP get a majority again.
@mls14@vivaldi.net @davbram @nilsskirnir @Bellison22
Many people like me could never vote for anyone who covers for genocide.
That is step 1 for the democrats.
Disown Israel, impose sanctions, drag Netanyahu to the ICC, and physically disarm that genocidal apartheid war criminal state. Enforce UN resolutions.
Or do the democrats stands for double standards in international and domestic law?
@mls14 @davbram @nilsskirnir
Again, confidently wrong.
Many of us outside the USA ave been following US politics for decades.
Why?
Because it is the wider world that suffers from what the USA does.
Some of us have noticed your attempt to diminish the democrat's facilitating a genocide...
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@rzeta0 @davbram @nilsskirnir A reply-guy from the nation of Brexit and 14 straight years of Tories is telling Americans that they are “confidently wrong” about their own country, which they’ve lived in their whole lives.
You’ve got more than enough to worry about at home; stop fomenting discord and helping the Nazis in America. Because that’s the result of this kind of commentary.
@rzeta0 @davbram @nilsskirnir Ok, so instead of admitting that the UK also has issues, the reply-guy blocks me.
It’s so easy to trash others instead of working together to solve problems. All this anger came because I dared to say we should work together. Think about who you are helping if you oppose putting our differences aside to oppose Nazis.
I love AOC and Bernie. I want this to be a chance to come together. But it’s not helpful for people to refuse to vote if they don’t get the candidate they want from their party.
We need to play the long game. Keep Democrats in power, and push them to the left during primary season. You cannot do anything if MAGA holds majorities in all 3 branches of government.
@nilsskirnir @rzeta0 Ok good, we can agree that we need to fight Trump.
Still, I don’t think such language towards a good woman is called for.
Well I use Repuke as equal to Republican and won’t stop using it.
And in fact I never directly called her that, although she did run well to center-center right, at least based on optics.
I think, that you’re still mostly torqued because I stated that the Dems would prefer that AOC and Sanders go away. I did use the word ‘hate’ in a generic, non-literal sense. I guess I could have used ‘dislike’ or ‘very sceptical of.’
However, I’m done
@nilsskirnir @rzeta0 I’m being a LOT more serious than people trying to foment division between AOC and the rest of the party when it’s clear this is a moment to come together.
The story linked had nothing to do with some past grievance that some older people seem to still have with the DNC. It is not “finally Bernie will take over and show those mean old Dems!”
It is a feel-good story of people joining together to fight Trump. And yet I see all the pointless division added in by these comments. To me that feels like a crappy thing to do in this moment.
Read my initial comment. All it asked for was for people to pull together, and I got so much negativity for it!
@nilsskirnir @mls14 @rzeta0
Read in my newspaper this week:
When Obama won his first term, the Republicans were in the same kind of inner turmoil as the Democrats are now. "What did we do wrong" turning into "who's to blame" and then the Tea Party emerged.
I like Bernie and AOC, I see them as *normal*, good social-democrats, the kind we have here in Europe. Whereas in the US, "liberal" is a swear word and red scare is never far away.
@rzeta0 @mls14
This needs to be sussed out too. And I know that this will cause agony among some Democrats, because Obama.
However, Dems need a message that resonates more than:
Vote Bill Clinton, at least he’s better than Bush 1
Vote Gore, at least he’s better than Bush 2
Vote Obama, at least he’s better than Bush 2
Vote Hillary Clinton, at least she’s better than Trump
Vote Biden, at least he’s better than Trump
Vote Harris, at least she’s better than Trump
the DNC 100% prefers an oligarch to almost progressives like Bernie.
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@nilsskirnir They do. mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114204928…
Here’s a fact: the corporate/neoliberal Democrats are more afraid of AOC and Bernie than they are of Trump. Fascism may not be their first choice but it’s preferable to what those two promise for them. They already sabotaged Bernie once – just like Starmer and co. sabotaged Corbyn in the UK – and they’ll continue to do anything and everything to try and scupper their progress. Even if it means more fascism. The ones doing this are as responsible for fascism as Trump is and they’re not your friends. mastodon.social/@Bellison22/11…
They represent a threat to the Democratic Party leadership in ways that Republicans do not.
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Labels we were indoctrinated in school to fear like socialist.
But they are the only way out because they have been speaking the truth.
The rest of the democrats have caved in fear.
Will we survive for history to record the truth?
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@bouriquet Ultimately it's up to each individual to decide if this is worth the risk to them --and I understand that risk could be imprisonment or worse.
I feel that the chances of a better outcome increase, the sooner people start taking action
@Joe_Hill
My guess is, there'd have been a Business Plot 2.0 pretty quickly, and the Tea Party would have resorted to violence even more quickly.
One of the things we're seeing in the modern day is that the fascism exists to protect the bigotry and inequality. It became stronger in an attempt to prevent a better world from happening. If there were a better world being imposed from above, the fascists - including those in nice suits and those in uniforms - would absolutely have responded.
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What we can do is donate and/or spread their actual words around (videos)
Bernie and AOC are fundraising through ActBlue on both their accounts:
secure.actblue.com/donate/aoc-…
Spread the word
berniesanders.com/
tiktok.com/@aoc
youtube.com/@AOC/videos
Denver yesterday: tiktok.com/@aoc/video/74847737…
#uspol
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@anne
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez turned 35 this year — the minimum age eligible to become President of the United States.
(Apparently you could run at age 34, but must be age 35 by inauguration day. Youngest so far was Theodore Roosevelt, who succeeded the assassinated McKinley in the office at age 42. Second was John F. Kennedy, who was elected and assumed office at age 43.)
I'm just saying ...
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@_elena Maybe because a protest of like 30k people is still a tiny niche protest?
The protests with ~300.000 people in Berlin last year just barely made it to the news over here in Germany.
Oh that's sad lol. I had no idea how pathetically small protests were in the US. That's laughable for a city of apparently over 700.000 inhabitants.
Americans post about "fascism is here! we need to resist!" all day long and then they really think they're done resisting with that social media post, huh.
For comparison, last year the anti-right wing protests just in Düsseldorf, a city of ~600.000, were over 100.000 people. And the alt-right party isn't even in power here.
Much to unpack here.
A lot of people in the US[1] have been convinced that protest is useless.
In fact, our mass movements have repeatedly been sabotaged from without and within. See Occupy.
The "politics as usual" for the last 50 years has been pretty uninspiring. I know people on the Internet hate "both sides" arguments, but they do hold some water. Yes, both sides are bad, and one side is orders of magnitude worse. Which is why I voted for Harris-Walz. Nevertheless, we wouldn't be where we are without Democrats enabling Republicans, since they answer to the same donor class, rather than the people. Bernie and AOC are trying to do something about this.
Our complex of government and corporations has succeeded wildly with bread and circuses and divide and rule. Though more and more of the bread is being taken away, and the circuses are more and more expensive. Divide and rule is still in full swing. Between these two strategies of the ruling class, people are kept off the street unless the problem directly affects them.
When US citizens do get out in the streets en masse, I expect that it will be violent. As H. Rap Brown said, "Violence is as American as apple pie." If the military is used against the populace, I'd note that the US military is historically very bad at maintaining an occupation. See Iraq, see Vietnam.
[1] I've even heard this "protest is useless" stuff from Canadians. I hate that form of cynicism.
and vance has the nerve to criticize europes democracys?
when will the us-citizens wake up and take the streets? whole democratic world is waiting
i'm used to major political events' attendance in #ukraine which is usually way different: not every gathering is a maidan of course, but it's a much smaller nation too. so i needed to backdrop this «largest political gathering in denver since…» with some usa-related context; after all, it's the geopolitical leader of the world sliding into authoritarianism, serious historical event.
so i compared this to 2024 #nfl attendance:
espn.com/nfl/attendance
oh, look, there's even #denver here. oh…
bottom line: the nearest future of the world looks grim.
2024 NFL Football Attendance - National Football League - ESPN
Find out the 2024 attendance numbers for every NFL football teamESPN.com
The Parties make mistakes because both are from the country (credit: thenationalliteracyinstitute.c…., nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/i…, cf. youtube.com/watch?v=tFfTludf0S… )./gen
- People gathering, to listen to politicians.
- Politicians delivering speeches.
- Politicians telling people to vote for Democrats, in 2026.
That's it.
That's the plan "to take on billionaires and win our country back", while some 80 #DOGE crooks with laptops continue with dismantling the US, this very moment, day by day.
I find this pretty over simplified and personally, I'd absolutely much rather see leaders reaching out and talking to thousands of people than hiding from American people and even avoiding town halls
If you read the global responses and see what other countries feel about it, it may (or may not) change your perspective.
I don't profess to know the answers but I sure as hell support anyone working for solutions....but I do see your use of tags to make your thoughts known.
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
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Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic partner in Asia.
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Conservatives and the False Romance of Russia
American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is.Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic)
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American public officials, who are condoning Russian dictatorship & the Kremlin's ruler Vladimir Frankenstalin Jr. are outing themselves as America's & the sovereign people's Constitution's foes, who should be barred from holding seats in any American parliament.
#RuleOfLaw #GOP #TreasonParty #Law #Justice #Freedom #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #USPol #USPolitics
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@Oldfartrant That would be Hitler. Stalin died from a cerebral hemorrhage.
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And how long ago did you write about how Israel should feel comfortable murdering Palestinian journalists?
It's aged especially well considering the last 17 months of genocide, which has featured the explicit and intentional targeting of the press and their families. Wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu obviously values your perspective.
slate.com/news-and-politics/20…
Targeting radio and TV stations.
To date, most of the Israeli attacks on Palestinian Authority targets have struck me as utterly pointless. I understand their logic, as far as it goes....Anne Applebaum (Slate)
The part that they haven't grasped is that if they turn the USA into Russia, they also lose all the things that were better about the USA. Sure, they'll be at the top of the heap, but it will be a much worse heap.
@juuhaa can we show them all this? mastodon.social/@j2bryson/1142…
Episode 6 really shows you how and why the Oligarchs learnt to manipulate democracy (towards the beginning). But it's also pretty violent, viewer discretion is advised. youtube.com/watch?v=1YogE8ZAVT… #TraumaZone #democracy #US #Russia #ussr
The storm is still afoot. Will have to go on a “safe” route tomorrow. Even though I will be running by one severely affected spot.
Casa da Guia on the photo.
I hear people are doing a surprise-pikachu about Discord's new ad push?
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 🤯
Nobody saw that coming! 
Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June
Discord looks for more ways to make money ahead of expected IPO.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.
Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."
But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.
So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 🤷♀️
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I am not on Discord, and I have no intention of ever setting up an account. I got fooled once or twice by centralized platforms, but I learned my lesson and I am going to avoid being fooled again if at all possible.
And you know what? It is really quite possible.
If more people made a similar decision, it would be even easier. Every little bit counts.
We really refuse to understand how much power we actually do have as far as saying "no" to abusive technologies is concerned.
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@unifex I already said why:
mstdn.social/@rysiek/114201644…
Whatever alternative I suggest, the thread will be flooded with people having opinions on why they are not "good enough."
Personally, I have no interest in getting bogged down in a week-long thread about the minutia of every single possible solution. Been there, this is simply not a productive use of my time.
It's not difficult to find these alternatives, and some have already been mentioned by others in this thread.
Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."
But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.
So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 🤷♀️
@unifex somehow people prefer to spend time coming up with reasons why not to switch, than finding ways to make the switch work in the imperfect world we inhabit.
So I am not going to dive into that kind of discussion.
Instead, I am pointing out that Discord is a proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform that is starting to enshittify – so that people get a nudge to try to find their own solutions. For those that can't be bothered to do that, me offering suggestions would not help either.
@oilheap Slack is also shit for knowledge sharing. People need to stop using Slack as a documentation tool.
Actually, people need to stop using Slack, fulls top. *sigh*
The odd thing is, they've had ads for quite a while now, but I have yet to see one.
What is the FOOS software that can best do what discord does? (This question also applies to Facebook Groups) Mainly making it very easy to create chat, file-sharing and posting spaces, to delegate moderation (many content creators use this "honor" masterfully ... but also in a way that makes me give them side eye about the free parasocial fueled labor)
Qualms aside is there any contender for a best replacement?
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@futurebird best I can do is:
mstdn.social/@rysiek/114201644…
Whatever alternative I point to, there is going to be a million reasons people offer as to why they are not "good enough."
Proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platforms suck the air and funding out of the room, such that ethical, decentralized alternatives have huge difficulty with finding a mindshare.
Either we recognize this and make a conscious effort to support ethical tech even if it's not as slick, or we are doomed to pikachu-face.
Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."
But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.
So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 🤷♀️
#RevoltChat is a pretty good, FOSS, Discord clone (with a timely name). It's not as full-featured as Discord, and it is occasionally buggy (mostly just struggling to keep up with the demand of people switching to it from Discord).
However, the UI/UX is very similar. Almost no learning curve.
Oops ... edit to add: revolt.chat/
Revolt
Find your community, connect with the world. The chat platform that puts you first.revolt.chat
I mean, the enshittification was going on for a while already, with nitro nagging, quests on desktop client (thankfully easy to disable lul), and quite a few other annoyances - the only surprising part is the relatively slow tempo of this going on.
It would definitely be nice to have something decent enough for larger communities - like I guess there is Matrix but I have heard quite a few horror stories about it. At least for a Reddit and trad forums replacement there is kbin and lemmy which I heard work decently well, and for more public social media there is masto/akko/*key stuff - but for instant messaging things seem to be in major pain, which makes me sad.
I'm also not buying plush toilet rolls. They clog up my loo and it's a right pain to unclog it, so it's budget buys, despite all the adverts.
@TheDailyBurble
The point of ads (from large companies) is to create needs. Easiest way to do so is to trigger survival instict: humans are a social animal, so being separated from herd is a death sentence.
If ads don't work on you, it's due to you not being their target segment. They're then easy to ignore. That's why large part of marketing is targeting: that the right people (eg. victims) see the ad.
Ads work. If they didn't, they wouldn't do it. And the cost for society is high.
@iju
I'm not convinced they do work, would need to see solid sales delivery, rigorously researched. I think they can make people aware of products. I'm certainly aware of cars, but I suspect it's diminishing returns beyond that.
Even in a willing segment, inattention to what people want defies any amount of shouting at them to buy. I prefer toilet paper that doesn't clog up my loo, so avoid the plushy stuff.
I was a marketing manager in an earlier life, amongst other of my career.
@iju
The fantasy ads are whale-sales, short term impulse buyers. The (far) bigger market is people who are looking for a product that addresses their needs at a reasonable price.
To get from A to B, I'm never going to need a Tesla (simplifying) but a few percent of people think they do, so you can overprice and underdeliver on that. For a short while.
@TheDailyBurble
We may be speaking past each other. I was talking of products on saturated markets such as cola-drinks or clothes. Also in general international companies are badly in touch with the needs of local populace, so they find it easier to change needs.
I've worked in marketing as well (briefly), but more importantly have two degrees that border the subject.
@iju Cool. I was going to add there's an irritation factor to advertising - people don't like being nagged and just blank out or it induces avoidance behaviour eg ad blockers, or muting channels until the ad has gone. The internet is far from the captive audience people fondly imagine it to be.
Again on a small datapoint, Netflix kept pushing Jeremy Clarkson at me. I don't care how much they overpaid for the series, it was so annoying I unsubscribed and have never been back.
I suppose that's up to you. Never occurred to us to try, and I like self-hosting.
And of course, it's one of those platforms where even companies are starting to switch things to it where users are expected to be required to have an account on it to receive support and such.
But what ticks me off the most are various open source projects and the like using it for their support. I've even seen some that declared they would ignore any issues reported on their actual repository (which admittedly is often centralized and requires an account too, but at least usually is more open than Discord) and only accept messages through Discord.
I've been nagging my friends to let me talk to them elsewhere for years.
I never trusted it, especially after the response I got when I asked them to deal with harassment which started at a server which one of the trust and safety team founded.
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for no maiden nor bee can compare to its brilliance.
On this day, March 17, in 2003 PM Jean Chretien told GW Bush that we would not be participating in their invasion of Iraq, given the flimsy evidence for WMDs and belief that ongoing UN monitoring was effective.
Hindsight showed that to be a solid decision. No WMDs were ever found in Iraq - the war, which claimed between 200,000 and a million human lives (depending on how you count bodies,) was waged under false pretenses.
Then-Opposition Leader Stephen Harper sided with the US.
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@JoBlakely You're confusing your wars. We supported them in Afghanistan as a NATO response. There was a lot of sympathy in Canada for the US post 9/11, and we offered them complete support there.
The US's incursion into Iraq was another thing entirely, not related to the 9/11 attacks. The US argued that Iraq posed a risk for future 9/11-style attacks and had presented highly-questionable evidence that Iraq was working on WMDs.
Canada was a flat no, though some back-channel support did happen.
@JoBlakely Yes, I agree. They were playing to post 9/11 sympathies and were arguing that they were justified in acting preemptively to prevent future terror attacks. At the time the Bush was using fear of chemical/nuclear attacks in major US cities to rally support.
Progressives at the time were saying W just wanted revenge for Saddam trying to kill his dad - a reference to the failed Iraq-sponsored, post-Gulf War assassination attempt on HW Bush that was stopped during Clinton.
Actually, the US knew Iraq had WMDs because Congress had to OK the sales. Yes, they were bought from US arms manufacturers. From reasonable use accounting we knew he still hadn't used them all. The numb skull destroyed the rest without showing UN inspectors the destruction. That was found out from captured records. Even the location where they were destroyed was located.
Still was a stupid reason to go to war.
GW Bush admin wanted to spike oil prices for their supporters. . .
@Eka_FOOF_A For sure this also - pre-Gulf War stockpiles, just to be clear to other readers.
Honestly, I was more partial to the personal vengeance theory at the time.
Bush family made their money from oil. I knew that while Reagan was still president. Many in the Reagan administration were tied to oil. Their main reason for gain the Presidency was to kill Carter alternative energy research grants. Their cronies then bought up control of the now defunded programs and then squashed them.
During the First Gulf war some realized they could make big bucks speculating on oil when disrupting the supply. Hence Bush II and Gulf war 2.
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So Trump can just claim that Canadian military equipment bought from the US are WMDs and grounds for invasion.
Harper and his handlers are some of the most vile humans on this earth.
@Rural_Canadian That it is, that it is. This is the IDU's conquest map off their website. Light blue means they've got a party there, dark blue means they're in power.
Members
Members Member Parties IDU Member Party in Government IDU Member Party not in Government International young democrat union Regional Unions International Women's Democracy Union Union of latin american parties Asia Pacific Democracy Union Caribb…iamdesign (International Democrat Union)
Yeah, and I don't like it. Trump is not independent of Putin. In fact I've long thought he was in the Russian mob.
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no, this is something else. Anyway someone does not write in the exact same handwriting twice, 50 years apart.
Edit, I stand corrected
@FelisCatus @edgeofeurope
I knew it, that I knew the story.
It's from 2017 43 years apart.
""I actually reproduced the sign using a projector and tracing the original onto the new sign," Twyman told PennLive."
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Pa. grandma is a living parallel between Nixon and Trump - and now a viral hit on Twitter
"I'm not a social media person," Duffy said. "I just get a kick out of the grandkids' reaction. I have 10 grandkids and they're having fun with it."Colin Deppen | cdeppen@pennlive.com (pennlive)
Yeah looks like a photoshop. Every single line and pixel are exactly the same. Also perspective is wrong for the writing near 'jail' in the color photo.
Edit: I made the fact check: It is real, went viral in 2017
Here's how she made it: pennlive.com/news/2017/03/pa_w…
and an interview:
post-gazette.com/news/politics… (this Link has often a time-out)
Pa. grandma is a living parallel between Nixon and Trump - and now a viral hit on Twitter
"I'm not a social media person," Duffy said. "I just get a kick out of the grandkids' reaction. I have 10 grandkids and they're having fun with it."Colin Deppen | cdeppen@pennlive.com (pennlive)
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I heard that Trump's ideology is longterism and eugenics, I do agree with the less wars which is a fortunate side effect.
His ideology which also shared by billionaires, think that instead of sending money to places like Africa they should be sent to billionaires who could utilize it more, trickle down economics.
I made a fact check because I don't believe posts without sources (too many fakes in social media).
It's real, went viral in 2017.
Rosemary Duffy's son found her old photo (1974) and copied the poster using a projector tracing the letters. Then they staged the photo according to the old template, it was not part of a rally like in 1974:
pennlive.com/news/2017/03/pa_w…
Here an interview with her: pressreader.com/usa/pittsburgh…
Pa. grandma is a living parallel between Nixon and Trump - and now a viral hit on Twitter
"I'm not a social media person," Duffy said. "I just get a kick out of the grandkids' reaction. I have 10 grandkids and they're having fun with it."Colin Deppen | cdeppen@pennlive.com (pennlive)
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The attack on democracy, civil rights, and 'government for the people, by the people' -- it's funded by the same type of billionaire.
Charles Koch
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Charles Koch’s network launches $20m campaign backing Trump tax breaks
Revealed: fossil fuel billionaire’s Americans for Prosperity vows ‘herculean undertaking’ to renew and deepen tax cutsEd Pilkington (The Guardian)
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It actually was 43 years at the time of the meme. In any case, what a legend.
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New Comic Strip Found: Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for Sun, 16 Mar 2025 gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/0…
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I can now! thank you!
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For #AncientSiteSunday this fabulous aerial view of the Acropolis at #Athens - a site I would love to be right now!
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 11 completed
Cascais maze
#52weeks52halfmarathons #halfmarathon # #running
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Just great #MLB.
Of the first three #Mets games of the regular season, two are not on mlb.tv. And, to thoroughly demonstrate MLB's avaricious disregard for baseball fans, those two games are on two different streaming services.
So, to watch all of the first series, I'd need three, paid streaming services. (If I lived in NY, I'd also need a cable subscription to SNY.)
Way to start the season, you *****s.
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Speed does not equal progress. And movement is not the same as meaning.
In fact, some of the most important parts of life only become visible when we slow down long enough to notice them.
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A great review of Friendica.
I've been trying to write a bit to share with my friends about how happy I am with Friendica as my replacement for Facebook and other closed social media platforms. This person basically said everything I planned to say. While the instance I'm on doesn't seen to have the Wordpress or Tumblr plugins (which I would love), the value of streamlining my BlueSky, Pixelfed, and Mastodon in HUGE! Anyway, sharing this until I can spend some time on my WordPress blog to write up something more in depth.
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#friendica #Mastodon #bluesky #Social Media
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)
A "show and tell" of my favorite features of Friendica, which has fast become my favorite place in the FediverseElena Rossini
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Yes, I met Elena last month, very friendly person. Nice article about Friendica.
I will see if I can enable those plugins on friendica.world
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Thank you. I keep meaning to say hi (to Friendica in general as well as you). I've been busy exploring everything Federated I can find for the past month. Has kept me busy running down rabbit holes and learning new things.
Thanks for all you do. I need to see if I can donate a bit when payday comes around. Really do appreciate you running this instance!
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Default theme changed
I have changed the default theme for Friendica.World.
It is still the 'Frio' theme but now with the 'Bookface' customisation, set to 'Auto Color Mode'.
The auto color mode means it switches between Light and Dark mode depending on your computer's setting.
If you want to change the theme and/or customisation, you can do so here: friendica.world/settings/displ…
You'll find the theme under 'General Theme Settings' and the customisation (Appearance) under 'Custom Theme Settings'
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... disappointment and vengeance that hit you hard only prove how much it meant to you!
It's easy to say this a mere spectator who has often been inspired by your incredible adventures: but just don't be too hard on yourself.
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I followed your dot. I found what you did astonishing.
Often the thing that takes the most courage is stopping when one should. It is always a difficult decision when made and later. But having regrets doesn't mean it was the wrong decision.
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Try to change the theme to Bookface for more familiar look:
Please, go to Settings > Display > Theme Customization > Appearance
-Select either "Bookface Light", "Bookface Dark", or "Bookface Auto"
-(optional) Select Accent Color
-click "Submit" button.
Customizing Bookface for Yourself
Now that more Friendica servers are offering the Bookface scheme fewer people need to use the UserStyles version. But there is still a role for user styles! You can use them to customize Bookface for yourself.
1. Go to Main Menu > Settings > Display > Theme Customization and set it to one of the Bookface scheme options.
2. Using either the built-in option for userContent.css in Firefox, or Stylus for Firefox or Chrome, or Userscripts for Safari, copy and paste this code:
:root {
--global-font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif, Noto Color Emoji;
--nav-bg: #ffffff;
--link-color: #0066ff; /* match Accent Color here */
--nav-icon-color: #65686C;
--background-color: #f2f4f7;
--content-bg: var(--nav-gb);
--comment-bg: var(--background-color);
--font-color: #313131;
--font-color-darker: #333333;
--font-color-lighter: #444444;
--menu-background-hover-color: color-mix(in oklab, var(--link-color) 15%, white);
--border-color: #eeeeee;
--count-color: #ffffff;
--count-bg: var(--link-color);
--attach-file-button: none; /* none or block */
/* LOCALIZE pseudo-element text below */
--sign-in-text: 'Sign-In';
--compose-text: 'Compose';
--save-search-text: 'Save Search';
--follow-tag-text: 'Follow Tag';
--comment-button-text: 'Comment';
--share-button-text: 'Share';
--quote-button-text: 'Quote';
--like-button-text: 'Like';
--dislike-button-text: 'Dislike';
--more-button-text: 'More';
--attendyes-button-text: 'Going';
--attendno-button-text: 'Can\'t Go';
--attendmaybe-button-text: 'Maybe';
--add-photo-button-text: 'Add Photos';
--follow-button-text: 'Follow';
--save-button-text: 'Save';
}3. Edit and redefine whatever you want to change. You can also delete from it anything you don't want to customize. This one block of code will override the Bookface scheme coming from your Friendica instance. But ONLY for YOU.
If your native language is not English, this allows you to localize the Bookface labels to say whatever you want them to. You can enable the hidden "File Attachment" button if you are using that feature. You can change the font Friendica uses. You can restyle the colors so it's all purple and lime green if you want.
Incidentally, if you were already using the UserStyles version of Bookface and your server enabled it as the default scheme, but you never went into the Display Settings to set the theme to Frio > Light or Dark or Black, you've probably suddenly noticed Friendica looks really strange in places. Applying the UserStyles version of Bookface on top of the server-side version messes things up. Either stop using the UserStyles version and just use the server-side one, or make sure you actually set the server to display something other than "Bookface." If you wanted to keep using the client-side UserStyles so you could customize how it looks, you can still do that but with a lot less code just by applying the block above.
More Details on Customization & Localization:
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No File Button In Bookface
This has been in the README file since the start, but as more servers implement the Bookface scheme as the default more people have noticed that the "File Attachment" button is missing from the post Browser. I've replied to some individual posts about it but thought I should make my own post explaining that it is not a bug. It was a UX design decision on my part to purposely hide that button. Why?
There is no interface for actually managing the files you upload and attach. You cannot rename the files, you cannot delete them, and you cannot change the access permissions for them. If you accidentally upload a private file you can't remove it. It will accept several different file types, but uploaded videos have to be quite short due to file upload size limits, and even if that limit is set rather high, file uploads will often fail. If you are attaching both photos and files the interface can appear to be in photo mode but upload the image as a file instead. Again, you can never delete files uploaded in error. You would have to contact the server administrator and have them manually delete the file for you.
Users apparently aren't even supposed to be using this feature, especially to upload videos. According to the Friendica GitHub account the lead developer said this:
"I'd suggest you use PeerTube to post video and reshare from your Friendica account since both support ActivityPub."
Presumably, then, people should also be sharing other types of files by uploading them to a cloud drive somewhere and sharing a link to the file rather than uploading them to their Friendica account.
Years ago there was a video upload button and section in Friendica. Those were removed because none of the current core developers have experience handling video files [source]. They were replaced with the "Media" section but there is still no interface for managing uploaded files.
Bookface is intended to make Friendica friendlier to users coming from other platforms. Rather than expose new users to this incomplete, partially-broken feature I made the UX design decision to hide that button.
When Bookface was just a single user stylesheet I was using the File Attachment feature myself to share it. But I repeatedly experienced the issue with it where if I was both uploading and attaching images and files to a post it would look like it was in "Photo" upload mode but would actually upload the image as a "File" and I can never, ever delete that image file. I initially hid the button to prevent myself ever doing that again.
IMO if the developers are not going to add a File Manager interface to Friendica, than the File Attachment feature should be removed. But I'm not actually part of the Friendica development team so I cannot remove that feature. However I can hide the button for it in my scheme stylesheet.
Showing the File Button
That said, Bookface makes it easy for both Friendica Administrators or end-users to un-hide the button. Bookface hides the button with a CSS variable at the top of each stylesheet. The block discussed in the "Customization" section of the Wiki. Simply change --attach-file-button: none; to --attach-file-button: block; and the button will reappear.
Friendica Admins can either change this at the top of each of the server-side scheme stylesheets or they can add a customization <style> block to the "Frio" theme footer.tpl template file. Friendica users on a server that offers Bookface can override the setting for themselves by adding a custom user stylesheet using one of the methods under "Installing Bookface Userstyles" in the Wiki. It can be as simple as this one line:
:root{--attach-file-button: block;}
Friendica users who are using the Userstyles version of Bookface can edit it at the top of their custom stylesheet.
If you know how to use your browser's Developer Tools you can also "Inspect" the "Photo" button in the Browser and find the "File" button next to it, then temporarily unhide it to upload or attach a file on a case-by-case basis.
Switching Friendica to any other scheme or theme will also reveal the button. Only Bookface hides it.
I hope that clears up the "missing" button for people.
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Then subheads: Tariffs on allies, catastrophic cuts to aid and research, and betraying Ukraine are acts of lunacy.
First sentence: Acting as Putin’s puppet by turning on Ukraine, putting tariffs on allies, destroying diplomacy and scientific research, and decimating the government and economy while resegregating people is tantamount to declaring war on America.
#usa #trump #musk
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As we say: if we bozos can go for it, anyone can!
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Biological Age and Four Trails UpdatesMichael is back in Hong Kong for the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge (Four Trails), volunteering, training, and taking a break from his supplements in an experiment to see how it affects his biological age-…Michael Van Elsberg (Breaking Impossible)
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Chanced on this one while wandering around downtown Cincinnati at dusk yesterday
Sign story here: bl.ag/meet-chuck-keiger-sam-ca…
Sadly, further photography was abandoned after an unsavoury character started making a beeline for me across the parking lot. Maybe I'll get a opportunity to return for some closer shots of the wall...
#Ghostsigns #Cincinnati #Ohio #SignPainters #Painters #Decorators
Meet Chuck Keiger, Sam Caldwell's Cincinnati Walldog
Story of sign painter and walldog Chuck Keiger, painter of Cincinnati's Sam Caldwell ghost sign.Better Letters (BLAG Magazine: Adventures in Sign Painting Craft, Community & Culture)
Observations:
1. My time poking around facebook has shown me how many people manage to make social media a positive tool and means of staying connected and organized despite the software often working against this.
2. To propose that social media be positive and useful is to insist it’s an effective organization tool. This is why big social media is content with their image as a “vice” — that is where they want to be.
3. The positive uses of social media are basically repressed.
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People still need to wake up to the fact that Russia has been running cyber troops on the internet for 20 years.They invest more than everyone else put together on militarily coordinated efforts to persuade public opinion.
There are countless troll farms in tens of countries, paying operators great salaries, run by ranking military officers, controlling millions of accounts.
They. Are. Good. At. What. They. Do.
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I could suggest that there are powerful wealthy people who plot to destroy effective social networks. It can seem that way some of the time. But, this is inventing a romantic opponent, an arch villain with more respect for potential power of "ordinary people" than any of the people who cause these things to happen, mostly without even knowing what they have destroyed.
One advantage we still retain? The people who could stop effective social networks don't really think they are possible.
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A thing I have been trying to do is stop thinking about people's behavior in terms of their intentional motivations and more in terms of "what would this person tend to do, if they act according to the motivations in front of them?"
It is maybe not fair, but I am increasingly questioning how much of what ANYONE does is "intentional". They say "a system is what it does". Is a person a system?
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@mcc one of the most useful meetings I ever had was when we were spinning up a new team, and when discussing things like our testing strategy (geomean or arithmetic mean for composite benchmark scores?) and meeting schedule (daily standup y/n?), the manager would ask “what incentives does this create?”
Vastly more useful way of looking at it than individual preferences
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Totally agree. Back in 2008 I got into a debate with Clay Shirky at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. At the time I was very optimistic about social networks possibilities to create change -- mybarackobama.com was hugely impactful, as was the One Million Strong for Barack Facebook group. His take was that they were going to shut it down ... and that's exactly what happened.
But the potential's still there! It's just a question of how to manifest it ... privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-…
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Make Diseases Great Again!!!!
#AgentBrainWorm #RFK #HHS #PublicHealth #Vaccines #RFKisNoKennedy #RFKPredator #RFKGrifter #USPol
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I'd change the text in the second panel to "Anti-vaxxers lied to you".
Calling these people idiots is not helpful or constructive. Showing them how they've been misinformed may be (I say 'may' because a lot of them are very resistant to the idea that they may have trusted the wrong people)
This might be the highlight of the year: I got tickets to see Cate Blanchett perform in "The Seagull" at the Barbican in London! 😱😱
All the tickets had been sold out for months, and they just released few new ones today. OMFG, this is absolutely incredible—I’m so excited! 🤩🤩🤩
You might still be able to find a few tickets from today’s release here: barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…
THE SEAGULL | Barbican
Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke make their return to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier's new production of Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL.www.barbican.org.uk
I celebrated my first month in London by seeing Cate Blanchett live in The Seagull at the Barbican.
I didn’t love the play—felt like a chaotic script—but being just a meter away from her was incredible, and her performance was amazing.
She and Kodi Smit-McPhee (on her right side) also star in the "Disclaimer" show on Apple TV+, which is set in London, and I recommend it!
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Theater, museums, concerts, meetups, and cultural activities are my favorite part of London. Madrid has a great and huge cultural offer too, although it lacks English-language theater and shows, they are in Spanish instead.
I've always felt that Barcelona is way behind when it comes to cultural events and museums, which is a shame.
What I do miss about Barcelona is its fantastic public infrastructure—especially the transportation system—along with its modern public libraries, night safety, and the convenience of having everything packed into a very compact, beautiful and functional city.
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Glad you’re enjoying London!!
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in reply to Jeff Jarvis • • •It seemed from the article that separate from legal effects of the EO, that as DOJ is reviewing whether to drop the charges against the client, being associated with an unfavored lawfirm is worse than just that the lawfirm can't access building or classified material.
Even having the EO blocked wouldn't help when everyone knows DOJ is vengeful in their prosecutorial decisions rather than principled.
Another 1A, freedom of association, is destroyed.
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