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These executive orders collectively take the U.S. away from acting on climate change and risks (nearly 15 orders), attack efforts related to racial and gender and LGBTQ rights and equity, are disastrous for health and science and cybersecurity, and remove the U.S. from many global collaborations and alliances.
Dangerous and dark.
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Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as
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Look, if Elon Musk is banning the word “Democrat” from Twitter Search, it’s about god damn time that the Fediverse improves its social discovery game.

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Amidst my worries about the acute and severe dangers to humans, especially those in marginalized communities, and the world, I still enjoyed this stunning sunrise along my run this morning in Barcelona.
#running #runnersofmastodon #sunrise #amanecer #barcelona
#sunrise #barcelona #running #amanecer #runnersofmastodon

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I don't know how many times I need to say this but I had nothing to do with 'saving' him!
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🎍🍊FIRST TEA & FRESH STARTS🍵🙇‍♂️

Hatsugama (初釜) is the first tea ceremony of the year. As it's a busy time for us in the teahouse, there's little chance for a proper celebration, so instead the youngest members of Camellia hosted an informal gathering to celebrate 'new beginnings'.

#Kyoto #初釜 #Japan

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Tea ceremonies can often seem like sober and sombre affairs, so it was really nice to take these more candid shots of how fun the tea gathering was.

As a team we are rarely together, so events like this are important.
The young members made for fantastic hosts.

#teaceremony #茶道 #初釜 #kimono #hakama #Kyoto #Japan

#japan #kyoto #kimono #初釜 #teaceremony #茶道 #hakama

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What on earth is Nao-san doing with smoking pipes?

Fear not, she hasn't taken up smoking...January 13th was 'Tobacco Day' (たばこの日)😒, and so it's a good chance to show you a 'tabako-bon' (煙草盆 'tobacco tray').
The pipes play a symbolic role in the tearoom.

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Originally the host of the tea ceremony would offer the tabako-bon (煙草盆) during breaks in the gathering, but nowadays it is **mostly** presented as a gesture for guests to make themselves comfortable.

'World No Smoking Day' (世界禁煙デー) falls on May 31st🤔

#teaceremony #茶道 #Kyoto #京都

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The tabako-bon (煙草盆) contains everything you need to prepare, light, smoke and put out a pipe (even cigarettes).
As you would expect, each tea school has a slightly different take on the tabako-bon.

This particular tray belongs to Nao-san.

#Kyoto #Japan #tobacco #煙草盆

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Sweets to start the New Year...prayers for longevity, prosperity, good fortune, and one to celebrate the year of the snake!

#wagashi #和菓子 #crane #pine #ume #snake #鶴 #梅 #松 #巳 #Japan #NewYear

#japan #NewYear #snake #crane #pine #wagashi #和菓子 #ume #梅 #鶴 #松 #巳

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We've received more offers to acquire our platform/assets.

We belong to the people.

Our Kickstarter is launching soon, help us prove that we, the people, can build healthy and vibrant communities, without being controlled by vested interests who don't share our values.

Recent events have proved how vital these open and federated platforms are, help us continue building for the people.

Spread the word ✨

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Street traders, Dublin (1927)
Photo: Keystone View Company / Library of Congress

[Is that George's Street? EDIT: yes it is]

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Global wealth inequality growing worse —
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#WealthInequality #poverty

Billionaires growing richer faster than ever, says Oxfam

Oxfam said trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade, as the richest 1% now own 45% of global wealth, while 44% of humanity lives on less than $6.85 per day.
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Bread and Circuses

2025-01-20 14:00:45

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💵 💵 Business As Usual 💵 💵

When the bottom line means more than the poverty line, when stock and bond futures are more important than our futures, when the investment climate counts for more than the actual climate, this is what you get…

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#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual


Billionaires growing richer faster than ever, says Oxfam

Oxfam said trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade, as the richest 1% now own 45% of global wealth, while 44% of humanity lives on less than $6.85 per day.
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#poverty #wealthinequality @Bread and Circuses
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San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 - residents of Japanese ancestry registering for evacuation and housing, later, in War Relocation Authority centers for duration of the war

#SanFrancisco #Calif #Japanese #JAPANESE #JapaneseAmericans #WorldWarII #WestCoast #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

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#photography #worldwarii #japanese #westcoast #sanfrancisco #japaneseamericans #undefined #dorothealange #calif

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The Pentagon removes a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a corridor of the building filled with paintings of all of his predecessors. nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/poli…
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How we treat friends now — trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate
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#uspol #humanrights #uspolitics #afghanistan #refugees @Nonilex
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Actress Máire O'Neill in "General John Regan" at the Hudson Theatre (1913)
Photo: SCRC Virtual Museum at Southern Illinois University
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#Discourse has an #ActivityPub plugin that federates your posts there to the #Fediverse.

So if you’re running Discourse, you may want to enable that.

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ActivityPub Plugin

:discourse2: Summary Discourse ActivityPub allows you to publish Discourse posts via ActivityPub so they can be read on services that support ActivityPub such as Mastodon.
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#fediverse #activitypub #discourse
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With Big Social sucking up to Trump, it’s becoming more clear that politics there is dictating content.

This is why Tom Allen believes now is the time for the Fediverse to shine.

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IT Essentials: From Facebook to Fediverse

As the world’s biggest social media sites bow to political pressure, is it finally the Fediverse’s time to shine?
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Also, it’s a strange experience looking at this film poster because, when I first watched this film when I was six-years-old, I perceived Diane Keaton as “mom”.

And now? I’m like, “Look at how Diane Keaton had it going on with that business attire.”

Time really sneaks up on you.

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Just in case you didn’t think the oligarchy is real.

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Business, tech CEOs attend Trump inauguration: Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk

Trump's inauguration drew a number of business and tech CEOs, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and even TikTok CEO Shou Chew.
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The right path.

#photography #photographie #fotografie #fotografia
#Art #landscape #Girvan #Scotland #Monochrome #blackandwhite

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Activity on #Pixelfed has slowed down today.

Which is entirely expected now that #TikTok is back. For how long? Well, that depends if they can find an American buyer in the next 90 days.

But either way, a seed has been planted about the #Fediverse.

#fediverse #tiktok #pixelfed

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You all died in 2016. And yes, this is Hell.
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With Anthony Santander about to become a Blue Jay, unless he’s content to toil on some west coast purgatory factory like the Anaheim Angels, Pete Alonso should come crawling back to the #Mets, hat in hand, like Dirk Diggler did to Jack Horner in Boogie Nights.

(And they should take him too, provided it’s on their terms)

#mets

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San Francisco, Calif. Apr. 1942. A scene at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station where the first group of 664 persons of Japanese ancestry from San Francisco, registered before going to War Relocation Authority centers

#SanFrancisco #Calif #first #Japanese #WorldWarII #California #DorotheaLange #American #USWar #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

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The Darkling Thrush

I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.

The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.

At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.

-- Thomas Hardy

#Poetry #Hope

#poetry #hope
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雪の夜の京都
#tokyocameraclub #shrine #kyoto #japan #winter #night #snow
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Chinatown.

#london #streetphotography #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography

#blackandwhite #photography #london #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography

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Kierunkowy 74

Mastodon/Bluesky bridge should work the same for Friendica.

But there is more. There is a Friendica-specific "bridge" to Bluesky, which connects your Bluesky account to Friendica. This makes Friendica a Bluesky client, so you will be able to interact with any Bluesky account (not only these who opted in to federation to Mastodon) - as you will interact with them as a Bluesky user.

Go to Settings → Social Networks. Do you see "Bluesky Import/Export"? If not, ask your admin to add it.

The same thing can be possible with Tumblr (which does not even federate!)

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#MLKJr #biketooter #bicycle

Montgomery Bus Boycott Movement

T he Montgomery Bus Boycott Movement began December 1st ,1955. 17,000 blacks took part in this movement originally, however more and more people joined the group; soon after this movement ended King...
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Steak-osaurus? DNA analysis suggests 57 different varieties. 😜🤣

Outside PPG Plaza, courtesy of the the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. #Pittsburgh

#photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #dinosaur

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I had a meeting this morning in Casa Sayrach in Barcelona.
Just a gorgeous, modernist marvel of a building. Imagine having your office there - and with that much natural light in January!
#architecture #arquitectura #modernism #barcelona
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Edna (or Ethel) Mitzel and Margaret Pigeon were a couple of 18 year-olds who just wanted to “see life”, but ended up in jail in Chicago in Feb. 1924 because they were found “wandering vaguely” downtown after midnight, one of them sporting a black eye.

Photo: Chicago Daily News

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#Tails 6.11 #Anonymous #Linux OS Is Now Available for Download with Critical Security Fixes and New Features 9to5linux.com/tails-6-11-anony…

#OpenSource

Tails 6.11 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Critical Security Fixes - 9to5Linux

Tails 6.11 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for download with support for detecting partitioning errors and fixes.
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#anonymous #opensource #linux #tails

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State Street, Chicago (1975)
Photo: Chicago History Museum
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Nefandous

Seems apt for today in the US

nefandous

PRONUNCIATION:
(nuh-FAN-duhs)

MEANING:
adjective: So wicked as to defy description: abominable, appalling.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin nefandus (wicked), from ne- (not) + fandus (to be spoken), gerundive (verbal adjective) of fari (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1649.

#AWordADay

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It happened again.

I mentioned George Soros and his career in FX markets, and someone called me an anti-Semite.

Wait. Contrary to what my name implies, I’m actually Jewish. I studied at a yeshiva in Brooklyn too.

Also George Soros is an actual person who really did FX trading. I swear to God, people treat him less as a human being and more of an idea—and that, in itself, is kind of anti-Semitic.

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