Take Action: Stop Congress from Overriding D.C.’s Budget;
Take Action: Stop Congress from Overriding D.C.’s Budget;
The Senate votes TODAY (March 12) at 10 AM ET!
Click here for details from DC Counsilmember Robert White's office
#DC #WashingtonDC #resist
Boston International Women's Day 2025 Dance Flash Mob / Protest outside Tesla
VIDEO: Boston International Women's Day Dance Flash Mob 2025 (YouTube)
Quoting the video description:
"On International Women's Day, March 8, 2025, Boston ROSE as part of the One Billion Rising call to action. Performing inside the Prudential Center and outside a Tesla showroom downtown, over 200 dancers and allies showed the power of movement and joy, claiming our bodies and showing we will not be silenced."
#resist #dance #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Elon #ElonMusk #Musk #WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #protest #rally
Microsoft to shut down Skype
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#news #technology #communications #Skype #Microsoft #software
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Anyone have video of last night's music & poetry at Bloombars?
If anyone has video of last night's music & poetry at Bloombars (Washington, DC, February 26, 2025), please post somewhere other than Instagram and let me know.
Thanks.
(I cannot reach Instagram.)
03/02 People's Music Network, DC @ Bloombars
People’s Music Network, DC Chapter Monthly Song Circle
Bloombars, 3222 11th St., NW, Washington, DC 20010
What to bring:
* a song to share, your voice, or an instrume nt.
* vegan snacks to share
bloombars.com/
peoplesmusic.org/
#music #WasningtonDC #singalong #SocialJustice #live
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TONIGHT 2025-02-26 7:00 PM ET - Bloomars, Washington, DC - music / celebration
TONIGHT - Wednesday, February 26, 2025 7:00 PM at Bloombars (3222 11th St NW, Washington, DC 20010) - a non-profit community space.
Vegan pot luck, jam session, open mic, or whatever the mood calls for. The celebration is that "we are still here, and have the ability to come together in person" to quote John Chambers. No alcohol.
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BloomBars, an art space where people blossom, is dying on the vine
From The Washington Post, August 29, 2024
BloomBars, an art space where people blossom, is dying on the vine
The quirky community hub is for sale in a tax auction, and supporters are rallying to save a place that has launched Grammy winners and poet-lobbyists.
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20…
TONIGHT - Wednesday, February 26, 2025 7:00 PM at Bloombars (3222 11th St NW, Washington, DC 20010) - a non-profit community space.
Vegan pot luck, jam session, open mic, or whatever the mood calls for. The celebration is that "we are still here, and have the ability to come together in person" to quote John Chambers. No alcohol.
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The quirky community hub is for sale in a tax auction, and supporters are rallying to save a place that has launched Grammy winners and poet-lobbyists.
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20…
Industrial Bank is one of two American financial institutions that allows incarcerated individuals to open savings, CD & retirement accounts.
nextcity.org/urbanist-news/ind…
#prisoners #inmates #banking #WashingtonDC
This Black-Owned Bank Is Disrupting Recidivism With Financial Education in Prisons
Industrial Bank is one of two American financial institutions that allows incarcerated individuals to open savings, CD and retirement accounts.nextcity.org
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🤣🤣🤣 Vive la Résistance! 🤣🤣🤣
Breaking news from WIRED:
TVs at HUD Played an AI-Generated Video of Donald Trump Kissing Elon Musk’s Feet;
On Monday morning, TV sets at the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development played the seemingly AI-generated video on loop, along with the words “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING".
wired.com/story/trump-musk-hud…
#resist #humor #news #BreakingNews #UnitedStates #politics #technology #ArtificialIntelligence
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@deafferret Smashwords is DRM-free (and they’re having their big sale from Sunday, so a good chance to try a few books cheaply)
Kobo leaves it up to the publisher/indie whether to tick the DRM box or not
#WritingCommunity where else do you sell your books DRM-free?
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I have my own Payhip store, which delivers ebooks through BookFunnel - no DRM.
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hahahahah i cannot WAIT for the mpaa and the riaa to break out into hives over this.
in fact, if this works out for meta, i see a bunch of class action lawsuits targeting the mpaa and riaa to pay restitution for all the grandmas and other random people they sued and intimidated since metallica showed us who they really are
Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding
Meta’s copyright defense may hinge on court ignorance of torrenting terminology.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Inforsec 101 for Activists
#resist
Infosec 101 for Activists
Website: https://infosecforactivists.org/ Introduction America has a strong tradition of activism, dating back to slave revolts and indigenous uprisings even before the founding of the United States. Today, activism in the US remains critical.Infosec for Activists
Amazing music videos from the Folk Alliance International conference
It's probably a mortal sin to post this here, but sometimes exceptions should be made: Follow the Facebook posts of folkorist Stephen Winick and ethnomusicologist Jennifer Cutting, both of the Library of Congress's American Folklife Center, and bandmates in Jennifer Cutting's OCEAN Celtic Quartet for some AMAZING music videos! Currently posting videos from the Folk Alliance International conference in Montreal.
(See their timelines for similar posts from previous years.)
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Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…
#MadKingDonald #news #KingOfFools #politics #UnitedStates #dontatorship #dictatorship #resist #fascism
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If Ukraine would have just made a deal with Russia...
theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…
#MadKingDonald #news #UnitedStates #Ukraine #Russia
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Wed. Feb. 19, 2025 - Hands Off Our Healthcare Research Rally
Wednesday (TOMORROW), February 19, 2025 3:00 PM
HHS Building, Washington, DC
Rallies are being held across the country to protest the funding cuts to science and the illegal firing of federal workers.
Please join if you can. We need to show that many people oppose these destructive attacks on science and healthcare.
#Resist #WashingtonDC #HHS #MadKingDonald #PresidentMusk
"Not My Presidents Day" Washington, DC, February 17, 2025
Two hours and 15 minutes of footage from ABC 7 News (WJLA):
youtube.com/live/na6dHBG6mes
#news #politics, #UnitedStates #protest #fascism #fiftyfiftyone #MadKingDonald #PrimeMinisterElon #PresidentMusk #VicePresidentTrump #resist #video
VULGAR DEMAGOGUE
VULGAR DEMAGOGUE
Book blurb for "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis (1935)
"Vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected.. He was an actor of genius"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%2…
#Fascists #Nazis #UnitedStates #politics #PresidentMusk #VicePresidentTrump #broligarchy
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The GUARDIAN: "This is a coup"
In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…
#coup #resist #MadKingDonald #PresidentMusk #felon47 #fascism #news #politics #UnitedStates
Not My Presidents Day protest - February 17, 2025, 12:00 NOON, Washington, DC
FLYER:
Presidents' Day Protest
To uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach
Monday, February 17th, 12:00 NOON
Union Square / Capitol Reflecting Pool;
(3rd Street NW, Washington DC, US Capitol steps)
Walk times:
Capitol South - 16;
L'Enfant Plaza - 12;
Federal Center SW - 8;
Archives-Navy Memorial - 13;
Judiciary Square - 10;
Union Station - 25;
Edward Bernays on Propaganda and Public Relations
Mad King Donald offers asylum to South African white supremacists
Trump’s asylum offer to South Africa’s white minority follows years of AfriForum lobbying on Elon Musk’s behalf
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…
#Nazis #politics #UnitedStates #news
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Let's face it, Europe (and other parts of the world). The USA is not our ally anymore. Trump and his robber barons have their own agenda (if they really have one, I can only see short-sighted action causing immense damage and chaos).
The earlier we accept this and act accordingly, the better for all of us.
This is my very personal opinion.
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"This is my very personal opinion."
No, it isn't. I suggest editing that out. It's not an opinion...
It's a fact.
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oh interesting, I guess I didn't realize that be only on the color displays had different speeds than when using color.
I appreciate you sharing your story and spreading awareness of amz ebook practices. I have been sideloading ebooks forever, and I'm glad more people are choosing that option.
Harvard Law announces Data.gov archive
In addition to the data collection, they are releasing open source software and documentation for replicating their work and creating similar repositories.
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…
#OpenSource #law #FOSS #preservation #archive #government
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“We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” Harvard Library Innovation Lab (via BlueSky)
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…
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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on source.coop. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archi...lil.law.harvard.edu
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Documentary film on Sly Stone "The Burden of Black Genius"
Questlove’s probing new film looks at the incredible life and works of the one-of-a-kind talent while also taking a broader look at the specific difficulties faced by Black artists
theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/…
#music #documentary #film #sly #SlyStone
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How do I find the mastodon(?) feeds I'm following?
I'm completely new to Friendica and finding it horribly confusing. (No problems with Mastodon, PeerTube, etc. and a Linux user since 1994.) At some point, I subscribed? followed? suggestions that weren't Friendica but were Mastodon? (I think.) Now, I cannot find them or how to unfollow them.
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Hmmm... I thought I'd started following some flipchart / flip-something thing, and it seems that a lot of the feed I see comes from such a source, but the contacts doesn't list the that as one of the feeds I'm subscribing to. So, maybe my beer- and age-addled brain is misremembering.
(Also, I see the heading "3 contacts" with four contacts listed under it. These are the kinds of things that gives one pause. 😉)
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Stepping into the spotlight
I've started to step out a bit in my dotage, and am making a few of my music recordings available in various places. Among them PeerTube.
#music #videos #performances #compositions #OpenMics #recordings
02/17/2025 - Carbony Celtic Winds coming to the House of Musical Traditions
Carbony Celtic Winds coming to the House of Musical Traditions, 7010 Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, MD, Monday, February 17, 2025. Owner Rob Gandara will be there plying his craftmanship.
#DC #WashingtonDC #music #carbonfiber #flutes #tinwhistles #irish #bagpipes #TakomaPark #SilverSpring
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