aethervision

@aethervision@universeodon.com

Mark Anderson. Forger of image, sound and iron. Co-proprietor of AnderWolfe Farmstead & Forge in Amboy, WA. In past lives, I've worked in most aspects of book publishing (Bookpeople, Ten Speed Press, University of California, Insight Editions, Parallax) as a designer and sales/marketing guy. Moved to video production for tech and mostly worked with VMware. Now I'm building a farmstead and forge in Southern Washington and making knives and other tools in addition to digital sparklies.

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flexghost, to random
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Former governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee:

“If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets”

This is sedition

This man knows what he’s saying

Treat him the way he deserves to be treated.

video/mp4

aethervision,

@flexghost people le like Huckabee and his daughter have been saying that’s since they lost the first US civil war. Granted, it’s weird to see them do it without their white hoods, but I figure the air conditioning was off in the studio that day.

aeva, to random
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Are there any star trek episodes that deal with biological incompatibility with alien computer display color spaces?

I feel like there should be a TNG episode where like Barclay or someone is in a bind on an alien space craft because he can't read a computer screen because the color gamut is entirely UV. The day is saved when Geordie pops by and he can read it just fine with his visor thingy.

aethervision,

@aeva Oddly enough, if anyone can read UV, it’s Barclay because he’s definitely on the spectrum.

aethervision, to animals

Lucky Dog Park, Brush Prairie, WA

Monochrome shot of a large open field surrounded by a barn, trees and clouds.
Monochrome shot of a large open field surrounded by trees and clouds.

georgetakei, to random

So let me get this straight. Mark Meadows testified that he got involved in the fake electors scheme because (checks notes) he would be afraid Trump would yell at him if he didn’t? That’s his defense? Trump is mean and I was scared of him?

aethervision,

@georgetakei If “I was just following orders” didn’t pass muster at the Nuremberg Trials, how the Hell can they apply here?

JulianOliver, to random
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aethervision,

@JulianOliver Punksteading.

futurebird, to random
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Does Mitch McConnell have a family? Does anyone love him enough to talk with him about... the finite nature of life. The preciousness of hours, minutes seconds?

How from dust we all have come and to dust we shall all return?

He could be petting some kittens. Listening to the sound of a child's laugh-- Dude really wants to die in front of us holding a pen mid-way through signing a bill that forces orphans to work in coal mines or something.

aethervision,

@futurebird He’s still shaken from losing his shell. Poor old turtle with a ridiculous amount of power.

Free_Press, to news
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My Gawd McConnell, retire today and get some much needed medical help - members of Congress have the BEST medical coverage taxpayer money can buy!

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell freezes again at a Kentucky event

The Republican leader was silent for more than 30 seconds after being asked if he will run for re-election.

He previously froze during a July press conference.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-mitch-mcconnell-appears-freeze-kentucky-event-rcna102583

aethervision,

@Free_Press I’m confused. Are we complaining because he froze or because he started talking again? Given his track record, I’m leaning towards the latter.

georgetakei, to random

This was the front page of The Daily Tar Heel following the active shooter lockdown at UNC. Powerful. We don’t have to live like this.

aethervision,

@georgetakei I’m pretty sure that when Jefferson said that “tree of democracy watered with the blood of patriots” quote he was 1) Off his nut about the French Revolution and 2) Didn’t mean we use the blood of the innocent as a literal sacrifice you gun-humping idiots.

jayrosen_nyu, (edited ) to journalism

CNN headline today:

"McCarthy starts to plot Biden impeachment strategy while GOP skeptics remain."

What the GROUNDS for impeachment might be is addressed in paragraph nine. CNN thus buries the lede of a more striking story: a vibes-based approach, where you establish first the feeling, "we wanna impeach," relegating the small matter of "impeachment for what?" to later stages.

That's news! Instead CNN frames for us another strategy story.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/28/politics/mccarthy-biden-impeachment-strategy/index.html

#journalism #uspol #science

aethervision,

@jayrosen_nyu I think for clarity’s sake, CNN should split into 2 channels: CNN for new about cable networks because God knows THAT’S compelling and a second channel for their political reporting: EPPN - Entertainment and Political Programming Network because if they are going to cover everything like sports or a movie review, they might as well come out and say so on the box.

pbump, to random
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On Friday, Ramaswamy accused a Black Democrat of rhetoric akin to a Klansman and scoffed at the idea of White supremacists, because this is how he operates. Then Jacksonville happened. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/28/ramaswamy-race-2024election/

aethervision,

@pbump What I appreciate the most about Vivek Ramaswamy is that America is still a place where you can work hard and become an American Psycho no matter where your parents are from. Progress!

georgetakei, to random

White supremacy, racially motivated hate crimes, and the murders of racial, religious and sexual minorities don’t happen in a vacuum. They are encouraged, given life, and ultimately driven by leaders who knowingly deploy the terror to advance and increase their own power.

aethervision,

@georgetakei It all comes down to a former majority terrified that they’ll be treated the same way they treated other minorities.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Good Advice?

aethervision,

@Radical_EgoCom On the other hand, if you really, really, really like Robert Heinlein, have I got a political party for you…

seachanger, to random
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I really respect the love people on here have for their cats, but I personally do not love cats and I have realized that if I filter the word cat, my feed has far fewer cats, and so I see more posts that interest me.

pls take this as nothing other than permission to filter words out of your feeds that could hurt the feelings of others if they knew about it. the feed should feed you

aethervision,

@seachanger If you filter out filters does that make the filters go away or does it create a paradox that would shatter the Fediverse like candy glass on the set of a Western?

RickiTarr, to random
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What if when we said something was profitable, we meant it profited the people it was created for?

aethervision,

@RickiTarr We would need a different word for it.

aethervision,

@RickiTarr I’m not sure it works that way. As we currently consensually exist in a capitalist framework, our language has largely been subverted to reflect the eventuality that everything in the world has been reduced to a relative capital value. To me, capitalism is inherently exploitive, so the meaning of profit supports an exploitive relationship. My concern is that any word we apply will be subverted unless we fundamentally change the framework we describe the world. We need to change the framework first. I am not hopeful of this happening without a major societal disruption. Think of a bunch of kids negotiating to change the rules for Monopoly mid-game and expand that to several trillion players.

vagina_museum, to random
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This week, it was announced that the first successful uterus transplant in the UK has been performed. Let's talk about the past, present and future of uterus transplants!

aethervision,

@vagina_museum I’ve heard the newest thing is having children through artificial wombs made from recycled sea glass. Turns out everyone wants a womb with a view.

Green_Footballs, to random
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And now… the Mark Meadows mugshot.

aethervision,

@Green_Footballs Gee Mrs. Cleaver, I didn’t expect Wally and the Beav would actually try and commit insurrection.

RickiTarr, to random
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It really cracks me up when "Alpha Male" types just make up words. You're not bio hacking, you're on a diet, my dude.

aethervision,

@RickiTarr Unless said Alpha Male fought a full grown wolf for the honor of leading the pack, I ain’t buying it.

stevesilberman, to random
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Don't underestimate the brain-healing power of seeing mugshots of this MAGA filth in custody. Even monkeys are disturbed when they witness unfair behavior; for years now, the GOP has been treating grifters, liars, and frauds like heroes. It's one reason the world has felt broken.

aethervision,

@stevesilberman Worst version of the Brady Bunch ever.

Alice, to random
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Hi, Mastodon. I’m going to be online for the next fifteen minutes, so please post and boost all of the funny stuff right now.

aethervision,

@Alice Crap. Saw this about a half hour late. Too bad. It was an utterly brilliant joke, the kind that’s like just now noticing a door in your living room you’d never noticed before and opening it to find a sunlit meadow blanketed in wildflowers. Ah well.

MissingThePt, to random
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"Twitter/X plans to disable the block feature, impacting both user experience and safety.”

"There's this alternative called Mastod-"

"And it’s beholden to one vain, insecure, capricious man obsessed with fighting Zuck."

"There's this federated option Mast-"

"Not to mention it refuses to suspend pro-Hitler accounts and unsuspends CSAM accounts because it’s lucrative."

"The non-profit Ma-"

"Welp, nothing to be done about Twitter/X I suppose, might as well stick it out on this hellhole."

aethervision,

@MissingThePt Cut to a shot of a parakeet screaming bloody murder to get back in its cage.

Free_Press, to mastodon
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aethervision,

@Free_Press Four legs good, two legs bad.

atomicpoet, to random
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When I was training in a boxing gym, I noticed that so many fighters compared what they did to chess.

And I always thought such comparisons were silly. Yeah, both boxing and chess are about strategy. But the strategy is so different, this isn’t a case of an apples-to-oranges comparison, but of an apples-to-kangaroo comparison.

Then I started watching chess commentary videos. Bizarrely, I’m noticing the same thing. Chess players compare what they do to boxing.

aethervision,

@atomicpoet I have this image of a young, skinny Sylvester Stallone running to the top of the stairs in Phillie, turning towards the city for the triumphant view as the music swells only to half collapse as he reaches inside his backpack for his inhaler.

JamesGleick, to random
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This AP story demonstrates how eager some political reporters are to say Trump’s crimes don’t matter. It says the electorate is divided. It says “about half” approve of the indictments. It quotes three of the people polled: all Republicans.

In fact, only a dwindling minority are still able to defend Trump. If you skip the prose and look at the ACTUAL POLL RESULTS, you learn that only 15% of those polled said Trump did “nothing wrong” in Georgia and 21% at the Capital.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-poll-georgia-elections-b6140eed88b3153e41dbf9e008d5a21b

aethervision,

@JamesGleick A comment I made elsewhere maybe bears repeating: This would be a very different world if journalists took their profession as seriously as they expect us to.

georgetakei, to random

Looks like Jack Smith obtained Trump’s Twitter data, including “some volume” of his DMs. Elon’s people tried to delay production and wanted to tell Trump about the warrant, but they got smacked down and hit with sanctions. Shows whose side Musk was on, huh?

aethervision,

@georgetakei Related: Shocking as it seems, gambling is, in fact, taking place in Casablanca.

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