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alexproe

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Resident in #Italy for years - am behind @newsfromitaly on X/Twitter and on Mastodon. Toot in English about #democracy, society and more. And I write short scifi stories, some of which appear on Thoughts from Italy on #Medium. Am interested in #politics and #geopolitics plus #technology and a few other things as well. I teach English, hold the odd webinar and do translations from time to time.

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GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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💥🔥

TO REPEAT,

GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!

alexproe,
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@GottaLaff BTW, where was Melania?! 😉

alexproe,
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@GottaLaff What will happen to Trump in the meantime? Jail? He could be a flight risk.

Nonilex, to Law
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Thurs 30 May 2024 🧵 continue

Justice says he believes that the wants him to repeat a significant portion of the .

He will read pages 6-35.

Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.

Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.

alexproe,
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@Nonilex Might this qualify as profiting from a crime?

GottaLaff, to Canada
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Ahem. Attention please.

I am now in . 🇨🇦🍁

That is all.

👏🏻💃🏼🥳💥‼️‼️‼️‼️

alexproe,
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@GottaLaff All the best for the future and let's hope King President Trump the Smelly doesn't attempt to annex Canada because it refused to acknowledge his "stabell jeanious" 😉😁

alexproe, to spain Italian
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While touring #Andalusia in #Spain, I spotted a gleaming tower. Intrigued, I looked it up and found out it was the #Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant which can supply power to 27,500 homes and uses molten salt heat storage technology to keep generating power when there's no sun. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemasolar_Thermosolar_Plant - Perhaps #Italy could do with a few similar plants. #energy

ChrisMayLA6, to money
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Forced cashless society.

Our nearby small market town used to have 3 banks; they're all closed (taking their cash machines with them), and this week one of the two remaining cash machines was removed from the supermarket where it was located.

So, we're down to a single cash machine in an area with a radius (I'm guessing) of around 20 miles.

The cashless society doesn't represent consumer choice, its pace is being forced by financial institutions keen to charge fees on transactions!

alexproe,
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@ChrisMayLA6 In theory, cashless payments already save banks quite a bit of, er, cash, so fees should be coming down or, at the very least, staying the same. Cashless payments enable banks to save a fortune on physical cash management which is expensive - I know having been given figures by people who work in banks.

alexproe, to spain
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is a lovely city. Lots to see, do, eat and drink. Am here for a few days while touring My first time in mainland and I like it a lot so far.

alexproe, to Christianity
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Assuming he has no dark side, this late priest appears to be a very example of : Frans van der Hoff obituary | | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/15/father-frans-van-der-hoff-obituary

ChrisMayLA6, to homebrewing
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Another day, another story to economic disruption from Brexit... this time its the importation of wine.

Possible remarks:

'I didn't see making wine more expensive, on a big red bus'...

Once again Project Fear = prescient prediction

'We can all now enjoy more British wine'!

At last the wine-drinking Brexiters are feeling our pain...

Who cares, I drink beer....

Who cares, we've taken back control.

take your pick... one, some, all!

#Brexit #wine

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/17/complex-post-brexit-tax-rules-means-price-rises-for-wine-drinkers-in-britain

alexproe,
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@ChrisMayLA6 A friend from the UK added this to a WhatsApp message. Seems the #BrexitDisaster message might be getting through, finally!

alexproe, to america
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This is not something the 's want you to read! - > 's Founding Fathers' Is Not What You Think It Is
https://allthatsinteresting.com/founding-fathers-religion

GottaLaff, to random
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I'm scrolling through @atrupar's and Acyn's video clips of 's vile spew at CPAC, now in its 2nd hour..

Sorry to be redundant, but if Biden said even ONE thing in any of those clips, it would be over for him.

Yet Trump has duped The News & all too many voters into accepting him "as is."

I don't. At all. And I am not laughing at him. He's lethal. He's toxic. He's malignant.

And the GOP Fascist Party is right there with him.

We MUST do everything we can to end this nightmare.

alexproe,
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@GottaLaff @atrupar Don't they realise that Trump and the other speakers come across as insane maniacs? Or is that precisely the impression they want to give? These are very weird and people, as well as being well funded and exceptionally well coordinated too. Quite frightening.

GottaLaff, to random
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Klasfeld:

would need to post "a bond in an amount equal to the judgment" to delay enforcement.

Between the civil fraud and E. Jean Carroll judgments, "the immediate question is whether Trump has the liquidity" to post those bonds.

alexproe,
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@mastodonmigration @GottaLaff @drahardja Trump is extemely popular with some exceptionally rich people - they could find the money for him to pay his fines. Am thinking of Musk mainly but there seem to be quite a few more. And, as you point out, Russia could bail him out too.

alexproe,
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@mastodonmigration @TCatInReality @GottaLaff @drahardja Could be wrong but I strongly suspect Trump is very good at managing such funds 😉

GottaLaff, to Bulgaria
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For those of you who thought this story wasn’t being carried by MSM, it is. I’ve seen it everywhere.

AFP—President slammed as "appalling and dangerous" comments by Donald downplaying US commitments to , warning Sunday that the former president intends to give leader Vladimir "a greenlight for more war and violence."

alexproe,
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@GottaLaff Seems Trump is fast heading for full-on looney tunes. With a little luck, and it is a bigly ask, many Republicans will realise Mr Stinky is going to turn voters off and drop him like the old smelly potato he is. Well, one can dream 🙂

GottaLaff, (edited ) to legal
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Totally forgot!! in all caps!

‼️! 🔥 1/…

Via Anna Bower:

BREAKING: DC Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Donald is NOT IMMUNE from prosecution.

UNANIMOUS!!!

alexproe,
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@GottaLaff Not a good day to be 😉

alexproe, to random
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And so it begins. Suspected it might. Post , the unification of Ireland is the logical thing to do: and governments play down Sinn Féin’s calls for united Ireland | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/05/british-and-irish-play-down-sinn-fein-calls-for-united-ireland

alexproe, to random
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scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/deepfake-scammer-walks-off-with-25-million-in-first-of-its-kind-ai-heist/

GottaLaff, to Florida
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🤦🏻‍♀️ “A federal judge in #Florida on Friday ruled that a U.S. law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that expanded gun rights.

U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle,
an 👉🏼appointee of #Trump👈🏼
in Tampa, reached that conclusion in dismissing part of an indictment charging a postal worker with illegally possessing a gun in a federal facility.” #guns #legal
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ban-guns-post-offices-is-unconstitutional-us-judge-rules-2024-01-13/

alexproe,
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@GottaLaff OK, fine. So allow people to take guns into Trump rallies. After all, it would be unconstitutional not to allow them.

ArtBear, (edited ) to politics

Of course democracy is disappointing. That's the design. Gently disappointing everyone trying chart a middle course. Leaving everyone not entirely satisfied, because resources are finite & everyone wants different things.

Good is mildly unsatisfying for everyone. That is the point. The least shitty system we aspire to

Throwing mildly disappointing democracy away, for not being perfect, is insanity.

Democratic void is terrible for nearly everyone, that's it's main feature.

alexproe,
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@ArtBear The big problem with democracy IMHO seems to be that just about any idiot can end up in power. We've seen this in the US and in the UK (and in Italy). To make democracy work, we need politicans of a far higher quality with training and experience. Otherwise, and as we seem to be seeing, democracy will fail. Rant over.

alexproe, to random
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@GottaLaff FYI Gorsuch prior to SCOTUS. Don't know if it's genuine but looks like it. Via Birdsite. Might be an idea to email it to Gorsuch before (if) SCOTUS hears appeal on Colorado decision to exclude Trump from Republican primary.

alexproe, to news
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This is the kind of I like to hear:
New quick, cheap blood test may detect before symptoms appear
https://newatlas.com/medical/blood-test-detect-cancer-before-symptoms-appear/

alexproe, (edited ) to mastodon
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Did I mention one of the best things about is having the ability to posts?! That alone is a good reason for leaving the former bird site. are a wee bit fiddly though. PS Posting via the desktop version is a total doddle with the side menu feature.

alexproe, to chrome
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I recently swapped from Google's browser (over and concerns) on desktop and mobile to the browser. So far, so good. And Vivaldi plays well with Google Docs. Battery on mobile seems to be lasting longer too. I still haven't tried out Vivaldi's feature.

alexproe, to Bulgaria
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Seems UK is trying to slip back into the through the backdoor! EU diplomats hope Horizon deal could be first of many with UK | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/07/eu-diplomats-hope-horizon-deal-could-be-first-of-many

alexproe, to threads
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Will I be moving to ? No way! is behind it and I'm not going to sell my soul to so he can sell it on!

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