benroyce

benroyce, 12 days ago to politics

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68992293

"#Trump's youngest son #Barron 'declines' to be #RNC delegate, his mother #Melania says"

This was mom's decision I think

Melania seems a little angry. Gee, I wonder why 🤔

Those divorce papers are already typed up and ready to be sent to orange sh**bag, and I think they're coming overnight Fedex on November 6

It's likely Barron will be a #GOP ghoul, but wouldn't it be a gas if via his mother's bile he becomes a critic of #MAGA and #Republicans?

#Politics #USpol

benroyce, 1 month ago to random

Those of us of a certain age remember when #rawmilk used to be a thing of crunchy hippies. Much like #antivax nonsense as well.

Of course, the antivax crowd are mostly #MAGA types nowadays, and, guess what? MAGA recently went gaga over raw milk.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/10/the-alt-right-rebrand-of-raw-milk-00145625

1/2

benroyce, 2 months ago to France

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-ukraine-western-troops-remarks/

#France stronk

💪😤🇫🇷

Thank you #Macron

#SlavaUkraini #ViveLaFrance

benroyce, 2 months ago to Ukraine

"#Macron Ready to Send Troops to #Ukraine if #Russia Approaches #Kyiv or #Odesa."

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/29194

Macron understands.

The entire charade of "give Ukraine just barely enough to hold on" just extends the war and its suffering. You need to speak in the only language #Putin understands. Too many in the West think avoidance works, that you can manage Putin from a distance and he'll just... go away.

No. The mob boss just sees weakness and he is emboldened to do worse.

Thank you Macron.

benroyce, 2 months ago to Russia

I had no idea about this.

So much effort is put into agent provocateur efforts by #Russia .

RIP Shafiqah.

Thank you for exposing how #disinfo campaigns work to smear, debilitate, and divide.

"Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought #Trolls on #SocialMedia, Dies at 46

When the hashtag # EndFathersDay began trending on #Twitter, she realized it was more than a joke. It was a coordinated disinformation effort."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/shafiqah-hudson-dead.html

edit: paywalled and important, so i'll copy paste below...

benroyce, 4 days ago to Ukraine

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lekp48n78o

The great irony:

#Putin, in his #imperialist #ethnofascist venom to make #Ukraine a loyal lapdog vassal to #Russia, has succeeded in making Russia a loyal lapdog vassal to #China

China, still bitter over 百年国耻, its century of humiliation, has not forgotten that the imperialist #colonial power that took the most land from it was Russia

And now, with a few desperate, obsequious hugs from the downtrodden mafia ghoul Putin, #Xi takes it all back, and heck of a lot more

benroyce, 16 days ago to twitter

I've been pretty tolerant of people still on #Twitter

I'm now going to full intolerant

#ElonMusk recently reinstated the account of an outright #Nazi

GET. THE. FUCK. OFF. TWITTER.

It is a Russian #troll farm, #racist, #bigot paradise. Stop feeding this cesspool!

GET. THE. FUCK. OFF. TWITTER.

NOW

benroyce, 1 month ago to gay

this is for all the cynics on the left. all those toxic idealists who go "if it's not perfect i'm not playing"

you have to fight for everything in this world. never sit on the sidelines

the enshittification of our world is not automatic. unless enough of you sits things out

the first #gay Senator in #Nebraska just gave a speech so powerful, the #conservatives who cosponsored anti-#transgender legislation abandoned it

fight. show up. win.

AND #VOTE

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/conservative-co-sponsors-abandon-their-own-bill-after-gay-politicians-powerful-speech/

benroyce, 2 months ago to Ukraine

For those worried about escalation in #Ukraine, recognize that if #Russia wins, it is emboldened to go further. You aren't dealing with a rational actor in the leadership of Russia, you are dealing with #fascism. The best way to minimize the chance of WWIII is for Russia to lose the #UkraineWar.

I won't tell you the chance of nuclear conflagration is zero. But I will tell you that yielding to nuclear threats only ensures more threats. Bullying only learns when it loses.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/27/war-in-ukraine-president-macron-doesn-t-exclude-sending-troops-on-the-ground-announces-missile-coalition_6562295_4.html

benroyce, 16 days ago to random

I was told following a lot of people is a sign of inauthenticity

But I like the firehose of content

I'll wade into it and get swept away to parts unknown. Isn't that the point of social media, discovery?

And you can make a list for posters you don't want to miss

Someone says something funny... I feel like following them

Why not? Who cares? Are there magic rules here?

FUCK IT

I'M GOING TO FOLLOW EVERYONE!

(Unless you're a "both sides the same" troll/ idiot, then I'm blocking your ass)

benroyce, 1 month ago to random

Now that American support for Ukraine has been rekindled, let's talk about the degradation and defeat of Russia, since it is back on the menu.

Remember this woman, she is the canary in the coal mine for Russia's fall. Her name Elvira Nabiullina, Head of the Central Bank.

1/x

benroyce, 20 days ago to France

Fellow armchair generals of Mastodon, help me out:

What is #Macron up to?

I don't believe he is going to send #France forces to #Ukraine. But he's said this a couple of times now.

But if he did... outside of #NATO... and only support in the far rear to relieve Ukrainians to fight, not direct confrontation with #Russia...

{ruminating}

No, Macron is just playing a sly game, messing with #Putin. Right?

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/32010

benroyce, 22 days ago to mastodon

I need the help of #mastodon #philosophers.

Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?

It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).

Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: #philosophy war.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/german-chancellor-accuses-putin-of-misusing-philosopher-immanuel-kants-teachings/articleshow/109561696.cms

benroyce, 8 hours ago to ai

this is not #AI

this is not a scene from a movie

this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in #portugal a few days ago, may 18/ 19

fucking amazing! positively biblical

#space #meteor

experts say it was a #comet fragment, a few feet wide

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/blue-meteor-falls-through-the-sky-over-spain-and-portugal/news-story/7bd39d794d6a5e79feade5723e4d4787

amazing meteor video

benroyce, 3 months ago to Russia

Husband and wife move to #Russia from #Canada with 8 of their kids because Canada has scary scary gays and trans people. Now their Russian bank won't release their money to them.

Once when I was a kid I stuck a bicycle pump in my mouth, pushed the plunger down, and proceeded to projectile vomit because I opened the sphincter between my stomach and my esophagus with the pressure.

At that point in my life I was a cosmic level genius compared to these two walnut brains.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224293/--Christian-family-moves-to-Russia-to-escape-LGBTQ-and-now-can-t-get-out-of-their-living-hell

benroyce, 1 month ago to iran

With #Iran attacking #Israel, I'd like to point out the concept of a side channel attack in intelligence gathering

This is the Papa John's Pizzeria near the #Pentagon

notice something interesting about the little "busier than usual" indicator

and, why would that be, gentle reader?

benroyce, 2 months ago to Women

Seventy seven #women #BletchleyPark codebreakers from #WWII revealed for the first time.

Many of them took the secret to their graves.

"Whenever one of the graduates, Jane Monroe – a #mathematician who worked in #cryptanalysis in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, deciphering the coded messages sent on German Enigma machines around the clock – was asked what she did during the war, she would always say: “Oh, I made the tea.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/cambridge-newnham-college-alumnae-bletchley-park-codebreakers

#womenintech #womenshistorymonth

benroyce, 12 days ago to hungary

"Fun" fact about #Hungary:

While most Western countries are concerned with extrajudicial security personnel from #China going after Chinese dissidents and other interference via secret police stations, Hungary just went and signed a deal with China: "lol, police from a totalitarian country officially patrolling our streets? sure thing"

Now #Xi is visiting #Orban

And these "police" are tearing down #Tibet flags

And #EU flags

Hungarians WTF? Your country is a joke

https://dailynewshungary.com/chinese-volunteer-gendarmes-flags/

benroyce, 2 months ago to Russia

The Terminator 2 theme song was played after Navalny's coffin was lowered into the ground.

" [#Navalny ] thought The #Terminator2 was the best film in the whole world," his spokeswoman Kira Yarmish said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-68445602

understandable musical choice:

mournful yet optimistic, stoic and resolved

Terminator 2 also released in #Russia on Christmas Day 1991, the same day the #SovietUnion officially dissolved

benroyce, 2 months ago to TikTok

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/congress-tiktok-ban-00146229

#Trump does a 180 and now miraculously defends #Tiktok

so #JeffYass (the #conservative investor in Tiktok and a major #GOP donor) apparently gave the Trump campaign a big donation

#tech #USpol

benroyce, 14 days ago to random

The Fermi Paradox says we should have contacted alien life by now

The Great Filter says we haven't because a civilization's capacity for self-destruction increases to certainty over time

I thought for us it would be an exotic technology or scientific discovery that instantly destroys on a large scale

Nope. Far more depressing and mundane

We simply watched ourselves destroy our climate and lacked the will to do anything about it because someone was making money off it

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

benroyce, 8 days ago to H5N1

people are aware that #h5n1 is in cow's milk

i made a few posts that #rawmilk is popular with #maga, and this is a possible vector for transmission:

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/112339025056616724

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/112301494616847164

it's far worse than that:

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy

"Mark McAfee, founder of Fresno’s Raw Farm and the Raw Milk Institute, said his phone has been ringing off the hook with 'customers asking for H5N1 milk because they want immunity from it.'"

we live in a world with suicide cults of ignorance

benroyce, 3 days ago to random

'“Do you think her going after your eyelashes, that that, in itself, is racist?” State of the Union host Jake Tapper asked Crockett on Sunday.

“I think her specifically doing it to me, yes, that was the intent,” Crockett said.'

Agreed. It was a #racist dogwhistle.

#marjorietaylorgreene #jasminecrockett #uspol

"Rep. Crockett Says MTG Was ‘Absolutely’ Racist During Confrontation in House Hearing"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jasmine-crockett-mtg-absolutely-racist-1235023649/

benroyce, 18 hours ago to uk

"#UK Prime Minister Rishi #Sunak set to call for #July4 general election"

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/22/uk-pm-rishi-sunak-calls-for-july-4-general-election-sky-news-reports.html

With the #Conservative Party running way behind #Labour, this could finally mean, uh, escape and independence from the #Tories

july 4... independence... tories... uk...

Americans:

#politics

july 4... independence... uk...

benroyce, 3 months ago to internet

#Voltaire's prescient quote on #Fascism and #SocialMedia #Disinfo