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Theblueone, 13 hours ago (edited 12 hours ago) to random

US cops never turn out like this at Nazi rallies or school shootings, but against peaceful genocide protesters they bring their very best A game, huh? (Photo: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

GottaLaff, 13 hours ago to legal

NEW #TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

Running a little late, so some preamble included here.

1/…

Tyler McBrien:

At 2:04 p.m., the prosecution strolls back in and lays out stacks of papers, binders, and other documents on the desk.

GottaLaff, 14 days ago to TeslaMotors

#Musk’s Starlink Persists in Unauthorized Areas Despite Shutdown Warnings https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-02/musk-s-starlink-persists-in-unauthorized-areas-despite-shutdown-warnings

Smithsonianmag, 14 days ago to random

How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable Again
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-artificial-intelligence-is-making-2000-year-old-scrolls-readable-again-180984264/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into History @history

OldAndCranky, 1 month ago to random

The fact that I’m 72 and nearing the end of this chaotic life is interesting. I would like to meet and talk with others who are dealing with this transition. It’s fascinating and no one wants to talk about it.

wdlindsy, 2 months ago to oklahoma

"The mother of Nex Benedict — the non-binary Oklahoma teen who was assaulted in a school bathroom and died the following day — is raising doubts about statements released by the local police. …

In a text exchange with Popular Information, Sue Benedict, Nex's mother, said she considered the Owasso Police statement a 'big cover' and believed it was only released as 'something to calm the people.'"

~ Judd Legum

#Oklahoma #trans #NexBenedict

https://popular.info/p/nex-benedicts-mom-raises-doubts-about

Shanitoba, 6 months ago to random

G’nite. Thinking about my mum who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s last month. Didn’t see that coming. Miss her. Wish we lived closer. She called me twice today because she forgot my answer to her question. I better start emailing the content of our conversations. Keep well lovelies. My girls. 🥰

citizencat, 7 months ago to random

How is it that people can be talked into doing things, supporting things against their own best interests?

#fascism

DeanObeidallah, 7 months ago to random

REMINDER to CORPORATE MEDIA: This government shutdown was because last week Trump DEMANDED the shutdown to defund the federal criminal prosecutions of him. That is 100% why MAGA is causing this. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-demands-republicans-shut-government-defund-criminal-prosecutions-rcna111365

MaJ1, 7 months ago to random

@oldredsubby @NormanDunbar @PaulNickson Morning Harry, trust me most of us don’t have the foggiest idea of whats going on either. 😁

SpockResists, 9 months ago to random

Christians in America are so deluded. They still state that America was founded on Christian values.
The reason the Constitution and the Treaty of Tripoli specify that America is not a Christian country was because of…well, Christianity. The Christian Putitanical theocratic community prior to the Constitution had allowed demented Christians to burn, torture, hang and imprison innocent people. The Constitution assured Freedom from that theocratic insanity.

keribla, 9 months ago to random

A few weeks ago I wrote about a trans man who was beaten by a sheriff's deputy, then criminally charged for resisting arrest. The whole thing was caught on 711 surveillance camera.

Yesterday, prosecutors agreed to drop the charges.

Story here: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-11/prosecutors-agree-to-drop-charges-against-trans-man-beaten-by-sheriffs-deputy

leo, 10 months ago to random

I sincerely hope Threads follows through with their plan to federate. It will give other Fediverse users a controlled pipeline to the zeitgeist.

By judiciously following Threaders here we’ll be able to have safe access to the people, news, and brands we could never convince to use Mastodon without having to submerse ourselves into the massive, undifferentiated flood of info over there.

This is a good thing, yes?

markmccaughrean, 10 months ago to animals

If you’d asked me just twelve hours ago whether I hoped to be able to post a picture for #Caturday, I would have said “no”.

I would have said I’d given up all hope of #Tigger coming home after 26 days away 😿

And I would have been wrong 😱

As it is, I’m just amazed & grateful that he returned shortly after midnight last night. Very skinny, but otherwise seemingly well & very loud 😺🥰

Thank you to everyone who kept hoping 🙇‍♂️🙂👍

#CatsOfMastodon

AgentCarter, 11 months ago to random

“When I ran for president, I was told that the days of bipartisanship is over and Democrats and Republicans could no longer work together. I refuse to believe that. The only way American democracy can function is through compromise and consensus.”

Thank you, President Biden

video/mp4

tomw, 1 year ago to random

Mastodon is an incredibly rare opportunity for open-source, non-profit, advertising-free, decentralised software to be a real contender in a category – and, if it continues to grow, even to pull many other social networks into being part of (or interoperable with) the fediverse.

It's strange to me that this isn't mentioned more in the endless opinions about features, onboarding, UX, "vibes" etc.

fraying, 1 year ago to random

Don't let Dorsey launder his reputation by timidly criticizing the obviously horrendous moron he handpicked to sell Twitter to. Dorsey is responsible for driving Twitter into the ground long before Musk made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/29/elon-musk-twitter-jack-dorsey/

rbreich, 1 year ago to random

The next time you hear conservatives complaining about “cancel culture,” remind them that some Republican lawmakers are actually banning books and expelling Democrats from state legislatures.

citizencat, 1 year ago to random

Bluesky was created by Jack Dorsey previous owner of twitter. It is supposed to be based on distributed networking similar to mastodon.
So is bluesky part of the fediverse or will this be a separate entity?

#BlueSkySocial

citizencat, 1 year ago to random

#Sudan
Is this what is happening or is this just #CNN rhetoric?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/africa/sudan-generals-west-democratic-transition-intl/index.html

citizencat, 1 year ago to random

Don't know exactly what to say, but hoping for awareness of the plight of the Sudanese people during this war. There is not much being said on Mastodon.
#sudancrisis
#sudan