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w7voa, 5 months ago to random

Business Post: Twitter/X has instructed staff not to suspend users that post explicitly racist, sexist and homophobic content, or who send sexual material to another person, as part of a new policy that has radically stripped back the company’s moderation of abusive material. https://www.businesspost.ie/news/exclusive-the-x-files-how-elon-musks-new-rules-allow-hate-to-flourish/

StillIRise1963, 1 month ago to random

"The New York Times reports that Trump is planning to 'build huge camps to detain people,' and 'to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget.’ "

"How many people? ‘Millions’ writes the Times. And not just immigrants: Trump is planning to send his enemies to them, too.”

https://www.rawstory.com/hartmann-trump/

SrRochardBunson, 5 months ago to random

Toxic masculinity is the gateway drug to fascism.

thomasfuchs, 28 days ago to random

These absolute fartwaffles can’t conceive of anyone having moral objections to bad things, because they don’t think people who aren’t like themselves have any value.

No, there must be some other reason.

Peer pressure. Not enough sex on campus (yes, really, Google it). Soros paying them. Antisemitism. Brainwashing.

Anything but the simplest explanation: good people demanding that bad people stop what they’re doing.

f800gecko, 9 months ago to mastodon

I’d really love to see the #ONstorm hashtag take root here on #mastodon

I miss the breadth and variety of up-to-the-minute posts available on the sinking fascist platform I can no longer bring myself to use (account deleted). We are under a severe weather watch here in Stratford this evening.

Pls boost if you feel the same.

#Ontario #Canada #weather #wx #ONstorm

f800gecko, 10 days ago to random

Israel, one of the wealthiest nations on earth per capita, can’t afford to feed its two million-odd Gazan prisoners and detainees.

It needs the UN to do it for some reason.

While it bombs and shoots and starves them of food and essential services with billions in American tax payer support.

#gaza #genocide

f800gecko, 7 months ago to literature

Found this little gem in a book lend this morning.

#edwood #literature #Stratford #Ontario #canada #books

Back flap of same paperback with photo of a youthful Ed Wood on one knee outdoors somewhere urban in short sleeves with a cigarette in one hand, the other hand resting on his trouser leg. The accompanying notes read: "TO ME, ED WOOD WAS A CRAZY GENIUS. HE COULD WRITE BETTER DRUNK THAN MOST WRITERS COULD SOBER." - BERNIE_BLOOM, MAGAZINE PUBLISHER A RENEGADE BY ANY ESTIMATION, EDWARD D. WOOD, JR. WAS THE DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, AND SCREENWRITER BEHIND BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (FAMOUSLY CALLED "ONE OF THE UNBEST FILMS EVER MADE"), AND OTHER CAMP CLASSICS. THE AUTHOR OF ORGY OF THE DEAD, KILLER IN DRAG, DEVIL GIRLS, DEATH OF A TRANSVESTITE, AND MANY OTHER NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES, HE ENLISTED IN THE MARINES AFTER THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, AND PURPORTEDLY LATER STATED THAT HE FEARED BEING WOUNDED MORE THAN KILLED BECAUSE HE WORE A BRA AND PANTIES UNDER HIS UNIFORM. HE WAS AWARDED A SILVER STAR FOR HIS ACTIONS AT THE BATTLE OF TARAWA. HE DIED IN 1978 AT AGE 54. OR BOOKS WWW.ORBOOKS.COM COVER DESIGN: BATHCAT LTD.

f800gecko, 1 month ago to Israel

Israel today:

• 2 guys fired for getting Israel in trouble by doing what they’ve been ordered to do and have done many times already, nevermind the journalists slaughtered in a parallel campaign to keep stories like these at bay (hence the obligatory firings).

Gaza today:

Millions bombed, starving, displaced. Thirty-three thousand dead and counting. Unknown numbers crushed, maimed, buried.

Canada remains afraid to decline to participate.

#israel #gaza #fascism #canada #shame

DrALJONES, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

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f800gecko, 3 months ago to Health

Listening to a story on #Belleville being denied provincial help with a sudden spike in drug overdoses.

Has anyone else noticed 99.9% of politics is about cleaning up the mess left by human greed lately? These unfortunate people aren’t on drugs for fun. They go to dope because nothing else has been left for them.

Shame on drug dealer Doug Ford.

And shame on Ontarians for voting in that disgusting, useless, dope-loving human turd.

#onpoli #cdnpoli #health

f800gecko, 9 months ago to ontario

Been a while since I posted some Stratford shots. Here we have:

1. Fishpond, Festival Theatre gardens, west of the main entrance.
2. Stratford railway station.
3. Tom Patterson Island.
4. Tom Patterson Island and Victoria Lake footpath.

More details in the alt text.

#Stratford #Ontario #Canada #photography #Shakespeare #Festival #Theatre

A shot from shoe-level, trackside of the Stratford Railway Station which sits reflected neatly in a puddle from recent rains and festooned with pots of fuchsia hung from its eaves. To the left, the sky and its reflection a soft blue textured with white puffs of fair weather cumulus.
A view of Tom Patterson Island and the arched bridge connecting it to the Stratford mainland. It is dusk, the sky is amber, there are a few strings of lights in the shadows on the island and in the dar foreground a long dragon boat sits moored, awaiting its next crew. The monochromatic amber, the still water reflecting the island and sky, and the boat give the scene a somewhat Oriental feel.
A view of Tom Patterson Island through the willows lining the footpath along the shore of Victoria Lake. The sun is about to set, its disc still blazing in the foliage for a few more minutes. There is a lovely blend of yellow and green and the trees somehow seem especially tall in this light.

f800gecko, 10 days ago to random

If Israeli Jews can see the problem, why can't Canada's prime minister and the president of the United States?

'As [Netanyahu], without looking up, returned to his seat in the front row, another man in the audience yelled "Garbage!"

"He doesn't have the moral right to be here," Galon told CBC News after the ceremony.'

That the CBC has run this story is astonishing. Still no mention of Netanyahu's own calls for genocide, though.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-benjamin-netanyahu-1.7206266

@LALegault

#trudeau #biden #gaza

f800gecko, 10 months ago to Canada

Think about this:

We searched a vast ocean for years for any sign of MH-370, but we can’t take a few weeks to sift a #Winnipeg landfill for two #MMIW victims we know are in there. We’re not even going to try on a limited basis.

This country is still racist as fuck.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brady-road-injuction-hearing-friday-1.6906939

#shame #Canada

f800gecko, 8 months ago to cycling

Soy to the left of me
Cob stalks to the right—here I am
Stuck in the middle with you

#cycling #gravelbike #Stratford #PerthCounty #Ontario #Canada #photography #farming #corn #soy

f800gecko, 4 months ago to Ottawa

The Canadian 'Civil Liberties' organization has just won a hard fought battle to see that out-of-towners can congregate to block roads, make any amount of disturbing noise, defecate and urinate on your property at will, and generally make your city unlivable.

The feds plan to appeal.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-federal-court-1.7091891

#freedomconvoy #ottawa

f800gecko, 24 days ago to random

If you find anti-genocide protests leaving you feeling ‘uncomfortable’, imagine watching your baby bleed out after receiving a dose of US-made shrapnel from a US-made bomb dropped by a US-made airplane in a US-funded, religious-extremist-run ethnic cleansing program.

#gaza #genocide #protest

f800gecko, 19 days ago to random

Spot the difference...

Ten photos from major news outlets depicting the results of Israel's 'defensive' action in Gaza vs. those of Russian-led scorched earth campaigns. Each image is presented as found on the source; no cropping or adjustments applied.

Can you correctly identify all ten locations?

Posts will be updated with photo details when survey closes.

Note: Mastodon does not accept photos in surveys; use next post in the thread to vote.

1/20

#gaza

@LALegault

f800gecko, 22 days ago to random

They don't want you to see.

They don't want you to know.

They don't want you to doing anything about Gaza other than ignoring it, as if a genocide is not in progress.

Will the West follow suit? That we feel compelled to ask tells how dire the situation has become for journalism, both in Israel/Gaza and here at home.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/al-jazeera-israeli-cabinet-decides-to-close-offices-1.7194634

@LALegault

#gaza #genocide

f800gecko, 27 days ago to geopolitics

We really are drifting into #police state territory.

#Poilievre is speaking in tongues to the junior aspirants; they fully understand him.

It’ll grow worse as today’s young men prove unable to adjust to the new #economy (it needs fewer, smarter of them). They’ll feel shamed. Poilievre promises to help them feel better, stronger, more effective somehow—if only by crying ‘no!’ like ranting toddlers.

#cdnpoli

f800gecko, 10 days ago to random

Another shameful whitewash in #CBC racist reporting on #Gaza and the #ICC proceedings this morning.

Dismissal of SA’s ‘allegations’ with zero detail of the evidence being presented (like the man left to die with maggots eating away at the wounds left by a double leg amputation) and a full megaphone given to fascist Israeli government outrage and claims the operation is strictly defensive.

We are the ordinary people blithely carrying on with our lives like those before us you-know-where.

f800gecko, 1 month ago to journalism

Notice how the CBC site includes links to ‘related’ items with each news piece.

Somehow, CBC has managed to go a full business week without including or updating or re-upping the mass-graves-beside-Gaza-hospital story.

It’s called #complicity

It’s called systemic #racism

It’s called #media #manipulation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/pro-palestinian-encampment-mcgill-1.7187290

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-khan-younis-israel-war-1.7181040

#gaza #genocide #canada #trudeau #poilievre #cdnpoli

f800gecko, 5 days ago to journalism

A subtle change in #CBC phrasing here:

"Israel is retaliating against Hamas in Gaza — an enclave of 2.3 million people — over the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian militants where more than 1,200 people were killed and over 150 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies."

("According to Israeli tallies" is new.)

Will it last?

"Enclave" is unhelpful though; it's a confinement zone.

Complaining & writing to politicians helps. That's the only reason this might be changing.

#gaza #media #canada

f800gecko, 4 days ago to Canada

Money talks.

This is literally money talking and feeling it has been disrespected by someone expressing their opposition to further killing after 35,000+ Gazans (at least half women and children) have already been slaughtered and seen their open air confinement zone razed in reply to the Oct 7 loss of 1,200 Israelis.

We have here a picture of exactly the calculus our politicians are using to assess their larger interests in relation to Gaza.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ernest-rady-letter-valedictorian-speech-university-manitoba-1.7211096

#gaza #canada #media

msquebanh, 5 days ago to Canada

👍👏

#NDP Leader #JagmeetSingh says #Canada should not only support decisions by the #InternationalCriminalCourt, it should also execute its arrest warrants. This comes as the #ICC is seeking arrest warrants against #Israeli and #Hamas leaders

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.4231663

#CDNpoli #Palestine