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Strandjunker, 3 days ago to random

Between Dolly Parton’s quiet COVID research fund, BLM support, and her sending generations of children books through the USPS, she continues to be one of the most relevant and wonderful people of every era. — Dolly represents the best of America, while Trump represents the worst.

kde, 3 days ago (edited 7 hours ago) to kde

You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

• Krita is your new design/painting app
• Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
• glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
• digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

• Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
• Scribus - layout like a pro
• GIMP - need we say more
• Blender - ditto

@kde

warandpeas, 2 days ago to random

That cat on the left is up to something.

nixCraft, 3 days ago (edited 9 hours ago) to random

Remembering Alan Turing, died on 7 June 1954, victim of prejudice and ignorance 💔 He was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist and is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artiticial intelligence. He was also homosexual in a time when homosexuality was illegal. After his conviction he was given a choice between chemical castration and prison. He chose chemical castration, and later chose to kill himself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

rbreich, 3 days ago to random

Unemployment has been at or below (mostly below) 4% since the end of 2021.

4 years ago, Trump called it "joyous" &"stupendous" that unemployment was only 13.3%.

In the "booming" Reagan years, unemployment averaged 7.5%.

Pres. Biden is presiding over historically strong growth.

the_etrain, 3 days ago to random

Can't wait to one day tell my grandkids how I was on Mastodon in November of '22. They'll probably get sick of me talking about it.

GottaLaff, 3 days ago to random

🎯
Via Kyle Griffin:

In his meeting with Volodymyr #Zelenskyy, President #Biden apologized for delays in security funding — blaming conservatives:

"I apologize for those weeks of not knowing what's going to happen in terms of funding, because we had trouble getting the bill that we had to pass … some of our very conservative members who were holding it up."

TonyStark, 3 days ago to random

Great. Appoint a couple of people who blindly support a guy who stole government secrets (which he confessed to and shipped the evidence that he had done so directly to the government he stole them from) and left them lying around a public country club where literally anyone could see them to the Intelligence committee.

I hope people are paying attention to this.

Speaker Johnson makes outlandish picks for key intelligence posts:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/speaker-johnson-makes-outlandish-picks-key-intelligence-posts-rcna155681

StillIRise1963, 3 days ago to random

White supremacists raped Black women with impunity until the end of Jim Crow. Any Black man who supports them is no kind of fucking man at all.

ErikUden, 3 days ago to random

Pokémon Go to the Polls, Folx!

mcc, 3 days ago to random

I'm having a technical problem. This would be a great time to have access to services such as Reddit and Stack Overflow as opposed to those services now being traps that exist to sell your words to sketchy businesses so the sketchy businesses can eat the delicious statistical relationships therein and use them to sound more plausibly like humans when they're telling you to eat rocks

RickiTarr, 3 days ago to random

I love when the world tells older women they are becoming irrelevant and invisible, and they're just like, Good, now I can do what I want, and no one will bother me.

DemocracySpot, 3 days ago to animals

📷 9:55 AM | 82º F

#FediversalPictures #DogsOfMastodon

DemocracySpot, 3 days ago (edited 13 hours ago) to animals

📷 Gus, after a bath this afternoon. He's extra shiny and happy!

#FediversalPictures #DogsOfMastodon

arstechnica, 3 days ago to random

Vaccines don’t cause autism, but the lie won’t die—in fact, it’s getting worse

Vaccine misinformation persists as measles cases are soaring.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/vaccines-dont-cause-autism-but-the-lie-wont-die-in-fact-its-getting-worse/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

GottaLaff, 4 days ago to random

Via Jon Favreau:

1. Republicans block a bill that would protect contraception

2. Trump floats jailing his opponents; an informal advisor suggests executing them

3. DataProgress poll: 63% of swing voters have heard little to nothing about Trump's guilty verdict

May I humbly suggest that Biden supporters use their feeds to put some of this info in front of people instead of continuing to complain/amplify stupid WSJ story …?

152 days to go. Lots of work to do. Gotta pick our battles wisely.

DemocracySpot, 3 days ago to Flowers

📷 Camellia, March 2024.

#FediversalPictures #Flowers #Bloomscrolling

evan, 3 days ago (edited 3 hours ago) to random

The term "the Fediverse" refers to:

#EvanPoll #poll

ElleGray, 4 days ago to random

Personally I think we should go back to making beautiful hair accessories that have little swords hidden in them. I could have used this twice yesterday

(Designer Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) Paris)

Nonilex, 4 days ago to Law

#SCOTUS Justice Samuel A. #Alito Jr. has offered multiple accounts of how politically charged flags [#insurrectionist flags] came to fly outside his homes in VA & NJ — the type of display that is generally off-limits for judges, who must remain #impartial & avoid even the appearance of #bias as they handle cases.

#law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/05/justice-alito-flags-unanswered-questions/

RickiTarr, 4 days ago to random

Finally, a gentle way to sweep my kittens!

ElleGray, 4 days ago to random

Father's Day is coming up and my advice for gift giving is: BINOCULARS. And I'm not kidding at all. Versions available for every budget and everybody loves them. Concerts, stargazing, lying in the grass and looking at bugs. I've bought them for people aged 3 to 89 and they were always a hit 🙂

TonyStark, 4 days ago to random

I really prefer not to use my time talking at all about this guy but at the same time, it’s very dangerous to ignore this.

It is also disgusting that no one in his party has the decency to call him out. They are all complicit.

“It's very possible': Trump floats imprisoning his political opponents:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-floats-imprisoning-political-opponents-rcna155543

GossiTheDog, 20 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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