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thepoliticalcat

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Fleeing HellBirdSite for hopefully friendlier pastures. #Writing #Photography #Cats #Food #Cooking #WorldMusic #LGBTQ #Disabled #NoBridge

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futurebird, to random
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Story Concept: A secret society of paleontologists and archeologists who make a pact that when each of them dies the others will go to wild lengths to stage burial circumstances most likely to be preserved, even fossilized to confound the intelligent life of the far future. This includes weird burial objects, suggestive poses, etc.

They make the pact when young & silly, but as they grow old and carry it out it becomes a much more serious & momentous thing. About keeping promises & friendship.

futurebird,
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@thepoliticalcat

Someone's husband wants a normal funeral so they have to turn to grave robbing digging her up.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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Re the Adobe terms of service uproar, the company is claiming that it's all just a misunderstanding.

Anything is possible, but consider:

  1. Adobe is a longstanding abuser of the "intellectual property" system. (A former CEO once told me that if the company's software could make copyright effectively permanent, that would be fine.)

  2. Every time we hear about one of these licensing "mistakes" it's always -- always -- on the side of giving the company more control, and money.

stevesilberman, to random
@stevesilberman@newsie.social avatar

The best postscripts to an invitation I've ever seen. [via Scott Ruplin]

GottaLaff, to Bulgaria
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

AFP- Centrist groups have retained a majority in the European Union parliament despite high-profile gains by far-right parties: projection

GottaLaff, to random
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

AGAIN.

Via Chris D. Jackson, “ 16 Years Elective Office, TN Election Commissioner, Local Democratic Party Chair, Strategist”:

Caught Paying People to Attend Rally

A Craigslist ad has been found offering payment for people to attend Trump's rally in Las Vegas today.

Remember the video from a few days ago where Trump was waving at a non-existent crowd? It appears EVERYTHING IS A FACADE.

The media wants you to think Trump has enthusiasm, but the facts say otherwise.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Laura Jarrett:

scheduled to be interviewed virtually by probation dept tomorrow for pre-sentencing recommendation/report .

Free_Press, to news
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Victoria and Vladyslav got married in May of 2023. They planned a wedding celebration on their first anniversary. But Vladyslav died defending Ukraine in November.

"I didn't know that I will be bringing a wedding bouquet to you this year, not you to me...I didn't know there would be no more photos together," Victoria wrote. She had a photosession on their first anniversary.

skinnylatte, to random
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io avatar

Related: we are all queer

The only thing more stressful than being a child in Singapore is being a parent

So

Not surprised at all. East Asian patriachies can fuck off

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/rising-share-of-women-staying-single-is-behind-s-pore-s-great-baby-drought

auschwitzmuseum, to random
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9 June 1905 | A Dutch Jew, Eliazar Blok, was born in The Hague. A musician.

On 20 January 1944 he was transferred from Westerbork to Theresienstadt Ghetto, and on 28 September 1944 deported to #Auschwitz. He perished in Dachau in April 1945.

GottaLaff, to random
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But if you’re in line to vote in MAGA states, you’re outta luck.

“… 's campaign is hiring extra medics, loading up on fans and water bottles and allowing supporters to carry umbrellas to an outdoor rally in Las Vegas.” https://abc7.com/post/trump-will-hold-outdoor-las-vegas-rally-scorching/14928651/

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, I won't say this is always true, but it almost always is in my experience.

GottaLaff, to iran
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#Iran's Guardian Council allows 6 candidates to seek the presidency, while barring former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -AP

GossiTheDog, to random
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

A company paid a ransomware group.. then had their info leaked by the same ransomware group anyway. Not isolated at all, eg UnitedHealthcare paid $20m and then got extorted again by the same person.

Stop paying ransomware groups. You are directly funding serious organised crime. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pandabuy-pays-ransom-to-hacker-only-to-get-extorted-again/

rayckeith, to random
@rayckeith@techhub.social avatar

“I Love Getting Even.” - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo

"Each of the interviewers threw him a softball: If you’re elected, you won’t really seek revenge on your enemies by prosecuting them right? All that talk of “I am your retribution” was just braggadocio, right?

Not a chance. Given the opportunity to walk back his threats of revenge, Trump stood firm. In fact, he doubled down and explained why revenge against his opponents might be an unfortunate necessity, as if he reluctantly would be required to exact it against those who have sought to hold him to account.

The fact that many of Trump’s allies in the media are trying to get him to soften his position—and that Trump appears unwilling to do so—is telling. Do they really believe Trump is other than who he says he is? "
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/i-love-getting-even

rayckeith,
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"Trump’s thirst for revenge now includes specific names, on a list that would rival Arya Stark’s in Game of Thrones. It now includes those who worked closely with him, including his former chief of staff John Kelly, his former attorney general Bill Barr, his former lawyer Ty Cobb, and retired former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley. And of course, it includes Joe Biden and his family, whom he would go after with the appointment of a Special Prosecutor.

"The job of making all this happen has been outsourced, said the Post, to the people behind Project 2025, which has produced a sprawling blueprint on how to systematically destroy American democracy and replace it with a Christian Nationalist, authoritarian government under Trump. The methods include executive orders, already drafted, that would deploy the military domestically under the Insurrection Act."

GottaLaff, to random
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Omg.

#RIP Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90
https://apnews.com/article/6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263

Sheril, to space
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“The universe is expanding, and faster now than it did in the past. Scientists don't know why, but the leading explanation is that the universe contains something that has a repulsive gravitational effect - it pushes the universe apart instead of pulling it back together. This phenomenon is called dark energy.”

  • NASA, image by the Euclid European #Space Agency telescope ✨
auschwitzmuseum, to random
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8 June 1939 | A French Jewish girl, Simone Gotlib, was born in Paris.

She arrived at Auschwitz on 18 August 1942 in a transport of 997 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 897 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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You won't find this on the NY Times homepage, but "If Trump Wins" is very much the kind of journalism we need from the most important news organization in America.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/07/us/politics/trump-policy-list-2025.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yE0.HGUJ.n4G0j7au9_es&smid=url-share

If the Times -- and the rest of our news media -- did this kind of thing relentlessly, they'd be doing their jobs.

It's now or never, journalists. You -- and democracy, which makes what you do possible -- are a prime target of the fascists.

(Paywall-free link)

Nonilex, to Energy
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plans to claim sweeping over
In a 2nd term, Trump will look at unilateral funding cuts for the & initiatives. He is vowing to wrest key spending powers from & to assert more control over the federal than any president in .


https://wapo.st/3XekhX4

Nonilex,
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The #Constitution gives control over spending to #Congress, but #Trump & his aides maintain that the president should have much more discretion — including the #authority to cease programs altogether, even if lawmakers fund them. Depending on the response from #SCOTUS & Congress, Trump’s plans could upend the balance of #power between the 3 branches of the federal #government.
#law #power #extortion #EconomicPolicy #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #democracy #BidenHarris2024

18+ ai6yr, to random
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ABC7: Burbank police officers accused of dumping injured homeless man in front of council office in LA https://abc7.com/post/2-burbank-police-officers-seen-dumping-injured-homeless/14923146/

18+ EugestShirley,
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@ai6yr
It is so irritating that they do this. Richer cities pay their PD to dump homeless people into poorer cities that don't have the budget to prevent the practice. Then the rich homeowners look down their noses at the cities whose problem they created.
Also the homeless just lost their bearings, their community, their few belongings.
Looking at you:
Malibu to Venice
Beverly Hills to Santa Monica
Palos Verdes to Long Beach
Newport Beach to Costa Mesa
Irvine to Santa Ana/Anaheim

SocraticEthics, to Ukraine
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‼️🇺🇦Media: Explosions reported across temporarily occupied Crimea (more) https://kyivindependent.com/media-explosions-reported-across-occupied-crimea-2/



GryphonSK, to random
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benroyce, to random
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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, (edited )
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@thepoliticalcat

It's smart to follow alot here on because unlike where they feed you all sorts of shit based on their (manipulated) , you aren't getting one damn toot until you fill your follow count. You have to follow a lot to get a rich experience.

That needs to be hammered for new accounts: follow, follow, follow. Then follow some more.

Between that and the esoteric mystery of picking a server, a lot of people just don't get it.

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