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caffetiel

@caffetiel@social.seattle.wa.us

birbs. battletech. bcoffee. blinguistics.

also trans, but you already knew that from the obsession with an animal and niche social science

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caffetiel, to random
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wE'rE oN tHe VeRgE oF fAsCiSm

A timely toot in, like, 1787

caffetiel,
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@MLE_online

The Alien and Sedition Acts?

Yeah, 'left-wing' at the time meant 'republican' and 'right-wing' 'monarchist', but both parties were generally fine with the franchise being limited to white male landowners and the establishment of religion in state government, with slavery and the African slave trade.

But mostly I'm being a pithy shit to mock people I see as ignorant of history.

caffetiel,
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@MLE_online

100%. That ignorance is both not their fault (well, for most. Some people have no excuse) and a contributing cause to the current decline. I just reserve the right to be bitter about it

MLE_online, to random
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There's an article in the local paper today about my city updating its municipal code to add some new things to its list of activities banned in public parks, like camping.

But the article also briefly mentions some other things that are also bafflingly banned in public parks here, like flying a kite or bringing your own BBQ.

The article gives no explanation for why these other activities were previously banned, and now I feel like I have to put on my reporter hat and start researching.

caffetiel,
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@rglenn @MLE_online

Only if it's enforced that way 🤷‍♀️

MLE_online, to random
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I finally saw a Honda Motocompacto in the wild. A guy was riding it on the bike path. It was smaller than expected, but very cute.

caffetiel,
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@MLE_online

!!!

I thought they were extinct

caffetiel,
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@MLE_online

Oh. I'm less impressed. Kinda looks like an earbud case. An Altoid tin.

The wheels are so small jeebus

cstross, to random
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REMINDER FOR AMERICANS:

The US Constitution and common law are rooted in pre-18th century English legal jurisprudence and traditions.

And the "presidential immunity" bullshit is an attempt to rewind the clock to before 1649, when Parliament got fed up with the King's bullshit, put him on trial, and beheaded him.

Y'all: Trump wants to revive the divine right of kings.

You know who pulled the German equivalent of that stunt? Hitler.

(I will summarily block anyone who raises Godwin's law.)

caffetiel,
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@Npars01 @photos_floues @cstross

If taxes on them worked they wouldn't've been able to buy the US after Roosevelt-era tax policy.

So we have to conclude that taxes aren't enough.

caffetiel,
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@Npars01
@photos_floues @cstross

an utterly catastrophic number, mind. We've already lost +1.5°. Democracy in the US and UK are at best walking corpses, at worst the illusions are just being dropped.

This is all shit working as intended. The only way to wreck it is to get very, very dirty. You don't seem willing to do that, so the only sane conclusion is that the cause is already lost.

caffetiel,
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@Npars01 @photos_floues @cstross

'encouraging banks'? Ridiculous. To make them stop making money you need to undo centuries of established precedent that corps have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders. 'encouragement' is useless unless you're being coy about effective action.

We can see how well voluntary individual action is working.

The EPA is about to be completely destroyed by SCOTUS and a reelected Trump. There's no way to stop them peacefully before +2°C, which is still

caffetiel, to random
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They do not have bagels in Boise they only have edible oil products I don't want edible oil products I do not want to go to Boise

caffetiel,
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@MLE_online

Was that elucidating pls I need feedback

MLE_online, to random
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Well this fucken sucks

image/jpeg

caffetiel,
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@MLE_online

Take a half day?

mina, to random German
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Ist "Tilly" eigentlich ein richtiger Name oder eine Abkürzung/Spitzname?

PS: Ich weiß, ich könnte gugeln, aber da gibt es nie so spannende Antworten wie von euch.

caffetiel,
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@mina @BlippyTheWonderSlug

-hild(e) means 'battle'. The roots aren't related. The 'mat' in 'Mathilde' is related to 'Macht', English 'might'.

cstross, to random
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It's almost like the hereditary aristocracy never went away, they just rebranded and retitled themselves as "billionaires" and "nepo babies".
https://mastodon.scot/@LordWoolamaloo/112215348092487717

caffetiel,
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@dogzilla @glennsills @cstross

Lazy? Maybe, but we also live under one of the most brutally repressive regimes on the planet. We have an absolutely lethal system of prisons and make extensive use of prison-slaves.

We're also so fucking tired.

MLE_online, to random
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Dreamt I stumbled across a YouTube channel of op-eds submitted to a variety of big name publications by a New York-based playwright.

Each op-ed had been given a confusing name; the one I picked was titled, "Relieve All Tinted Sins."

Upon playing, the video presented me with a static image that served as an illustration for the piece while the rich voice of a hired narrator read the piece aloud.

It opened with, "The Washington Post would not realize what it was at first. The humans, not for another year or five after that."

Then I woke up.

caffetiel,
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@MLE_online

It's so ominous

MLE_online, (edited ) to random
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The only body parts that get their own special word for hurting are head, tooth, heart, ear and stomach.

There's no elbowache, legache, or noseache, for example

caffetiel,
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@MLE_online

Boneache sounds cromulent to me, as does legache

Toastie, to oregon
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"A woman living under the crawl space of an Airbnb that she cleaned... At what point can we say the American dream has become a nightmare?"

"It’s mathematically impossible to pull yourself out of homelessness without help... It’s not the moral failing of the people who are unhoused; it’s the moral failing of this country."

Julie Akins, senior housing director at AllCare Health, journalist, and former mayor of Ashland,

https://www.hcn.org/articles/what-rural-homelessness-looks-like/

caffetiel,
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@pinkdrunkenelephants @Toastie

Where'd you do it, how'd you do it, and what assistance did you have?

caffetiel, to random
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When you loot the CEO's house you aren't stealing

garius, to random
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Done.

Brick-built Graf Zeppelin.

Unlike the Germans, I have finished her.

Total build time: about 14hrs

Close up of brick built carrier showing planes on deck and guns
Top down view of brick built carrier showing full size (about 2.8ft)
Tortie kitty looking over carrier

caffetiel,
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@garius

Wait--they put the elevators in the middle of the flight deck? Wack

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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It is so weird how these predominantly White European countries seem to be able to do Democratic Socialism and not collapse into chaos and ruin.

caffetiel,
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@cstross @alessandro

Really? Because it seemed pretty well ascendant in the neolibs of the 80s and 90s.

caffetiel,
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@HeavenlyPossum @Adam_Cadmon1 @TruthSandwich

Okay but the shit sandwich is right on this one.

Read literally anything about socialism I'm fuckin begging

caffetiel,
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@cstross @alessandro

It was different, certainly, but it doesn't seem like less? The US funded the Taliban starting under Carter, and the CIA sold drugs and guns to send money to the fascist death squads of Nicaragua in the 80s.

What I know of Thatcher is domestic policy, but given the Rule Britannia! of it all and the nature of her cooperation with Reagan I wouldn't be surprised.

caffetiel,
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@HeavenlyPossum @Adam_Cadmon1

O shit I misunderstood who you were responding to. More the fool, me.

ProPublica, to oregon
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The Timber Industry Won Huge Cuts in the 1990s. Now It May Get Another Break Thanks to a Top Lawmaker.

As the cost of fighting increases, state Sen. Elizabeth Steiner has proposed a bill — developed in consultation with the industry — that would shift millions in expenses away from the biggest landowners and onto taxpayers.

https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-timber-industry-tax-cuts-legislature?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

caffetiel,
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@ProPublica

Katrina Steiner energy

smellsofbikes, to random
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A design by @MLE_online with a very satisfying click on the dovetail retention detent.

Black 3D print clicking closed a few times

caffetiel,
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@MLE_online @smellsofbikes

Security is subordinate to aesthetics 🕉️

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