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You know what? I'm gonna say it louder for the folks in the back:

THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT WRITING SOFTWARE THAT MAKES US BETTER THAN ANY OTHER WORKERS.

Tech Workers Stop Thinking We're Somehow Not Workers Like Everyone Else Challenge 2023 (difficulty: quite easy, actually)

Police in Marion, Kansas (population 1,852) effectively shut down the town's only newspaper on Friday, raiding it and seizing most of its equipment, including cell phones of its journalists.

The raid took place after the paper received information that a local restaurant owner, who's very politically connected, had been arrested for drunken driving.
https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

The hard part of watching this hip hop tribute in Yankee Stadium is realizing how old I am.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5IysIONUm44&feature=share
⚡️🇺🇦Nightly Address of President Volodymyr Zelensky at the end of the 534th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine | Day 3444 of The War in Ukraine and Invasion of Crimea (Aug 11th) | with English subtitles (Ukrinform - Ukrainian National News Agency VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#PutinEndTheInvasion

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nwNCqsS6_dg&feature=share
⚡️🇵🇱Years of Unyielding Courage: The Story of Belarusian Political Prisoners | Eastern Express (TVP World - Polish News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Press #News #Russia #Belarus #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#PutinEndTheInvasion

I hope that one day perhaps another’s heart is big enough to hold mine.
To accept all the love I have to give and shower it back onto me.
For two hearts should never have to change, break or ache to share what is freely given and overflowing.
When love isn’t stifled or restricted it just keeps on growing.
#love #poetry

I join moderator Kim Lewis and VOA's senior diplomatic correspondent Cindy Saine on 'Issues in the News' to discuss developments in #Niger, #Haiti, and #Ukraine. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/7221125.html

This looks like the most brazen and direct government attack on freedom of the press in a long, long time.

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

No doubt, Big Journalism will speak as one to denounce this almost certainly illegal raid and confiscation of computers and more.

I hope our nation's journalism will realize that the extremists who run one of our two major parties are itching to bring our news media to heel, and killing democracy is the way they will start.

Wake the hell up, folks.

#CatsOfMastodon #MoggiesOfMastodon

The proposed cuts at West VA university are horrifying, esp the elimination of the entire foreign language program. The lack of organized, concerted outrage and pushback from media, politicians, professional organizations, and faculty at other institutions as this happens over and over is depressing. #academia

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/2023/08/11/wvu-proposes-cutting-7-flagship-campus-faculty-all-languages

Horrifying: A Kansas police department raided a newspaper's office after the paper published a critical article -- https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

An abandoned prison in Romania
Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/fort-13-jilava-prison-romania

Pure fluke, and I am not sure I will ever better this photo.

#Photography #Leafcutter #Bee #Nature

3-year-old migrant child being trafficked by prominent GOP sociopath TX governor Abbott dies on bus to Chicago. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/migrant-child-dies-on-border-bus-in-texas/

Friday mood #dogsofmastodon

Someone is VACUUMING without having done a prior cat consultation. Rude!

#Cats #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon #BlackCats