Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Anyone know what this is? https://earth.google.com/web/search/Ketchikan,+AK,+USA/@55.56601545,-131.80149512,-0.35563495a,845.24264037d,30.00025046y,0.00051376h,0t,0r/data=CigiJgokCTtlB8y2LUhAEQZuqL51dTlAGSaaI8ZYPGNAIezAzxwa31vA

#military

I made this just now, for context on the currently continuing Armenian Genocide supported by Erdoğan and assisted by Putin,
based on this https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/g76bvs/a_map_visualizing_the_armenian_genocide_started/ image which seems to have been the first or among first to post the original 3 years ago:

WOWZA! Indeed – Mark Hamill Praises Rep. Jasmine Crockett for Scorching Sham Impeachment Republicans https://politizoom.com/wowza-indeed-mark-hamill-praises-rep-jasmine-crockett-for-scorching-sham-impeachment-republicans/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I work for an amazing organization with amazing people and I am SO HYPED with the things we are working on right now, omg. Just got out of another design call, one of those moments where you're like, okay yes. This idea is going to work. This is gonna be big. Big big big.

WP:
A judge’s conspicuous note on Trump, the Saudis and ‘influence buying’

... Kushner accepted $2 billion in funding from the Saudis... Trump... has gone into business with the Saudi-backed LIV golf tour... Trump also cut a deal with a Saudi real estate company to build a Trump hotel at a $4 billion...

...the fact that the judge briefly sought to emphasize the idea that this would involve “influence buying” shouldn’t escape anyone’s notice...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/27/trump-saudis-influence-buying/

#News #Trump #Democracy

Project 2025 is a "get out if you can" kind of moment. If you're a queer person in the US and you have the means, you should leave the country. It can happen here, it *is* happening here in fits and starts in various states, and it will only get more difficult to escape if any of this happens on a federal level which there are reasonable odds of.

In every genocide that has happened, the majority of victims were arrested in peaceful, orderly manners, even long after the genocide began. They were arrested in their homes more often than in hiding, arrested while trying to live their lives as normally as possible more often than they were caught being involved in underground resistance. Part of what makes fascist genocides so horribly successful is that people can scarcely comprehend the danger, it's nearly impossible to actually hold in your mind that things will get that bad, not in the abstract but in a direct, personal, immediate sense. People do not believe in gas chambers even when they can smell the crematoria, because the human mind buckles under the weight of that horror.

It *can* happen here. It has begun happening here. Powerful electoral political institutions that draft successful legislation have published public plans for it to happen here, in an orderly, legal, formal, dreadfully complete manner.

It can happen here. You, the person reading this, need to repeat that until you believe it. It needs to exist in your mind with the same sharp danger as walking into your living room and finding your curtains on fire, it needs to be real like a gun being pointed at you while your wallet is demanded. It can happen here.

Am I connected to any New Zealand psychologists here? My license is approved with the condition that I get supervision to ensure my cultural competence as I don’t have experience with Māori clients (totally fair requirement!).

It goes without saying I’d pay whatever the supervision rate is but folks are constantly demanding free labor from strangers so I’m saying it anyway.

Thank you!

Stop scrolling

Are you clenching your jaw? Blow a raspberry and relax your facial muscles.

Are your shoulders tense? Shake out your arms and let the shoulders drop.

Are you hunched over? Sit up straight and stretch your arms over your head for a few seconds

Have you been sitting for a while? Walk around, stretch, or move what you can to get the blood flowing.

Take a few deep breaths and let the breath out in a sigh.

Carry on 😉

If by some *completely unthinkable* coincidence you found this thread because it's 2025 or something and you were using Mastodon search to look for instructions on how to upload code to a Muselab colorlight i9 board: This is the link you want https://mastodon.social/@adamgreig/111145526874005026

The fun thing about running open source projects on Windows is often it turns out you are the first person to ever attempt to run the open source project on Windows

And when I say "fun"

I mean… some other adjective

This is one of my oldest cartoons, and one of my favorites. I made this 16 years ago or more. There's a tshirt of it in my store - someone told me recently that their tshirt is really worn out by now, and it made me feel old, but in a sort of nice "aged cheese" kind of way instead of a "moldy bread" kind of way.

Moon 20230927

I got a shot after all.

A man in a #MAGA hat shot a Native American protester before fleeing in a Tesla.

It was the second time someone protesting a statue of bloodthirsty conquistador Juan de Oñate was shot. Prosecutors dropped charges in a plea deal the last time.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/man-shot-during-juan-de-o-ate-statue-rally-in-espa-ola/article_946dcd3c-5e2d-11ee-9363-97e4e793df8a.html

#fascism

Shit. Meet. Fan.

#thinkingcap2

I did not realise how inaccurate Microsoft’s AI is. It’s really bad.

This is just one example - it lists a range of lawsuits I’ve filed, but they’re all fictional - it invented them and made up the citations. It says I gave Microsoft’s data to @briankrebs. It says Krebs is suing me. It says @malwaretech works for me. The list goes on and on.

Very eyebrow raising this is being baked into next release of Windows 11 and Office. It will directly harm people who have no knowledge or recourse.

We joined 90 organizations led by Defending Rights & Dissent to call for charges against Cop City protesters to be dropped. Prosecutors citing talking to reporters, recording cops and distributing zines to prove supposed RICO violations is especially worrisome when the govt is already weaponizing vague legislation from the Espionage Act to computer fraud laws against journalists and their sources. https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/90-organizations-tell-ag-carr-drop-cop-city-rico-charges/