Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

@Radical_EgoCom Afroman is ahead of you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y

Behold my favorite traffic calming device.

#facebook #threads #twitter #bluesky #socialmedia #tech #lulz

Next episode is out for AHIMH.

History Erased: COINTELPRO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1KK0Ush5rD6fBy4hsOABuaE10wHE6ZXpXe0tP-7aCh6CpbwG7RlYNYkEM&v=ziwFzwm9WmQ&feature=youtu.be

#cointelpro #fbi #abuseofpower #ushistory

I boosted this first time it came around, but it's worth repeating for emphasis: the Tulare Lake in California, once the biggest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi in the USA, is BACK! And the Tachi Yokut Tribe, for whom the lake is central and sacred, want it to stay. Ever since the early 20th century, white farmers and authorities have been trying to keep it drained so they can farm the fertile soil in its dried-up bed. But restoring the lake would restore Tachi cultural heritage as well as the local ecology. There's plenty of farmland elsewhere.

The article is good and there is some excellent video of the lake, which is now almost as large as Lake Tahoe. Do check it out.

#Indigenous #Water #LandBack #LakeBack

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-06-27/a-california-tribe-wants-to-keep-water-in-tulare-lake

I want to add sone context (or really subtract some inferred context) from my recent toots about corporate social media: I’m saying this stuff on mastodon as someone who likes masto but it’s not masto evangelism. My argument is not “…so everyone should join the fediverse.” I don’t want half a billion people here. I don’t want half a billion people in any one place. That’s too much. It doesn’t work.

Masto is fine, it isn’t gonna replace Twitter, I don’t want it to, and it’s not overtly scummy.

And it’s really really possible to care only that much about it. Masto is okay, and it’s ethics aren’t transparently super fucked and extractive from the word go. It’s a low bar, masto clears it, lots of smaller sites and online communities clear it, and *none* of the hyper capitalist VC/SV/entrepreneur platforms do.

Growth for growth’s sake, scale without guard rails or fundamental ethical boundaries, is bad, period. It’s about the most literal a version of metaphorical cancer you can get.

@StillIRise1963 A jumbo pack of Charmin has more value than a recent diploma from education institutions in OK, TX, FL, and other backwater states run by jumped-up rednecks.

Too bad the peckerwood parents do not comprehend how badly they are screwing over their kids.

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

Ron DeSantis spent years going after
Trans adults
Trans youth
Non-Christians
Teachers
The poor
Migrants
Books
Disney
Anything “woke”

His response to failing poll numbers…?