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Igor Sushko

🧵 Highlights from Russo-fascist Aleksandr Dugin's 1997 book Foundations of Geopolitics:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".
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Dgar

Me: In Australia, it’s a lift.

Them: In the US, we call them elevators.

Me: I guess we were just… raised differently.

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Dave T-W

In all seriousness, some on to such a crowd would be useful. I have a tendency to overexplain, overanalyse and overshare. And there are people who will not pick up their own dog poo, and seem to think that the inflation rises won't accept the business they're part of.

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Have been accused of being part of a dictatorship in a community group by someone who:
1) refused to provide AGM minutes
2) Brought grievances from the 3 paid members of staff, one of whom had ACAS arbitration upheld, at cost to the community
3) Tried to block an Extraordinary General Meeting requested by the community
4) Was removed as a Director after an Extraordinary General Meeting.
5) Refused to cooperate with new directors.
6) Tried to claim the legal expenses from when they tried to block the EGM.

I think know a fair amount about dictatorships, and claiming that "It was all better in the old days" despite all evidence to the contrary is a sure indicator.

Btw: We volunteered for this role and get no money for it, haven't even claimed travel expenses. What kind of dictator does that?
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Chris Gerhard :bt:

Good, but we still need answers as to why they did this?

Roads agency starts to undo its ‘vandalism’ of Victorian bridge
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a

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Tim Mak

This will be a major storyline of the next year: how #Ukraine fatigue, or outright opposition to Ukrainian victory, will play a role in the 2024 presidential campaign.

Fighting this ‘Ukraine fatigue’ is one of the reasons The Counteroffensive exists in the first place.

We believe that by writing compelling, human-first stories about people going through the news, we can keep interest and public attention on this terrible conflict.

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Quenby (they/them)

New initiative:

Instead of saying places aren't accessible I'm going to start just saying I'm not allowed to go there because I'm disabled.

It's the same thing.

Her: do you want to go to the haunted house?

Me: I'm not allowed to go because I'm disabled.

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internetarchive

We submitted a letter to the court today in the ongoing lawsuit against our library. We’re fighting for the rights of libraries to use their print collections in the digital age: blog.archive.org/2023/08/11/ou #DigitalRightsForLibraries #EmpoweringResearch

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ProjectFearlessness

Every day since the fall of the Taliban in 2021, there have been at least 2,000 Afghan refugees waiting in Calais, France to cross the English Channel to the U.K.

Nearly all of them qualify for the U.K. government's ARAP Afghan relocation scheme.

Some of them are holding U.K. Home Office letters of acceptance to the scheme in their hands.

None of them have a safe legal route to cross the channel.

#SafeRoutes
#RefugeesWelcome
#UKAsylumPolicy
#ForgottenAfghans

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Brewster Kahle

Now the Washington lawyers want to destroy digital collections of scratchy 78rpm records, 70-120 year old, built by dedicated preservationists online since 2006.

Who benefits?

reuters.com/legal/music-labels

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Dave T-W

Funny I mentioned The Mission in a side chat. That excellent and gorgeous movie isn't listed among these.
theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/
It's got De Niro on peak form (round the time he did Untouchables as well), Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, soundtrack by Ennio Morricone.

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Nick Martin

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.
kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11

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Ms. Uppity

> That’s why the Montgomery brawl was, on a level, a brilliant deconstruction of the lie behind “Try That in a Small Town”: It effortlessly destroyed the song’s flimsily veiled conceit that the “community” that needs protection is that of innocent white people being besieged by scary Black protesters. vox.com/culture/2023/8/11/2382

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Helen Czerski

We generally think that over-fishing is about fish that humans eat. But around a third of all wild-caught fish are turned into fishmeal, because fishmeal is around 65% protein and therefore in demand for for feeding farmed fish and pigs. It's an almost invisible trade with huge consequences. But it's not an efficient way to make more protein. We need to re-think these links and ask whether it's really worth the damage to the ocean & communities.#ocean #fish #fishmeal

hakaimagazine.com/news/the-fer

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ChrisO_wiki

1/ Parents of teenagers at Alabuga Polytechnic in Tatarstan say their children are being exploited to work long hours building Shahed kamikaze drones in dangerous conditions. Some parents are rescuing their children from the facility, despite facing large fines for doing so. ⬇️

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João Costa 💚🌻🇵🇹🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧

FINALLY!

#France is raising taxes on flights to pay for trains

Countries affected by #fires should follow this: #Portugal #Spain #Greece #Italy

"If you fly from Paris to Barcelona the #airline not only pays no VAT, but is also exempt from kerosene #tax. If you make the same journey by #train, the rail company will pay an #energy tax and passenger #VAT. This means higher costs for the company which are usually reflected in ticket prices."

#FossilFuelsKill #TaxFlights

euronews.com/green/2023/08/10/

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Dave T-W

Rainbow on a high cloud. Looked like a stag just before this.

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Josiah Mortimer

The Bibby Stockholm plan was never about saving cash. It’s about conspicuous punishment

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Steven Murdoch

I run two Tor nodes in universities: ephemer in the University of Cambridge and gnosti in University College London (UCL). I’m very pleased to support the EFF and @torproject in their initiative to have more Tor nodes based in universities. eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/anno

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D. Elisabeth Glassco

Born 122 years ago this week, Louis Armstrong's charisma & warmth captivated audiences globally. But, by the 1950s and 1960s, many of his Black Americans perceived him as outdated, out of touch with civil rights, and hesitant to voice his opinions—labeling him an "Uncle Tom." This deeply wounded Armstrong. But he was a far more complex & nuanced man than they knew.

youtu.be/WPspHmFoEYs

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #StillWeRise #BlackHistory
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