note to self: don't mix up "errata" and "erotica" in client meetings
@jamey
"Further note to self: it is not like they will know the difference, but the correct spelling on a slide will cover me if anyone complains,"
Naw man, we should definitely stop Trump from stealing Venezuela's oil for the same American oil companies that are literally burning us all to death in fucking fire, obviously. But there's a way to write about that subject and that way is not "let's print anonymous quotes from the literal free market fundie fascist movement that begged Trump to coup their own country."
For example, Common Dreams handled the task just fine:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-control-of-venezuela-oil
(Yeah I know they printed the quote, but it sure as shit isn't presented as the reason why you should care. I just fucking hate pretend man, and in a society that sincerely gave a Ayn Rand-humping fundie fascist whackjob like María Corina Machado a peace prize, purely to sanctify further operations against Venezuela that Trump would make reality, pretend is all we have on offer it seems...)
Pay attention to your breathing
@selfcare @superball god damn it’s loud, how do my friends put up with this?
Yukata - "DRAGONFLY"
Lambert Heller
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Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
Cancellations have accelerated.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/cities-terminate-flock-contracts-at-record-pace-in-august/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Fireside Fedi Panel (Very Low Quality Recording)
@NilaJones Right? And you're like, welllllll, that's a good song. But then you remember, that's a three thousand year old metaphor. That's older than Plato's fucking cave.
Naw man, we should definitely stop Trump from stealing Venezuela's oil for the same American oil companies that are literally burning us all to death in fucking fire, obviously. But there's a way to write about that subject and that way is not "let's print anonymous quotes from the literal free market fundie fascist movement that begged Trump to coup their own country."
For example, Common Dreams handled the task just fine:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-control-of-venezuela-oil
oh great there's some fucking follow bot going round presumably indexing people's shit (opt-out OBVIOUSLY because that's how these dick heads think consent works)
#fediblock discover.holm.community apparently run by @HolosSocial@mastodon.social
Lambert Heller
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To eveyone on Mastodon:
The real lesson of the US attack on autistici/inventi is that WE ARE NEXT. Mastodon servers mostly do not run things like PRISM, are often based outside the US, and compete directly with the Tech Bros and their ad and tracker supported shit for an audience.
Also lots of anti-Trump activism here.
If we don't fight for autistici/inventi today, we will have to fight for Mastodon tomorrow. Domino effects are real with Fascists as we saw at the start of WWII.
This just happened yesterday in my neighborhood. A violent storm with heavy rain and extremely powerful wind. Tears and cars falling down, roofs broken, people having their houses filled with water.
I could shut up all the windows with metal stores that we are happy to have. Those who had individual houses suffered more, the roofs got really damaged. Also windows broke. People's cars destroyed by falling trees (somewhat a form of revenge, but I also am so unhappy for the trees, we already don't have enough of them).
This is all just the beginning. I expect this to become perfectly normal. We will have to adapt to harsher climate conditions.
In all of this, I was happy to see how much solidarity there was in our neighborhood group chat, younger people helping older neighbors drain water from their houses and fix some of the damage.
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@Xeniax 😱😱😱
@NilaJones My first serious encounter with music of Christianity was "Jesus Christ Superstar", but right around then, a little after maybe, was "Godspell", and it has the most beautiful song.
"On The Willows"
Okay, fine.
"Sense8" is pretty good. Damned good.
@GeePawHill One of JMS's stranger pieces of writing. I thought it was really interesting. I am a Freema fan, though, so might be biased.
Lambert Heller
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Opened the Wikipedia page for Trademark and found this under the Usage section.
![On social media, the trademark symbol has seen use in an ironic fashion, highlighting a concept as if it were important enough to warrant its own trademark, for example, "Official Bisexual Haircut™" or "soon™".[6][7] This is a non-standard usage of the symbol, which confers no special legal rights.](https://media.toot.lgbt/media_attachments/files/117/174/495/252/340/438/original/b6c9936f62847f25.png)
Dan York
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This is, quite possibly, the most entertaining interview i have ever encountered. You simply *must * read it. It keeps getting better with every question.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/b-c-swimmer-crosses-strait-of-georgia-under-nine-hours-9.7316260
Maddy
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Australia Post, what the fuck?
https://auspost.com.au/owl-post-experience
Australia Post has changed its branding only a handful of times in its history as a government-owned corporation, which dates back to the founding of Australia in 1901. A few days ago, they changed their logo as an advertising stunt in support of the transphobic, racist author of a book/movie series about a wizard school. This is an awful move on multiple levels. It would have required the sign-off of several very senior people in Australia Post, and I think it's fair that every one of them gets fired. Fuck right off and get in the bin.
I dunno if it will get through to the right people, but I suggest you politely give them your opinion: https://helpandsupport.auspost.com.au/s/products-and-services
#AusPost #AustraliaPost #HarryPotter #JKRowling #TERF #Transphobia #Racism
@NilaJones @GeePawHill So so SO much of the Bible is self-serving stories written down by some constituency when they were temporarily on top, followed by an inconsistent self-serving story written down by the people who replaced them, over and over. Priests vs prophets. Upper-class exiles vs lower-class nobodies left behind. Israel vs Judah. It's a bin full of beautiful but biased memoirs; nothing in it can be understood without asking "cui bono?"
@msbellows @NilaJones Yeah but?
Reading close, with the love us old fuckers know is real, there is worth there.
RIP to a real one, ive dodged her in the tiny narrow civic only to hear a pop behind me. She was fierce, and she will return
https://abc7.com/post/worst-pothole-los-angeles-crater-sunset-boulevard-notorious-trashing-tires-disabling-cars/19750898/
@dumpsterqueer @annika WE PEE PROTOCOL!!! THE PROTOCOL FLUIDS!
This woman is deadass correct. No qualifiers, full stop.
“Those individuals, particularly Jake Sullivan and a handful of others, actually had the power to save human lives. They actually had the power to stop unconditional arms assistance to Israel, right? The Israelis were not killing the Palestinians by themselves. The Israelis were killing the Palestinians with American bombs, with American jets, with American everything. We enabled it 100%. They enabled it 100%.”
