Nepali rescuers are searching for more than 100 hydropower workers feared trapped in tunnels following four miracle rescues from the wreckage of catastrophic floods on the Himalayan border with China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/08/asia-pacific/nepal-rescuers-hydropower-workers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #nepal #floods #balenshah #ramchandrapaudel
... insisting that others can't find uses in these tools has reached a religious fervor that is absolutely ridiculous. Yes, there are AI hype bros who are just as bad. But the "there are no useful ways to use these things" talk is just bonkers, and clearly wrong for many people.
You may not have uses for the tools. So don't use them. I'm not trying to sell anyone on using anything. But I have used them to help myself and will continue to do so, and when people say that's impossible, they are asking me to lie to them. I'd rather just block you than lie.
If I find a tool to be useful for myself, that has nothing to do with "drinking koolaid," Dan. The only "koolaid" drinking I see seems to come from people who insist that those who do find the tools to be useful are somehow lying or stupid. Not saying you need to use or like the tools. But...
... insisting that others can't find uses in these tools has reached a religious fervor that is absolutely ridiculous. Yes, there are AI hype bros who are just as bad. But the "there are no useful ways to use these things" talk is just bonkers, and clearly wrong for many people.
If I find a tool to be useful for myself, that has nothing to do with "drinking koolaid," Dan. The only "koolaid" drinking I see seems to come from people who insist that those who do find the tools to be useful are somehow lying or stupid. Not saying you need to use or like the tools. But...
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like, here’s the thing right
it might have been a random costume and somehow he didn’t realize how it looked
he might have just been waving weirdly and someone caught it at the wrong moment, while he was dressed in a costume that looked like a nazi propaganda poster
he might have just innocently figured a haircut that’s been famous since at least 2011 for being a nazi haircut looked nice
and at that point you’re firmly in “musk didn’t do a nazi salute” territory too. at this point it’s a pattern of behavior. we know damn well musk did a nazi salute because we have eyes, and because he has a long history of doing nazi shit both before and after the salute.
macklemore keeps doing nazi shit. it’s not as bad as musk’s nazi shit, as far as I know. you should still keep him and his music the fuck out of your spaces.
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and here’s his former signature haircut! and a picture of Richard Spencer, the neo-nazi, with the exact same signature haircut. also some hitler youth, who were required to adopt this as their signature haircut, which is where Spencer got it from.
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so here’s the costume he supposedly randomly picked the day his career ended, and here’s the nazi propaganda poster it resembles, down to the coat
also the quick heil hitler he popped, of course
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you know, I think we can do better on pro-Palestinian figures than the guy whose career ended when he came onto stage dressed like a Nazi propaganda poster and popped a quick Hitler salute, who was last in the spotlight when he tried to make the Richard Spencer/nazi youth haircut his signature style and had to apologize for it
it is fucked that the Israeli state weaponized “antisemite” against everyone who’s anti-genocide, but I’m pretty sure the Thrift Shop guy is a genuine antisemite and the type of nazi you don’t want in your movement
anyway I’m gonna post some pictures of this shit under a CW because my memory was that his career ended due to a wig and a beard and it’s uhhh much worse than that
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found an old wald front wheel bike basket in a dumpster and just installed it on my oldest bike, and now I feel I’m on trend in PDX
@seachanger we found some Wald side baskets for the elder child at Habitat a few months ago and they are indeed the business
No ragrats
@catsalad I have, in the past, watched Goobie steal a piece of meat even though I was making attempts to stop her from doing such crime. She always gets away with it too.
Laurel & Hardy: Berth Marks (1929) (Stan and Ollie travel by train)
The Story of Broke (2011) (documentary about corrupt corporate subsidies in the US)
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"Because solar time and mechanical time rarely ever aligned, people needed to be crystal clear regarding their reference points."
https://www.mentalfloss.com/language/words/why-do-we-say-oclock
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NBC News: Tesla says first responders may need to push new Cybercab with no steering wheel
Tesla’s emergency guidance tells first responders the robotaxi “can be quickly pushed” to clear a lane but warns that doing it incorrectly risks electric shock and overheating the motor.
Sniffed some silica gel that was heated & letting off moisture and may have taken a year off my life. Don’t be like me
@s0 make the forbidden tea next
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NEW: The Supreme Court will choose soon whether Trump can illegally take over elections.
Election law expert Rick Hasen said it’s an “easy” question and Trump should lose.
And yet.
Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-supreme-court-will-choose-soon
@davidgerard financial risks "could become highly correlated", just like plutonium atoms "could become closely packed".
@womble that's the overtones they mean, yes
Important information on the "Knight in Shining Armor Saves the Girl" trope:
This is actually pretty rare in actual folk tales - usually it is later addition when those tales were turned into literature in order to make them a better fit for bourgeois narrative tastes and preferences of gender roles.
In actual folk tales, whenever a girl marries a prince, she usually has to save _him_ first. Typically he has been cursed into an animal form, and she needs to throw him against the wall or bite his head off or things like that so that he is saved and they can Live Happily Ever After.
@juergen_hubert there is a reverse of this in medieval France, though not sure of the author, but The White Cat. In order to win a competition set by his father, the youngest priunce has to cut off the head of a beautiful cat which transforms her back into her original princess form.
there is a Denmark tale called King Lindworm, probably spelling that wrong, where a young maid has to tame the serpent prince with quite violent kink-adjacent acts so he does not eat her. He has eaten every other princess before this.
There are probably more that we are forgetting, but these are examples of leaning into that trope and also flipping it. We love looking into tropes like this and seeing where they come from, how they are subverted, and where they've come and gone out of fashion.
-- Altheda/Lillianna
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US capitalists executed the leaders of the May 1 1886 strike for an 8 hr work day. In 1889 socialists declared May 1 Int'l Workers Day to honor them, creating a beloved holiday worldwide, but not in the US, where Labor Day was moved to September to erase workers' struggle from the public mind.
https://apwu.org/news/labor-history-may-day-fighting-eight-hour-day/
