@Steveg58 @pheedbackPhil Pay phones in the UK didn't have buttons until well into the 1980s. They ran on pulse dialing and if you needed long distance you could either dial the area code *or* talk to the operator.
This style: https://www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-public-phones.htm
Long out of service by the 80s. Used in both the UK and Australia.
Each fresh outrage, each statement, each video-clip - whether of Trump officials or of his shock-troops - could be neatly slotted in, given an exhibit number, and annotated with the criminal and civil violations captured in the evidence.
The caucus could publish dates these trials will be held on - following from Jan 20, 2029 - and even which courtrooms each official, high and low, will be tried in.
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These dates could be changed as new crimes emerge, making sure the most egregious offenses are always at the top of the agenda. Each trial would have a witness list.
The Nuremberg Caucus could vow to repurpose ICE's $75b budget to pursue Trump's crimes, from corruption to civil rights violations to labor violations to environmental violations.
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Thinking AI is approaching sentience or AGI is like photocopying your arse and then concluding that your photocopier has an arse.
1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Is our Government Complicit in...
Almost three weeks of heavy snowfall has killed 46 people and injured 558 others in Japan, fresh data from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency showed Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/10/japan/death-toll-snowfall/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #meteorologicalagency #snow
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116046383422262344
It was wild.
For a few weeks, pixelfed.social was the largest fediverse server by MAU, even bigger than mastodon.social
We also launched our Kickstarter campaign a few days later, and I'll never forget the stress.
It was so cool to see my project go viral, but I was too stressed to do interviews or anything else than try to put out fires.
Protip: Build a team, it's hard to do everything yourself.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116046399355494030
Loops was also growing rapidly during this period, and I had to deal with that too.
Man, 2025 was such a crazy but special year.
I gave my first public talk (which ended up being the keynote) at FediCon in July
Then I rewrote Loops and open sourced it in the fall of 2025.
I also shipped a few side projects:
- https://socialweb.network
- https://respectfulplatforms.org
- https://fediverse.info
- https://fedidb.com
- https://fedithreat.net
- https://madeincanada.social
- https://webintents.net
I think Dems should start a Nuremberg Caucus, named for the Nazi war-crimes trials that followed from the defeat of German fascists and the death of their leader:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
What would this caucus do? Well, it could have a public website where it assembled and organized the evidence for the trials that the Democrats could promise to bring after the Trump regime falls.
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Each fresh outrage, each statement, each video-clip - whether of Trump officials or of his shock-troops - could be neatly slotted in, given an exhibit number, and annotated with the criminal and civil violations captured in the evidence.
The caucus could publish dates these trials will be held on - following from Jan 20, 2029 - and even which courtrooms each official, high and low, will be tried in.
5/
🆕 blog! “Book Review: Ashes To Admin - Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer by Evie King”
★★★★★
Why am I reading so much about death lately? This is a wryly funny and cosily charming book about council funerals.
Evie King conducts Section 46 funerals under the Public Health Act. If you die and there's no…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/book-review-ashes-to-admin-tales-from-the-caseload-of-a-council-funeral-officer-by-evie-king/
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#BookReview #death
@Edent One of those funerals figures prominently in Shady Lewis’s novel On the Greenwich Line, which is also wryly comical https://benjamingeer.name/en/post/on-the-greenwich-line/
Shady Lewis, On the Greenwich Line
Though it should be noted that ICE hates this idea, and that ICE agents wear masks because they fear consequences for their sadistic criminality:
This despite the fact that the (criminally culpable) Vice President has assured them that they have absolute impunity, no matter who they kill:
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/08/politics/ice-immunity-jd-vance-minneapolis
The fact that ICE agents worry about consequences despite Vance's assurances suggests ways that Dems could "meet the moment."
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I think Dems should start a Nuremberg Caucus, named for the Nazi war-crimes trials that followed from the defeat of German fascists and the death of their leader:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
What would this caucus do? Well, it could have a public website where it assembled and organized the evidence for the trials that the Democrats could promise to bring after the Trump regime falls.
4/
Looking for examples of things you can do with grid that you cannot do with flexbox.
Has anyone found any? Bonus points for nice, well-written articles.
@ppk Have items span tracks?
But what would "rising to the moment" look like? What can the opposition do without majorities in either house? Well, they could start by refusing to continue to fund ICE, a masked thug snatch/murder squad that roams our streets, killing with impunity:
That's table stakes. What would a *real* political response to fascism look like? Again, it wouldn't stop with banning masks for ICE goons, or requiring them to wear QR codes:
https://gizmodo.com/dem-congressman-wants-to-make-ice-agents-wear-qr-codes-2000710345
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Though it should be noted that ICE hates this idea, and that ICE agents wear masks because they fear consequences for their sadistic criminality:
This despite the fact that the (criminally culpable) Vice President has assured them that they have absolute impunity, no matter who they kill:
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/08/politics/ice-immunity-jd-vance-minneapolis
The fact that ICE agents worry about consequences despite Vance's assurances suggests ways that Dems could "meet the moment."
3/
@davidgerard the main (only?) argument I hear against using Signal by less techie people is that they don’t want to use WhatsApp and Signal or don’t have space for both on their phone.
@aimaz don't have ... space? what
America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats' total failure to rise to the moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADW3ZRZLVI
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/miller-in-the-dock/#denazification
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But what would "rising to the moment" look like? What can the opposition do without majorities in either house? Well, they could start by refusing to continue to fund ICE, a masked thug snatch/murder squad that roams our streets, killing with impunity:
That's table stakes. What would a *real* political response to fascism look like? Again, it wouldn't stop with banning masks for ICE goons, or requiring them to wear QR codes:
https://gizmodo.com/dem-congressman-wants-to-make-ice-agents-wear-qr-codes-2000710345
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@cstross @pheedbackPhil @Steveg58
> Strowger electromechanical exchanges
And what a fascinating back story *they* have!
@neil @cstross @pheedbackPhil @Steveg58 There was a working telephone exchange in Berwick Town Museum - though they seem to have neglected to put any information about it on the internet.
Does advertising really work?
Everyone I know mutes TV ads when they come on.
Everyone I know uses ad-blockers online.
I avoid sites that say 'You can't view this site unless you turn off your ad-blocker.'
And some ads are so annoying &/or repetitive that I refuse to use the product on principle.
Advertising may not work on you Richard - but if it didn't work on most people, big business wouldn't be spending 1.4 trillion dollars on it every year.
Apart from being designed, obviously, to extract our hard-earned money from us, I think the most pernicious effects of advertising are:
1. It makes us unhappy. That's the whole point. It is fundamentally based on making us feel we'd be better, more attractive, popular, successful, etc, if only we buy this or that latest cosmetic, car, whatever; and
2. It shapes social expectations - it makes having new, more expensive things, holidays, etc, look and feel desirable, it associates happiness with wasteful consumerism, so we come to really believe that having a 'luxury lifestyle' - big house, fancy car, swimming pool, jet-setting, etc - is better than living contentedly in caring families, communities and the natural world.
@toddtyrtle @overholt I notice it more on big social media, but also just on web searches for information, like if I want information for say a game walkthrough I'll probably be getting 2:1 AI generated results which will often be wrong.
@JubalBarca @toddtyrtle Yeah, that’s what I was thinking about, in particular trying to find a solution for my malfunctioning dishwasher this weekend.
Maybe I'm very strange but my metric for a post "doing well" is replies not likes or boosts.
A good post spawns a million threads and subthreads.
However, I'm on social media to ... socialize (crazy right?)
People who view social media as a publicity tool don't reply to posts, they don't even read their own replies. It's like they aren't even here.
Sad that on places like X/twitter replies were seen as a negative: a sign that people were angry at you. Dysfunctional.
(I favourited and boosted this, but given the content of the post, I feel like that could be interpreted as a passive-aggressive attack. It isn't meant to be, I have nothing of value to add to this, but I completely agree with the sentiment expressed.)
@breizh @aeris @mmu_man @Exagone313 sauf que j'ai pas d'obligation de me déplacer en voiture. Alors que accéder à mes comptes , un peu non ?
@breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm @mmu_man@m.g3l.org @Exagone313@share.elouworld.org @ztec@mamot.fr Ben autant que la voiture en réalité
@ztec @aeris @mmu_man @Exagone313 Bah du coup là c’est pareil. Pour l’usage quotidien il te faut un téléphone plus récent et sécurisé que l’autre qui est dépassé à plus d’un titre…
@breizh @aeris @mmu_man @Exagone313 sauf que j'ai pas d'obligation de me déplacer en voiture. Alors que accéder à mes comptes , un peu non ?
