Mike Olson
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ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY WEEKEND!
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Lisa Melton
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Reminder that choosing who to vote for isn’t choosing who you’d like to marry.
It’s more like picking which LEGO brick you want in your shoe for the next 4 years.
Fireside Fedi Panel (Very Low Quality Recording)
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“Short n’ Sweet” by Sabrina Carpenter on cassette tape.
And nope, this ain’t some bootleg. It’s an official release. Bought it at Sunrise Records for my daughter.
It was $20.
And it sounds GOOD too.
Really glad we grabbed the cassette instead of the vinyl.
DRM-free media releases in the year 2026, wow
American boot-licking at its finest.
Witkoff: "President Putin, thank you so much for having us. We were sitting outside just now, me, Jared, Carol, and then Yuri joined us, and we were talking about, when we retire, we'll have all these incredible stories and memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all."
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OTOH, what "incredible stories and memories" are they talking about?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvHJ5v62Y5s
#UsPol
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@AkaSci You know. Kidnapping Ukrainian children. Bombing civilians. Supporting the Russians with Trump family grift and money laundering.
Who Really Watches Hasan Piker? by Steven Asarch
Would an elf catgirl have two or four pointy ears?
@catsalad would an elf catgirl have sections or segments
@serapath
> Taxing rich folks is difficult and they have the money to bribe and pay smart people to find all the loop holes
That's why land taxes make sense. Owning land is the easiest way to collect economic rents, and it's the most secure, long-term store of wealth. Land is impossible to hide, and rich people can't take it with them if they want to move their wealth offshore. States could easily stop recognizing the freehold title of anyone who refused to pay their land lax.
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Obviously I'm assuming a system of government where people actually get to make the rules that govern our lives (ie actual democracy). Instead of a system where governments make rules that benefit the 1%, at everyone else's expense, and we get to choose which people get to play roles in those governments (ie "representative democracy").
We probably need some kind of democratic revolution to bring about that situation. That's neither certain, nor impossible.
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William Gillis 🏴
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@nazgul Hopefully you won't now be overrun by tarantulas.
@jmorris
I don't think we have any here. However, if they eat scorpions, more power to them.
William Gillis 🏴
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Andy Ngo has publicly asked the U.S. State Department to treat Sabot Media’s reporting on the Autistici/Inventati sanctions as “support” for A/I and has described this publication as its “propaganda wing.”
Sabot Media is an independent publication. We are not an agent, affiliate or organizational arm of Autistici/Inventati. We have reported on the U.S. government’s designation, interviewed affected parties, examined the people and institutions that advocated for the policy, and published the underlying records so readers can evaluate them for themselves.
That is journalism.
It is also worth noting that OFAC’s own guidance states that U.S. sanctions do not prohibit constitutionally protected political speech and recognizes protections for the exchange of information and informational materials.
If Ngo or Kyle Shideler has evidence that Sabot Media has provided financial, technical or other prohibited services to A/I, they should publish it. Calling critical reporting “terrorist support” does not make it so.
@nazgul question on the alt-text, taxonomy ain't my area but can you actually have an "arachnid insect"?
@chris_e_simpson Usually I'm more careful editing the AI generated description. But that slipped past me. All I can think of is that it actually did recognize the insect. And picked up on the tarantula in the name. Serves me right for using it.
This is neat: https://www.crowdsupply.com/gblink/gblink-usb-v2
I don't *need* to connect my gameboy link cable to my PC, but it's good to know that I can.
Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in 1939's classic "The Wizard of Oz", would tell of how she got the role. Her agent contacted her to tell her she was under consideration for the film. "What part?" she asked. "The witch", he replied. "The WITCH?" she responded. "What else?" he said ...
