Far right UK Independence Party applies to change its official election symbol to one resembling the Iron Cross, previously used by Prussia & Germany (1871-1918) and the Nazi regime (1933-45). thenational.scot/news/25761260β¦
Imma stop you right there. Jonathan Ross, the man who murdered Renee Good by shooting her in the face three times and then calling her a "fucking bitch" while fleeing the scene, is a 10 year DHS vet and a firearms instructor. He's who they get training FROM.
This can't be fixed with training. This gets fixed with lasting and severe consequences.
Shot in the dark but is anyone else here a teacher? I am working on revising the literacy curriculum at my school and feel as though Iβm doing it in complete isolation. Iβd love to chat with another professional about it. #forkiverse #teachers #curriculum (im trying with this tagging stuff but I have legit never done it before)
All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.
In a world where platforms rise and fall at the whim of governments and boardrooms, we're building something that can't be shut down, sold off, or taken away.
Right now the biggest blocker to me suggesting loops to friends and family is that the apps are in beta mode and not straightforward downloads and I don't want to scare them away since a first impression only happens once.
Do you have a list of blocking issues or a timeline to the apps being available normally?
CBS interviewed a 25 year police veteran and use of force expert who clearly states the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota by ICE last week was unlawful and unjustified.
Then they buried it. Just like they did the CECOT interview.
While Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance cruelly labeled Renee Good a βdomestic terrorist,β the video evidence is clear.
Watch the full video as I react in real time and break down exactly what the footage shows.
Another collab with the terrific R.E. Ryan. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, all showing a protest in front of a state government capital building, with marchers holding placardsβ¦
People are still too focused on Trump as the source of the current disaster; he is but a bit player. He is just the hired chaos monkey of global billionaire class. If he was gone today, they'd hire another stooge (JD?). America must face that it's failing democracy has lost the ability to restrain the rich from absolute and corrupt power.
As ICE killed a record number of people in 2025, a shocking 75 Democratic Members of Congress called for even MORE ICE enforcement and involvement in local communities.
Is your member on this list? I name names, share a script to use when calling them, and share the names of those ICE killed.
Documenting the corporate bought politicians standing with ICE, even as they kill dozens of our neighbors
Anyone with a conscience is rightly outraged at ICEβs cold blooded murder of Renee Good last week in Minneapolis.
wow, and one of these nasty people is hoping to be governor of California. I hope for all our sake he falls short in the June primary. California who are you liking so far? My sense is that Betty Yee or Tony Thurmond should be top contenders, but Iβm just tuning in. #CAPol #California
The #CorporateDemocrats positions are well to the right of my mother's #RepublicanParty - pushed there, along with the Overton Window, by #CitizensUnited & the massive $$ flowing from the 1%
Whatever the stated reasons for doing this, we all know what this really is: another effort from the Trump regime to put as much distance between it and accountability. Even before DHS head Kristi β¦
I see a lot of folk wondering why Trump is not worried politically about the unpopularity of what he's doing, starting foreign wars, killing citizens for...existing, behaving like Gestapo.
It's actually, like him, very simple.
He enjoys it.
He's a sociopath. He literally does not and cannot care about anyone but himself. Everyone is only seen in one of two categories: useful, or not useful. Neither category is permanent.
He grew up a huge fan of WWII movies, and cop shows and action movies. His TV addiction is serious. It's why his go-to insult is that someone is "low-rated". He can't think of anything worse.
So when he gets to watch live video of the soldiers he owns and gets to play with as he sees fit, shooting and killing bad guys just like in his favourite movies, he doesn't care about the loss of life. He never has, anywhere. He can't.
But he can enjoy the video. Knowing that actual brown people were killed making his entertainment probably makes it more fun for him.
And he loves the power trip of knowing his followers will cheerfully kill for him. He knows exactly what happens when he attacks someone - his cultists swamp them with threats, SWATting, and so on. He LOVES having that power, and uses it as often as possible because he loves it.
He's completely amoral. The only morality in his world is "do you have the might to make me submit? if not, gtf." Nothing is beyond him.
We treat him as the buffoon he is, but the buffoon has the nuclear football. It's funny watching a monkey with a firearm on video.
A lot less funny when you're in the room with the monkey.
His ICE thugs will get worse. He's just shown them how far he'll go to protect them from consequence for extrajudicial murder. So it's going to happen again and again.
Because he is preferentially hiring people who share his views. Meaning, other people for whom the cruelty is the fun part.
Resist. But do so in groups, and be ready to get away at any time.
I kind of imagine all of these billionaires just so removed from humanity at this point - surrounded by yes-men terrified for their jobs - that they view entire populations not as individual humans, but through a literal computer/TV screen showing whatever their favourite medium is. Friend count metrics, NPCs, Prime subscriptions, reality TV redshirts, ad views.
Learn to spot fascists βeven though they drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy." - Heather Cox Richardson infogram.com/how-fascism-worksβ¦ @gailwaldby #FascismChecklist #DefendDemocracy
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, by Jason Stanley identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history. The call to vote to stop fascism is from DemLabs and not from the book.
39K likes, 1,385 comments - 50501movement on January 11, 2026: "ICE beat a U.S. Marine Veteran, telling her: βHave you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch!β
These terrorists stomped on Skye, trying to break her ankle.
A diplomat at the UN has canceled his world cup tickets because he does not feel safe in the United States... This is another sad sad day for our country
64K likes, 1,798 comments - fitforjustice_ on January 11, 2026: "FIFA World Cup ticket holders are canceling in masses. As they should! Because it is not safe here.
And thatβs what FIFA gets for giving that fake award to Humpty Dumpty for βpeace.
I went to trans swimming last night and it was amazing.
Trans swimming happens weekly in two public swimming pools in London, one in South London, one in North East London. Each sets aside a pool for trans and gender diverse swimmers, we get our own changing room, and we have 90 minutes allocated in the evening where the pool is exclusively ours.
It is amazing.
I've been multiple times, but seeing the joy on every face to swim regardless of top surgery scars, bulging bikini bottoms, or even topless (pre surgery mascs and early HRT femmes).
But no one cares about the bodies... This is what makes it amazing. People just swim, splash, do handstands, snog, do lengths... It's just this really amazing safe space.
I can't describe how big a deal it is to feel this safe, and to have this space, and to do an activity that has such fear associated to it (trans person in a public pool and changing rooms).
If there's trans swimming near you, go swim! If you're near or in London, join us! If you're in London DM me for the WhatsApp group details for trans and gender diverse swimming.
Travel restrictions? Showing your papers and id? Does this remind you of anything? And they're sending letters out to our postal workers about these things
5,426 likes, 206 comments - joe_anybody on January 9, 2026: "Postal Worker received a letter on January 5th warning them of travel restrictions and having essential worker documents and IDβs at all times.
@adriano The color of carrots is actually fascinating bit of history. I suspect human selection is the cause of the colour and they are normally very dark purple or white.
David! Where are Carrot's brother and sisters? Also carrots, different colours. πΈ
@keeya Yes, it can be an evidence this 'encyclopedia' hallucinate information by regressing to the mean statistically since witch+black cat is a common trope.
well, funny that. AI facial recognition has already wrongly identified suspects despite the person being arrested looking nothing like the actual suspect.
Grok reminds me of this one Swedish childrens movie I saw as a kid where for complicated childrens story reason a poor family decides to pool all their money together and send the dad of the family to the circus, and it's very much implied that he took the money and fucked off to the pub, cus when he gets back he tells them all wonderous tales of all the fantastic things he saw at the circus and the whole ruse comes to a crashing halt when breathlessly describe the air acrobats as actually flying, like levitating off the ground, cus he was very clearly just bullshitting.
I think it's called "semantic leakage": you like the colour yellow -> you work as a bus driver. In this case, you are a witch by trade -> your cat is black. Can't wait for the next episode of avian intelligence! πΈ
Black carrots do exist, but it might have swapped the names and deduced the cat's colour from "black pepper", after concluding Carrot is the more girly of the names. Carrie + Charlotte = Carrot
Well, there's the old joke, that "in the dark, all cats are gray," about the idea that the appearance of sexual partners not mattering once you turn out the lights. And given Grok's other (slightly larger?) scandal this week...
If anyone has a service that will let me turn an Youtube RSS feed into a podcast, please let me know! I was using one a few years ago, but it no longer works. I would like to play the Youtube videos inside a podcast client.
@Micro SF/F by O. Westin Brings to mind one of my favorite MLP cartoons, Spike and Rarity are married with kids, and when Spike is available, the kids like to play rescue the dragon the evil princess.
"The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters, career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews.
Those arrested by the Gestapo were often held without judicial process, and political prisoners throughout Germanyβand from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decreeβsimply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.
Contrary to popular perception, the Gestapo was actually a relatively small organization with limited surveillance capability; still it proved extremely effective due to the willingness of ordinary Germans to report on fellow citizens."
Right now is a really important time to be learning about the history of fascism in Europe.
Even if you think you know about Nazi Germany already, how well do you understand *how* it happened?
Did you know that Hitler's movement started initially quite violently, with him going to prison for a failed coup of government? Only after years of sitting in a cell did he organize a movement that would see him demolish democracy by *winning democratically*?
Do you know what the Night Of The Long Knifes is?
Do you know why seemingly normal, good natured Germans voted for Nazis?
Did you know that when Hitler rose to power, he did it with a *minority* of control in the Legislature? Their victory required tactical alliances with moderate Conservatives who believed that Hitler was just a man who said crazy things but wasn't serious about all of it. (Hmm, where have we heard that before?)
Did you know that the Nazi Party was basically always broke, and required heavy volunteer work by dedicated members?
Do you know what the methods of persuasion and political organizing they used?
Now is an incredibly important time to be learning about how Hitler came to power. We aren't going to see a one-to-one correlation with anything modern, but I'll tell you that you will absolutely start to notice trends.
This repository contains resources concerning unofficial Linux distribution aimed at visually impaired users. This distribution is called Vojtux. The name is based on first name of the main contributor; Vojtech. github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux
Mastodon was recommended by a friend, so still figuring all this out. I'm a young writer trying to learn my craft by writing in public. Learn by doing, right?
Works are free under CC BY. 100% human. #introduction
In general, Trumps' knowledge is limited and he is not credible, except when he wants to satisfy his immature mind, in which case you should be cautious.
On that basis, the fact Europeans landed in what is now the USA in 1492 does not mean they owned the land, So the war of independence was not valid as you don't own the land either despite winning that war, So hand everything over to the dependents of the tribes the land was taken from.
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David Revoy (born 1981) is a French self-taught digital artist, illustrator, webcomic creator, and instructor renowned for his exclusive use of free/libre and open-source software (FLOSS) since 2009, working on a GNU/Linux system. He is best known for creating the ongoing webcomic series Pepper & Carrot, a libre and open-source fantasy story about a young witch and her black cat, which debuted in May 2014 and has been translated into multiple languages through community efforts. Revoy's career spans over two decades of freelance work, beginning with traditional painting and street portraiture in his late teens before transitioning to digital media around 2003. His expertise includes illustration, concept art, art direction, storytelling, and teaching, with clients worldwide in publishing, gaming, animation, and education. Notable projects include serving as art director for the Blender Foundation's open movie Sintel (2009), contributing concept art to films like Tears of Steel and Cosmos Laundromat [...]")
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