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Happy Birthday Sputnik. He was a wrestler back in the old days, the heel, the bad guy, the person you were supposed to boo. He was also anti-racist, telling the promoters that if there was separate seating for coloreds, he wasn't performing.
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Signed, but I'm super disappointed by ProPublica, even in passing, thinking about using AI let alone making it such an issue that a petition is required to try and stop them from moving forward with AI. Sadly, I will now likely skip over any ProPublica articles I see in my feed in the future. And come to think about it, how the hell is fucking AI supposed to do in-depth investigative reporting? The management at ProPublica needs to be replaced, not reporters. Idiots. #NoAI
Had a good laugh at the news yesterday that the Department of Home Affairs (they handle stuff like immigration, passports, birth registrations) raided the office where American government officials were processing refugee applications from wealthy white Afrikaners.
lots of "YOU CAN'T COME IN HERE, WE'RE GOD DAMNED AMERICANS!" from the Trumpfuckers managing the place.
And a whole lot of Kenyans got deported and put on travel bans because the Americans smuggled them into the country to work illegally.
And just to be clear, it wasn't an accident - they applied for work visas and were rejected because a) The applications were sponsored by the US government which, apparently, is not a South African company, and b) The jobs they were getting was "low-grade clerical work" - something which literally any literate person can do and which does NOT qualify for any kind of rare skills exemption, and c) This whole "white genocide refugee" nonsense is severely pissing off our government.
So when the work visa applications were rejected, they just applied for tourist visas, and put them to work, making sure to rotate them out every 90 days when the visas expired.
The utter mad hypocrisy of the Trump administration being so casually dismissive of immigration law is just so... ooh! I laugh because I have to.
U.S. coins first had βMind Your Businessβ on them instead of βIn God We Trust.β The original motto was βcoinedβ by Benjamin Franklin. βIn God We Trustβ appeared during the Civil War, when religious sentiment grew stronger.
Back in high school, I met a bullying runt with a little entourage.
I was a 'public school' refugee who got a scholarship to a private Catholic high school.
While sitting in the "audio/visual room"βcubicles with record playersβI noticed I was getting distracted by a chubby runt with a little entourage, who was actively mocking me.
Eventually, I confronted him, took him out in the hallway, and put the fear in him, by pointing out how easy it would be to throw him down the stairwell. He felt the fear, I let him go back to his friends, and we both let it fade into history.
Years later, as an elected state representive, he made the news by menacing a young female reporter with suggestions she could "have a lot of fun" with guys from his school. (The school I graduated from).
These people don't turn magat overnight. They start young, and develop techniques.
So, stand up to bullies when you're young. You may never get the chance again.
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When Ronald Reagan first came into office, all of the US university libraries were sent federal orders to report all students checking out The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. At the University of Washington all bachelor degree students are required to take a certain amount of units in courses outside of their major. In 1981 one of my first courses at UW was in Political Science. I bought my copy of The Communist Manifesto in order to do the required reading in that class, and to keep from being reported to the FBI.
Gallery site, think like DeviantArt, FurAffinity, ArtUntamed, etc. You don't even have to code from scratch, just design a new UI for Pixelfed to display artwork that same way. It might need a tweak or two, those gallery sites will after all happily show you artwork that's been posted on their landing page, mature content only visible if'n you're logged in.
Despite the similarities of the interfaces, each site is a custom piece of work, so imagine not needing a custom site and the challenges that brings. For viewers, imagine not needing an account at every art gallery site so you can see your favorite artist's content, nor would the artist's need an account at multiple sites, you can follow from whatever current account you have.
Is there any negative? Sure, I don't think a PixelFed based gallery site would support stories, videos or music well, but the Fediverse has projects for those too.
Mauiβs mayor has signed a law to phase out short-term vacation rentals to ease housing crunch Mauiβs mayor has signed a law to phase out short-term vacation rentals to ease housing crunch
I would rather have a root canal w/o anesthesia than listen to 1 second of the deranged lunatic LIE his way thru another incoherent screed Sending strength to Daniel Dale @ddale8.bsky.social who must & list all his lies It is all a distraction...the #EpsteinFiles are due in 2 days #WagTheDog
I normally don't like to use the blind card, but the utter crap Chris went through yesterday is completely unexcusable and unexceptible. He was scheduled for a sleep study and called ahead to let them know he is visually impaired and would need assistance walking from security to the sleep lab. The lovely individual was like well can you have someone come with you? Chris was like no my roommate and wife are blind and my wife is working. She was like well until you find someone to come with you we're canceling your study. When will people get it through their heads.Blind does not mean stupid and we aren't born with a magic sighted assistant to do everything. I did mention to the doctor that the next time he referrs him to a sleep specialest or anywhere she needs to note taht he is visually impared and will need assistance. It's 2025 people really need to realize what inclusion is and how to make that work.
You've been spying on my wife and I again, haven't you! We don't even need to have been out in the snow or rain, she's always cold! (Or I'm always warm!)
Having Loops problems, it took a few weeks, maybe a month before I was able to upload that last video, and I thought the app was working.
Nope, yesterday's video is a no go, I get the title typed... And it crashes, doesn't even start uploading. Not sure if recording in the app would work better, it refused as I hadn't given it mike permission, something it never asked for.
That's one of the weirdest things, it never asked for any permissions, oddly it can upload videos even though it doesn't have permission to access them, but it can't record as it doesn't have mike access, how's that work? Also it apparently has no notification function, I tried to allow it, but got told nope, it doesn't do notifications, which seems a bit odd, I mean how do I know if someone commented or liked a video without opening the app?
I might need an update, not sure, nor do I have any idea how to do that as I'd side loaded this as soon as it was available, so dunno how that works.
ProPublica reports a dystopian horror. Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program was forced to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Innocent people literally got a stamp on a card at random to let them know if they would live or if they would starve to death. Not because the world lacks resourcesβbut because its stricken with greed.
All this blood is on the hands of Trump, Musk, & feckless Republicans.
I was taught if you can't care for a child don't have them. Why would anyone have numerous children in these areas? And why does everyone expect America to feed the world? What about Canada? France? UK? Ireland? Spain? Saudi Arabia? Iran? Turkey? Egypt? And South Africa, what about them?
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