GARMIN: "that's a nice $1,000 watch you bought from us!"
me: "thanks!"
#GARMIN: "you will need to connect your new watch to the internet. #Palantir Technologies wants to know your location at all times, in case you happen to be riding near any PROTESTS."
@kevingamin I miss Pebble so much. I even have a Pebble 2 with color I can't use because I lost the charger and the battery is wrecked. I sort of didn't 100% trust the new software, but I wonder if they're still safer and more reliable these days.
@kevingamin The Pebbles were so small, light, simple, clean, and lasted so long on a charge...
I still don't understand why Fitbit killed them. I get that they bought it specifically to kill it, but what they bought was something they could have used! Like not reinventing the wheel used, but just keep selling the same thing or something. It filled a huge niche that nothing else did and still doesn't...
While ICE and the Border Patrol run around the Twin Cities terrorizing people and committing assault, kidnapping, and murder; the St. Paul Pioneer Press runs an OpEd calling for "bipartisan compromise" - by which the author means "let ICE target half as many people".
Stop giving the use of your OpEd page to horrifically bad takes; Pioneer Press editors.
France is now providing two-thirds of the intelligence supplied to Ukraine by its partners, President Emmanuel Macron said on Jan. 15.
The change works to solve #Kyiv's heavy dependence on the U.S. for military intelligence, which has been wielded as leverage against Ukraine by the #Trump #regime on several occasions.
The change works to solve Kyiv's heavy dependence on the U.S. for military intelligence, which has been wielded as leverage against Ukraine by the Trump administration on several occasions.
#Loops I've commented on before, last time I thought we were a step closer, I was able to record and upload a video with the app, if'n I still couldn't upload a video that I'd recorded on my phone, but that was short lived. Like trying to upload a pre-recorded video, it quits as soon as I get to the description page on cellular. On WiFi, I get about 45% of compression before it quits, and if'n I look closely, I can catch a standard system error message about the app quitting frequently before it clears itself (its not supposed to do that I don't think). I love Loops, but its kinda useless to me obviously.
#holos is my newest thing, and I figured I'd be telling y'all about how great it is, but I'm not sure it fits my life. For those that haven't heard of this, its a really neat idea, your entire instance is on your phone, it uses a relay to connect to the Fediverse as you can't maintain a fixed connection to the internet on your phone. I follow this and a few other accounts, and its great, it refreshes incredibly fast, that's great... And I realized last night that it doesn't work the other way, I made two posts yesterday, and yet they don't show up here, even if'n I go to the account here, so there's something wrong with the Federation.
Sure, I wasn't sure if Holos fit into my life, I do most of my internet including social media here on my computer, or on my tablet when I'm home, but I am open to doing some on my phone, short and quick messages during the day, that's my main use for Mastodon, this is also why Loops interests me, but if'n neither works, they're not of much use, are they?
EDIT And to add to my headaches, my dashboard wasn't showing any active sessions, so I logged out... And realized I've forgotten my password and BitWarden hadn't saved it, and password recovery doesn't seem to be working as I've tried the three most likely accounts for me and checked the spam folders and nothing.
Thanks for the feedback! Just a reminder that Holos is in beta, so we're still working out issues like this.
Could you check if the accounts where you expect to see your posts are actually in your followers list in Holos? The distribution issue likely comes from there, posts are only sent to your followers' inboxes.
"My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated.
My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated. #gettyreportage #getty at the #Whipple Federal building in #Minneapolis.” Photo by Pierre Lavie.
The Hill reports: A nearly 100-year-old federal ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, according to an opinion released Thursday by the Dep
I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul ─ one of America’s 20 largest metro areas. I have kids in the public schools, own a house, go to work every day, pay taxes, volunteer in my community (e.g., coaching youth sports, helping in the schools). I am certainly not a radical of any kind. I had never done any community organizing work before last month.
I am writing this to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government. If you are so moved, see below to learn how you can help. Here is what is happening right now: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dis…
My mom is ready to move to linux, but since I'm a newbie myself, I need to ask you for help with this: Apart from mails and surfing, she also uses her pc to back up her phone pictures. She copies them to her pc ad there's an external hard drive connected to it. We set up automatic mirroring of the files from the pc to the external ssd. So she basically doesn't have to take care for it except dropping her files to her computer.
I kinda have similar, where particular folders on the laptop get mirrored to an external SSD. I'm using a little systemd service, which needs a couple of scripts in particular directories, and a couple of command-line things to get it started.
Someone may have a simpler solution but if not DM me and I'll ping you what I use, and you can amend as required.
There are truly a lot of total fuckwits out there. At least you now know about that one. The thing about the Renee case is, coming from a place without a gun-ho gun culture, is that whether she was in the right or wrong, shooting to kill is absolutely not acceptable. That ice bastard should be prosecuted for murder as he used a complete excess of force. There was no justification.
We don't know each other, but I feel sorry for your "loss", even if it appears finally that you didn't lose someone, you gain not to deal with such a prick. Anyway, as a friend of mine told me recently, we don't need to have friends that are not racist, not sexist, not "whatever" We need friends that are anti. Antifascist. Antisexist. Friends who will stand up for us. People who would have hidden Jews during WW2 (I'm French, so this refers to sthg that relates to us). Made papers for them. Helped them escape. Not the ones who weren't anti-semitist and didn't "agree with" H., but didn't do much to stand up either. And your hair is great 👍
I lost a friend of 20 years in the same way, and though it was about a different topic (he thought writers and artists should embrace AI and if we don't then we "deserve to die out"), he also became very obsessed with the idea that everyone was "too woke" because he couldn't make racist/sexist jokes.
I thought for a while that the MAGA shit rotted his brain, but looking back, I think that vitriolic mindset was there all along, it's just that now he feels comfortable showing it.
I’m just a stranger but I just have to say: you are right. About it all.
Your former friend is a sad, misogynistic critter. May he be replaced with better friends.
And the rise of misogyny, or better, the lack of them hiding it now- I agree, and I’ve felt it. So odd, but even here in the Bay Area, I’ve had some interactions that made me go “huh, you dare verbalize this level of misogyny in public?”.
But I’ve had good interactions, too, recently, with men who are helpers, who call out bad behavior on the spot.
I guess in these times, some people veer hard to cruelty and others hear the call to stand up for what’s right.
I’m waxing poetically because it’s hard for me to put in words, but I hope it makes sense.
It's been a week since we watched an ICE agent shoot and kill Renee Nicole Good and then mutter "f*cking b*tch" at her. It's time we talk about the misogyny that's baked into ICE enforcement.
Thank you for not portraying such men as "radicalised" by MAGA. They are already like that, and MAGA is merely a stage and a megaphone for them to be loud and proud about it.
21K likes, 797 comments - voteinorout on October 29, 2025: "Attention Ring doorbell owners: Ring, owned by Amazon, has announced a partnership with FLOC, an AI system collaborating with federal law enforcement, including ICE and local police.
NEW: A month and a half into the federal immigration enforcement blitz that's flooded MN with ICE and federal agents, protests and developments are accelerating; residents continue to confront ICE and legal challenges against federal operations continue to unfold.
A month and a half into "Operation Metro Surge," the federal immigration enforcement blitz that has flooded the Twin Cities with ICE and other federal agents, protests and developments are accelerating
Yawns, "Pup needs more sleep, but will he get it? Usual stuff, woke up, didn't feel like going back to bed for a few hours, and naturally woke up too soon after that. Should do grocery shopping, was considering maybe working today, but its cold... And snowing. #stl drivers barely know how to drive when tis dry, so this is not weather you go out in if'n you're wise."
Here is an up-to-date interactive of companies getting paid by ICE as the agency raids cities. From Trump-donating prison contractors like GEO Group to MAGA firms like Palantir to brand names like Deloitte and others. Free to read:
💬 18 🔁 4165 ❤️ 3309 · I know I haven't posted regularly on this blog in years but I'm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about what's happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts…
generalized US legal question: If you don't have a lawyer, and there might come a time in the future when you might want to attend a protest, how would you go about choosing/finding a lawyer you might call if you needed to make a phone call to your lawyer? Is there a particular specialization to look for, or some kind of find-a-lawyer list, or what? Or do you just rely on a public defender to be available?
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. If you connect with your local ACLU I believe they should be able to provide you with, if not direct support, information on how to get it.
For protest support hotlines, click here NLG National Office Mailing Address: National Lawyers Guild PO Box 1266 New York, NY 10009-8941 Phone: (212) 679-5100 Phone Extensions and Email: Mass defense / protest support inquiries: massdef@nlg.
Quoting with content warning. Guess I was right to never try Bluesky. I just knew it wouldn't turn out well, given it was made by the same dipsh!t who sold Twitter to the muskrat.
#bugs#bunny I love all the characters.Yep! Trump has driven me to Looney Tunes. Looney Tunes | Classic Bugs Bunny Mega Compilation | Vol. 2 | Warner Classics "Duk! I'm a Duk! youtube.com/watch?v=QJzC19JQWr…
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