#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?
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.
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…
Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.
in 2018 this would net an easy hundred boosts and then i would reply in the thread to say white genocide is a good thing and that would get roughly forty-five boosts.
nowadays i post something like this as a tacit acknowledgment that i am chopped, unc, and it's never been more over.
George Floyd died in 2020, so the US said, "OMG! Racism is bad! We can change!"
In 2021, the US *talked about* some modest reforms.
In 2022 and 2023, white grievance against those reforms had reached fever pitch.
2024 saw record police funding, record cops killing Black people, and DEI rollback.🤷🏿♂️
That whole arc took less than 4 years, and the United States is now more racist than it was in 2019.🤦🏿♂️
US racism is incredibly durable and self-healing. The rules of engagement of US society, including who is allowed to criticize what systems, make it so that any meager gains can be clawed back.
In the moments after George Floyd, many people thought that the US had changed for the better, and changed for good.
But a lot of us older Black folk said to ourselves, "👴🏿OK! Now what durable improvements can we put in place before everyone goes back to business as usual?"
We've seen this before.
My point is: Do not mistake temporary revulsion prompted by white people seeing what happened to Renee Good, for widespread opposition to the idea of ethnically cleansing the United States.
That would be a mistake.
You have a limited window to put any durable changes in place.
And prepare yourself emotionally for that pendulum to swing back.
Because if you are not prepared, it will smash you, and break your spirit.
Ironically: a lot of Black people were less emotionally devastated by the anti-civil rights swingback, because we knew it was coming.🤷🏿♂️
Does anyone who does video editing have any suggestions for a video editor I could grab for a Windows computer that has a pretty quick learning curve? Ideally free, but at least cheap?
I basically need to be able to grab premade commercials (I can do this elsewhere, I know, but it'd be a bonus if the program did that as well), which I'll redo the audio for, and I need to be able to marry them together (i.e. it'll be the original video with my vocals).
I've used OpenShot which is reasonably simple to get the hang of, and it's free. The more ram in your system the better though, video processing eats it alive.
For everyone saying that what’s happening right now is unprecedented, this book makes clear that it’s very, very precedented. Goons conscripted by the Feds smashing in doors and beating people up? Check. Vilification of immigrants? Check. People deported to foreign countries because of their ideology? Check. And if you’re one of those who says, “History will judge them, and see their evil,” take a drive over to Ft. Leonard Wood (Leonard Wood is all over this book). (1/2)
The far-right influencer and J6 convict Jake Lang has been on a rampage across the country, sparking violent encounters through racist and islamophobic rallies.
“The violent left, everybody!” The man shouted into his phone, which he had out recording the whole time. He was trying hard to mimic the candor and mannerisms of the president.
Minneapolis has been in his sights at least since he appeared in Dearborn, Michigan, and since arriving he has wasted no time in making enemies. On Jan. 17, he is scheduled to bring his anti-Islam campaign to Minneapolis’ City Hall, an appearance counter-protesters are already preparing for.
Lang’s rally will begin in downtown Minneapolis at city hall, starting with a rally followed by a march to the Cedar Riverside neighborhood, home to a large population of Somalis.
Read all about Lang's history and activity in Mpls in our latest article
“The violent left, everybody!” The man shouted into his phone, which he had out recording the whole time. He was trying hard to mimic the candor and mannerisms of the president.
What every US citizen can simply do NOW: get an ever growing mass of concerned to contact their reps, write/phone/email/scream outside their offices, with #impeachment demand, or, we #primary you with someone who will; find those candidates citizensimpeachment.com/ house.gov/representatives/find…
contact your congressional representatives asap (before the primaries) to demand the return of our country, that they immediately impeach Trump! and Spread the word!
Alexander Rhodes, the founder of the pornography addiction self-help group NoFap and repeat plaintiff, sued the parent company of Pornhub, Aylo, along with the University of California Los Angeles,…
Not to suggest doing anything improper, but has anyone made a Schraeder valve bit that'll fit in a common electric screwdriver? Just seems it'd be a useful thing to have, just saying, not suggesting anything.
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in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •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.