Some cats exude complete and utter confidence. Some cats emanate a certain mystique. Some cats radiate refinement and elegance. This is Chip.
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#sheltercat #adoptdontshop #cats #caturday
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If you are traveling or expecting visitors this holiday season, remember that Marriott hotels do not want your money. They have all the business they need housing the terrorists from ICE and Border Patrol. Take your business elsewhere.
(Note that the flyer mentions Southern California, but this is not just a local issue).
See:
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![A white flyer with red text:
BOYCOTT MARRIOTT
Hotels - Resorts - Suites
Marriott Hotel Brands House Ice Agents
They are staying in a hotel near you. If you are vacationing in Southern California and staying at one of the brands below they are more than likely in a room next to you. Marriott Hotels are complicit in brutal kidnappings of human beings.
Marriott Bonvoy
[Follows a collection of logos for all the Marriott brands, sorted according to level of luxury. See the link to the Marriott website.]
At the bottom is a line drawing of three ice cubes, behind a crossed-out circle.](https://blog.taursnd.haus/photo/preview/640/7177924 "A white flyer with red text:
BOYCOTT MARRIOTT
Hotels - Resorts - Suites
Marriott Hotel Brands House Ice Agents
They are staying in a hotel near you. If you are vacationing in Southern California and staying at one of the brands below they are more than likely in a room next to you. Marriott Hotels are complicit in brutal kidnappings of human beings.
Marriott Bonvoy
[Follows a collection of logos for all the Marriott brands, sorted according to level of luxury. See the link to the Marriott website.]
At the bottom is a line drawing of three ice cubes, behind a crossed-out circle.")
Marriott ICE Melt Coalition
In 2019, Marriott International pledged not to rent rooms to ICE to house detainees. Since 2023, they have broken that pledge. A group of Tucson activists, known as The Marriott ICE Melt Coalition, is starting a boycott campaign in Tucson.Arizona Action Network
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A rube named Karoline Leavitt, who holds the title of White House Press Secretary, recently said that Cher's activism is " .. irrelevant, outdated and rooted in a world that doesn't exist anymore." #Cher #Trending #KarolineLeavitt with #AltText
CHER'S RESPONSE:
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Today in Labor History December 20, 1790: The first American cotton mill began operation in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The mill, owned by Samuel Slater, employed children aged 4-10. He also hired entire families, forcing them to live in his company housing and buy all their living necessities from his company store. Ann Arnold, aged 9, was Slater’s first employee. In 1810, he introduced the power loom, which was too much for young children to handle. So, he started hiring the next cheapest labor: young women. By 1835, 55% of all millworkers in the U.S. were children. In the New England mills, the children worked 12-hour days, 6 days per week in the winter. In the summer, they were forced to work 16 hours per day. On Sundays, he forced them to attend his Sunday school, where he indoctrinated them in “Christian values” like hard work and subservience to one’s masters. The children spent twice as many hours in the mill than kids spend in the classroom today. Kids were fined for not working hard enough. But they resisted the abuse whenever they could, sabotaging the factory, setting fires, and stealing property. In 1814, the mill owners petitioned the state to organize a police force to subdue the increasingly rebellious child workforce. 30 years later, on May 26, 1824, 102 young women and children at Slater’s mill initiated the first factory strike on U.S. soil. They, along with sympathetic community members, blockaded access to Slaters mill, shutting down operations and inspiring workers at other nearby mills to join their strike. They also went to the homes of the mill owners, shouting insults and breaking their windows. In early June, the mill owners and the workers came to an agreement, the details of which have been lost to history, and the workers returned to the mills.
Congress tried several times to enact child labor laws in the early 20th century, eventually passing the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which prevented bosses from employing children during school hours, and in dangerous tasks. This law, and some of the earlier attempts, came in the wake of active organizing to protect children, including Mother Jones’s famous March of the Mill Children, in 1903, when she led a contingent of children and supporters from Philadelphia to President Teddy Roosevelt’s summer home, on Long Island, to “ask him to recommend the passage of a bill by congress to protect children against the greed of the manufacturer. We want him to hear the wail of the children, who never have a chance to go to school, but work from ten to eleven hours a day in the textile mills of Philadelphia, weaving the carpets that he and you walk on, and the curtains and clothes of the people.”
Another important contribution to the movement to end child labor came from photograph Lewis Hine, who published a series of photographs of children doing dangerous work in coal mines, glass works, and textile mills. I used his powerful photograph of colliery Breaker Boys for the cover of my first novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill. My protagonist, Mike Doyle, started work in the colliery at age 13. If interested, please send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565), along with your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!
The U.S. never actually protected all children from exploitation. For example, the child labor laws always had exemptions for agricultural labor. And bosses often violated the existing laws, without consequence, including today. Meanwhile, growing numbers of states have passed new laws over the past five years that make it easier for bosses to exploit children and employ them in dangerous jobs.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #children #childlabor #mill #exploitation #cotton #childexploitation #childabuse #lewishine #motherjones #strike #union #books #fiction #novel #writer @bookstadon
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Tow truck driver who hauled away an ICE SUV found not guilty, to have massive set of balls
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Man accused of towing ICE SUV during LA immigration operation found not guilty
A Los Angeles tow truck driver accused of towing a government SUV during an immigration enforcement operation was found not guilty by a federal jury Friday.Missael Soto, Bill Feather (NBC Southern California)
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the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:
Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.
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@dancer_storm it's from an interview in Turkish with Ali Akurgal, though I cannot find exactly when and where it was published. I am attaching the newspaper clipping to this toot. I translated it to English (with the help of ChatGPT) so that I could post here.
the story was also featured quite often in Turkish media and social media. here are some links with the same story:
web.archive.org/web/2012031721…
eksisozluk.com/metreyle-yazili…
haberturk.com/yazarlar/fatih-a…
someone else at the same company telling the same story for a documentary: youtube.com/watch?v=UPrOCb0rmv…
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Dün Peak'i yoktan var edip Zynga'ya 1,8 milyar dolara satan beyinleri kutlayınca, değerli bir okurum geçmişten bir anıyı göndermiş.Fatih Altaylı (Haberturk.com)
I don't do really do boycotts, but being anti-consumer, no company gets much of my money, and when I do have a source choice, while local isn't much of an option here, I certainly will use the best choice possible, and price isn't a driving factor there unless there's a huge difference.
Merry boycotting: US shoppers avoid Trump-aligned businesses amid holiday season | Shopping | The Guardiantheguardian.com/us-news/2025/d…
Merry boycotting: US shoppers avoid Trump-aligned businesses amid holiday season
People are supporting economic boycotts to show discontent with businesses capitulating to Trump’s agendaRachel Leingang (The Guardian)
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❓Has anyone had a group chat on an iPhone where someone *outside the chat* somehow was able to post in the chat?
Okay, so I am in a group chat with some friends, and we all have iPhones. Last night, my friend got a text from her brother-in-law in the group chat—problem is, he isn't part of the chat group and never was. Even stranger, I couldn't see the post, only she could. She sent me a screenshot as proof she wasn't wrong.
Anyone have something like this happen? Anyone know *what* happened?
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If you're thinking, "I want to get into photography, but I have no idea what to shoot."
Literally anything. As long as it's interesting. Here's a shot of a few controllers on my desk and a Minecraft coffee cup.
You don't need a lot to make something fun.
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The emperor was sitting in his bed when the assassin came in through the window.
"Welcome, old friend."
"Wait," the assassin wheezed.
The emperor waited for him to catch his breath.
"I'm too old for this," the assassin said at last.
The emperor smiled. "It's been over sixty years since the first time you came to kill me."
"Mm. And a dozen times more. Yet you are still alive. You always were persuasive."
"I hope I still am. I would ask you to do it now."
"What?"
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#TootFic #ShortStory
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"I am dying, with only a few months left. And the pain grows every day." The emperor made a grimace. "You'll finally get paid."
"I won't kill you for money," the assassin said. "Not anymore."
"Would you kill me for the sake of friendship?"
Nobody saw the assassin leave, after.
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Only his clothes, loving world.
Ugh, my smart door lock isn't working, I think the keypad failed or somehow got unplugged. Wonder if'n I can get a replacement keypad.
dragons don’t live as long as the stories all say, but they do outlast humans by a little bit. there aren’t any humans alive who... – @hemipenal-system on Tumblr
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Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.www.tumblr.com
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Time will tell if'n they'll actually do this, but hopefully they will
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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If they come through with a one click "we pinky swear it's all off" 'kill switch' then maybe.
It has been a bit of a drag having to look through the settings and about:config to check for new checkboxes to deselect ai tidbits.
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So someone posted their favorite sign over on Mastodon, and I replied with what is my favorite sign, the 'No Straight' sign.
First time I saw this was on a new intersection where one side is a highway ramp, and the other a two-way road, apparently 'Do Not Enter' signs weren't enough, so they put one of these up. Honestly, I'm surprised to know its a standard, Missouri isn't exactly known for sticking to standards, whether its abbreviations like LA for lane, or the non-standard all text signs on the road to my house announcing the road closure ahead and the truck ban on it.
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I took part in a debate at the university, 'AI in academia: embrace or resist?'
Before the debate, a poll was taken, showing that most of attendees were on the "embrace" side; after the debate, most were "resist". I had not expected we could sway the opinion, it made me very happy.
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Video tagged with video, furries stay winning – @beemovieerotica on Tumblr
Absolutely incredible the things furries can create.
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♲ @strangerthanfiction@diaspora.glasswings.com:they're fucked nowICE voodoo doll discovered in New Orleans as immigration crackdown continues
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Volkswagen shelves its electric minibus for the US, but not forever
The ID.Buzz will not be available in the US for the 2026 model year, but Volkswagen said this isn’t the...Peter Johnson (Electrek)
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I wonder what changing "Reduce motion in animations" would also do for you.
I noticed I had my slow mode "checked". (and the above one unchecked)
Beware the Narco Terrorists
This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has five panels. They show two people, a Black woman wearing a white turtleneck, and a white woman wearing a red MAGA c…Lefty Cartoons
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“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur
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Make Pluto a planet again!
Just so we can sow chaos in the astronomy community.
I want to see Eris be a planet. And Haumea.
Make small school children memorize the names of a bunch of Kuiper Belt objects.
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The definition of a planet was already made that it has to clear a majority of its orbit and if you're all in a belt with eachocher that's not cleared
- Kels
Well I saw someone give that suggestion in earnest, they said they knew the space agency were going to classify all of the dwarf planets to planets and Pluto would regain planet status "like it should have always been"
The tightened standard came in days after tjat comment
- Kels
Snap, Crackle and Pop are dead.
Yup. Police suspect a cereal killer.
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Wondering how long it is before Mastodon is proscribed as a 'terrorist leftist network' by the USA?
What they cannot control, they will try to destroy....
#Mastodon #USPOL #USPOLITICS #SocialMedia #Fascism #AntiFascism
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Where are the Epstein files?
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