A few weeks ago, I sent my 1985 Swiss Army Knife back to Victorinox for a broken blade replacement.

It came back today, fully repaired, cleaned, polished, lubricated and in a new box.

Total cost: £10 + return postage.

They sent the knife back with an invoice. I didn't have to pay a penny before the job was done.

A product that's been out of production for almost 40 years, repaired at very little cost by the original manufacturer.

I'm stunned. Happy, impressed, grateful and stunned.

It is official. Elon is now the" First Lady"

Stop Press. Apparently this is not true. The account posting is was satire.
politifact.com/factchecks/2024…
That said, Elon Musk, First Lady has a ring to it.

I really wanted the political lesson of this election to be "Don't run the addled fascist grifter as your candidate, it is political death & you will lose.”

Instead the Republicans were confirmed in their belief that a loud angry (white) man who lies a lot is, in fact, the ideal candidate & will bring you everything you want, plus a pony.

I wanted the GOP to get spanked hard in the name of democracy. Instead the Hand of Fate gave them a full-body massage & a happy ending.

This timeline blows.

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#library #jobs #libraryjobs #NewHampshire #HigherEd

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oh hey if you're making zines, a couple years ago I made a lil free browser tool that'll do zine layouts for PDF's, so you don't have to manually flip all the pages around

nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger

The ZineArranger by Nash High

Zine layout tool for PDFs

^itch.io

a little while ago, i posted that LGBTQI need a LAVENDER BOOK, just like Black folks had a Green Book during the Jim Crow era.

i want to make this a reality if it doesnt exist yet. if it does, i’d like to be involved and help.

the Green Book wasn't just a travelogue. it really was an organizing tool, for making visible the literal path of liberation across the neoconfederacy.

we need to work on building networks of resilience more than ever.

mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1132…

yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image i keep saying this: trans folks need a LAVENDER BOOK. https://retro.social/@DoctorDeathray/113268288017644554 during Jim Crow, the lives of African Americans traveling across the South depended on the GREEN BOOK, a travel guide th…

^Mastodon

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What programs will the Trump administration close? What records will be buried or destroyed?

Leak early and often

I own the S3 bucket named "https". I don't know what to do with it, but it seems like it could cause lots of fun.

The direct URL to it would be: https.s3.amazonaws.com

This is lovely. Don’t expect stuff like this from racist Repugnicans.

Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony
apnews.com/article/harriet-tub…

#ResistFascism #SupportPeopleInPain #NaziTrump #GOPWeirdos #RacistGOP #DonaldTrump #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol

tariffs, mass deportation – the pieces fit together

I think I’ve squared a circle. Doesn’t mean it’s real; just that I’ve found a way to square it.

Walk with me.

Let’s say you’re Trump and you’ve promised mass deportations and huge tariffs on China and other countries.

Let’s say that mass deportation is incredibly expensive – maybe you’re aware that Hitler’s camps and extermination programme were eating 13% of Nazi Germany’s GDP in the middle of their wars of conquest.

Let’s say you’re also aware that this will take years and years and years, because there’s literally no way to do this quickly. Physically, I mean. 15 million people can’t be thrown out overnight, or even over months. It’ll be years.

Let’s also say you want to keep inflation down, particularly to keep prices from skyrocketing due to your tariff policies. Tariffs are, I remind you, a tax an imports that get paid by the importer, and which are passed on to the customer. They are inflationary, by design. At least, until and unless they torpedo the economy entirely, at which point, well, you’ve set off a second Great Depression, just like Smoot and Hawley.

Now, let’s say that it’s very important to you to keep wages down as well, because nobody wants to pay workers if they can avoid it. If you want to bring back a lot of manufacturing in an already-tight labour market, that’s going to raise labour costs. It just is.

So you assign an amoral monster like Tom Homan – author of Trump’s Family Separation policy – as the “czar” of immigration. He’s promising the largest deportation force in history and recently said his answer to preventing “family separation” is to expel the entire family – citizenship be damned.

(He’s also a contributor to Project 2025 and a visiting fellow at Heritage Foundation. Project 2025 absolutely is the agenda. All of it.)

Then you start talking to people you’re already very friendly with, the operators of private prisons. They are utterly ready and looking forward to the new policies. They see it as an opportunity to double – or better – the size of their evil industry in all its forms.

Your inner circle have already acknowledged you’ll have to build camps – lots of them, big ones. You’ll call them “prisons” or “detention facilities” or “military camps,” not “concentration camps,” you certainly won’t call them that. Let’s say “facilities.”

Prison “facilities” are already well known for requiring prison labour, and for their pennies-per-hour payment to inmates. Private prisons have pushed the envelope on this in many ways; prison labour is a profit centre. One I was working against, before the fascist era.

So.

Imagine, if you would, the very easy jump.

You’ve got to do something with these hundreds of thousands of imprisoned people, don’t you.

Imagine expulsions taking months, then years. Years at a time. Perhaps they stop working so hard on speeding up the process. Perhaps they slow-walk it, timed to, say, suit the availability of “facility” beds.

Of course you’ll put them to work. A rotating cast of “facility” workers – “prison workers” – worked slowly through the system so there’s no one there quite long enough to start organising.

Paid, technically. At pennies for the hour, as a token, a pretence that it’s not slavery. But, of course, it is. You recoup the pennies you have to pay by charging them for everything. Maybe even their bed.

And just like that you have highly profitable… North Korean-style labour camps, with entire families of workers imprisoned, for who knows how long while they are put to work as factory labour for the private prison companies which become the new internal outsourcers of zero-cost labour.

Slavery, though not by name.

Maybe you’ll tie camp expansions to increases in tariffs. Raise them in parallel, timed so that the internal outsourcing absorbs the cost of the new tariffs. And then look – no price inflation, no wage inflation.

And whole new class of people to look down upon forever, if you like.

It’s quite the plan. Very neat. Very clean. Given that Trump voters actively want “military camps” used against immigrants, it’ll be a very easy sell.

And very, very profitable. Slave camps always have been, really.

And all you have to be is an abomination upon the earth.

And all your supporters have to do is let you be one.

Is that the plan? I don’t know.

All I know is that all the pieces seem to fit.

#fascism #politics #uspolitics

The ‘liberal media’ was in the tank for Trump. Democrats should take their subscription dollars elsewhere.

Time for Democrats to Abandon the Mainstream Media
prospect.org/politics/2024-11-…

#JeffBezos #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

Time for Democrats to Abandon the Mainstream Media

^{Ryan Cooper (The American Prospect)}

So, we’ve seen in the last couple of days calls for Biden to resign and let Kamala take over as 47 for the rest of his term. We’ve also seen calls for Justice Sotomayor to step down and allow Biden to name a replacement.

Hear me out: Harris has a law degree, right? So, Biden appoints her to the Supreme Court to replace Sotomayor. Harris casts the tiebreaking vote in the Senate to confirm her nomination. Then Biden steps down, making Harris the president for the remaining days of his term. She then has Trump and Vance arrested and sent to Gitmo, using her official immunity powers.

Can’t be any more far fetched than this timeline we’re living in now.

#uspol #scotus #election