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"By targeting Pope Leo XIV, Trump exposes the limits of power when faced with a moral authority it cannot silence. ...

The first thing to say about this attack is what it is not. It is not a sign of strength. Political power turns on a moral voice only when it has failed to contain it. If Leo were irrelevant, he would not be worth a sentence on Truth Social."

~ Antonio Spadaro

#PopeLeo #Trump #war #morality #power
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In their lust for power and to preserve the privilege of an all-male, ostensibly celibate clerical elite, the US Catholic bishops of recent decades sacrificed the future of the church to maintenance of a mutable, historically conditioned clerical system. They slapped survivors of clerical sexual abuse in the face, alienated women, attacked LGBTQ people.

People have walked away from the Catholic church in droves, as the bishops stand by in silence.

#PopeLeo #Trump #war #morality #power
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What's happening now "forces a clarification that the American Catholic community has postponed for decades": Antonio Spadaro is right to say this.

But even now, large numbers of the US Catholic bishops resist Leo's leadership as they did Francis and hunger for the days when the Polish and German popes were in power and the church was fixated on clerical domination and pelvic morality.

#PopeLeo #Trump #war #morality #power
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Well, I've been branded…

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Not that way, I may like kink, but I'm not kinky, definitely not like that.
No, after I got rid of my LLC, I decided to go from a sci-fi joke for the company name to a über generic branding this time with ٭GENERAL٭ Delivery branding. Thanks to CyberGwen , I've got a logo…

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From there it was just a matter of getting the logo put onto things, both a safety vest ordered from AliExpress

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And a sign from Phil the Sign Guy

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Quality from him is good, but I should've gone with a larger and/or custom size, and maybe had him do a coloured background, because this one looks kinda boring.

All in all, I think I'm out around $100 for this, plus picked up a pair of replacement magnets for the back, a pair of yellow diamonds, one reading delivery driver, the other frequent stops, those fit perfectly on either side of my license plat.

#Brand #Logo #Sign #Vest #Safety-Vest #Branding #Work #Company #Work••



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blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/0…

Now this is really cool

#Chicago #Library #Chitown

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Yay, its been far too long since I've seen anything from these goofs, and its a concert, one hour of fun.

youtu.be/_ZzlUH4oUhc

#Music #Heimatdamisch #YouTube

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Ok, so last month I sold a large number of my husband's books using three apps for selling them. And on Monday I reviewed that apps, calling out one of them for dragging their heals on paying me. Gee, surprise, surprise, I got paid last night, and while they inspected my first two buys (they limit buys to 100 books) and flagged a couple books as unacceptable, the third one went from received to paid with nothing in between… I think someone saw my review.

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Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.

Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this. :trantifa:

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Another call for work! Hire me to manage the stuff you have connected to the internet, regardless of operating system (yes, even that one), support status (new, current, or legacy hardware and software) or location. Server, desktop, mobile, embedded.

Out of the cloud, into the cloud, from that cloud to that other cloud, on-prem, in a local datacenter; you name it, I know how to do it, and will maintain it for as long as you need it.

I will even give you a 20% discount on your first invoice if you contract me for recurring work via this here fediverse!

Boosts welcome, see linked thread for details.

ngmx.com/@mejofi/1148748653489…

#GetFediHired

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I'd missed this news story, maybe you did too:
"U.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere on Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for farms and farmers that are part ​of a class action over costs and ‌access to repairs." wincountry.com/2026/04/06/deer…




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They're either over confident, or things are rigged, because that's incredibly tone deaf, voters will not be happy with that, and the elections we've had make it pretty clear that voters aren't going to take it

#USPol #Economy



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Hey look, I've got jeans, jeans I'm proud of. Yeah, not everyone is proud of their genes, but…

Ooops, wait, wrong type of jeans. :neofox_wink_blep:
Seriously though, tis been a long, long time since I wore jeans because of two problems, one is that within ten washes, they're shrunk versus ten years for my cargo pants. The other is right there, cargo pants, cargo jeans don't exist. I don't need all those pockets, in fact the leg pockets hold my phone, wallet and car key, and a handkerchief in one other pocket, that's it.

Still, gotta have my cargos. So, didn't like WalMart's price for cargo pants, and since my gram had given me an Amazon gift card for Christmas, I decided to see what Amazon could do for me. After looking at pants for a while, they offered me loose fit 'fashion jeans'. More like loose fit cargo jeans!¡! Loose fit, good, everything is slim fit these days, and trust me, if'n there's not a law about stuffing my fat old body into a pair of slim fit jeans, there should be.
So I ordered a pair, there's a selection of waists, but only one leg length for each, which thankfully worked for me, little long, but that's more a matter of me being an odd numbered size when pants come in even numbers, not their choice of length. So, we ordered one pair, tried them when they got here (good), washed them and tried them again (still good). Ordered two more pair in different colours, fit just as well, and all of them after a few washes have no fit problems.

So, yep, happy pup, I'm in jeans again.

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#Clothes #Life•• #Jeans #Life #Fashion


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I’m hard to find jeans for as well. Just recently got a few pairs after finding some Wrangler relaxed fit stretch jeans that worked for me. Being able to crouch without having them either try to insult or injure me is basically my go to test for pants at this point. They passed!
Would be cool to have a couple pairs of cargo pants for when I go out with my cameras, you can never have too many pockets for film, batteries, etc.

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There's been 100+ aftershocks from last night's #earthquake here in Nevada.

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There's a scammer on the move, see the quoted post for details. Genuine admins will NEVER demand that you verify your identity.

I've done a guide to scams and how to recognise them at:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-avoid-scammer…

digipres.club/@timixretroplays…


⚠️ Heads up - there's a #Mastodon #scam bot doing the rounds. Mastodon does not "temporarily restrict your visibility", if you see a DM or post to that affect begging you to click a link to restore anything, do not click it - report it instead.

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What about the flood of sob stories wanting donations a while back, those seem to have dried up?
in reply to Fedi.Tips

Some specialized instances do verify people when they first sign up. But they won't send DMs like this to established accounts.


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Can anyone confirm?

#Politics #Apple #Israel



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Harry S. Truman was the first U.S. president to formally propose a comprehensive, national universal health insurance plan

In 1945 he proposed a single, federally run system for all Americans.

While Truman is the most prominent historical advocate, Presidents Richard Nixon and Theodore Roosevelt also supported different forms of universal healthcare coverage.

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@hollo@hollo.social

Been trying a GoSocial sorta, haven't really done much, but I did start accessing it through Phanpy. Nice enough, and I love Phanpy, but I don't see anything that makes it special, from a user stand point, there's nothing to distinguish it from Mastodon, Wafrn, etc, unless I'm missing something. Sure, supposedly its supposed to be easy and lightweight to host, but if you're not hosting, that doesn't really matter, does it?

I think my big complaint about GTS is the same I have for Snak, Hollos and all the other single user/small number of user AP software, they don't offer any features you can't get somewhere else. Look over at Friendica for what you could offer, Diaspora sharing in addition to AP, or maybe a built in RSS feed reader, or both. Or Wafrn and built in Bluesky support. Or to be original, maybe a queue function, perfect for flood control and enforcing good neighbor behavior.

@hollo

#GoToSocial #Friendica #Hollos #Wafrn #Fediverse #Snak #Social-Media #Phanpy

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I think you’ve nailed gotosocial’s USP there: it’s /intended/ to be very similar to mastodon for the end user, but it’s *vastly* more simple and less resource hungry to host for relatively small numbers of users.

I think the devs have done an amazing job.

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@daj@gofer.social
Oh definitely, my compliments to the cooks, its a great product, its just that outside of hosting it didn't seem like there was much else to it until @daj corrected me. Still not the product for me, but definitely can see the appeal, the features he named are found in Pleroma, but I think GTS feels like a better product.


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youtu.be/TVhUk-gmR2k

#USPol #Iraq-Excursion #West-Asian-War

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I was made redundant so I’m on the hunt for my next #iOS engineer role. I have over 15 years of experience and I’m based in London. Boosts much appreciated! #FediHire

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My Android phone can no longer use VLC for some reason. Either VLC broke and reinstalls don't help, or my phone broke VLC. Anybody got any low overhead adequate replacements?

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Not sure if this is the real dialogue, but I could easily see it

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#USPol #Stargate-SG-1

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#USPol #Iraq-Excursion #West-Asian-War






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Ok, seem to have an ant problem in my kitchen, that's new. Not just new here, but for how messy I am, I don't think I've ever had a problem with ants in my house. Problem showed up in force Friday afternoon, I scrubbed everything down, but woke up to a return here. They seem to be mostly staying around one corner of the fridge and there's no signs of where they're coming from. Ant traps and ant spray I guess, just make sure the spray isn't from GI Ant Company, can would prolly spray ants everywhere if'n it was

#Life #Pest-Problem