It looks like our aid to Colombia is mere millions. Compare it to the billions he wants to give to a hopeless loser in Argentina. I think some of the aid to Colombia was to stem the flow of immigrants, and I don't know if it was a failure or not.
“…the Republican president initially misspelled as Columbia before deleting his post and replacing it the correct spelling of the country.” - AP apnews.com/article/trump-petro…
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After Johnny passed, his grandson took over the art, and his... granddaughter and a step-daughter took over writing I think. Any how, while the strip is mostly the same thing he did, every now and then they'll pop out one that is a joke he would've done, but somehow never did.
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Here’s a panel-by-panel breakdown: Panel 1: The caveperson is walking out of a cave. Panel 2: The caveperson says, “MORNING.” Panel 3: The other caveperson says, “WANNA STROLL?” Panel 4: The first caveperson replies, “SUCH A LOVELY DAY FOR A WALK.” Panel 5: The second caveperson states, “DUDE…IT’S SUNDAY.” Panel 6: The first caveperson says, “I THOUGHT THAT WAS TOO MANY PANELS…”
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One of my favorite photos I took today. Right in the heart of Chicago on Michigan avenue. You can count a number of American flags, City of Chicago flags, pro democracy signs, and anti-fascist signs.
Meanwhile, you'll find zero flags to a politician, zero confederate flags, and zero Nazi flags. MAGAs may claim the mantle of patriotism, but Americans who reject fascism are the ones who actually embody patriotism.
“Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more shareworthy. The only catch is that the feature is designed for your phone’s camera roll — not the media you’ve already uploaded to Facebook. If you opt in, Meta’s AI will comb through your camera roll, upload your unpublished photos to Meta’s cloud, and surface “hidden gems” that are “lost among screenshots, receipts, and random snaps,” the company says.”
By accessing or using this feature, users will have opted in to this. The real problem is Facebook’s horrific record of privacy abuses from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to WhatsApp T&Cs sharing metadata with partners, to being under US CLOUD Act jurisdiction, to the video I have of Mark Zuckerberg assuring everyone they will always own their own data. This is just not a company anyone can believe, and the line mentioning “might hold onto some of that data for longer than 30 days” will mean all of your data will be in there forever.
I deleted the Facebook app off my phone many years ago, and I block any of their login code found littered across all of the web too.
Facebook’s business model is all centred around profiling users to an extreme level of accuracy, and selling that data to “partners”. They are NOT in the social network business, but rather the data harvesting/sales business.
Unfortunately, yet again, most Facebook users will just fall for the glitzy pictures and the pretty user interface, and go all in. Mark will testify again in Congress at some point with his carefully crafted responses, and the cycle keeps repeating.
The only power that will make any difference is when the sheep all stand together and just delete themselves from his data harvesting machine. That, though, will likely never happen unless there is some cleaner better social network (not a microblogging service) that can support a few billion users and which is not funded from a profit driven US-corporation… The next best thing is we just give up on a general social network, and all revert to microblogging platforms (like the few have done already).
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The text reads: "Republicans gerrymander districts, selectively close polling places, purge voter rolls, enact voter ID laws, shorten polling hours, and weaken voting rights legislation, but, when they lose anyway, say the system is rigged against them."
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NYC is so "out of control and crime ridden" that NYPD had to arrest (checks note) exactly zero people today. 100,000+ protestors. ZERO arrests. ZERO. This isn't only a major slap in Trump's face. It proves YET AGAIN that the only violence ICE fascists are facing, is violence ICE fascists incite. If you want to cut down on violence, cut ICE out of the equation and uphold the 5th Amendment instead. An actual President would do that. A wanna be king would never. And that's why we protest.
I’m glad, and this is no suprise. The data show time and time again that that physical political violence is committed by the extremits on the Far Right. It is the GOP-MAGA that are prone to violence delights that lead to violent ends.
having been personally arrested by the NYPD for protesting the right wing, I assure you this just means your protest was so anodyne and ineffective as to be tolerated by the NYPD.
Who are some of the most Trump loving, reactionary scum in the entire US.
Trump keeps banging on about US cities being "invaded", but the only invading forces to be seen are the armed and masked goons kidnapping people off the streets and trying to start fights with peaceful protestors.
@Geri That’s actually a massive self-own tho. The fascists at the NYPD thanked you for not causing any problems. Why are you all trying so hard to be good fascitizens for Trump?
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This guy is basically everything that's wrong with Washington wrapped up in one guy... Said he would ban stock trading then traded over 7 million since January, bought himself a helicopter saying it was for business purposes, then took it to a Donald Trump golf course, now he's up for re-election so what are we going to do? Hopefully not reelect him... Let's pass the truth on
10K likes, 207 comments - briantylercohen on October 6, 2025: "Call Bresnahan’s office directly at (202) 225-5546 and tell him to stop enriching himself while Americans suffer".
Life goes on though, yesterday I started inventorying the books using CLZ software, same company who's software took care of the comics (comics for sale BTW). #today ? Egg shell grinding, bill paying, need to change the tires on my Bolt (for sale), laundry, and… I feel like I'm forgetting something, I'm sure it'll hit me though, hopefully no more bruising. If nothing else, I'll prolly do some more books, but I'll have to dig my way to the remainder of the lower floor cases.
Just a quick note for the archives and for those of us who have hearing issues and need easy youtube transcripts with #a11y to #screenreaders. I've generally used downsub.com to produce text, but it's becoming less usable, often saying "waiting" for a minute or two before giving an error with no specifics as to what the problem is. I wanted something else and found something similar, if not slightly better, at youtube-transcript.io/ It allows 25 transcripts a month free, though I'm not sure how it tracks usage since I didn't have to sign in. Anyhow, it's quite simple, paste in your link, hit enter, and it comes back with a transcript in English for English videos. It appears to use the captions YT itself generates, since I compared the results with what I got from downsub and saw no difference. You can read the transcript on the page or copy it to the clipboard with a button, again on the page. It has 30 second timing markers by default when it's on the page, but doesn't when you copy it, at least by default. I'm still after an easy local transcript grabber, but this is a step forward when downsub doesn't work for me and I thought people might like to have it. #blind #braille
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Trump has signaled he plans to invoke the Insurrection Act in his battle with Democratic cities. The Founders ensured that we have a powerful tool to counter such tyranny.
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“I am not willing to sit back and watch our glorious American multiracial and multicultural democratic experiment destroyed by the guy from 'Home Alone 2,'" the journalist said.
Our country's media outlets presents world maps with us always in the center and grossly expanded to be the largest. Coincidence?
I’ve certainly noticed an enforced policy of editing to frame nearly all content (what they refer to as assets) in the most favorable USA view. The USA media policy is effectively the core definition of covert narcissism. Lately, it’s been aggressively overt narcissism, or most commonly noted of late, fascism.
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Yes, thank you, Etsy the shop, but believe me it is chaos here, custom service is out of service, online services not functioning, you need to drive to the depot, on my side is 1 hour one way, plus is a 1 hours queue at the depot. And they say, i can't you parcel , it has been returned to the sender. Royal mail united with parcelforce...
@experimentmapass huh. I don’t have any problems in Edinburgh with Royal mail, not even with international packages (I just owed a tariff once which was annoying).
After living in the US for many years I can say their mail service was 10x worse 😂
This is so literally true. When I started figuring out I was nonbinary in the early 90s, "genderqueer" was a strictly radical and underground term, "non-binary" wasn't being used for gender, "agender" was waiting to be discovered, and terms like demi-girl and boi and neutrois weren't even a twinkle in anyone's eye.
We've always been here. But having the language to say who we are is what makes us visible.
There's also a more broad understanding of what trans can look like. I was a little kid in the 80s and told my rural-dwelling grandparents I wanted to be a boy, and they actually had an idea of what that could mean, but they reasoned that since I was okay wearing feminine clothing and playing with "girl" toys that I wasn't actually fully meaning that. And this is a rationalization I carried with me for decades even long after I forgot about this happening as a kid and I started exploring my own gender identity in my mid to late 20s.
Add to that, kids experiment in how they identify, my 16 yr old twins and friends are mostly queer.
They are figuring out who they are- and change their minds about which term feels right. Bi, Pan, or gay, demiboy or nonbinary, trans or gender fluid. Some want hormones, most don’t want surgery, except maybe top surgery.
Even if these kids change their minds there is no damage done- at worst some of the AFAB kids have lower risk of breast cancer.
Bluesky has just started officially hosting and verifying dozens of accounts from Trump's regime including the Whitehouse, Homeland Security / ICE, the Department of War etc (cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog…).
*All* of these accounts are spreading bigotry, hatred and dangerous lies about vulnerable groups.
First port of call would be to ask your admin to defederate bsky.brid.gy
If they won't do this, you can at least block your own account from seeing it by finding an account from it such as @bsky.app@bsky.brid.gy, then going to its profile and clicking ⋯, then "Block domain" or "Block bsky.brid.gy".
It's very sad how a social network with potential is, literally, becoming Twitter 2.0.
At this point, it seems they want to get away the unexpected audience that they've got, so that they could go on with their plans of implementing blockchain and similar things to it.
Because they know that they can't profit from that audience, so they have to get it away from there and implement their crypto stuff.
I for one am shocked that a platform whose management were handpicked from the crypto world by the person who made twitter a horrible experience to be on, is heading down the same path.
And people are surprised by this? Wasn't Bluesky founded by the same dude who made Twitter? The same guy who sold it to Elon Muskrat? Why are we surprised that the exact same sh!t is happening again? People really thought it was going to be different this time, and they were fools for believing it.
@Eeveecraft@dragonscave.space @FediTips@social.growyourown.services to be mildly fair, the courts did force Elon to buy twitter. it wasn't really anyone's "choice" once the offer had been floated.
everyone else you said is true tho, the guy sucks ass (and not well).
That's why I'll never have another account in a cesspool. Fuck #Bluesky. Remember that fuckbag #JackDorsey launched it. NONE of these tech bro scumbags can be trusted.
I share your sentiments about this administration. Words can't overstate how much damage they've done and will continue to do... but what was it you think Bluesky was supposed to do here?
It's called freedom of speech. Nobody is forced to follow these accounts. I certainly won't. Let's not mix technology (hosting, federation) with ideology.
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
Would you "just block them"?
What happens when other people don't block them? When other people believe them, follow them, share their lies?
What if this turns into real life abuse? If someone attacks you or your family?
This is what vulnerable minorities face because of badly-moderated social media:
We all told so many of our friends that went to blue sky, that this is what would happen to it, and it would happen after they established roots there and make it harder for them to leave. The entire purpose was to make it harder for Democrats to aggregate.. #BlueSky #Twitter #Fascist #Mastodon
This is why I don't fuck with privately owned platforms, and neither should anyone else (yet my close ones don't believe me). OF COURSE private companies would suck up to corrupt leaders.
When people ask: "Why did the Germans not rise up against Hitler when he started to abuse his power?" Well, this is exactly the question Bluesky should be asked right now.
probably also a sign of how bad X has gotten that they felt the need to. Despite owning a platform orders of magnitude bigger they aren't getting the reach they wanted. This is a sign that we can in fact fight back by leaving
not surprised...it is made for money just the saame as twixer, so it had to go this way eventually. Thats why I was so sceptical when people praised it as it was not made for money by the same people...
To quote CNN's Bill Maher on his latest editiorial on algorithm-based sites (don't forget, Bluesky is one of them):
"Ironically...the Bluesky Crowd hates me for calling them out on...their voluminous [BS]. They also will sometimes just print my critique of the left, because they want people to think I'm a conservative. You are f------ liars too."
Part-founded by a known sociopath (Dorsey). Taken over when said sociopath decided he wanted to support something even more sociopathic (nostr) by cryptobros.
What a surprise that it has gone down the fascist path.
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
Would you "just block them"?
What happens when other people don't block them? When other people believe them, follow them, share their lies?
What if this turns into real life abuse? If someone attacks you or your family?
This is what vulnerable minorities face because of badly-moderated social media:
Right! So what we’re talking about here is a failure of moderation, or more broadly, a failure of Trust & Safety. Bluesky *was* a functioning social network because its users temporarily browbeat them into doing actual T&S, and not just leaving everything to public blocklists as they originally intended to do. But now their failures in moderation have outed them as the crypto-enthusiast neo-reactionaries that many suspected them of being, and their most vulnerable users will not be protected on that platform.
But also, let’s not pretend like T&S was a solved issue here on the fedi. As if the biggest de facto instance mastodon dot social, currently federating with Meta, wouldn't host those same government accounts if approached.
Large swaths of vulnerable minority users came to Mastodon first looking for places safer than twitter and quickly abandoned it for bsky because Mastodon did NOT protect them. The servers they adopted repeatedly failed their minority users because intersectional moderation is a rarity, and fundamental T&S is routinely ignored in the fedi.
I’ve repeatedly seen server meltdown after meltdown because a mod wouldn’t restrict obvious hate speech, or a mod turned out to be a fascist and the admin team shrugged it off, or an admin showed their ass so blatantly it was clear to all their judgment was not to be trusted.
Adding troublesome accounts to blocklists on bsky and defederating troublesome servers on Mastodon are both technical workarounds that do not address the underlying problem of moderation failure. We can point at bsky’s failures, but they do not detract from the planks in our own eyes. The network the platform is built on, while important, is not as vital as Trust & Safety.
"As if the biggest de facto instance mastodon dot social, currently federating with Meta, wouldn't host those same government accounts if approached."
If mastodon.social was hosting Trump & co, I would be calling for them to be defederated in exactly the same way.
Unlike Bluesky, the Fediverse is not under anyone's control, each server is truly independent in every sense. Servers can defederate mastodon.social (which is only about 20% of overall network), and many do that already.
@OhOkayKay Maybe am I too optimistic, but nobody will create a Bluesky account in order to follow this dictator. And as there is no "trendy threads" algorithm to hijack, there won't be an X like echo chamber.
Once you have millions of people on a platform, there will always be a certain amount of people who can be radicalised by hateful lies.
And it's not just about the accounts themselves, it's about Bluesky being so happy to host them and verify them. There's no law compelling them to host far right politicians, but here they are doing so willingly. It implies that Bluesky is comfortable spreading these lies about vulnerable groups.
Isn’t defederation just ‘block and forget’ but on behalf of *everyone* on a server? Isn’t at least part of the *point* of Mastodon and other Fedi services that individuals get choice in what they want to see and interact with? I’m not saying that Bluesky has made good choices here, but what impact will this make other than stopping people interacting with ordinary Bluesky users via gateways? Or are you saying that everyone on Bluesky supports the current US regime (which is probably fair enough to say about Truth Social for example) and it is proactive protection of a server community from harassment? I’m genuinely curious as to why you’re promoting the nuclear option…
This is an incredibly stupid thing to do on an instance of any serious scale. The entire purpose of the bridge is to enable (opt-in!) interoperability, and there are real people on the other side. Blocking an instance (or in this case bridge server) blindly is an incredibly bad idea because it breaks real connections that matter.
This affects all ATProtocol servers though, not just bsky.social. I'm sure there's a better solution than blocking a few hundred innocent servers just to get one bad one.
These aren't "servers" in any meaningful sense, they're just part of Bluesky corporation's centralised network which has control of who and what is banned or allowed.
AT Protocol only allows properly independent servers if they're running their own relay, which is very rare and much more difficult and expensive.
Blacksky apparently had to do a lot of work to break free from Bluesky, and even after that Bluesky was still able to delete a user from Blacksky.
No, a PDS is a server. It stands for "personal data server". It runs its own data store for its own users & interfaces with a relay server to allow others to access that data & see its users' posts. Bluesky does not have control over PDSs that aren't hosted by them. ATProtocol relays are pretty heavy compared to a PDS, but the point is so people can more easily run a PDS for themselves. Anyone can run a relay too if they have the hardware for it, & a few do exist & are not under control of bluesky. We shouldn't be taking moderation action against other PDSs & other relays that are actually well run, only bsky.social & its relay, since those are the problem here & not anyone else.
I haven't heard of Blacksky, but if bluesky could delete a user from it, then that user's account must have been on bsky.social & not Blacksky's PDS.
Fediverse servers are truly independent of each other and can communicate directly. No one controls a Fedi server except its owner.
PDSes cannot communicate with each other, they have to pass all their data through a relay and almost all PDSes are using Bluesky corporation's relay. So, PDSes are not independent the way Fediverse servers are.
"that user's account must have been on bsky.social"
This is comparable to adding *.net to your blocklist just because threads.net is unmoderated. Blocking an entire TLD because of one server doesn't make much sense, does it? Neither does blocking an entire protocol just because of one unmoderated PDS & relay.
Block posts from bsky.social, not anyone else unless they're also misbehaving.
That's a ludicrous comparison, Bluesky is 99.9% running through Bluesky corporation's infrastructure. It is a de facto centralised platform controlled by a for-profit corporation that is owned by VC investors. Unless their structure and owners change, Bluesky are locked on the path to enshittification.
I'm not defending bluesky. I think we should block bluesky. I also think we should not block the rest of the ATProtocol network though, because it has behaved well. I don't think you understand how ATProtocol works.
Looking at your post history, it seems like every time bluesky does literally anything you get butthurt about it, spread misinformation, & fail to understand ATProtocol. I can't tell if you're serious or trolling, but if you're serious, I think you should know that behavior like yours is why there aren't more people using fediverse. If you're trolling, please go outside & touch grass. I'm not going to continue this.
Our two-year investigation, including hundreds of Freedom of Information Act requests and a comprehensive review of ICE’s contracting and procurement records, reveals that ICE now operates as a domestic surveillance agency.
19. The Supreme Court is a fine, credible, upstanding institution safeguarding democracy.
20. Donald Trump has plenary authority and no person or institution can curb or question that authority.
I refuse. I dissent.
I refuse to be pressured into saying or thinking any of these things. Because not one of them is true and I know better, no matter how much pressure the regime exerts on me to deny what I see and know.
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