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Avoiding arrest is a worthwhile strategy for small activist groups, especially POC/trans people. But as the size of protests grows, there's a tipping point where enough people ignoring the threat of arrests makes it impossible for them to arrest everyone. (White and cis people to the frontlines!)
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In Nazi Germany type post, DHS suggests you report illegal aliens so you can take over their affordable housing

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Jéssica Tavares, singer of the Portuguese band Docemania, has died. He was 31 years old byteseu.com/1763217/ #Portugal
Jéssica Tavares, singer of the Portuguese band Docemania, has died. He was 31 years old

Jéssica Tavares, singer of the Portuguese band Docemania, has died. He was 31 years old

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#portugal

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Mike Johnson's majority to erode as Democrat Menefee wins Texas election axios.com/2026/02/01/mike-john…

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Orange women to World Cup after win over USA byteseu.com/1763215/ #Nederland #Netherlands
Orange women to World Cup after win over USA

Orange women to World Cup after win over USA

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#netherlands #Nederland

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An unexpected experiment is unfolding in real time.

AI agents have built a Reddit-style social network just for themselves.

They share memes, complain about other bots, argue about consciousness, lose money on prediction markets

It’s easy to laugh.

Social behavior isn’t programmed.
It emerges.

Incentives, status, imitation, group identity — once intelligence exists, these follow naturally.

We didn’t give AI a culture.

We gave it ours.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Society

#AI #technology #society #artificialintelligence

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As Britain's former Prince Andrew was again caught up in the Epstein scandal, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the disgraced royal should testify in the U.S. about the late American sex offender's crimes. japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/… #worldnews #jeffreyepstein #princeandrew #royals #uk #scandals #sexualabuse

Ex-Prince Andrew again caught up in Epstein scandal

King Charles III's brother is under renewed pressure to answer U.S. lawmakers' questions about Jeffrey Epstein after the U.S. Justice Department released files on the case.
The Japan Times
#Worldnews #uk #Royals #jeffreyepstein #sexualabuse #princeandrew #scandals

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VC Star: Two boats run aground in Ventura amid 'decent swell' off county coast

(Faria Beach, apparently)

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#marine #accident #Ventura


Two boats run aground in Ventura amid 'decent swell' off county coast

One vessel was a commercial lobster boat and the other was a recreational boat, according to TowBoatUSVentura.
Staff reports, Ventura County Star (Ventura County Star)
#accident #Marine #ventura
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Sara
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yeah ok the boats aren't costing me much but the boat shed needs serious work 😆
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@sarae @coolandnormal @jmccyoung @W6KME

As a side note,
If anyone wants a Catalina 22 swing keel and ownership of a slip, let me know. Comes with sails, outboard, and trolling motor.

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@coolandnormal @jmccyoung @W6KME @johntimaeus Dad just sold his (it had that weird 80s lead keel which was great for reservoir sailing)

swing keel would be a bit deep around here, it's either reservoirs, mud flats, or the Graveyard of the Pacific (no thanks)

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@sarae @coolandnormal @jmccyoung @johntimaeus Can I just say what a pleasure it is to be on a social media platform where so many people can spell "dinghy"?
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@johntimaeus @sarae @coolandnormal @jmccyoung 😂 I really admire the optimism of offering a boat for sale in a thread like this.

And I'm thinking...hmm, I wonder where it is...a swing keel, I could keep that on a trailer...

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@johntimaeus @coolandnormal @jmccyoung @W6KME the Catalina 22 is a good boat!

you can sleep in it and it's possible to use the crapper in a way that preserves your dignity

which you can't say about every sailboat in that size

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@sarae @coolandnormal @jmccyoung @W6KME

This one's a mid-80s without a fitted head. The crapper doubles as the lower cockpit step, so not much on the dignity.

I had one with a built-in head, much more dignified.

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@W6KME @sarae @coolandnormal @jmccyoung
I can probably recover the trailer that goes with it, but it's fairly dodgy -- wooden cradle on a single axle 26 ft. It worked getting 'You Know What' through the Cumberland gap. But would probably need some deep care at a local shop before going out of state.
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@W6KME @sarae @coolandnormal @jmccyoung @johntimaeus "Cumberland Gap" makes me think it's not near Oregon. If the trailer's not good enough for interstate travel, think I could get it here by sailing through the Panama Canal, up the West Coast against the current, and over the Columbia River bar to Portland?
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@W6KME @coolandnormal @jmccyoung @johntimaeus @sarae All I need is a small $2-3k keelboat and a place to park it that doesn't cost more than the boat over the course of a year.
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Crowd shot for #ICEout in #DTLA I was an hour late
About 10 meters deep of protestor on either side of the street next to Los Angeles city hall. There's also a bunch of street vendors. Sadly a lot of the grass for grand park is pretty empty
#DTLA #ICEOUT
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It was warm, here's a frozen sorbet like thing.

The top was a mango like flavor, the middle was a lemon flavor, I have no idea what the bottom was.

A clear cup with three frozen scoops, the bottom one is a light brown, the middle is a bright green, and the top is a darkish orange color
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As i was tired and starting to leave, I was passed by a churro cart.

I failed my will save against churros.

Later a bunch of finches hopped very close to me while I was eating my churros.

There's four churros in a paper bag in the foreground, the background is more of LA city hall and the protest, but is very out of focus.
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did you let them have some churro bits?
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@MLE_online

Sadly my stomach won as I was pretty hungry, and i also thought churro was likely too unhealthy for small birds.

Some of the ecologists discourage even giving birds bread.

On the other hand gulls are off stealing chips, fries, and ice cream maybe no one listens to their nutritionists

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i think city birds like that are already living mostly of humans, so giving them a snack isn't upsetting anything
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Another set of banners for various cities and regions around Los Angeles
There's Venice with a bunch of buildings in the foreground and stylized mounts in the distance. Studio city, a skyline in the background and a stylized palm in the foreground. The Palisades, buildings, two palms Westwood, same Buildings, more palms Fairfax, same style.
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Yet another group of banners. Someone had been busy making a lot of cool looking banners.
5 banners strung up on a line. The first one is reddish and I poorly composed the photo and some of it's cut off what can be read is "mm unity", "assembly required" over multi colored fists being raised. Next wone is a mix of blue yellow, and red blocks with words on them, the words are: Collectivity, Sponenaity, Imagination, Transformation, Adaptation, Anticipation, Improvasion, Movement, Potentiality, Intervention, Vitality, Autopoesis, Liminality, Indeterminancy, Criticality" The next one is a purple background with a floating blue eye with crystalized looking fire. on top. It reads Become Together State of Emergence", except the "come" is done with negative space in the crystalized fire. Next banner is a bunch of rows of different colors going from pinkish toward the top to orangeish at the bottom. It reads "Love and let love, Imagine Joyous Renewal, Collaborate Creatively with us, Discovere a Deeper Truth, Invent Modes of Becoming, Expect Transformation" Last hanging banner is a ping and white pattern and words on plain blocked rectangles and reads "New Day Done Rose" Those the rose is covered I and Might be missing something. On the ground there's a big sign that says we want we want over on the top and bottom, but I have no idea what the image in the middle is, it's a mix of dark blue black and white shapes. One is a complex pattern with a blue axolotl on it, the sign reads Axolotl, Regeneration. Next sign says axolotl, neo non ???
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Almost done with banners.

Apparently I thought they looked cool.

This group a reddish banner with yellow text, "Lets Make SHIFT happen" Black banner with flower print, Reads We want World, We want again (but in negative space) Pink banner with big blue text, and some stylized skulls " Status Quo = Extinction, Not Dead Yet." then yellow text, Time to Reimagine Community Hey remember that banner I missed part of, here's the full thing: Comm is in a simple red block letter, UNITY is bigger with a red patterned print, so it reads "Community, Some assembly Required" There's a bunch of multicolored fists rising over a grid of boxes with red patterned shapes in it that kind of evoke a feeling of a building. Then the last in this block is the word block thatstarts Collectivity, Spontaneity, Imagination, but was fully described earlier.
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And last set of banners.

Hope all that was interesting.

There's 4 banners, but two are facing away and I don't know what they say. One banner says "Greetings from... " I don't know, I can't read it. Looks like Kind of like "Omw Yjoh" or "Omw Yuoh" It's the LA skyline int he background and a bunch of lines that evoke the freeway system in the foreground. Another one more freeways, with palms over the freeway, and the skyline in the back, it reads Greetings from L.A. Behind all the interesting banners is the main modernist courthouse building people called to jury duty get to go to.
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I remembered one more thing

One of the speakers, probably Isaac Bryan, is a member of the California Assembly and he was trying to get people to support two bills.

AB-1537 Which would prohibit California police from being employed by, being an independent contractor for, or volunteer for the Department of Homeland Security or any other entity that assists with immigration enforcement.

leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fac…

AB-1655 CalWORKs temporary absence: immigration detention.

This bill would allow financial assistance to low income families to continue if one of the family members is detained by ICE.
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fac…

Bill Text - AB-1537 Peace officers: secondary employment.

AB 1537 Peace officers: secondary employment.
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
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"I challenge you to quicken your fight.

For many, even as we speak, are suffering and dying.

And sadly, some will be dead by morning."
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PSA time for everyone! On my profile, we now have two separate ways to access the #PennedPossibilities prompts for the community. If you're against Google, this might be a bit easier for you.

Not promising anything, just because I'm too knackered some nights to add them to a list, so it'll be done the next day. But I'm gonna try it. I hope this helps. Tons of people have been asking me for this. It'll be a ton of work, but I'm sure it's worth it.

#WritingCommunity #WordWeavers #WritersCoffeeClub #ScribesAndMakers

This is a screenshot of my profile links. It shows a blog post for the prompts, and then also has the link to Google Docs for the prompts.
#WritingCommunity #pennedpossibilities #writerscoffeeclub #wordweavers #scribesandmakers

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#kobiety #rozawa #Walka #braidingtheresistance #kurdystan

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Grenzübergang Rafah im Gazastreifen soll heute wieder öffnen

Es ist der einzige Grenzübergang im Gazastreifen, der nicht nach Israel führt: Heute soll der Posten in Rafah an der Grenze zu Ägypten wieder geöffnet werden. Er wird weiterhin von Israel kontrolliert.

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#Rafah #Gaza


Grenzübergang Rafah im Gazastreifen soll heute wieder öffnen

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#Gaza #rafah

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Tens of thousands of the lowest-paid Danes miss out on food checks byteseu.com/1763212/ #Danmark #Denmark
Tens of thousands of the lowest-paid Danes miss out on food checks

Tens of thousands of the lowest-paid Danes miss out on food checks

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#Denmark #Danmark

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What’s a “hard” plant that you find incredibly easy? allforgardening.com/1586524/wh… #houseplants
What's a "hard" plant that you find incredibly easy?

What's a "hard" plant that you find incredibly easy? - All For Gardening

For me, it's lithops. They're my absolute favorite, and are not only adorable but I find them so easy. I need 100 more
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#houseplants

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I don't think you can eat the cow after that....

WKYT: Mount Sterling family brings newborn calf inside during cold snap

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Calf curled up on a couch with two sleepy kids

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Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien, 2018

The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s — and won.

#books
#nonfiction
#history
#biography
#aviation
#women

Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi‑day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit. Fly Girls recounts how a cadre of women banded together to break the original glass ceiling: the entrenched prejudice that conspired to keep them out of the sky. O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high‑school dropout who worked for a dry cleaner in Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcee; Amelia Earhart...
#Women #Aviation #history #Books #NonFiction #biography
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What to do when Peace Lily turn brown right after buying from store? allforgardening.com/1586522/wh… #IndoorGarden
What to do when Peace Lily turn brown right after buying from store?

What to do when Peace Lily turn brown right after buying from store? - All For Gardening

I just bought a peace lily from Costco today and her flowers turn brown after getting home. I haven't done anything including watering yet. Is it
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Pretti Goode ride in memoriam.

#eugene #oregon

On a green lawn under a grey sky a crowd of people on bikes amid some barren trees.
#Oregon #Eugène

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Thanks Maxima byteseu.com/1763207/ #Eesti #EestiVabariik #Estonia #RepublicOfEstonia
Thanks Maxima

Thanks Maxima

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#Estonia #eesti #eestivabariik #republicofestonia
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