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Betty Bowers: "Trump's Closing Messages:

1. "Shoot Liz Cheney."

2. "Puerto Rico is garbage."

3. "My economic plan is going to cause you pain."

4. "I'm going to take away your healthcare."

5. "I'm going to drive up inflation with huge tariffs."

6. "I'm going to drive up the price of food by deporting the people who pick your vegetables." #politics



"Come Tuesday, Florida will be one of 10 states where voters will have the chance to amend their state constitution to add or expand abortion rights. Of all those measures, the battle in Florida may be the most intense – and the most uphill for supporters of abortion rights."
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…

#ReproductiveRights #reproductivehealth #FL #DonaldTrump #GOP #DesantisDestroysFlorida #ReproductiveFreedomForAll #Project2025 #GenderEquality

in reply to OUR COMMON GROUND

does DeSantis need to sign it for it to become a law, if it passes?
in reply to Kim Possible

@kimlockhartga
I believe so. It will end up in a legal battle in FL court where #FLSupremeCourt will do a "MickeyMouse'. The ratracism hand is everywhere in this state.



"Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story."
pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic putting into words maybe one of the fears I have for #RStats folk - they'll get locked in.

Easy to get in. But can you get out again. For me it's not really anything #Bluesky itself is/isn't doing...but what's gone before. People have poured their time and content for free into other platforms then been stung by policy/service changes. 1/2

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in reply to Data Quine

A lot of this just isn’t true.

Bluesky has no lock-in. People are running their own data hosts right now. It’s actually very easy to leave Bluesky’s infrastructure because, unlike Mastodon, you actually own all of your posts and can take them with you. Tons of people already have. This post gets most things about Bluesky wrong.

in reply to Mike Beasley

@MikeBeas you have foundationally mistaken the point of this, which is not taking your pus with you but rather maintaining contact with your audience. All of my posts have permalinks on the server I control. The reason I continue to use services that I don't like anymore is because that's where my readers are.


Former Israeli defense minister says Netanyahu must be declared unfit





Well, partial success - I did actually get heard through the space station and relayed back down to Earth.

The down side here is I didn't hear anything on this pass, possibly due to atmospheric conditions. I did hear the ISS beacon one pass back, so I can confirm send/receive through the kernel AX.25 stack does work, I just don't see to be able to it on a single orbital pass of the station.



mastodon.me.uk/@solderandchaos… solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk - When I left the house I didn’t know I needed to see a duet between a Tesla coil and a theremin, but now I have.

#gaussfest




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I wrote about the digital dark age and how I spent the last year restoring my old blog from 2007 - 2012.

blog.vladovince.com/personal-d…



in reply to kravietz 🦇

I’m curious: _did_ the Ukrainians destroy 10.000 Russian soldiers, 100 planes, and 300 tanks quickly? I remember being surprised (and delighted) by the Ukrainian resilience early on, but I have no idea what the actual numbers were.
in reply to geo21481

I was also wondering but I think Sikorsky didn’t mean these numbers to be taken literally - it was about delivering evidence of fierce resistance quickly. Which Ukrainian army delivered in excess, with hundreds of photos of destroyed and burning Russian columns, in which the latter have also helped a lot by rather brainless command.
in reply to FourOh-LLC

@FourOh-LLC

This photo was published in every single media out there, I just took the first copy I found online.

@geo21481

in reply to kravietz 🦇

Its a photo of a US artillery firing range practice, from 2001 - I was in the media core and took this photo.

The photo was picked up by every clandestine NGO to sell different humanitarian aids ever since.

Look it up!

in reply to FourOh-LLC

@FourOh-LLC

Sorry, but this is nonsense. This street was in Bucha with Russian wrecked vehicles was famous and featured in many photos and videos, e.g. here:

youtube.com/watch?v=cZXWGn1akE…

@geo21481

in reply to kravietz 🦇

Of course it is, I was lying about the photo. But you get the point I hope, nobody is able to "verify" anything whatever BBC claims about a bunch of destroyed military gear.

During operation Barbarossa the Nazis inflicted damages that would have collapsed any other defending army. Since the French invasion by Napoleon it is well known how the was Russian plains and the weather is part of all Russian military operations. As recently as in Desert Storm it was re-confirmed that any supply chain extending over 300 - 500 miles is in danger of collapsing, which is part of all Russian military operations.

I do not need to see photos to know the chances of Ukraine against Russia. Some photos of destroyed military assets have little or no effect on the strategy Russia has been using for centuries to conduct warfare on or near their Motherland.

in reply to FourOh-LLC

@FourOh-LLC

But this time it’s Russia who is invading, not defending. Whatever geographic or climatic obstacles the French or Germans faced during their invasions, Putin is now facing himself.

@geo21481

in reply to kravietz 🦇

Ukraine is slightly smaller than the state of Texas, with a total area of 233,062 square miles (603,628 square kilometers).

Its within a few hops for a 400 miles supply chain.

in reply to kravietz 🦇

And by the way, did you hear and read Trump calling the Cheney's warmongering monsters? Did you read and hear Putin preferring Harris to win the POTUS race?

Now, that's real news you can trust - if you can read and you learned to listen.



The alt text is now more prominent in the latest version of the official Android Mastodon app. Nice!

#mastodon #MastodonApp #accessibility #AltText



"Democrats are in a stronger position": Election forecasters give Dems an edge in swing House races (Russell Payne/Salon)

salon.com/2024/11/02/democrats…
memeorandum.com/241102/p20#a24…




Arcane Cache: Review to the games of Cal Michael.

The games of Cal Michael are a demanding „Gesamtkunstwerk“ – even if you approach them with good will and an open mind, they might largely escape you in the end – but are certainly worth a look. If you manage it to penetrate them, they reward you with a dive into a mystical, enthralling, and unique other-world.

thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/a…

#game #videogame #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #undergroundgame #poetry #2D #paintings #occult #art #digitalart #opensource #freesoftware #freegame #free #libre #gaming #browser #indie #review #underground #mysticism #poet #poem #interactivefiction #if #bitsy #zine #zines

A screenshot from "AUGUR SOUTH", showing a (submerged?) monochrome temple realized with bitsy. A sepia cliff-landscape. In the foreground, collages that form persons consisting of symbols, flowers, and birds. The one says to the other: "Yes, I can not image a hound would make a good surgeon".
Screenshot from "WELLSPRING OF SONG": A bird within a circle; other birds at the top left and top right position. Flowers grow fromn the cirlce, and a unreadable script is shown at the bottom of the image.


Join us at the #PloneConf2024 for Renato Coelho's talk "Apache NiFi 2 e Python: Simplificando Projetos de Dados" on 27-11-2024 at 14:40! 🚀 Don’t miss out! More info: buff.ly/48rZq65 #Plone #Python 🌍



The (free to read) newsletter this week looks at visualizing the spread of online rumors, which seems topical. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/…
in reply to Philip Bump

I just boosted this in the hopes of seeing it take off like one if the charts in your story. Sadly, I am no top newsbroker.