The "fighting fascism is inconvenient, just delete Facebook" comments/quote tweets on this are something. We made a devil's bargain with social media, it's where a lot of our community comms live now. And transitioning from that is deep organizing work and a process.
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:di7ep…
Well, Threads and Instagram are deactivated. I'm still not sure what to do about Twitter. And I wish I could see a way to getting rid of Facebook. Unfortunately it's where a lot of our neighborhood community conversation happens, so I'm going to have to come up with a compromise.
Trump becomes first U.S. president sentenced as a felon
Trump becomes first U.S. president sentenced as a felonhttps://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-01-10/trump-hush-money-felony-case-sentencingBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Canadian businessman Kevin O’Leary wants to buy TikTok ahead of looming ban and U.S. Supreme Court decision
Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary wants to buy TikTok ahead of looming ban and U.S. Supreme Court decision https://www.toronto.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Privacy and security
Today, helped a friend install a voicemail greeting that is obviously hers, but without using her voice.
You can do this too!
1. Type the voicemail greeting you want into google translate, in this case in English.
2. Select the language you want - my friend chose French.
3. Hit the "speaker" button when you're recording your voicemail greeting.
My friend chose French. It read the English with a strong French accent. We cackled like a pair of crones.
Poilievre Calls For Expansion Of Canadian Energy Infrastructure To Be Free Of U.S. Tariffs On Energy
Poilievre Calls For Expansion Of Canadian Energy Infrastructure To Be Free Of U.S. Tariffs On Energyhttps://www.dobenergy.com/news/energy-services/2025/01/10/poilievre-calls-for-expansion-of-canadian-energy-iBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
You might not think you're in the 1%, but "the richest 1% – about 77 million people, including all those earning more than $140,000 (£114,000) a year – are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution each year as the poorest half of humanity."
theguardian.com/environment/20…
World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days
Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to createDamien Gayle (The Guardian)
So my current employer has joined the "let's get rid of the senior people and build our product on rookies and AI" bandwagon. Not laid off, but that looks like it's coming.
If any of you know someone who needs a senior software engineer with a strong background in apps security, knows OAuth/OIDC, and speaks Java and Python, HMU. #FediHire
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Le nombre de morts à Gaza est plus important que l’estimation du Hamas, selon une nouvelle étude
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#israel #palestine #Hamas #Cisjordanie #Gaza
Le nombre de morts à Gaza est plus important que l'estimation du Hamas, selon une nouvelle étude - [mcInform@ctions]
Une étude publiée vendredi dans la prestigieuse revue médicale britannique The Lancet estime que le nombre de morts à Gaza est supérieur...mcinformactions.net
From: blenderdumbass . org
Obviously I watched Revenge because it was directed by Coralie Fargeat, the director of current world-wide phenomenon The Substance. Even though Revenge is her directorial debut, I didn't not think it would be a bad film going into it, based on what I know about The Substance. And my expectations were pr...
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#Revenge #Revenge2017 #CoralieFargeat #MatildaLutz #NicolasWindingRefn #Film #Review #TheSubstance #Horror #Action #Movies #Cinemastodon
RE: HB121 in Montana. All bathroom laws do is criminalize not passing, trans OR cis alike. Esp those who (like moi) are tall/wide-shouldered/small-breasted, women of color who don't embody racist Eurocentric feminine ideals, etc. The rest of us will continue using women's rooms, just as before.
Penetrated right through the thin skinned owner of X
Latest cheeky Penthouse sign gets Vancouver nightclub suspended from X
FOREVER NEIGHBOURS
NEVER NEIGHBORS
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Latest cheeky Penthouse sign gets Vancouver nightclub suspended from X
Donald Trump's suggestion that Canada become the 51st state also landed the club a social media timeoutSarah Grochowski (Vancouver Sun)
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The most Melbourne of all number plates 🚞
The most Melbourne of all number plates 🚞Posted by Miss-OmnibusBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
AA Battery Performances Tested, So Get The Most For Your Money
#batteryhacks #reviews #aa #battery #price #testing #hackaday
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AA Battery Performances Tested, So Get The Most For Your Money
[Project Farm] has a video in which a wide variety of AA cells are analyzed and compared in terms of capacity, internal resistance, ability to deliver voltage under load, and ability to perform in …Hackaday
Game: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS) (gamerip) (2008)
Song: Walking Edge (Castlevania version)
#music #videogames #gaming #gamemusic
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