Good news for US trans folx who have Canadian ancestry: There’s a path out out of the US for you.
Trans genocide in the US is REAL and HAPPENING NOW.
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mastodon 4.7.3I am moving to @NewMike@beige.party .
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It’s peony time!
genocide.
baby robin just before leaping out of the nest and flying / coasting to a bush below. Mom robin is close nearby.
If I created a site called Today in Handsome Dudes, today’s post would feature Will Reeve, Christopher Reeve’s son and correspondent for ABC News and GMA3 regular. Curiously Will doesn’t have a Wikipedia page (privacy concerns?) and there’s not much internet bio that I could find on him, but you see him all over ABC.
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@GayDeceiver Do you like sausages? Do you like celebrating manly men? Then come to our SausageFest!
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The billionaire coup against workers and democracy continues.
Happy May Day.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/top-ceo-pay-increased-20-times-faster-workers-pay-2025
RE: @AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social
Faith in humanity boosted.
3/3
Squalid Splendor will feature less politics than this site. To be sure, I still loathe Trump and all his filthy enablers, including anyone who’s ever voted for him or supported him. My hatred for these evil people is white hot. But I also have serious anger “issues”, and my rage will overwhelm me if I’m not vigilant.
coincidence or what?
I just bought this book. It will help distract me from my excessive screen addiction. I’ve been following the author for many years and generally like his work. I’ll let you know what I think.
Trump: Iran War “Terminated”.
Her Simpy Highness. In a world of Trump fellators, she cries “Pick ME!”
Once this useful idiot has been drained of all utility, she will be discarded as just another dry husk.
If you want to follow me, I’ve moved to @NewMike@beige.party
I won’t be posting here any more. The new instance will feature less of me raging about politics and more of me oversharing about myself. And gay stuff. Today in Handsome Dudes will be a regular feature there, along with mostly Safe For Work gay stuff (if it’s NSFW I’ll post a CW).
The splash page looks like this:
Half Man (HBO) is a tough watch. Written by and starring Richard Gadd, who also wrote and starred in Baby Reindeer. It’s almost unbearably suspenseful and tense, thanks to Gadd’s explosive character. You never know where the explosions will land, and the plot twists are neck-wrenching. It’s tough, but I keep watching.
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@iBlame@kolektiva.social @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai I’m so sorry for your friends. And for you and all of us. These fuckers are destroying the world and leaving us to deal with the ruins. We must resist them as much as we can. Solidarity!
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @jawarajabbi@mastodon.online Presented as a benefit to consumers = the lie. Controlling and surveilling the public = the truth.
I suspect that the demand for burner phones by the “shadow economy” (drugs + other illegal activities) will be sufficiently large enough to fund the development of burner alternatives. Somebody’s probably already working on it.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116527462671082376
Before it was called the Eiffel Tower, it was known as La Tour de Trois Cent Mètres (The Three Hundred Meter Tower). High-brow Parisian artists and writers hated it at first, but eventually it was a huge popular success following its creation for the Exposition Universelle de 1889.
London thought about creating its own Eiffel Tower and called for proposals. The project was never completed, but here are some of the proposals.
RE: https://woof.group/@racebannon/116494490578192479
This is not an easy read, but it’s helping me get a grasp of what AI really means. I need to read it a few more times, and I’m not sure I’ll ever completely understand it. But it’s helping me move on from my original stance of “All AI is bad” to understanding what it is (and isn’t) and what it can (and can’t) do (yet).
Of course, the possibility of malicious abuse is huge, which fuels my hostility to it.
Congratulations, elephants. There are some other people I’d love for you to meet.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/millionaire-hunter-dies-elephants-gabon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@angiebaby@mas.to I’d love to see that, too.
Pretext, preface, and justification for its stranglehold on Cuba and eventual (imminent?) invasion. Good thing Cuba doesn’t have any serious armed forces to defend itself, because the US shot its wad in Iran & Venezuela, and now we’re running out of ammo.
But Trump needs another distraction from the Epstein files and his crime family’s asset stripping of the US and the ongoing destruction of what was left of democracy.
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Vichy gays. There’ll be no Nuremberg 2.0 for these traitors, because there are too many of them.
https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/im-hopeful-the-president-of-gays
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Another musical interlude: 80s and 90s clubbing.
Human League, (Keep Feeling) Fascination (Improvisation).
simpler, happier times.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/keep-feeling-fascination-improvisation/724297620?i=724297802
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social @Barbramon1@mas.to File under: The True Weaponization of Government.
“The people who hijack your plane are not your new pilots.”
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online I don’t know what a Hitachi magic wand is (I can look it up, you don’t have to explain it to me), but if that floats your boat, go for it! ;-)
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online Personal aside: Now I understand part of what my former employer (Palantir handmaiden Carnegie Mellon) was doing by creating & producing “Machine Learning” way back when I started there.
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I forget who I was talking to about Grace Jones' covers, but i just stumbled across her cover of "La Vie en Rose".
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=HmSdp_AJHZw
The delightful Cheryl Crow.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=V_kzv1JbEEI&si=uvII-L225haGWaZu
Tony Dokoupil is a hack. He may be “hospital-drama handsome” (doesn’t do anything for me), but he’s still a Trump lèche-cul (ass-licker). Here’s a dishy article from Vanity Fair.
(The French “lèche-cul” sounds better than the English, but that’s just my opinion.)
Horrifying and infuriating. RIP Juniper Blessing.
2/3
I’ll be adding people slowly. If you’re tired of my shit (and frankly, who isn’t?), now’s a good time to unfollow me. My new display name is Squalid Splendor. It could easily be Splendid Squalor. You can call me almost anything.
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@mcnado@mstdn.social @octothorpe@mastodon.online It may take a revolution to stop the corruption of these crime families. At least in the US, the system has been rigged to hell.
Hungary gives me hope, but US corruption runs so deep. And there are just so damn many evil, cruel, and willingly stupid people.
We have to find common cause to stop them.
This isn’t original but: Once your hear it, you’ll never hear the song the same way again:
“Right about now, the Easter Bunny. Check it out now, the Easter Bunny…”
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wD6jCMn5nq0&si=X0LGxdhFlQYtz-fX
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Here’s a link to ALL the extended remixes from Yes. Locating this was extremely complicated and I couldn’t isolate the “Left of Love” remix of The Way It Used to Be. But all the remixes are great, so here’s all of them.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqLObKwNswxj1m640b2zjSEFQWjZJ9EgU&si=5FtY9lfHmyLxTMs5
Taking a page from Trump’s evil book.
Our rhododendrons are blooming, but they’re not doing well. A combination of poor soil, a harsh winter, and squirrel hunger. Maybe we’ll try to refresh them, maybe we’ll replace them. They don’t get much direct sunlight because our large oak trees shade them.
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@dangillmor @SaanichGuy Another important step in the forced march to one-party rule. Resist!