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@mtechman@mastodon.ie
I'd like to see a non-library alternatives sign too!
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mastodon 4.6.8An old Victorian bibliophile and geeky young boy in the same body. I've been on the Internet since the mid-'80s. I'm an old school tabletop roleplayer and game master. Grew up among the 0.001%, which is why I hate capitalism and bullies. But I love cats!
Recently I've taken up gardening. 🎍
I'm also @Quasit@beige.party
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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social
The system doesn't WANT to stop them, because they are the system. The oligarchs own both parties, all three branches of government, the media, and most social media.
Killing the human race is who they are. It's what they want to do. They are fascists, being fascists. It's time to wake up to that fact and recognize that if we don't overthrow the whole enchilada, we're all going to die.
I spent twenty minutes yesterday chatting with Mitch McConnell. He did twenty minutes straight of his Darth Vader breathing impression.
What did he say to YOU?
Google/Alphabet is flat-out determined to make EVERYBODY pay them a monthly fee for storage. They've announced plans to count all Android backup data against your Google cloud storage. When that happens, what are the odds that millions of people will suddenly find themselves out of storage?
And don't forget, once you're out of data space you will no longer be able to receive email. Probably no longer be able to text. Hell, you might not even be able to browse the web anymore, assuming Google decides that cookies are part of your storage!
We funded the creation of the internet. Big Tech has stolen it. It's long past time we took it back.
#Google #alphabet #storage #googlecloud #GoogleSucks #endbigtech
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@mtechman@mastodon.ie @peachfront@toot.community @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
How about something like this?
#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia
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@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
The Democrats and neoliberals are desperate to believe that they can reform the system from within to return it to its previous "normal" state, i.e. the same state that brought us to naked fascism in the first place. In other words, fascism with a fig leaf of decorum.
•Anything• but the overthrow of the system which is literally killing off the human race and life on Earth. Which makes the Democrats active agents of the forces of human extinction and fascism.
There are only three possible outcomes:
• A sustained general strike which puts an end to capitalism worldwide and allows the creation of democratic communes which can network worldwide to save the Earth, or
• A bloody revolution which might take down capitalism but will also cause unimaginable destruction and loss of life, or
• A continuation of the status quo which will end with complete collapse and human extinction.
It's that simple. If anyone would like to suggest some other possible outcome, I'd be very interested to hear it!
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@GlennMG@mas.to
Anyone want to bet that Big Agriculture is going to use this opportunity to buy up family farms, increase their monopoly, jack up the price of food and NEVER let it go down again?
Brave on my phone seems to have terminal sclerosis. It won't load anything.
So I installed WaterFox. Working fine so far!
I was driving in an unfamiliar area today, when I passed a giant bookstore. The sign on the front said it had 100,000 used books, every one of them $3 each. And blu-rays and DVDs, too. I'd have pulled right in if it didn't look closed.
Looked it up when I got home. Permanently closed as of 2 weeks ago.
I must grieve now.
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@chartier@toot.cafe The author Lord Dunsany wrote a very short story on that topic at the time:
THE FOOD OF DEATH
Death was sick. But they brought him bread that the modern bakers make, whitened with alum, and the tinned meats of Chicago, with a pinch of our modern substitute for salt. They carried him into the dining-room of a great hotel (in that close atmosphere Death breathed more freely), and there they gave him their cheap Indian tea. They brought him a bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as children drink in England.
Death arose ravening, strong, and strode again through the cities.
- "Fifty-One Tales" (1915), by Lord Dunsany
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/fifty-one-tales
#Books #Bookstodon #LordDunsany #Dunsany #FreeEbooks #QuasitBookRecs
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@oscarfalcon@mastodon.social @Strandjunker@mstdn.social
I'm actually afraid that certain old friends will decide that it means I am a Trump supporter. You know how it is. Some of the more ignorant Democrats are absolutely convinced as a matter of religious faith that any criticism of Obama in particular is proof positive of being a Nazi.
As soon as the oligarchs find a way to shut down people's brains, it's all over.
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @mtechman@mastodon.ie
Actually sticking signs like that up at libraries and such might increase Fediverse adoption!
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@LukefromDC @cyno @numodular @davidaugust
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they told us to eat shit when inflation makes food unaffordable...
EAT THE RICH
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@LukefromDC @cyno @numodular @davidaugust
I read once that "cake" was actually not translated quite correctly, and that what she meant was caked-on gunk on the insides of bakers' ovens. But that seems unlikely. For one thing, what would a princess know about something like that?
And for another, wouldn't that just make them want to chop her head off MORE?
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@peachfront@toot.community @mtechman@mastodon.ie @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
There are lots of places to post fliers. My library has racks right by the front door for that sort of thing. And there are places that have bulletin boards where you can post flyers, too!
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@kichae
Last I heard some companies had to start rehiring humans because AI couldn't do the work it was supposed to.
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@wdormann@infosec.exchange
I think the difference might be that Uber and Lyft provide actual services, even if they are leeches and screw their employees to death. Whereas AI doesn't provide anything of any real value anyway.
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@xyhhx@438punk.house
I know how it feels; it's happened to me several times with several cats. I hope he comes back soon!
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@1024Bytes@masto.ai @tante@tldr.nettime.org
I have. And I use it fairly often. But of course it's based on Bing, so there's an evil billionaire tech bro behind that, too.
Seriously, why can't some ordinary humans make a good search engine that isn't owned by Big Tech? That's how Google started out, as I recall.
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @mtechman@mastodon.ie @peachfront@toot.community
Thanks, these are great ideas!
I guess what we need to do is either find or make a website that makes it incredibly simple to sign up for whichever services a person is interested in, no matter how ignorant of technology they are. But that does seem to be the stumbling block when it comes to mass adoption of Fediverse services.
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@mtechman@mastodon.ie @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
So maybe stick them on telephone poles instead?
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online
My theory is that the oligarchs decided that they would rather have the peasants a bit more drugged and docile. And also that they could make some more money off of us in the process.
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@ASprinkleofSage@mastodon.social @Nonilex@masto.ai
Not to mention destroys the fossil fuel industry. 🤞
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@CrimethInc@todon.eu
And at the same time, everyone in the media is falling all over themselves PRAISING the guy as a "hero", even though he ADMITTED skewing the report to make the protesters look violent!
What other reports has he skewed, I wonder?
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@ritchiepage2001@mastodon.bida.im My father was an immigrant; I will always identify with immigrants.
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@karlauerbach@sfba.social @steve_zeke@freeradical.zone
Much of my extended family died in the Armenian Genocide, which Israel has refused to recognize for over 100 years.
But the genocide of Palestinians is happening NOW.
A Hebrew University poll from June 2025 found that 64% of Israelis agree with the statement that “there are no innocents in Gaza,” a view held by 75% of Jewish Israelis when adjusted for Palestinian citizens of Israel opposing the idea.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/poll-overwhelming-majority-of-jewish-israelis-share-genocidal-belief-there-are-no-innocent-people-in-gaza/
A Penn State/Geocartography poll from March 2025 showed 82% of Jewish Israelis support expelling Palestinians from Gaza, and 47% endorse killing all inhabitants of an enemy city, modeled on the biblical conquest of Jericho.
https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/poll-show-most-jewish-israelis-support-expelling-gazans
95% of Jewish Israelis believed the military used either the “appropriate” or “too little” force in Gaza, according to a January 2024 poll.
https://religiondispatches.org/how-95-of-jewish-israelis-support-a-plausible-genocide/
I find it horrifying that so many people descended from genocide survivors now approve of genocide, as long as it's done to others.
It makes me sad and angry at the human race.
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @inherentlee@flipping.rocks
Thanks so much! Bookmarking this for future use. I'm tempted to offer my services to teach people how to run tabletop role playing games!
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@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party
In fairness, the same thing has happened to me as a man being texted by women. EVERYONE is capable of violating boundaries, regardless of gender.
Although I assume men do it more.
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@Stinson_108@mastodon.social @mtechman@mastodon.ie
I've never trusted Libby. Nor did I find it useful.
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @mtechman@mastodon.ie @peachfront@toot.community
I considered that, but the URLs are fairly long. Maybe a QR code for a single website would be better? I'm not sure how to make one.
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@mcnado@mstdn.social
Don't delude yourself. We'll never be allowed to VOTE ourselves free.
#GeneralStrike
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@albaillustration@socel.net
Somehow this looks like a tarot card from an alternate universe to me. But I'm not sure what it would be called!
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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
No worries, it's not going to happen. The elite have perfected one-way law; they can cheat, the Democrats can't.
But the Democrats don't mind in the least. They WANT to lose. That's their job: to fail and discredit the whole concept of government that helps the people.
It's either general strike or human extinction.
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@Stinson_108@mastodon.social @atrupar@journa.host
And their ultimate goal is human extinction. Although most of them don't admit that to themselves.
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@SueInRockville@mstdn.social
You can add the Democrats to that list, too. 100% corrupt, just like the whole US government.
Which must be overthrown.
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@hellomiakoda@pdx.social
He makes a good point!
But I'll still tip generously until capitalism is overthrown, because workers still need to eat. We SHOULD be beheading the billionaires, though...
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@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world
That's tragic and evil.
And so is the fact that the Auschwitz memorial has nothing to say about the genocide of children taking place right now in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.
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@1024Bytes@masto.ai @tante@tldr.nettime.org
I wish someone would make a good search engine! Something like what Google used to be in the old days. How hard could it be?
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@lazysupper@famichiki.jp @mtechman@mastodon.ie
Mike? I have an account, but I don't remember anything about it except...actually nothing.
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@artemis@dice.camp
Neither do I! The Iranians have regularly warned the US about the targets they're about to strike SPECIFICALLY to reduce or eliminate the chance of casualties.
If there were casualties, it would be because Trump knowingly ordered soldiers to stay in threatened areas to give himself a reason for massive overreaction.
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RE: https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach/116614510022280771
@karlauerbach@sfba.social @steve_zeke@freeradical.zone
Actually polls show that the overwhelming majority of Israeli citizens APPROVE of the genocide of Palestinians. Polls show anywhere from 79% to 90% or more.
I wonder if the same was true of the citizens of Nazi Germany?
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@semmelweisified@social.xenofem.me
What does that even mean?
I had a shitlib try to tell me today that it was okay that Obama bombed lots of brown people to death in other countries because "Russia Russia Russia". Still trying to work out the logic of that one!
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@bascule@mas.to
And also much SAFER. Particularly than nuclear, which is a sword of Damocles over the heads of children 5,000 years into the future—or longer.
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@Perrin42@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Nor Democrats.
The only good politician is a dead one. Ditto for billionaires and CEOs.
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@ProPublica@newsie.social
Looks like an interesting article, but I'm still not comfortable clicking on ProPublica links until they do right by their workers.