LOOK WHAT I FOUND!
This audio clip of Dolly Parton singing "Stairway To Heaven". Been sitting on youtube for 6 years.
Wait for the part where she ululates above a chorus of voices . . .
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Chris Real
@_chris_real@kolektiva.social
mastodon 4.6.8I might have to make a hard climb.
You might have to make the same one too.
So I don't see a difference this time.
I end up at the same place as you.
(If you wanna know my politics, read my posts.
Also: I Follow in haste, and Block at my leisure.)
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LOSING A WAR WE STARTED, WHILE SAYING WE WON--IT'S STARTING TO BE A SCANDAL
Hegseth attempts to float 'Your opinions are terrorism!!' throughout the media.
But "Support the Troops—Lie How We Tell You To" has not become a thing. Not even among magats.
HE'S JUMPING THE SHARK, REALLY
Trump's latest tantrum is to cut himself off from the media, so we don't have to hear his voice for awhile, only their reporting. Take THAT, media!
What's not to like?
WHEN TRUMP SAID "MORE MADE IN USA!"
HE REALLY MEANT MORE FALSE LABELING . . .
Amazon's OWN chatbot exposed that Amazon is putting fake 'MadeInUSA' labels on Chinese goods, because profits are higher than lawsuits.
Trump has decided to do nothing about it
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@emilymbender@dair-community.social
His position on subjects is distorted by his personal position in society.
It's a common side-effect of successful critics of society. He speaks, now, to the only people he thinks matter, but they are a narrow group of exceptionals, culled from the privileged, who he interacts most with.
Success has its isolations, and he hasn't confronted this yet . . .
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@rmi
The problem is not just that there's a sucker born every minute, it's not only that there are two to take 'em, it's that the suckers continue to side with the takers, so I'm STILL outnumbered.
THIS BILL WOULD REQUIRE YOUR COMPUTER TO PROVIDE YOUR RECORDS—DIRECTLY TO THE GOVERNMENT—ON DEMAND, WITHOUT A NEED FOR A WARRANT OR SUBPOENA . . .
Age verification is the Trojan Horse.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info
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HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY FORCES AN ICE RETREAT
ICE came to Harlem County claiming to be making a 'drug bust', but they were NOT.
People in the county quickly created a notification network, found out where they were, and exposed their detainment of immigrants, PLUS proof that there was no drug bust. This made them quietly leave.
This was not reported on the news.
https://youtu.be/yXQh1DsToak
A FOLKIE ON FIRE
Jesse Welles has gotten known for his Dylanesque protests songs against maga, ICE etc.
But he also plays a mean version of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" . . .
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town
If you have a British accent, all is forgiven.😏
Context is considered, since we also watch BBC programs on PBS. . .
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@Em0nM4stodon
Some common sense advice: don't consider ANYONE who gives you the option to give up your privacy as someone who wants to make your life better.
Giving up your privacy NEVER makes your life better.
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@volkris @Sempf @peachfiend
I have often been aware of the amount of power and authority that low-standing christians cloak themselves with, when they decide to pontificate on "what God said".
You can be sure that they wouldn't DARE say to their pastor what they say to you.
He would dismiss their role in saying "what god said" as being the pride of a sinner.
But to you and me, these wanna-be's will be eager to try out whatever clever new sophistry they recently arrived at. It's all a game to some of them. And a matter of ego threat, to the rest.
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@tante
Just the trouble I went through to watch that clip (gatekeepers who are easily challenged by consumers with demands, lol) shows you how they can't make this powerful, unless you pay for it.
It's like the encryption app that won't work unless all your friends use it—and they all don't.
Our strength in our convictions, leading to our purchasing choices, IS their Achilles Heel.
Lenovo just defaulted all their Thinkpads to Linux Ubuntu, all on their own, only as the result of consumer complaints about the latest Microsoft release.
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@ptoothfish@beige.party
This calling of balls and strikes about the reality of what words really mean could really get out of hand if people started acting on it.
And if you're a fascist who neutered law enforcement, and relies on drug-addicted pedophiles to carry out plans under the cover of words that lie, you will be in great denial when those words fail to protect you.
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@Ashmire@pagan.plus @futzle@old.mermaid.town
I'm gonna ask for evidence that a 'Wiccan is holding a ritual'.
The rest of your presumptive post is not distracting to me.
I want the answer to YOUR assumption/assertion/insinuation.
Also—and btw—can you show me why you can't be proven to be a bot?
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town
It's not a word ever used in the U.S., unless the speaker is mimicking a pretentious, pompous elitist who is attempting to call attention to their formerly elite status, or their separation from the 'poors'.
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@brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange
On the other hand, solving the newly existential question, "Will I cease to exist if I stop posting?" is easier to solve if you ignore the greater question "Is Google my bitch, or am I Google's bitch?"
If this question confuses you, bless your little heart.
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@jon
After I installed Vivaldi on my phone, I installed it on my computer.
UNinstalled Firefox, but left Chrome, for the Download links (I download some pages, so I can digest them without constant Refresh issues).
So far, so good. I appreciate your efforts.
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@OptOut@indieweb.social @MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social
"Supposedly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
If you subscribe to the belief that capitalism has ANYTHING to do with rationalism, you are bedding down with the fantasies of scheming wealthhounds.
Economics is astrology for the rich.
Capitalism is the practice of fleecing those who are so rich that they don't notice what they pay to wealthhounds, to get permission to rip off the "poors". . .
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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu @jodmentum@apobangpo.space @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
Some of us have not forgotten . . . or forgotten about, the "water purifiers" that never showed up in Flint, MI, —MANY years later, the promise has never been kept.
But this con man cares about nothing besides his reputation, which is phoney . . .
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@santi@gone.lema.org @ahltorp@mastodon.nu @jodmentum@apobangpo.space @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
It's not fascinating—it's how the distantly desperate push the buttons that keep them safe, while subtley snitching on the sources of corruption that are Too Pervy To face judgment.
If they get prosecuted, they will be more surprised than the people who corner them.
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@alandvalonline@mastodon.social @evacide@hachyderm.io
I think that ICE feels that the inexactness of their 'protester predictor' is that it IS inexact, so activists can't expect proper behavior will keep them out of trouble. Just Stay Home is their goal.
Like shouting "Go!" and "Don't Move!" at the same time, fascism is about leaning hard on contradictions, with a bandolier of lies . . .
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@quillmatiq@mastodon.social
And without employees, who needs supervisors?
Their memos will be eventually enshrined in museums.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
Musk COULD give a million dollars a day to charities for the rest of his life (which is fairly legal)—but no, he decides to give it to people who vote for a dictator (which is mainly illegal).
We might vote away a fascist takeover, but an oligarchy is already running things.
@WedaleBooks
Welcome to Mastodon! You done a good thing.
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@danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
People who claim to resist, but REQUIRE "Essential Cookies", are not to be trusted.
The opportunists are starting to swoop in.
Trust your instincts here—reject these strident and self-deceiving poseurs!!
Yes. You . . .
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
It is a little-known fact that a BILLION is a thousand Millions. (that's— 1/10% —NOT 1%)
People who argue about the significance of statistics often get this wrong.
10 billion is THIRTY times the population of the U.S.
If your fiance marries you, they are a fool. But I suspect you knew that.
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@maxleibman
AI is using tech to 'fake' it.
Like a guy padding his resume to get a job he won't know how to do well.
Like the guy who gets tired of making spam, who thinks he'll do better with easier tools.
Like anybody who thinks he'll get ahead by impersonating people with talent and skills.
Meanwhile, people who pay attention just get better at spotting frauds and fakes.
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@sunguramy@flipping.rocks
Musk hates anything that makes him look bad.
So exposing his motives is always a good move.
If you don't deviate, you will prevail. So, in these uncertain times, stick with the truth.
Lies will try to change you. The truth will let you be who you know you really are . . .
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@selzero@syzito.xyz
To a man with an ideology, everything looks like cock.
I just know they love their D##k Nixon.
😉😊
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@tarajdactyl@tech.lgbt
It's useful when you don't want your articles fractured by a constant stream of adds while you read them.
Also, when you can't get any bars on your connection, you can still finish reading it
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@OptOut@indieweb.social @MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social
Perhaps. But also an opportunity for me to explain the reasons BEHIND the sarcasm. And a victory for truth.
THEY'RE HOLDING THE HOSE, SAYING 'HOW CAN YOU COME IN HERE, YOU'RE ALL WET!'
___Emma Vigeland
Someone scores a perfect metaphor, for a tactic that is, fortunately, failing.
"WEL-L-UH, THAT'S NOT WHAT HE'S DOING"
It's the phrase that most* begins everything that J.D. Vance says about Trump.
It's an auto-gaslight go-to.
*(The rest begin with "Wel-l-uh, that's not what's happening . . .")
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
The evacuation/promulgation contraption seems like an accessory a last-minute adjustment, made by a mind that had too many thoughts distracting it.
But I'm an atheist, so my speculations are not made earnestly.🥴
AHH . . . IT'S ENDING WITH SILENCE
What is the sound of one Trump shouting?
If Trump shouts on a lawn, does he make a sound if no one hears it?
His world ends not with a bang, but with the silence of his own stupidity.
The press needs to do this, again . . .Oh, I'm sorry, the press needs to LET him do this to himself, again.
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run
It states "to require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes."
I'm extrapolating the kind of information, and code, that would be needed to "verify" this age.
The revealing of what these "other" purposes ARE? It's not relevant. The methods used to retrieve this information can be applied to other information.
The statement I made was valid and alarming. The effect of the law is to eliminate 4th amendment protections, by defining any operating system as not belonging to you.
The law says you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. Is your computer an extension of your property, and under your domain, like like a desk drawer or a safe, or is it a snitch, like a servant who can be compelled to testify against you?
N.I.M.B.Y. vs. FACE-EATING LEOPARDS!
They usta be maga. 'Nuff said.
"THAT WUZ MY *PODCAST PERSONA*, BRO"
The podcaster persona is the poor man's AI agent; both seek to shield them from liability.
HE TURNED, TOO
Ted Nugent has decided that life's too expensive, even for him, and it's Trump's fault.
And he lives in the woods, and kills his own meat—but I guess the cost of bullets is up too . . .
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@wolfgangcramer@fediscience.org
He'll never be a real American citizen, so it's in his advantage to take this global.
Maybe it's better that left Americans have common cause with Europeans?
Of course it is, at least the Europeans who aren't kissing the Trump ring.
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@oscarfalcon@mastodon.social @anildash@me.dm
Non-white people without public popularity are already in fear for their lives, here.
His risk has become less since he has become a candidate. It's the people he represents who are at the greater risk.
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@donelias@mastodon.cr @fdroidorg@floss.social
The story of jaywalking is the story of ALL the capital/corp industries protecting their profits.
Music/clothing/liveEvents are ALL naively cooperative with this very organized industry of entertaining.
Until the biggest profit makers object (Hey, Taylor Swift and friends . . .) nothing will change. But without people calling them out, they will continue to say "But I didn't KNOW . . ."
*TEMU PERRY MASON* AND OTHER COMEDIC DISSECTIONS!
You, me and the WORLD have seen and replayed this clip of Jack Smith's ill-fated 'perjury trap'. As far as commentary goes, this is the best one.
Cuz laughing at fascists is their kryptonite.
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@tarajdactyl@tech.lgbt I'm still trying to find out why neither Firefox nor DuckDuckGo's browser will let me save pages for offline reading. Any thoughts?
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@misty
It was inevitable. I've used Linux on my laptop for ten years, and seen it get closer and closer to game-ability all this time. Paying for an OS? Being forced to be injected with bloated updates? These issues haven't affected me again, ever.
It's not absurd, because open-source had been working towards replacing corporate, in ALL aspects, since it's inception.
Since coders woke up to discover their code was being monetized, then weaponized, then monopolized against their creators.
This was inevitable. Enjoy your gaming.😏
@signalapp
That's all fine and good, but democratic Americans want to know if you are passively cooperating with maga.
That's your purity test. You should get used to it, and keep answering it, over and over, to people who need verification that you haven't quietly changed your mind without telling anyone.
THE OVEREXPLAINER-IN-BRIEF TELLS US HE MADE A FART JOKE--IN CASE WE DIDN'T 'GET' IT
Nixon's potus-hostage* was famous for falling down stairs, and little else.
Trump's couch potato should probably sit this one out. But maybe not ON the couch.
(*Gerald Ford)