We have been trying to acclimate Her Majesty to wearing the harness so she can go outside. She is not enthusiastic about this supposed tradeoff of different forms of 'freedom.'
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just my toots:
Good news for Mexicans.
Too bad in the US all we get is fascism and extractive abandonment.
#Healthcarehttps://novaramedia.com/2026/04/10/mexicos-socialist-president-to-roll-out-universal-healthcare/
"What do you mean, you want to 'stand up'? What would happen to the lap then, human? Be reasonable."
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@agreenberg@infosec.exchange
Meanwhile, DJT admin cutting cybersecurity budgets
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-white-house-budget-fy27/816615/
https://defensescoop.com/2026/03/31/army-cybersecurity-training-policy-change/
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Although most people don't mask, even among leftists, I do see more masks in left gatherings than in other places
#CovidIsNotOver
#MayDay#PDX
RE: @kim_harding@mastodon.scot
More silver linings from the USA's illegal war of choice against Iran--along with pushing more nations to invest in sustainable energy sources, it's slowing down data center growth.
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@d1 @soatok
"Unlike the lawful ships they escaped from or took over, pirate ships were noted for democracy--electing their captains, collectively agreeing on their codes of conduct, offering every sailor a say in major decisions, and providing a system of checks and balances in operation. As Graeber points out, the phenomenon of "pirate amity" was real: although they were "constantly armed and frequently drunk" they "virtually never came to blows with one another."
"This amicable democratic governance extended to their economies, since both rations and booty were usually divided fairly equally; even if the captain and officers got twice or one-and-a-half times the share of loot that a common sailor got, that difference was far less than in legal military or mercantile ships--or, certainly, in modern corporations. They also offered workers' compensation. The common image of pirates with eye patches, wooden legs, or hooks for hands reflected some of the physical dangers of sailing, but those injured were generally given a larger share of any prizes."
https://kboo.fm/media/115055-pirates-are-progressive
RE: @anarchademic@kolektiva.social
The stopped clock has spoken: States will "have to raise their taxes."
Contact your state reps and governor to let them know you support raising taxes on the rich and corporations!
Support the groups working to make sure we have health care and day care and all the good things the federal government will not do because it's too busy killing people.
#HealthCareIsAHumanRight #HCAO #TaxTheRich #HealthCareForAll #PreschoolForAll #Oregon
For Oregonians:
The Very Rich Pay Their Fair Share:
https://taxtheverywealthy.com/
Fully fund Preschool for all as promised and planned and already voted for!
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Health Care for All Oregon
https://www.hcao.org/
Find your legislators
https://geo.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/lookup/index.html?appid=fd070b56c975456ea2a25f7e3f4289d1
Governor Kotek
https://www.oregon.gov/gov/Pages/share-your-opinion.aspx
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@jvschrag@hachyderm.io
please come to my house
(I already have the murderbot books, but pls help with the rest)
Update: Next opportunity to weigh in is April 24
https://www.columbiariverkeeper.org/2026/data-centers-in-oregon/
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Tomorrow!
Oregon is seeing an unprecedented rise in data centers, resulting in a massive increase in demand for energy, water, and land. This is a critical moment to stand up to protect Oregon’s precious natural resources.
The Oregon Data Center Advisory Committee is holding monthly meetings as well as two public listening sessions.
The first listening session is scheduled for April 17 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. and they need to hear from you! This is an opportunity for members of the public to express their concerns and questions directly to the Committee.
What: Public Listening Session 1
When: April 17, 2026 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Where: Join online via WebEx (recommended)
https://oregondepartmentofenergy.webex.com/wbxmjs/joinservice/sites/oregondepartmentofenergy/meeting/download/84fbfbdb1d7b471a9cf893d81d200b5e?MTID=m9709133ea5710a8927b55021527fc8bf&emci=832154e2-1339-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&emdi=b5f56a37-d739-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&ceid=4646228
Webinar No. 2662 125 7995
Password: Data
or join by phone: 1-650-479-3208
Access Code: 266 212 57995
Password: 3282
* How to use WebEx
https://www.oregon.gov/energy/Get-Involved/Documents/WebEx-Instructions.pdf?emci=832154e2-1339-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&emdi=b5f56a37-d739-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&ceid=4646228
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@Em0nM4stodon
And it doesn't take much to antagonize the current government in the US:
"The ICE agent wanted more than a month’s worth of electronic data, but offered no information as to what, exactly, caught the agency’s attention. When John Doe’s attorneys later reviewed their Reddit posts, they found nothing to suggest criminal activity or intent.
"There was a thread from early January, after news outlets including The Intercept identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis. Commenting on a Minnesota Star Tribune article, another Reddit user posted that Ross might be welcomed as a hero in Florida or Texas. John Doe responded by sharing that Ross had lived in Chaska, Minnesota; grew up in Indiana; and served in the Indiana National Guard — biographical details that were circulating widely at the time. “Hopefully he moves up to Stillwater State Penitentiary,” they wrote.
"In another post, a Reddit user asked what they should write on an anti-ICE protest sign. John Doe suggested the lyrics to a song: “Urine speaks louder than words.” In a third instance, Doe wrote, “TSA sucks and we all know it.” According to the Reddit user’s attorneys, these were the most aggressive posts they could find."
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/
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Will The Computer Love The Sunset
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@FranceskaMann @QasimRashid
"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives." --C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins
As a healthful practice, conversion therapy is up there with injecting bleach
w/ added ALT, originally seen at @RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu
So I read this story at the Guardian about OnlyFans models doing Climate awareness videos. But when I went to look for them, Youtube kept bumping me to "headline news" instead of "headline newds," even after I put it in quotation marks.
But searching for Yellow Dot studios on YT worked.
Only one video up so far, but apparently the future ones are even better.
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some people seem to be getting a little impatient
The Most Important Vote This November! We can enact a 2 percent wealth tax on those taxpayers with $30 million and up in assets—to fund all of society’s needs including climate change, education, transportation and health care. The Very Rich Pay Their Fair Share Act is now in its full-press to collect signatures to qualify the measure. What can you do?
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Share this information!
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Both California and Washington have passed measures like this. The issues are well understood. Let's make this fly in Oregon!
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@FritzAdalis @hrbrmstr
yeah do I understand correctly his business is selling a program that’s made by this other program that he still doesn’t acknowledge doesn’t “understand” the effects of its actions?
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@Npars01
Looks like they are "centrist" democrats, e.g.:
"Perhaps most instructive: a post-election message test found that on every major issue, the center-left framing outperformed the progressive one sometimes dramatically. On climate, a jobs-and-energy-independence message drew 73% support. A message centered on banning fracking drew 56%. Persuadable voters are reachable. They are simply not being reached with the right message."
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@HarriettMB @wdlindsy
No commonweal, only hard power
“It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection." https://newrepublic.com/post/208535/white-house-accidentally-easter-lunch-trump-speech
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@david_chisnall
It's exhausting for the reader, but it is efficient for the purpose of selling ads, as you note, and for burning up fossil fuels and driving people from old search to just-ask-ai, as others point out down thread.
Profit motives all the way down.
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@remixtures
wait, will it do this if I use google mail and docs/drive but have (I hope) turned off the AI/"smart" features? yikes
from Shouldn't Need to be a Lawyer, where the comments add further nightmarish anecdotes:
Are your calls to pharmacies being answered by AI voice-chatbots? Doctor's offices? Insurance companies? Where are you seeing this bullshit be deployed in health care?
Whether or not I get to keep my organs now depends on whether a chatbot that can't parse "I have a new prescription" will let me speak to a real human being.
Pharmacy chains and insurers are racing to deploy LLM chatbots across healthcare, and they are doing it because it is cheaper than paying human beings to answer phones. These systems hallucinate, they confidently provide wrong information, they cannot handle anything that deviates from a narrow script, and they are being placed between patients and the care we need to survive. The technology is not ready for low-stakes customer service, let alone for healthcare, where a wrong answer about a medication or a missed prescription can cause serious harm.
Is this happening to you?
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@oscarfalcon
we pay taxes, too (except the billionaires and multi-millionaires) but it all goes to the military....
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@warandpeas@mastodon.social
I voted 4 panels in one image
(meaning like this https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/116467203501688890) because that's easiest for me,
but then reading all the comments about how things show on different devices/browsers/apps/etc., ... it's clearly more complicated!