I was at the #antiFascist rally in #Glasgow earlier today.
Couldn't stay long because I have an ataxia that makes standing for long periods untenable. But wanted to add my voice.
Fuck fascism.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Human being, being human. Trying, not always successfully, to leave the world a slightly better place than I found it. It's a modest goal, I know.
Anti fascist. If you’re not, what are you?
Profile header is a slice of a pencil sketch drawn by my brother, an architect. The crop focuses on my eyes, and the craggy lines radiating from their corners. My eyebrows appear to have gone feral.
Profile image is me as an almost 40 years younger man. I have dyed black crimped hair in a broad mohawk.
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Opening sentence:
"Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent."
No, @arstechnica@mastodon.social , they are rich. Probably white, and probably male but, defitionally, rich.
And they became idiots a long time ago.
@arstechnica@mastodon.social
RE: https://mastodon.nz/@v_for_verbosity/116900027386266444
This is a scam and if you ever encounter it just close the window.
When #UEFA calls you corrupt and greedy, something's gone badly wrong.
We've had "far right" regimes in #Europe before.
They were called Nazis.
There are over 20 million reasons to not allow that to happen again.
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It has long been possible to take an overnight train from Inverness (or Glasgow or Edinburgh) to London.
Although it marketing is focused on the other direction.
https://www.sleeper.scot
#sleeper #overnight #trains
@straphanger@urbanists.social
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I'm struggling to understand the pronouns here. Is the parrot being evicted from its flat?
To be clear, no, I will not house a parrot. I don't want any "pet".
But I am willing to try to help you find a home for the bird.
@kathimmel@mstdn.social
I have bought a couple of Tisha’s works.
They are tiny but immensely powerful seascapes. I stare deeply into them every day. They draw you in like a gyre.
And they are very affordable.
If you’re planning a gift for someone, get them something unique and beautiful.
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And also vigorously punching Nazis is an unalloyed public good.
I want to be perfectly clear on that.
@jonesmurphy@mastodon.social @HarryRasmussen@toot.community
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I’m not.
I’m simply asking folks to add alt text to images.
That’s it. That’s all I want.
@jonesmurphy@mastodon.social @HarryRasmussen@toot.community
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Sadly, @jonworth has already demolished these dreams with a landslide of boulder-sized facts.
Or are they fact-sized boulders 
?
https://jonworth.eu/forget-it-the-caledonian-sleeper-is-not-going-to-run-through-the-channel-tunnel/
@straphanger@urbanists.social
?
https://jonworth.eu/forget-it-the-caledonian-sleeper-is-not-going-to-run-through-the-channel-tunnel/
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The UK, such as it is, and despite being the country that pioneered both railways AND investment bubbles, has been singularly unable to deliver high speed rail even over a 120 mile (~150km) stretch of track.
@jonworth @straphanger@urbanists.social
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Sandinista by The Clash was exactly this.
@aubilenon@peoplemaking.games @inthehands@hachyderm.io
Today, I saw 3 dolphins in the Firth of Clyde.
Just offshore from Largs.
Made my day. At a very difficult time.
Ghosts of American astronauts
By The Mekons
Contains the immortal lines:
"
John Glennn drinks cocktails with God
in a café in downtown Saigon
"
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Yeah, it's a new NHS initiative. A drop-in clinic where they urge you not to eat pizza, drink beer, or generally be working class.
When you leave, they give you a leaflet titled: "If you get disabled, it's your fault." With a link to a website where all your benefits claims can be denied.
But there are nice pictures of black people in wheelchairs smiling. Probably generated by "AI", but, hey, what isn't.
So that's inclusive.
@sil@mastodon.social
RE: @matthiasott@mastodon.social
Wow. Who’d have imagined an #AI company would behave so unethically 🤔
RE: @nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org
#AI company says AI is the future of war/peace/energy/anything else you care to mention in a thinly-veiled PR blog post
It's all #bullshit and always has been.
The real question is: who will hold these companies to account for the harms they do?
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Indeed.If fascists say "we're gonna do fascism", we should take that at face value.
@nateb
RE: @detondev@social.linux.pizza
No idea how this ended up in my feed.
This is the kind of application that machine learning is actually very useful for.
Big tech just buys it up and shuts it down. Because “AI”.
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Add a text description to your images, please.
Unsighted people were interested in this post. You excluded them.
@matdevdug
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Natasha, even by my standards, that's terrible.
And my standards are terrible.
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
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Yeah.
You refer to three separate entities as he/him:
• your partner
• his dad
• a parrot
That's what I'm trying to untangle...
@kathimmel@mstdn.social
I hope you included the cat shit.
RE: @LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
The population of the USA is roughly 2.5% of the global population.
Your congress's laws mean fuck all to 97.5% of the people on the planet.
And apparently more or less the same in your failed state.
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Plans have been, as politicians say, "floated" to extend these journeys to continental Europe.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/direct-sleeper-train-from-scotland-to-mainland-europe-plans-revived/ar-AA29qZwU
@straphanger@urbanists.social
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It is certainly unlawful in the UK and EU, possibly less so in other jurisdictions.
But then so was the wholesale theft of art (in the legal sense) that trains these models. That didn’t make them pause for breath.
@louisrcouture
RE: @arstechnica@mastodon.social
No it won’t.
This is imaginary money being hyperlooped around 5 or 6 giant corporations to make them appear solvent.
They are all already bankrupt.
They just don’t know it yet.