Ike

You cant tell me that this isnt Fascism, these aren't Nazis, and that Trump isn't a Dictator.

He can be defeated at the voting booth but only if you show up, and you protect + help those he targets to show up.

the Office of Remigration will “provide a policy platform for interagency coordination with DHS and other agencies on removals/repatriations, and for intra-agency policy work to advance the President’s immigration agenda.”

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-department-office-of-remigration

#USPol #NoKings #Vote #Resist

The number of NoKings events across the US this Saturday March 28th is absolutely staggering!

Bring your friends, some snacks, grab a coffee, and defend democracy at an event near you! It's kind of like tailgating before a football game - if that is something you like to do.

Find the closest one to you here:
https://www.nokings.org/

#NoKings #USPol #Trump #MAGA #GOP #Republicans #RESIST

From a recent hike.

I was trying to capture how neat it is that I was down in the swampy estuary, but had a line of sight up a mount with a cloud-shrouded peak and trees frosted with snow.

Such a dramatic change in the conditions in a short while!

Oh, and lots of moss and lichen too!

#Mosstodon

I'm often amused when I hear folks explain that the top 10% of households pay ~60% of all taxes in the US (Federal, State, Local, etc) - as if that is a statistic that suggests the rich are over-taxed.

My dude - if income were more evenly distributed, then the rich wouldn't have to carry such a high tax burden!

An incremental income of $1,000 means nothing to a billionaire, but it means the world to low income folks.

You don't have to be a socialist to see the problem here.

#USPol

"I used to describe myself as American, but that’s becoming less true with time. I’m from the America of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.

But that place is long gone. It’s not like that anymore."

https://sive.rs/4d

#USPol

C'mon GenZ of The United States - I believe in you!

You can do it too!

"For the first time in his long political career, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aura of political invincibility appears to have been punctured.

An upstart youth movement, founded only 37 days earlier, forced his government into a humiliating climbdown this weekend and prompted the resignation of the education minister."

https://www.ft.com/content/71bbe9fd-e1cb-4e28-8edb-f319032139c4?syn-25a6b1a6=1#:~:text=For%20the%20first,the%20education%20minister

#GenZ

RE: @Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social

Fund your public libraries and you can get all the ad-free watching you want.

#Library #Libraries

In early childhood,I had acres around me to play in.

Later I had miles of safe streets to ride my bike on.

As a hormonic teenager, I had the unadulterated internet to explore.

Like the first parts of my childhood which have been made untenable, the last part is under siege by US Congress via KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act).

There are numerous reasons not to support this, among them the protection of Free Speech, and freedom from surveillance.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online

#KOSA #USpol

RE: @hn500@social.lansky.name

Sometimes I want to give up on this whole internet thing and just start doing things that way my great-grandparents did.

I mean - really. Our cars track us, our cell phones track us, our credit cards track us, etc.

Its all stupendously absurd.

I'm tired of the activities I do just to exist, living my one and only life, being turned into a product for some mega-corp's profit or government's surveillance.

Turns out it was Shen Yun this whole time!!

The investigation found that over the past two decades, the performing arts nonprofit Shen Yun obtained the names and mailing addresses of hundreds of millions of U.S. voters to publicize its performances across the country.

(this site is satire)

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-investigation-found-that-shen-yun-used-us-voter-rolls-to-distribute-flyers-to-hundreds-of-millions-of-american-households

#Elections #Vote #NoKings #Resist #ShenYun

RE: @ike@pkm.social

You're invited! Big party today near you!

Want to feel like you are a part of something important and big?

Seriously - if you have the time and you are still undecided, just go and if you can bring a friend.

#NoKings

re: Homelabs...

I'm just using an old laptop and an old mini pc, and sometimes an old raspberry pi 3 from 2015 to do my nerdery.

I know some folks have more sophisticated setups - some even with server racks!

I guess I'm still in "amateur" homelab territory - at what point do I need to more serious RAID arrays and what not?

#Homelab

No. I'm not going to your website to unsubscribe.

Its fewer clicks and less time for me to just click 'spam'.

Good luck with your deliverability rate.

#Email #Spam #Marketing #CASA #GDPR #B2B #SaaS #Sales #SFBA

I heard that this Iran war was won, done, and wrapping up in 2 weeks - 2 weeks ago. Now I hear about downed fighter jets, lost pilots and crew, $1,700,000,000 more money needed, and the Straight _still_ isn't 'liberated' - all from a guy who thought he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.

Like - the guy doesn't have egg on his face - his face is like a giant piece of egg.

#USPol #Iran

RE: @hn500@social.lansky.name

Go ye forth and register thyself thine municipality's official .US domain - and thusly - deploy as such the Fediverse, and Mastodon, and Pixel Fed, and all manner of things which are good in the eyes of our Lord, John Mastodon.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #JohnMastodon

In highschool/college, I was focused on "getting a job" with a good employer.

It felt like that was the norm of thinking.

In hindsight, I was just carried along in a line of thinking that I needed to convince someone else to hire me.

Of course I would expect that from institutions of credentialism. What are their credentials worth if nobody needs them?

But what if the 'default' was to expect young adults to create their own job instead of seeking one?

How empowering would that be?

Some people I know in a nearby town are excited about a Chick-fil-A opening up in their city.

I'm sure it'll be the perfect accompaniment to the really distinct character staples their city like Valvoline, 7-11, Safeway, Dairy Queen, and Starbucks.

I really fucking hate developer driven cities: No soul. Can't exist there without spending money. No reason to visit - just places to stop at as you drive through to more interesting places.

Ok, as an alternative to Discord, Chatto (https://github.com/chattocorp/chatto) is looking rather promising.

• AGPL

• can be easily self hosted

• Paid hosting available in EU (better privacy protection)

• Written in Go

• mobile apps on roadmap

• web app is good on both mobile and desktop browsers

• one client can connect to multiple servers

I have a demo instance running on my homelab and I could see opening this up to my friends using tailscale funnels.

#Discord #Chatto #Slack #Zulip #Tailscale

Trump wants to use Border Patrol to step in for TSA?

1) That is probably a better use of their time than what they'd be doing otherwise

2) But they are probably massively overpaid to stand there and scan your ID, boarding pass, carry-on and personal item - much more expensive than TSA

3) Im sure thats not going to make TSA happy.... having highly paid scabs come in and take their jobs

4) That takes the pressure off Dems to make a deal at all.

"Stable Genius"

#Trump #USPol #TSA #CBP

RE: @linuxfiend@vmst.io

"What we fight for defines us."

#USPol

ICE Activity and Arrest in Renton near Seattle :

https://iceout.org/reportInfo/121204

#ICE #USPol

RE: @npr@flipboard.com

I dont know if I think age caps is the right mechanism, but there is definitely an issue of a certain one or two generations being over-represented in Congress to the exclusion of others.

edit: should have tagged this #USPol to respect people's filters.

#Seattle Burien -

ICE Activity this morning in Burien of Seattle.

Thank you to the brave soul who filmed and engaged ICE and submitted a detailed report with vehicle descriptions and a license plate.

I hope they were able to get the victim's name and contact someone to help.

https://iceout.org/en/reportInfo/115874

#ICE #USPol #WA #Washington #Seattle #Burien

RE: @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social

#USPOL

#MLIS

#Library #Libraries #1A #TN #Tennessee

> ICE sighting outside of climate pledge arena. They are across the street from the arena, next to Tom's bar. There are 3 federal vehicles 2 agents outside the car and at least 2 more agents in the cars themselves. They appear to be there in preparation for the Peso Pluma concert tonight.

https://iceout.org/reportInfo/112481

#ICE #Seattle #PesoPluma #ClimatePledgeArena #KingCounty #Washington

ICE activity in Seattle / Burien 29 minutes ago (8:47am Pacific) at Southwest 124th Street & Ambaum Blvd SW, Burien, WA

https://iceout.org/reportInfo/123049

#ICE #Seattle #Burien #KingCounty

I sometimes manually convert the aviation checklists for emergency procedures to plain text files (markdown) so I can study them on my phone instead of reading them in a 6.5MB 368 page PDF.

I decided to see if AI was up to the task since it is slow/painful work to transpose them into a nice looking markdown table.

Based on some obviously wrong transcription in the checklist, I won't be trusting AI with anything aviation related.

RE: @eff@mastodon.social

> "Adams, a former officer familiar with the pains of report writing, hypothesized that AI would produce time savings. But he also suspected the testimonial’s number was “flimsy,” he said, because it came from officers' self-reports of time savings. "

Whaaaatt???!!! Police Officers are unreliable witnesses?!?!

I'm SHOCKED!

The New "Share on Mastodon" button for websites.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-new-share-button/

1/🧵 Many consider Ranni's ending to be the "best" in terms of outcomes. I vehemently disagree.

True, it is probably "best" for the Tarnished, but it resolves none of the problems that are within the Lands Between. It leaves the same power-vacuum in place as exists at the start of the game.

If the Tarnished can't solve the problems in the Lands Between, why should we believe that they can solve those problems wherever they end up with Ranni?

#EldenRing