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Tadonic the Flautulent
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Breaker of Wind 😉
Former mild-mannered programmer by day. By nights (and weekends and weekdays) he battled the forces of proprietary closed source as "The Ubuntourist" .😉#musician searchable #fedi22
Slightly flautistic. 😉
Born at ~315 ppm
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Joined March 28, 2018
Humor:
Dark, Inappropriate
Music:
Progressive Rock, Celtic / British Folk
Passions:
Music, FOSS, Education
The Atlantic republishes JD Vance’s anti-Trump essay from 10 years ago;
Magazine invites readers to judge Vance’s ‘assessment’ of Trump, whom he called ‘cultural heroin’ during first term
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/05/atlantic-republishes-jd-vance-trump-essay
#JDVance #TheAtlantic #DonaldTrump
Cartoon by Steve Cousineau
#humor #EditorialCartoon #cartoon #editorial #politics #UnitedStates #resist #SOTU #StateOfTheUnion #protest
Don't let the Epstein Files become lost in all of the intentional distraction.
#editorial #cartoon #EditorialCartoon #EpsteinFiles #IranWar #War #Iran #BoardOfPeace #Tariffs #ICE #Greenland #Venezuela #resist #protest #FelonInChief
VULGAR DEMAGOGUE
Book blurb for "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis (1935)
"Vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected.. He was an actor of genius"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here
#Fascists #Nazis #UnitedStates #politics #PresidentMusk #VicePresidentTrump #broligarchy
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @imanormalperson@kolektiva.social @GoSeiGer@mastodon.nl @randahl@mastodon.social
Also, lobby for Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff Voting (RCV / IRV), and educate folks regarding how it works!
It has the potential to break the two-party stranglehold, thus forcing politicians of all stripes to listen more carefully to voters and work harder at serving the public, rather than simply trying to be the lesser of two evils.
https://rcv123.org/
#RCV #IRV #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #RankedChoice
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more;
A handful of companies monopolize the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/how-to-replace-amazon-google-x-meta-apple-alternatives
#FOSS #technology #ethics #news #privacy #computers #software #european #OpenSource
‘I don’t want to be part of a dictatorship’: the Americans queueing up to renounce their citizenship;
Severing ties with the US can take more than a year and cost thousands of dollars. But thousands feel they have no choice.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/americans-queueing-up-renounce-citizenship-dictatorship
#dictatorship #fascism #resistance #news
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@ptoothfish@beige.party From the sewer to your table!
This is happening, people.
From a known source:
Well, look at little old me. I feel so, uh...special.
Anyone else get one of these?
Translation - "Nice voter registration card you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it."
#VoterIntimidation #crime #resist #protest #ElectionInterference #Texas #TX #elections #politics #US #UnitedStates #news
Boosted by @bebadefabo@mastodon.social
Vive la resistance!
New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/app-smart-glasses-bluetooth
#technology #news #Surveillance #resist
Courtesy of @npr@flipboard.com - Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell
#TrumpCrimeFamily #DiddlerInChief #EpsteinFiles #news #DOJ #corruption #crime #MinistryOfTruth #propaganda #censorship
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@BramMeehan@ohai.social I always preferred watching the light bulb go ON... 😉
But yes! The contact high, the rush! Been there, did that. A lot. Less opportunity these days, and music -- and resisting the regime -- have taken center stage, but I still get a bit of tutoring in.
From The Washington Post: "The 7" daily news summary:
#SupremeCourt #news #WashingtonPost #LBGTQA #transRights #GunControl
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Together with more than 70 consumer groups and other actors in Europe and the US, we are sending letter to policymakers in the EU/EEA, UK and the US.
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
#enshittification #norway #Resist
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The brilliant cartoon by Bruce Handy (@henryfingjames) for Spy's 1990 NBC TV show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCN_uISlJ-k
Creative Strategies to Resist Authoritarianism
Zoom meeting organized by Beautiful Trouble
Time: Mar 18, 2026 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
https://actionnetwork.org/events/creative-strategies-to-resist-authoritarianism
Citizen Historians fighting the regime's revisionist history efforts
https://www.citizenhistorians.org/about-1
#resist #fascism #censorship #propaganda
I'm waiting for Joe Biden's modeling debut. 😉
https://www.amtrak.com/trak-suit
The People's Music Network has passed an Anti-ICE Resolution
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-7869-9c89-9400-5d5288710124
#PeoplesMusicNetwork #PMN #resolution #ICE #resist
The New York Times: Why is Trump Dumping East Wing Rubble in a Public Park?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/politics/trump-east-wing-rubble-in-a-public-park.html
@nytimes.com #news #resist #protest #EastWing #WhiteHouse
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@robpike@cosocial.ca I used to feel good about a lot of tech -- particularly the Internet, which I've been a part of since before it was called that. Now, I fear it will be the end of us. I'm becoming an old luddite.
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@oatmeal@mastodon.social Whilst slightly better than most of my friends... you don't know how BAD they are. 😉 I only feel virtuous by comparison to the worst.