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When I feel weary or blah or frightened in the fight against authoritarianism in the U.S., I remind myself that these feelings are inevitable in a great struggle for liberation from tyranny or dictatorship and against fascist subjugation. 1/

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Wow. Absolute home run ad from Rep. Eric Swalwell 🔥

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

Life is messy. Bodies are unruly. Do you really believe in freedom? In practice, freedom feels like other people get to do things you don't like. Do you seek to stamp out the freedom you don't like? Do you seek to stamp out an idea? Characterizing it as an "ideology"? Do you seek to stamp out […]

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Significant uptick in transphobia here overnight.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

My neighbors. RE: mas.to/users/BirdPerHour/statuses/114709681231980733

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

The hens have opinions.... #FujiXSeries #X100 #X100S 23mm @ f/2.0 | 1/200 sec | ISO 400 | 3:2 | Velvia film sim Scaled in #GIMP

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Just as I don’t want to be judged according to the current US administration, we shouldn’t judge Iranians by their government. We should absolutely not bomb Iran or start a war with them.

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About Skrmetti: won't say to much about the reasoning, as there are others parsing the opinions and giving their thoughts as they do. I can say it's about the standard of review, and rational basis review usually means the state wins. It's a minimal standard of review. I guess what I can say is […]

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AG Campbell Issues Statement On Supreme Court Decision In United States v. Skrmetti https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-issues-statement-on-supreme-court-decision-in-united-states-v-skrmetti

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let me put it gently, ad there are things people should understand: A We don’t have an independent media. That may tell us the truth.?We have a propaganda system B We don’t have a democracy. Democracy cannot exist. We have an illiberal neo - managerial oligarchy with undemocratic furnishings C […]

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I see Skrmetti has dropped. #LGBTQ

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Celebrate me: I managed to change the bikeseat of my bike all by myself! May need to adapt the angle a bit as I use it, but it's small things. (I'm handy when needed but I do not enjoy DIY, I just do it because I need to and don't have time to go to the store or find someone else to do it for me […]

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Lavender 📍 Zürich | Switzerland 📷 Fujifilm X-T5 📅 2025 Tags: #nature #naturephotography #photography #photo #plants #flowers #lavender #lavendel #summer #closeup #bokeh #dof #color #purple #green #affoltern #zurich #switzerland #fujifilm #fujixseries #xt5 #lightroom #manganite

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Before I take seriously any dreams you may have about terraforming Mars, buy a few acres of the worst farmland in your area, and build a no input farm on it that feeds your family year-round. If you can't even do that, no mention of living on Mars please.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

“Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Citizens United was a blow to democracy. An overwhelming majority of Americans across party lines have consistently expressed disapproval of Citizens United. At least 22 states and hundreds of cities have already voted to support a constitutional amendment to overturn it. Reducing the influence […]

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The courts are not buying Trump's "gender ideology" EO. Turns out, LGBTQ folks existing is not "ideology." It's merely being out, and being folk, carrying on. #uspol #lgbtq RE: mastodon.social/users/TCatInReality/statuses/114697550735292588

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Reminder: if your profile has no bio and/or no posts, I'll break your follow. The fedi is a _social_ network. Please take a few minutes to introduce yourself: create a bio, post. Otherwise I have to assume you're a bot. #fediettiquette

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Waking up, I check the front entrance, which is a big glass double door (lotta glass at my house). I want to see if the hummingbirds are at the feeders. We saw a Ruby Throated hummingbird Sunday. First in two years! I thought they had disappeared here. No hummers, but I notice a patch of brown […]

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Another image from the gorge at The Ledges in Hawley, PA. For this one, I used a slower shutter speed to get that smooth waterfall effect. The trees in the sunlight, however, are a bit overexposed. #NortheasternPennsylvania #waterfalls #FujiXSeries #X100 […] [Original post on catodon.social]

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My more optimistic take on the whole “did the protests do anything” debate is that here is value to showing you are not alone and that a massive number of people are willing to come out and be public even in very far right areas. Organization takes time and a diversity of tactics is a positive.

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

All this evil and horror is driven by fossil fuel extraction. Use as little as you can.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Keep 'em coming Via Kyle Cheney: BREAKING: Fed judge in MA (the Reagan-apptd William Young) declared #Trump admin's cuts to NIH grants—ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology & DEI—are "illegal" & "void".. ordering many grants restored. YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion […]

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In the shaded forest, in Hawley, PA, looking toward the light. #FujiXSeries #X100 #X100S #X100Series 23mm @ f/6.4 | 1/30 sec | ISO 400 | 3:2 | Velvia film sim Scaled in #GIMP

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When people talk about the "survival of the fittest" or "the crime of empathy," I want clips like this to be pressed into the sides of those people's self-serving dumbfuck heads until they cave in.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

All this evil and horror is driven by fossil fuel extraction. Use as little as you can.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Let's make it a summer of protests against Trump and his tiny brained evil administration? Every 2 weeks???? #ProtestTrump #FirstAmendment #DefendDemocracy

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For the last few months I was really really worried about the rapid decline of the US right before our eyes A lot of officials remained silent, companies kissed the ring etc The recent rise up against Musk was a great start but I think today was a day that really gave hope! So many people […]

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

How much the world has changed really quickly: A friend telling me he isn’t likely to protest—at all—because he can’t have anything go wrong with his life. Totally what people say when things are finally returning to the democratic ideal.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Lookin' at the pictures. Proud of all y'all. #uspol #NoKings #protesting

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No protest will be acceptable to the Fascist #ICE #ICEProtests #NoKings #Fascism #USPOL

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The Montgomery County Courthouse #NoKings event in Norristown, PA, was well attended, I'd guess at least 500 there when I arrived. And this in light rain. Happy to see a more mixed crowd today: young and old, not just white seniors, lots of different cultures and ethnicities representing […]

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Gearing up for #NoKings #SantaFe. Going to use my First Amendment freedom to say no to dictatorship in the United States.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Looking up 📍 Zürich | Switzerland 📷 Fujifilm X-T5 📆 2025 Tags: #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #urban #urbanphotography #urbanexploration #minimalism #architecture #sky #switzerland #zurich #hard #hardau #fujifilm #fujixseries #xt5 #photography #photo #lightroom #manganite

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Another image from the gorge at The Ledges in Hawley, PA. For this one, I used a slower shutter speed to get that smooth waterfall effect. The trees in the sunlight, however, are a bit overexposed. #NortheasternPennsylvania #waterfalls #FujiXSeries #X100 […] [Original post on catodon.social]

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Planning to attend the Montgomery County Courthouse protest, where additional bodies will mean more than they would in Philly. Thinking of a simple foamboard "NO TYRANTS SINCE 1776" poster. #NoKings #protesting

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Yesterday I suggested Gavin Newsom described his 10 June convo w/Trump, "I would love to share with you what we actually talked about. That would send shivers up your spine," he was warning Trump and begging to be forced to turn it over, not saving it for a book. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/13/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

The gorge adjacent to The Ledges hotel in Hawley, PA. #waterfalls #NortheasternPennsylvania #FujiXSeries #X100 #X100S f/6.4 | 1/60 sec. | ISO 200 | 3:2 | Velvia film sim. Scaled using #GIMP

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

What possible purpose is served by having this gentleman listed as "F" on his govt ID? IT's nuts The problem is, people don't know us well enough yet and haven't realized the implications -- they just know Rep scare stories.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Seen from a second floor window: a bunny is disputing with the hens for possession of some apple core pieces in the grass. The bunny lunges. The hens kerfuffle, and grab the piece back. This all happens just a few feet from where the fawn (who has returned) is resting between the two Adirondack […]

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Three years of changes for #TransTimelineTuesday, the first multi-year transition I’ve posted! This is from June 2022, when I’d just tentatively come out as “maybe genderfluid”, and the three subsequent years of June until now. The second picture is 6 months of […] [Original post on chaosfem.tw]

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

It occurs to me that a major practical use of "AI" is to shift labor from "writer" to reader. Because "AI" creates content-shaped things, readers have to treat artifacts as if they had sufficient thought put into them. So many problems that would have been discovered if the "writer" had actually […]

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Whenever I read about some horror in this country, I try to move away from being just angry about the horror, and spend some time thinking ‘who does this horror benefit, financially?’ It doesn’t make me feel better or anything, but it makes me understand more about what all of the horrors are […]

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Gotta read Tigar's order today. #uspol #law #TransRightsAreHumanRights

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Psst…the only way to stop climate change is to stop burning fossil fuels. Pass it on.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

FTC's latest move is to see how many trans kids they can kill. This is dangerous and beyond stupid, and way beyond anything the FTC is supposed to have authority over.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments