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[Politics, right-wing, AI] @jwz pointed out this article that explains why the right love pictures drawn by AI. https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

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I bought a ticket for a raffle. "Your chances are really good," the vendor said. "We haven't sold many tickets." (It's for Los Angeles's Walk 'n Rollers, a group that promotes bicycling, skateboarding, and roller skating around Los Angeles.)

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[US politics, prediction] Dictators love having control over the official sources of information. They want to be able to say: No, H5N1 isn't spreading among people. Get back to work! But when the official sources of information aren't trustworthy, rumors flood the world. And -- more […]

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The BBC has a good overview of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, including video. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c625ex282zzt

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Today I learned: The White House's primary telephone at (202) 456-1111 only accepts phone calls for messages between 11:00am and 3:00pm Eastern Time.

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[US Politics Trump, satire] I know why Donald Trump is acting out against other countries. He's terribly bored. That's easy to fix. He needs a hobby. Trump should use his power as President of the Kennedy Center. Imagine on July 4th -- Da Prez gives a four-hour long beatboxing and […]

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[US health] The meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which selects the composition of flu vaccines for this fall’s flu season has been canceled, a member of the advisory committee told CNN. Source […]

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Here is a periodic reminder. On Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, iPadOS, HTML and miscellaneous other platforms there exists Simon Tatham's Puzzles. It's easy to search for, it's completely free, doesn't track you, has no ads and has over 30 puzzles to play. When I say puzzles I don't mean […]

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"Move fast and break things" only works for the people who've never had to clean up after themselves.

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MariEsposeets (@mariesposeets.bsky.social) https://bsky.app/profile/mariesposeets.bsky.social/post/3lixmye3rts2i > Cartoons voiced by real animals (Episode 2): Fox

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Hello from Los Angeles's Cyclavia! Los Angeles shut down car access on Jefferson Street from West Adams through University Park so that bicyclists, roller bladers, skateboarders, and everyone else can ride on it. It's a glorious day to explore neighborhoods. Yup. That DOES mean I'm biking […]

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Chuck Tingle, twice-nominated Hugo Award author. And the reason I'm at a book festival.

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And now a few words from @skeletor ... or someone close to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MhLMCmXgQY

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I just called my representative and my senators to fight against privatizing the US Postal Service: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/business/trump-postal-service-privatization/index.html

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I have no idea whether this restaurant name is brilliant or idiotic. Probably brilliant.

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The @eff has published its Atlas of Surveillance and it is pretty neat. I confirmed that the local police are equipped with license plate readers attached to their cars. https://atlasofsurveillance.org/ #privacy #leo

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[US politics, Trump.] Today's, Trump signed an executive order available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/ Section 7 spells chaos. Trump explicitly wants to be a dictator.

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If you need about an hour and a half of beauty, watch the movie Flow ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(2024_film) ). It's available on HBO, and I'm sure that it's available elsewhere. It's an animation of how a cat survives a flood. It's about found family. It's about using everything […]

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[US Politics] What do you think about this as a T-shirt background to protest the current administration?

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Can anyone recommend a _good_ site for creating custom t-shirts? One that does good work, is not too expensive, and doesn't complain about one-off shirts? I want to create a T-shirt with all of the list of Trump's forbidden words, against a Pride flag.

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The Internet is mostly shit these days, but every once in a great while I stumble across an incredible, passion-project website. This one is hand-animated weird art and it is worth your time as a fun decompressing thing in between your doomscrolling sessions. https://floor796.com I don't […]

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A who is against trans rights told me that it’s inappropriate to refer to the “Gulf of America” by its previous name. I said “but that’s the name it was given, and how its name I written on all official papers” He said that all the paperwork is being changed to reflect the new name. I […]

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@jane_jordan Just checking in on you. How are you doing?

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[US politics] Elon is explicitly in charge of the federal government's reduction in force. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative/

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More from the American Bar Associarion, condemning the Trump regime and urging all lawyers to stand up against it. This is extraordinary. There is too much text for me to put in alt-text, some quotes follow. 1/

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[US and Danish politics, humor] If the Danish buy California ( https://denmarkification.com/ ), then their capital is already prepared: https://solvangusa.com/ Måke Califørnia Great Ægain!

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Meanwhile, this is actually happening: Trump is rolling back anti-bribery regulations, arguing that our inability to bribe other countries is unfairly disadvantaging US business interests. "President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order rolling back enforcement of a law that makes it […]

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I don't listen to Kendrick Lamar. So I didn't watch the Super Bowl Halftime show this year. _shrug_ I _really_ don't understand the _hatred_ some people have had over his superbowl appearance. If it's not for you, then -- uhmm, do something else for ten minutes. Flip to the Puppy Bowl. Make […]

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If you’re fucking stressed & near the end of your tether, go find your local rec/arts/community center and see what classes they have. Just an afternoon workshop type class, I’m not even talking to committing to long term classes. Art, cooking, birdhouse building - whatever you see that makes […]

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Which city do you think will show the owl with the brightest plumage, the fastest at mousing, and the most mysterious hoot? #SuperbOwl

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Left-handed people have always existed and will always exist. We are happier, healthier, more capable when we just use our dominant hand (or hands) to write, and do complex tasks. It's possible to try to force everyone to use the same hand this leads to frustration, can hinder education. It is […]

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I am so looking forward to the next Democratic President, when Republicans will _suddenly_ and _miraculously_ be interested in ethics again.

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You might think working a phone repair kiosk is a waste of my skills. Yeah nah. Today, this kid came in with an iPhone that was more than cracked, it was banana-fied. “What happened?” I asked, turning the wreckage over in my hands. I don’t think there was a single salvageable part. “And have […]

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Dr Mark Dean was a fellow at IBM. He was responsible for the ISA bus, which made connecting peripherals easy for the new IBM PC. When he was 25, he was head of all PC design for IBM. In 1995, his team at IBM's Austin Research Laboratory made a different breakthrough: the first CMOS processor […]

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A mouse. A cat. A brick. Decades before Dinosaur Comics or Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner, George Herriman created a surreal comic strip from simple components, repeated with lots of variation. But George Herriman hid that his birth certificate read that he was "colored". He likely would […]

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Happy #blackhistorymonth , #startrek nerds.

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This goes hard. https://bsky.app/profile/fimbry.bsky.social/post/3lhehpyuyqc2l

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[Physical health-] On Thursday, I mentioned that my stomach ached after an exceptionally wonderful meal. (Seriously, Koreatown in Los Angeles has GREAT food. Do visit!) Well, I've been nauseous since then. Finally, yesterday, I visited urgent care. They took some blood. The only significant […]

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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Today, Los Angeles is celebrating Rosa Parks. Everyone knows that Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white rider, and that her refusal lead to a boycott of the municipal bus company. What isn't as well-known is that she was part of the NAACP and the […]

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Did you know that if you try to cook eggs in the microwave, they explode?

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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Benjamin Banneker was an early American polymath, well known as an astronomer, inventor, mathematician, and farmer. For six years, he published almanacs for the Eastern seaboard including tide information, medical information, and astronomy. He was also known as a […]

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You need cheerful music. https://www.alefamusic.net/

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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Bessie Coleman was the first Black Woman to gain a pilot's license. Rejected by American schools for training to become a pilot, she learned French and went to France to get the first international pilot's license issued to any American. She returned to the United […]

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I'm at the Lunar New Year celebration at the USC Pacific Asia Museum. There's a wishing tree, where people wrote their wishes for the next year in at least three languages. One tag caught my eye. I did not write it.

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I miss the days when you could defeat evil by punching a tentacle monster until it explodes.

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