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I think that Democrats should boycott the State of the Union, which is pointless. Instead, of having a Democrat provide the rebuttal, they should bring in recently fired federal workers to describe the important work they used to do.

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This song is on my mind a lot today. It was written at the beginning of this entire fiasco, when Reagan was president. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKN0pNjRA6c

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Breaking: Trump's full trans military ban has just dropped. Quickly reading it, it appears to be a full separation from the military for all transgender military members, and states being trans is inconsistent with "honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity." A sad day for this nation.

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And as usual, not one mention of the fact they were bought out by private equity in 2010. This leaves Michael's and (gag) Hobby Lobby as the main remaining craft chains in the US.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

My therapist thinks that I'm dealing with internalized transphobia (due in no small part to the era I grew up in). And I don't think they're completely wrong. When the answer or "if you could flip a switch and instantly transition" is a clear "yes". But the answer to "Should I do it now, at my […]

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If anyone has access to the Marco Rubio cable banning trans athletes from US entry and targeting trans people's visas, please message me. The wording of the reporting here is very vague on if this will apply to ALL trans entrants or only athletes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

iOS text replacement only works when you type, not when you dictate. Is there a dictation equivalent? Apparently when I speak I always say "gonna", but I don't want that in there when I'm dictating, I want "going to". Is this going to be like how I changed my printing to cross my 7's because […]

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I thought I had a dog, but maybe it's a very large cat? Deaf dogs make weird noises. #DogsOfMastodon

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

❝ Once the list of banned countries is determined, everyone from those countries who had been admitted to the US since the last ban was repealed will need to undergo an undefined form of “reassessment” with an eye toward finding possible reasons for deportation. (This provision includes people […]

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The Day the Nazi Died https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkPwxcIji0&t=21

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is what I was doing this afternoon. Great folks. Great speakers. And with a strong focus on intersectionality, and the fact that many of the freedoms in this country have been built on black bodies and blood, both cis and trans; and LGBTQ rights are no exception. 'Trans joy is resistance' […]

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It's very hard to find any news articles now that don't somewhere quote someone "who wished to remain anonymous due to the fear of retaliation."

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is not normal in government, or anywhere else. It's insane, incompetent, and abusive. “I would say that it’s pretty standard when you’re downsizing government, you make cuts, you assess those cuts. You see who needs to be rehired, you see who needs to be kept, who needs to be reevaluated […]

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February 21, 2025, DC — AP sued the White House Chief of Staff Wiles, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, & Taylor Budowich, 10 days after the Trump administration began denying access in an unconstitutional effort by President Trump to control the speech of the free press […]

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Go Maine!!! ❝ Trump confronted Governor Mills over the state's decision on Friday, calling her out during his remarks. "Are you not going to comply [with the order]?" Trump asked. Mills responded that she and her state would "comply with state and federal law." "Well, I am -- we are the […]

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Step 1: Have your algorithm train every creator on your platform to use clickbait thumbnails and titles, forcing people to watch videos to find out what they’re actually about. Step 2: Add AI-generated summaries to let people know what a video is actually about […] [Original post on nileane.fr]

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

In which Nancy explains MITM attacks. https://mastodon.social/@nancycomics/114027907613213641

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The font that's over 100 years old, you probably see every day, and that you've never heard of. Fascinating article. Also, features some truly bizarre devices (a keyboard that controls a pen?). https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/ #fonts #engraving

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Weaponized transparency at DOGE makes a mockery of good governance https://civic-texts.ghost.io/weaponized-transparency-at-doge-makes-a-mockery-of-good-governance-2/

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On Friday, the Deputy Archivist of the United States announced his early resignation after decades of honorable public service. Another civil servant will keep NARA operating. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/politics/national-archives-leadership-forced-out-trump/index.html His departure will be […]

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

We put the dogs out this morning and they were barking (not unusual). But then we got a call from a neighbor that there were several coyotes next door. Charlie came back when called but Gabby's deaf, so we had to run out and get her. #DogsOfMastodon

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I know the word "unprecedented" gets thrown around a lot, but we are less than a month into a new presidency and we already have a major corruption scandal and I personally know at least half a dozen people who have lost their jobs because of him. This is not normal.

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❝ A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Friday in a blistering letter that accused top leaders at the Justice Department of looking for a “fool” to dismiss the criminal charges. ❞ The Trump administration would do well to Google […]

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#uspol Kennedy Center Cancels Tour of New Children's Musical, FINN https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Kennedy-Center-Cancels-Tour-of-New-Childrens-Musical-FINN-20250213

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The good news with Trump's orders, is that like last time, he's unable to come up with reasonable justification. ❝ Trump’s order “seems to deny that this population even exists, or deserves to exist”, Hurson said. ❞ […]

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The first (documented) death due to the USAID shutdown. By no means the last. https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-death-oxygen-supply-cut-off-2030054 If there had been warning, they could have done something. But this left no time for people to find alternative care. This hits us hard. My wife […]

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I joined a bipartisan coalition of nonprofits, journalists, archivists, & librarians on a letter to President Trump protesting the unwarranted firing of AOTUS Shogan & urging the White House to reaffirm the independent, professional stewardship of the National Archives […]

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The first (known) death due to the USAID shutdown is at a refugee camp where my wife worked for several years. I can't even tell her. She's already desperately avoiding the news. This would be way too much right now […]

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❝ the near-record low unemployment figures — the figure was a mere 4.2 percent in November — counted homeless people doing occasional work as “employed.” But the implications are powerful. If you filter the statistic to include as unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or […]

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Slack has stopped previewing links from specific sites. But they aren't the only one. I'm not sure if this is specific to some overzealous bot-protection service, or just a sign that the web is continuing to degrade as sites try to protect themselves from bots. I reported this to Slack, and […]

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"Has anyone here ever played 'Core Wars'?" It wasn't the weirdest question our lecturer had asked the class, but it was close. Professor Elicia Berman had finished the syllabus for RE211 Comparative Religion and Metapsychology last week; this final lecture of the term was listed as "Coda […]

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Well that only took decades. https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/11/apple-migrate-purchases-accounts/

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❝ And lest there be any doubt about who was being targeted, says State Senator James Skoufis, whose district includes West Point, the ban knocked out the Vietnamese-American Cadet Association and the Native American Heritage Forum, but does not apply to the German Club, the French Forum, or […]

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

It's an executive Gish Gallup. Every time the courts rule an order unconstitutional, they make up a new one with a new excuse. #uspol https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-funding-freeze-workarounds https://apple.news/Ay3b6EKT1T1yP-B9Zok-gwQ

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The store had eggs today. While the situations are by no means the same, it reminded me of a story set during The Depression; Something Bright" by Zenna Henderson. ❝ But to go back to eggs. Those were a precious commodity. You savored them slowly or gulped them eagerly—unmistakably as […]

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I see a phoenix. https://reentry.codl.fr/@apod/statuses/01JKQ6B9PA35RB6XNAX4G6J6YX

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I was going through a folder of old recipes and found this one for ceviche. Which I'm sharing not for the recipe, but because the whole thing feels like a piece of tech history we've forgotten; from the paper it's printed on, to where I found it. What […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The Republican Party in 1974. It's been a long journey, but they've almost reached their goal.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments