BlueDot

American anti-fascist, democratic socialist, sponsor of four Ukrainian refugees, fencer. Avatar is definitely not a picture of me.

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2026-10-07 12:57:15 UTC

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They are counting on us to have short memories. Specifically, they are hoping we'll forget that the Republican Party, from the top to the bottom, embraced fascism.
It's on us to make sure they don't succeed. A Democratic majority in the House must spend the next two years amassing evidence for criminal prosecutions.
And then we need the a special Nuremberg-style tribunal to try Trump's pardoned collaborators. All of them.
#Republican #Fascism #Collaborators #NurembergCaucus

2026-10-05 12:31:56 UTC

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I don't want to make it worse, but now the thief knows where to find a BRAND NEW battery.

2026-09-11 22:56:22 UTC

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We have a couple options. One, we add this to the charges Trump faces in a special Nuremberg-like tribunal, where immunity and Supreme Court precedent don't apply.
Or, two, we try him for violating 18 U.S. Code § 597, in a regular Article 3 federal court, but AFTER dragging the six corrupt Supremes before the special tribunal.
We should reject the idea of letting him get away with anything.

2026-09-09 18:46:04 UTC

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So civilian airline passengers are now unwitting human shields for a military target.
I didn't need another reason to boycott United Airlines, but now I have one.

2026-08-23 18:54:01 UTC

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The movie version was great.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070605/

2026-08-01 12:22:55 UTC

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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116046419430463041
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A thousand times this.
#note1ee3…0cyc

2026-07-27 15:38:15 UTC

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The BBC describes this as a "confrontation" instead of a pogrom, and I'm not sure why.
#Fascism #Pogrom #WestBank

2026-07-23 14:13:25 UTC

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I've only found two remedies for Japanese beetles.
One is planting peonies, which encourage Tiphia wasps that prey on the grubs.
The other is hand picking the beetles off whatever I'm trying to protect. I decided my three rows of beans were worth a daily trip to the garden with a cup of soapy water. I try to maneuver the cup under any adult beetles I see. They drop off the leaf and into the cup, where they drown.
#Gardening #JapaneseBeetle

2026-07-21 15:01:13 UTC

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I'm impressed.
But I see no fences. Do you not have rabbits? or deer?

2026-07-19 13:50:36 UTC

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Costco is pretty good about taking returns on anything they sell. Including a perishable salad kit that hasn't even been recalled yet.

2026-07-17 16:32:51 UTC

I think we all know what to do with the new Trump dollar coin.
https://cdn.masto.host/leftbanknet/media_attachments/files/116/936/268/972/605/264/original/aa8860514b8a8b6c.jpg

2026-07-13 22:57:51 UTC

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Four (expensive) chopped salad kits in my refrigerator are now quarantined pending a recall announcement. I was minutes from eating one.

2026-07-12 21:43:06 UTC

TIL that bumblebees, which I had thought were harmless, are in fact MOSTLY harmless.
Apparently there was a nest in a pile of composted leaves, and disturbing it was just the right amount of provocation.
#Bumblebees #Gardening

2026-07-12 12:27:56 UTC

Lindsey Graham must be added to the list of fascists and collaborators who escaped justice.
#Graham

2026-07-09 14:04:42 UTC

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We all assume Mr. Salagado was murdered in cold blood for being Mexican. And Republicans have no one to blame for that cynical assumption but themselves.

2026-06-30 15:39:16 UTC

Now that billionaires can buy a Supreme Court that will hand them the unrestricted right to buy elections in their own interest, I no longer feel the need to phase in a wealth tax gradually.
Let's tax 100% of the assets over a certain amount, so there are no U.S. billionaires after the first year.
#WealthTax #Billionaires #Fascism

2026-06-29 18:37:20 UTC

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Possibility: she's lying like all the other fascists.

2026-06-14 15:59:50 UTC

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That's a keeper.

2026-06-06 21:43:24 UTC

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I once read of a cooling method a lot like this, but with the air flow in reverse.
The towers are passively heated by the sun, drawing warm air up and out. Fresh air enters the building via underground tunnels, where water from the soil evaporates to provide cooling.

2026-05-27 17:31:25 UTC

If Democrats announce clearly that there will be trials for those committing crimes against humanity---where pardons don't count, where the statute of limitations doesn't count---it might mitigate the damage done during what remains of the Trump regime.
It's not a subject for later, we have to talk about tribunals now.
#InternationalCriminalCourt #Nuremberg

2026-05-19 18:22:52 UTC

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RE: https://left-bank.net/@BlueDot/116116562689530911
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None of us should be spreading unconfirmed information. None of us should be acting on it.
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2026-05-10 18:34:48 UTC

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I'm currently taking a break from building a rabbit fence, and I'm curious to know how you keep rabbits out of the #CommunityGarden.

2026-04-25 12:34:01 UTC

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"The lawsuit alleges that the shooter, identified as Jesse Van Rootselaar, interacted multiple times with OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT in the time leading up to the shooting.
"It claims that, based on prompts sent to ChatGPT, the company knew or ought to have known the shooter was using the program to plan a mass casualty event as the chatbot took on the role of 'counsellor, pseudo-therapist, trusted confidante, friend, and ally.'"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/openai-sued-tumbler-ridge-victim-9.7121635

2026-04-20 20:25:27 UTC

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The expert advice is...just as fiddly as I remembered.
https://yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/how-to/growing-and-harvesting-popcorn-home-garden

2026-04-20 20:21:52 UTC

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50,000 volts of behavior modification!

2026-04-20 19:59:12 UTC

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Depends on what you want to do with your time.
Ripe sweet corn is ready to eat as soon as you husk it. Grinding corn and making tortillas takes time, but it might be a fun activity.
Popcorn has some finicky storage requirements: gotta seal it up when the moisture content is JUST right, or the whole container is ruined. I never got the hang of growing popcorn.
And, of course, if you have deer you'll spend your time building a fence, or threatening the deer with violence.

2026-04-15 22:58:19 UTC

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Mine did best when I tossed a length of 4 inch drain pipe into the pile to let air circulate.

2026-04-09 20:05:12 UTC

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In fact, the ICC can be invited by a non-signatory country to take jurisdiction (Article 12, Section 3). This is how the ICC is investigating tens of thousands of war crimes by Russia in Ukrainian territory, even though Ukraine did not sign the Rome Statute.
So Iran could invite the ICC to investigate crimes by the U.S. in Iran.
Or the next U.S. President could invite the ICC to investigate crimes against humanity by the Trump regime.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Statute-eng.pdf

2026-03-28 14:39:19 UTC

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RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116307111964052819
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2026-03-28 14:35:12 UTC

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It will take more of everything. We cannot know in advance what will work. For today, the objective is to give more people the courage to join us, people who will join us in boycotts and eventually in the general strike.

2026-03-28 14:24:24 UTC

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A general strike would absolutely be a more powerful statement. Reasonable people can disagree about whether we can pull one off now. I don't think we can yet.

2026-03-28 14:19:01 UTC

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Alfin seems to have forgotten "Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good."

2026-03-23 18:14:07 UTC

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Trump is vainglorious, not to mention a sociopath.
But I bristle at all suggestions that he is psychotic, until he can prove it in court. Let's not give him an insanity defense at trial.

2026-03-07 15:27:38 UTC

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I can't imagine why anyone would ask the question "Did AI select the target?"
The U.S. military bombed the school and killed the children. It doesn't matter what their motives were, or how they selected the target. It doesn't matter whether they did it dutifully or gleefully. It doesn't matter how they became the kind of person who murders children.
They did it.
#Iran #WarCrimes

2026-03-02 13:53:38 UTC

The premature death of Trump --- by which I mean, Trump dying before his criminal trials are all finished and his civil fines are all paid --- would be a terrible thing.
What this country needs, what he owes us, is the opportunity to prove all his crimes in open court with sworn testimony, creating an undeniable permanent record. We have to be able to identify every corrupt act, every lie, and every accomplice, in the #InternationalCriminalCourt or some new tribunal.

2026-02-22 22:08:56 UTC

https://cdn.masto.host/leftbanknet/media_attachments/files/116/116/554/240/096/223/original/42bb9660752158fe.png

2026-02-22 15:31:06 UTC

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You can have all the multicolored Asian beetles in my house. How many bushels do you want?

2026-02-10 17:55:45 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116046419430463041
I cannot boost this enough.
#note1ee3…0cyc

2026-02-08 18:27:55 UTC

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I've heard of portable electric fencing for goats. Not sure how it would work in dense woods, which is the application I'd be interested in. (Foliage tends to short the fence to ground.)

2026-02-08 17:09:15 UTC

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Goats are really great at managing poison ivy.
Sadly, one must fence the area before the goats come to visit.

2026-02-02 15:51:43 UTC

Is there an app that uploads video in real time?
What I'd really like to see is an app that records video, and simultaneously uploads it to an arbitrary IP address, up until the moment the phone is crushed beneath, let's say, a jackboot.
I'm not looking to instantly *publish* unedited video; that has obvious hazards. What I want is to make a copy of the video, and put the copy out of reach of someone who can take my device by force.
Kindly boost for reach.
#Videos #ICE #DHS #CBP