Nostr notes by Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧

I read it. I respect the message. We could all do with thinking ...

2026-03-30T01:26:33Z

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I read it. I respect the message. We could all do with thinking about 'what next?' is where it lands with me.

Americans have burned draft cards in the past. Thrown dye on fur. ...

2026-03-29T23:45:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…kyec
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Americans have burned draft cards in the past. Thrown dye on fur. Gone nose-to-nose with lined-up cops. Shot HMO executives. Even moved to Canada. The problem with a piece like this is it offers no alternative recipe and does not even mention these things, let alone help anyone figure out where the red line is at this particular moment.

Discouragement is not what America needs right now.

21st century Naziism Trump is to non-white Americans and legal ...

2026-03-07T01:59:52Z

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21st century Naziism

Trump is to non-white Americans and legal residents what Hitler was to Jews.

Pathetic cowardice from those sworn to build and protect ...

2026-02-27T01:23:46Z

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Pathetic cowardice from those sworn to build and protect knowledge.

'The Justice Department has removed or withheld dozens of ...

2026-02-24T15:12:38Z

'The Justice Department has removed or withheld dozens of pages related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor decades ago.'

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/g-s1-111316/up-first-newsletter-trump-sotu-mexico-cartel-epstein-files

#politics #uspol #epstein #trump

This is good one. Readable, informative, thought provoking (my ...

2026-02-20T13:30:22Z

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This is good one.

Readable, informative, thought provoking (my view of AI having been adjusted somewhat in line with inklings I know I'd been having that were given voice here), and a cool look inside a thought factory.

More truth... 'Decades of collective work proving that ...

2026-02-14T12:03:06Z

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More truth...

'Decades of collective work proving that “open source” is not less but at least as secure as commercial offerings now slowly going down the drain. Because a bunch of men – and it is always all men – just don’t want to be responsible for their actions. Which is fine if you are 5. But after 18 it gets old really fucking fast.'

Everyone a target, nothing sacred... ...

2026-01-29T14:20:42Z

Everyone a target, nothing sacred...

https://community.davidsuzuki.org/index.php/email/emailWebview?email=MTg4LVZEVS0zNjAAAAGfqRc6EUOxezgxe9FWm6gQi02tMFxn34Vfayo-cE2dCtsnz-83UFYZQYZRgIrDQ5t7-6Lpzc4Wri1__GaK7wnw4wuQ5XL6ckalDw

#ai #environment #climatechange

This is your brain on narcissism. ...

2025-12-18T12:34:39Z

This is your brain on narcissism.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-portraits-biden-obama-trump-b2886535.html

#uspol #politics #trump

Just as it’s never 'the right time' to discuss gun ...

2025-12-14T23:32:55Z

Just as it’s never 'the right time' to discuss gun control after a mass slaughter in the USA, it’s never the right time for a facile commentator like David Frum to mention Israel's slaughter of 70k+ in present-day Palestine by the world's only self-described officially 'Jewish' state.

Context only matters when it supports the white/colonialist narrative.

Because, as Frum intimates, they're only inhuman savages, these enemies of Western civilization.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/bondi-beach-australia-anti-semitism/685256/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK1j2n9mo5nc8vkSc-lQ6pPw

#politics #death

'Last year, a report from the Senate Budget Committee found ...

2025-11-14T00:08:23Z

'Last year, a report from the Senate Budget Committee found that the withdrawal of insurers from many markets threatens “a collapse in property values with the potential to trigger a full-scale financial crisis similar to what occurred in 2008.”'

Meanwhile the BBC apologizes to Trump-flake for upsetting his demented Wizard-of-Oz act.

14-day gift read
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2025/12/trump-climate-change-acceleration/684632/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK4yHqBKjEZ8OTK4nJlXROx8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#politics #uspol #environment #climatechange #mentalillness

My 2013 MacBook Pro was stuck at Catalina and starting to refuse ...

2025-11-13T01:04:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…pwkp
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My 2013 MacBook Pro was stuck at Catalina and starting to refuse software like Signal.

Ubuntu Linux brought it back to life and promises ten more years of usefulness before it's e-junk. Plus it’s refreshed my love of tinkering and coding my own stuff. Linux has had its frustrations and annoyances, but no more than any other OS.

And I didn't pay a cent for it.

'Whatever he opts to do, Trump isn’t planning to consult ...

2025-10-27T21:08:55Z

'Whatever he opts to do, Trump isn’t planning to consult Congress before acting. “I’m not going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war,” he said. “I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re going to kill them. You know, they’re going to be, like, dead.”'

President Donald ('Duterte') Trump

14-day gift read

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/10/venezuela-trump-caribbean-boats-maduro/684690/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK12Z3dsaff3l0e7XdUGOZh0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#politics #uspol #fascism

'save' As if the government weren't supposed to be ...

2025-09-26T01:32:51Z

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'save'

As if the government weren't supposed to be the incarnation of 'the people'.

Stunning shot

2025-09-24T15:39:26Z

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Stunning shot

'the Trump administration has taken siege to the U.S. ...

2025-09-19T17:29:43Z

'the Trump administration has taken siege to the U.S. research ecosystem, with a particular focus on undermining the quest to track Earth’s climate. Decades of work is on the line as the administration strips (opens a new tab) funding, guts (opens a new tab) agencies, scrubs (opens a new tab) resources and buries (opens a new tab) datasets. “It’s a whole-scale destruction and not something that will be undone”'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-scientists-saw-the-future-before-it-arrived-20250915/

#climate #environment #climatechange #politics #uspol

Yet Trump & the GOP have been happy to have Alex Jones tell ...

2025-09-18T13:23:11Z

Yet Trump & the GOP have been happy to have Alex Jones tell Sandy Hook parents their slaughtered children were 'crisis actors'.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-nexstar-abc-1.7636766

#politics #uspol #fascism

[Laura] Loomer falsely suggested that Paul Pelosi and his ...

2025-09-14T01:09:16Z

[Laura] Loomer falsely suggested that Paul Pelosi and his assailant were lovers, calling the brutal assault on the octogenarian a “booty call gone wrong.”

Speaking to a television audience a few days after the attack, a grinning [Charlie] Kirk called for the intruder to be sprung from jail.

Free speech is for Nazis, kids.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/13/us-teachers-targeted-by-far-right-in-doxxing-after-charlie-kirks-death

#uspol #politics

There's a word for what Charlie Kirk was: Groomer. ...

2025-09-12T11:25:37Z

There's a word for what Charlie Kirk was:

Groomer.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/charlie-kirk-appeal-young-conservatives-1.7631690

#uspol #politics #groomer #charliekirk

How does it feel? 14-day gift ...

2025-09-10T00:28:03Z

How does it feel?

14-day gift

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/venezuela-autocratic-rise/684135/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK3coiTbUkGfzANaO1vZufwM

#fascism #tyranny #authoritarianism #uspol #politics

It’s not complicated. We’re expendable. The future is looking ...

2025-09-02T21:20:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…sw8d
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It’s not complicated.

We’re expendable.

The future is looking truly ugly.

Inch by inch... ...

2025-08-29T00:05:00Z

Inch by inch...

https://www.theverge.com/news/767522/microsoft-word-automatic-document-save-cloud-default

#technology #politics

Look at the AI-generated shit passing as journalism these days. ...

2025-08-26T11:38:05Z

Look at the AI-generated shit passing as journalism these days.

'The article discusses the issue of missed strikes and missed balls in football games, focusing on the accuracy of umpires.'

The item is entirely & only about MLB. Beyond the idiocy quoted above, check out the nonsensical section on 'worst umpire ever' and the many binary contradictions in the text.

We’re killing the planet for this vomit?

https://sportslawblogger.com/in-baseball-do-umpires-still-call-balls-and-strikes.html

Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

#ai #environment #climatechange #mlb #sports

The world has decided Gaza is the Titanic, tail up, about to sink ...

2025-08-19T23:11:17Z

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The world has decided Gaza is the Titanic, tail up, about to sink to the deep.

This was foreseeable three or four weeks along given the savage hatred with which Israel struck back for a savage Oct 7 - any opening of being able to graciously seek peace was lost then.

Israeli & Hamas extremists never wanted peace or resolution.

The hostages became currency for both the moment they were taken.

One for survival, one for conquest.

And Israel has forgotten its past.

'Putin is subject to an international arrest warrant from the ...

2025-08-19T20:07:43Z

'Putin is subject to an international arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, a court the U.S. doesn't recognize.'

Kinda says it all right there.

'Immunity' from same court has permitted Gaza.

Why has Trump surrendered to second-rate Russia vs. using America's vastly greater power to help Russia while also serving America's interests?

We face a historic inflection point steeper than faced by UK/USA/Europe in 1940.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-war-euro-leaders-meet-1.7612412

#politics #uspol #ukraine #eu #uk

'It was embarrassing for Americans to welcome a notorious ...

2025-08-16T20:58:47Z

'It was embarrassing for Americans to welcome a notorious wanted war criminal on their territory. It was humiliating to watch an American president act like a happy puppy upon encountering the dictator of a much poorer, much less important state, treating him as a superior.'

14-day gift read

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-putin-ukraine-talks/683899/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK26QXIlbmVKyC4KOuoJ1DDU

#politics #uspol

Israel solving the problem of hunger in Gaza.

2025-08-15T21:30:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…cqah
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Israel solving the problem of hunger in Gaza.

How's it been going in Doug Ford's Ontario. Do they ...

2025-08-12T11:51:07Z

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How's it been going in Doug Ford's Ontario.

Do they mention that?

This band should be far better known & quoted.

2025-08-08T23:22:10Z

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This band should be far better known & quoted.

Yesterday, I managed a first short cycle out of town since ...

2025-07-31T12:32:19Z

Yesterday, I managed a first short cycle out of town since landing in emerg a few weeks ago. I can't sit or walk without debilitating pain, but the bike is tolerable, some weight on the arms, spine gently curved, seat lowered for stand-only—I have a tube in my belly at present to prevent hydronephrosis.

Except I got a Selle SMP saddle with fat gel pads and a wide centre gap that makes normal cycling possible again.

Like from heaven.

Photo details in #alttext

#cycling #health #photography

Should they ever get to sentencing it ought to be something so ...

2025-07-29T18:52:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…8z32
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Should they ever get to sentencing it ought to be something so horrible they shrivel in dread: a publicized tour of the ruins, a plain-language admission of guilt & sincere apology, and billions matching those given the arms industry and bogus 'humanitarian' consultants immediately placed in trust toward cleaning up the devastation they've wrought.

Plus resignation from office only once that's been done from the roles they're in now, their officials beside them.

This is a good one. For the Air Canada stuff alone (a familiar ...

2025-07-28T19:58:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…jyhu
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This is a good one.

For the Air Canada stuff alone (a familiar story put in perspective), I first thought, but the whole column kicks hard to the end.

A second reference point for this story as it breaks, ...

2025-07-26T22:00:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…5a0q
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A second reference point for this story as it breaks, corroborating.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/26/live-israels-starvation-policy-leaves-122-dead-in-gaza-mostly-children?update=3857957

When Trump and his robotnik GOP can no longer ignore the obvious, ...

2025-07-25T22:04:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…4zmn
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When Trump and his robotnik GOP can no longer ignore the obvious, watch for the lies and rationalization of why billions must die to save 'the American Way of Life'.

Land o' free speech. Bet the gun club's okay.

2025-07-24T21:58:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…3t87
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Land o' free speech.

Bet the gun club's okay.

The province of Ontario and Canada's feds have each just ...

2025-07-23T12:56:17Z

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The province of Ontario and Canada's feds have each just passed bills (5 and C5) allowing this sort of thing to accelerate.

'Ford and Carney want to fast-track the so-called Ring of Fire mineral deposit within Treaty 9 territory in northern Ontario by labelling it a “special economic zone” and of “national interest.” The proposed development is often described as a potential $90 billion opportunity.'

From a link in the item you posted: https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill-5-explained/

Humanity disgracing itself. We've learned nothing. We ...

2025-07-18T20:05:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…aywp
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Humanity disgracing itself.

We've learned nothing.

We remember nothing.

We live like the apes we are, each generation starting afresh as if without history.

I've only ridden one Harley amongst all the bikes I've ...

2025-07-17T11:19:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…y6vf
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I've only ridden one Harley amongst all the bikes I've ever saddled-up, a big fat rental out of a Vegas specialty place (and the one and only time I rode helmetless, feeling butt-naked but thrilled in the hot wind and pastels of the desert).

Got a ball cap like those t's of yours from the Red Rock dealer (our first stop) & wore it proudly for eons.

Then I lost it on a camping trip up north.

Maybe some lucky chap or gal put some more miles on it - I'd be happy just to know it...

Lovely shot.

2025-07-17T11:03:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…8uly
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Lovely shot.

'Donald Trump’s MAGA base, over which he has had a ...

2025-07-16T22:44:23Z

'Donald Trump’s MAGA base, over which he has had a decade-long cultlike hold, is in open revolt against him. And his initial efforts to quell the uprising have, so far, only further inflamed it.'

[14 day gift read]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/trump-epstein/683544/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK_4nDhnmMpEeEKTYupJJjHQ

Plus: evergreen reading:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/i-called-everyone-in-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book/

#uspol #politics #trump #epstein

Watching the MLB All-Star game. Here's a simple hack if you ...

2025-07-16T00:55:33Z

Watching the MLB All-Star game.

Here's a simple hack if you have one of those insane old remotes like mine with a million buttons and a tiny mute button that makes cutting the BS at breaks a challenge:

Take a small file (even a nail file would do) and carefully notch the edge of the remote beside where the mute is.

Now you can find it by touch in a moment every time.

(De nada!)

Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

#mlb #tv #media #sports

700+ children slaughtered in recent weeks at fascist 'food ...

2025-07-15T02:39:59Z

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700+ children slaughtered in recent weeks at fascist 'food distribution sites'.

It’s some sick, nightmarish, hallucinatory-but-real extreme human behaviour going on over there right now.

We great apes run amok, letting the blind, ignorant animal within us rule.

And still, those of us in safety mostly look away.

Why?

Because the powerful tell us to.

And because it’s not us.

Yet.

Why the slurs and anger?

2025-07-10T19:42:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…nlej
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Why the slurs and anger?

Have your cartoon maps. Read the history. Read the world's ...

2025-07-10T19:35:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…pvzv
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Have your cartoon maps.

Read the history.

Read the world's most insightful, humane, and brilliant Jew on the problem:

https://ia601605.us.archive.org/21/items/albert-einsteins-quotes-regarding-palestine/Albert%20Einstein%27s%20quotes%20%20regarding%20Palestine.pdf

Facts matter; lies aid, abet & kill. ...

2025-07-10T18:56:09Z

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Facts matter; lies aid, abet & kill.

Not to mention Indigenous peoples could lay full claim to the ...

2025-07-10T18:52:21Z

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Not to mention Indigenous peoples could lay full claim to the Americas.

Israel, through Netanyahu, his fascist collaborators, and a host ...

2025-07-10T00:41:03Z

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Israel, through Netanyahu, his fascist collaborators, and a host of enablers (hello Canada and your national broadcaster, CBC), has turned itself from a tenuous oasis for the oppressed into a textbook humanitarian disgrace.

These are inexcusable offences against Jews and Judaism as much as they are against Palestinians.

The perpetrator's first crime is always against himself and his own humanity.

#canada #cbc #fascism #greed

The hostages have been Netanyahu's sacrificial pawns. ...

2025-07-09T20:00:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…lqjk
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The hostages have been Netanyahu's sacrificial pawns.

He's rejected several peace arrangements that could have seen them out. Then he could have gone back on his word and pursued the razing of Gaza.

But that wouldn't have looked as good and it wouldn't have offered the convenient storyline you're offering for him.

What tiresome arguments to have to pursue while the slaughter of ...

2025-07-08T20:47:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…ncqy
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What tiresome arguments to have to pursue while the slaughter of civilians continues apace and a second Israeli war with a far greater power has come and gone in a matter of weeks.

How long can it take to break a ragtag resistance unless the aim is ethnic cleansing?

Updated *** Trump Shuttle Airlines - FAIL Trump Mortgage - FAIL ...

2025-06-28T14:21:36Z

Updated ***

Trump Shuttle Airlines - FAIL
Trump Mortgage - FAIL
Trump Steaks - FAIL
Trump Magazine - FAIL
GoTrump.com - FAIL
Trump The Game - FAIL
Trump Vodka - FAIL
Trump University - FAIL
Trump Taj Mahal - FAIL
Trump Plaza Hotel - FAIL
Trump Casino Resorts - FAIL
Trump Entertainment Resorts - FAIL

*** Trump Made-in-USA Phone - FAIL https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/27/promises-the-trump-phone-would-be-made-in-usa-lasted-1-100th-of-a-scaramucci/ ***

Trump POTUS - [say it the loudest]

Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

This really is an important read. Q. How do you deal with that ...

2025-06-28T13:59:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…944j
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This really is an important read.

Q. How do you deal with that system?

A. By hitting it where its heart is: in its wallet.

The astute will recognize a metaphor here for the greater ...

2025-06-26T23:29:53Z

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The astute will recognize a metaphor here for the greater relationship between humanity and the planet.

It is the same.

We’re convinced we animate our bodies. That we’re the brains ...

2025-06-26T23:23:58Z

We’re convinced we animate our bodies.

That we’re the brains running things (like aliens merely using our bodies to get around, a favourite cartoonist once said).

Then we learn our bodies animate us.

The extent to which we depend upon and are made by them.

It’s a hard lesson...

Be kind to yourself.

Eat well.

Enjoy life.

Do your best without punishing yourself.

And know that even then, good as you be, it can end any time.

#health #life

Classic climate reporting today. Accelerating glacier loss linked ...

2025-06-26T08:43:46Z

Classic climate reporting today.

Accelerating glacier loss linked to reduced reflectivity owing to ash from wildfire smoke.

No mention how glacier loss or wildfire smoke connected to our disastrously outrageous energy and consumer waste.

In fact, to help readers understand the scale of the loss, we resort to one of the major culprits: the absurdly oversized baby carriage pick-up trucks marketed to narcissistic idiots by big auto.

Eff me.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/glaciers-melting-fast-1.7571109

#environment #climatechange

Gift (14d) A question of ethics... ...

2025-06-26T02:28:27Z

Gift (14d)

A question of ethics...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/academic-freedom-naval-war-college/683309/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK2YMTuNk6IucEEQRIa-smxI

#ethics #military #uspol

As my nothing-but-the-shirt-on-his-back WWII-survivor father ...

2025-06-21T11:36:38Z

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As my nothing-but-the-shirt-on-his-back WWII-survivor father often bitterly impressed upon me when we talked injustice:

'Might is Right'

These people are no better than the Nazis who destroyed his homeland, industrially murdered millions, and brought Europe to ruin.

Indistinguishable, in fact.

She's named but the principal is not. Why? Because CBC is a ...

2025-06-16T13:35:04Z

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She's named but the principal is not.

Why?

Because CBC is a racist outlet supportive of Israel's ultra-fundamentalist religious fanatics.

And itself a colonialist instrument.

Fascist Israel 'defending' itself.

2025-06-16T11:45:51Z

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Fascist Israel 'defending' itself.

Like most North Americans.

2025-06-16T11:06:40Z

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Like most North Americans.

Why else pick a war with a quarrelsome neighbour?

2025-06-15T17:13:04Z

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Why else pick a war with a quarrelsome neighbour?

Surely we can douse them with gasoline? Where's an oil ...

2025-06-03T00:35:42Z

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Surely we can douse them with gasoline?

Where's an oil industry exec when you need one?

They could solve this.

One of the best of all I've read on Gaza.

2025-05-28T21:51:46Z

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One of the best of all I've read on Gaza.

Life is cheap outside the USA & Europe.

2025-05-25T20:08:32Z

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Life is cheap outside the USA & Europe.

They're in so deep, these reveals are an embarrassment to ...

2025-05-23T18:26:34Z

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They're in so deep, these reveals are an embarrassment to them. Better to sweep it under the rug and let the next administration deal with it.

A music giant and one of my reference points for navigating ...

2025-05-21T20:42:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…nc8s
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A music giant and one of my reference points for navigating anything to do with music or life.

'“I gladly took on the [Windows 95] project as a creative challenge and enjoyed the interaction with my contacts at the company,” Eno wrote on Instagram. “I never would have believed that the same company could one day be implicated in the machinery of oppression and war.”'

* arbitrary detentions, interrogative / gratuitous torture, ...

2025-05-17T14:30:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…5khd
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* arbitrary detentions, interrogative / gratuitous torture, sexual abuse and similar West Bank events not included

Check the photo here. We’re spending billions to kill these ...

2025-05-16T21:21:44Z

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Check the photo here.

We’re spending billions to kill these people.

America's top weaponry.

Battle-seasoned troops.

Still not done, though.

They're still somehow threatening us from their evac tents and pack animals.

Do I have this correct?

What might be the difference between events in Gaza and the slaughtering tens of thousands of Italian New Yorkers, say, to wipe out the mafia?

In what way does it make any imaginable sense?

'From the first prototype delivery to the U.S. Navy in 1940, ...

2025-05-14T22:44:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…ektt
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'From the first prototype delivery to the U.S. Navy in 1940, to final delivery in 1953 to the French, 12,571 F4U Corsairs were manufactured in 16 separate models. ' - wiki

China could do this sort of thing at equivalent today.

America would struggle.

Especially now.

Most can't even be bothered to watch anymore.

2025-05-14T15:54:39Z

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Most can't even be bothered to watch anymore.

Some doofus American chamber of commerce guy from upstate NY, I ...

2025-05-11T16:39:09Z

Some doofus American chamber of commerce guy from upstate NY, I think it was:

'We want Canadians to visit. We know they feel hurt.'

Just fuck off.

We’re not 'hurt' - we’re angry.

And it’s not that alone keeping us away.

It’s your Nazi president's Gestapo at the border and everywhere one goes.

Fix that.

Then try talking.

#usa #canada #economics

Of course. Patients aren't usually armed, you see. So ...

2025-05-10T23:31:10Z

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Of course.

Patients aren't usually armed, you see.

So they're generally unable to rise against tyranny.

Easy pickings.

One of Biden's Nixon moments. He's a disgrace and ...

2025-05-03T19:28:09Z

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One of Biden's Nixon moments.

He's a disgrace and history—should it be written by academics instead of wannabe wankers fresh off whatever in Joe Rogan's latest podcast left them feeling meaningful and potent—will remember him as such.

America's Chamberlain.

972 has been a lonely voice.

2025-05-01T17:11:09Z

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972 has been a lonely voice.

I'm so tired of low-effort macros/close-ups... But the soft ...

2025-04-30T12:08:27Z

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I'm so tired of low-effort macros/close-ups...

But the soft pastels and diffuse light here make this image a success - an uncommon accomplishment in the genre.

Lovely.

Love it.

2025-04-29T18:36:40Z

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Love it.

“The drones would come down and pick off civilians – ...

2025-04-29T11:35:23Z

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“The drones would come down and pick off civilians – children”, retired surgeon Nizam Mamode told British MPs in November.

“We [were] operating on children who would say: ‘I was lying on the ground after a bomb had dropped and this quadcopter came down and hovered over me and shot me’”, he added.

Picture your child here.

2025-04-28T11:54:52Z

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Picture your child here.

Gaza has become this century's Guernica. A template for ...

2025-04-28T11:03:05Z

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Gaza has become this century's Guernica.

A template for what's to come.

We are behind thin walls, the rest of us, watching, pretending not to see.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)

#gaza #guernica

Well, the poster has blocked me despite my long and continuing ...

2025-04-27T15:22:41Z

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Well, the poster has blocked me despite my long and continuing effort to keep the issue in view and without addressing the concern I raised about how to tell legit advocates apart from those looking to suck people into the X ecosystem.

Doesn't change my opposition to an obvious genocide the world pretends not to see, but I am done with this particular exchange.

@npub18pz…mfdf @npub1zxn…0kqm @npub1gez…c8ck ...

2025-04-27T14:05:23Z

TurnOff (npub18pz…mfdf) palestine group (npub1zxn…0kqm) lebanon group (npub1gez…c8ck) yemen group (npub14hv…wjef) Iran-Nachrichten 🤖 (npub1whj…ml7g) blackmastodon group (npub1e4z…xz2t)

Fuck X

Can these items not be sourced elsewhere?

Brought to you by Joe Biden, Donald Trump, AIPAC, a battered ...

2025-04-24T15:49:30Z

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Brought to you by Joe Biden, Donald Trump, AIPAC, a battered subservient mainstream media, 'social' network-curated newsfeeds, and the hardworking taxpayers of the United States of America.

Freedom, y'all.

Well dang. Been there twice and it never occurred to me one could ...

2025-04-18T19:27:39Z

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Well dang. Been there twice and it never occurred to me one could go up the thing.

This is why the death penalty sought for Mangione. Not condoning ...

2025-04-16T23:47:11Z

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This is why the death penalty sought for Mangione.

Not condoning what he did, but it was a stick in the eye to these people, expressing power, threatening their privilege, but most outrageously & offensively, reminding them where the wealth they enjoy originates.

The downstairs folk are not meant to speak, most especially those of an aspiring Crown.

A pleasantly brief & readable essay on a topic already ...

2025-04-15T16:00:28Z

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A pleasantly brief & readable essay on a topic already wearying.

What predictive-text-on-steroids AI lacks as well is the fully-immersed physical, emotional, and real-time physically-responsive experience of a live human being, the level and quality of sensory input, and the full response of a living nervous system connected to a living body.

Doubtless the engineers are working on that.

#ai

@npub1fdr…lvhs Seen this? ...

2025-04-14T13:09:57Z

Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

Seen this?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106

Indeed. The hypocrisy and the assumption of general stupidity out ...

2025-04-14T00:14:43Z

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Indeed.

The hypocrisy and the assumption of general stupidity out there.

I do believe most people get it.

But I think of my own career pre-retirement. I'd likely have been fired or sidelined for speaking out as I do now.

I did then on Crackmayor Rob Ford and much other nonsense, but here the state has asserted its power, and it is not to be trifled with by those with families to support.

They have successfully muzzled where they've not been able to corrupt.

It remains astonishing that Israel and its IDF—after all the ...

2025-04-13T23:55:42Z

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It remains astonishing that Israel and its IDF—after all the slaughter and destruction, now morphing into forced desiccation and starvation—still pretend to be frightened rabbits ('pussies' some would call them) before the bogeyman of 'Hamas.'

How is possible the smartest people on earth, with billions upon US billions in money and weaponry pouring in, haven't yet put down a ragtag rebellion from a bunch of dirt poor fenced-in prisoners?

#fascism = #incompetence

Hell on earth. Israel of all nations on earth surely stands ...

2025-04-12T21:56:31Z

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Hell on earth.

Israel of all nations on earth surely stands against this human-inflicted mass suffering.

Yes?

No?

Trump more reminds me of the first officer who locked his captain ...

2025-04-12T11:58:57Z

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Trump more reminds me of the first officer who locked his captain out of the flight deck and deliberately aimed the aircraft into the ground with hundreds of souls aboard.

Less CFIT via honest error than manifeststion of insanity.

No deadline, matter thrown back to lower court to hash out ...

2025-04-11T00:12:51Z

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No deadline, matter thrown back to lower court to hash out spurious issue over two immaterial (except to rascals) words.

I'm about to watch S1E2 and have been wondering: is this ...

2025-04-10T22:05:55Z

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I'm about to watch S1E2 and have been wondering: is this exploitative TV? Or do the subjects appreciate what's funny, touching, etc.?

Wonder if that comes up anywhere along the way? I want to watch more. I can relate to much of the halting emotional gaps and bursts...

If it can be done there, it can be done here. This is ...

2025-04-10T17:45:54Z

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If it can be done there, it can be done here.

This is everyone's issue.

Routine business, or how else could we have got to 50k dead so ...

2025-04-07T19:49:50Z

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Routine business, or how else could we have got to 50k dead so quickly?

Much of the world appears to approve of Israel’s IDF ...

2025-03-18T15:25:32Z

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Much of the world appears to approve of Israel’s IDF mass-murdering Gazans in the name of Judaism—or at least not to give a damn.

Apart from the obscene carnage inflicted upon civilians already cut off from aid, how unfortunate as well for those Israeli Jews and Jews of the diaspora who have managed to retain their humanity and who continue to stand against the US-enabled and US-funded barbarism of the current Netanyahu administration.

I’m Canadian. I don’t want to gloat. We all just want this ...

2025-03-11T01:45:03Z

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I’m Canadian.

I don’t want to gloat.

We all just want this infantile nonsense to end.

The midterms are coming.

Members of Congress all have phones.

You have millions of votes.

Yes, voting is crap, but so is getting in a lifeboat after your man drives the ship into ice.

Please, please, America, don’t miss what may be your last chance…

What a wall of talk. At what time is the actual event under ...

2024-12-12T00:53:21Z

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What a wall of talk. At what time is the actual event under discussion presented?

USA-endorsed, all of it. Ukraine given aid, but handcuffed. ...

2024-12-10T12:52:46Z

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USA-endorsed, all of it.

Ukraine given aid, but handcuffed.

Nuclear-armed Isreal free to act as it pleases, come what may.

“What the Biden administration has done is the opposite. ...

2024-11-27T16:06:17Z

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“What the Biden administration has done is the opposite. They’ve always hesitated, always delayed, always placed limits. So it conveys to Putin that we don’t really have the resolve, or the will, or the capacity.”

Biden to a ‘t’. Another of his enormously damaging global strategic failures.

2/2

spot on: “I hope what Trump does is tell Putin not only to stop ...

2024-11-27T16:04:55Z

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spot on:

“I hope what Trump does is tell Putin not only to stop the war but if you don’t, we’re going let Ukraine borrow as much money as they need, and they can buy whatever they want to buy, and use it however they want to use it. That would be the right message to convey to Putin that Ukraine and the West are in a position of strength compared to Russia and they can outlast them.”

1/2

‘First and foremost, Harris could have chosen to allow a ...

2024-11-21T16:40:42Z

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‘First and foremost, Harris could have chosen to allow a Palestinian American to speak to the pain of [that] people and nation at the Democratic National Convention.’

She and the Dems disgraced themselves with this misfire.

I’ve wondered lately if Harris’s run was fully ‘consensual’ or did Biden pressure her into it & announce so rapidly to prevent the Dem estab. from having a proper say after insisting he step aside.

Harris seemed relieved to have lost.