2025-04-09T23:00:29Z https://yabu.me MissConstrue https://yabu.me/npub1e32054v49597h7c3rru9wrlvq53zz27l7q04qzzxnjk968pkv34qqdwh5r https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/accounts/avatars/109/734/946/806/170/980/original/e5d3e15e8b3b9f35.jpg https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/accounts/avatars/109/734/946/806/170/980/original/e5d3e15e8b3b9f35.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2cxmajmvg45y5gtvq9jauwq77fjmes5ct9d4uyrrh8n9h6mz96pczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5pa3p8y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrz8ckj5f6g4ajue8wqk59xalu48q4eeh49h9nwhxp7jesmwl0mkcmtztah'>nevent1q…ztah</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Volvo, Boxy, but good. :blobcathearthug: 2025-04-10T22:08:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg7a7cfkkw709rv08flxtd8czadupc78xxrqwtt0jrrt8f9cfu7yczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5yefkvz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgwcm38wnletjuwhex7wt25yv8cs4c7xruf5u0xdg90fyhuy4x7sq6ztu25'>nevent1q…tu25</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Those tucks tho! It&#39;s gorgeous! 2025-04-10T21:55:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs24jwcy8pk6sf8rnfcqgurmaeg5rnpk0qef8xsvkg928uvxqqvqpczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5maje46 Y’all, we are in a timeline where the #AARP is telling old people to buy burner phones before going through border checks. What the actual fuck are we doing, America? <br/>In other news, someone in DC just told me that the security fences have gone back up around the White House,so buckle up, they’re about to do something even worse than we’ve seen. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.aarp.org/travel/travel-tips/secure-phone-returning-from-trip.html">https://www.aarp.org/travel/travel-tips/secure-phone-returning-from-trip.html</a> 2025-04-07T18:05:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxj7fwgnyymvmcp2097fzyt393dle6u0wjnmfve02swngt8t8hglgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx53330sf Y’all, I don’t want to cause alarm, and I may be the only one affected,which seems unlikely, but I just checked my social security statement, and my entire history is blank. #Doge is fucking shit up, y’all.<br/><br/>I’ve been working and paying taxes since I was 14, and I’m less than a decade away from being old enough to collect SS, and my statement shows no work history. None. I’ve been told I need to fill out a form for every year missing to send to the irs, and then send those forms from the irs to SS, so I can prove to SS I worked. None of this can be done online, and each year is a separate process. <br/><br/>Check your statements. We are being robbed in broad daylight.<br/><br/>#socialsecurity #doge #taxes #WellFuckWeAreDoomed <br/><br/><a href="https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/personal-finance/2025/04/03/67ee79c6ca47416f308b4597.html">https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/personal-finance/2025/04/03/67ee79c6ca47416f308b4597.html</a> 2025-04-03T17:41:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd9mvtrvwsmy6dzqetl3c0n0k37f3qd0tuqe2rrvltlukejc83htqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5m3w76s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstyjn6aey0y3hz2k3mggytt38tsa8g8xduymk3ft5vukdnw9q5gys0k772g'>nevent1q…772g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I do manage meds for almost everyone in the family, in that I try to keep track of when refills are coming, and contact drs offices and things so they don&#39;t run out, or have days without seizure meds. I remind everyone to take their meds, but it&#39;s more &#34;Hey, did you take your meds&#34;, rather than a timed thing on my calendar or app. <br/><br/>To be fair, partly because our provider has been my doctor since 30 years ago, and I&#39;ve never set up logins for anyone else, so logging in and hitting the refill button is a simple, non time consuming (&lt;10 minutes) task I can accomplish easier than setting up new accounts, especially since he&#39;s retiring in 8 weeks and I have no idea how I&#39;m going to replace him. <br/><br/>My daughter is autistic with significant executive function and seizure disorders, and she&#39;s really bad at tracking her meds, which she wanted to do when she became an adult, and missed refills by a couple of days recently, so if you have recommendations, I would welcome them. 2025-04-02T20:16:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxwxz90utan9vschzqu4hpus7u95s93hu5a7l808fulnldpqk6lgszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5hape4c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq2lmj48udc0llfkk6ggazfwwje30zrmg5zesw8zqfa6dm35l30lcs6dfhk'>nevent1q…dfhk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I know right? And I do 7-13 hour road trips *inside* texas all the time...and I&#39;m guessing they just haven&#39;t headed west into the badlands yet. There&#39;s one that recently opened near Dallas, and I swear, you&#39;d a thunk it was the second coming of the Lord with all the hoopla it got. (Mostly I drive on small roads running east-west, and most of the retail development is on the highways, which mostly run north-south. ) 2025-04-01T00:54:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyxrl9tss9evnw0d4dlaszsrpxtpd04yjuh2xlt7qwhyhquw2tyhszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5zh6m9u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2rfr623jw6rpl4vufd0k52t8y5wmfeqrw573k3dfcynuwf3cqjngpc66lr'>nevent1q…66lr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I may be the only Texan who hasn’t been to a bucees. I hear good things about the bathrooms though. 🤣 2025-03-31T23:00:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxh89kd7h9vl34zahq56peamqd4celdl4hdptfumj2gflxkgt9x0szyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx50a8p4r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswztx50r8900alyxnhk268hh3df0ff56npsqclml2s7mcya8e8dtcpaspys'>nevent1q…spys</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We used to say on road trips you could always tell the stoners because they&#39;d roll the windows down when you passed a skunk. 2025-03-26T04:42:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2n9a9q9mz9sgdueanxmq346tfncrxz3ywcydg7fks83h8c2hn32szyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5jrc4v4 In these busy times where we&#39;re throwing out curses like it&#39;s beads at mardi gras, I remind you that store bought demons are just fine for your standard curse. It&#39;s not what I&#39;d use for fancy, seal-invoking, god-punishing curses, but for your average &#34;I hope your cybertruck implodes with you in it&#34; curses....store bought demons are fine.<br/> <img src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/219/248/901/694/080/original/8d8b483140688d50.png"> <br/> 2025-03-24T20:21:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs088eh9jv38m7lgy7syf2efd2j4a9ausxnp96sczxfsxu5v73hjlczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5cfdd4j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ny3zr8klsknmtwt8uv5xdcfpn5l2ks6xfd9f5m6cgvkrv06rcvg8fy6c4'>nevent1q…y6c4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I went to school with people who became attorneys. I know they had to take the same history classes and political science classes that the rest of us did. I’m even going to assume that white shoe attorneys went to better universities than I did, or at least had prettier endowments. <br/><br/>So there is no damn excuse for them to not know that appeasement doesn’t work, it’s never worked, it will never work, it just makes the bully more entitled. We are surrounded by Chamberlains when what we need is a good Churchill. 2025-03-21T04:13:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg0h8vqju0ynemndg8m6805ctx9espxqhwvztysxm9j36zmpvuzyqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5vtjck2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz4wgz2s6re976pvgxy4zcr8qcdlqwsrns9l2vc5xz27faynvlmtqnskhyk'>nevent1q…khyk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>what, and I do not say this lightly, the Actual Fuck is going on right now? Like, I feel like I must be in a coma and imagining all of this because in no rational universe would any of this be happening. I am a black wearing tattooed GenX philosopher dilettante, but somehow I’ve managed not to lose billions of dollars or destroy America. I’m better qualified than Elon, and I am not qualified. <br/><br/>How is any of this happening? 2025-03-21T03:40:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq4ecntnuuulrp30fa2w5xqju5uhxusrcjflxr8ynvx88lg69sfdszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5eutq0k Ok, I don&#39;t know what I&#39;ve done to my hand, I popped something the other day, but now it hurts to try to hold a pencil or paintbrush or coffee mug and these are things I need as constant companions. It&#39;s kinda swollen, my thumb is stiff, but I can move everything, nothing is poking out, but I am experiencing pain so vivid, I may need to find black eyeliner and a velvet gown to fully embrace the gothic horror. <br/><br/>In a rational country, I would just go to A&amp;E or a clinic and probably get it sorted relatively quickly. <br/><br/>Here...if I go to the ER, I&#39;d wait for at least 5 hours, in a room full of germ laden disease monkeys, only for them to write me a referral to an orthopedic surgeon. No pain meds, because if you ask for pain management, you&#39;re instantly put on the &#34;drug seeker&#34; list and ignored. <br/><br/>I have SO much to do. So much. Thank gods for ktape and Delta9. 2025-03-18T15:04:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrclppcsrua5lp0vcjepf9vn83fm9y70qksm9ems35z87kdvzqfqszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5pwkwsr So y&#39;all...this is a dappled Percheron draft horse. It is not my horse, I use it as an example because all my pictures of Sky have me on him, and I don&#39;t put pictures of myself on the interwebs. <br/><br/>But they are so big I can&#39;t use a platform, I need to stand on a truck to get in the saddle. Y&#39;all may remember back in the days of How Can It Be This Damn Hot!, we took some draft horses and barrels of water out to the desert. Primarily on tribal land, so ICE wouldn&#39;t shoot the barrels. And I told you about the misstep that had Sky and I slide down a very steep hill of scree, and how I dislocated my cmc joint and got the tendon caught between the bones, and we just sort of popped it out, smoked some weed and kept on? (Sky was fine. Annoyed, but fine.)<br/><br/>I tell you that story to tell you this one. I just picked up my chainsaw to start spring work, and my thumb dislocated and I would very much like someone to bring me drugs. Holy shit that hurts! <br/><br/>Yard work is cancelled!<br/> <img src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/168/443/940/936/662/original/bbd86b9ecb077804.jpg"> <br/> 2025-03-15T21:01:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0n0ma0duzt0rm86xqz3n7de358jxsc08m9wxluhhr9tcqrapvh9szyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5pex2ce A far-right Jewish/Israeli group that claimed credit for the arrest of a Palestinian activist and permanent US resident who the Trump administration is seeking to deport claims it has submitted “thousands of names” for similar treatment. <br/><br/>Betar said on Monday that it had “been working on deportations and will continue to do so”, and warned that the effort would extend beyond immigrants. “Expect naturalized citizens to start being picked up within the month,” the group’s post on X read. <br/><br/>It was revealed this week by Zeteo that Khalil had emailed Columbia University the day before his arrest, appealing for protection and telling the university’s interim president that he was being subjected to a “dehumanizing doxxing campaign” that week led by Davidai and David Lederer.<br/> <br/>#israel #betar #enemiesOfDemocracy #hostilestateactors #palestine #gaza <br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/israel-betar-deportation-list-trump">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/israel-betar-deportation-list-trump</a> 2025-03-14T17:31:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstea5h7587u67c6l47rut0dtkx4safd4nvcgatgq87uau5uaf0zfszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5rug3pq A warning to my friends around the world:<br/><br/>DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES. YOU ARE NOT SAFE HERE.<br/><br/>This is absolute madness. This is the second case of a European tourist being captured and held by #ICE recently. The first was a German girl I wrote about earlier (still no resolution last I heard) and now #BeckyBurke, a #British backpacker. Held for almost two weeks with no resolution and limited contact with the outside world. <br/><br/>We are gleefully marching into dystopian madness over here. <br/><br/><a href="https://laragelya.substack.com/p/ice-has-captured-and-detained-a-british">https://laragelya.substack.com/p/ice-has-captured-and-detained-a-british</a> 2025-03-10T23:25:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx96qlellzt7cd8tscs529cfpemx8dm72j6x0kw37yjxrm9fljymgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5e7ypq2 My dear Republicans, <br/>What is the GOP obsession with trans people? Jeezy creezy y&#39;all need to stop thinking about other people&#39;s privates. <br/><br/>Despite the headline, and Tulsi&#39;s outrageous statements...what this is is primarily a trans purge. One that will significantly impact our nations security, and which is being done for no other reasons than prurient puritanism. What&#39;s obscene is destroying democracy while blaming trans people and sex positive people. You weird repressed weirdos. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/26/tulsi-gabbard-fires-100-intel-officers-horrific-messages/80505545007/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/26/tulsi-gabbard-fires-100-intel-officers-horrific-messages/80505545007/</a><br/><br/>#transrights #purge #GovernmentPurge #security #NSA #infosec 2025-02-26T23:45:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd0fjzkwdep3un0k90uafcmr6umgpukzcfeugwunrka4wgte92a2szyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5jkraal In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsws5pa8eqz25vvwa03hnqwz4w7w3dmvecjlap7gjcu94tjjh59xyg0nrekz'>nevent1q…rekz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah. I was just telling Beloved this morning that it&#39;s a damn good thing for Elon that the WWII vets have mostly passed on. Because my grandfather, who was there when a death camp was liberated, who was still casting fishing nets in his 80s, a tough ol&#39; boy...we would have had to tie him to a chair to keep him from hunting Elon like a runaway nazi. 2025-02-26T23:04:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9w76rd6kery4ct6fzc4tymgtq7g5red6ccznjfzsuahfn4v5v9hszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5lpdytn Not only are the #GOP set on destroying what’s left of democracy in this country, they’re too damned chickenshit to face their constituents. GOP strategists and party leaders say elected officials should stop giving #constituents a chance to voice opinions that run counter to the party narrative. <br/><br/>Cowards, fools and grifters, the whole damned lot of them. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-lawmakers-told-to-skip-town-halls-after-showdowns-with-angry-voters-go-viral/">https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-lawmakers-told-to-skip-town-halls-after-showdowns-with-angry-voters-go-viral/</a><br/><br/>#uspol 2025-02-26T19:44:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp434wr0905zwzhdysc8fd972jlytkqd7cujzdp8wjkuqeqcu8h4czyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx574jd8d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9a8htq5dhprfhdjtkvkwgnsqyhyypwczku2hd8v0fdtsmjn82udqlu0v8c'>nevent1q…0v8c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I love Amsterdam so much. I could spend the rest of my life at the Rijksmuseum and still not see everything. And bicycles and trams and flower markets at dawn and oh I just love it so much. I wish I could move all of us there. Part of my heritage is Dutch, but we hightailed to the Hudson Valley after a couple of the patriarchs were boiled for being antimonarchists. (What is it about the followers of Orange leaders? ;) ) 2025-02-25T21:25:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9jdhyds8vc6kduwqhf78zk9v6w4ya3r6tz4svm7e395nf5nqkqfgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5rkqevj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfpnqt7qqdyu86eqs8ywjl0zksw8cv90u67escw82m7e26p76t80cuqyapf'>nevent1q…yapf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I attended convent boarding school. Nobody becomes a nun to &#34;opt out of pressures of modern life&#34;... Nuns work and work hard. They are the worker bees of the Catholic hierarchy. Without nuns, the whole system fails. <br/><br/>Besides which, you spend 5 years as a novitiate before you become a nun. I think if you were not a true believer in the Palestinian prophet and the disciple Peter you would not be a nun. 2025-02-25T02:08:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs98tqq29kfgc0g9tqul6s6ck25mzjd88f4x8llme0jeccktng6mdqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5fd5pmj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9mdtz6vhmuq6h3r6cxxqu7wr9xps7d6nlemkjwa4ycq086jkswwg8gzn2h'>nevent1q…zn2h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Well, sort of yes and no. The Atlantic did a really great story on the 53 days it took Hilter to take over the Weimar. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/</a><br/><br/>I agree that Dementia J is a post turtle (I haven’t heard that phrase in forever!), but there is no Hitler in the wings that can take over. Elon isn’t a citizen and wasn’t born here. The VP of eyeliner doesn’t have charisma or chutzpah to do what Trump does, the cabinet of fools will fall apart instantly without DearLeader. Our best case for ridding ourselves of these meddlesome priests is if Trump keels over. 2025-02-24T21:10:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspx3pn9uv8aahkvq3xzsf2pd638qnzgmd5yg6aveful2m6jm8xpqczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx50dhykd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfjqws40z5pwx46ylfd30wqf7ywcyc3ypydq5ykqlhej0lyttxtuqfjfpvg'>nevent1q…fpvg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>which just gives an excuse to watch it again! I love that movie. It’s so bad, but so very, very good. 2025-02-24T21:01:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr2my9cxcxfvfa7rv46flhzkekn89j99ws57h0w4rkugrv8622ymczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5rempmz Ahahahahahaha. Keep it coming kids! Today was the first day of mandatory return to office for #HUD, and this video was playing on a loop on every tv screen in the building. They didn’t know how to turn it off, so they sent staffers around unplugging the sets. Fucking brilliant. I will buy a round for whomever was responsible. <br/><br/>#doge #NoKings #HackThePlanet <br/><br/><a href="https://www.instagram.com/balleralert/p/DGd1ZkiJdvE/">https://www.instagram.com/balleralert/p/DGd1ZkiJdvE/</a> 2025-02-24T19:52:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvy06avhw5t6jr07ncyrtk2nvlljnqvgsyzgda9x7vtcnut9wl97szyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5nh9p8w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9xj6sye8s745cckuujt9egajwmghc0gxcdn2htu63hdpsc42690cc5cl3w'>nevent1q…cl3w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>#infosec person on the inside says: <br/><br/>By making these federal employees respond to the email, one email address, and cc their bosses, they’re basically laying out a whole map of the federal government that could be mined by foreign adversaries and scammers. <br/><br/>You know, you finally figure out who reports to who. It’s exactly what the Chinese government has been trying to do for a very long time. They have dossiers on who does what. Then you cross-reference it with LinkedIn, and you’re basically exposing foreign governments and adversaries and scammers to our entire federal system.<br/><br/>So remember kids, when sending your poisoned emails to hr@opm.gov, to cc in your GOP congresspeople, just for fun. 2025-02-24T16:23:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp60m0m70xd8gxluxmsm3nplzdtm46n4rm9dukyv9vakh8x3kg67gzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5gfl5v7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg9vdyp5jwn8zfw5g7xmh7tsjlkzj5gm0zer63er9z9taj7cfw64gxqyu3p'>nevent1q…yu3p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh yeah, he’ll be 25thed out as soon as Elon has his claws in the treasury. 2025-02-24T15:47:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9xj6sye8s745cckuujt9egajwmghc0gxcdn2htu63hdpsc42690czyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx590kmz5 Hey y’all, you know how Elon and the Teen Revengers sent an email saying all federal employees needed to send a list of 5 bullet points on what the employee did last week? And they want it sent to hr@opm.gov?<br/><br/>Well, because the doge boys are script kiddies and not actual knowledge workers, that email isn’t closed to outside networks. <br/><br/>Poison their well with everything you’ve got.<br/><br/>#elon #doge #hrAtOpmDotGov 2025-02-24T15:45:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqxsf2843vxlm22pgpg2256p5yvgr9pnnpw6vldv7ke8ksjmjxy4gzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx56hm0rg <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1f2ujlvpfrszk40qmyxchg4g2uk8tc5xexepghw3kjkp8ryhyu6eqctffwa" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Jeff Tiedrich</span> (<span class="italic">npub1f2u…ffwa</span>)</a></span> has some things to say, and I am here for the reading! <br/><br/>yesterday, a frail old man in serious cognitive decline managed to slip past his caregivers at the White House Home for the Aged, and wandered across town until he found himself at CPAC.<br/><br/>as he looked around, a dim memory was roused within the old man’s long-gone mind.<br/><br/>‘a stage. Donny like being on stage. Donny give speech.’<br/><br/>meandering to the front of the hall, the old man got up on the stage, and, finding himself in front of a microphone, began to gibber incoherently.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elderly-golfer-shits-the-bed-in-batshit">https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elderly-golfer-shits-the-bed-in-batshit</a><br/><br/>#uspol #cpac #trump #doomsong 2025-02-24T15:17:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8rx3s3f2e5jgpn67pg7rupgv0eycdxkjvgxle50hc6cqq0eu56lgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx57kf38v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf740zqswlvfhwpywjdv67q7zacvtrlw8qw4dy4cvvua8lkcpw78crpzz0u'>nevent1q…zz0u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If they really want to get under 47’s skin, they could offer asylum to all the transgender people who are under direct threat in the US. And any person that might get pregnant in a country where letting you die is the moral choice according to those men over there. <br/>The US has fallen. It was much easier than imagined, all it took was Russian oligarchs buying the GOP. If in the Reagan era you had told me that the Republicans are the ones who would sell out to the Soviets, I would have said you were mad. 2025-02-24T13:43:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdjm485w905dr7q2za47mjddkyueadvhyj3eqn2fhdkpw48yuu0jczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx52qtw3l Y’all, here’s a shocker! #ICE has known #Nazis on staff. For example, James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, a 44-year-old who works as an assistant chief counsel for ICE in the Dallas area. Rodden represents the agency in immigration court hearings where judges decide whether an individual is removed from the country.<br/><br/>Here’s some choice words of ICE attorney Rodden; Quote: It is our holy duty to guard against the foreign hordes. Nobody is proposing feeding migrants into tree shredders,” the account posted in March 2024. “Yet. Give it a few more weeks at this level of invasion, and that will be the moderate position.”<br/><br/>There’s more, and it’s worse. Support free press, consider subbing to the #TexasObserver, they do good work. Also, fuck ICE. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/">https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/</a> 2025-02-24T13:08:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqy26gp4xf4llatfatqglav007caan3xrlyyg2myej2v63uwtgdmqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx56n6ehx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz3jrwja7dlvjhv5ctcuvrwl0ut5vwyhfpcht2dkn4knfkspj0hmqmn7a9j'>nevent1q…7a9j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah but still enough that they’re likely to end up in a coalition. 2025-02-23T21:44:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfe25q3wtaa548w5fms4vuynu5qyuyjjxg2qlw404aq79wk4uj76czyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5cxe69f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs25myq9q065rtsp4c753qnecxpnzp656hk5nndp0llvpj2kdud4sccf909x'>nevent1q…909x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And it’s working. Polls suggest the Far Right Nazi party got 20% of the vote. That’s huge. 2025-02-23T21:37:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs89mp76rqq7prxm6pqgjkjdxwxranf6aml5qxpqacfwh5pssry5dczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5042t5e In case you haven&#39;t seen the news, #Amazon is about to discontinue the ability to download your books. On Feb 26, they turn downloads off. Make sure you&#39;re grabbing the #AZW file format, it&#39;s the format that is easiest to remove #DRM. <br/><br/> If, like me, you just opened your #kindle library and realized that there was no way to bulk download thousands of titles, you have my sympathies. <br/><br/><a href="https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/02/12/download-transfer-for-kindle-ebooks-going-away-on-february-26/">https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/02/12/download-transfer-for-kindle-ebooks-going-away-on-february-26/</a> 2025-02-21T21:15:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0lvttn5ne9n3kpfd4ul334vjzg2fl0cjl8gk66chr5gh80a29xqgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5dk829r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs06vv5qguxdggqwwk50m5r4ee2xr4p328c659q8v5ekxz496awjccz3na2d'>nevent1q…na2d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>when this whole thing spun up, the first thing I said was None of the teen avengers know cobol, that whole spaghetti code is based on #cobol. It is ridiculously easy to screw up in cobol. It why the 200 or so people on the planet who are good at it are treasured resources who can make a lot more money in the private sector, but the ones who believed in the US government stayed there and kept the system alive. <br/>I am not kidding when I say that almost nobody under 50 has any idea how restrictive and prescriptive old code is. These incels have worked with wysiwyg hacking tools, they have no idea what cobol or Fortran is or what it does. And someone told me they are making changes live on prod with no audit trail...and I can’t even imagine how we’re going to fix this disaster of script kiddies set loose on #infosec infrastructure. 2025-02-18T23:43:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvz33hwtly5avk45hrjqqtqjuash6mn5semunn7kkx90akz90klgszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx55rwqy5 So, Kentucky is under water, we haven’t rebuilt from the hurricanes on the east coast, and fires in the west coast, and drought and tornado season is headed right for the plains...this seems like a perfect time for Elon and the Incels to fire folks at #FEMA. And for the record, “probationary” means something different in government work. You could have 20 years, and just been promoted, and be probationary in your new role. They aren’t out here firing interns...they are ripping the government to pieces from the inside. <br/><br/>FEMA Redditors reporting that the phone calls and letters have started: <br/><br/><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1irr4mm/passing_along_fema_is_expecting_mass_layoffs_at/">https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1irr4mm/passing_along_fema_is_expecting_mass_layoffs_at/</a><br/><br/>#purge #illegaltermination #femaFired #elon #uspol #WellFuckWeAreDoomed<br/> <img src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/023/583/818/594/673/original/0468c2c8b251d10b.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-02-18T06:58:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfmdfjusstvdlxqcg2sr5xjpmyphlh4ftd2p00554ulm28plrv4vczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5m64zla In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdfvrms55fxyrecvfqfqmxemekrhef0d645ue2lahvpxsdffueu4qzkvwe3'>nevent1q…vwe3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah I boosted it a couple days ago, but it seemed relevant to the discussion at hand. In other news, we’re doomed and I’m going to sing the doom song. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_cdqQHGA8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_cdqQHGA8</a> 2025-02-17T23:25:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxgzs6cumq6jlwt5k74v07adwa57rzsnjljtj3xjwymwk94e40s5szyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5f2w8pq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqmqsjn7shdymmr7t0ugehp208tcz75t07uqm63dck3xr92c92gxsq7pzwf'>nevent1q…pzwf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And get someone like Pete Buttigieg to do it. He’s charismatic, he looks good on camera, he’s not one of the dinosaurs in congress, the Dems should hire him as press secretary and give conferences at the same time as Malibu Barbie Press Secretary. 2025-02-17T16:42:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs806ck4vzgethw8w2j8c77c07aa0qs0kwseycne2cp2yh7htmkn5czyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx56dmmq4 So, I am aware that I am coming from a point of privilege because I own a home. When I bought it, the property taxes were less than 2k, and the insurance was about 1k. I’ve owned the place for about 12 years. I just got our annual escrow statement, and it was short. By a lot. And it’s because now the taxes on my house are now 11,000 dollars a year, and my insurance has risen to over 5k. <br/><br/>So, fellow homeowners, be prepared for that escrow statement, maybe take a Xanax before you open it. Three of my neighbors, all who built their homes planning to retire here, are prepping to sell, they’re being taxed and insured out...and honestly, I’m not sure how much longer we can stay either. 2025-02-17T05:14:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw6rth28p0l4s5nqz0nmlf5je2wt72mng3s32d03yqteh6av7qy3qzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5avestp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs08v0fcstuljsmka37yy38zxaq4n53hacmus3kw7050dra879g4ysqxen9p'>nevent1q…en9p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I do live in texas, and we do have a lot of cows, but I&#39;m not sure how to convince them to toot into a balloon... 2025-02-17T02:55:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvwh5xgk7z20kdtz4zzmsjj5uahq9c98ntkf2zgckcnhzywv804vszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5j5wenw This is a random thought for which I have done zero research; but I wonder how hard and expensive it would be to build a personal blimp. My life is missing a dirigible. I need one. And a matching parasol for strolling . <br/><br/>Some “philosophers” claim that by speaking one’s desires, one can manifest those things. So far, heads are not exploding across our political spectrum, so I have my doubts about the veracity of this logic. <br/><br/>But just in case, the universe is welcome to deliver to me a blimp. (Heads exploded first though, please. Priority matters.) 2025-02-16T23:25:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvmam4dq4m3pd25vjwqfm04rhh30rda56p29mce0q3lqpfu365smszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx59tulff Are you a #woman? Do you marry someone and change your #name? Republicans would like you to know that they don’t think you should be able to vote. If the #SAVE act passes, your driver’s license or REAL ID, isn’t good enough if your name doesn’t match your birth certificate. There are no provisions to allow for legal name changes for any reason, probably to punish trans people. But it means that up to 30% of American women will lose the right to vote with no recourse but legally changing their name back to their birth certificate name. ( Having once changed my name after a divorce, I can tell you that it is an absolute nightmare of bureaucracy. I’m not looking forward to the expense and hassle again.) <br/><br/>The gop hate women, they have always hated women, and why women continue to associate with them has baffled me for many decades. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/married-women-stopped-voting-save-act-2029325">https://www.newsweek.com/married-women-stopped-voting-save-act-2029325</a><br/><br/>#voting #votingrights 2025-02-14T01:29:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszrlupx0kg76yzc2y6uad7xvm6rdsxdev6cvcfu34x925u7fah0kczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5jvppv4 #Federal workers are reporting getting the following bulk email. <br/><br/>Quote: “The #Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest.”<br/><br/>Y’all, I cannot stress enough how insanely damaging this is to the United States as a whole. Not just because we are seeing a brain drain of institutional knowledge that will be impossible to recover, but because why would anyone take a job as low paid and high hassle as a government job if you are subject to the same insane whims of venture capitalists and #techbro #billionaires as public sector?<br/><br/>Government #workers are a breed that really care about what they do. Losing them imperils us all. Not to mention that the govt is the largest employer in the country, jobs that the economy really needs. <br/><br/>#employment 2025-02-13T21:18:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8aampj39phj86vaxy85xkckm65x94eqvwxuxjnwm9qxk9ksv0s0szyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5wnzq6q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswndlxtdad3qeamj6zzr6u4jlx7nncesmvuekvsxn5dusufndtz0qksdc02'>nevent1q…dc02</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it’s satire, just fyi. 🤣 2025-02-11T15:23:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdda45qujn4cp8cwhk9m0a9c3gp7jy4psp5p8cdlcfh6n3j9q84fgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx57dp882 I would just like to say that these signs in the DFW airport bathrooms are peak social engineering, and I do hope Dan Patrick enjoys all the phone calls from people upset about the government photographing their hairy bits. <br/><br/>#egv #texas #fightback #transrightsarehumanrights #socialengineering #trollingtheGOP<br/> <img src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/983/930/711/974/055/original/204206413662788c.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-02-11T06:57:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdu7ddd9stq48n4kwz8tqrt6fkqvfpkszuztq6cnp8gkyn7t3kgcczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5q7vraw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2au5w0mk5hp883esr9r5y9mlfljsx23wuuptr62xq35798306d7gclh3mw'>nevent1q…h3mw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Question, do you have it rigged such that something accepts the input? I guess I’m asking it art for the sake of art, or if indeed, we can plug this in, set up cameras, release some cats, and your cat poetry cafe has just become the next big internet sensation. Asking just in case I need reservations for the live stream. 🥳 2025-02-08T07:32:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx9c88k2jleh50sd545tvhluwfp2nxncf67rjtayapeyuuq37nkeczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx53mjlg9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9fxcrrfhwlxkgxw2ymc9udc28633vlln53cgxyxm8vld0pn0rdgcrk4z94'>nevent1q…4z94</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Here ya go, barely legal wet nudies!<br/> <img src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/965/945/401/156/010/original/03a89dcaf06d6ee7.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-02-08T02:41:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxs9k6jt2885ds5y5szg934yluzaregs3e7dxmr2r46z42plutmzszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5tlrgxl Well done y’all! <br/><br/>Constituents have flooded the #phone lines at the U.S. Capitol this week, many of them asking questions about billionaire Elon #Musk “feeding USAID into the wood chipper” and his access to government systems.<br/><br/>Senators’ phone systems have been overloaded, lawmakers said, with some voters unable to get through to leave a message. The outpouring of complaints and confusion has put pressure on lawmakers to find out more about Musk’s project, heightening tensions between the billionaire tech mogul and the government.<br/><br/>Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said the Senate’s phones were receiving 1,600 calls each minute, compared with the usual 40 calls per minute. Many of the calls she’s been receiving are from people concerned about U.S. DOGE Service employees having broad access to government systems and sensitive information. <br/><br/>Some #GOP are dismissive, saying it’s scripted activists, but keep up the pressure folks! 2025-02-07T23:55:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd37vp4dghk0athlfmpk7ruy26e3egd6stkr7j5pks8p2yd3hwuaszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5848633 Can you read #cursive? The National Archives needs you! There&#39;s so much history that is written longhand, and there is some doubt that future generations will be able to transcribe it. <br/><br/>Step away from the firehose, grab a cup of your beverage of choice, and settle down with some old copperplate handwriting and help preserve history. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist">https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist</a><br/><br/>#NationalArchives #history #preservation 2025-02-07T06:51:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswd2ax89emtqx9wgleuuxquzdjdwjdynev3wy0u8m6dpz3gv4vv8szyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx52m2xqw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyxmmhq7lyv9cdae9xscacxsp0493xl6yhtey0p96x697ppz2afdgpu0mpx'>nevent1q…0mpx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I get that. I am every bit the stereotypical friendly southern person, like I know everyone, and their dogs, but we’re “wave” friendly, not “know their birthday” friendly. 2025-02-06T19:40:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2e4xc0vkeqpz6g0wnddd2gc80j3tx6n87mjmwun682pa33hcf9lqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5cmpeyg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs82rpxzs892mxxr03wmdrux7glwah4apl2uwdawpgfj2yu8a8k3vsgh8ejp'>nevent1q…8ejp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, right now MN,ME, and VT are all looking like possibilities. I’m not sure how I’d survive, given that I need a sweater if the temp is below 80f, but the Girls really like the concept of Minneapolis, and there’s work for airplane mechanics at the big airport, once certain training modalities and apprenticeship is done here. 2025-02-06T16:34:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrmad8fk222fxktnzlaz6tcw8csk6t0zp0k2nstfwxjke5t8ulelgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5c2kh6z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxzvzycky82ja69kx56h4du4l63acsmzs07zxqwd7dyjdudg6fsscewmmpr'>nevent1q…mmpr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Well fuck, really? I’ve been looking at a house in Colorado primarily to get my trans daughter somewhere safer than Texas. Goddamn it. I thought CO had a state law protecting transgender people. 2025-02-05T23:19:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfpfgjccvq5urdx0csj7z4x2dd50y0zp36atvvuh7wvmjkdzcqjnczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5cg83sj Ugh. Well, I made it this long without catching the #COVID but Beloved and I both tested positive. <br/>I’ve been saying for decades that children are disease infested germ monkeys, and now I has the covid to prove it. Fortunately we’re vaccinated, so hopefully it will be short. But holy mother of gods, I have never had a headache this bad. 2025-02-05T15:24:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg69jxkqcfwk2q9hpmfmfj4mpqmhah6nj0q40mnnqvmyswpa7ep0szyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5z8rkvs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsql44xyapvtvgn3rakcrhryd6rrvt2px7yz6jrtdu8dcwzrap8kgsm89upd'>nevent1q…9upd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The biggest advantage we may have in this scenario is that millions of lines of spaghetti COBOL are the underlying architecture, and as someone who has written manuals for cobol, back a million years ago, I can almost guarantee none of these kids can read, write or understand what the core is doing. <br/>They are however likely to completely crash the system by trying to layer on top without knowing fail points. Crashing it may be our best hope for getting them out. 2025-02-04T21:05:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqcejurzmevj06frd5tjrlk5eqckwy4uxvhdx23qmllf3d8fflm2gzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5y0qd3v Y&#39;all...Im going to admit my redneck roots here. I grew up racing before girls were allowed on the track. My stepdad built nascar engines. When I was 14, I got a 1964 Mustang, in pieces, and he told me when I could put it together, I could have it. Well, I did, and I waited for him to be at a race, and I took it to his shop and swapped out the little stock six cylinder with a 351 Windsor V8, dual holleys, some 10/11 gears and a five shifter....goddamn that car was too fast for a 15 year old to own. (And I had to work for another race team for a while to pay for the engine I appropriated.) <br/><br/>I tell you that story, to tell you this one. I quit watching #NASCAR years ago, because it sucks now. But...for the first time since the 1970s, they are racing at Bowman Grey tonight. It will either be amazing, or a demolition derby. My poor Beloved is trying to figure out how to get an antenna to work, so I can watch the race. Bless him. :blobcathearthug: Vrooom! 2025-02-02T23:27:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfc3z03thq8svmsm6hykaldr3s92rr746e2cmr5d632c45se8g7cgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5rnehj5 Y’all, you&#39;ve put up with me complaining about space chickens and a painting I couldn&#39;t figure out. Then a friend reminded me “murder your darlings”, and I thought about all the chaos and rage that this month has engendered, and I turned Metallica Black up to 11, put down the brushes, picked up some knives...and I give you, “January 2025”. I really kind of love it. I wish I took better pictures, there’s so much texture and movement in person. <br/><br/>#art #painting #oilpaint #FunWithKnives<br/> <img src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/930/773/452/666/007/original/b10cf5ffeb2834e8.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-02-02T01:20:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgr8eryxvk9c2reh0edffpavrd7zgpw9n5nwc3awnzh28f43z7ezqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx54emak6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyutfgxre9s6pm68ve3ldaxvlnvusxhdpl625sz55hczyzu4vqq2cep3a33'>nevent1q…3a33</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In the halls of power, naw. They&#39;re either inept, incompetent, or malicious. <br/>But what I&#39;ve been saying for a very long time is that hungry people are angry people. As they should be. There&#39;s no excuse for hunger in this country. Already, some people did not get their paychecks this week. Almost none of us could continue working endlessly with no idea when we could pay rent or buy groceries or pay for daycare or gas and your insurance gets cancelled because the deduction wasn&#39;t made in time. <br/><br/>Imagine the Hunger Marches and riots of the Great Depression...in a country where firearms outnumber people. If organized, we could see things like the Battle of Blair Mountain, except the Pinkertons were no US Army either in training or weaponry. <br/><br/>On the inside...so much of internal systems are a spaghetti of everything from cobol on up. There&#39;s a handful of people that know how to keep it running.<br/><br/>I dunno man, I&#39;m rarely spooked...but I&#39;m kinda worried atm. 2025-02-01T06:01:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr2v4h25gxz3u5d8fh35y6ncydy4fps07nahy842wspgmj6cxw08szyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5yrwakr Ok gang, can we all agree I tried? I tried all day not to post news stuff. <br/><br/>But omg, sound the alarm bells! This is insanely bad from #infosec , #legality, #natsec, #dictatorship #coup #fascist #takeover standpoints. This is straight out of the Hitler takeover of the Reichstag playbook. <br/><br/>Aides to #elonmusk have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees... dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.<br/><br/>&#34;We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,&#34; one of the officials said. &#34;That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications.&#34;<br/><br/>(neuters.de is an alternative front-end to reuters, minus javascripts, ads and other effluvia.)<br/><br/><a href="https://neuters.de/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/">https://neuters.de/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/</a> 2025-02-01T05:04:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp96xjpa6hw35zj0wj7crmm08znxx7arxzv0sjtn4rcawrv40fzggzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx50ndl8j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdx5aj0uaphq0v7dpggv05alyu8lmu5flaxg0unmn5x87dtedjgfshp277q'>nevent1q…277q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, it just wasn&#39;t coming together. Mostly I can&#39;t get the things in my head to come out of my hands, unless it&#39;s a keyboard. :) In this instance, I just got in my own way and tried to tell the paint what it wanted to be, instead of letting the paint tell me what it wanted to be. 2025-01-26T09:15:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfhlr0a630g6dm62jv336p7qf2048ryspvmw4khhgy67hnjy90z0gzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5qx0ucx So...I had to check this story from a couple of sources, cause I was sure I was just high from paint fumes or something. But, after a week of his supporters saying he wasn&#39;t a nazi just cause he did a #nazi salute... #elonmusk made a surprise campaign rally appearance for the nazi-adjacent #AfD where he said nazis should move past past guilt about the old nazis. These are new and improved nazis. Holy hell y&#39;all, this dude is IN THE WHITEHOUSE. <br/><br/><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/musk-urges-german-far-right-supporters-to-move-beyond-past-guilt-in-surprise-afd-campaign-appearance-13296870">https://news.sky.com/story/musk-urges-german-far-right-supporters-to-move-beyond-past-guilt-in-surprise-afd-campaign-appearance-13296870</a> 2025-01-26T09:10:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2e5lpqpkqnszzcfvfyvgf308cdewjsqqcndl07fsezkkq68e8wqgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx55r5all Ok. I have utterly and absolutely made a disaster of this canvas. Sometimes it happens. Also, I&#39;m a hack and a fraud and shouldn&#39;t be allowed to have paint...I might eat it. <br/><br/>Sigh. 2025-01-26T08:44:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd7dtvkqed4ezd7u7kvgad2lcr0nvtedusd9rh3w6lyyead3q5csszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx59lnzje So, I took the day away from reading the news and what happened? Pete #Hegseth; #OpusDei #WhiteNationalist Drunken Wife Beater is now the #SecretaryOfDefense. I haven&#39;t looked at who voted for him, but there better not be any Ds on that list. <br/><br/>As Cassandra I say; This is bad. This is very, very bad. <br/><br/>As someone raised around special forces my whole life, I say; This is way worse than civvies know. I spoke to a [redacted] at [redacted base] today and he said that a lot of the command sector, who have all served well past when they could have retired, are considering retiring asap. #defense #uspol #OhFuckNo <br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/pete-hegseth-what-we-know">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/pete-hegseth-what-we-know</a> 2025-01-25T07:10:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2tej6ek08ltwhm0fyk8fr9r7ae0w0plkyhe97nedyt747hpyztsczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx54hdmde Y’all did you know the Stone of Scone was a real thing, and not something Sir Terry #Pratchett made up for the Low King of the Dwarves? I did not. I also didn’t know it had been stolen to be repatriated back to Scotland, and was shattered during the theft, and then rebuilt. (Is this not the axe of my father, even if the handle and head have been replaced?) <br/><br/>Also, royalty is weird. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1793138/">https://www.europesays.com/1793138/</a> 2025-01-24T18:46:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvt7t7r089z0thlmdfz000r8qwul94v8kzjrc8hyqj49wa0jtfdtgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5zslpqy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgl5h8qa39j6cpqkdawd70v9pw2frp7rcvrxjjqr48xk9uja42zdcw6l0x7'>nevent1q…l0x7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I tell you what, every city and county board member knows my name and by sight. I pester them all the time. I’ve managed to keep parks open, library funded and stopped the cops from getting a tank…by saying “For the love of Bob, we’ve had two murders in 20 years, the biggest crime we’ve got is speeders and shoplifters. You do not need a Bradley because someone stole a coke from the piggly wiggly. And you can’t have a missle launcher either.” (They didn’t want a missle launcher, but I can be hyperbolic when I need to. Heh. ) 2025-01-23T22:30:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdf95uygldqlvpuvwhgtyyjphsecavkwrjd0f6lg2z2jfgx9cje9gzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5s6742s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdhqg6rtah7l55rltfwqag8hmxpfdrsqphn0tc7y2mmlzy2z0rq6s3gxsut'>nevent1q…xsut</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I grew up in Florida, and I could never tell the difference (we had both)...I just know to avoid the giant floating lizards. ;) 2025-01-23T16:22:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgpn6mv0ujd936mxaqrpr6ld0qf4k5czwzyw8zdeclf2d4el6u3rqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5t4g0qk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfmll2v4vhpsm4x7lpz8w40kgafp40v26ndxpwevvdme5e9ygfnts0tmyd5'>nevent1q…myd5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One solution, and it’s unpopular on the left, is to be better trained and armed than they are. I’m a marksman, and the number of women who’ve come to me in the last six months, but especially after the Your body My choice nonsense started, to learn how to use a gun is amazing. <br/>In US history, many of the most successful strikes were successful because they were armed, and could stand down the pinkertons. <br/>Now, in the 21st century, we have weapons well beyond black powder. We have hackers. We have intelligencia. We have furries, the best of infosec. We have the tools to disassemble the world out from under the fascists. We need the will, and the attorneys. 2025-01-23T15:37:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqztyes0mujn54vt95zmpsglhnecgwhthex0kkpt83cdnl7llxg5czyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5fjum4d Y’all, I have been reading the news. I cannot even with this timeline. I think I’ll take drugs and play with the ducks. <br/>#lsd #ducks #meme #silly<br/> <img src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/874/287/179/502/857/original/5f580c61fd291b13.png"> <br/> 2025-01-22T22:10:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrfcnmcdekua2j3h87dg5u8fesl5ehy9dszwadfguagrq5pmkdu8qzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5v4s46u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxsgkukyk0frpdpfdnj8qu35ymxtpnz3waj6xsjlyjme39hxg9q6q9qqh2e'>nevent1q…qh2e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So good! It&#39;s really soft, like a brioche, but without needing to invest in a dairy and a heart surgeon. :) Not really sweet, although I think it could be made into a sweet bread really easily. 2025-01-20T01:34:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8kaw7fwgra5zdl5hlxdvsvys3r45l6l8nz5cvzez4u7lau58kccqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5vczc7k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvj59xjw7kutw83nywepcfry72pp7hfcrysg2a8p9043m7ge480essgdxcf'>nevent1q…dxcf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ah...but is there even a sock if there is no documentation? :blobcathearthug: 2025-01-20T01:32:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrf3anntfaaf5vxtx2nps6xhc40jk3pe82hv4a8frmwrtc8rvg4kczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5jc7693 Well, sweet potato bread, attempt one, wherein I failed the basic rule of experiments; write down what you did. But I’m not sure how you could actually make a foolproof recipe because each potato is going to be different in texture and wetness, so you kinda just have to do it by feel. Anyway, this one was 1 large roasted, peeled and smushed sweet potato, about 3 cups of high protein flour, 2.5 tsp yeast, 1 tsp fine grain salt, 1 tablespoon raw sugar. About 7 oz of warm water, added an ounce or so at a time. 1st rise, an hour, second rise about 45 minutes, bake 425f for 25ish minutes to internal temp of 210f. <br/><br/>Changes I would make, longer second rise, lower temp to 400 and bake a little longer, or sheild the top at 425. <br/><br/>#bread #baking #experiments<br/> <img src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/858/057/186/202/221/original/7074e2c9df07b642.png"> <br/> 2025-01-20T01:24:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspxm58shrfmxraag4yukmgsjqj2usfechqrrv0wvs7ny4q7fv8w3czyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5rg6yqu My daughter came into the room distraught and bemused by #TikTok going dark. She knew it was coming, but still...a lot of GenZ are feeling kind of rootless, like a personal landmark was pointlessly destroyed by govt who clearly give no fucks about actual data security, or these laws would have applied to all the American data harvesting commercial social media platforms.<br/><br/>And I, being an old, and having seen many things come and go since the days of blue boxes and usenet, tried to sympathize...but she rightfully pointed out that none of those things were legislated out of business. This is different. This is government deliberately controlling speech and demanding the sale of private property. Using the same canards they&#39;ve been using her whole life: It&#39;s national security. It&#39;s for your own good. You can&#39;t see proof, it&#39;s classified. <br/><br/>She&#39;s right, it&#39;s nonsense. <br/><br/>The vibe here is way different, I don&#39;t know if we&#39;ll see an influx of #tiktokrefugee, but welcome if you&#39;re here! 2025-01-19T10:36:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspz3kac3vtgvp3qtxl0xex8t352k4qxkuyets7ue49dmfr959d8eczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5fqlth2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszklqgzl0an0gk5gss42xepgs07lefey4s5rsf3avrwpsx06urp5g4d8vrt'>nevent1q…8vrt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have actually run into that...where I my PhD in bioethics doesn&#39;t count because it came from a Southern state university. <br/><br/>To be fair, I&#39;m probably way too radical for even leftist think tanks. My parents were vocal and active radicals in the 60s, and I&#39;ve never had much use for authority. I&#39;m way closer to the ideology of the anarchists and socialists than I am willing to compromise and slide the overton window rightwards to appease bullies. 2025-01-19T07:24:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszqp2vmpfrzv7hatfhzgfdrxc7ycjl5xl7hvurjsmr5269vy8yq7gzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5rawc4q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2k22t5myzymejmzr25fg0y5v3y5qtljswjet7xs7s5shhrnzntusfwcufd'>nevent1q…cufd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Right now, Apple and Costco are fighting them off, but they claim credit for breaking DEI at: <br/>Walmart, AT&amp;T, Ford Motor Company, Harley Davidson, Toyota, Boeing, Tractor Supply, Molson Coors, Brown Foreman, John Deere, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Home Depot, Lowe’s and Caterpillar.<br/><br/>Which, I mean, I guess we can see how much those companies really cared about inclusion. <br/><br/>May I just say that I have read some really unhinged editorials in trying to make sense of this...good god, giving blowjobs to the oligarchs via your little forbes blog isn&#39;t going to get you invited to the champagne brunch, my darling boy. 2025-01-19T02:09:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2tlqespm0rg8klj05y40tcgpwefpj8pvm5t77z3h3lveaf2dujagzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5vzwe0g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8s3rde5j2fatlrh2e0lxdly82ykk4kmje0lwhuys82xu3glz059g35tzck'>nevent1q…tzck</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My sister and I went to one in Manhattan that was dark. It was a really interesting experience. I wouldn&#39;t want to do it all the time, but as a one time experience, it&#39;s like doing a tasting flight at a molecular gastronomy place...the entire experience is like theatre that you get to take part in, and eat. :) 2025-01-17T18:27:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrs4a2y44hf0y5xy20pm3qp645t3pgt025ufkgjwdjle594700pmgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx52fqhzl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs20lrqj3zh7dn99ynuec9g0vj3k5zcchwmpmyk3v8e8eu58x65h0sklz5mh'>nevent1q…z5mh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Witches were always my favorites. Especially now that I’ve accepted that I’ve grown into Namny Ogg. I wanted to be Granny Weatherwax, but let’s be honest, I’ll break into the hedgehog song and nip a bottle of bubbly given half a chance. 🤣🥳 2025-01-15T18:08:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf78vudduyzkemz64gkf9yajcs3lgv6wdaffwnh5sdkcypz35z4agzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5mrm6h8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszqaw3pymfj0q5z6nt8g7fu86d5vrphxw7ymzrvgk0erl77nzwh8gaz09wx'>nevent1q…09wx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I knew both Sir Terry and Neil. I can tell you without a doubt that Terry Pratchett will never be milkshake ducked. He was a good man who loved his wife and family and was always amazed by how much people resonated with Discworld. <br/><br/>Terry did a literary convention once at Texas A&amp;M...late 80s, early 90s...and he sat there for 12 hours signing books for fans that had come from as far away as the coasts. He wouldn&#39;t leave as long as someone was waiting, despite everyone begging him to take a break or go eat or something. He had a samich at the table and kept going. He loved his fans. Like truly was humbled by the adoration. He never once, in all the years I knew him, got a big head or pulled a &#34;do you know who I am&#34;, or did anything inappropriate in speech or manner. He was a good, good man. (I still haven&#39;t read his last book, because as long as I don&#39;t, there&#39;s still one more Terry Pratchett I haven&#39;t read. I miss him and mourn his loss still.) 2025-01-15T16:56:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy8tuln4dy7p3u54sgqfrzny6qyvhx9nlaw0elhpppe8xdazeemugzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5yg6qh6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst5y5n9r22tudukhnu3nrnu3qhtdczvqkuk23u7sus5r9dmp6a24qxn2eds'>nevent1q…2eds</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>as I was watching reports on the Arctic blast, I noticed that it seemed to avoid Minnesota, and went around the bend to get Illinois. 2025-01-08T21:05:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp644u4dzmsfevj3w850u9r962ap3n0x4pvl9whwang0t7vaw8q0gzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5mfeszd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdzryhsm5sh7gsv56p59kme8xkrx8lz2kcedw2nx9h7qqym5hqrpqkyxtkw'>nevent1q…xtkw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Behind the bastards pod did a reading and it’s hysterical. Not the book, the dramatic reading. 2025-01-08T20:58:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsph5sfhkzantfck9q8gmae05tcmdrxrapjhhlhggw94cp7ansq5ggzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx59eth7y It&#39;s not only the #HeritageFoundation that has set its sights on destroying the world&#39;s encyclopedia. #elonmusk LibsOTT, and an effluvia of others from the swamp are bubbling their toxic fumes at it as well. <br/><br/>Why the sudden hate for #wikipedia ? Simple...it&#39;s a knowledge base not owned by a billionaire. Perhaps the only large knowledge base not owned by the capital class. <br/><br/>They can&#39;t control it, so they must destroy it. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/">https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/</a> 2025-01-08T19:04:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0nm53kyw7wr4qg3uvwlty28c6qvgyu6mp629f7upy9cu57lju45czyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5tazyl6 Y&#39;all, we need to talk about the #HeritageFoundation ...the giant theocratic elephant distorting gravity in the room. <br/><br/>Forward; an independent American Jewish publication, has posted a scoop where the Heritage Foundation is promoting itself to Jewish groups by promising to destroy Wikipedia. <br/><br/>They plan to use facial recognition software and a database of hacked usernames and passwords in order to identify contributors to the online encyclopedia. The Heritage Foundation told prospective donors the project would be led in part by Tom Olohon, a former FBI agent, and noted that he had won a SHIELD award from the ADL.<br/><br/>Now, I&#39;m no expert on the right wing christian nationalist movement...but last I checked, Nazis aren&#39;t fond of Jews, but do believe in Judas goats. The Heritage Foundation cannot be trusted in any way shape or form by anyone is not not one of them.<br/><br/><a href="https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/">https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/</a> 2025-01-08T18:57:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs992cljs5nequnvw5zxwrf756m9gx86s43y0gju9huxxv65elwwvqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5eaxrj3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxu45vwkjusc07ce9c0mqttg0pte7ajv4vwvsah2qxsyc580pnq8qdwtdqv'>nevent1q…tdqv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I love camels so much. Probably in the way someone who has never had to take care of camels loves them. 🤣 Much like how I adore riding, and love horses, but have no interest in having a stable. What a wonderful trip this must have been. I’m quite jealous of your adventures! 🥰 2025-01-08T17:03:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp6w66t8n2erxyeqgaa6hl5p4greh2qhrwcd5rzvdlsnfzzkj7etszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx50mmzh4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqgyqkzw34gjmdfmuyem2g0zjffak3w00497m34rgrhe54xqa3rucrkc2qd'>nevent1q…c2qd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One I had years ago was so vivid I wrote it down, and still remember it years later...I won&#39;t bore you with the whole sequence...which was feature length film long, but the most exciting bit was that I had an airboat and a pet crocodile and I was a hippo rancher in the Everglades. 🤣 2025-01-05T22:48:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs959n072rumwfkcsm7qt36xmpldunq9lqrz7qana82yehlsx3khwczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx58zvynr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst53kszxa4y5fjue7uxkxvqq8zuyg7qcha33zla4vxvjjxyddq7ds3wxn3l'>nevent1q…xn3l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Dreams that are vivid enough to have a plot and logical progression are so wild. The brain is so cool. 😁 2025-01-05T18:31:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz342jk05889s3xs59vm7epuuvejd9ea29mz6crh6duj76l9dszeqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5zr3jln Y&#39;all...something weird is afoot. Having a credit card number stolen isn&#39;t too weird, but having an ATM number stolen when you&#39;ve not used the card? That&#39;s weird. When it&#39;s being used in Slovenia, that&#39;s even weirder. When it&#39;s used to make a purchase, immediately credit that purchase, and then make a slightly larger purchase...and then somehow the first purchase disappears from the bank records, so that the credit transfer is the first shown transaction (other than a phone toast which showed it)...*really* fucking weird. <br/><br/>Obviously I&#39;ve taken appropriate measures, but this was a small enough purchase that it would fall below most people&#39;s radar. I believe this is a probe charge, to see if they get away with it, then drain the account if they do.<br/><br/>So, check your accounts for unauthorized transactions In or Out of your accounts. Set your alerts to let you know any time a transaction is made of any amount. The thieves are getting smarter. <br/><br/>#banking #infosec #fraud 2024-12-18T22:25:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstfxeqwpugemv6sentlhnkzx7thlcszk7wa3l0j4ljax7dlyuujnczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx557zk2l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw34md68n7j6n5s7gvjm69wgw6tpfc6tvpdnhq8rucvhr8srgpfmsmtsmxm'>nevent1q…smxm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I see how you could draw that conclusion, but I would argue that very few people have been calling for guillotines. (I will admit to calling for them for the last decade or so, but I’m an outlier 🤣) <br/><br/>A lot of my friends know I was trained/educated as a bioethicist, (and thus have very strong opinions about insurance companies) and so have come to me to ask about the morality of not feeling bad about the murder. <br/><br/>My argument is: there is no moral failure in not mourning this man’s death. <br/><br/>The arguments about the morality of assassinating more CEOs until their organizations start to follow a moral code themselves, is an entirely different kettle of ethics, which I have not, as yet, stirred. 🤷🏻‍♀️🧙‍♀️🙀 2024-12-05T20:02:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgg97zczwmx86fxwam8pgk4l70s8lt0l6jzsezx260mv686n03wtszyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5t3j62h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8p7s8p6g6ml7rd6y8tfyruh4sc6zn5q32s9tdkcqzjw6h90ahgvsvv8j3g'>nevent1q…8j3g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I heard a story, but cannot verify its veracity, that when he ran for President, he had some fake currency printed, but it was good enough to fool the vending machines at the time at one of the colleges near where he campaigned. Apparently the students got as many of them as they could. ;) 2024-12-02T21:28:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspufahx0at7j7mp82lcp8nlhgt8p29r72fcmk2dn3td24jup3ackczyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx54rytta Warning, y’all. Food prom ahead, for I have achieved what can only be described as a master showing in baklava. 🥰<br/> <img src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/558/636/799/493/460/original/d388014d709f1bc7.png"> <br/> 2024-11-28T04:15:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsprah0mdkq88ruzwn4q9te6hzgaa0phw8ru4cy56uflk6esa376kgzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5evj0ys So some boxes filled with dry ice and goodies from my sister arrived just now. Who knew that #HarryandDavid even sold shark coochie. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣🦈. #SillyTypos #unexpectedGifts<br/> <img src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/556/947/834/227/163/original/3d2ffbc709592efe.png"> <br/> 2024-11-27T21:08:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxpf7zf5ks84yx53va3rf74sahzpffx8fvsd7pa33440h0r9fug6gzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5ndqe59 So...somehow I dislocated my knee while sleeping. Y&#39;all, I have reached the age where sleeping is dangerous. I wasted all those cocaine years on my 20s, when I should clearly have been saving cocaine for retirement. Doh! 2024-11-25T17:52:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrpclez4tfhhwuj85ufkqxar6maucjj9x2rxmryzmsecjsdjuke2qzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx5gcrrsv Ok y&#39;all, let&#39;s talk about Texas, concentration camps, and kneeling before false gods. <br/><br/>There was family here in #Texas with a 1400 acre ranch near the border who refused to sell or put &#34;border&#34; fences on their land. Texas #republicans, who only like independence if it&#39;s not aimed at them, told the landowner to accept the lower-than-market offer or lose the land to eminent domain. Subsequently, the #Yeehawdists turned around this week and offered that land to Donald #Trump as a place to put his roundup camps. <br/><br/>For context: this land is twice the size of Central Park in Manhattan and could hold a whole lot of people. There is zero infrastructure capable of managing an influx of people; not water, electricity, fuel, housing, roads...nothing.<br/><br/>Texas #GOP are forcing Texans off their own damn land so they can turn around, kneel down before an orange idol, and offer him a place to do his sacrificial rituals. <br/>(Subscribe to #TexasTribune they do good things)<br/><br/><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/19/texas-border-starr-county-ranch-trump-deportation/">https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/19/texas-border-starr-county-ranch-trump-deportation/</a> 2024-11-23T17:37:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqhpxjfhtlkr5p85fklemteypr0e4w3ytgwenmjkmu52zykjwflggzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx54yu6w9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ajdy2tjk3p4yx4fx98w3rcd49x5ey8ne2yud2068aenp2nm43xsmhd503'>nevent1q…d503</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ok, this is a weird one, can he recommend a neoprene alternative for constructing physical braces/support type sleeves for joints? Something manageable on a standard home sewing machine? 2024-11-20T17:09:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrnkmaeymq3k3lavu7d9kvk0uf2tqk2f4u74hservshn8mzl8kdcqzyrx9f7j4j5ksh6lmzyv0s4c0aszjygftmlcp75qgg6w2chguxejx53e3zsv Oh boi, do I have thoughts about #nanowrimo. Disclosure; I have written millions of words (most of them technical), I have done #NaNoWriMo a few times, and I have been writing about #AI since the early 90s.<br/><br/>#LLMs are NOT AI. LLMs are vacuums which sort existing data into sets. They do not create anything. Everything they output depends on stolen data. There is no honest LLM. <br/><br/>This year, Nano is sponsored by an LLM company, and after pushback, they said anyone suggesting AI shouldn&#39;t be used was &#34;ableist and &#34;classist&#34;....which....whooweee , that&#39;s a mighty bold stance. <br/><br/>LLMs are being sued to hell by authors slurping up all their content. The reason you can &#34;engineer a prompt&#34; by including &#34;in the style of RR Martin&#34; is because the LLM has digested ALL of RRMartin. <br/><br/>Re: &#34;ableism&#34;, I&#39;m going to direct you to Lina² <a href="https://neuromatch.social/@lina/113069375384149178">https://neuromatch.social/@lina/113069375384149178</a>, who writes about the issue better than I could. And I want to thank <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub16xttrnyh7fjxetcfajc5rvtrzfrq0sep54qexkug7jyuapmp8l0q8txhwt" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Rachel Rawlings</span> (<span class="italic">npub16xt…xhwt</span>)</a></span> for coming up with my fave new Nano tag: #NahNoHellNo. 2024-09-02T20:16:15Z