2026-06-05T01:49:41Z https://yabu.me デイヴ https://yabu.me/npub1w662ytw2x606jqwqjrrhaeqjugnacngtwwgwkrhyulg5mk3846tsgnclqe https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/455/059/original/21051d68e7b6262d.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/455/059/original/21051d68e7b6262d.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx2txyl949apr2edycswhu3tcn98an3cr4st52m9yvqlczc7nyphszypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwdv9cfn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg4sne8c5ygf2kfcxrt55y4a6hwlsd3estegj77trmyc0d768dercw3ga2e'>nevent1q…ga2e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There&#39;s no word to describe the level of rogue state terrorist behaviours Israel has been engaging in, all over the middle-east, over the past few years. 😡<br/><br/>But that latest wave of destruction they&#39;ve unleashed on a country barely managing to stay afloat, is particularly disgusting.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/437/451/224/775/265/original/49a8106e07b82a9e.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-04-20T14:15:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg4sne8c5ygf2kfcxrt55y4a6hwlsd3estegj77trmyc0d768derczypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwkyhgzz Last Summer, walking around Badaro, we&#39;d regularly see this dapper older man playing the oud outside restaurants…<br/><br/>Due to Israel&#39;s indiscriminate bombing of south beirut, he&#39;s been displaced and now lives out of a van… 💔 <br/><br/>He still plays music…<br/><br/>#beirut #lebanon #israel <br/><br/><a href="https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1503880/abed-sabagh-sits-in-his-van-in-a-tuxedo-playing-his-oud-surviving-once-again.html">https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1503880/abed-sabagh-sits-in-his-van-in-a-tuxedo-playing-his-oud-surviving-once-again.html</a> 2026-04-20T14:08:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9n0u6p9rxplfrzgwsdtne7ghy66gl9twhm6fkcwxsndgla4epl8gzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwehnfy9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs25ez8ye0u4vf692z5jwsccxqsrfssz9jqpxa0q67falk6ke7vrec7sc8r7'>nevent1q…c8r7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There is something particularly revolting in the way the Israeli army is explicitly and purposely targeting displaced refugees across Lebanon (accused of &#34;hiding&#34; military targets):<br/><br/>In addition to the usual indiscriminate killing of civilians, these bombings are clearly intended to stir up more sectarian violence and mistreatment of refugees…<br/><br/>I sincerely can&#39;t think of many war behaviours of the past century, that could compare to what Israel is doing and did not end up in a tribunal. 2026-04-08T17:35:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs25ez8ye0u4vf692z5jwsccxqsrfssz9jqpxa0q67falk6ke7vreczypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfws8pjtw Remember the quaint old days of 2025, when some western govts took offence at anyone calling Israel an apartheid state, or called &#34;antisemitism&#34; at any suggestion that there was an ongoing genocide in Gaza?<br/><br/>Over the past few weeks #Israel has:<br/><br/>1. voted a law essentially allowing it to summarily execute Palestinian prisoners<br/><br/>2. doubled-down on its ethnic cleansing of both #Gaza *and* the West Bank<br/><br/>3. relentlessly bombed out civilians in Lebanon, dropping ~100 bombs on Beirut today<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/369/346/973/344/732/original/ed189d0cc09d5801.png"> <br/> 2026-04-08T13:41:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdxal6zemsthffrw0s775dsaxpduhwnl3anw72c775jpmatgcsmfqzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwxgj0qw Looking for a very specific set of data and somehow failing to locate it:<br/><br/>I am interested in wealth *quantiles* per country per year (ideally for a number of past years). <br/><br/>Ie how much wealth each quantile has in that specific country. The more fine-grained the quantile, the better, but would manage with centiles.<br/><br/>Have checked WID, statista etc, but closest I can get, is bottom 50%, top 1%. I need the full quantisation.<br/><br/>Anyone?<br/><br/>#statistics #economics 2026-02-04T08:09:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsguy6lha9tr94l5d3jgnm6d2llmy3rj6qrs65zk4wc2983ufrm9jqzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwdpf0sp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw5a2wugswavtqjxanzz7k5gql3hruq22wvxvwddqf463ljr4ezjsktm7y8'>nevent1q…m7y8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I quite like <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> &#39;s line in one of his recent post (paraphrased): &#34;optimism is a poison, hope is not&#34; 2026-01-19T12:04:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqz3j9l30hunaxpmpj47ghsms0tzm8fcgfw80frj984g99rdgekqczypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwarls9x As always, <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> summing it up nice and tidy, with a dash of rightful anger:<br/><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/billionaireism/">https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/billionaireism/</a> 2025-08-21T09:09:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvf63hwjyrwpgv22mwldyuhdvhdtnmx0sqhhfkljqef5p8644s8vqzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwwdkpgm This is not the first genocide I live through.<br/><br/>It is, however, the first genocide in my lifetime where I can grab a newspaper or turn on the radio, and hear people defend it and question the victims’ humanity, in a language I speak.<br/><br/>#gaza #genocide 2025-07-27T07:37:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstp9tf8acyxv98gjuppz45g85jcs3vl5vusx05qmlju6yjwvq6tvszypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwgr0hh3 Are we ready to call it a genocide yet? Or do we maybe want to wait a few more months?<br/><br/>Every last Western political party who openly supported this, deserves to lose every elections until the end of times (and they probably will)…<br/><br/>And yes: this very much includes UK Labour, France&#39;s &#34;centre right&#34; [lol] coalition, and pretty much everyone in Germany…<br/><br/>#ukpol #gaza #israel #genocide<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/903/445/951/379/305/original/01b55bd23b20dd5e.png"> <br/> 2025-07-23T16:22:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdx0szy3vjk3vsu47dad4wfs7uecl27jwst2lzrm0920qe5ttyrlgzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwadzcaj Being subscribed to the #London hashtag means that (along with a billion very random barely-london related posts), I get to read indignant reactions to the pro-palestine #Pride protest that read like science-fiction:<br/><br/>&#34;extremists deface queer symbols to defend a regime that murders gays&#34;… or thereabouts. 😐 <br/><br/>The sad part is: I am sure these people are in good faith. And Starmer&#39;s policy of criminalising opposition to genocide isn&#39;t helping.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-pride-palestine-protest-youth-demand-b2783254.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-pride-palestine-protest-youth-demand-b2783254.html</a><br/><br/>#ukpol #palestine 2025-07-06T09:12:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrq2stjpqfdx3hu766lk8ec65xc5dk76gt45n0vjrtek3tpljk5qgzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw3wylmr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9z7zarz8tqj8hdalylmmulwq8slglhm93q9ku7rh46unn77ktctshetnh6'>nevent1q…tnh6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>At this stage, we are NOT discussing getting 20th century climate back (it&#39;s gone for our lifetime). Or even keeping it at 2025 levels.<br/><br/>What we are (barely) talking about here, when we discuss &#34;curbing emissions&#34;, is our vanishing chance of preventing AMOC collapse or full ice cap meltdown.<br/><br/>The most optimistic (and increasingly unrealistic) scenario here, is one where half the planet is not underwater. 2025-07-02T06:47:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9z7zarz8tqj8hdalylmmulwq8slglhm93q9ku7rh46unn77ktctszypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwf34tph In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszswthvheg92uy8r7n34dfjxylwmcxqr7m375mme2vqztvkqr68pg93jzjh'>nevent1q…jzjh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Occasionally, some of the more progressive media will casually throw a mention of climate change: &#34;this highlights the need to curb our emissions to prevent such occurrences in the future&#34;<br/><br/>😂🤣😂<br/><br/>&#34;The future&#34; (the next 10 years) *will* make this ongoing heatwave feel like the pleasant late Spring weather that it is.<br/> <br/>Drastically cutting all emissions (by levels that current Western governments would not even dream of), *may* prevent it getting even worse 10 years later…<br/><br/>#climate #climatecrisis 2025-07-02T06:39:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszswthvheg92uy8r7n34dfjxylwmcxqr7m375mme2vqztvkqr68pgzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwnhvkgr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf285z5u6qyhgsfvtnd8n9jt6qwrrh4k8jl2j6ss3d9hw74wapzjsmp0gq0'>nevent1q…0gq0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;The country is reeling under its 10th day of unbearable heat, the PM has called an emergency crisis meeting&#34;… <br/><br/>… while they&#39;re at it, they might want to discuss how they will deal with this becoming 10x worse in the coming few years… 2025-07-02T06:34:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf285z5u6qyhgsfvtnd8n9jt6qwrrh4k8jl2j6ss3d9hw74wapzjszypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwmv9jum The weird thing about being in the middle of Europe&#39;s latest scorching heatwave… is that it&#39;s also one of those rare moments where the ongoing media freakout at sustained 40C weather, is vaguely in tune with my own sense of our impending climate doom.<br/><br/>Though I have no doubt come next week, people will happily go back to ignoring the climate crisis, while papers switch back to recommending the best flights to Marbella for a weekend getaway.<br/><br/>#climate #heatwave 2025-07-01T20:35:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstxer3d6mvkfdgl62w58nxukx8kx7xvfemrq73ew7qqmam7fx42yczypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw4z8wxg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8n3v059cu32fy34e7assc220nm3e6pnq5ru8gxcdh3kzqp3cn2sskpfpa8'>nevent1q…fpa8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When seen as the spicy autocorrect that it is, this LLM behaviour makes so much sense on every level: it has doubtless been trained on zillions examples of people getting called out on BS and rationalising or trying to present the most PR-friendly damage control answer they could. We&#39;re basically seeing a somewhat-weighted average of every single fibber confession on the internet… 😐 2025-06-04T05:21:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspwne9sfjhweamk93tvhympaqwymc2sx79hcx5q3e6x8rjmcg5klqzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw6dst35 Don&#39;t worry Israel, you may have finished second, but in our hearts, you are the undisputed number 1 in genocide and indiscriminate killing of children.<br/><br/>#eurovision #israel #gaza 2025-05-18T06:43:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq72ydpshxkr7w6z07ql5ersm3mhlyq25xhjj33lxxywz5vkv0qjgzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwhxhn0f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsztx3ryy0jsk3sa2yw2zmf5vu94s53pgjzvyu4rrhs9ye59q0eahs6kvgah'>nevent1q…vgah</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Billionaires should not exist.<br/><br/>We can always argue to eternity about the finer points of economic justice beyond that , but if we could just at least focus on that one part of the programme, we’d likely solve most of the urgent issues all at once.<br/><br/>As for the “how”: I naively think that merely enforcing aggressive and effective taxation that goes asymptotically to 100%, would do most the work. But admittedly we are fast reaching a point where a bit of guillotine-based coercion might help. 2025-05-08T07:16:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsztx3ryy0jsk3sa2yw2zmf5vu94s53pgjzvyu4rrhs9ye59q0eahszypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwmldg76 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszjfkqddck6g2j7wcelxsmsdap7mmja2pm44uu9dlny6kwwyan6qq8xdxzk'>nevent1q…dxzk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Lots of replies pointing out that the “convincing” might require some coercion. And maybe even a fair bit of violence. I don’t necessarily disagree.<br/><br/>It gets a bit dicier when we get to the specifics of who should be on the receiving end of that coercive violence: call me old-fashioned but I get a little uneasy whenever people come up with the one case where maybe we can just do away with democracy “for the greater good”. End, means, all that.<br/><br/>My proposal is a lot more modest: 2025-05-08T07:10:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszjfkqddck6g2j7wcelxsmsdap7mmja2pm44uu9dlny6kwwyan6qqzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwyhyr7h If I hear one more person talk about “putting our brightest people toward solving climate change”, I will scream.<br/><br/>Climate change is not some deep mystery waiting for a scientific breakthrough: we know exactly what causes it and how we address that. We have SOLVED climate change.<br/><br/>The problem is not “finding the solution”, the problem is convincing literally anyone in power that the solution is better than building billionaire bunkers in new zealand.<br/><br/>#climate #climatechange 2025-05-07T04:01:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst6rrj2lpjuaj88s9tp5k87jetamgpemu4lrc0alpcyu4ztj9eeeqzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw7ryr5y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8mhgxa0pem9mufr0r375at528j3f0caw9mupw4trwecu84jemdtsmqgf66'>nevent1q…gf66</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;d wait a bit to rejoice: the relevant bit (whether it applies with immediate effect and will result in her not running at the next election) is still up in the air.<br/><br/>Also worth noting that her being out of the picture arguably *increases* the chances of her party winning the next presidential election (her name carries a certain electoral ceiling with it, whereas Mr Bardella has all the trappings of a friendly fascist with none of the legacy). 2025-03-31T09:44:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs07sstuznfxeyttwz6c9fxy69zhl35hssews6xur7e96tfmy6hcaszypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw3slr56 Seeing the widespread denial surrounding the US&#39; increasingly quick descent into bona fide fascism, makes me wonder whether I&#39;ll be able to tell if/when it happens closer to home.<br/><br/>What would be the measurable threshold that would prompt me to take drastic personal actions? 2025-03-27T21:24:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyyg6mp246yucw3qnc0rxjhc4z6zcezjlgmk93srff3rchht2fhmgzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw3qy0jl What is up with Japan and still lighting their homes with neons lights (the regular hospital kind, not the fun red-light-district kind)…?!<br/>Surely Japan has access to regular LED technology nowadays? 2025-03-12T10:44:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8rddqcsm3qgn4pjccwrwnstm9sed4kder6hdvz0ccapyqqkraqtgzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwxdquxg Give me a search engine that provides a &#34;Blacklist domain&#34; button right on the search result page.<br/><br/>If that button glows red whenever AI slop is detected on that page, I&#39;ll pay you money for it. 2025-02-27T11:33:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz6n52nxp7xkppukrcl632an76pdhmkguuk6wq5zajjvgm7mz9gzqzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw5dyjcz Britain&#39;s fast slide into the kind of collapsed society that the US has been for a few decades:<br/><br/>Where a thin slice of the population can afford decent (private) healthcare, and the rest basically lives with pre-industrial standards of medicine.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/12/the-seven-year-wait-for-a-dentist-why-linda-colla-pulled-out-her-own-teeth">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/12/the-seven-year-wait-for-a-dentist-why-linda-colla-pulled-out-her-own-teeth</a><br/><br/>(copy-paste that point and replace &#34;healthcare&#34; by &#34;education&#34;, &#34;justice&#34; etc.)<br/><br/>To make things even worse: it is blindingly obvious that mild centrists like Starmer will do absolutely nothing to reverse that course. 2025-02-12T10:25:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg2npxusgmrxddl37mt5jd2ld8fyks56hqnednxrhmw36zvdqc7vszypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw4e9km0 Had you told me 20y ago that French news kiosk would one day openly promote fascism at the till… I wouldn’t have been that surprised. 🤷<br/><br/>Now if you’d told me this was the result of a few openly fascist French billionaires successfully buying up all news kiosk chains, and a large chunk of all print and broadcast media… I probably wouldn’t have been that surprised either.<br/><br/>#france #bardella #frenchpol #politique<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/581/914/497/347/840/original/6c56ad774efefa93.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-12-02T07:03:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspmle0c55fehr47yyfs5hnfp5exuchswt9pfezy9j4v2z3624tv4qzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw90z7ea Achieve #nihongo conversational fluency in 30 seconds, thanks to this helpful flowchart.<br/><br/>#japanese<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/554/496/288/527/581/original/f33f344197c815b1.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-11-27T10:43:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9h0eltyu3v6kvqvk942v8tlt6pygakk5crkzlep5q8uuanxkf34gzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw2tmr0w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstzk0psnymr2lwem23ftltznnc3yaxjxjep6zxu63m33zzyl279fq7tvlj2'>nevent1q…vlj2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>*This*. So much *this*.<br/>When people crow proudly about Mastodon&#39;s complete absence of algorithmic feed, all I hear is &#34;I don&#39;t mind only reading from the loudest people in my feed&#34; 2024-11-27T06:42:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs83j5kntm6v3pajjzh97q9p97yrsun7rnr9u27ffvcu4ptu6h0r7qzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw2fauz5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdcmdpcmylp086h0z0eme28lgdylmezl8emnslyceaj9swgjtn4as7tjtr7'>nevent1q…jtr7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So happy to hear that this stupid lack of local health policy masquerading as Instagram tourist trap, has finally been addressed… 2024-11-24T06:46:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs27ehjkcrzj8m5vj02ltl94kk6r84ycfk7rnksscp9ruaze8vj2eqzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwn03x7l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9wr0pnu2u2a7030azrtn82uxekng4qscfymq0rx95ylsezaa4sys5ax8ph'>nevent1q…x8ph</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In the end, don&#39;t worry, we are all equally fucked: just like that, the #climatecrisis went from bad, to terminal.<br/><br/>Courtesy of the very oligarchs who brought us here, we now have the guy who will *always* pick &#34;betray&#34; in a Prisoner&#39;s Dilemma, as one of the main player in that stupid planetary game.<br/><br/>With every passing year, and every passing disaster, everyone will be more eager to insulate themselves at all cost, mainly by stepping over each other. Be it at a national or individual level… 2024-11-06T10:44:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9wr0pnu2u2a7030azrtn82uxekng4qscfymq0rx95ylsezaa4syszypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwk93tzt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx7mde76sshruhn99v265l729x83wekw9xjkpwu3tq0zeqsnam4lct46qsz'>nevent1q…6qsz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Make sure *your* country gets serious about guillotining a few billionaires before they get a chance to pull what they successfully pulled in the US.<br/><br/>Lobby for Twitter and Facebook to get held to such levels of scrutiny and fines, that they effectively cease operating where you live.<br/><br/>Hug your friends who need it (the ones whose existence immediately became much more difficult as a result of this) and punch the next relative who tells you &#34;there&#39;s just too much wokism around&#34;… 2024-11-06T10:37:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx7mde76sshruhn99v265l729x83wekw9xjkpwu3tq0zeqsnam4lczypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwp2e0f6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs97n8k8ecjtladyl4ghzqquqmrsmk6rxw07qvfserlptatftmswxc9480lv'>nevent1q…80lv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And yea, if you can do something about the very long list of people and countries who are going to immediately suffer from the US population&#39;s deficient education system: help in any way possible.<br/><br/>Punch the next Euro politician who whines about &#34;antisemitism&#34; while defending Israel&#39;s ongoing genocide (and trust me: Bibi is already ramping up the camps, as we speak).<br/><br/>Piss on any Amazon packages you spot in a porch, key any Tesla you walk by, take a dump in an aisle at Home Depot… 2024-11-06T10:30:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs97n8k8ecjtladyl4ghzqquqmrsmk6rxw07qvfserlptatftmswxczypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwcvtvwc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsds5pf5rq2qlcvh76ak82map02hrgd5umt36hfv7d60nn8jx8f0pgljz0hu'>nevent1q…z0hu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I am NOT saying we should all just sit and cry our eyes out (well, maybe for a little bit). Just that the only sane reaction to this, is to treat it like 1933 Germany:<br/><br/>If you live in a red state, get out. If you live in a blue state, consider getting out. If you live in anywhere else in the world: scream at your elected officials every single time they talk about normalising relations with the US. [Starmer &#34;looking forward to a fruitful collaboration&#34; in 3… 2…] 2024-11-06T10:25:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsds5pf5rq2qlcvh76ak82map02hrgd5umt36hfv7d60nn8jx8f0pgzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwgug839 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsra0w7wxehmle90er2ed0767ausgul724j83kmulhw6u58eukamcg3rd850'>nevent1q…d850</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As the past decade has shown: once you start allowing fascist and oligarchs to infiltrate the political system, each election becomes harder to win than the last.<br/><br/>By now, it takes significantly more effort, money, votes, for the sane side to just be level with the populist fascist side. And this is about to get a lot worse: look at what SCOTUS approved *under* Biden, do you think they&#39;ll hold back anything under Trump? Watch as every future US election slides more and more to the right. 2024-11-06T10:21:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsra0w7wxehmle90er2ed0767ausgul724j83kmulhw6u58eukamcgzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwcm8h83 &#34;Let&#39;s not be overdramatic, you win some, you lose some. Nothing much is gonna ch…&#34; FUCK THE FUCK OFF.<br/><br/>Those people annoyed the hell out of me 8y ago. This time around, they&#39;ll get physical violence as an immediate reply.<br/><br/>The US is now at best 3 years from something between Gilead and late 1930s Europe. Things won&#39;t get better before getting worse, and without some (violent) crisis in the middle.<br/><br/>Don&#39;t give me any of that &#34;time to roll up our sleeves and win it back&#34;: it won&#39;t happen.<br/><br/>#uspol 2024-11-06T10:16:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspgrgru2m43kpklasxw3nh9f3q990ddvykevqg4spmvhcgfqqxvmqzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfws73rr5 Turns out milquetoast establishment centrism is not that good at beating back well-oiled fascism. Who would have thought?<br/><br/>#uspol #electionnight 2024-11-06T07:03:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstvjkr20zfq9laf6rf0slxhtd2g7zhsa73vjq6789jlh6lfwzle3czypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw8mva36 Was reminded yesterday of this thing I posted on the Hellsite, a few emperors ago, and thought I&#39;d repost it here for safekeeping.<br/><br/>#Japan<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/375/997/542/585/745/original/0acbce57c518b810.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-10-26T22:08:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy3n4lq4vr72yn9syxlky5qvn45khjd7x4f6uqe25qpsdgvzqpdnczypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwpj2xug In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8asld45v3rrchycd680vf466euz045wh8e468s3eh22mrumr3e7sgc9hzg'>nevent1q…9hzg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>[Internet] &#34;Wow, Japan is so future technology flying cars robots blade runners!!! 😍&#34;<br/><br/>[Reality] ship your photo negatives to some company with a 1997-looking website, that will scan them at 800x600px resolution and burn them onto CDs (one roll per CD) that it mails back to you. 😐 2024-10-25T02:31:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8asld45v3rrchycd680vf466euz045wh8e468s3eh22mrumr3e7szypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfw3jjju7 Yo, #famichiki friends (and beyond)<br/><br/>Know of a good service in #Japan to mass-digitise photos from negatives, that will *not* insist on sending the files back on CDs/Minidisc/Carrier Pigeon, but will instead make them available through some cloud service like normal 2024 people?<br/><br/>(the best I found so far, was services that would do Cloud *and charge the same fee as for CDs*)…<br/><br/>[also: same question, but for print scanning] 2024-10-25T02:20:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsglacp3wk7h04wrdcllt370mr75k6tvxr57fqpxsgsy4k0lj2h8ugzypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwywurjk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszgdzkxhh6wg5rdsz8h34kknzjpck7w7nqacwx2xd0245p7pgm3ggfnvf6p'>nevent1q…vf6p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“fruit-flavoured”… 🤨 2024-10-19T07:49:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs08h5kguly2ekp3ly9xzygg0n3mg5fh77ye5vja6fae9c87cmqnpczypmtfg3degmfl2gpczgvwlhyzt3z0hzdpdeep6cwunnaznw6y7hfwe7xtgz In what world does indiscriminately detonating 3000 devices scattered across a civilian population not constitute plain. simple. state-sponsored terrorism?!<br/><br/>At what point do milquetoast hardcore-centrist western media outlets drop the &#34;explosions were had, children were unalived&#34; phrasing and call it for what it is??<br/><br/>#israel 2024-09-17T22:02:40Z