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tenna@pleasetf.me
I think at some point, my anxiety value overflowed and got set back to 0 as a result.
I know what’s happened is horrible. I know this is about… as worst case scenario as we could get. But… I won’t give up. I don’t think anyone should. We have each other.
I think we just need to do what we can to survive, stick together, and get through this. There may be bad people out there, but there are a lot of good ones, too. We just have to endure the shit.
#politics #uspol #uspolitics
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froggebip :witch_hat_frog:
froggebip@lilypad.frogge.cafeCrucial reminder that the Website League (any of the websites) should NOT be considered a secure communications platform
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Basically reposting from my website (https://tanzi-media.com/Posts/Trump_Elected_2024) but thoughts on election results
I'm not sure what there is to say other than fuck man. Not only does it seem like Trump is elected, but from what I'm seeing ( https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/) the House and Senate are also going to be Republican controlled. This of course means to me they're going to be able to pass a lot of stuff like they did last time. And it's honestly terrifying with things like Project 2025 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025) out there. Reproductive rights are also something that worries me a lot, given I'd like to have kids one day and don't want to lose my spouse because a standard medical procedure is now illegal. While we're currently pretty safe in VT, it's just... terrifying. Of course there's also the Israel / Palestine conflict right now, and I don't want the US making it worse.
I don't know. It's hard to remain hopeful. It's hard to not feel like things are just on the fast track to making the US a hellscape to live in. It's hard to not feel like we're just watching the decline of the country. And it's hard seeing that not only does this appear to be an Electoral College victory, but a popular vote victory too. So much of the country is fine with the guy who got in trouble for mishandling classified info, the guy who has had multiple rape allegations, to be leading the country.
I wish I had encouraging words. The only thing I'm telling myself is we survived his first presidency, and the things that I remember as truly terrible from it was COVID/ the COVID response, overturning of Roe v Wade, and I felt like he was an embarrassment to us on the world stage. But...I also feel like there was a lot of other stuff that was about solidifying Republican power. January 6th of course was also horrible. And what's going to happen this time around? When it's time for Trump to leave? Not to mention how many more Supreme Court justices will he be able to appoint? I also want to say there were other policy changes that happened during the Trump presidency that negatively impacted a lot of people, that I'm simply not remembering right now (I want to say things like Trans healthcare, and social services for the poor).
What makes it even harder for me is the fact that the Democratic party doesn't even seem like a great option for opposition. Like... the only memorable parts of the Biden presidency, for me, is he passed that bill for Infrastructure, broke up a Rail Strike and like... that's it? I know a handful of individual states passed bills and laws either protecting Abortion rights or restricting them further, but I don't know much else that happened on the Federal level. And so it just feels like one party is actively making the US worse, and then when the other comes to power they're just passive.
And so how do you feel hopeful about that? I also may be just very misinformed - since leaving the media field I've not kept up with news nearly as much as I used to. I just don't have it in me. So maybe Biden/ the Democrats have truly done a lot that I don't know about that has actually been moving the country away from Conservatism. Or maybe Trump was a lot worse/ better than I was remembering. But, right now, for me things just sort of feel awful. And I don't know any solution, other than becoming apathetic given it feels like there's almost nothing to be done here other than an overhaul of the entire system. Just keep voting I guess.
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SnepShark
SnepShark@pleasetf.meHeads up for anyone who enjoyed CathodeRayDude’s chosting, he now has a blog that’s pretty in line with his cohost stuff: https://blog.cathoderaydude.com/
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alyaza birze
alyaza@akkoma.mellivora.social
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spaceg@lilypad.frogge.cafe
Sometimes I find this funny, which is kinda fucked up but it's either that or sadness, but one of my favourite things is when someone attacking communism does this.
"This is what the world would look like under communism:" literally a picture of injustice happening due to capitalism
RE: https://akkoma.mellivora.social/objects/cc3c301f-3c8b-4673-83a7-015eb6563161
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Kit Lotor (moved!)
tenna@pleasetf.meoh fuck, there’s apparently a captcha solution that doesn’t make people go through bullshit GenAI/self-driving training shit (https://mcaptcha.org/)
and it’s apparently only self-hosted, which is both a benefit and a drawback. benefit because that’s a guarantee of privacy, drawback because wow that’s more work to get up and running. 8P
gonna have to set that up for my git repo. maybe one day i’ll also get akkoma to work with it too.
#programming
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stone cold steve ostroc
muffinlord@minimumviable.websiterobocop: rogue city did the funniest fucking thing of giving me a splash screen for the graphics card I have (an intel arc) and then immediately throwing a fatal error
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whorecake deluxe meal deal
KaydeArcane@pleasetf.menewwwwww blog post alert! i finally got around to writing more in depth about the games i tried out over the most recent steam next fest. please enjoy~
https://kaydes.study/blog/entry/next-fest-oct-2024
#blog #videogames #SteamNextFest
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Katja [Head held high; scarlet… …truth] Antares, a 🐈🐉.
kda@isincredibly.gaySniff it.
“Ah yes. This is one of my favourite Tall, Weird Cats With Two Legs. I will sniff them. Good evening, Tall Fucked Up Cat.”
(This is the single most normal thing this cat does. It all gets less normal from here.)
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mae bubsy
mae@bubsy.orgif i could pull it off i would absolutely wear a witch hat as part of my daily wardrobe
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Zilchexo et al.
zlchxo@weague.awful.cloudThe new Kindle models don’t support any type of sideloading, which also means there’s no way to remove the DRM, no way to back up books, and no way to obtain delisted books you’ve already purchased but haven’t backed up. They also don’t have any buttons. If you’re in the Kindle ecosystem, now is the time to remove all that DRM and get out.
For large ebook stores there’s ebooks.com, Nook, and Kobo. There’s also several smaller ones.
In terms of devices, Onyx Boox, Pocketbook, Kobo, and the emerging categories of e-note devices like the ReMarkable, and reflective/transflective LCD devices like the Daylight DC-1, all compete with Kindle. The Kindles are still appealing devices with an economic edge, but where the competition is behind it’s not far behind, and where it’s ahead it’s ahead.
#literature #ebooks #ebook #pdf #reading #kindle #amazon #ereaders #ereader #technology #tech #fuck_amazon #fuck_drm #fuckdrm #drm
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space🌌DOTexe🍫
spdx_wl@in.the.radiokids.zoneSOMA can essentially be summarised as "guy realises too late the difference between carbon copies and forwards after being CC'd into the future" and i think that's beautiful
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froggebip :witch_hat_frog:
froggebip@lilypad.frogge.cafegander
While I haven't always been accepting and understanding of every identity1, I have done my best for a long time to keep up with and be supportive about LGBTQIA+ issues. Probably half of that was because I had a good handful of queer friends growing up. The other half was because I also didn't feel "normal," by society's definition. I just wanted to feel accepted as I was, and I wanted all of my queer friends to feel the same, because who was I to tell anybody who they should love or what form they should take in this world?
It was only recently, maybe a year ago, that I realized I'm nonbinary. This conclusion was a long time coming because I don't have any body dysmorphia, and I didn't recognize the few moments I had felt gender dysphoria throughout my life. Overall I like being a "man-shaped enby thing" and don't feel the need to change much about my presentation.
anyway all of this is to say, fuck anybody who tries to give you impostor syndrome over who you are. You're valid to me. If I can be gender nonconforming and look like the most normie-ass white guy (albeit one who only wears soft pants), your identity is valid as fuck. don't let the haters make you doubt your inner truth
1: Something about being a teenager turns a lot of people mean. Most of us are lucky enough to grow out of that.
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alyaza birze
alyaza@akkoma.mellivora.socialBrush was another engineer to dabble in renewable energy in semi-retirement. Having made a tidy sum from selling his arc lights to cities around the world, he built a mansion for himself on Cleveland’s high-end Euclid Avenue and, in 1888, built a huge wind turbine that gave electrical lighting to his home, without failure, for 20 years. A cover story from a December 1890 edition of Scientific American paints an almost fantastical image of a 60ft wind turbine built from 144 blades, twisted like screw propellers. This fed a basement full of hundreds of jars acting as a battery, powering 350 incandescent lightbulbs, two arc lights and three electric motors. The cover illustration shows two men standing on top of an almost skyscraper-like turbine, having climbed up several flights of internal staircases. Among stories of a pineapple grove in Florida, a trip to the North Pole in a balloon and government debates on the artificial production of rain, Scientific American’s wind power feature warns that the wind might be free, but Brush’s elaborate set up for turning it into electricity must have been very expensive indeed. Still, they muse: ‘There is a great satisfaction in making use of one of nature’s most unruly motive agents.’
#reading #alyazareads
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