🇱🇺Pinus Banksiana 🇺🇦

"Anyway, if you stop telling people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it out while they're alive."
-from Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Northwoods guy with nerdophile tendencies...and opinions...and sometimes facts...mostly just common sense. Slava Ukraini!

See also: ohai.social/@JackPine/11210620
Posts delete quarterly.

Alt Profile: A US Flag being displayed in a manner indicating a grim situation.
Alt Banner: Blue over yellow colors in support of Ukraine.

🇱🇺Pinus Banksiana 🇺🇦JackPine@ohai.social
2025-06-02

@Nonya_Bidniss

It's been said before, I don't condone antisemitism in all its forms: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_

Yes, the reference will likely brand me as such by others. So be it. And #fascismsucks .

@mcnado

🇱🇺Pinus Banksiana 🇺🇦JackPine@ohai.social
2025-06-02

@LukefromDC

Exactly right. Drone incursions are the bane of wildfire and other responders everywhere. A drone will ground all aircraft until it is mitigated and they can fly again. Don't fly a drone when responders are needed, you will be responsible for the delay in response.

@ai6yr

🇱🇺Pinus Banksiana 🇺🇦JackPine@ohai.social
2025-06-02

Charlotte Clymer on Substack

substack.com/@charlotteclymer/

> Hey @jake Tapper, Donald Trump is now publicly supporting a conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was actually killed in 2020 and replaced by a robot clone. Just a heads up in case you know of anyone who might be interested in investigating the cognitive deterioration of the commander-in-chief.

🇱🇺Pinus Banksiana 🇺🇦JackPine@ohai.social
2025-06-02
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Ernest Bruceernestbruce
2025-05-31

REPLACE ALL REPUBLICANS BECAUSE, BY THEIR OWN ACTIONS, EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN DESERVES TO BE REPLACED

THEY ARE NOT FULFILLING THEIR DUTY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

THEY ARE DISHONORING AND MISREPRESENTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

86 47 NOW!

youtu.be/cV6fwWrW2Fs?si=0CCPZX

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Pete Orrallpeteorrall
2025-05-31

A year ago today was found guilty on a dump truck's worth of felonies. Great to see there was swift and firm accountability.

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We the People...JaneImber@mstdn.social
2025-05-31

This is how local governments should respond to the GOP Fascists' attempts at intimidation.
"We will not bow down..."

#SanctuaryCities #WeWillNotBeBullied

A Statement from the Boulder County Commissioners

The Boulder County Commissioners are aware that Boulder County — along with Colorado, almost every Colorado county, and the cities of Boulder, Lafayette, and Longmont — has been listed as a “sanctuary jurisdiction” on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website. The county has not been sent “formal notification” as implied by the DHS website. Boulder County has consistently complied with federal immigration law.

The Department of Homeland Security. website makes baseless claims without providing details. It uses inflammatory language likely designed to scare people and turn communities against one another. It describes human beings as “illegal” or “criminal aliens,” which robs people of their humanity. The Trump Administration will not besuccessful in robbing the Boulder County Commissioners or Boulder County residents of our empathy.

If being a “sanctuary jurisdiction” means that we support due process of law and human rights, then we are proud of that moniker. We act within the confines of the law and provide due process for everyone. Unlike the Trump Administration, we uphold our oath of office and are proud to support and follow federal, state, and local laws, including the U.S. Constitution. The same U.S. Constitution, which includes the 10t Amendment, that prevents the federal government from forcing states to use their own resources to enforce federal statutes, including immigration laws.

The United States has real problems right now, none of which are solved by attacking and intimidating localgovernments. We are local officials who are working to make a real difference in people’s day to day lives. We will not bow down to bullying tactics designed to keep us from supporting those most in need.

Commissioner Claire Levy Commissioner Marta Loachamin Commissioner Ashley Stolzmann
🇱🇺Pinus Banksiana 🇺🇦JackPine@ohai.social
2025-05-31

@GottaLaff

I mean there are fire departments wholly funded off pulltab donations ... What's to say other types of donations couldn't find a protective service...

@DavidM_yeg @jillL

🇱🇺Pinus Banksiana 🇺🇦JackPine@ohai.social
2025-05-31

@GottaLaff

Remember when Sheriff's and Fire Chiefs would hit the saloon and say every abled-bodied man had 2 choices...come help or a night in Jail ... Nothing that drastic, but I'm sure there there would be quite a few able-bodied folks willing to volunteer to protect the Judiciary and execute its orders if deputized and directed to do so...

@DavidM_yeg @jillL

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-05-31

One passed laws for your kids. The other passed his hat for your cash.

A political cartoon compares Biden and Trump. On the left, labeled "BIDEN," a figure holds a scroll listing "CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT, AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN, INFLATION REDUCTION ACT, CHILD TAX CREDIT, PACT ACT, BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL" with the caption "WORKED FOR THE GREATER GOOD." On the right, labeled "TRUMP," a figure holds bags labeled "REAL ESTATE DEALS, MERCH SALES, TARIFF SCAMS, MEME COINS, PARDONS, GOLDEN VISAS, BRIBES, LEGAL AND MEDIA SHAKEDOWNS" with the caption "WORKS FOR THE GREATER GRIFT."
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Even when they did cite real sources, they misrepresented (*lied about*) what those sources actually did and said.

This was important to stop at the ballot box.

RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies | Trump administration | The Guardian
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

🇱🇺Pinus Banksiana 🇺🇦JackPine@ohai.social
2025-05-31

@Alice
Are slot C and tab D what join part A and part B?

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MountainWitch ⛤:flag_bisexual:mountainwitch@kolektiva.social
2025-05-31

I continue to be utterly appalled at the ignorance, uneducated opinions and disgusting bigoted comments on the information posts that are giving out details about the terrible wildfires in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. No you utter morons, “they” are not starting fires to burn out “everyone” and move immigrants in, no the magnitude of these fires is not due to “arson”, the cause is climate change. It does not matter at all HOW they start, there are hundreds of little fires started for dozens of difference reasons all the time all over the place. The difference is that in horrific drought conditions coupled with high winds, the fires cannot be quickly put out as is usually the case. The fires grow into the monster that feeds itself and changes the local weather right at the fire and become impossible to stop. This used to happen occasionally in smaller areas. Now it is half the damn country and all around the planet facing these conditions. This is CLIMATE CHANGE. Climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels, not by lizard people, the homeless, immigrants, leftists or any other scapegoat spouted about. Now if y'all had listened to us decades ago when we were telling you that developing other ways of making energy might be a damn good idea, we might be pumping a fraction of the greenhouse gases into the atmosphere right now instead of this absolutely hellscape we have.
The absolutely BEST prep you can do is not let your family, friends or neighbours get away with saying this crap and spreading this nonsense. Tell people what is happening and why. I don't know if it's possible to stop this insanity now but if there is going to be a future on this planet, we have to encourage and support the engineers, the scientists, the inventors to keep finding and improving on better and cleaner sources of power. Meanwhile the rest of us need to use less energy, any way and every way we can.

#climatechange #wildfires #Canada #prepping #GetPrepared

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2025-05-31

Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search Tool

The move comes after internal pressure and 404 Media’s reporting.

404media.co/flock-decides-not-

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StanleyHOOTZZstanleyHootzz
2025-05-31
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2025-05-31

I’m starting to get the feeling that experts both within government agencies and in various private industries are routing around the extensive damage that’s been done in the Federal government.

Although departments and budgets have been decimated and destroyed, I get the feeling that experts are putting their heads back down to proceed according to science and hard-won knowledge as usual, instead of reacting to every babbling nonsense that comes out of the mouths of Trump or his nepotism hires.

Even the “TACO” comments by Wall Street traders have a ring of “ignore the idiot, focus on the reality” to it. I get the sense that people are starting to straight-up IGNORE the noise of kakistocracy, and returning to dealing with reality instead.

I wonder if we’re collectively starting to agree that the emperor has no clothes.

#kakistocracy #TACO #TacoTrump #OrangeChicken med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/11

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2025-05-30

True story.

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2025-05-30

Stupid people make my brain hurt.

Walking Linus, behind us a group of guys. One said “It’s chilly” about 5X.

Linus stopped to smell something, they passed us & greeted me.

I said, “I’m Portugal.”—‘dad-joke’ layup

Confused, they said, “huh?”

I replied, “‘I’m Chile’? I’m Portugal, I’m Hungary…”

One said, “you’re hungry?”

The guy who’d apparently said he was chilly, said he was doing a “Get Shorty” thing.

I replied, “I was doing a nation state thing.”

They looked at me like I was crazy.

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Terra V.Terrapin
2025-05-30

Oh for fuck's sake Ari Melber no nobody has "de-exincted" the dire wolf why are you uncritically platforming these people

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2025-05-30

Happy Anniversary to the Orange Felon!
H/T @Tengrain

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