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For anyone who has ever craved to know what it’s really like, subjectively speaking, to live through the collapse of a previously-powerful empire, complex society, or international state system, I have GREAT news for you.

For those of you abstracting the bombing of Tehran right now, I want you to read this from my beloved friend Elnaz.

I thought about whether to make this public or not. Because it is an intimate communication. But I cannot stand the way the world abstracts the horror of this violence… these murderous bastards in their castles. Damn them all to hell.

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I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

You don’t have to like everything. In fact, when someone says they like something, you don’t have to say why you don’t like it unless you were asked very specifically

General life advice but mostly inspired by the dudes of Mastodon

A brief history of gun control in America:

NRA: We need unlimited firearms to stop tyrannical government

Black people: Sounds good, we are open carrying in California

NRA: Not so fast. We're banning firearms

[ICE raids California, targets Black and brown people with illegal arrests]

Black and brown people: Hey NRA, here's that tyrannical government you mentioned

NRA: Oh, we meant tyranny against white people. We're perfectly good with fascists targeting you

The End

Wow.

Absolute home run ad from Rep. Eric Swalwell

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Yo, Trans folk, little wisdom from my Black family…

You ain’t gone win, babe. Don’t try to win cause the game is rigged and ain’t no way you gone win. Your job ain’t ta win, your job is to make the work a bit better for those who come after. And you ain’t gone do that crawlin into no hole.

Be out, be seen, be seen happy, and make it home alive. You ain’t gotta start no fight, you ain’t gotta win the war.

You gotta let that little kid see you, so they know their fire is worth burning for.

Always forward babe. Never back.

Listen up Mastodonians, because this is important:

Right now we have a unique chance to rise up and hit back against Zuckerberg and Musk. Because italian filmmaker @_elena and her friends have made an OUTSTANDING short film, which explains why people should quit the fascist social networks and come join us in the fediverse.

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"May I have your name?" the faerie said.

"William," she said with a smile.

"Ah ah!" The faerie gave a wicked laugh. "I have your name! Now no-one will call you by it!"

"Thank you," she said.

"To win it back, you must- what?"

"I will find me a new one," she said, "one that suits me better."

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You don't have to put on the red light.

I wonder if anyone here is willing to completely hold my hand and walk me through finding a #linux distro that works for a complete beginner

It is fascism.
At a journalism event I asked about using the word so journalism can cover and explain it. I was told that we can't call fascists fascists because it would put off the fascists.
This is fascism. Those who refuse to identify it are not doing journalism.

Padilla's assault & handcuffing is getting all the attention, but what Noem said is perhaps more terrifying.

"We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Admitting they're not here for violent criminals, they're here to overthrow our elected officials