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How The Washington Post has used flight data: * To track a former president's emergency landing (in 2022): https://wapo.st/3HGp8IA * To map out how military helicopters flew over George Floyd protests (in 2020): https://wapo.st/3V3WRie * To raise questions about Musk's flights (in 2019): https://wapo.st/2RmjE7X * To investigate The Post's owner Jeff Bezos (in 2018): https://wapo.st/3YmLt3M * To document extravagant trips on the taxpayer dime (in 2017): https://wapo.st/3HMh9d0 via @drewharwell

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"Anti-LGBTQ hate thrives online, spurs fears of more violence" (https://apnews.com/article/technology-shootings-business-social-media-colorado-75a3c597a60dca0f116d5deb6a6c1a6b)

It is definitely troubling to watch increased violence at Queer venues, and especially the increased targeting of Trans individuals.

People must be vocal about this. We also have to make efforts to not be intimidated. We must embrace what makes us Queer precisely because of those who want us to hide.

#Queer #lgbtq

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Stills from the unaired 1967 Rankin/Bass Christmas special, KRAMPUS DRAGS ALL THE NAUGHTY LITTLE CHILDREN TO HELL.

Full gallery and synopsis (as imagined by me): https://robsheridan.tumblr.com/post/703907227017297920/stills-from-the-unaired-1967-rankinbass-christmas

Apparently misunderstanding the Krampus lore, one exec reportedly believed they had found “the next Rudolph,” saying “every little Jack and Jill in America is going to want a stuffed toy of our adorable ‘Santa Goat’.”

The result, however, was a different story. Shelved before it ever aired, the film was described by NBC president Julian Goodman as “among the most foul and blasphemous affronts to God and man I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing.”

In the film, naughty children are visited by Krampus, who warns them of their fate if they don’t change their ways before Christmas. When the children continue to misbehave, they find familiar holiday scenes like tree lightings and snowball fights dissolving into vivid nightmares; even Santa Claus is stripped of his flesh and becomes evil “Skelly Claus.”

The nightmares conclude with Krampus and his demons dragging the children to infernal dungeons at Satan’s command, where their souls burn in hellfire for all eternity, as visualized in the film’s surreal 20-minute final sequence, described by those who have seen it as “an agonizing maelstrom of non-stop screaming.”

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Inspired by this, I asked DALL-E 2 for an early 2000s magazine photo of John Mastodon, founder of the Mastodon social network.

https://techhub.social/@provisionalidea/109531274250674209

DALLE AI generated image of a magazine cover purporting to be John Mastodon...

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If only there was some sort of seasonally appropriate story about the ills of one man having too much money and being awful to everyone.

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Maybe if we start calling our body parts gun-sounding names like “revulva” or “shooterus” the GOP will stop trying to regulate them.

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The week before Thanksgiving Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, Facebook fires 11K workers, and Disney plans thousands of layoffs—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳

A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers.

Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.

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Much like Jewish people, Roma have been the target of hate crimes & discrimination for centuries, both being victims of the Nazis during the Holocaust. To this day, Roma face forced sterilization, segregation, discrimination, & police brutality from government entities worldwide.

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The word “G*psy” that Nolte plasters throughout his /many/ course fliers is an exonym and a slur that refers to the #Romani people, but is also sometimes used to refer to another community of nomadic people from Ireland called #Travelers. #romani #lawenforcement

Dossier sheets of Roma people, records of license plates (personal data checkered out) and "without mercy" training flyer, and photo of Gary Nolte from NABI

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"J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji." - Terry Pratchett

@xyleborus BING BONG #largepleasedaddy

Sir Mooney Bigglesworth is fully participating in #flatfuckfriday

#selkirkrex #catsofmastodon #adoptdontshop #furchild #gerblin

More interests that didn't fit in the first bit.
#drag #burlesque #LGBTQIA+ #blacklivesmatter #startrek #starwars #sci-fi #bodypositive #goth #pinup #boudior #OldGodsOfAppalachia #horror #fpsgames #WhiskeyGeek #hftmt #firefly

I'm sure there's more but I'm starting to feel silly.

@TwinCitiesGeek :catjam:

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Has #ChuckTingle written "Boosted in the Toot by a Federation of Mastodons" yet, and if not why not?

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The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.

People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.

These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.

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This Twitter fiasco is a reminder of who is *actually* critical to the survival of our economy & society.

Twitter worked before the billionaire got here. Now that workers are gone, Twitter is collapsing. Workers made Twitter work—a billionaire broke it.

Workers > Billionaires

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