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“What do you do when the president drops an f-bomb?

President Donald Trump said it. Loud and live. Now editors have to decide how much of it you get to hear or read.”

You can always count on the mainstream media to agonize over, well, bullshit.

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/trump-says-fudge-vulgarity-news/

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Please stop sharing this picture of JD Vance. The Vice President is not happy that it's going viral. JD's wife told reporters he is so upset that he hasn't left the couch all day. He's so distraught that he won't even let her go in the room.

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Oh ffs, guess I'm done with Spotify.

While on the family plan subscription and with no prior interest seeding, #Spotify is currently recommending a German-language far-right white nationalist podcast to my kid, who just came to me to complain about it.

So seriously, what's a good, non-enshittified alternative to Spotify these days? Recommendations needed, what do you use instead of Spotify and why?

(Thanks for retoots.)

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I'm noticing LGBTQ organizations in my area are being marked on Google Maps as "Permanently Closed." Best check on your local Pride center, inclusive church, or gay bar and make any corrections, and then make sure they're listed on www.OpenStreetMap.org as well.

#LGBTQIA2S #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #Transgender #Nonbinary #Trans #Enby

@Nonilex It wasn't declared by Congress, it wasn't a war.

It can be a lot of other things but it wasn't a war and we should remind him as often as possible that it's not a power he has.

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Our planet isn‘t dying because regular people won'’t go vegan or only take cold showers.

It's dying because a handful of corporations and billionaires profit from pumping astronomical amounts of pollution into the air and water.

@GottaLaff Start on time and lock the doors. He participates as an equal or not at all.

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#Iran #USA #Christofascists

I'm not as worried about Iranian Sleeper Cells while Christian Nationalists are openly Assassinating Democrats

@claralistensprechen5th @Free_Press I suspect he'll dangle new bait for Trump.

"Okay, that one didn't work but you'll definitely be a beloved hero after this one! We have intel that Iran smuggled their nukes into this elementary school in Gaza..."

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Name this band: The Four Treasons?

@Free_Press Well yeah, Israel wants the US to continue bombing on their behalf indefinitely. They will never confirm the targets are destroyed if it's that easy to keep us doing their dirty work.

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"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

@stilloranged
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

@stilloranged
and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"
the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. With the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. But with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct...
because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

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this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood. it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @GottaLaff The same oligarchs benefit from the Democrats as from the Republicans.

The donor class doesn't want Trump reined in, he's doing what they want done.

@juliusgoat.bsky.social https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114739773008304482

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@frameworkcomputer You had me in the first half but then the positions weren't "software engineer".

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NEW: We talked to the @WashingtonPost about how KOSA (The Kids Online Safety Act) would give Trump the ability to censor LGBTQ+ content online simply by claiming it can harm children by making them ‘anxious’ or ‘depressed’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/24/kosa-lgbtq-transgender-wachowski-blackburn-coppa/

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