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ICE’s budget now rivals the militaries of nations around the world and that money is building an enormous domestic surveillance machine. Learn about the surveillance tactics they’re using and how you can protect yourself and your community. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree

Hello, pals — my humble rock band continues to volley our tunes into the world… most reliably here:
https://sealparty.bandcamp.com

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Elon Musk and these young boys all have access to your social security number and financial interactions with the government.

On twitter right now, Musk is banning everyone who posts the names of these hitler youth he and Trump unleashed into the governments private data.

#cybercoup #musk #AkashBobba #LukeFarritor #EthanShaotran #EdwardCoristine #GauthierColeKillian #GavinKliger #USPol #Trump #USTreasury

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Breaking News:
Flamboyantly evil SocMed baron does inflammatory thing to centre himself in the discourse and distract.

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Meta is blocking links to Pixelfed

https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/

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Zuck now refusing to stop false info on FB is especially egregious given that FB disinformation already enabled the Rohingya genocide. This isn't hypothetical. It happened. FB wasn't held accountable. Now they're bent on enabling more disinformation on FB & God only knows what violence will result.

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The Greggs Semiotic Standard. The icons from a Greggs paper bag that tell you what the markings on bakes mean, redrawn in a way inspired by the icons from Ron Cobb's Semiotic Standards for the Alien films. Why yes I have been enjoying my time off, why do you ask

Been looking forward to this day for a while now… our new album is here! Enjoy:
https://onerpm.link/523219494262

A sneak peek at 17 December from your pals in the party

Hi, pals. I'm on Bluesky as well, but it's bridged (thanks @bsky.brid.gy ) -- over there I'm @kseal.bsky.social

Favorite joke I've seen today so far:

"My favorite things are eating out my friends and avoiding commas."

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“Covert Chinese accts are masquerading online as American supporters of Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions & attacking Pres Biden ahead of election..signal a potential tactical shift in how Beijing aims to influence American politics, w more willingness to target specific candidates & parties, incl Biden.

In echo of #Russia’s influence campaign..#China appears to be trying to harness partisan divisions to undermine Biden admin policies..”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/business/media/china-online-disinformation-us-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Easter candy this morning,
Springsteen in SF tonight

Quality Sunday ay ay

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ESA just released some beautiful #JWST images of M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.

In the near-infrared image, dark red features trace the filamentary warm dust, while colors of red, orange, and yellow show gas ionized by recently formed star clusters.

In the mid-infrared image, dust grains and molecules glow, heated by starlight. Empty cavities and bright filaments alternate, giving the impression of ripples propagating from the spiral arms.

More https://esawebb.org/images/potm2308c/
#Astronomy #Space #Galaxy

NIRCam image of the galaxy M51. A large spiral galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The core is mostly bright white, but there are also swirling, detailed structures that resemble water circling a drain. There is white and pale blue light that emanates from stars and dust at the core’s centre, but it is tightly limited to the core. The rings feature colours of deep red and orange, which are surrounded by cloudier regions of white and grey, with regions of black surrounding the distinct narrow spiral arms.

MIRI image of the galaxy M51. A large spiral galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The core is mostly bright white, but there are also swirling, detailed structures that resemble water circling a drain. There is white and pale blue light that emanates from stars and dust at the core’s center, but it is tightly limited to the core. The detailed rings feature bands of deep orange and cloudy grey, which are interspersed by darker empty regions throughout.

I’ve been quiet bc there’s a cat on my lap

Kevin Seal boosted:

Great Wired read about a Wikipedia editor who's making sure that no one gets away with Nazi reputation-laundering. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/one-woman-s-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-on-wikipedia?utm_source=pocket-newtab

"...history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance."

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Elon Musk liking tweets defending the use of the term “colored people” and calling the Southern Poverty Law Center an extremist group

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Are we there yet?

Cartoon drawing of an obese man sitting on a padded sofa eating junk food and watching TV.

Quote: “Unless the giant corporations’ big hold on the government and on the population is broken, the remnant of democracy that still exists is doomed to yield to technocratic fascism, to a society of well-fed unthinking robots.” - Erich Fromm (1976)

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Only in the #Highlands of #Scotland ! #Clachtoll

Post box with an added sign reading "Do not use, birds nesting"

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YOUR DAY COULD PROBABLY BE WORSE:

First paragraph of Wikipedia article on the Erfurt latrine disaster:

"The Erfurt latrine disaster was an event that occurred in Erfurt, Duchy of Thuringia in 1184 where a number of nobles from across the Holy Roman Empire were meeting in a room at the Church of St. Peter only for their combined weight to collapse the floor into the latrine beneath the cellar and led to dozens of nobles drowning in liquid excrement. At least sixty people died in the incident."

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It's an absolute indictment of journalism and lawyering that we are only finding out now that the wedding website case -- which the Supreme Court used to endorse discrimination against certain people -- was fraudulent in pretty much every way.

https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court

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