Retired software engineer, formerly enthusiastic about all things computer, but now less so. Climate alarmist. Friend of old dogs, lifelong learner of new tricks.
North Vancouver 🇨🇦
Small update: I'm about to migrate my account from mastodon.cloud over to cosocial.ca
If it doesn't work, well, I haven't considered most of the possibly ways it might not work, but hopefully I don't lose touch with anyone here.
This is a travesty, though it was the best option Apple had in this case (better than complying). I hope the reaction to this by folks in the UK is swift and loud.
ONE DAY! 5000 signatures!
“to transition official government communications away from Twitter/X to more secure, community-regulated platforms that prioritise public safety, accurate information, and accessibility. We encourage the government to explore publicly accountable alternatives, including decentralised networks, to ensure reliable and responsible communication with Canadians.”
Our petition last year took a month to get 1000!
Time for #Fediverse in Canada!!
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359
Emily Hall, a #DOJ lawyer, contended that #Trump’s order directing #DOGE to “maximize governmental efficiency and productivity” essentially amounts to a job description.
“That couldn’t be more broad,” Boardman said.
…The inquiry into DOGE’s staffers came as Boardman weighed whether to temporarily bar DOGE from accessing sensitive #personal #data across numerous #FederalAgencies.
Databases are still using tables? Don't they know we've switched to <div> years ago?
So all you need to do now to get an authoritarian government of your very own is vote Conservative.
Look at Nova Scotia. Our Premier played the rural Nova Scotians like a fiddle (pun intended) and got the biggest majority in history with almost no one in any city represented.
It's literally as close to absolute power as you can get in a democracy. 5 years and no opposition party can do a thing to stop you.
But it wasn't enough. They had to remove the independent auditor general office too.
@GottaLaff @Snowshadow
Here's another support of your point. Small gestures have big effects.
The vice president of the United States went to Germany to boost Nazis. Imagine a German politician coming here to boost the KKK, says Joe Conason:
https://www.nationalmemo.com/jd-vance-racism
Then again, Trump and his cult are a present-day KKK in so many ways...
CALIFORNIA — ex NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested for civil disobedience protesting at the city council in Huntington Beach, where the council planned a “MAGA” display on a plaque at the library. Context: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
A bit of news to be truly grateful for today. Yesterday, Leonard Peltier was at last freed from prison, not pardoned, but having his prison term commuted after 50 years in jail. He's 80, in poor health, survived a childhood being kidnapped to boarding schools w abusive, corrupt priests, like #FatherJosephGill. Whatever you think about his release, the overwhelming guilt in his case, is guilt we can't escape even if you only occasionally think about the fact you're probably living on stolen lands
Trump administration identifying #Autism, #ADHD as "dire threats to the American people."
Underlying many of Trump's policies?
Eugenics. Against all disability.
Libertarian survival of the fittest.
Link to Whitehouse gov post:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/
Even if they don't round us up, over 80% of us #autistics are unemployed or under employed.
Killing our benefits like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Foodstamps, Housing, etc?
Just a soft means of killing us.
#SoftGenocide is more deadly. It goes unnoticed.
An addendum:
I must honor my fear.
Fear is my guardian, my screaming siren.
Fear is the warning of annihilation that must be heeded.
I will embrace my fear and share its wisdom.
I will let it flow through me into purpose and strength.
And when we have acted, I will remember its lessons.
Where the danger once stood, we will remain.
We are stronger for having feared... and acted... together.
With respect to Frank Herbert's Dune.
Canada, let’s not follow in the footsteps of the U.S. Yikes. https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glokanagan_mirror/114033017827566394
Cato the Elder Knew
This is entirely true.
The USA is a country founded on colonialism, slavery and human misery.
It seems to have, bafflingly, spent decades overthrowing a tyrant, then 250 years groping for new ones to worship.
In the 1930s, it was very close to electing fascists.
And, for fuck's sake, read @mekkaokereke 's threads about the Statue of Liberty and Black history.
The US is a nation denied any understanding of its own history. We are all about to pay the price for that.
This part I've heard myself from employees, that their Teams calls are transcribed and keyword-searched, and that policies can change in near-real time in ways that make employees believe they're being spied upon. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
so I'm looking into that rancher who's making TikToks about how he's screwed because DOGE cut his grant program
wanna nail down a lot more details before saying anything about that operation but whoooooooeeeeeeeeey boy
@paninid man he was good. He sacrificed himself in so many ways
Ugh, this sounds horrible especiall if it relates to the Republicans' efforts to make her a target of their violent extremists.
Rebecca Marodi, the California fire captain who was targeted by the right-wing as supposedly being a “DEI hire” and therefore blamed for the LA fires, has been found stabbed to death in her home.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/cal-fire-captain-stabbed-to-death-san-diego-county-home/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user%2FCBSNews