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mark my words: there will be no mid-terms in 2026
and no presidential in 2028
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Garrett LeSage
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If there are elections, they'll be even more rigged than this time around.

(I'm considering age-old gerrymandering and other disenfranchisement schemes as rigged. Not some ungrounded conspiracy, just the actual known methods that are somehow tolerated.)

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Hubert Figuière
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@garrett yeah there was already all the vote suppression and gerrymandering. And vote split with the candidate still on the ballot.

I'm think more like election where the winner is declared while the ballots burn.

@Garrett LeSage

Zoomed out we see a small, lone shuttlecraft flying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"

MH-, suicide

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Opinion: Trump wins. American voters just reelected cruelty and hate usatoday.com/story/opinion/col…

Opinion: Trump wins 2024 election. America needs to admit it's not 'better than this.'

Donald Trump won, and I never want to hear the words 'America is better than this' again. I never want to be told about America's better angels.
, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)

I don't blame Harris for this result. First and foremost I blame mis and disinformation. We currently have the strongest economy in the world. Inflation is down under 3%. Low unemployment. Yet a whole lot of voters seem to think the economy is terrible and that because prices haven't gone down, inflation is still high (a basic misunderstanding of economics).

Secondly, I think there's a lot of misogyny and racism in the US.

Do not fucking say “it’ll be okay”
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Chris 🌱
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every time I see someone say "we'll get through it", I can't help but think of all the people that didn't get through it last time.
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7 Reasons Why Linux Is the Best Tool For Programming - Make Tech Easier

Explore why Linux is the top choice for developers and programmers, thanks to its advantages, flexibility, and open-source foundation.
Haroon Javed (Make Tech Easier)

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I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this, but now is really not the time to be assholes to other people. And no, your hot take on who screwed up or what went wrong is probably not helping in any way.

This is not aimed at anyone. but I have a private thing which soon won't be a private thing, LOL. If I come across any bad language on my timeline, I'll mute them, for three, then seven, then unfollow. And no this is not as a result of what I have seen recently. I started doing it weeks ago.
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David Goldfield
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Rachel, I apologize. When you wrote
"I have a private thing which soon won't be a private thing, ..."
I clearly misinterpreted this and assumed there was perhaps something major going on. Again, I'm sorry for that.
I also detest profanity, particularly when God's name is misused, and I hate encountering it on my timeline.
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Rachel K
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@DavidGoldfield Oh no apologies necessary. I was just playing on words a bit and being silly. It's just my sense of humour. It's all good.
@David Goldfield

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#diy #woodworkinghelp
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Federico Mena Quintero
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DIY question

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From Freedom Scientific: Live webinar Explore Labels in Gmail with JAWS: Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

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There are times I think I understand French, and there are times I try to make sense of notices like this that I get in the mail.
A notice about street work. The work being done is re-opening a 1 city block long section of the street "progressively". The estimated duration of the work is 1 month.
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Hubert Figuière
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you get notices like that? We get jack shit. And when we call 3-1-1 about something like that they say "why don't you ask the workers?"

Cuando sueltas a un categulario salvaje en #suiza:
yo saltando alegremente sobre mi mochila con los alpes suizos de fondo y el pasto del piso en primer plano
#suiza

If you’re wondering what to do right now, give. Help people around you because a lot of folks are hurting.

Look up #mutualaid and help where you can. There’s a ton of work that still needs to be done and we can start by meeting people’s needs today.

The fedi raised millions for Harris.

Imagine if we put that same effort into satisfying immediate needs right now.

That would be a massive step forward and a good way to start building our collective capacity outside of politics.

We can do that right now.

#MutualAid

It's time for my periodic reminder that VPNs do not magically increase security or privacy.

They take your network traffic and deliver it to someone else on your behalf, then deliver the responses back to you. That is all they do. That's what a VPN is.

The only time this helps with privacy is when you don't want your ISP to know where the traffic is going or you don't want the website to know where the traffic is coming from, *but you're okay with the VPN operator knowing*. If your use case does not fit into that very specific description, including the caveat, a VPN will not help you with privacy.

(Inspired by a friend asking me VPN questions this morning, because "everyone was talking about VPNs so I assumed that's a thing we're supposed to be doing now".)

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A felony can keep you from a job at McDonald’s but not the presidency? Make it make sense.

Another one of fan artist Blatherskite's awesome ASL character posters to distract you in these troubled times! This time it's the remarkable and fascinating T'Lyn! :cerr:
#StarTrek #ASL #FanArt

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Star Trek Lower Decks art from fan artist Blatherskite/The Orion, @gettheorion.bsky.social. The art is depicting the Vulcan, T'Lyn. She has her logical Vulcan expression. To the left is her name spelled out using American Sign Language.
#fanart #startrek #asl

I’ve said for a long time the greatest threat to the US is white Americans and they proved that yet again by coming out in force for a charlatan that repeats the lies they want to hear.

Personally, I don’t feel much about it because my existence has always been an uphill struggle. Hell, if you’ve been following me for awhile, you know how contentious the environment has been on the fedi and my fight to push this place past its racist inclinations.

I get how people feel pretty down at the moment. Do what you need to do to take care of yourself.

But as a person that has been fighting for a long time, don’t dwell in the despair. Don’t let the doom consume you. This is just a moment in time and it will pass.

And it’s a great opportunity to decouple your idea of progress from the state that has proven time and time again it does not give a fuck about your wellbeing.

Now is the time for ideas. Now is the time to create.

We are far from helpless.

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Gorgeous Killer
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One of the main reasons I do what I do is because I envision a world where our communities are so well organized and connected that it doesn’t matter what politicians do because we have us.

I’ve worked under this premise for years and it has led me to a purpose that has sustained me through all of the hate and dehumanization people have constantly thrown at me in my years on the fedi.

I gave up on the state being a catalyst for progressive societal change a long time ago. Yesterday was just another confirmation that the US is dedicated to its own destruction and decline and is determined to bring us all down with it.

Our job is to refuse to die with the empire. Our shared goal is to disconnect from it and let it kill itself.

Oooh. Figured AMD would still hold the crown after the new desktop Core Ultra SKUs are barely beating and sometimes doing worse than the 14900K, really no shocks or surprises on this and gives weight to Intel worries, although AMD is perhaps not immune from the bloated complexity of the aging X86 instruction set either in a similar fashion.
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Tamas G
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@nick yeah it's interesting that even as far as Geekbench Intel got a 3000-point higher score on the 285K. I would suspect that potentially on workload both are probably neck and neck, and thermals can influence benchmark results by slight margins too.
Gamers Nexus did a huge 38-minute segmented video, "RIP Intel: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU Review & Benchmarks vs. 7800X3D, 285K, 14900K, & More": youtube.com/watch?v=s-lFgbzU3L….

RIP Intel: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU Review & Benchmarks vs. 7800X3D, 285K, 14900K, & More

BUY OUR NEW INDUCTOR DICE SET: https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/inductor-full-tabletop-mtg-dnd-premium-dice-set-7-piece-dice-wooden-box-token-cardBUY O...
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@Nick Giannak III
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Nick Giannak III
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I haven't had a chance to watch that, thanks. ANd yeah, that's one thing I thought to myself even after seeing the Verge article, I'd buy the CPU that isn't the toaster.
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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D: the best gaming CPU theverge.com/2024/11/6/2428894…

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D: the best gaming CPU

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now the best gaming CPU. The successor to the 7800X3D is now more capable of non-gaming workloads, too.
Tom Warren (The Verge)

Thank you Mastodon and the Fediverse for being an example of communicating without billionaires and US venture capitalists calling the shots. We're going to need more of this.

People like being cynical because it hurts less. But cynical people don’t effect change. So the tradeoff is pain.

I. Hate. CSS.

The good news: he can't run again.

The bad news: he won't need.

Come join us at Michigan Python tomorrow at 7pm EDT! Afranio Costa will be giving a talk about Building Multi-Platform Apps with Flet and Python. All are welcome to come learn how to use Flutter and Python together to build a simple data science oriented app with data graphs. meetup.com/michigan-python/eve… #Python #Flutter #Flet #DataScience

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The Unix original choice of a 32bit time_t ending in 2038 seems particularly inspired today.

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Mikołaj Hołysz
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D.Hamlin.Music
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so when we we think all of the anti trust suits get dropped for big tech companies?

I say February

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Mikołaj Hołysz
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I wouldn't be so sure, for all Trump's faults, which he obviously has plenty of, J. D. Vance was pretty clear that he's mostly anti-big-tech and wants antitrust actions to continue. He's likely to be a lot friendlier to smaller companies though, but I think that's a good thing on net.

Just utterly horrified a colleague by showing them the unplugged flash drive in my hand, whilst sharing a Slideshow from it on screen.
removing the drive in use seems to have really irritated them, despite the fact that writing to unencrypted drives is forbidden by our systems anyway and the file I wanted was happily sat in RAM.

This is the most unhinged thing I’ll see today.

California voted to keep slavery in their prisons. In 2024. This happened.

CA votes not to ban slavery in prisons

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Hey würde jemand Lust verspüren sich beim Betrieb eines deutschen #panoramax Servers einzubringen? Streetview Photos unter CC und für OSM :blobcat_winking:
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#selfhosting #openstreetmap #fossgis #gistribe #datenschutz #photografie


Deutscher Panoramax Server?

Wenn es um das Problem des Hostens der Bilder geht könnte man vielleicht gucken, dass man die Bilder einfach auf Wikimedia Commons speichert und Panoramax nur als Viewer für die auf den Wikimedia Servern liegenden Fotos nutzt.
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#datenschutz #selfhosting #openstreetmap #fossgis #PANORAMAX #gistribe #photografie
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FediVerseExplorer
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Den Matrix Raum dazu kennst Du?
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Q: How do you catch a unique rabbit?
A: Unique up on it!

Q: How do you catch a tame rabbit?
A: The tame way!

Hoy @elmundotoday está que lo tira!

Desokupa se ofrece a desahuciar a Joe Biden de la Casa Blanca

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Desokupa se ofrece a desahuciar a Joe Biden de la Casa Blanca

Daniel Esteve, responsable de Desokupa, ha celebrado hoy la victoria de Donald Trump y ha anunciado que se desplazará mañana mismo a Estados Unidos para poner a disposición del partido republicano los servicios de su empresa, que tiene «mucha experie…
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If children's story books had to pass accessibility testing, so many of them would fail basic colour contrast tests. All should be tested by being read in a dark, dimly lit room. Stop putting black text on dark blue, ffs.

@Tutanota

Wenn ich den Verlauf von Mails anzeigen lassen möchte, also alle in einem Verlauf, dann möchte zumindest ich die neueste ganz oben haben und nicht ganz unten!
Aber auch hier gilt wie fast immer, ihr gebt den Leuten keine Möglichkeit das in den Einstellungen anzupassen…
Und die Aktualisierung der Android App hat mal eben einen Teil meiner Einstellungen überschrieben.
Das ist übergriffig! Ein absolutes "No Go"!!

@Tuta
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Tuta
Tuta
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Wir danken Ihnen für Ihr Feedback. Wir werden es an die Entwickler weitergeben.

I love you all, and I'm so sorry. This is a deep blow, and now we all have to live in the anxiety of all the what ifs. This is a time for unity among us, not to play blame games on other people who also didn't want this outcome. You all mean a lot to me, and we will need each other more than ever in the coming months and years. A virtual hug to you all, you're important and you matter.
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