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Okay, fine. I caved. I Preordered an iPhone 17 Pro today. I have never been less excited about ordering a phone. I will never stop being bitter that i can't get a small iPhone anymore. I decided on the pro over the 17 because of the slightly larger battery and I figured the fancy camera might be helpful for Aira, Be My Eyes and all the other blindy related stuff I do with the camera. By the time I got in, the delivery date was Sep. 25 so I have a couple weeks to try to get happy about my big ass phone.

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Thanks. Other states should follow immediately! c.im/@cdarwin/1151930651416428…

Chuck Darwin

2025-09-12 19:51:22

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California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces
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California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces

The California Legislature on Thursday passed a pair of bills to prohibit on-duty law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from masking their faces, and requires them to identify themselves.
Dakota Smith (Los Angeles Times)

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The person arrested for Charlie Kirk's murder?

As Joyce Vance says,

"The suspect [is] a cisgender white man raised in a religious, Republican home."

So will Wall Street Journal and New York Times now apologize for promoting the lie about bullet casings left behind by the shooter that were marked with "transgender" symbols, whatever the jumping hell that means?

I doubt it.

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
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Trump on Trials: How Our Legal System Shouldn't Work

Today, after Donald Trump announced it on Fox and Friends, law enforcement told the public it had apprehended a suspect who turned in after confessing to the murder of Charlie Kirk to his father, a former Sheriff’s Deputy and minister.
Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
#guns #violence #charliekirk
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William Lindsey

"Tyler Robinson comes from a Republican family. His father owns a business installing kitchen countertops and cabinets. His mother is a licensed social worker. His family is white, Mormon, and self-described as 'gun-toting.' There are endless photos of Tyler and his family with guns. His mother posted about him proudly."

~ Ben Meiselas

#CharlieKirk #Republicans #MAGA #Utah #guns #GunCulture #Trump #Mormon
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Charlie Kirk’s Killer IN CUSTODY

The latest details
Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)
#Trump #MAGA #guns #Republicans #utah #charliekirk #gunculture #mormon
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William Lindsey

"He even dressed as Donald Trump for Halloween. The family wasn’t shy about their culture of guns, their politics, or their worldview.

This is who the killer is. This is what we now know. And yet Trump and his cronies immediately blamed the left."

#CharlieKirk #Republicans #MAGA #Utah #guns #GunCulture #Trump #Mormon
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#Trump #MAGA #guns #Republicans #utah #charliekirk #gunculture #mormon

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Remember that white house executive order against DEIA, “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility”?

They went out of their way to add the A for accessibility. So this is very sad but not surprising.

"Trump administration cuts funding to Oregon disability programs"

opb.org/article/2025/09/11/tru…

"Organizations across Oregon received notice from the U.S. Department of Education that they’d lose hundreds of thousands of dollars"

#Oregon #Disability #Accessibility #DisabilityJustice #Education

The U.S. Department of Education is ending grants to programs across Oregon that support students with disabilities, citing practices related to diversity, equity and inclusion. The cuts could make it harder for disabled students and their families to access help, especially in some of Oregon’s poorest rural communities.

Trump administration cuts funding to Oregon disability programs

Organizations across Oregon received notice from the U.S. Department of Education that they’d lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Bryce Dole | Kathryn Styer Martínez (OPB)
#Accessibility #education #Disability #DisabilityJustice #Oregon

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Just watched a video of a memorial in London England for a racist American white nationalist where a group of Māori performed 'haka' (The Haka, the one everyone who is not from Aotearoa knows) for a group of UK MAGA shitheads.

I think I am losing my mind which is surprising as I don't remember finding it again. What the actual fuck is going on?

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hi fedi. i'm not really a fan of doing this, and i'm sorry for asking, but i'd really use some help as i need it asap. these past months have been rough to me/my family financially and i want to be able to keep myself afloat.

ko-fi.com/Naydire
i just want to be able to cover the vitals to keep going until i finish sorting things out on my side, as i'm not a fan of this situation. i'm working on it and improving on my mental, and hope it'll not be an issue anytime soon... but for now, anything helps and i would be very glad. i feel ashamed for asking but meh...

thanks for looking at this post, and hope you all are doing well! ​:neomouse_heart:​


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Comcast executives sent an email to employees endorsing free speech and warning that if you use that speech to criticize Charlie Kirk, you’ll be fired. The word “Orwellian” is overused but I can’t think of a better description. 404media.co 404media.co/comcast-nbcunivers…

Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk

An email sent to NBCUniversal employees, including journalists at NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and more, eulogizes Charlie Kirk as an "advocate for open debate" and reminds staff that even milquetoast statements about Kirk's death can result in their…
Samantha Cole (404 Media)

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California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces
latimes.com/california/story/2…

California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces

The California Legislature on Thursday passed a pair of bills to prohibit on-duty law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from masking their faces, and requires them to identify themselves.
Dakota Smith (Los Angeles Times)

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was looking at my trusty earbuds worrying what to do if/when they give out

but apparently not only do Apple still sell them (at a doable price and with three different connector options) but people are still this very week publishing culture articles about them 🥳

mashable.com/article/why-i-rep…

a looped up set of vintage OEM wired ear buds in Apple white except for being dingy with years of use

Why I replaced my $249 AirPods Pro with $19 wired EarPods

Don't be too quick to dismiss Apple's cheapest earbuds.
Haley Henschel (Mashable)

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What I often find such an interesting take in #accessibility discussions is this concept of "We will make it work for the majority first, and then add accessibility features".
This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how accessibility, and therefore " features" of accessibility work.
For one, making something #accessible for #screenReaders often requires no visual modifications at all, and requires making calls early in the development cycle to not have to rewrite your entire UI using widgets that even support #assistive #technology. Once that call has been made, making elements accessible is often a matter of, what a concept, using the widgets the way they were meant to be used.
#Accessibility #accessible #technology #screenreaders #assistive

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Welcome to the RB family, Weather Master 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.p…

inspired by the Google Pixel weather app, Weather Master meanwhile provides a lot of additional features.

Working hard on it, Pranshul finally succeeded, thanks to CI builds (here: Github actions), so it now has the shields up.

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„Weather Master“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Weather, Forecasts, Moon Phases, and More
IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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I saw an article headlined ‪"We can again be the country we were after 9/11: We flew the flag, helped our neighbors, opened our hearts, and supported our government."

Are you kidding? We had a government that immediately took away rights and turned the Eye of Sauron inward. It came up with the ominous word "homeland" and stood up a disastrous Department of Homeland Security which is today stomping people on the head, kidnapping people by the thousands, trying to secretly deport planeloads of children in the night, renditioning people to foreign prisons and war zones. I don't want to be that fucking country. I want to be the country we were BEFORE 9-11, before a reactionary extremist trend took hold among conservatives and turned them all into engines of hate and fear. Before the Federalist Society successfully took over the SCOTUS, which was the cornerstone of literally all the massive corruption and criminality happening in government today. Good grief. Some people really remember the post 9-11 history differently.

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Congratulations to the winners of our Summer of GNOME OS challenge 🎉🎉

1. Ada Magicat (40 points)
2. Ignacy Kuchciński (37 points)
3. Forteller (26 points)

This was very much an experiment, but everyone I talked to said it was surprisingly smooth, and they'll continue to daily drive GNOME OS.

Thanks to everyone who participated, it was a lot of fun! And thanks even more to the GNOME OS team for getting us this far, especially @Valentin, Abderrahim, @alatiera, @AdrianVovk, and @jjardon!

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@Jordan Petridis @Javier Jardón @Valentin David @Adrian Vovk
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