American soybean #farmers are struggling during what should be a standout year. Yields are up, but sales are way down and storage facilities are full. It’s a dire situation that will require government support - or many #farms will not survive. All because of Trump’s #TradeWar. China, our largest #soybean customer is simply not buying from US farmers, after being their biggest customer. And USAID, which has been decimated by the #TrumpAdministration was the second largest customer. #Agriculture is under attack in the USA. And it’s all Trump’s fault. #Ag #FAFO

Source: Successful Farming share.google/i1RlimCrWn1DDffTc

In Lake County, CA, where I used to live, a restaurant abruptly closed its doors after a Facebook post by the owner was interpreted as a celebration of Charlie Kirk's death. This story in the local paper is a really interesting temperature-taking from a poor, rural part of the US.

Red’s at the Skyroom closes ov...

Red’s at the Skyroom closes over social media post backlash

After a series of unfortunate online events stemming from one Facebook post, the Lampson Airport restaurant Red’s at the Skyroom has closed.

^{Nikki Carboni (Lake County Record-Bee)}

When RFK Jr. "investigates" autism, be aware that he is deliberately and knowingly engaging in eugenics.

He's literally looking for ways to eliminate people like me from the human race.

I'm autistic.

So when you ask "what causes you?", you're positioning me as something that needs to be investigated. Something that needs to be "cured", which is to say, eliminated. Because I think in a different pattern than some folk do.

When someone says, "X causes autism, so avoid X", they're saying, "or your kid might have (gasp) *autism* too!"

This is eugenics. It's Nazi stuff. Not an exaggeration. A "science" under the Nazis.

We are not broken. We do not need fixing. We just think differently. But we have always been around. That dude that wrote an eleven-volume handwritten guide to every herb in one county in England, or wherever it was? Telling me he wasn't one of my people? GTF.

We are and always have been productive and innovative members of society. If anything, we should be seen as an advantage to the species: diversity of thought is *better* thought. Not ours or yours better - but ours and yours are.

We aren't a threat, we're not (for the most part) needing round-the-clock specialist care - but be human, will you? If someone needs that, maybe give it to them? Because they're people?

Didn't we fight a big war about this a few years back? Something about a guy with a bad moustache who didn't like the disabled people in his society? Among his many targets?

Seems to me his central thesis was "I will decide who's people and who isn't people."

And that some of us are saying, "How about maybe not? How about all the people matter, and we try to keep ourselves alive all together?"

I cannot personally imagine how anyone decides his plan is better. Or more moral.

But I'll be over here on Team Everybody Else.

#ActuallyAutistic

he’s so fucking stupid that he thinks magnets stop working if they get wet. he’s so fucking stupid that he thinks exercise is bad for you. he’s so fucking stupid he thinks windmills give you noise cancer.
he’s so fucking stupid that you don’t even have to use his name — all you have to say is ‘he’s so fucking stupid’ and everyone immediately knows who you’re talking about. - Jeff Tiedrich

jefftiedrich.com/p/dumbest-doo…

dumbest doofus ever is gonna cure all the autisms

welcome to the wonderful world of superstition-based medicine

^{Jeff Tiedrich (everyone is entitled to my own opinion)}

If you ever wonder why the Dems don't change and continue to alienate progressives, here you can see it happening in real time.

New centrist think tank in DC has already raised millions and promises to “defy ideological boxes and embrace a mix of positions from across the spectrum."

If you're not aware, that's code for 'make sure the progressives don't have a voice and keep giving the billionaire donors what they want. 🤦‍♂️

(Archive link, no paywall) archive.today/O4C7U

#Democrats

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«The UK public doesn’t trust AI — the Tony Blair Institute is very worried!»

Looks like a good part of the UK's public has the good sense to neither trust Tony Blair nor LLMs 😂

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/22/the…

The UK public doesn’t trust AI — the Tony Blair Institute is very worried!

The Tony Blair Institute is the brains trust for Keir Starmer’s Labour government in the UK. The TBI is the driving force behind the UK government plan to go full AI — it has a pile of tech donors,…

^{Pivot to AI}

» On Tuesday morning, Trump took to Truth Social with a rambling post announcing he would refuse to negotiate unless Democrats “agree to the principles in this letter.” Those “principles” included a slate of anti-trans measures—from bans on transgender healthcare to nationwide sports restrictions «

» Trump has turned the shutdown fight into a test of whether Democrats will hold the line for their trans and queer constituents «

erininthemorning.com/p/trump-d…

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I've filled out many expense reports in my work life.

It took me a while to fully understand that every item on those reports represented an interest free loan to the company that I worked for.

--
The "higher ups" generally had a business credit card to use for business related expenses.

The average workers were forced to provide interest free loans.

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The employees that can least afford to "put the $$ up in advance" -- are pushed into Expense Reports.

#BadPolicy

It's been two days and none of the lemmy development team, lemmy HR department, or lemmy executive board have responded to this change.org petition.

change.org/p/remove-nutomic-fr…

Remove Nutomic from Lemmy development for transphobia

^{John Smith (Change.org)}

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You're a real cheese enjoyer guy , huh?
Well, then it should be easy for you to say what cheese this is?

I have always avoided politics on here, and even created a NoPolitics tag! But this is simply too important to ignore. Right now, it affects Europe, but if it passes, the whole world could be at risk of it being implemented everywhere. Even for those of us with nothing to hide, who don't deal with sensitive information, it's still a complete and unnecessary invasion of privacy.

Tell the EU: Don’t Break Encryption with “Chat Control”

mozillafoundation.org/en/campa…

Tell the EU: Don’t Break Encryption with Chat Control

The EU’s Chat Control law would scan private messages and weaken encryption. Sign Mozilla Foundation’s petition to defend privacy and protect our digital future.

^{Mozilla Foundation}

Do these rapture enthusiasts even read the bible? It basically says that nobody knows the time it happens, and if someone does say they know the time the rapture will happen he's a false prophet? Do these people even read the bible?

#Christianity #Rapture

It sounds like the problem is Rails if it can't be extricated from this piece of shit. tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-c…

Either fork it if you're so attached to it, or abandon it and work to sink it.

The Ruby community has a DHH problem

The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.

^tekin.co.uk

In-person and virtual community initiatives, adjusting the Android roadmap, and the journey to true Conversation View and why it's hard, and how an in-person work week helped us get started. Read/watch/listen at the blog:

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/s…

State of the Thunder 12: Community, Android, and Mozilla Connect - The Thunderbird Blog

We’re back with our twelfth episode of the State of the Thunder! In this episode, we’re talking about community initiatives, filling you in on Android development, and finishing our updates on popular Mozilla Connect requests.

^{Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)}

lue is a TUI ebook reader with text to speech (TTS) support.

It can read EPUB / DOCX / PDF / TXT / files, supports 100+ languages, highlights words in sync, saves your progress, has themes and more.

Starry Eyes (superstarryeyes on GitHub) made lue using Rich, a Python library by @textualize and is Terminal Tool of the Week! ⭐️

terminaltrove.com/lue/

lue - A TUI ebook reader with Text-to-Speech (TTS). - Terminal Trove

A TUI ebook reader with Text-to-Speech (TTS).

^{terminaltrove.com}

The blackhole of trade that is Canada. Even without TACO, shipping anything to Canada from the US has been just extortionate. So much that even from Europe might not be more expensive. It's not about distance.

This US$8.45 foam kit that fit in an envelope will cost US$13 to ship. And I'm sure the greedy basrtard at the border will want their extra cut with brokerage fee.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.

I'm talking about something very different.

Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.

Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.

But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Y'all fight for comedians. Which is why you don't have Black journalists to oppose Trump, but you do have famed resistance leaders *check notes* Matt Parker and Trey Stone.🤷🏿‍♂️

Kimmel is interviewing Gavin Newsom in his return. His podcast guests were the dudes that got the Black journalists fired.

You want to live in a world where Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and Matt Parker and Trey Stone are inside the line that must be protected at all costs...

but Black journalists and academics and professionals are outside of the castle walls, and are acceptable losses in a siege.

I'm telling you that that world doesn't exist.

Either we're all safe, or none of us are safe.

Kimmel and Colbert and jokes cannot save you from what's coming.

You need the people that you won't fight for, to fight for you.

But one-way solidarity ain't it.

The year is 2025 and I still can't **disable** an email account in thunderbird. A fucking checkbox. But go and ask us about "AI".

why would I want to do that? Because I don't want to use that account right now. Like I'm debugging IMAP. And logs leak everything.