"Let me say this clearly: nobody in this country is safe."

"Federal agents detained American citizens without individualized probable cause this week. They handcuffed children. They sorted people by race. They treated an American city like occupied territory."

"This happened. In Chicago. In America. This week."

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#USpol

Do you see my words?

I'm writing these words from the bottom of my heart.

This is not the life we deserve to live. We are human beings and we deserve a better life. This life isn't like us. We had beautiful life. We had beautiful home. We had beautiful people and places. Now we only have a tent that we move from a place to another. We lost everything.

We don't deserve this!

Please donate to help my family overcome this tough time

chuffed.org/project/121561-urg…

#gaza #palestine @mutualaid et

I was curious about whether there were any developments in inexpensive braille, so I searched for "low cost braille display". The top result was, of course, Orbit. The second? Humanware. That made me laugh. Looks like Orbit and BrailleMe are still it, and I still don't like Orbit's lack of cursor keys, refresh sound, and keyboard. I've never tried BrailleMe. It's sad that the new ideas for this technology never seem to pan out. Pun intended.

"When we stand up, we don't stand alone." -Senator Cory Booker. Stand up with millions on October 18th to say enough is enough. Find your closest event at nokings.org. Sign up for Walnut Creek at the link on our website. #nokings #indivisible #stopthecuts #mayday #trumpshutdown #yeson50

Today, with things being what they are, I can do no better than quote from the master, Douglas Adams... "Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons"

I’m Abeer, a mother of four from Gaza.
I lost my husband and our home. We survived bombings, hunger, and endless fear.
Now I’m alone, trying to keep my children alive — to find food, water, and warmth.
No child should suffer like this. Please, help me give them safety and hope again 💔

gofund.me/f6e9cc9d

#GazaUnderAttack #SaveGaza #StandWithGaza #GazaChildren #MothersOfGaza #HumanityFirst #StopTheWar #HopeForGaza #GazaRelief #PrayForGaza #ActForGaza
@aral
@joynewacc

Ugh. It's a zero motivation, getting my ass handed to me by depression day. I woke up at 10, and I've been lying here in bed trying to find reason and motivation to get up and do something since. It's a rainy miserable day here today. And while I could probably very easily blame my mood on the weather, I won't. I really detest this why bother, what's the point mood that I get into sometimes. Like you know that point where you feel like all you need is something good to happen to you or a little bit of good news to feel better? Yeah, that. It's times when I feel like this that I really understand why people self medicate to feel better. Oh well, I'll probably do that myself when I do eventually rise because why the fuck not? Hope everyone has/is having an awesome day.

Маме снова звонили мошенники.

На этот раз под предлогом проверки прикрепления к поликлинике.
Слово за слово, как-то передают звонок из рук в руки, и дальше снова начинается: на вас взяли доверенность, зашли в Госуслуги, у них есть все ваши документы...

На этот раз дальше дело не зашло (мы всё перепроверили, никаких доверенностей, никаких входов).

Но как же я этих сволочей ненавижу.
Пожилые люди гораздо медленнее соображают, их легко запутать и запугать.
Помогайте своим бдить.

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in reply to Бука

Не помню, рассказывал уже или нет, как я тут чуть не лопнул от гордости за свою маман. Позвонили ей такие, прикинулись родственником. А она: «Как зовут моего сына? Как зовут мою дочь?». Молодец, только так и надо. С госуслугами, честно, сложнее, но если я правильно понимаю, легально же никто с госуслуг в принципе не звонит по телефону.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion а с госуслуг и не звонят. Звонят «из поликлиники». Первичная бдительность усыплена, а потом (не сразу, сначала обсудят все детали вопроса с «поликлиникой») резко пугают, и дальше уже надо иметь хорошие нервы чтобы с этого соскочить

@b000ka

in reply to D:\side\>

@dside @mo @menelion как я понимаю раньше такой развод был частный - проверка газа итд. Но там приходили и смотрели на газовый котёл после чего вздыхали и говорили что очень очень очень надо котел менять.
in reply to kurator88

@kurator88 это и в городах есть.

Моей маме так пришли с "проверкой", типа нашли утечку газа и поменяли подводку газа за 5 т.р. Показали удостоверение типа "ГБУ ГосГаз №13" с фото и печатью, в форме был и т.п. Причём по времени как раз шли обычные проверки, это тем более подозрения не вызвало.

Хуже всего, что после этого ушлёпка утечка реально появилась и заметная уже не приборам, а носу, и вскоре явившийся реальный газовщик поменял подводку ещё раз, рублей за триста.

До того, разумеется, никакой утечки не было.

@D:\side\> @Мя �� @André Polykanine @Бука

I'm reading Eichmann in Jerusalem, & something I wish I had been aware of sooner is that this is not just an important text about Nazis & the evils that ordinary people can commit without batting an eye.

It is *also* an important text about Israel & its history. Hannah Arendt is also critiquing Eichmann's trial as a type of show trial & pointing at the Zionist ideology & propaganda on display.

in reply to Artemis

Is anyone aware of works by Black or Indigenous authors (or other POC) that either deal directly with Arendt & her ideas about the "banality of evil" or that cover similar topics?

I'm interested in the psychology of "normal" people who participate in, support, or tolerate genocide happening around them, & would especially benefit from perspectives of colonized people on this.

#BlackAuthors #IndigenousAuthors #AuthorsOfColor

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

mixed feelings. obv will go downhill under Qualcomm: end of era. OTOH I can respect if Arduino's founders/owners wanted to get rich, esp as a way of de-risking the lives of them and their loved ones. cuz very risky/chaotic things on the horizon, across near and medium term scales

there will always be other teams out there trying to make the next Arduino. not surprised if a few exist already

Despite the recent media reporting, #Windows installation with local accounts is working just fine. Create a regular Windows installation media and drop autounattend.xml to the root of the USB device and install it.

You can craft the autounattend.xml yourself or use a service like schneegans.de/windows/unattend… to generate it.

If the installation demands you to connect to the internet, you can bypass this part by pressing Shift+F10 and then entering oobe\bypassnro + <return>. After the installer restart, you'll have the "I don't have internet" option, and the installation will proceed.

EDIT: To clarify: While I did not test the latest insider build I believe this method will continue to work, even with it. I'll be sure to edit the post if this turns out to be incorrect.

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If you have an iPhone 16 (of any kind), this is your reminder that you can set up an automation in the Shortcuts app that turns on silent mode when you leave home, and another one that turns it back off when you arrive.

I used to keep my phone on silent all the time, mostly to save myself the embarassment of forgetting to flip the switch before an important meeting. With the physical switch gone, this is no longer necessary.

Some personal reflections on the second anniversary of October 7. #antisemitism #israel #palestine

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"World leaders who just a few years ago lauded Thunberg and rushed to share stages and photo-ops with her have said nothing. The climate scientists who hailed her moral clarity and feverishly retweeted her have ignored her. The prime minister of her own country has been silent. Thunberg has been abandoned by a fake progressive liberal class that hailed her courage and valorised her strength just a few short years ago" donotpanic.news/p/the-liberal-…