This is by far the clearest indicator yet that we are dealing with a bona fide fascist uprising. Five alarm fire. Anybody who’s been under a rock for several years should be able to see it now.

Hillary has kinder gentler Margaret Thatcher energy. But certain people are unable to see it and think she’s just a competent technocrat, just like certain other people are unable to perceive narcissism (in Trump or anybody else).

For me, one incident sums up why he’ll lose: French Laundry. When offered a choice between a Republican vs a Democrat who does shit like that, Americans choose the Republican the vast majority of the time.

The astroturfing of Newsom is so gross. Yet another losing Dem candidate in the mold of Hillary Clinton, albeit with a natural CHA stat that’s a bit higher out the gate.

Lack of admins dogfooding is probably why problems go on so long.

Thank you so much for this detailed starting point!! ❤️

Interesting transcript of one episode of a series of shows OPB did on this case: https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/25/hush-episode-7-seven-the-nature-of-certain-lies-podcast-show/

Quakenbush said the only reason we cared about this story is because Johnson is Black. Not because someone lost 25 years of life to a potential wrongful conviction, but because journalists think it’s fashionable to talk about how police have mistreated Black people in America.

[…]

Sottile: Here we were, in the middle of a discussion about racism and policing, and Quakenbush – on tape, four times – used a racial slur in telling the story of how he was investigated.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, the “as domestic as possible” version is a couple tons heavier than the original design, while having the same fuel capacity and with engines that produce the same amount of thrust. 😬

Good to know, thanks!

Executives at these companies say the moves boost collaboration and productivity.

[x] Doubt

I had the same thought. They should have called it a “lonely black hole” or similar.

Useful info, thank you. Once in a great while I have outages of a week or a little more, usually because something breaks when I just can’t rally the resources to fix it right away. Ideally this would never happen on infrastructure used to run an instance, but my hope is that various fedi platforms will be resilient to downtime on the order of 7-14 days before they entirely give up. I think it would be helpful to small and/or broke instance operators, and I would like a fedi with lots of little instances. :)

I don’t have examples offhand, but recently did a bit of reading at the behest of a friend whose cats had fleas, and recently developed pesticides were found to be active at levels of just a few nanograms per flea. Many of the newer insecticides are active to this degree, or close to it. Industry started designing pesticides using the principles of Rational Drug Design and quickly came up with a bunch of fantastically lethal (to the target, namely, insects) chemicals which are now being sprayed all over the environment.

Related: if you’ve ever happened to notice that more recently developed medications often require a lower dose, in milligrams, than older ones in the same class - that isn’t by accident. There are a number of principles that can be used to increase the potency of a candidate bio-active chemical, pesticides included.

Not pesticides that are active at single-digit nanogram quantities?

it’s Boebert FWIW

chuckles in selfhosted ActivityPub server reverse-proxied thru xmr vps in eastern europe

BTW, only reason I don’t donate is because I’m so broke I can’t even pay bus fare. Thanks for running the node.

Trump-as-narcissist must be bridling furiously at the fact he owes Miriam Adelson wayyyy too much to make Bibi pay for punking him on the world stage over and over and over.

what a weak lil bitch he is.

I would love it if somebody could post in here what’s up on occasion.

I’m very excited for this as somebody who’s been on microblogging fedi since right about the time of the OStatus switchover.