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@moira
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@moira I refuse to be Charlie Brown agreeing yet again to let Lucy hold the football. Schumer will talk tough, and yet he'll find a way to somehow let the DHS funding pass anyway. It always does.
I will be delighted if he proves me wrong, but I highly doubt that'll happen.
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@moira it's something...
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@moira Gosh, what will the Baileys think?
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@moira "[T]he DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE."
Color me paranoid, but that looks like the out. Some adjustment—bodycams anyone?—that purports to "rein in" a heavily armed rogue agency that's had a taste of murder for sport.
We'll see.
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@moira Literally the absolute least he can do...
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@moira "[T]he DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE."
Color me paranoid, but that looks like the out. Some adjustment—bodycams anyone?—that purports to "rein in" a heavily armed rogue agency that's had a taste of murder for sport.
We'll see.
@fgbjr The version coming from the house has the bodycams and shit, but doesn't do anything meaningful. That kind of noise _is_ what he was relying on to excuse not whipping against it. So he's moved past that, which is actually good.
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@moira Gosh, what will the Baileys think?
@gcvsa he needs to retire so hard
seriously he needs to go
but he's still there right now so we need him to do the thing
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I'm acknowledging how slow everything is because of Republican's obstruction in Congress.
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@moira More like too little, too late, Cuck Shoelicker.
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@moira More like too little, too late, Cuck Shoelicker.
@mast0d0nphan He needs to go but the fact is until we can ditch him we still need him to do this shit. Don't punish people for taking a step in the _correct direction_.
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@mast0d0nphan He needs to go but the fact is until we can ditch him we still need him to do this shit. Don't punish people for taking a step in the _correct direction_.
@moira I'm not punishing him for taking a step in the right direction.
I'm punishing him because he took too long to step in this direction even after multiple constituents and his senate peers have screamed at him to take these necessary actions and pick a god-damned side after he stuck his fingers in his ears and went "la la la, can't hear the obvious forthcoming fascism!"
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@fgbjr The version coming from the house has the bodycams and shit, but doesn't do anything meaningful. That kind of noise _is_ what he was relying on to excuse not whipping against it. So he's moved past that, which is actually good.
@moira We live in hope.
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@moira I'm not punishing him for taking a step in the right direction.
I'm punishing him because he took too long to step in this direction even after multiple constituents and his senate peers have screamed at him to take these necessary actions and pick a god-damned side after he stuck his fingers in his ears and went "la la la, can't hear the obvious forthcoming fascism!"
@mast0d0nphan Same thing.
The proper response is "THANK YOU. Now, here's what's next." Not "FUCK YOU, you took too long." The former is how you can move forward, the latter is how you continue to lose, and the American left is WAY too fond of losing, and way, _way_ to fond of "FUCK YOU, you took too long, I'd rather lose."
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@moira Well, they finally shot a white guy. Obviously that sort of thing can't just be ignored.
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@moira Well, they finally shot a white guy. Obviously that sort of thing can't just be ignored.
@Kadin2048 Anybody know if he was straight? They discounted Renee because she wasn't, and I'm sure they're digging right now.
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Good morning Fedi friends!
I hope you're having a nice weekend.
I'd like to clear the air re: #WSocial and my opposition to it.
I got a lot of messages on my Mastodon account (several over private DM) trying to dissuade me from speaking up about it and urging me to work on improving the fediverse instead.
I hear you.
But I disagree.
I experienced the same thing last year, when I mentioned I had incendiary evidence about the lack of content moderation on Substack. I had many examples of posts and replies inciting racism, homophobia, fatphobia and xenophobia and spreading dangerous health misinformation. I had taken screenshots and reported them. When I checked back months later, none of my reports had been acted upon. I am talking about seriously heinous messages that are still on there. When I mentioned this on the fediverse, I got many responses urging me "not to waste my time" and "to stay positive" and to "focus instead on helping the fediverse." I did that. Meanwhile Substack is still incredibly popular and most people - even those using it - have no idea of the heinous speech that is allowed on it... and sometimes even monetized. I honestly regret not speaking up. It may not have made a difference, I know (I'm not a megalomaniac) but it makes my skin crawl to think some of the heinous comments are still on there and a young person could come across them and think they are ok. I should have spoken up.
Now, W Social where do I start? Sure, my criticism of it is from a completely different angle. All I want to do is write ONE blog post about its problematic aspects and then I will move on. What is so objectionable about it?
Years ago I wrote a blog post citing all the problems about Dove and its Real Beauty Campaign. It may not have been much, but it was over 10 years ago and the post is still getting hits today. You can see it for yourselves if you look up "The Problem with Dove" and "The Illusionists."
I'm very very lucky to have a little bit of influence on here - I'm immensely grateful for it - and even if I'm preaching to the choir as they say, maybe my advocacy can make a little bit of difference.
My hunch is: staying silent and wishing W Social away is not the way to go. They had a very rushed, botched announcement with no existing product or users. Major security flaws in their setup (I have plenty of evidence). I'd like to write something that you could reference and share... since so far no journalists did any research and simply rehashed the press release of W Social. That's irresponsible reporting – P.R. masked as journalism and it needs to be rectified. That's all I want to do: a blog post about "The Problems with W Social" that hopefully with a sprinkle of SEO magic people can easily find. What's so bad about it? 4 hours of my time and then I'll move on.
Your loyal fedi advocate,
Ele
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When it's really cold, I leave food on the front porch to lure feral cats so I can herd them inside. Tonight I went out to check the food, saw it was gone, and there were dog tracks in the snow. I don't want any cats out in this weather, but there really can't be dogs out in this weather, but I have no idea what to do about it. I put more food out, which hasn't disappeared since, and I'm hoping that means the dog has gone inside somewhere. Gonna walk around the area before heading to bed..
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Grazie ar cazzo, lo stanno imponendo con tecniche da scammer su tutti i dispositivi compatibili
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizarrely_low
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@KFears @afreytes tone and form does help, but sadly a single asshole making the worst scene about a cultural norm violation can be enough to prevent the receiver from listening to more expressive recommendations. Maybe we need to improve our policing of tone policing? Hard to say.
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How does Amazon Prime Video break its browser tab but no other streaming services do? I thought they were all just JavaScript frontends to the build-in video support in the browser...how can one make it chew 100% of CPU and end up crashing its tab, while nobody else does?
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@Massimiliano_Bordina @la7tv montaruli fdi condannata in cassazione mai carcere ma in commissione vigilanza rai!
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In cultures like Korea and Japan, taking off your shoes at home is a long-standing tradition. I'm curious about how this practice varies across different regions and households in the fediverse.
How does your household handle shoes indoors?
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