Medium gives employees Friday off to participate in national strike protesting ICE | TechCrunch

Activists behind the general strike are calling for "no work, no school, and no shopping" amid a push to defund ICE, which has escalated raids in U.S. cities, killing several people, including two U.S. citizens earlier this month in Minneapolis.

TechCrunch

A quotation from C. C. Colton

Power multiplies flatterers, and flatterers multiply our delusions by hiding us from ourselves.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, ยง 25 (1822)

More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-calebโ€ฆ

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #asskissing #bootlicker #brownnose #coterie #deception #delusion #fawning #flatterers #flattery #lickspittle #power #selfabsorption #selfapproval #selfawareness #selfconfidence #selfdelusion #selfesteem #selfglorification #selfknowledge #selfregard #sycophant #toady #toadying #yesman

Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, ยง 25 (1822) - Colton, Charles Caleb | WIST Quotations

Power multiplies flatterers, and flatterers multiply our delusions by hiding us from ourselves.

WIST Quotations

@fixatedpersonsunit

Dutton in 2003, backing up #JohnHoward and the "pre-emptive" invasion of Iraq on the grounds of #FakeNews, lies and the need to #BrownNose #GWBush.

"Australia has chosen to forward deploy elements of the Australian defence forces as part of its moral obligation to ensure where possible ongoing stability around the world." - #PeterDutton

#AusPol

MAGA Bill Introduced to Make Trumpโ€™s Birthday a Federal Holiday

The presidentโ€™s June birthday falls on the same day as Flag Day.

The Daily Beast
Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage and calls for new leader of Reform

It is unclear what prompted Musk to write on X that Farage โ€˜doesnโ€™t have what it takesโ€™ to be Reform UKโ€™s leader

The Guardian

@davej
That'd be Coles who've signed up part of the US-Israel genocide machine as a supplier.

And it's hard to imagine that customer details, metadata and biometric / facial recognition data isn't being sold off to shadowy corporations too.

Maybe #AnthonyPratt had some suggestions to make about how to #BrownNose American Presidents?

#ColesLetsDoTheGenocideTogether
#PeterThiel #Palantir #Coles #LeahWeckert #BirdsOfAFeather

#letsroll

โš„ โšƒ โšƒ โš„ โšโ†’#sizable
โš… โšƒ โš‚ โš€ โš…โ†’#unmixed
โš€ โšƒ โš โšƒ โšโ†’#brownnose
โš… โš€ โš€ โš‚ โš€โ†’#submitter
โš„ โš‚ โš โš… โš„โ†’#scorch
โš€ โš โšƒ โšƒ โš€โ†’#astute

sizable-unmixed-brownnose-submitter-scorch-astute

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#letsroll

โš„ โš โšƒ โš€ โš€โ†’#roster
โš€ โšƒ โš โšƒ โšโ†’#brownnose
โšƒ โš€ โš€ โš โšโ†’#material
โš โš„ โšƒ โš… โšƒโ†’#envoy
โšƒ โšƒ โš€ โš€ โšƒโ†’#patriot
โš… โš€ โš โš… โšโ†’#superglue

roster-brownnose-material-envoy-patriot-superglue

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#letsroll

โš€ โš‚ โš… โš€ โš‚โ†’#bonfire
โš€ โš… โš… โšƒ โš„โ†’#contest
โš€ โšƒ โš โšƒ โšโ†’#brownnose
โš‚ โš… โš€ โš… โš…โ†’#limb
โšƒ โš€ โš„ โšƒ โš…โ†’#mushroom
โš„ โš‚ โšƒ โš… โš€โ†’#selector

bonfire-contest-brownnose-limb-mushroom-selector

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation