Washington, Pissed

@GoodKing@mstdn.party
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Retired Enterprise Resources Planning consultant and CPA. Semi-retired bass player for a Ska/Reggae/New Wave cover band. Sailor. Occasional carpenter and diesel-engine-fixer. Fixer of other things, occasional breaker of same. House-cat servant.
Volunteer election worker since 2018.

Without hand counting of all paper ballots, whoever controls the counting computers controls the outcome.

Dear Fedi friends, may I ask you a favor?

I would really appreciate it if you could boost this message. I have created a French version of my Fedi promo video - and a French landing page – that I hope can spread far and wide in the Francophone world:

https://news.elenarossini.com/fedivers-video/

Cette vidéo explique ce qu'est le fédivers en 4 minutes. N'hésitez pas à partager cette page avec vos amis et vos proches qui ne sont pas ici... J'espère que cette vidéo éveillera leur curiosité 💙🤍❤️

#TheFutureIsFederated

📺 Découvrez le fédivers : une nouvelle ère pour les réseaux sociaux

Découvrez un tout nouvel univers des réseaux sociaux, où la vie privée est respectée, les utilisateurs détiennent le pouvoir et les GAFAM n'ont pas leur mot à dire.

Elena Rossini

Medicaid isn’t “welfare.” It’s chemo. It’s oxygen. It’s a child’s seizure meds.

You kill Medicaid, you don’t just “cut spending.”

You kill people.

#DontKillOurMedicaid

In a serious gain in efficiency, a Space X Starship prototype has exploded without actually being launched.
They're next plan is to see if they can produce an explosion during the assembly process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71AwkBt3_ts

#news #science #space #NASA #spacex

SpaceX Starship 36 Explodes During Flight 10 Testing at Starbase

YouTube

"The USA today is not the USA I fought and came close to dying for," says 100-year-old Frank Hartzell, who helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen.

His experience offers a warning about the dangers of political extremism:
https://theconversation.com/american-liberators-of-nazi-camps-got-a-lifelong-vaccine-against-extremism-their-wartime-experiences-are-a-warning-for-today-248813

@histodons #Histodons #USPolitics

American liberators of Nazi camps got ‘a lifelong vaccine against extremism’ − their wartime experiences are a warning for today

A historian of the Mauthausen concentration camp says US troops and the Spanish antifascists they freed were united in a common fight against authoritarianism.

The Conversation

Republicans are living out their fantasy of randomly kidnapping people who look foreign and abducting them.

Just watch:

#MAGAKidnappers

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Look man, I'm not convinced the 2024 election was stolen or anything like that, but it seems to me that in the year 2025, with everything we've seen, deciding to die on the hill that the election was 100% absolutely legit seems just as delusional.
I miss Radio Shack.
Don't complain about billionaires and corporations while still using their social media platforms. You're not helping. You're just making them richer.
It’s a mystery.