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🌍🌎🌏 👋 “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle, Duwamish

Acknowledging that I live on the land of the #Atfalati tribe of the #Kalapuya people who inhabited this land before colonial settlers arrived

#PNW #Cascadia #knitting #crochet #gardening #BloomScrolling #SilentSunday #LichenSubscribe

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Conservatives: Trump is following in Jesus' footsteps.

Me: I certainly hope so...

The president of the US tries to issue commands to airborne pilots of the Israeli airforce… via social media post.

Some day, when historians will attempt to describe our time to future generations, no one will believe them.

Welcome to thin-skinned authoritarianism. Brought to you by the “free speech” party. Hey @MarshaBlackburn care to comment? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

The Green Party is right; we do need to sit down with the EU & establish exactly what would be needed to being a process of re-joining the EU....

'the best way to restore prosperity, protect the environment & strengthen security is to rebuild the partnership we walked away from'.

Anyone wondering where sensible people might flock to as Labour continues its lurch to the right, might want to ask themselves: why not the Green Party?

#politics #EU

https://greenparty.org.uk/2025/06/23/nine-years-since-brexit/

Nine years since the UK voted by a narrow margin to leave the EU: we need to begin the process of returning, say Greens - Green Party

On the ninth anniversary of the Brexit referendum, Ellie Chowns MP, Green Party spokesperson on foreign affairs, said: “Today marks nine years since the UK voted to leave the EU, a decision for which the costs have been painfully real for families, businesses and our planet. Over nearly a decade we have seen our economy […]

Green Party

FuckLAPD dot com:

Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops: "We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up," McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police...
https://jwz.org/b/ykp6

Headline: ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

Subtitle: A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.

Source: https://www.404media.co/fucklapd-com-lets-anyone-use-facial-recognition-to-instantly-identify-cops/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

#LAPD #Police #FuckLAPD #Politics

‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.

404 Media

Have you ever seen a post or thread that you want to look at again after a certain amount of time?

There is a Fediverse reminder bot which you can use to remind you about a particular thread after a specified time period (it can be minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years later).

To use the bot, reply to the post or thread you want reminding about, mentioning the bot's account with the amount of time you want. More info and instructions in the guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/is-there-a-reminder-bot-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

#FediTips

Is there a reminder bot for Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

We are under seige in #LA:

A suspected fed. agent is seen exiting a Dodge Charger @ an intersection & pointing his gun @ members of the public. Acc. to #Pasadena officials, the vehicle's license plate is a "cold plate," or untraceable, which is typically used by law enforcement in undercover criminal operations. "One question is this a law enforcement agent or someone pretending to be a law enforcement agent, & there is no good answer" (Mayor Gordo).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-masked-immigration-agents-sow-100000525.html

#USPol
#Fascism

'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.

Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal ...

Yahoo News

have The Talk with your friends:

  • no, artificial intelligence isn't real now, nor is it just around the corner
  • we need laws to prevent capitalists using LLMs to try to circumvent labor laws; we don't need laws to stop "rogue AI" because that's sci-fi bullshit with absolutely no bearing on reality
  • no, "ai" is not "inevitable" -- the bullshit word extruders that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are snake oil garbage, and not even profitable snake oil garbage, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work
  • if you hear someone talking about how "ai" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a scientologist talking about whatever the fuck scientologists believe in: it is bullshit cult nonsense for marks and rubes
  • remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "ai" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich american fascists, filthy rich chip manufacturers, filthy rich data center operators, and filthy rich silicon valley entrepreneurs

do your part to counter bullshit fucking propaganda from capitalist scumbags 👍

Edit: this seems to have resonated with a lot of people and I've rejected a lot of nonsense replies or people being contrarian and annoying  I don't care if you disagree! Write your own post about it! :')

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@Bwaz @ajkiller @sandlapper37

In general (and with no sympathy to Trump), it wouldn't be uncommon for some date to become important only decades or centuries after, when some event was post-facto decided to have "started" there. Famously US govt spent a lot of money for getting the map that first named the continent "America", as it was seen as "start" of the federation.

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@Bwaz @ajkiller @sandlapper37

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But to get back to the original question of why US Army gets birthday parade only now:

IIRC, US Army in present self has only existed since WW2, after which it started to get less popular, peaking in Vietnam.

Further, during the Cold War, USA wanted to portray "human-faced capitalism" and coups etc. weren't in the front of the message.

It's only after post-Soviet that USA declared itself "world police" at which the army becomes the centre of US self-image.