Waste, fraud, and abuse:

"The Trump administration will pay $1 billion US to a France's TotalEnergies to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-administration-totalenergies-offshore-wind-9.7139677

Just think of all the problems we could solve with $1 billion.

#USpoli #Money #GreenEnergy #wind #Windmills #FossilFuel #climate #energy #waste #fraud #abuse

"It's none of my business," the woman said, "but..."

The witch did not roll her eyes.

"...I heard you gave the baker's gal fangs, and claws."

"She asked."

"You've made her a monster!"

"Adding doesn't make you a monster. Removing does."

"Removing what?"

"Someone's right to be who they are."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

This Louisiana prosecutor...
• Was forced to resign from the DA’s office for submitting false paperwork
• Withheld evidence in at least 3 death row cases
• Compared a Black teen to a dog and told the jury to “get rid of it”

Now he’s running for judge.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hugo-holland-louisiana-judge-race-controversies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Louisiana #Law #Legal #Courts #Election #NewOrleans #Shreveport

Hey, look, it's my monthly status report! Catch up with what I have been up to this past month and planning for the next month or so!

https://www.etherdiver.com/2026/03/19/status-report-3-26/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116261526543583522

The reason I joined the Android team in 2010, and that since 2008 I’ve carried Android not iOS devices, was that I could just download software. And other people could download mine.

This new process is a massive breaking of faith with the community.

To be fair, every year or two Apple ratchets up the difficulty of downloading Mac apps.

The doors on every open platform are swinging closed, fast or slow. Capitalism is broken. Another reason we need to protect the Web.

Feaugh.

Dear computer companies,

This -> ✨

Is now the Mark Of Cain. I will never ever click any button that features it.

Regards,

Approximately everyone

Capitalism is so great that billions of dollars has to be spent each year on mass marketing to convince the public to buy all these worthless products that nobody wants.

And billions more to convince us that going bankrupt to pay for healthcare, allowing people go hungry and freeze to death in the streets, to die from climate disasters and preventable diseases, genocide and mass murder of civilians abroad, and police murder and concentration camps at home, are all necessary for our freedom and safety.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom/116249991289136625

"What are you gonna do? Use GIMP?" -- Adobe for many years now

Nothing is gonna change unless we all start using free and open alternatives instead of this scamware 🙏

#enshittification #opensource #adobe #photoshop #gimp