A sign of springtime here

#birds #wildlife #nature #photography #naturephotography

When y’all finally accept this as true then we can start trying to solve our problems for real.

*Americans aren’t facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath. The US was an oligarchy well before Trump’s first term. Recognizing this reality is essential to building a true democracy.*

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2026/mar/08/trump-democracy-oligarchy-policy

#uspol #USPolitics #fascism #realtalk #livingindenial #lyingtoourselves #oligarchy

I wanted to work more on this on my way into work but oops it turns out pulling video assets from my NAS over a tethered cell phone is while on a ferry is *a bad idea*

Also annoying all my Australian friends by reminding them how popular this song inexplicably was in 2006

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116205075329513597

...in which Amazon tell us that outages were caused by unreviewed AI code...

oh yeah somebody said something about there being no doubt about productivity gains because 'they see them everyday'?

Well ok I'll accept your still anecdotal evidence but I would like to debit hours from those x1 engineers productivity gains and raise a credit for hours lost by every person affected by these outages. #AI

The Oligarch Parties pretending that they were never hot for the war against Iran, taking the Voters for idiots as always....

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/nigel-farages-humiliating-iran-u-turn-should-be-a-lesson-for-keir-starmer/

#NigelFarage #Farage #KemiBadenoch #UKPol #UKpolitics #IranWar #EpsteinClass

"Terror Was Needed to Make Arabs Leave’: What the Israeli Army Did in 1948"

"The area is to be cleansed of Arabs.... Every Arab who will be met with is to be annihilated.”

"Thousands of newly discovered documents now make it possible to tell the true story of Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 – and to begin to grasp its bitter implications".

https://israelpalestinenews.org/what-israel-army-did-in-1948/

#Palestine #PalestineHistory #USPol #EUPol #1948IsraeliTerror .