Rick Moen πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

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SRE, Operations/Senior Sysadmin, Big Data, DNS Guy. Used to run an online merchant bank for a while. For my sins, co-author of "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way".

Passionate about: Road bicycling, creative cooking, learning languages, travel, geopolitics, biosciences, chili peppers, cultural anthopology.

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Rick Moen πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§Jun 22
Molly Cantrell-Kraig πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦Jun 21

I like this idea.

#ICE #immigrants

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Bob LeFridge  Jun 21

America has The Onion, Canada has The Beaverton. This is a helpful travel piece: "Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that".

β€œCanadians are welcome in California. It’s perfectly safe to visit,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. β€œJust so long as you take a few basic travel precautions, like travelling on a valid passport, teleporting over the border, moving undetected in the shadows in the dead of night, getting the telephone number of an immigration attorney tattooed to your upper thigh, saying a heartfelt goodbye to your pets and the people who love you, and appointing someone to water your plants just in case you disappear into a labyrinthian nightmare of an extrajudicial immigration enforcement system that no longer answers to judge nor common mercy.”

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/06/canadians-travelling-to-the-us-advised-to-not-fucking-do-that/

#Beaverton #Canada #Satire

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that

OTTAWA - Canadians thinking of planning a trip to the United States are being advised by the Government of Canada to perhaps consider going anywhere else on the entire fucking planet for their summer vacations. 

The Beaverton
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Legit_SpaghettiJun 22

It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

Rick Moen πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§Jun 22
Nathan Kalman-Lamb ("Marxist-Islamist")Jun 22
Oh boy…
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Steve HermanJun 22
"I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today. This is a dangerous escalation in a region already on the edge – and a direct threat to international peace and security," says UN Secretary General AntΓ³nio Guterres. "There is a growing risk that this conflict could rapidly get out of control – with catastrophic consequences for civilians, the region, and the world."
Rick Moen πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§Jun 20
Meredith WhittakerJun 19

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❀️

Rick Moen πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§Jun 19
Bad Popehat With Evil IntentionsJun 18
Don’s right. Trumpism not just permits, but demands, overt hostility to a wide array of American values, institutions, culture, and people. Trumpism hates much more of America than it loves.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/post/3lrvy26kbyc2v
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Lauren WeinsteinJun 18

RFK, Jr. may try ban measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and flu shots now that his picks are on advisory committee

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/after-rfk-jr-overhauls-cdc-panel-measles-and-flu-vaccines-are-up-for-debate/

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ahimsaJun 18

Sen. Padilla's speech on being forced to the ground & handcuffed after asking a question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-mKheWHHDw

"… we've seen masked federal agentsn in tactical gear, ordered into our communities. We've seen a disturbing pattern of increasingly extreme and cruel immigration enforcement operations targeting nonviolent people, at places of worship, at schools,
in courthouses, all to meet an arbitrary quota."

(automated captions, some errors)

#USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist

WATCH: Sen. Padilla's full Senate floor speech recounting his removal from Noem's LA briefing

YouTube
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Cory DoctorowJun 18

ETA: GOOD NEWS!

https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821

In reading an important discussion of the IP assignment in the new Mastodon.social ToS:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.

These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content Β· Issue #35086 Β· mastodon/mastodon

Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...

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Legit_SpaghettiJun 22

It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

Show thread2xfoJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti
What are the chances Trump Jr will embroil the US in the Middle East in 2047
Show threadRaglan Niall  Jun 22
@RnDanger @Legit_Spaghetti 2057, the cadence is adding 10 years to the previous gap.
#Fact #Science
Show thread2xfoJun 22
@Niall @Legit_Spaghetti i have a vote for "not great" πŸ˜…
Show threadpjrmJun 22
@RnDanger @Legit_Spaghetti
And drag other countries into the invasion as well
Show threaddisorderlyfJun 22

@RnDanger @Legit_Spaghetti Yeah, I'll literally eat my own shoe and videotape it for you if the man lives to be 101, let alone is still President

EDIT: lmao, I missed the "jr" part. If we have Donnie Jr for that long and humanity doesn't resemble Fallout games by some miracle, maybe.

Show threadAaron Brown6d ago
@disorderlyf @RnDanger @Legit_Spaghetti I think you missed the β€œJr”
Show threaddisorderlyf6d ago
@aaronbrown I did, sorry.
Show threadCatherine is not giving up.6d ago
@RnDanger @Legit_Spaghetti slim and none.
Show threadWyatt H KnottJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti It's 1983, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit civil war in Lebanon, getting our embassy blown up.
Show threadAskoldJun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

unprecedented! nobody could have predicted that or have any reaction other than pure shook. if you are not shocked that means you are a terrorist. deport him guys

Show threadEndicottRoad59Jun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti I think I see a pattern here.
Show threadAaron In MinnesotaJun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti I can't speak much to 1991...I was alive but a kid, and i haven't studied the history too much. but for the later two....

If Gore had won, (or righyfully been declared the winner SMH) would he have avoided war? I have my doubts.

Similar for Kamala, I very much wish Trump had lost, but I have suspisions Kamala could have been drawn into this war on behalf of genocidal Israel in much the same way

Show threadLegit_SpaghettiJun 22

@aeischeid Personally, I don't think 9/11 would have happened under Gore.

In the late '90s, the FBI had a hard-on for going after eco terrorists like the ELF (though that label is debatable). In 2000, there was an arson spree in Phoenix, and they reassigned a few key FBI people to crack that case. One of the agents assigned to the arson case had been working on a report about Al'Qaeda cells learning to fly planes.

No one paid attention to that report until it was too late.

Show threadOberst EnzianJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti @aeischeid It still would’ve happened. bin Laden put that plan into action in the early 1990s. What might not have happened was spending 20 years fighting two wars largely for no legitimate reason. We probably would’ve chosen one nation to invade for 20 years instead of two.
Show threadAaron In MinnesotaJun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti sure, maybe so, who can really say, betterfly effect and all, but even if 9/11 hadn't happened... I remember pretty clearly how much Gore talked about all the intervening he hoped to do in the middle east during their debates.

Bush came off to me as the anti-war candidate of the two of them, and I don't know maybe that was me being yound and credulous, but Gore sure didn't seem like somebody who would avoid war

Show threadOberst EnzianJun 22
@aeischeid @Legit_Spaghetti Harris would’ve happily help Israel murder children. At least she’d be aware that she was a bad guy (and absolutely done it anyways). Trump will go to his grave convinced he’s a hero.
Show threadMorten Hilker-SkaaningJun 22
@aeischeid @Legit_Spaghetti the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, remember? That was just a Bush family extra curricular activity, that wasted trillions of dollars and millions of lives.
If Gore had been president there not would have been an Iraq 2.
Show threadDoreen32128 ready to rumble!Jun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti  Yup! 
Show threadastroPugJun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

Oh, that’s so not my kind of nostalgia. I just wanted to repair my Walkman.

Show threaddoomy πŸ¦€Jun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti fun fact neocons are really similar to neoliberals except neoliberals prefer debt traps before allying with fascists to extract value from the 3rd world. nice and tall horse u got though.
Show threadFlaming CheetoJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti early 1980s Marine barracks in Lebanon.
Show threadKierkegaanks regretfullyJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti could add reagan at the top
Show thread⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

#meme #memes #Iran #israel #WWIII #iraq #uspol #uspolitics #trump

Show threadBillionaireBourguignonJun 22
@cryptadamist @Legit_Spaghetti I wonder which freedoms will be removed this time? You know, for Palantir
Show threadDavid Mitchell Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

And this song remains relevant each time…

[Moxy FrΓΌvous - Gulf War Song, 1993]

https://youtu.be/DktM16tVAD4?si=a8hqemDNxTTJ2kYl

Gulf War Song

YouTube
Show threadRome0Jun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti History Repeats itself... *sigh*
Show threadζ—₯本θͺžγΎγ‚まあJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti a reminder again that Ozymandias engineered his exile...
Show threadsleepy62πŸπŸ› οΈ πŸ–₯️ πŸ”¬ 🌞Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

#Trump has been sagging in the polls. He needed a war to boost his favoribility and seem more "presidential"

Works every time.

#iran

Show threadfreediverxJun 22

@sleepy62 @Legit_Spaghetti

I think public support for this war will be comparable to public sympathy for the dead CEO a few months ago.

Statements by political leaders and the corporate media do not reflect the sentiments of the public.

Show threadSu_GJun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

Detecting a pattern here… 😐

Show threaddisorderlyfJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti Watch a republican president embroil us in a bullshit war in the Middle East in 2067
Show threadcanleaf08 ⌘ βœ…Jun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti Peace president. Family friendly politics. Yep… Break young men even more. war is peace.
Show threadJDJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti it's years.... (fill the blank) and some American politicians started a war.
Show threadLuuk_AaldersJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti
so next time you'll probably vote for a Republican candidate again.
Show threadJakob VoßJun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

1991 there was a (disputable) United Nations Security Council Resolution allowing US to do so

2003 it was fake news, a pressure to "do something" because of 9/11 and at the US tried to get official support from other countries

2025 is different.

Show threadAngua Jun 22
@nichtich

2003 involved NATO as the US involved Article 5 - that went so well... still is as far as I know. The UK to our shame got involved. Bliar The War Criminal amongst other issues.

Ongoing - the UK has participated in Israel's War Crimes already - Starmer The War Criminal.
Good for the rest of NATO not getting involved.
Now pursue the Genocide Convention.

@Legit_Spaghetti
Show threadLeonard RitterJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti the grand american chessboard is what unites them all
Show threadGeorge BailyJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti media: non stop cheering and ultra serious rationalization
Show threadJordiJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti Llavors ja queda clar qui son els mΓ©s feixistes no? (Writed in catalan)
Show threadKroc CamenJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti Europe, you have the chance to do the funniest thing and really piss off the orange turd β€” give Harris a Nobel Peace Prize
Show threadxs4me2Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

As it is…

Show threadGiles GoatJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti The pic is Earth in 2035 what remains of it ?
Show threadbparconsJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti ..talk about doom scrolling
Show threadAlfredJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti
... and now you're only talking about the wars which are on the frontpage of the news. I'm afraid the US is already involved in multiple wars, but nobody knows about it.
Show threadfreediverxJun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

There were Democratic members of Congress behind all of those wars.

Show threadPatrick CoyleJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti At least the Bushes tried to make a case to the American people and the international community about the necessity for their wars. Whether we believed them or not, they explained why we should go to war. Trump just expects us to go along with whatever he wants to do.
Show threadTundraWolfJun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti @Binder

Republicans know that:

1) American presidents who are embroiled in a war tend to be re-elected.
2) Trump wants a third term.
3) The only thing stopping many of them being strung like Mussolini and his wife is Trump is still in power. The only question there is which faction will get to them first.

Show threadTomas EkeliJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti at least the time between seems to be doubling every time
Show threadRobert H6d ago

@tomasekeli @Legit_Spaghetti

Time between? Don't count conflict start dates. Consider conclusion dates

Show threadren (is fairy eyelashes) 🎢🌈Jun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti to be fair, ALL US presidents have bombed the shit out of the middle east for some reason or another..... oh... wait... probably oil. It's oil isn't it.
But also, Fuck Trump.
Show threadTroubled ClefJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti 100% agree. If history teaches us anything, when US international aggression is displayed, those on the receiving end of it will use all the tools at their disposal to fight back. It isn't stopping the Iranians from firing more missiles at Israel, so I guess that didn't work and all it did was to embolden them to state that now they are DEFINITELY pursuing a nuke.
Show threadcrazyeddie6d ago
@mylesw @Legit_Spaghetti I read a book in college I think called, "The End of Peace," but I've not been able to find it by that name. He discussed all "worldwide" (western) wars, the peace agreements made, and what destroyed them. He pointed finger at the development of a hegemony. The hegemony starts pushing everyone else around and the world blows up, everyone dies, and then everyone agrees to never let that happen again...but there's always some loophole that lets it happen again.
Show threadcrazyeddie6d ago
@mylesw @Legit_Spaghetti The author suggested one of USA or USSR would become that hegemony and the UN Sec council would make it useless.
Show threadTroubled Clef6d ago
@crazyeddie @Legit_Spaghetti This seems so close and all too familiar.
Show threadTroubled ClefJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti
Old Taco will end up dealing with constant terrorist attacks on US soil from Iran (and those sympathetic) to them. The second one of those kicks off on US soil, he'll lock down the USA hard. Remember "Build a wall"? Well walls have two sides - they keep out those you don't want in, but they jail in those that want the freedom of travel to get out. So we got that to look forward to.
Show threadJoachim ZiebsJun 22
@Legit_Spaghetti There might be a hidden pattern...
Show threadtom jenningsJun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

Each one crazier then the last. This might be the last in this particular series though.

Show threadVon Xylofon6d ago
@Legit_Spaghetti