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chgowiz , 22 hours ago to random

No words. Just a lot of determination to work to make sure this doesn't happen. So that in 4 years, our votes still count.

#democracy

futurebird , 13 days ago to random

If you see a new youTube channel with a plain sounding name like "NatureView" or "BrightScience" etc. and there is what looks like a tempting video on a specific education topic "Most Active Volcanoes" or "Incredible Carnivorous Plants"

There is a 50/50 chance it will be a generated voice with stock footage and a script written by GPT.

I am now avoiding videos if I don't recognize the creator, or don't see signs it was made by a person.

So much spam!

randahl , 14 days ago to random

The Moscow stock exchange can no longer trade in dollars and Euro, and the Russian stock market is declining fast, and Russian banks are preventing customers from logging in, after the US unleashed extensive new economic sanctions.

Have a great weekend Vladimir! 😘

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckvv1wydkwqo.amp

Joe Biden Reaction GIF by The Democrats

ElleGray , 28 days ago to random

First of all, this is clever and adorable. Secondly, if you spell out your name it writes a little story for you

("Dickensian Alphabet" by Tom Gauld)

Strandjunker , 1 month ago to random

So while he was celebrating his 80th birthday with Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and 75 MAGA guests, Rudy Giuliani was finally served with the Arizona indictment for their criminal conspiracy to overturn our 2020 election. — Now that’s what I call the definition of sweet karma.

Nonilex , 1 month ago to random

#POTUS #Biden & #Trump agreed Wed to a June 27 debate on @CNN, hours after Biden announced he would bypass the decades-old tradition of 3 fall meetings organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (Trump stipulation, bc CPD has guidelines)
After Biden publicly embraced a #CNN proposal on social media, a Trump adviser,…said the presumptive #Republican nominee would accept that event. (We’ll see)

#BidenHarris2024 #VoteBlue #sanity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/15/biden-trump-presidential-debates/

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

1/… more preamble, via Rupar:

Trump this morning printed out new NYT poll showing him ahead in swing states+ some Fox columns for good measure.

"A legal expense is a legal expense. It's marked down in the book, 'legal expense'" --Trump still pretending he doesn't understand why he was charged w crimes re Stormy payment

PallasRiot , 1 month ago to random

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GottaLaff , 2 months ago to random

“Volkswagen workers at the carmaker’s Chattanooga plant in Tennessee have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers, a historic victory for the union and the labor movement’s efforts to expand to the southern United States.” #UnionStrong https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/volkswagen-unionize-uaw-tennessee?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

randahl , 2 months ago to random

Hilarious!

Having slim chances of succesfully defending his crimes, Trump holds a press conference showing prints he has made, of articles from people on his side, who claim the trial is unfair.

“Look!” Trump keeps saying, as if his mountain of legal trouble would go away, because a friend at the golf club or a party member has written a piece in the paper.

This really has the vibe of of a 5-year-old arguing, “everyone in class says you are dumb, and I am clever!”

https://youtu.be/B-8J2IRhCkk?si=gvA_2XWagp20NUwe

randahl , 2 months ago to random

The US now has a presidential candidate, who had to be told by a judge yesterday, not to threaten the family members of court staff.

Let me repeat that: An influential person threatens family members of court staff to intimidate the legal system, and half the US still has this sick person as their preferred candidate for president.

MikeDunnAuthor , 3 months ago to random

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

👋🏼 A third former #Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has each been sentenced for his part in the racist torture of two Black men by a group of white officers who called themselves the “Goon Squad.” Daniel Opdyke was sentenced Wednesday to 17.5 years in federal prison.
https://apnews.com/article/94d9dcfa00e582b9d50a6eb7288b058b

jeffowski , 3 months ago to random

#mentalhealth #mentalillness
#USHealthcare

I couldn't get help until I tried to hang myself...

Flipboard , 3 months ago to histodons group

Last week, we posted a Follow Friday about women historians on Mastodon and @gewam responded with an even bigger list. Here they are:

@AndreaLoew — historian at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.
@elizabethward — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Universität Leipzig

@AnkeFK —historian of war and violence with a passion for present and future peace

@christinkallama — researching nation and Holy Roman Empire in Renaissance Germany

@davi_cath — historian based in Zurich and Berlin

@dorotheegoetze — specialist in early modern history

@efdavies — historian of East (central) European history

@histoftech — specialist in history of technology

@kawulf — historian of early America, director & librarian of the John Carter Brown Library

@kerileighmerritt — Writer, historian and activist

@KeuckT — lecturer in public history at the University of Bremen

@LenaOetzel — specialist in early modern diplomacy

@Lignedescience — specialist in technical and natural scientific heritage

@MagdaTeter — historian, author

@jojoweis — head of the research area Digital Literary and Cultural Studies at University of Trier

@sonjdol — historian at Otto von Guericke University

@mob — specialist in early modern history and digital humanities

@spatial_history — professor of spatial history and culture at the University of Erfurt

@ProfMSinha — president-elect 2024 of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author
@Mareike2405 — deputy director at @dhiparis
@historleans — associate professor, author
@historianess — associate professor of history at NYU

#FollowFriday #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History @histodons

lowqualityfacts , 4 months ago to random

Ouch.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

GottaLaff , 5 months ago to random

Still under the weather so I won’t post as much today. But had to post this. #Trump #EJeanCarroll #legal

Via Inner City Press: 1/…🧵

Judge Kaplan: So let me say, during the arguments and instructions, no one else is to speak...
Carroll's lawyer: We have an issue with some of the tweets, they were not entered into evidence.
Madaio: These are tweets during the five hour gap. They are objecting.
Judge Kaplan: You did not succeed in entering them. Show me the slide

[Me: wait for it…]

RickiTarr , 5 months ago to random

Sometimes it feels like I'm this animal that has all these weird emotions that my brain and body are just not evolved enough to handle. I'm doing the best I can, I just know more stuff than I have the capacity to reckon. Understanding my place in the Universe and knowing that it is both significant and completely insignificant at the same time, is the strangest feeling. Seriously, who put me in charge of my own meaning?!