Nostr notes by Madeleine Morris

I think what I love most about this is that it really promotes ...

2026-06-21T08:19:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…574f
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I think what I love most about this is that it really promotes free-range farming, dual use applications, etc.

It is not the sparkling futurism of ad executive imagination, but the gritty authenticity of sustainable reality.

I wouldn't for a moment suggest that Cuba's political ...

2026-05-25T13:30:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…6w6y
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I wouldn't for a moment suggest that Cuba's political system is unproblematic (although I have to wonder if it was ever any more problematic than any other system). But they had excellent education and outstanding health care services.

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@artemis/116635435070572453 I ...

2026-05-25T13:28:39Z

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@artemis/116635435070572453

I often wonder if much of the US's aggression against other parts of the world doesn't come down to the fact that they face utter financial ruin if they get sick, and feel the rest of the world should have to suffer similarly.

If you love interacting with AI chatbots because it feels easier ...

2026-05-16T10:33:21Z

If you love interacting with AI chatbots because it feels easier than interacting with another human, I want to try to prompt you to think about why that is.

All discourse is two-way. With another human, we are constantly getting - no matter how much affinity we feel - a little bit of push back. That sense of pressure conditions our own evaluative thinking. It forms and nurtures an independent mind.

That even slight discomfort you feel when meeting another human mind forms you. 1/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mera1991/116504313578298407 It might ...

2026-05-02T14:29:51Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mera1991/116504313578298407

It might as well be Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

It blows my mind that our leaders cannot acknowledge this.

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I walked through a long street that once held beautiful buildings and life. Now it is only rubble and silence.

More than 400 bodies are still trapped beneath the ruins, not yet recovered.

An unbearable pain… and a grief too heavy for words.😭😭😭😭😭😭

#Gaza #Palestine #StopGenocide #freepalestine #freeGaza #fyp #help #helpgaza #1000MAdleens #Israel #trump #iran #IranWar #usa #canada

I've noticed that the battle over what gets called Paella is ...

2026-04-26T10:51:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…rkdl
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I've noticed that the battle over what gets called Paella is similar to the battle over whether a Tortilla Española should have onions in it or not.

It's serious stuff. These discussions often get very heated.

Being a guest here, I keep out of it, and just eat their delicious food.

Very often on Sundays, Don and I go around the corner to a place ...

2026-04-26T10:35:40Z

Very often on Sundays, Don and I go around the corner to a place that mostly does roast chickens.

On Sunday's the owner's mother makes 'Arroz' - sometimes with seafood, sometimes with rabbit. (I'm not so keen on the rabbit, but it's okay)

No one calls it Paella, because they don't want the inevitable argument about what constitutes a 'real, authentic paella'.

It's very yummy and so reasonable. But you have to get there within 15 minutes of the end of cooking, or it sells out.

And it’s finished. Took me a little longer with all the ...

2026-04-25T16:04:54Z

And it’s finished. Took me a little longer with all the handwork but it was worth it, I think #kimono

Watching this Kash Patel shit from Europe, I find it stunning how ...

2026-04-25T10:02:39Z

Watching this Kash Patel shit from Europe, I find it stunning how often the US focuses on the wrong thing. It stinks of sanctimony.

There isn't a thing wrong with people getting tipsy on too much wine at a dinner table, or getting rosy-cheeked at the pub. Indeed it is one of the pleasures of life.

The issue is shit poor judgement, which in his case, extends far, far beyond his drinking habits.

I just got a WhatsApp message from my friend in Tehran. I ...

2026-04-20T12:56:17Z

I just got a WhatsApp message from my friend in Tehran.

I don't want to speak for her, so I will just pass on her words:

I can't believe I'm alive
We had massive explosions in my neighbourhood
So close
So terrifying
Broke the windows
Shaked the building
I feel numb
The city is not the same
Neither people
Neither life

Then our connection dropped.
#Iran

I remember watching a very wizened old tailor in Ho Chi Minh City ...

2026-04-19T12:01:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…mt79
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I remember watching a very wizened old tailor in Ho Chi Minh City sew an extra piece of the woven fabric of a suit into the inside jacket pocket.

Invisible mending techniques used to be very, very common in Asia, and you need a generous piece of the same fabric to weave it into place to cover a hole or tear.

I am sure he's passed on now, but that little act lives on in me.

I always loved what I call 'courtesy' tailoring: the ...

2026-04-19T11:55:28Z

I always loved what I call 'courtesy' tailoring: the spare buttons on the inside, the easily unpicked and resewn hem, the bra-strap tie on an evening gown, etc.

The courtesy tailoring on a #kimono is the 'tomo eri' - the collar's friend. It's a piece half the length of the main collar which covers it and takes the wear and tear and can be removed or replaced. I add a little extra something - the fold of spare fabric hidden in the collar, that stiffens it, and also is there for repair. #sewing

Okay, I really like Pope Leo, and I’m an atheist. It’s just ...

2026-04-16T19:05:06Z

Okay, I really like Pope Leo, and I’m an atheist.

It’s just refreshing to see one powerful person who truly isn’t scared of Donald Trump.

What an outstanding piece of analysis. I really appreciate the ...

2026-04-10T10:26:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…dztx
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What an outstanding piece of analysis. I really appreciate the nuanced reading.

I think that it is very often the case that the first step to an opening of possibilities begins with simply loosening the incumbent's accretion of power.

I didn't know anything about Magyar, but once I saw him in that jacket, I knew he wasn't some left-wing reformer. But I think sometimes any change is better than none. If it erodes Orban's stranglehold on political power.

It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade ...

2026-03-29T08:55:41Z

It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.

There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.

I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.

I would like it to be over before I die, please.

I'm disgusted by the Olympic committee ruling. Not because I ...

2026-03-27T13:39:12Z

I'm disgusted by the Olympic committee ruling.

Not because I don't think hormones matter.

Not because I don't think chromosomes can matter.

But because there's is not a fucking sports event in the world that is worth the erasure of a person's personhood.

Not one.

Fuck those people and PE angst.

I think many countries - especially colonised countries - learned ...

2026-03-13T15:48:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…jn4q
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I think many countries - especially colonised countries - learned a LOT from the fall of France, Belgium, Holland, etc. to the Nazis during WWII.

The first was to absolutely believe your country CAN be taken from you. The second was to determine that you'd rather die than relinquish it. The third is that the invading enemy has a lower tolerance for loss than you have.

I spent 20 years living in a country that defeated and ejected an ...

2026-03-13T15:45:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…8f2g
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I spent 20 years living in a country that defeated and ejected an American force of over 1/2 a million at one point. I studied the history of that war, and the war to oust the French before it.

With a tiny percentage of its resources, its military technology, etc. The reality is, people who love their country (not necessarily their governments), can and do bear unbelievable levels of misery to hang onto it.

It's not theoretical for them. It's their country.

Firstly, I want to be incredibly clear on something: the regime ...

2026-03-13T15:34:31Z

Firstly, I want to be incredibly clear on something: the regime in Iran is murderous, misogynistic, autocratic, anti-diversity, torturing, kidnapping bastards.

All that being said, I don't know when the US and the west in general is going to learn that you cannot defeat an enemy determined to defend its own territory via aerial bombardment. Period.
It has never happened. Never. Not once.

The US has even tried it with boots on the ground - in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, in Iraq. It doesn't work

Well, democracies only function when the people living under them ...

2026-03-13T14:05:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…jzf7
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Well, democracies only function when the people living under them take responsibility for them.

The fact that 1/2 the fucking country wasn't out on the street protesting after Pretti's murder is proof of this.

People COULD get out and protest en mass, but they chose not to.

In non-democracies, you can't. You get shot.

Meanwhile, in the US, where you literally DO HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT ...

2026-03-13T11:41:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…nj8v
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Meanwhile, in the US, where you literally DO HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT to document ICE acting badly, they shoot you for it these days.

And yet I can understand that people living expat lives come to ...

2026-03-13T11:40:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…garl
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And yet I can understand that people living expat lives come to believe the rules don't apply to them. I saw it often, Westerners who believed themselves to be above the laws of the country that was hosting them.

And with smart phones it is very easy to think that because you can take a picture of anything, you should and have a right to.

But you don't.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116221646008456537 I ...

2026-03-13T11:37:00Z

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116221646008456537

I have mixed feelings about this. I spent 20 years living in Vietnam, not photographing the things I was prohibited from photographing.

Because I was visitor. It wasn't my country, and I was allowed to live there under the forbearance of the government. So, you know, I obeyed their laws.

Dubai isn't a democracy. Your rights are whatever the government says they are. If that offends you, go home.

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note18pk…vz7e

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/12/british-tourist-among-20-charged-in-dubai-over-videos-of-iranian-missile-strikes

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2026-03-13T11:33:00Z

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/12/british-tourist-among-20-charged-in-dubai-over-videos-of-iranian-missile-strikes

"Spain’s defence minister, Margarita Robles, has become the ...

2026-03-05T10:21:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…nfuh
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"Spain’s defence minister, Margarita Robles, has become the latest member of Pedro Sánchez’s government to emphatically dismiss White House suggestions that the administration has executed a U-turn and is now prepared to let the US use its bases to strike Iran."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/05/spain-us-israel-war-iran-white-house-trade-evacuations-latest-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69a940ac8f087bc3885fd6f9#block-69a940ac8f087bc3885fd6f9

"She may be the White House press secretary, but I’m the ...

2026-03-05T10:19:13Z

"She may be the White House press secretary, but I’m the foreign minister of Spain and I’m telling her that our position hasn’t changed at all.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/05/spain-us-israel-war-iran-white-house-trade-evacuations-latest-news?CMP=share_btn_url

RE: https://mastodon.social/@voteinorout/116169665592921291 As a ...

2026-03-04T08:03:44Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@voteinorout/116169665592921291

As a Jew, I feel exactly the same way he does. And I suspect there are millions of us who feel the same way, and the media ignores us.

To conflate Jewishness with what the Israeli government is doing - and has done for years - is profoundly antisemitic.

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note1hnj…65y3

#MandyPatinkin urges Jews globally to reflect on #BenjaminNetanyahu's actions, claiming they endanger Jews worldwide. He criticizes the treatment of civilians in Gaza, calling it "unconscionable and unthinkable." #Gaza #Politics⁠
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Mandy Patinkin questions the morality of actions in Gaza under Netanyahu's right-wing government, urging Jews to consider if such actions are "acceptable and sustainabl... https://instagr.am/p/DVdBgSuAYeG/

I have noticed a slew of new accounts with obviously AI generated ...

2026-03-03T09:50:09Z

I have noticed a slew of new accounts with obviously AI generated avatar images, and extremely generic bits of folksy wisdom.

I am not going to follow you if you use AI generated images.

Also, at the age of 63, I have already accumulated all the banal, folksy wisdom I require, thanks.

RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/116163303894065200 This entire ...

2026-03-03T09:11:41Z

RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/116163303894065200

This entire informative thread from Kriszta Satori (npub1phq…3s3j)
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Mr. Nobody is excellent!

2026-03-01T22:40:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…lm9y
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Mr. Nobody is excellent!

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116143873321662807 I was a fully ...

2026-02-28T12:06:01Z

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116143873321662807

I was a fully paid up member of the Labour party for over 30 years. While perhaps a little more politically motivated than some, I suspect I am fairly representative of a lot of Labour voters:

I could no longer be a member of a party that was jailing people for protesting a genocide.

I could no longer be a member of a party actively making working people's lives more miserable.

I could no longer belong to a party that demonised immigrants.

I cannot in good conscience vote Labour now.

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note1kry…9s6q

Message to all media commentators:

If you're now saying, 'well, of course, the Greens policies will now be subject to some proper scrutiny'.... let me suggest you subject Reform UK Ltd to the same rigorous scrutiny, not keep giving them a free pass on their various (and objectionable) policy stances!

But, lets be clear, attacking the Green Party of England & Wales while waving Reform UK Ltd through scrutiny, actually plays to the Greens' analysis of politics.

#politics #Greens

RE: https://mastodon.online/@pedestrians1st/116143755017539159 ...

2026-02-27T18:34:48Z

RE: https://mastodon.online/@pedestrians1st/116143755017539159

The UK has to shut this shit down FAST.

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note14xy…qe52

“Nigel Farage says his party was victim of ‘cheating’ in Gorton and Denton byelection, although Manchester council says no issues reported.” So anti democratically Trumpian. #Reform #Farage

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116107692279897463 One ...

2026-02-21T12:03:46Z

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116107692279897463

One of the most deeply disturbing things about this was the absolute uselessness of the UK foreign office.

What the fuck are people paying their taxes for, the wages of a giant institution for, if they can be ZERO HELP when a foreign country kidnaps them for 45 days?

#FO #UK
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Politicians want you to believe it's all more serious and ...

2026-02-21T05:59:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…vq27
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Politicians want you to believe it's all more serious and glamorous than that, because that allows them to appear irreplaceable and worthy of leeway.

But it's not.

We pay them. We pay them to lead us on a tour of how to be a sane, relatively fair society.

I do not understand why so many people forget this. WE PAY THEM. They work for us.

But it is equally our job to allow ourselves to be led. Not like ...

2026-02-21T05:56:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…65t2
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But it is equally our job to allow ourselves to be led. Not like obedient children, not as devoted followers of a demagogue, but as customers on a guided tour.

When they start leading us to places we don't and shouldn't want to go, it's time to fire them and get a new tour group leader.

As much as I appreciate the fantasy of anarchism, I honestly do ...

2026-02-21T05:53:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…m0px
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As much as I appreciate the fantasy of anarchism, I honestly do not believe we are terribly good, as individuals, at self-organising. If we had a hive-mind, it would all be great, but we don't.

We need leaders to organise our energies and our resources in ways that benefit us. And some do pretty well for a while, but inevitably, they start to think they don't serve us. Every single one of them.

Then they have to go. It's our responsibility to be intolerant of their inevitable overreach.

Our job as adults is to keep the people we have elected in check. ...

2026-02-21T05:39:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…euqr
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Our job as adults is to keep the people we have elected in check. To reward them for being effective structural organisers, and punish them when, inevitably, they start thinking they are more than public servants who serve us.

On days when I'm not feeling particularly charitable to ...

2026-02-21T05:36:49Z

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On days when I'm not feeling particularly charitable to humankind, I get pissed off at the apparent refusal to give up the fantasy of the good father/good mother who will lead us and care for us and be a good head of the household.

Society is not a fucking household. Leaders are not our parents. They do not love us. We are not the fruit of their loins. They want power - for good or ill, that is their aim.

We are the adults in the room. There is no good daddy coming to save us from ourselves.

I think that is something most of us have a really hard time ...

2026-02-21T05:30:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…2sa9
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I think that is something most of us have a really hard time accepting - that no matter how apparently well-intentioned the leader, once they gain power, they will lack in virtue. And the longer they stay in power, less virtuous they will become.

It is democracy's very impermanence that makes it effective. The possibility of ridding ourselves of leaders who become corrupt.

Honestly, this is why devoted loyalty to any heir apparent - left or right - freaks me out.
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I deeply appreciate the journey back to Plato in this essay. It ...

2026-02-21T05:25:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…sv24
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I deeply appreciate the journey back to Plato in this essay. It forces one to consider that it is not just stupid people who choose to eschew democracy because it's unruly, messy and often doesn't reflect the best of humanity.

But a quick survey of the alternatives all highlight a single truth - power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Democracy is inherently unstable, perhaps because of an unacknowledged truth: no matter who we elect they will disappoint us. 1/

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2026-02-21T04:30:00Z

https://davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-fascism-part-1

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116101215856246642 ...

2026-02-20T05:42:01Z

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116101215856246642

I do not know why anyone is expecting the released Epstein files to incriminate Trump. They took so long to release them because they had to cull them first.

Those documents incriminating him are surely destroyed by now.

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note1upe…hq47

Pam Bondi and 1,000 FBI agents can't produce the Epstein files WITH MONTHS OF NOTICE?!?!?

WHAT THE FUCK, PAM BONDI!!!!!

#EpsteinClass #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #IndictAlexAcosta #ChildRapistTrump #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #MAGA #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #USPol

So, I finally made a piece of #pottery I am genuinely proud of. ...

2026-02-17T20:21:19Z

So, I finally made a piece of #pottery I am genuinely proud of. It's taken 3 months, but here it is.

Imagine having to actually say this shit: The measles vaccine ...

2026-02-17T20:02:20Z

Imagine having to actually say this shit:

The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.

It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy

Cloneberries too. They're so identical, it's scary. This ...

2026-02-16T17:51:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…fj23
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Cloneberries too.

They're so identical, it's scary.

This from the party that valued individualism so highly. Ha

I'm really tired of hearing the press talk about 'culture ...

2026-02-16T17:50:06Z

I'm really tired of hearing the press talk about 'culture wars'.

Because it never has anything to do with culture.

It's about race. It's always about race.

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116076378328241516 Like so many ...

2026-02-16T09:57:18Z

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116076378328241516

Like so many racists, Musk thinks that using the world 'culture' instead of 'colour' makes him seem less racist.

Anyone with an iota of knowledge about the UK and Ireland knows that Scottish and Irish cultures are quite distinct from each other.

So, what he really means is that they're white.

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note1rdk…ry5w

Nostalgia is different for all of us.

I feel nostalgic for the Transformers cartoons and Marvel comics so I watch Bayverse & MCU movies today.

Elon feels nostalgia for the racist apartheid of his childhood in South Africa so he’s bringing it to America.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@petealexharris/116074668291398384 ...

2026-02-15T16:00:34Z

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@petealexharris/116074668291398384

"It's amazing how plausibly rearranging words about things can give the *impression* of a sentence with a meaning, but that's all."

I think this is a very important point that keeps getting missed. And also a testament how desperately humans want to find meaning in the meaningless. Shapes in clouds, etc.

AI feeds on that addiction to meaning-making and takes full advantage of it.

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note1f9t…3jxy

And it's worse than that. An AI doesn't even simulate reality, it has no model of reality. It only processes tokens.

It's amazing how plausibly rearranging words about things can give the *impression* of a sentence with a meaning, but that's all.

Of course it's worse when the tokens are line segments of a diagram, middle-game chess moves etc. There's more meaning required per token, and the AI has none.

I think we vastly underestimate how profoundly being embodied, ...

2026-02-15T12:21:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…yuzw
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I think we vastly underestimate how profoundly being embodied, feeling gravity, experiencing drag, etc. impacts how we 'read' the world and find solutions.

Those are not experiences an AI can have, and informing it of the existence of those forces is not the same thing.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116074037242235048 This ...

2026-02-15T11:10:29Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116074037242235048

This whole interesting thread.

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note1wcn…fawr

I spent quite a bit of time on BlueSky for several months and found that if you’re a nobody there is close to no engagement. If you’re a somebody, the platform laps it up.

But on Mastodon the conversation flows irrespective of who you are.

I know where I’d rather be https://fediscience.org/@kathhayhoe/116065653289142235

thank you for giving me a giggle before bedtime.

2026-02-07T22:47:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…pehz
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thank you for giving me a giggle before bedtime.

Regina Pronounced like... you know. But with an R ...

2026-02-07T22:13:39Z

Regina
Pronounced like... you know. But with an R

#RidiculousTownSlogans
#HashTagGames

Remember that Honduran ex-president who Trump pardoned? Did you ...

2026-02-06T22:12:06Z

Remember that Honduran ex-president who Trump pardoned?

Did you wonder why?

https://www.diariosur.es/xlsemanal/a-fondo/prospera-republica-tecnobros-margen-ley-20260130123848-ntrc.html

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2026-02-06T21:23:27Z

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/06/reading-this-i-am-dead-how-to-live

For the first time in my life, I have joined a political party ...

2026-02-04T14:09:25Z

For the first time in my life, I have joined a political party other than Labour.

It hurts. And yet.

I am fairly convinced that Labour will not keep the hard right away from power. So that kind of freed me up, in a strange way.

I have become a member of the Green Party.

I really do like using LibreOffice. And yes, I did make a ...

2026-02-04T12:44:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…0gru
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I really do like using LibreOffice. And yes, I did make a donation!😉

And yes, I know the argument. At least they're Democrats. If ...

2026-02-03T22:33:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…zgr0
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And yes, I know the argument. At least they're Democrats. If you don't vote for them, a Republican will get in instead.

But there is no incipient election. And these 21 people have voted to fund the organization that is shooting innocent people down in the streets, incarcerating citizens without a warrant, without due process, without probable cause.

So, frankly, they ARE MAGA. No matter what initial comes after their name.

My American friends, you deserve to have representatives that ...

2026-02-03T22:16:22Z

My American friends, you deserve to have representatives that honor your wishes and your values and defend your rights.

These people don't:

There's a man in New Mexico who has a strange pass-time: not ...

2026-02-02T14:11:38Z

There's a man in New Mexico who has a strange pass-time: not being compliant with the Customs and Border guards. When he gets stopped at a checkpoint, he just sits there in his car, refusing to talk, refusing to roll down his window, refusing to interact in any way in which the law does not explicitly require of him.

He just gets off on watching them lose their shit at his stubborn non-compliance. He courts their frustration. His enjoyment is subtle but there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTsHHvQ_wOo

https://youtu.be/Fd7lfIFUajE?si=h0b-MMbkgJ_yGsIU

2026-02-02T06:59:59Z

https://youtu.be/Fd7lfIFUajE?si=h0b-MMbkgJ_yGsIU

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2026-01-31T14:20:06Z

Fishheads Revisited

I’m so profoundly sorry. I know what this feels like and it’s ...

2026-01-29T15:17:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…kk2u
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I’m so profoundly sorry. I know what this feels like and it’s a horrible wound that takes a long time to close.

Now this about you. You are not forever burdened with the role of being the good sister. You’re not a caricature. You only need to answer to yourself

At some point you have to come to terms with the reality that she ...

2026-01-29T15:04:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…fyp3
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At some point you have to come to terms with the reality that she is an adult who has made a choice.

And you cannot save her. It is absolutely impossible.

I have been thinking about how many of these members of ICE/DHS ...

2026-01-26T21:46:02Z

I have been thinking about how many of these members of ICE/DHS are being spoken about by this administration as having been 'highly trained Border Police' who've been serving down at the border for years.

I wonder how many Brown people they murdered down there? With no one taking video?

Because, if you look at the guys who killed Good and Pretti there's a common theme - you don't murder with that kind of casual brutality without practice.

I'm sorry, but I know a great deal about Bipolar disorder ...

2026-01-26T21:00:54Z

I'm sorry, but I know a great deal about Bipolar disorder and, never once, did it ever make anyone a Nazi who wasn't one in their heart already.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/26/kanye-west-takes-out-full-page-ad-apologising-for-antisemitic-behaviour-and-denying-he-is-a-nazi-ye

On the brink? Lady, it's way over the brink. You have masked ...

2026-01-26T10:03:45Z

On the brink?

Lady, it's way over the brink.

You have masked goons gunning down innocent civilians in the middle of the street in broad daylight with the blessing of the state.

The brink is in the rearview mirror

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/25/america-feels-like-a-country-on-the-brink-of-an-authoritarian-takeover

That last pancake was a tad overdone. Sorry. #SundayBreakfast ...

2026-01-25T12:33:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…98n0
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That last pancake was a tad overdone. Sorry. #SundayBreakfast #cooking

Today we must have breakfast-for-lunch level comforting #cooking ...

2026-01-25T11:52:42Z

Today we must have breakfast-for-lunch level comforting #cooking

I notice that neither Minneapolis, nor ICE nor Alex Pretti are ...

2026-01-24T23:14:43Z

I notice that neither Minneapolis, nor ICE nor Alex Pretti are trending on BlueSky.

Which I find puzzling.

Honestly, I am coming to think he's much worse than a ...

2026-01-24T22:47:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…jd6a
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Honestly, I am coming to think he's much worse than a feckless noodle. The Rob Burgess Show (npub1fxt…0f0l)

During the summer, during the US and Israeli bombing of #Iran, my ...

2026-01-24T15:00:13Z

During the summer, during the US and Israeli bombing of #Iran, my friend in Tehran said she was shocked at the sucking silence of all of her American friends, whom she had known for years.

This is just a reminder that, now emails are getting through, if you have Iranian friends, don't forget to just send them a little note to say that they are not forgotten.

Those simple words really matter to people who are feeling isolated.

-11 degrees, but look at the numbers! #minneapolis ...

2026-01-23T20:52:01Z

-11 degrees, but look at the numbers! #minneapolis

Have you met my cat Jacques? She will purr if you even look at ...

2026-01-23T14:35:38Z

Have you met my cat Jacques? She will purr if you even look at her. And she has a purr like a freight train. You can hear it rooms away. #CatsOfMastodon

While those of us old enough to have been born in the shadow of ...

2026-01-23T09:01:14Z

While those of us old enough to have been born in the shadow of WWII have an almost instinctive disgust of appeasement, it is undoubtedly a diplomatic tool.

But it requires that the person you are appeasing has a demand that serves a purpose for the demander. The demander has a concrete reason for their demand, however obscene.

The mistake of appeasing Trump is to misunderstand his fundamental pathology. 1/ #Trumpappeasement

RE: https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/115928901592050462 ...

2026-01-20T19:41:15Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/115928901592050462

In light of being victimized by ICE themselves, you'd think the cops would reconsider their ICE fangirling.

But as a culture, most of them would still side with the cretins that stormed the captital rather than with the officers who defended it.

That's a cat that keeps shitting in its own bed. Put it down.

quoting
note1e8g…c9cu

Minnesota police chiefs say federal agents are pulling over cops and demanding papers https://twp.ai/9PaOk4

Can you imagine Clueless Donnie Agent Orange every using a ...

2026-01-20T06:47:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…xvch
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Can you imagine Clueless Donnie Agent Orange every using a translation app? Large Format Projectionist (npub1gyz…543y) Augie Ray (npub153c…2tew)

Are we sure?

2026-01-18T14:44:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…engu
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Are we sure?

I'm sorry, who would the National Guard be protecting?

2026-01-18T14:38:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…a7h9
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I'm sorry, who would the National Guard be protecting?

Someone needs to explain to Trump that the price for Greenland is ...

2026-01-18T06:06:45Z

Someone needs to explain to Trump that the price for Greenland is every US base on foreign soil in the world.

I am not offended by repetition. 🤗

2026-01-16T06:35:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…8pqe
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I am not offended by repetition. 🤗

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like watching what is ...

2026-01-16T06:27:04Z

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like watching what is going on in the US is like witnessing the Stanford Experiment played out in real time?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115902590165875706 This so ...

2026-01-16T06:15:33Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115902590165875706

This so much. I have been very wary of posting any of the footage coming out of Minneapolis because, honestly, I cannot tell when something is AI.

The outcome is that real footage that people should see, to understand what is happening, doesn't get the reach it should have, because we're so frightened of being shamed.
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I absolutely understand many, many people do not like AI ...

2026-01-15T23:29:11Z

I absolutely understand many, many people do not like AI generated videos. I don't like them either.

However, do not get threatening and sanctimonious and dog pile on someone who has posted something in good faith, clearly didn't know it was AI, and doesn't have the skills to spot it.

Because people become terrified of posting anything for fear of it being AI and getting lambasted for it.

AI is DESIGNED to fool people. And when you beat up someone who is fooled, you're beating up a victim.

My heart just aches for her. She’s had such a traumatic year. I ...

2026-01-15T14:49:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…rlsk
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My heart just aches for her. She’s had such a traumatic year. I feel powerless, there’s nothing I can do for her other than to be her friend.

I indulge in fantasies of formally adopting her and bringing her here, but she has a family she loves there, and therapy patients who she cares for there. She has made her choice to stay and be a brave psychoanalyst in a place of peril. Her ethical stance and her bravery blow me away with admiration.

I just got a phonecall from my friend in #Tehran. Very short and ...

2026-01-15T14:48:37Z

I just got a phonecall from my friend in #Tehran. Very short and full of tears, but she did get through. My sms to her didn’t.

But she and her family are okay. I’m hesitant to phone her back because I don’t want to get her into any trouble.

On #Greenland - a thread At the moment, we cannot know what ...

2026-01-15T07:23:26Z

On #Greenland - a thread

At the moment, we cannot know what diplomatic discussions have been going on out of the public eye regarding Trump’s threats regarding taking over Greenland, but I have to say that I’m really, really disappointed with Denmark, Greenland and Europe’s responses.

Specifically because the one and only response should have been a unanimous: “Don’t be ridiculous.”

And that response should have been repetitively consistent across the board from every quarter.

But I do hope this is a warning to people in the US. Because ...

2026-01-14T08:56:18Z

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But I do hope this is a warning to people in the US. Because Iranians have been living under this tyranny for 40+ years. Once you let a leadership get that much power to act with impunity, it’s insanely hard to get rid of it.

If you think this can’t happen to your country, you’re not paying attention.

They have 70% - SEVENTY PERCENT inflation on food. Over 100% on ...

2026-01-14T08:52:40Z

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They have 70% - SEVENTY PERCENT inflation on food. Over 100% on bread.

The IRG has their fingers in a ton of commercial ventures and there’s fuck all competition. Trump level corruption. And the hypocritical sanctimony of the modesty laws is incoherent.

My knowledge of this is only anecdotal, but my dear friend in ...

2026-01-14T08:50:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…99f9
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My knowledge of this is only anecdotal, but my dear friend in Tehran is adamant that the protest has no roots outside the country. It is purely grass roots and is simply the obvious: they are socially, legally and economically oppressed as hell and the population - 50% of whom were born after the Islamic Revolution, are fucking sick of it.

Sick of the fucking tyranny.

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2026-01-14T08:46:12Z

https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-tehran-forced-confessions-human-rights-f7cd9b1987480a8024a6e549fc51535d

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115854908039065969 I ...

2026-01-12T11:53:55Z

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115854908039065969

I wish I could boost this 1000 times.

Because it is so fucking true. These people who claim to be so passionate about defending ‘women’s spaces’ from Transwomen, seem unfazed by the kind of obscene public displays of misogyny that are being perpetrated.

They never cared about women in the plural. They cared about themselves and their prejudices.

quoting
note1jyg…ed0k

I find it interesting that there's loads of people who made a core part of their identity campaigning against trans men being in women's spaces and how it impacts women, who have gone completely silent about Grok being used to undress and brutalise women.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205dx61x76o

2026-01-10T20:22:50Z

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205dx61x76o

I don’t want Kristi Noem impeached. I want her brought up on ...

2026-01-09T00:47:32Z

I don’t want Kristi Noem impeached. I want her brought up on charges of crimes against humanity.

That's the proper charge for someone who creates and runs a gestapo.

Of course, I’m disgusted by the deeply disturbed, murderous individual who shot Renee Good. Murder is the charge. He needs to face the law.

But don’t forget that without the permission and organisational structures, the culture that hired him, trained him, and encouraged rampant dehumanisation the event would have never occurred.

collapsed under the weight of its own venal stupidity. But a more ...

2026-01-08T22:24:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…xa7v
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collapsed under the weight of its own venal stupidity.

But a more serious question is how fucking useless are the current crop of Dems holding office, that they can’t do these abject fuckers the damage they deserve, politically.

Now, interestingly, at this point, any vaguely competent ...

2026-01-08T22:22:54Z

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Now, interestingly, at this point, any vaguely competent administration would have said that, considering his experience having been dragged by a vehicle recently, he was probably suffering from PTSD and it had been a mistake to have him back on the job, and that the shooting had been a tragic mistake.

But no, cretinous Ms. Noem doubles down on Renee Good being a domestic terrorist while outing one of her own agents.

At this point, I have to ask how it is… that this administration hasn’t...

The shooter of #ReneeGood has been identified as Jon Ross. It was ...

2026-01-08T22:16:57Z

The shooter of #ReneeGood has been identified as Jon Ross.

It was actually Kristi Noem who outed him by mistake (???) when she mentioned that he’d been involved in a similar incident last year. Via @modalbluesky.bsky.social

Oh, my, dear ICE agents. It seems your overlords are happy to cut you loose when you become inconvenient.

Actually, the interesting thing is that in forcing me to find a ...

2026-01-07T14:08:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…2aj9
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Actually, the interesting thing is that in forcing me to find a different choice, I found this lovely lady who - because she’s two streets away from me - will do home visits for free. Which is amazing because Dora gets scent disoriented after a visit to the vet. She gets home and hisses at Jacques like she doesn’t know her for about 6 hours. Which was disconcerting for poor Jacques, who wandered around looking forlorn for a day.

The same kind of thing is happening in Spain, so I moved to an ...

2026-01-07T13:29:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…uu73
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The same kind of thing is happening in Spain, so I moved to an independent vet.

X a racist, misogynistic, fascist, pedophilic cess pool. Why is ...

2026-01-07T12:36:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…qaq8
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X a racist, misogynistic, fascist, pedophilic cess pool. Why is anyone still there?

I was patient for a long time. I get that it took time for some people to adjust. To mourn the loss of their enormous followings.

But now, if you stay, you’re fucking complicit.

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2026-01-07T12:33:23Z

RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-a3lhl24rz/-/a-rQmzFV7BRQe8B0_ya1cziA%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0

I know it sounds petty and irrelevant, but I’m absolutely disinterested in hearing how yet another person has been mistreated or silenced by X.

It’s owned by Musk. Literally what the fuck did you expect, buddy? Please show me one act of moral or ethical integrity ever performed by Musk?

At this point, all this grievance is just stupid performance. Get off X

quoting
note17r3…tjyt

Exiled dissident says Elon Musk’s X sided with Chinese Communist Party in suspending his account: lawsuit
[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/musk-x-suspends-chen-pokong-chinese-communist-party-b2895655.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub ](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/musk-x-suspends-chen-pokong-chinese-communist-party-b2895655.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub )

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