Leftist Lawyer

Life really began with #sobriety in 2005. But I like to say I'm a #grateful #alcoholic b/c I had some amazing experiences including #Crabber #Seiner in #Alaska and #WildlandFirefighter in #Montana where I grew up.

Got my B.A. in #ClinicalPsych after sobering up. Then M.S. #BioregionalPlanning. Now, small town rural #Attorney #Litigator with certs. in #WaterLaw #NatRescLaw & #EnvLaw.

#Dad #Husband #Deadhead #Skier #Soccer #Hiker #Biker #Gardener #NoveltySeeker #Luddite #JackOfAllTrades

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2026-03-13 20:10:43 CET

Anyone else taking perverse pleasure imagining the pain the 8 cylinder "big rig" petro-sexual set must be feeling right now???

2026-03-10 05:02:41 CET

If a terrorist attack happens on U.S. soil, who do you think will be responsible?

2026-03-05 17:52:48 CET

#BoycottFIFA #NoWorldCupUSA
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2026-02-22 03:01:06 CET

It's past time to stop taking #MentalHealth studies seriously if they don't account for #capitalism as a confounding variable.

2026-02-15 16:41:51 CET

I’ve come back to this article over the years because it was such a revealing read when i first encountered it. BOOM went my brain 🤯
“The Long Con” isn’t about money … It’s about IDENTITY.
The rational stand amazed by what to us seems like gullibility in the extreme. But, being intelligent isn’t the goal. BELONGING is the goal. Which explains the #conservative nee’ #MAGA imperviousness to shame. The OTHER is shameful. We, the righteous, can do no wrong … even while dripping with lies.
Because the lies are the point. To acknowledge them as truth is to be initiated into the club.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con
#trump #bondi #epstein #elite #billionaires

2026-02-15 06:17:31 CET

This is the “Jmail” encyclopedia.
It’s a wikipedia style link to all things Jeffrey #Epstein.
Here, there be monsters.
https://jmail.world/wiki
#billionaires #trump #bondi #EpsteinFiles

2026-02-08 19:50:02 CET

... the FUCK???
#uspol #epstein #trump
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/statement-jeffrey-epstein-death-day-before-b1270109.html

2026-02-06 06:45:44 CET

The printing press was invented in 1440 and freed humanity from intellectual enslavement.
500 years later #TV was invented and we obligingly refastened shackles.
They won’t come off again until we stop consuming the #billionaire priest’s #propaganda.
Here, on #mastodon, in the #fediverse, we begin the #revolution.

2026-02-05 16:16:15 CET

Stop consuming #CapitalistPropaganda. Find reliable sources of information. If you don't understand the following in depth ... then you've got #ABulletInYourHead
**Heuristic vulnerabilities are systematic errors in judgment resulting from the mind’s reliance on mental shortcuts (heuristics) to make fast, efficient decisions under uncertainty. While these “rules of thumb” are adaptive and save cognitive energy, they often lead to suboptimal, irrational, or biased decisions by ignoring critical information.
Key heuristic vulnerabilities include:
Availability Heuristic: People overestimate the probability of events that are easily remembered, such as vivid media reports or recent experiences, rather than relying on statistical evidence.
Representativeness Heuristic: Individuals categorize people or situations based on how closely they resemble a mental prototype, often ignoring base rates and statistical probabilities.
Anchoring and Adjustment: A heavy reliance on the first piece of information received (the “anchor”) when making decisions, with insufficient adjustments for subsequent information.
Confirmation Bias: The tendency to seek, interpret, and focus on information that confirms existing beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence.
Affect Heuristic: Allowing current emotions, moods, or “gut feelings” to dictate decisions, particularly in risk assessment (e.g., perceiving high-benefit items as low-risk).
Fundamental Attribution Error: A tendency to attribute others’ behaviors to internal, personality-based factors rather than situational factors.
Satisficing: Selecting the first option that meets a minimum threshold of criteria rather than spending time to find the optimal solution. **
Without being educationally steeped in these expoitations, everyone just rolls their eyes and thinks “Yeah, that doesn’t apply to me. I’m smarter than that.” Which, in itself is the “fundamental attribution error” heuristic at play.
One can just assume that any person who isn’t willing to acknowledge the foregoing has, as Zach de la Rocha put it so succinctly “A bullet in their head.”
Video with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9gm267F0Ls
Every word the truth.

2026-01-26 19:23:25 CET

In Colorado, #ICE #brownshirts are leaving these cards in vehicles of people they’ve detained.
During Vietnam, American soldiers would often mark the bodies of Vietnamese they’d killed with the Ace of Spades
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2026-01-26 06:05:54 CET

If #Trump & #StephenMiller attempt a full blown authoritarian takeover, how do you think the average U.S. citizen will respond???
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/25/america-feels-like-a-country-on-the-brink-of-an-authoritarian-takeover
#uspol

2026-01-24 17:59:46 CET

#ICE has executed another #Minneapolis #Minnesota citizen.
Tensions seem to be escalating quickly between the law abiding people and the #brownshirt #nazi thugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice

2026-01-23 16:45:50 CET

The #BoardOfPeace is simply a #FoxNews style foil intended to create plausible deniability so totalitarians and their enablers have a cozy #AlternateReality to inhabit while they murder the world.
We've all seen this movie.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-board-of-peace-canada-uninvited-carney-letter-9.7057437

2026-01-21 15:35:43 CET

Funny how the #EpsteinFiles issue has become a non-issue. Particularly when it is THE issue. The #elite have closed ranks. That's the issue. Trump is just part of the disease.
#trump #uspol

2026-01-20 02:45:21 CET

Just in case you didn’t already know, we’re all domestic terrorists now and can be shot on sight.
Hyperbole? No. The #TrumpJunta changed the rules.
Forewarned is forearmed.
https://jennbudd.substack.com/p/how-trump-gave-the-green-light-for?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

2026-01-19 15:51:41 CET

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@Yehuda/115918448539151810
Yes, please boost to help this instance get it's legs under it.
#note1uvm…pv0l

2026-01-18 17:59:25 CET

BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth #ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you.
In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID.
The man calmly asks the most basic, #LegallyProtected question: “Why am I being pulled over?”
They never answer… because they don’t have a legal reason to stop him.
Even so, the man begins to retrieve his ID anyway.
An #agent then orders him to turn off the vehicle. The driver says, “No problem, sir, I’ll get out.”
The agent refuses, then immediately changes commands again: “I need to see your ID.”
Suddenly, an agent on the passenger side pounds on the window. Then he strikes it with a hard object, clearly threatening to break it.
At the same time, the driver-side agent again demands the ID.
This is not confusion. This is intentional command overload… a tactic used to manufacture “noncompliance” so force can be justified.
ICE’s own training materials explicitly state:
“Noncompliance or refusal to cooperate with officer commands, without fighting back, does NOT violate 18 U.S.C. § 111.”
In plain English: not immediately obeying commands is NOT a crime.
And here’s the key legal issue:
Unless agents have:
• a valid arrest warrant, or
• probable cause that a specific crime has been committed
they cannot:
• use force
• break windows
• issue violent threats
• detain or arrest someone
#ProbableCause
means specific, articulable facts that would make a reasonable officer believe a crime occurred… not vibes, not attitude, not silence, not filming, not asking questions.
Back in the video, the passenger-side agent escalates further, shouting:
“First time I ask you to roll your window down, you do it.”
The driver responds:
“Are you in danger, sir? Are you escalating this?”
The agent replies:
“I don’t know. Hands up.”
Despite the driver repeatedly attempting to comply and hand over ID, agents continue shouting conflicting commands.
At one point, the agent orders the driver to “talk to the original agent”… which is exactly what the driver was doing before the window-smashing threat.
Then the man asks, “Are you feeling unsafe or uneasy?”
The agent responds, “I don’t know, man.” while standing on the passenger side of the car, smirking.
The driver finally says what anyone would say surrounded by armed men:
“How many guns do I have around me? I need you to calm down. I’m asking him to stop banging on my car. Is that too much?”
He even offers… again… to step out of the vehicle.
This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation fishing for an excuse.
No probable cause.
No warrant.
No lawful basis for force.
And yet, the escalation came entirely from the agents.
This video proves something chilling: you can comply, stay calm, ask lawful questions… and still be threatened with violence.
So, the question isn’t “Why didn’t he just comply?”
The question is how many people have already been assaulted under this exact playbook… and how many more will be, before this stops?
#uspol #Ripped
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/917/163/848/817/152/original/ca036f138bfe565c.mp4

2026-01-18 17:52:43 CET

BREAKING: #ICE agents have, once again, trampled the 4th Amendment… illegally breaking down a door and storming into another family home with assault rifles drawn, while children were inside, detaining 6 people, including a 12-year-old boy, without a warrant.
And it gets worse.
On Thursday, ICE raided a home in St. Paul, #Minnesota, telling residents this was part of a narcotics investigation… not #immigration. But neighbors are saying that’s BS.
A neighbor who had his outdoor camera rolling, says someone delivered a package to the house just minutes before the raid. According to the video, federal agents told the residents there were drugs inside, and if no one claimed the package, they’d take everyone in the house. Not suspicious at all…
And the agents also had no warrant…
After smashing the door, ICE claimed they had a search warrant, but never showed it… even after being asked to see it. They searched every room with rifles drawn, handcuffed all residents, including the 12-year-old boy, and paraded them down the street. Every adult had a valid work permit and state ID, but, agents only left a woman and her infant behind.
And here’s the kicker:
Even though ICE said this was about drugs, not immigration, they still took the 12-year-old boy, transporting him to an immigration center in San Antonio, Texas in less than 24 hours.
And, to make this all even more illegal… A warrant was dropped off THE NEXT DAY, claiming to be from a state court, but:
• It doesn’t match official Ramsey County #warrant formats
• Has no case number or file stamp
• No record of filing exists (though filing can sometimes be delayed)
So, the questions become:
Did ICE falsify a warrant after illegally entering the home? Did they plant drugs to justify this raid? And most importantly… what did #DHS do with a 12-year-old boy they weren’t supposed to touch?
This isn’t law enforcement. This is federal #kidnapping, #trafficking, intimidation, and #terror.
A government agency stormed a home, handcuffed children, and transported a minor across state lines… all without a real warrant at the time of the arrest, or any legal justification.
If this can happen to one family in broad daylight, it can happen to anyone.
The #Constitution, your rights, and your #children mean nothing to them.
#RippedFromX #uspol
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/917/137/521/314/908/original/a5dccea122c352f9.mp4

2026-01-16 16:02:36 CET

Got ripped off on an online purchase over the holidays for about $44.00
Sent dispute to bank/visa.
Bank disputes my dispute and rejects. Just got off the phone to learn the person who reviewed my dispute lied about the answers I provided in their dispute form as cause to reject the dispute.
Now, they've breached the state consumer protection act.
They're under threat of litigation if they don't return the money, which, is no idle threat.
Why would I go to these lengths over $44.00?
Because I'm SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of living in a #corporate dystopia and will drag the money out of them NO MATTER WHAT!!! Have fun paying your attorney's thousands of dollars over a $44.00 dispute because your corporate policy is to screw over your own clients to enrich your shareholders.
Good morning 😘

2026-01-16 05:35:46 CET

"Football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."
-- George Orwell, 1984
Matt Stoller: "Hold my beer."
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2026-01-15 14:58:28 CET

If you weren't already aware, a #DHS employee recently leaked the identities of thousands of #ICE holes.
You can find the list here: https://icelist.is

2026-01-05 05:45:16 CET

Come on. It's time.
#GeneralStrike2026
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2026-01-04 05:25:33 CET

This is a must watch from Sky News re oil in #Venezuela:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwny1BiCYk

2026-01-02 17:02:34 CET

Hit it right on the head:
#uspol #trump #epstein
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2025-12-31 02:12:55 CET

#CapitalistCunts & the #ImmoralGeeks that work for them.
Hat tip to — https://lemmy.ml/u/sharkfucker420
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2025-12-25 15:35:21 CET

Merry transition from darkness to light everyone.

2025-12-20 08:02:21 CET

Jen Sorenson bats one out of the park.
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2025-12-13 02:31:03 CET

Frankenstein was cool.
#TrumpenStein is the real monster:
#uspol #epstein
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2025-12-07 01:45:07 CET

This was just too good not to migrate it from #lemmy
h/t: https://lemmy.today/u/[email protected]
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2025-12-03 04:04:15 CET

And, people are saying, about 1oz of gold.
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2025-11-11 06:42:54 CET

The author makes the observation that #AI is inverting the #AttentionEconomy because we no longer have to give attention to produce quality.
My take?
I tooted the other day that, if you'd never seen a humanoid robot, but suddenly did one day walking down the street, your first human impulse would be to destroy it. And, that impulse would be correct.
That's basically the "uncanny valley" at work.
The same principal holds true for AI.
Our attention is being unconsciously redirected from detecting quality -- to constant threat detection.
We've left the attention economy and are entering the #PTSD_Economy.
You feel it, don't you?
The ever present technological threat. You can't escape if you choose to live on any modern terms.
Threats to our existence from tech and the tech overlords shoving it down our throats.
//sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com/p/the-attention-economy-is-inverting

2025-11-10 00:58:20 CET

Just emailed the #NYT tip line to let them know #MayorMamdani and I were close during our formative years and that I have dirt on him.
We weren't. And, I don't.
But, I don't envy the diatribe that reporter is going to get if they make the mistake of reaching out to me.
You can do the same. Let's all #RatfuckTheTimes.
Here's the link to the tip line:
https://www.nytimes.com/tips

2025-09-16 03:05:13 CEST

The #UnitedStates is only exceptional in the average citizens steadfast belief we're exceptional in the face overwhelming evidence demonstrating we're not only unexceptional -- but extremely fucking toxic.
Amazing the power of #CapitalistPropaganda

2025-09-12 17:54:10 CEST

Correct.
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2025-08-03 04:36:47 CEST

"You can deny all the things I've seen, all the things that I've discovered. But not for much longer. 'Cause too many others know what's happening out there. And no one—no government agency—has jurisdiction over the truth."
-- Fox Mulder
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2025-08-02 16:51:49 CEST

It begins.
Do you hear that noise, #Elon?
It's the sound of the lawyers coming for you.
https://futurism.com/jury-tesla-autopilot-death

2025-08-02 01:50:36 CEST

I am so god damn sick of this shit.
If you are any shade of left, stop fuck debating the shade and:
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/956/175/326/919/451/original/2979b04bf5ec4fd0.jpeg

2025-07-16 04:43:17 CEST

Was just speaking with an attorney friend in British Columbia.
Told me one of his colleagues tried to cross the border and was asked by the #BorderStasi what their views on #trump were.
They replied "I'm #Canadian, I'm not really informed enough about American politics to have an opinion."
They turned her around and wouldn't let her in.
Now, why was I talking to said lawyer friend in #Canada?
Because I'm working on taking a job with a law firm up there to #immigrate. It's gonna be a process ... but I'm out of here.
#uspol

2025-07-12 04:15:23 CEST

#BREAKING
The #British have officially decoupled their nuclear arsenal from the #UnitedStates and joined with #France under the #NorthwoodDecalration.
Officials cite the fact that "the United States is no longer seen as quite a reliable defense partner.”
It's blog posts like this that make me strongly encourage you to bookmark the @ianwelsh blog.
You won't hear it from our #MSM #CapitalistPropaganda machine.
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-us-uk-special-relationship-is-officially-dead/

2025-07-11 06:37:15 CEST

If you find yourself on a #jury trying #ICE #protestors, I have two words you need to remember:
#JuryNullification
Make it trend.

2025-07-11 04:53:57 CEST

Kill it with fire.
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2025-07-09 03:24:59 CEST

#GroKKK is #MusKKK
MusKKK is GroKKK.
Any questions?
https://gizmodo.com/round-them-up-grok-praises-hitler-as-elon-musks-ai-tool-goes-full-nazi-2000626156

2025-07-07 02:21:53 CEST

Beautiful day at church.
#SilentSunday #NaturePhotography
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2025-07-06 06:04:11 CEST

If you drive a #tesla, you're not only fascist supporting asshole, but also stupid and suicidal.
To paraphrase the Dean from Animal House:
"Being a stupid, suicidal, fascist asshole is no way to go through life son."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing

2025-07-06 05:26:00 CEST

This pic from an article in the WSJ titled:
"Welcome to Dallas: The City That Just Can’t Stop Expanding"
Nobody is talking about the "built environment." Where does the water go? Certainly not absorbed into the ground. Less permeable surfaces equals more flooding -- simple.
But yeah, let's keep sprawling. Just look at that nightmare.
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2025-07-05 22:27:36 CEST

For all those searching for moral and ethical clarity in what seems a nation gone mad — I may have good news.
Hang with me for a little 🧵 thread about how, for reasons we may never understand, the #BabyBoomers and the late #SilentGeneration are criminally inclined to an abnormal degree.
First, this article from the Atlantic titled “AMERICA’S INCARCERATION RATE IS ABOUT TO FALL OFF A CLIFF.”
Here’s a non-paywalled link from Archive Today: https://archive.ph/mi5Wn
/1

2025-07-05 05:42:32 CEST

This is why we told the limeys to go fuck themselves at the point of a gun.
Any of it look familiar?
#NoKings
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2025-07-04 22:49:18 CEST

It’ll be called “The 3rd Bootlicking Corporate Toadie Party”
Whose in?
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/04/elon-musk-new-political-party

2025-07-04 16:08:06 CEST

People seem to be less and less confident speaking their beliefs #online.
Online, is not where our future battles will be won.
To paraphrase Lenin — the #power is in the #streets, waiting to be picked up by those who now how to use it. #Mamdani figured out how to pick it up in the streets.
In this vein, I exhort you all to help redirect the knowledge we generate online TO THE STREET.
If you have a favorite #blogger, ask them if they’ll begin making their work in an accessible, downloadable, #pamphlet form that can be distributed on the street.
If you are a blogger or #author of substance, please, help us help you. Open your work up to reproduction and on the ground distribution.
We need to educate and infuriate those outside our online bubbles.
Let’s all help get the #WordOnTheStreet.

2025-07-04 06:24:31 CEST

People don't trust the people who run AI.
But they trust AI.
What in the ever loving fuck is wrong with "people."

2025-07-02 17:14:44 CEST

The modern capitalist cycle in 10 simple steps.
1. Person invents new technology.
2. Rich person buys rights to new technology.
3. Rich person scales new technology.
4. New skilled labor force rises to meet scale.
5. Economy expands.
6. Rich person employs new technology/political influence to destroy skilled labor force to keep more yacht money for themselves.
7. Economy contracts.
8. Rich person uses rich media buddies and bought politicians to blame economic contraction on poor people.
9. Rich person uses "poor person" excuse to politically extract more money from poor people to finance purchase of next new technology.
10. Rinse and repeat.
#NoWarButClassWar

2025-07-02 16:57:01 CEST

#USA_irl
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2025-06-27 05:10:25 CEST

Nailed it.
#Mamdani #DNC #VoteBlueNoMatterFuckYou
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2025-06-23 16:03:02 CEST

Or, how many federal employees for one of those bombs you just dropped that did nothing but roto-till the Iranian desert?
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2025-06-22 22:40:55 CEST

Cadged from Lemmy … spot on.
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2025-06-22 06:09:08 CEST

#iran just went regional
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2025-06-11 15:46:56 CEST

This needs to be read far and wide:
https://www.americasundoing.com/p/how-do-you-measure-corporate-power

2025-06-03 16:51:13 CEST

The reason great civilizations fall is that, once an elite class is established, said class can always be relied upon to try and shape reality to their advantage, rather than reckon with reality on it's own terms.
Inevitably, reality catches up and steamrolls the elites who have led their civilizations down a fairy tail reality.
America has become an elite fairy tale.

2025-05-05 01:08:19 CEST

Every #AI image generated makes the world an objectively shittier place.
Assholes.

2025-04-09 15:37:20 CEST

The world gives no shits about our tantrum throwing fuhrer.
Fools rush in.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/us-lng-crippled-as-australia-seizes-us1-5b-trade-overnight/

2025-04-09 15:11:57 CEST

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2025-04-09 01:32:03 CEST

So, if I'm understanding this right, the best *plan* the #elite can come up with is destroying the #planet by strip mining it of every available resource so .0000000001% of the population can have more #YachtMoney?
Does that about capture "the plan"?
#uspol #ClassWar

2025-03-27 01:35:03 CET

“Surveys confirm that for many workers, #AI tools like #ChatGPT reduce their productivity by increasing the volume of content and steps needed to complete a given task, and by frequently introducing errors that have to be checked and corrected.”
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/

2025-03-16 03:32:29 CET

“It was libertarian thought taken to its most extreme conclusion: a society governed not by political equality, but by property rights alone.”
**Read, a society ruled by billionaires alone.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america

2025-03-15 14:48:50 CET

I #identify as #poor
My #pronouns are:
hepoor
&
himpoor
#ClassWar #ClassWarfareUSA

2025-03-15 04:41:01 CET

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Yup. I agree with that. He’s a little short on predicting the synthesis though.
But it’s obvious.
Their new thesis is a world governed by neonaziliberalist technocratic elite.
The new antithesis is an economics of sustainability that embraces degrowth.
The synthesis is the human evolution of a 4th land ethic as predicted by Aldo Leopold.
#uspol

2025-03-13 17:31:29 CET

Umm ... really cool!
#feditips #fediverse #fedi #mastodon #Kagi
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2025-03-10 23:13:04 CET

What's the vibe in your hood these days @npub147e…wlu0 ???
I started this group a couple years back now. If you're a #leftist in a red U.S. state, come join the fun. All you have to do is follow and you'll be notified when someone posts using the @ above.
I think we all have plenty in common to talk about.
And remember, it's your guppe, not mine.
#RedStateInsurgents #uspol

2025-03-10 15:58:32 CET

This is you.
This is you rejecting #CorporateRule.
Keep it up.
Destroy them.
#uspol #ClassWarUSA #NoWarButClassWar
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2025-03-10 03:31:37 CET

@npub12vy…wnly on the egg mess.
TLDR?
Takeaway — the avian flu is not responsible for increased prices.
Once again, the culprit is corporate #monopoly.
The avian flu is just an excuse.
When industry gets monopolized, the monopolizers will seize upon any excuse to jack prices through the roof.
From the article:
** Cal-Maine Foods — the largest egg producer and the only one that publishes its financial data as a publicly traded company — has been making more money than ever. It’s annual gross profits in the past three years have floated between 3 and 6 times what it used to earn before the avian flu epidemic started — breaking $1 billion for the first time in the company’s history. All of this extra profit is coming from higher selling prices, which have been earning Cal-Maine unprecedented 50-170 percent margins over farm production costs per dozen. Taking Cal-Maine as the “bellwether” for the industry’s largest firms — as people in the egg business do — we can be pretty confident that the other large egg producers are also raking in profits off the relatively small dip in egg production.**
Post covid inflation??? Yeah, it’s 99% price gouging.

2025-03-09 02:04:49 CET

It occurs to me that, right now, is probably the best time to find #fedi instances that aren’t located in the #4thReich.

2025-03-08 19:21:36 CET

Must read:
“Drones are killing more civilians than shells are killing soldiers. This is industrial-scale murder.”
https://onlys.ky/the-future-of-murder-2/

2025-03-08 01:21:41 CET

Just love how everyone has a personal use case for #AI that absolves them of any personal responsibility for the aggregate damage done by AI.
#Assholes

2025-03-07 14:57:01 CET

So, I’ve pretty much started calling all #AI users eco-terrorists.
I’m not wrong.
When you see AI, say something about AI.

2025-03-01 16:23:46 CET

To those wondering when the #Democrat pushback will come, it won't.
Their strategy is "we told you so."
The sad thing is it will likely work.
I predict Trump will lose his #House and #Senate majorities after the #midterms ... then they'll successfully impeach him.
Then we'll go back to "fascist lite" business as usual #WallStreet boot licking.
The way to prevent business as usual is to PRIMARY the incumbent democrats.
That is what made the #TeaParty so wildly effective in shifting this country to the so hard to the right.
Primary the business as usual democrats. Take. Them. Out.
#uspol

2025-02-28 15:31:26 CET

24 hour economic blackout everyone.
This is practice for the real events to come.
Keep your wallet in your pants today.
#uspol

2025-02-28 14:37:01 CET

Personally, my family is tightening the belt.
Reigning it in.
No nonessential spending.
Zero.
Gonna not party like it's 1929.

2025-02-19 15:08:06 CET

Witness:
Exhibit 1: The genocidal territorial expansion and settlement of the American west.
Exhibit 2: Zionism
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2025-02-14 04:25:53 CET

#MemeAtMe #uspol
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2025-02-06 17:04:54 CET

#Liberals thinking they’re #leftists and #nazis thinking they’re #conservative.
This is #uspol

2025-01-30 18:15:18 CET

Shamelessly ripped from one of those toxic corporate websites.
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2025-01-22 05:48:00 CET

So, groups over on #Lemmy are now taking to actively banning #Xitter content because it offends #nazi and/or #fascist content rules. Screenshot below.
What say you @npub1f3w…hvaq team?
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2025-01-21 16:39:04 CET

#Capitalism would not exist without blind adherence to, at least, three fictions:
1. Legal Fiction: Ownership. Do we *really* own things? Or, are we just tenants as we pass through?
2. Political Fiction: Perfect competition. Capitalism can only perform as expected when monopoly is nonexistent. We ALL know this is never, ever, the case.
3. Scientific Fiction: Infinite Growth. Physics demands finite systems have finite thresholds. We act as if the earth is a perpetual cornucopia machine for the sole purpose of generating #YachtMoney.
We all know these points are axiomatic. And yet we continue to live the fictions.
It’s time we began living in reality.
#uspol #Economics

2025-01-18 21:32:16 CET

SLAP!!!
Pixelfed creator @npub1xsv…q6he just threw #Zuck over the ropes and smashed him with a chair outside the ring.
#OurSocialMedia
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2025-01-17 17:46:28 CET

Cool.
Spike the punch.
#AI
https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

2024-12-24 18:25:13 CET

This is a must read from @npub149r…7zya
Elon will hurt you more than Putin. His drive to kill medicare might actually kill you. Will Putin and Xi do that?
Who is your real enemy?
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-game-theory-of-giving-up-private-justice-or-ending-the-state-monopoly-on-violence/

2024-12-10 22:02:51 CET

#LuigisManifesto
“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

2024-12-06 17:43:08 CET

#Economics is the practice of allocating scarce resources.
The planet we know as #earth is inarguably the single most scarce resource in the universe.
An economic model that allows for the devaluation/destruction of the single most scarce resource in the #universe is not an economic #model.
It’s a death #cult.
#climate #ClimateCrisis

2024-12-06 15:34:27 CET

“Delay, Deny, Defend” by Jay Feinman
Open source .pdf
This is obligatory reading.
#DenyDefendDepose
https://pdfupload.io/docs/0d380e9b

2024-11-24 05:48:10 CET

Any one planning on hitting the #CrackFriday sales?
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2024-10-25 21:21:12 CEST

So much for the #MSM relying on the “editorial independence” argument when confronted on billionaires pushing their #CapitalistPropaganda down our throats 🙄
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2024-10-23 04:27:14 CEST

I don't hear nearly enough discussion about two groups of people who, in my opinion, have done more destroy this nation than any other.
I'm talking about #veterans and those holding an #MBA.
Let me explain ... 🧵 /1

2024-10-14 16:37:52 CEST

this! This!! THIS!!! Needs to be shouted from the rooftops of every roof in the world.
From the article:
** The problem is that we don’t have control over our own productive capacities, because we don’t have an economic democracy, right? Some of us live in political democracies, where, from time to time, we get to elect government officials, but when it comes to the economic system, not even the pretense of democracy is allowed to exist, and that is ultimately the contradiction we face, I think, right? This is a crisis that, at its root, is about capitalism, and can only be resolved by overcoming that fact. And the antidote to capitalism is economic democracy, that we should have collective democratic control over what we are producing, what the goals of our production are, who benefits from our production, and so on. And when we do, we can solve these problems quickly, right? We know exactly what to do.
The problem is we don’t have the power.**
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Colonialism #Capitalism #Overthrow
https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/12/why-a-liberated-palestine-threatens-global-capitalism/

2024-10-09 02:20:54 CEST

The biggest failing of #democrats is their inability to understand that #republicans **know each other by their #lies.**
Or, to paraphrase #Shakespeare "the [lie] is the thing to catch the conscience of the [in-group]."
If you argue with the lie, they know they're dealing with a member of an out-group.
Contrast this with democrats, who know each other by every member of the in-group thinking they are the smartest person in the room -- and arguing incessantly about the most mundane details.
Republicans aren't dumb, per se. They're just driven by the very conservative trait of in-group #loyalty.
And which loyalty, to democrats eyes, appears #BatShitCrazy absurd.
I hope this clarifies some things for the democrats who are going bat shit crazy about how bat shit crazy republicans are acting right now.
#uspol

2024-10-06 03:57:56 CEST

Nobody with any power, and two brain cells to rub together, naturally allies with Trump.
And it occurs to me that even though Elon has been a twat for quite some time now, his swing to Trump has been fairly rapid.
Conclusion: Trump has #DiddyDirt on him.
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2024-10-04 04:28:56 CEST

This my old pal Indy. He's a #McNab dog we stumbled across at the local pound. As you can see, he's a gamer. I didn't know what a #McNab was when we got him, but have since learned they are super amazing cow dogs, and even more amazing friends.
So, in dedication to McNabs the #fediverse over I decided to create a guppe group for McNabbers. If you love yourself some McNab dog like I do, come join me @npub1pka…qw9r
Indy says thank you :)
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2024-09-29 07:08:35 CEST

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You want the definition of #irony? Here goes.
#Investors are throwing billions of dollars at generative #LLMs. Billions, and billions and billions of dollars. They could be throwing that money at #RenewableEnergy that would actually, you know, benefit the entire world and turn a modest profit for them.
Instead, they are throwing the money at a project that does the opposite. It’s burning energy, and hence our #environment at fucking staggering rates. That alone is #psychopathic shit.
But here’s the kicker. Let’s say they did actually pull off the #AGI #singularity.
And, when queried about how to solve the #ClimateCrisis the AGI responded with the obvious, “Duh, conserve energy across X, Y, and Z superfluous sectors” answer.
Do you think these #TechBro asshole monsters would listen?
That, my friends, is irony in a nutshell.
We’re dealing with absolutely unhinged lunatics drunk on their own Kool-Aid.

2024-09-28 15:44:57 CEST

And
I don’t know how this isn’t just tattooed on everyone’s brain
But
DON’T EVER, NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER — TALK TO COPS.
1. YOU have a RIGHT to remain SILENT.
2. YOU have a RIGHT to have an attorney present.
3. The law will CANNOT punish you for asserting your rights.
4. Only YOU can punish you by WAIVING your rights.
FACT: Everybody “says” they understand their rights. But I shit you not, maybe 1 in 10 of my criminal clients give me something to work with because they shut their mouth and asked for as lawyer. The other 9 sing like little birds and pay the price.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24252235/police-unlock-phone-password-face-id-apple-wallet-id

2024-09-28 05:52:17 CEST

@npub1fc9…dcgs #MemeAtMeBro #Memes
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2024-09-24 05:05:09 CEST

I read a lot of science fiction. It fires my imagination and allows me quiet time to escape from the mundane worries of the world. But, unlike certain billionaires and apparently tons of scientists, I understand that "life" and "space" are antithetical.
We throw so much money, and so many resources at what amounts to an urban myth.
We don't; however, throw money and resources at colonizing vacuum based antigravity microwave ovens.
But that's a pretty close analogy to space.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03105-x