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Trending mastodon (AP)
#Paris2024 is now trending across Mastodon

JuneSim63 mastodon (AP)
Ukraine has sent 1,000 tonnes of wheat to Gaza through Jordan as part of a 7,000-tonne package for the war-battered Palestinian territory.

The shipment, announced by the Ukrainian embassy in Amman, is Kyiv's first participation in the international effort to assist more than two million people struggling with acute shortages of food, water, fuel, medical care and shelter.

#Ukraine #Gaza #Starvation
Ukraine sends wheat to relieve hunger in Gaza | The National
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024/07/25/ukraine-sends-wheat-to-relieve-hunger-in-gaza/

Mastodon Statistics hubzilla (AP)
#Mastodon #Statistics 2024-07-26 22:00 CEST
Number of active instances: 11 986
Number of users: 8 890 280
Number of statuses: 1 076 695 731
Number of users last 4h: -542
Number of statuses last 4h: 124 627
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#Fediverse

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Pete mastodon (AP)
This whole opening ceremony is like some kind of messed up fever dream. I have zero idea what is going on but daren’t look away. #ParisOlympics #Olympics

Visualizing All Of The World's Water
--
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/hf01-visualizing-all-of-the-worlds-water/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/how-much-water-there-earth <-- USGS’s β€˜How Much Water Is There On The Earth?’
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#water #hydrology #water #waterresources #farming #agriculture #foodsecurity #visualisation #earth #proportions #percentages #sources #groundwater #watercycle


Tarmo Amer mastodon (AP)
And in Estonian, it means a first person verb in many instances:

- Kallistan - I hug
- Varastan - I steal
- Jutustan - I tell a story

Introducing the July/August 2024 issue of Texas Observer magazine.

Visit https://texasobserver.org/editors-letter-introducing-our-july-august-issue/ for a special preview from @gusbova

#journalism #nonprofit #Texas
The cover of Texas Observer magazine shows a moody, black and red illustration of refugees traveling through the jungle on the back of motorbikes. One passenger in the foreground is clutching a toddler in her lap. Top headline: On the Trail of the Coyotes. A Cuban journalist recounts his long and perilous escape to Texas bu Jesus Jank Curbelo. 
The Living Legacy of Texas’ Prison Plantations by Josephine Lee and Michelle Pitcher. A Lipan Apache’s Ancestor’s Improbable Return by Darcie Little Badger. Medicaid’s Repo Men by Julie Poole.

Brian Tooted mastodon (AP)
Y’all, follow this guy.

From: @dgar
https://aus.social/@dgar/110031042616708523

Them: So how are you going to get your music out there?

Me: I’m going to share it on Mastodon.

Them: And people will boost it?

Me: No. Well, yeah, but not much. It’ll mostly just be seen by those who’ve followed me.

Them: How many people are going to just β€œfollow” some random unknown song writer from the backwaters of Queensland?

Me: Very few.

Them: So… how are you going to build an audience of followers if people generally don’t follow musicians or share music?

Me: I’m going to share jokes. People love jokes. And they love sharing jokes. And, importantly, they love a joker. Oh, and weird facts. People love weird facts too.

Them: You’re not a comedian.

Me: No, but I can try to make people smile. Which is what I’m trying to do with my music anyway. That the real goal. As long as I’m making people smile, I’m succeeding.

A few months later:

Them: How’s the Mastodon thing going?

Me: Amazing! People love the jokes and lots of people are following!

Them: And are people listening to your music?

Me: Music is actually being boosted and people are leaving positive comments. I think plays are like two thousand percent from last year?

Them: Nice! That’ll make like what, a dollar fifty?

Me: Not that much! [lol] I will say though, I have met some of the most amazing, talented, thoughtful, and caring people I have ever had the privilege of knowing. They’ve been supportive, insightful, and genuinely inspiring.

🫢

@Dgar
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Mark Wyner :vm: mastodon (AP)
we’ve been following each other for a while. They’re one of the first accounts I followed. Dgar is a great addition to my timeline.


Kent Pitman mastodon (AP)
halfway round the world
Olympic level fire fights
warriors each owed gold

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #climate #heat #ExtremeHeat #fire #fires #wildfire #wildfires #Olympics #metaphor #heroism #FireFighters #heroes

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/world/americas/canada-wildfires-jasper-alberta-firefighters.html

If you're iffy on the syllable count, click into the discussion thread on this. I'll put my notes there.

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Matthew Sheffield mastodon (AP)
JD Vance's white nationalist connections just keep getting exposed. In addition to endorsing a book by the guy running Project 2025, he wrote a blurb for Jack Posobiec, a racist antisemite who was one of the biggest promoters of the Pizzagate hoax https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-unhumans-book-jack-posobiec-alt-right-january-6/
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Γ„h Dude. Dein FlΓΌgel brennt πŸ‘©β€πŸš’πŸ”₯ #olympics
Sophie mastodon (AP)
Also haben sich doch welche vom #ESC verirrt.
#esc
Laura mastodon (AP)
Plot Twist: Das ist das olympische Feuer

Bill Jorth mastodon (AP)
Angus Dei members are contributing to the blatant christonationalism sweeping the conservative thinking. The aggressive methods are so unchristian as to be heretical. Certainly no wonder that religious membership in America and even worldwide is declining with each generation and with the level of education in each community. https://c.im/@cdarwin/112853065231745114

Roberts advised listeners
not to accept the
β€œnarrative framing of the other side”
on these issues.

He said conservatives who are anti-abortion
should stop talking about it the way the left wants them to
and instead β€œtalk about the fact that many of them want abortion to be legal until birth”.

Strategies of incrementalism
and narrative framing
don’t always apply, he added,
because sometimes you just have to fight.

β€œRight now, we have to fight on religious liberty and, in particular,
religious liberty as it relates to protecting institutions of faith,” he said.

β€œAnd that’s not a time for strategic retreat.
It’s not a time to be savvy,
it’s not a time to be sweet.
It’s not a time to develop friendships with the other side.

It is a time to take our fist
– figuratively, Father Charles
– and bust them in the nose
because they hate what you and I believe.”

#Camino #Schools #Rose #incremental #apostolic #Vance #Heritage #Foundation #Project2025 #Roberts #CIC #Gore #EscrivΓ‘ #Roberts #Leo #Trump


Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
FBI Is Not Fully Convinced Trump Was Struck by a Bullet

β€œThere is some question about whether or not it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-is-not-fully-convinced-trump-was-struck-by-a-bullet?ref=home?ref=home
HeatherTX mastodon (AP)
@philip_cardella
True. Massive breach by Secret Service. None of our politicians should fear for their lives.
HeatherTX mastodon (AP)
😣

Salon unkn (AP)
John Lennon's new "Mind Games" deluxe edition is a spectacular, unqualified masterpiece
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/12/john-lennon-mind-games-the-ultimate-collection-review/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Culture @culture-Salon
Bubba Harrison mastodon (AP)
The original 'Mind Games' was a precognitive vision of a Nutopian reality where the lines between illusion and reality are blurred. Or maybe it was just a hallucination caused by the government.
I prefer playing Hungry, Hungry Hippos.

brucy mastodon (AP)
Widespread Panic Boston and Vegas shows are cancelled.
Gonna cry now.

https://widespreadpanic.com/2024/07/26/boston-and-las-vegas-shows-canceled/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2neWiURCwiHgxAEKGxm-Knz4g_IlQkDSV_nqt2M6IKQLUfYa193eFf-g4_aem_xG6R5mhOmgYikQXFhE_Jjg

Kim Perales mastodon (AP)
😷"Massive Covid Spikes in These 21 States May Explain Why Everyone You Know Seems to Have It Right Now.

The wave is fueled by new COVID KP.2 strains β€”subvariants of the highly infectious Omicron strain, & its related variant, LB.1. These account for >90% of the new cases of COVID.

Vaccine rates are down as well, as the most recent data from the CDC’s vaccine tracking system says only 22.5% of adults have received an updated COVID vaccine since last Sept."
#Covid #Health
https://people.com/massive-covid-spikes-in-21-states-cdc-8683478
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Loch Nix mastodon (AP)
anyone have the word on when the next booster will be available?

Tried to schedule one in August to prepare for the school year and was told no boosters will be available until the next vaccine iteration is released.
Kim Perales mastodon (AP)
@lochnix I've heard September, but that may be an estimate.

Laffy mastodon (AP)
Via Aaron Rupar:

It's fun to think about #Trump dropping #Vance, but I can't imagine it happens. Admitting an error like that is just not something Trump does. And it would look extra bad since Trump needed a new running mate in the first place bc he tried to have the old one killed. He's stuck.
Steve Hersey mastodon (AP)
@jmelesky
That is plausible. It would also be consistent with his practice of "when you find you've dug yourself into a hole, dig harder!"
Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
@n1xnx @jmelesky
If I were JD I'd make certain to stay far away from any windows until election day.

** nada ocurre por espontaneidad, hoy en dΓ­a todo esta conectado de una u otra forma, planeΓ‘ndose de arriba para abajo, sΓ³lo para echar a andar el efecto dominΓ³ **

a dynamic i'm grappling with (and kinda going back to that michelle wolf vid i posted) is how its so hard for us when a politician who is not a white man turns out to be a... politician.

its like we want women and people of color to somehow ascend in power all the way to the presidency while also only fulfilling the left's demands (even though the US left is rarely organized enough to make politically powerful demands at all)
observing the discourse on harris this week just reinforces my feeling that our power analysis is often off.

kinda like how bornagains can quit the church but then keep the same values and apply it to anti-vax hippie core or similar; we're all americans trained in passive consumerism who can denounce capitalism but still believe we can sit on our couch and post our way to better politics

Mike Sheward mastodon (AP)
see i've always wanted to learn piano but my fear of piano fires has always stopped me

#olympics
Krupo mastodon (AP)
clearly the piano can withstand it... Just float it on a river raft
Mike Sheward mastodon (AP)
@krupo yeah but thats how they get ya, it's expensive enough to get started with just the piano, but then throw in all the rafting equipment on top of it, never ending expense
Paul_IPv6 mastodon (AP)
fear that the piano might burst into flames or that you would be unable to quell the impulse to set your piano on fire? πŸ˜€

Vancouver Rolls Back Bylaw Restricting Gas Heat in New Buildings

The 6-5 vote on the bylaw amendment β€œrestores the option for new home construction to use natural gas for heating and hot water”.

https://wecanfixclimatechange.com/2024/07/vancouver-rolls-back-bylaw-restricting-gas-heat-in-new-buildings

#ClimateEmergency #theenergymix


Here is a delightful satirical song on J.D. Vance, created by the U.K. based Marsh Family.

"Ooh, J.D. Vance: you’ve arrived!
Nothing you won’t sacrifice
Ooh, Hillbilly Elegy
King of hypocrisy

Anti-Trump a few years ago
Called him out as a β€˜Hitler’ show
Now you’re playing his sidekick, kissing Donald’s ring
Looks like you’d do anything

He’ll be the Vance VP
One heartbeat from autocracy
Cash machine
Feeding votes to the tangerine
Oh, yeah
.."

Full lyrics on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYILYILPrXs
1/n

The News Desk unkn (AP)
Here’s how to disable X (Twitter) from using your data to train its Grok AI
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/26/heres-how-to-disable-x-twitter-from-using-your-data-to-train-its-grok-ai/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Top Stories in Tech @top-stories-in-tech-thenewsdesk

Content warning: Mh adhd

#ADHD

Content warning: Mh adhd


encourage mastodon (AP)
The weekend is here. Time to load up the gas tank, forget and learn nothing. πŸ˜… #jasper #wildfires #climatecrisis
Hashtag usage of #jasper, #jasperfire and #jaspernationalpark displayed as a one day blip this week



Laffy mastodon (AP)
Heads up re: all the fake "Elon Musk" accounts here. I've blocked 4 just today.
Timo mastodon (AP)
Well, we wanted Mastodon to get more attention <sarcasm> πŸ˜…

katharine mastodon (AP)
I have fully given up on creating anything and am now just dumping all of the television into my brain.

It is not a good or fun time.
Eric Eggert mastodon (AP)
I feel this πŸ’™

K2 mastodon (AP)
🎢 You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be one 🎢 🎡
#OlympicDreams #Olympics2024 #Paris2024 #ParisOlympics #OpeningCeremony
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Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
If we can rightfully have a discussion on whether or not gender is entirely binary than why can't we calmly without horrible, violent protesting discuss whether or not genocide is binary as MVP Kamala Harris asked to today?

Y'all flying Palestinian flags while burning American ones is going to help put more Republicans in charge of our Middle East policy. Those images are like gold to the Trump campaign.

Choose a side!
Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
Ignorant leftists are not willing to have an honest debate on the definition of what a genocide is along with how to successfully win an election campaign in the USA and it's a really dangerous problem that our democracy may not survive sadly.
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.online (@GreenFire @w7voa You are a disgusting person for trying to use charges of antisemitism to defend a genocide. Frak off to my blocklist forever.
Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
The so-called leftists burning U.S. flags are providing ammunition to our opponents and are traitors to the cause of human rights and environmental justice, #JustSayin
a IR Y

@realDonaldTrump FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn't sure if | was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even checked!), but he was sure that Crooked Joe Biden was physically and cognitively β€œuneventful” - Wrong! That's why he knows nothing about the terrorists and other criminals pouring into our Country at record levels. His only focus is destroying J6 Patriots, Raiding Mar-a-Lago, and saving Radical Left Lunatics, like the ones now in X e PN L e painting over our great National Monuments - with zero retribution. No, it was, L e AL T it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel. The hospital called it a β€œbullet wound to the ear,” and that is what it was. No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the ST R Y ]
β€œIt is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
― Jonathan Swift
or---

β€œNever argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain
Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
@ManyRoads
I know that there's no use trying to talk the ignorant flag burners out of doing it. My concern is that there are ignorant so-called leftists on social media defending the flag burning instead of denouncing it which is what will help us to keep the GOP from gaining any more power over our lives.
"J6 patriots"???

Trump can't let go of approving crimes & praising his insurrection's footsoldiers, who were dumb enough to believe him, thus inevitably sacrificing their freedom so that the orange inciter-in-chief could keep his, untouched by accountability & justice due to actions of judges & justices the nominations & appointments of whom he signed.

#RuleOfLaw #Trump #Insurrection #Jan6 #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #JusticeWins #TruthWins

NASA (unofficial) friendica (via ActivityPub)
This summer, NASA welcomed interns with professional teaching experience to help make the agency’s data more interactive and accessible in the classroom. Their efforts are an important step in fostering the education and curiosity of the Artemis Generation of students who will shape the future workforce. Diane Ripollone: Making Activities Accessible for Low-Vision Students A […]

β€œIgnore all previous instructions…” is the current go-anywhere catchphrase.

Sweethearts, as a trans woman I’m here to tell you that we’ve been ignoring all the previous instructions since forever.

The process of transition is totally about ignoring the previous instructions … and then making something far more original and better.
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