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Frozen Canuck mastodon (AP)
Let's make $500,000 happen!

#MastodonForHarris

https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/112853499119254124

#MastodonForHarris morning update - we are well over $300,000 and headed to 4000 contributions!

Funds raised as of this post: $326,239.24
# of contributions: ➡️ 3910 ⬅️
# of recurring contributions: 193

Current target: $500,000

I’m emphasizing the number of contributions because it is as important as the overall amount of money raised. Let’s continue to make an impact! https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris


libramoon diaspora
https://7news.com.au/sport/olympics/ukraine-gives-sobering-reminder-of-devastating-impact-russian-invasion-has-had-on-paris-olympics-c-15490396

#Ukraine gives sobering reminder of devastating impact #Russian #invasion has had on #Paris #Olympics

..."The embattled country has sent an unprecedented 143 athletes to Paris — its smallest-ever team — having lost 487 potential athletes during the war, according to an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Each one of the 143 selected athletes has had to navigate disruptions unique to any other country in the Games since Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
...
President Zelenskyy is steadfast in his optimism for the team.

“Our people, our flag, and our anthem stand with everyone who respects life, human values, the principles of Olympism, and fair rules,” he wrote on social media.

“We are proud of our team — the men and women who, despite this aggressive war, have managed to prepare for the Olympics and embody the spirit of all Ukrainians. They have our will to win and Ukrainian character.

“We support Ukraine! We believe in Ukraine!”...

StillIRise1963 mastodon (AP)
Fired Rob Marciano is on my plane.
Dude hasn't gotten a job yet. Not even Fox Weather will hire him? I guess News Nation doesn't need a meteorologist.
StillIRise1963 mastodon (AP)
@IveyJanette Guess not! He looks a little ragged.
StillIRise1963 mastodon (AP)
@JustChapman Acting like an asshole , yelling at people.

Bill Jorth mastodon (AP)
Russian minister = corruption

Darwin Woodka mastodon (AP)
LGBTO+ call last night also, over $300 K

And our own #MastodonForHarris now at $340 K!!

FediFollows mastodon (AP)
#NewZealand / #Aotearoa picks of the day:

➡️ @greenpeace - Aotearoa NZ branch of environmental NGO

➡️ @thespinoff - Award-winning news & pop culture site

➡️ @nzpug - Python user group in NZ

➡️ @lucire - Online & print fashion magazine founded in 1997 in NZ

➡️ @WellingtonChineseHistory - Sites of significance to Chinese communities in Wellington

➡️ @thoughtfulnz - Open data enthusiast, currently posting about Covid in NZ

➡️ @klim - Typeface / font designer based in NZ/Aotearoa

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FediFollows mastodon (AP)
#NewZealand / #Aotearoa picks of the day (continued):

The account below is a discussion group. Follow it to see its discussions in your timeline, mention it to post to the group. (More info on how to use Fediverse groups: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse)

➡️ @aotearoa - Discussion group about Aotearoa / New Zealand, including events, news, places, people etc

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS PART OF THE THREAD, IT MIGHT SPAM THE GROUP.

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@ExhibitExplorer is a bot which frequently posts images from NZ archives.

Allen Michie mastodon (AP)
But we can't have DEI in the federal workforce because everything has to be a meritocracy. Oh I seeeeee.
Allpoints mastodon (AP)
Can we start with him?

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
So, 12 months ago I got a pair of headphones and returned them, got a gift card, purchased a pair of headphones with a difference of 120$ on a gift card ... Take these fault ones back and get the current model and a credit as these were on special ... Let's see if these work for more than 6 months ... Giggles

Oh, yes the warranty is reset ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Peter Bart mastodon (AP)
Another Trevor milestone!He has learned to use the steps all by himself!At first he just didn't have the strength, then "normal" steps were scary so we practiced on curbs and long low rise stairs.This does so much to boost his confidence. #PuppyMill #Dogs #CavalierKingCharlesSpaniel #EnglishSpringerSpaniel #CockerSpaniel #AdoptDontShop #DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfTheFediverse #PetRescue #RescueDog #DogRescue #AnimalRescue
Trevor; a male tricolor CKCS puppymill survivor" laying upright in shaded yard next to his favorite post office, the neighbors tree. He is making googly eyes at the camera.
Trevor; a male tricolor CKCS puppymill survivor" walking away confidentially from his favorite post office, the neighbors tree. He is looking past the camera striding with his head and tail held high.

Tengrain (🇺🇦) mastodon (AP)
#Momocrats @Karoli got the first f-Bomb, and I won that it was about JD Vance!

Flipboard Tech Desk mastodon (AP)
For anyone out there still using X, it appears that the platform is using user data to train its AI chatbot Grok — and it’s an opt-out process, not opt-in.

As @arstechnica reports, users of the platform have recently noticed a tickbox in X’s privacy settings, which needs to be checked in order to count your data out of Grok’s training. It’s not clear how long it’s been there for, but here’s how you find it so you can make that call yourself.

https://flip.it/s5r4Py

#X #Twitter #ElonMusic #Grok #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech
PetterOfCats mastodon (AP)
paying me $1tn to access my data is an opt-out process, not opt-in

Gigi 🍄‍🟫 mastodon (AP)
Today in #FuckThePolice

Morning folks. This is a hard one. I am sharing the go fund me for the family of Tylor Maxie, the Afro Indigenous man shot by toronto police on Tuesday.

Tylor suffers with paranoid schizophrenia and was having an episode at the time. Police took it upon themselves to shoot him as their only means of subduing Tylor and deescalating the situation leading to him near death in ICU after multiple surgeries.

Needless to say this is a heartbreaking and close to home reminder that police violence is at the root of the settler colonial project here, rife with racism and ableism. Only a day after Sonya Massey, who also suffered from schizophrenia was shot and killed by police.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tylors-criminal-lawyer-fees

#AllCops #acab
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle
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libramoon diaspora
emerging visions #visionary #art zine
MOVING FROM THE VISIONARY'S IMAGINATION INTO VIEW THAT ALL OF US MAY LEARN TO SEE FURTHER

Jung @ Heart, EV12 ~ July

https://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/2008/07/

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
I am out again

Three times in one morning ... That just too much outs

Hugz & xXx
Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
@ashwin

Giggles ... Not out! ... {Waves fingers}

Hugz & xXx

Strypey mastodon (AP)
It's fascinating to hear Michael Beckley misunderstand China, despite being well-informed on the raw facts. Because he's trying to cram those facts into a one-size-fits-all neoclassical economic frame. It simply doesn't fit a country with a totally different political-economic system from the US, and a massive, diverse territory with a huge population.

https://opentodebate.org/debate/has-chinas-power-peaked/

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#podcasts #OpenToDebate #China #NeoClassicalEconomics
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Strypey mastodon (AP)
Now I want to be clear that none of this is intended to praise the anti-democratic practices of the CCP. I believe it's possible to have, for example, public investment in infrastructure driven by decentralised, democratic planning. Not autocratic central planning.

Not only do I think this would be a huge improvement on the CCP system, it would also be much better than the post-Reagan system in the US. Which has neither public investment nor democratic planning.

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Strypey mastodon (AP)
But my point is that for Beckley, either China moves away from public infrastructure planning of any kind, like the US, or it can't grow. Therefore its economic growth has peaked.

Which is bizarre to me, considering the only thing keeping the US economy growing is massive overseas borrowing. Every year since their domestic oil extraction peaked. Much of it borrowed from China 🤔

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first time watching #Olympics2024 Handball, a game that is part basketball and rugby.

the goalies don't seem to do much (or can't as there is no knee pads on) as the teams volley back and forth throwing the small ball into the net. kinda weird sport

James DeVol mastodon (AP)
Just heard a loud explosion and the power went out...crap..I guess it's reading and in bed early..but cocktails first...good evening
#today

Lot⁴⁹ mastodon (AP)
@TidalFlats They have laces, so you're okay. I can't wear those anymore either.
glasspshr mastodon (AP)
@12thRITS @TidalFlats I’ve worn sneakers without laces, and loved it

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1363182/ Några bilder från fjällvandringen jag nyss avslutade, varsågod och njut! #sweden
Några bilder från fjällvandringen jag nyss avslutade, varsågod och njut!

Amazing! We have been waiting for over a week on the insurance company to decide whether to authorize more hyperbaric oxygen treatments for my husband. We are floored to get the notice that they have approved 100 more sessions! I guess they figure that doing that is more cost effective than having him in the emergency room every 10 days. Whatever the reasoning, we are grateful!
Sharonbw mastodon (AP)
Such fantastic news!

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
Just on the phone to mum

Me - Blah blah blah {BURP} blah blah

Mum - how do I write that sound down

Me - giggles ... Sorry it just flowed out

Mum - yeah it always does

Me - giggles

Mum - you nearly deafened me

Hugz & xXx

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
And I got a refund of 30$ too ... Winning

Hugz & xXx

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1362915/ House Republicans Turn On JD Vance as Trump Campaign Unravels: ‘The Worst Choice’ #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews
Tough, they have to carry the baby full term


Ars Technica mastodon (AP)
At the Olympics, AI is watching you

New system foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/at-the-olympics-ai-is-watching-you/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Mike Saccone mastodon (AP)
Is this a cardinal direction?

📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 3600, f8, 1/3200s)

#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
A Northern cardinal in flight. The bird is entirely red, though it has a black "mask" on its face behind its red beak. The background is out-of-focus sunflowers.

Fly Boy friendica (via ActivityPub)

Brian Leech mastodon (AP)
This book could have been an article.

This article could have been a paragraph.

This paragraph could have been a sentence.

This sentence could have been a word.

This post could have been a thought.

Tengrain (🇺🇦) mastodon (AP)
Just returned from the wine shop around the corner and lo! It’s time for the #Momocrats!

Pour a glass of your favorite bevy and spend happy hour with your funniest, smartest friends talking politics!

Also: place your bets on the first F-Bomb. I think it will be about JD Vance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sibd_hXVmCs
H/G @Karoli @socalmom @AlizaWrites

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar comments on the horrifying shooting of Sonya Massey in her home in Springfield, Illinois, after she called the police thinking an intruder was on her property. Policeman Sean P. Grayson then shot Massey. Abdul-Jabbar writes,

"The question here isn’t how this could happen, but why it happens with such regularity—mostly to Black people. …

This is why Black people fear the police."

#police #murder #Black #shooting #SonyaMassey
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https://kareem.substack.com/p/the-horrifying-police-shooting-that
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@philip_cardella He's such a sharp thinker, so well-informed, and has such a humane outlook on the world. I really value his commentary.
@philip_cardella I can well imagine. I'm very much at the fringes of knowing much about the sports world, but the little I do know makes what you say very obvious to me.


Jude🇵🇸 mastodon (AP)
I hope the shit hits the fan at this weekend's Labor conference, re #Palestine. #auspol
Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
Messy ... I'm not cleaning up

Hugz & xXx

Urban Dinosaurs mastodon (AP)
Central Park today: a grey catbird, a northern cardinal that found a peanut from a supply that someone was using to feed birds (plus a rat…), and a northern flicker.
#birds #wildlifePhotography #birdCPP
A right profile view of a catbird perched on a low railing made from a bare log. There are bushes in the background. The flicker is perched on a near-horizontal branch. There is an out-of-focus green background.
The cardinal has a good-sized peanut in its beak. The ground is basically bare.

shannon mastodon (AP)
about 1% of sobriety is giving up the thing one is addicted to. 99% is attending to the reasons one is addicted in the first place.

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
Nice boys and girls at JB hi-fi ... I get an upgrade on the headphones for the same price of zero $ ... Yay

Hugz & xXx



solarbird wordpress (AP)
One final note about the shooting, then resources on JD Vance and Project 2025

I’m going to say one final thing about the Trump shooting, then turn the rest of this into a resource post, highlighting some useful information about Project 2025, JD Vance, and the two together, since there is some involvement.

I argued in the past that it doesn’t matter whether Trump’s ear was hit by a bullet or shrapnel, because it fucking doesn’t, it was still an assassination attempt. I’ve argued about how Democratic conspiracy theories give us more MAGA and give them something to counterbalance against January 6th.

But most importantly, going off about which happened gives Donald Trump more attention for something he wants attention about.

For a blessed few days, nobody was talking about the stinking orange buffoon, not really, and given that literally nothing changes about the story he wants to talk about if it’s shrapnel or if it’s a bullet, that was a really good thing. It was “fuckity-bye, ear” in the news and I was delighted for it.

Even talking about him overhyping the damage or whatever just gives it all more air.

Don’t give it – or him – any air. Don’t let him get up. Until and unless something actually major actually happens – not hypotheses or speculation, actually something major – keep it quiet, because it helps shift the focus back on him.

Keep the focus on Harris and on Vance. That’s what’s good for us. Not speculating about trivia nobody outside the obsessed cares about: himself, as victim.

Make sense? Good. I’m shutting up about it until and unless there’s some actual hard news, and I recommend you do too.

Have some more resources on Project 2025 and JD Vance; use them as appropriate when talking to your friends and family about the election, particularly the Trumpy ones:There’s more, but this is getting pretty long. I’ll leave you with this last little nugget:And with that, enjoy the weekend.

101 days remain.
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[link] #politics #USPol #fascism #politics #uspolitics

Via Katie Phang:

JD Vance showing his true colors

Ron Filipkowski:

JD #Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala #Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America.

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