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Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Dance, art, Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, the Louvre, Notre Dame, libraries, theater, balloons, diversity, equality, fashion, young athletes from around the globe floating down the Seine - the right wing's complains that the Paris #Olympics are too secular proves how far out of modern life they've drifted.

And how much freedom and joy scare them.

#olympics

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Nazani 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Huh? OK, let's go back to its religious roots, although I don't think the sacrifice of 100 oxen to Zeus will be popular. Better: The games ended with a procession; a couch was carried from the temple of Hera to the temple of Zeus. 😉

Miro Collas 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Mohammed Assaf, a 17-year-old from North Gaza, has just died due to starvation. Mohammed did not suffer from any pre-existing conditions, but he was severely malnourished, and his weak body couldn't survive the starvation.

Israeli occupation forces are using starvation as a tool of war and are currently starving North Gaza to death.

https://xcancel.com/HossamShabat/status/1816943478687076703#m

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#HossamShabat
@palestine

#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #hossamshabat @palestine group

Linda 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

the world leaders should be ashamed.

Sozan 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Lassielmr I saw them applauding.

@Linda

Isaac Kuo Art Blog 4 months ago • socialhome (via ActivityPub)

Ariel sketch

#MyArt

#myart

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Isaac Kuo Art Blog 4 months ago • socialhome (via ActivityPub)

Tinker Bell sketch

#MyArt #TinkerBell

#myart #tinkerbell

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Dwight (DB) 🤔 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Look at the size of those thumbs, that’s got to be steroids.
#SocialMediaOlympics

#socialmediaolympics

birch beer and blackberries 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Kind of awestruck at this #Olympics2024 #OpeningCeremony in #paris. The urban planner in me is floored at what a brilliant idea to showcase the history and culture of Parisians and France through the heart of the city itself. It's inspiring to see a city being used in a way that I don't recall seeing in my lifetime, but seems so obvious after tonight.

#Paris #olympics2024 #openingceremony

Shoq 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

While I had doubts about Kamala 4 yrs ago, which I think were valid at the time, I started to see how she’d grown with Biden and I was pretty sure 8 months ago she might be the nominee. I was always quietly concerned about the age thing. I was comforted she was there.

Kevin LaRose He/Him 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Being that I’m six weeks younger than her, I’m happy to see people refer to her as young. Also, I saw some yahoo Congressperson from Tennessee actually call #VP Harris lazy today. You know and I know what that actually means, as does anyone with at least five working brain cells. How utterly brazenly racist. They’re not only not hiding it or saying the quiet part out loud, they’re shouting it from the rooftops, loud and proud.

#vp

donni saphire 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

ME: Hey, what's a Jumping Jack Flash?
MICK JAGGER: It's a gas gas gas
ME: Great. Thanks a lot. Very helpful

Reticent Turnip 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I think it has something to do with being bone in a koss fah huh kay.

Isaac Kuo Art Blog 4 months ago • socialhome (via ActivityPub)

warmup sketch

#MyArt

#myart

mvario 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The media is already failing in its duty to fairly cover Kamala Harris | Margaret Sullivan | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/26/kamala-harris-media

#SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025

The media is already failing in its duty to fairly cover Kamala Harris

Sure, Harris deserves scrutiny. But she doesn’t deserve smears and stereotypes amplified by journalists and pundits addicted to clicks

^{Margaret Sullivan (The Guardian)}

#stopfascism #stopproject2025 #savedemocracyvoteblue

BenderIsGreat34 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Not holding out much hope that Trump gets sentenced to hard labour in a dilithium mine on Ruhra Penthe.

Baltimore Banner 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Towson Apple store union: Group secures first tentative contract agreement https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/towson-apple-store-union-TCQDV6AGRJEKJPYYVSX3THPZ7E/

The Baltimore Banner: Baltimore News, Politics, Business, Food, Events

Baltimore Banner: Baltimore news coverage, including politics, business, entertainment, food, and events. In-depth investigation and thoughtful opinion on the Baltimore Region

^{Baltimore Banner}

Dorothea Salo 4 months ago • hometown (AP)

Higher ed has a newish (?) data broker called Transact.

https://www.campusidnews.com/transacts-data-aggregation-platform-set-to-expand-into-campus-commerce-and-id-space/

From their own lips: "These transactions range from where they eat, if they attend their lectures, pay their tuition bill on time, where and when they move across campus, how often they do laundry, or how many Energy Drinks they buy at the library at 2 am before exams."

My students gonna adore this.

Who else wants to FOIA public institutions for who's selling/giving these jerks data?

Transact’s data aggregation platform set to expand into campus commerce and ID space - CampusIDNews

Transact Insights is poised for deeper integration with Transact Campus Commerce and Transact Campus ID.

^{CampusIDNews Staff (CampusIDNews)}

Ben Ramsey 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Wearing JNCOs on a rainy day.

IYKYK

J Λ M Ξ S 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

need a strong belt

Piousunyn 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Thanks to Abby Normal

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Lisa Stranger 4 months ago • diaspora

Former FBI official Peter Strzok reaches $1.2 million settlement with Justice Dept over Trump-related texts - CBS News

Former FBI special agent Peter Strzok reached a $1.2 million settlement with the Justice Department over claims that the department violated his privacy and the Privacy Act when it released text messages during the Trump administration between him and former FBI employee Lisa Page that criticized former President Donald Trump and his candidacy.

The settlement resolves his privacy allegations, but the claims of unlawful termination are still being litigated. For that claim, he is seeking back pay and other payment for his employment.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-official-peter-strzok-trump-texts-1-2-million-settlement-doj/

Former FBI official Peter Strzok reaches $1.2 million settlement with Justice Dept over Trump-related texts

Former FBI special agent Peter Strzok reached a $1.2 million settlement with DOJ over claims that it violated his privacy in releasing text messages with another former employee regarding Donald Trump.

^{Robert Legare (CBS News)}

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Chuck Darwin 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The left and right have very different ideas about what counts as fun

Vice President Harris — she’s making politics fun again!
 This realization came to Kate Cohen sometime between the 26th and 27th political TikTok her daughter scrolled through with her.

It’s not just the pop-music-scored “Kamalanomenon” unfolding,

but the “candy-store array” of possible VP picks who might help Harris “crush” former president Donald Trump.
 Yes, “crush.”

Kate describes a “we got this” glee
that feels almost foreign after so many years of “if only” wistfulness.

As she asks, “When was the last time it was this fun to be a Democrat?”

 Meanwhile, GOP leadership reportedly wants to stop Republicans from having any fun at all with the Harris boom.

Alexandra Petri imagines us inside the room where politicians got their “don’t say the quiet part out loud” sensitivity training

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/26/democrats-fun-harris-biden-trump-olympics-elections/

The left and right have very different ideas about what counts as fun

Plus: Thanks to Biden. Trump seethes. What international elections mean. France’s Olympic vision.

^{Drew Goins (The Washington Post)}

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Justin Cox 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I hate how NBC manages to take a 45 minute segment and turn it into three hours. I know I say this every two years, but NBC’s coverage of the Olympics is just not good.

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Ben Ramsey 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I almost considered switching just for the Olympics this year, but I didn’t. Maybe next time.

Ben Ramsey 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

NBC has an entire small city of broadcast vehicles/satellite dishes/etc. set up near the Olympics. All of the feeds Xfinity provides are from NBC.

Brodie Robertson 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

LIVE SOON:

Olympics? What's that?
We've got a city to build #pathofexile #poe #settlersofkalguur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk03ce9noMY

#Poe #pathofexile #settlersofkalguur

:arch: bitterseeds 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Even if you don't watch Olympics stuff ... watch this 2:58 sec vid. It's awesome.

https://streamable.com/4qdjv2

Roque Neto 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Who did this?

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Muirén 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Biden lifted sanctions on Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler? The man who is literally destroying the Congolese people, genocide for profit? How are Gertler and his cronies not being prosecuted as war criminals?
#BlackMastodon

#BlackMastodon

jaryl 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

you are mistaking the US as a force for good, supporting, abetting or directly carrying out genocide is par for the course of US "checkered" history. Unlearn the propaganda, the US is not the best country in the world, never was.

Muirén 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@jaryl Nothing I have ever posted suggests I am deluded into believing the US is a force of good. Even a casual glance at my profile would have disabused you of that impulsive, ill-informed notion.

@jaryl

Omniscient Orb of Antlers :bc: 1 year ago (Received 4 months ago) • mastodon (AP)

if you bring this dude to my party you will be invited to more of my parties

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Loren 4 months ago • hometown (AP)

Loren's Chipmunk Portrait Studio is open for business

Today I learned 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

TIL that chicken little is an anti nazi film to teach about the evils of mass hysteria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Little_(1943_film)
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ed50ye/til_that_chicken_little_is_an_anti_nazi_film_to/

#TIL #todayilearned

Laffy 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

🤑 👠💪🏼 #Harris2024 #YesWeKam

Via Shannon Watts
@shannonrwatts

NEW: We've raised over $8.5 million so far!

All from last night’s Zoom of nearly 200,000

women answering the call for Kamala Harris.

Thank you @WinWithBLKWomen for showing

us how it’s done.

Help us get to $10 million:

Donate to Support Kamala Harris! secure.kamalaharris.com

#harris2024 #YesWeKam

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Melissa BearTrix 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Just at the nice cafe, and sat with my coffee crush ... Giggles ... We were giggling and laughing at everything ... They had to get back to work ... They squeeze my thigh ... Melting ... Giggles

I couldn't date them, I wouldn't want to ruin their life ... Like I am older enough to be their mother and I'm trans

Hugz & xXx

Melissa BearTrix 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@mori_au

Sure did ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

@mori_au 🇦🇺

Mary Hilton 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

This always amuses me when Trump says he's a family values guy:

Stephanie 🎀 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

…and I got surprised by these tubular yellow blossoms behind the fence today! They seem quite popular with the ants. #Bloomscrolling

Large yellow flowers in a tubular shape, growing on a vine over a bush.

#bloomscrolling

Michael Perry 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Power.

Michael Perry 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The past few days have had Khmer family visiting. We either have no one or are overrun with people. I just hide out most times. Or give the wifi key to those in need. #today they leave. And I'm gone for coffee. I think my wife is gonna be gone soon as they leave for Preah Vihear province.

Family cafe. Outdoors seating. Nice surroundings.

#today

Dan Gillmor 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Please keep in mind that the Harris euphoria will not -- cannot -- last nonstop through November. There's a natural ebb and flow to everything. Count on the Trump cult getting part of their vile act together after their initially flummoxed response.

Meanwhile, Big Journalism is going to do everything it possibly can to stir up trouble so it can cover the election, as it loves to do, as blood sport. Issues? Ha.

We will save democracy. The hardest work begins now -- please do what you can.

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Eric Lathrop 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

From the #Kentucky #birding email list I heard of the passing of a local conservation legend Bob Peak, who, with his wife Judy, spent 30 years monitoring and managing hundreds of Eastern Bluebird nest boxes. Here's a 2008 interview with them (starting at 9:30): https://video.ket.org/video/kentucky-dinnerbluebird-loversfurniture-maker-hkzgss/

Kentucky Life | Kentucky Dinner; Bluebird Lovers; Furniture Maker | Season 14 | Episode 19 | KET

Kentucky Dinner/Bluebird Lovers/Furniture Maker

^{KET Video}

#Kentucky #birding

Indivisible 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Nobody wants to read all 900 pages of Trump’s Project 2025 — so we did.

Here’s everything you need to know about the playbook for MAGA extremism, who’s behind it, and how to fight back: http://majorityovermaga.org/project2025

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Leslie Burns 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

In other words, he’s as good a dad as Elon and is projecting the shit out of it.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-childless-adults-media/

J.D. Vance says he gets bad press because most journalists are “childless adults”

The GOP veep candidate has a thing about people who are not parents.

^{Mother Jones}

charvaka 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

JD's contribution to the ticket is to alienate 30% of eligible voters for no obvious gain but his own weird fetish. That's how you lose a close election, keep up that good work! Exactly what #DonOLDTrump needed.

#Harris2024 #Kamal2024

#harris2024 #donoldtrump #kamal2024

GertrudeZane 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Pax is dreaming of being a dancer in the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Good night, or good day, to all our wonderful Mastodon friends!

#Pax #CatsOfMastodon #Tabby #Cats #Cat #CatsOfFediverse #MastoCats #FediCats #Catstodon #Katzen #Katze #Neko #Kat #Chat #Gata #ILoveCats #AdoptDontShop #Animals #Pets #Pet #Feline #Purr

A 1 year old tabby cat with white markings is lying on her back on top of some soft, grey and white blankets on a small cat tower. Her body is curved, and her legs are stretched out, as if she were dancing.

#cat #cats #Katzen #chat #katze #animals #kat #pet #pets #catsOfMastodon #mastocats #feline #AdoptDontShop #catsOfFediverse #fedicats #gata #catstodon #neko #tabby #ilovecats #purr #PAX

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Sharonbw 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

If there’s a talent scout on Mastodon who sees this, Pax’s dream may come true for the next Olympics. 😉
Hope you all have a great evening and restful sleep. ❤️ 😴 💤 🌛

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GertrudeZane 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Sharonbw Good night to you Sharon and to all your loved ones. Have a peaceful night!🥱💤😺❤️💫

@Sharonbw

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Callalily 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

She's dancing in her dreams. Good nite to all of you.😴💤🥱🩷

Kit Bashir 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Normalise cities being able to dance for joy without having to hold a sporting event.

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Joel Michael 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

but how would they sell advertising?

Muirén 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

What blows my mind is how many Black people openly state they want the same things that "whiteness" gives Europeans, ignoring the irrefutable fact that whiteness is subsidized by a permanent underclass that includes people of European descent, but are mostly Black, Brown, Indigenous, and those PoC - Asians, Southeast Asian, Indian, and Arabic who are open about aspiring to white class status.

Cooperative Capitalism works, but Black people blindly cling to the ambition of being an oppressor, not bring the oppressor down.

Let me be clear, a higher seat at the table of a structurally unjust system, diversity among the ruling class, is NOT progress, it is a bribe!
#BlackMastodon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv62IuFPRWs

Whiteness, White Supremacy, and White Men in the Workplace

Whiteness, White Supremacy, and White Men in the WorkplaceIn this video, I delve into the dynamics between white men and everyone else in workplaces and how...

^YouTube

#BlackMastodon

yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Black people blindly cling to the ambition of being an oppressor, not bring the oppressor down."

WHEW! that is a word. it's why even though am one of the first Black folks to use twitter am not considered of the Blacktwitter phenomenon because am not a buppie and have been a huge critic of the whole cult of Black capitalism.

way too many just want to do empire, but with a black face. nah.

@muiren

@Muirén

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Muirén 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I've promoted real-world, practical models of cooperative capital, projects that build community equity and capacity for almost 45 years.

It has just as often been Black capitalists seeking to be a big frog in our small Black pond, at any cost, who have worked against me, just as often as these polite white supremacists who insinuate themselves into Black communities, under the pretense of allyship, the better to steer us into prisons of our own chosing.

I love the diverse cultures of Africa and the African diaspora, but I seek the end of the racialized class system promoted by commerce, by law, and custom, not the vain illusion of "racial equality" that can logically exist.

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Eric the Flerken Ailurophile 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The confrontation, starring Joey Puppycat Ramone and Sheena Vanillepe Penelope Ramone. #CatsOfMastodon #ctas #fedicats #catsofediverse #catsofpixelfed

a white cat and a black cat stare at one another in a cluttered room

#catsOfPixelfed #catsOfMastodon #fedicats #catsofediverse #ctas

argv minus one 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Is there a way, in #Rust, to reliably get a pointer to somewhere inside a code section of the executable or DLL that my crate has been linked into?

For example, reading the instruction pointer would do the trick. But, for the sake of portability to other CPU architectures, I would like to avoid using assembly code to do this.

This only has to work on Windows. Portability to other operating systems is not a concern.

Anyone have an idea?

#programming

#programming #rust

argv minus one 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The background for my request is that I need an `HINSTANCE` with which to call `CreateWindow`, and I'm writing a library.

I can get an `HINSTANCE` from `GetModuleHandleEx`, but it needs a pointer inside the executable/DLL in order to look up the module and give me a handle to it.