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Kieran Healy mastodon (AP)
Good Lord, how depressing is that Google Gemini ad about getting the AI to write your kid’s fan letter to her hero athlete? Why not get Midjourney to make a picture to enclose as well? What do they think it means for a child to write a fan latter, or for a recipient to read one?
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Kieran Healy mastodon (AP)
I'm reminded of a remark by the noted social theorist of gift exchange Fred Rogers: “And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child, the gift is really self”. The gift is really self, you Google AI weirdos.
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“Christians, get out and vote! Just this time! You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you don’t have to vote.”

~ Trump at Turning Point Action Believers’ Summit yesterday

#Trump #dictator #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-finally-said-it-out-loud-he
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"Last night Trump made appallingly clear the stakes of this election. There was no parsing, no pretending to just be a dictator for a day: His goal is to end our democracy, to end elections and stay in power if he gets back in office."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #dictator
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/will-the-people-save-democracy-in/comments
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"He is a threat to everything you love. He wears makeup and a wig like a clown, but the clownishness itself is part of the plausible deniability. Even his fiercest critics feed that power by assuming there must be some harmless explanation for his laser focus on dividing and conquering America. There’s not.

You’re just part of the normalization of this lunacy."

~ Jason Sattler

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #dictator
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https://thecause.substack.com/p/trumps-superpower-is-plausible-deniability
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Misty hometown (AP)
What were they THINKING

Old Man in the Shoe mastodon (AP)
Check it out, #MastodonForHarris has raised over $250,000 in 2 days. That's more than a quarter million dollars. @heidilifeldman is an effective fundraiser.

EDIT: Over $330,000 has been raised.

https://kindalame.com/2024/07/25/mastodon-users-raise-250000-for-kamala-harris-in-just-2-days/
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Today I learned mastodon (AP)
TIL that James Blunt's debut album, Back to Bedlam, sold just 482 copies in its first week on sale. It went on to become the UK's biggest selling album of the 2000s.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/dec/30/james-blunt-top-album
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ee0b73/til_that_james_blunts_debut_album_back_to_bedlam/

CoolerPseudonym mastodon (AP)
The Books that Make Me.

I’m going to transgress the “20 books 20 days” meme rules and offer some comment - possibly in a following post in the thread. And I’m going to keep going after the first 20 because the correct number is already, for me, over 100. (Of course, the correct number is "all the books I've ever read", but a little editorial discretion is needed.)

Also will try to make the cover images match the editions I actually have, or had

#books #bookstodon #BooksThatMakeMe #20books
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CoolerPseudonym mastodon (AP)
Surely “the Pushcart War” wouldn’t be published today, much less become a classic. It tells of an uprising by pushcart peddlers against the trucks, who are the economic “disruptors”, crowding the old-fashioned pushcarts out of business with gangster tactics. The peddlers respond not just with civil protest, but wholesale property damage and disruption, and they win.

It’s a very New York book, a very lefty book, and a very Jewish book.

#books #bookstodon #BooksThatMakeMe
Ronni Solbert illustration from “the Pushcart War”; a huge, menacing truck, with the driver leaning out the window and gesticulating, bears down on a pushcart peddler selling flowers.
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Rachel A. Rosen mastodon (AP)
I've never even heard of this! It sounds amazing.

Bubba Harrison mastodon (AP)
It's possible that 25,000 asylum seekers will be bussed to Chicago for the DNC, courtesy of Texas's Governor and other red state politicians. It’s as if the GOP would rather do political grandstanding and create chaos than actually work with Democrats to address the problem.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/chicago-expects-25000-migrants-dnc-capacity-15000/.
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Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
Reuters reports Ismael Zambada, known as 'El Mayo,' who is the co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, is in US custody.
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Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
Reuters also reports Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of the incarcerated kingpin known as "El Chapo," is in US custody.
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Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
DoJ now confirms both of these wanted prominent cartel suspects from Mexico are now in US custody.
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Watch him end up at USP Florence ADMAX and still never get to see daddy.
Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
“El Mayo and Guzman Lopez join a growing list of Sinaloa Cartel leaders and associates who the Justice Department is holding accountable in the United States.” - US Attorney General Merrick Garland
Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
"Yesterday, the Department of Justice arrested Ismael Zambada Garcia (AKA “El Mayo”) and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, two of the most notorious leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the deadliest enterprises in the world. They are being charged for leading the Cartel’s deadly drug manufacturing and trafficking networks. I commend the work of our law enforcement officials, who made this arrest, for their ongoing work to bring Sinaloa Cartel leaders to justice." - President Biden in a statement
Bandersnatch mastodon (AP)
Criminals that #Trump couldn't or wouldn't catch.
Darcy mastodon (AP)
Just one quick point.

The reason the Sinaloa Cartel is so strong & powerful is because of the useless American gun laws.

About 95% of all guns and ammo in Mexico comes directly from the good old USA!!!

It's referred to the Iron River.

So you can blame all the drugs coming into America directly on the GOP, SCOTUS, and the NRA!!!!
Darcy mastodon (AP)
Just one quick point.

The reason the Sinaloa Cartel is so strong & powerful is because of the useless American gun laws.

About 95% of all guns and ammo in Mexico comes directly from the good old USA!!!

It's referred to the Iron River.

So you can blame all the drugs coming into America directly on the GOP, SCOTUS, and the NRA!!!!
Mike Sheward mastodon (AP)
they are gonna put him through hell man


Ben Royce 🇺🇦 mastodon (AP)
the intersection of #nature and #civilization:

we imagine ourselves in a bubble separate from nature. we are not. that blindness drives many of our problems

in the '90s #vultures in #india died off from 50 million to near 0!

the culprit: diclofenac is a cheap painkiller for cattle, but it is fatal to vultures who would eat dead cattle

without vultures, nature's janitors, disease spreads more easily, and:

"How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c28e2pvzn3lo
Indian White-Rumped Vulture
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 mastodon (AP)
interesting side note: the decline of #vultures led to a crisis in a religious community

some of you know of the #parsis in #india, the #zoroastrians of ancient #persia

they practice sky burial: the parsis say burying or cremation pollutes nature, the bodies must go to the air

the towers of silence is where the parsis would put their dead, and they would be mostly consumed by vultures

but suddenly all the vultures that the parsis relied on for centuries, vanished

https://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/160401322/vanishing-vultures-a-grave-matter-for-indias-parsis
Mx. Luna Corbden mastodon (AP)
Oh no! I’m familiar with the practice from research for an alternate history novel I wrote.

Mr. Funk E. Dude mastodon (AP)
Why are you still awake?

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1365500/ Russia’s Catastrophic Losses in Ukraine: Half a Million Soldiers Gone At Putin’s Will #conflict #News #RussiaUkraineWar #Russian #RussianInvasionOfUkraine #RussoUkrainianWar #UATV #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #UkraineNews #UkraineUpdates #UkraineWar #UkrainianNews
Russia’s Catastrophic Losses in Ukraine: Half a Million Soldiers Gone At Putin's Will
Putin has a long way to go before he will become Russia's greatest leader. Stalin killed millions of them.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1365637/ A Ukrainian drone drops munitions on a Russian soldier carrying multiple water bottles. He falls, then eventually gets up and moves into a dugout, where more grenades follow. #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineWarVideoReport
A Ukrainian drone drops munitions on a Russian soldier carrying multiple water bottles. He falls, then eventually gets up and moves into a dugout, where more grenades follow.

DH mastodon (AP)
Queer audacity faltered in the face of unmedicated ADHD and instead of making a ton of progress on the Nostalgic Tarot I made a little progress on it, a little progress on Those Who Wait, and a little on my knitting project.

Ooops?

#crossstitch #knitting #adhd
Karen Strickholm mastodon (AP)
It's all good, DH. Own the wins!

Bill Jorth mastodon (AP)
The backlash should awaken the sleepy Christians he is trying to trick into voting for him, against their stated Christian values. And now against every American democratic values. https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/112861590712230327

Trump faces backlash for ‘in four years, you don’t have to vote again’ remark - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/27/trump-faces-backlash-four-years-you-dont-have-vote-again-remark/

or this link:

https://wapo.st/4c1ttS8



Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1365632/ Trump faces backlash for ‘in four years, you don’t have to vote again’ remark #Politics #U.S.Politics #UnitedStates
Trump faces backlash for ‘in four years, you don’t have to vote again’ remark

Audioslave - Gasoline


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4:41 min live music video

#fullconcert 68 min

#music #rock #Audioslave

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1365630/ Keanu Reeves Thanks His Mom for “Life, for Storytelling, for Love” at Comic-Con #Entertainment #UnitedStates
Keanu Reeves Thanks His Mom for “Life, for Storytelling, for Love” at Comic-Con

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1365628/ Lazy Sunday – It’s a gorgeous day today, so what will you be doing? Come in for a chat! #CasualUK #UnitedKingdom
Lazy Sunday - It's a gorgeous day today, so what will you be doing? Come in for a chat!

Wibke Ladwig mastodon (AP)
Draußen regnet‘s vor sich hin. Das Fenster steht sperrangelweit offen. Ich tue einfach so, als sei ich Zelten: früh mit Buch ins Zelt, äh, Bett, weil man draußen sowieso nichts mehr machen kann. Mit Sonnenuntergang schlafen und aufwachen, wenn die Morgendämmerung anbricht. Feels like Urlaub.

Pomaranč mastodon (AP)
This is what our night sky would look like in 4 billion years.

#space

Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
"We believe the American people want the real freedom, opportunity and security Vice President Harris is offering; not the fake, manipulated lies of Elon Musk and Donald Trump." - Harris campaign reaction to Twitter/X owner sharing deepfake video of the Democratic party presidential candidate https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/politics/elon-musk-kamala-harris-deepfake.html?smid=url-share
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what is it going to take for the most influential people on Twitter to finally leave Twitter?
SLCW💥 mastodon (AP)
Elon Musk best be described as a piece of shit internet troll who spent $44 billion so he'd have a platform with a built-in audience to spread ego-boosting malinformation.

Stinkstiefel mastodon (AP)
"Zum Brand einer drei Meter langen und zwei Meter hohen Thuja-Hecke sind Einsatzkräfte von Feuerwehr und Polizei am Freitagnachmittag in die Panoramastraße nach Zizishausen ausgerückt. Ein 55-Jähriger wollte gegen 17.20 Uhr Unkraut auf einer Treppe mittels eines Abflammgerätes beseitigen, wobei die nebenstehende Hecke in Brand geriet."

Mission accomplished. 👍🏻
helgenug mastodon (AP)
Oh fuck! Oh fuck oh fuck, there's Unkraut everywhere. Freakin' EVERYWHERE!!!

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Kamala Harris May Be 'Shockingly Better' Than Expected, Newt Gingrich Says - Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-may-shockingly-better-expected-newt-gingrich-1931038

#Harris #Harris2024
Phil Landmeier mastodon (AP)
The only one who's shocked is Newt Gingrich and anyone else living in the right-wing fantasy.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1365624/ HEAVY WEIGHT Championship NASTY KO!! Tom Aspinal Dispatch Blades In 60 SECONDS! Jon Jones Fight NEXT #England #UnitedKingdom
HEAVY WEIGHT Championship NASTY KO!! Tom Aspinal Dispatch Blades In 60 SECONDS! Jon Jones Fight NEXT

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
Well, that was easier than I thought ... Just fitted the new barrel to the Dyson ... Way to easy

Hugz & xXx
StarkRG mastodon (AP)
I recently heard that company described something like "the company known for moving air expensively" and now I can't think of it as anything else...
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Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
@StarkRG

Giggles ... So true

Hugz & xXx

EN - The dynamics of #ruscist losses in the war with Ukraine since February 24, 2022 - https://index.minfin.com.ua/en/russian-invading/casualties

UA - Динаміка втрат рашистів у війні з Україною з 24 лютого 2022 року - https://index.minfin.com.ua/ua/russian-invading/casualties

RU - Динамика потерь рашистов в войне с Украиной с 24 февраля 2022 года - https://index.minfin.com.ua/russian-invading/casualties

Mothy and the Squid mastodon (AP)
“Blood Orange” is a brighter, richer, deeper version of “Orange Sorbet” with more speckles. Which do you prefer?
#mothyandthesquid #yarn #knitting #crochet
Karen Strickholm mastodon (AP)
This is a GLORIOUS shade, I could just fall into that color!!
Karen Strickholm mastodon (AP)
Sugg re stiinn - post link to buy!!

Saw a Cybertruck in real life.

Tucson has at least one Cybertruck, or they were visiting from out of town.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1365622/ Northern Irish accent where “mother” is pronounced “muller”? #NorthernIreland #UnitedKingdom
Northern Irish accent where "mother" is pronounced "muller"?


Mike mastodon (AP)
The lace goes on...

#knitting
Multicolored knitted lace in leafy pattern
Karen Strickholm mastodon (AP)
Lookin" good, Mike!

Mandy (she/her) mastodon (AP)
We went to the county fair this morning so I could see how my entries did, walk around a bit, and pick up some fair snacks. I got some ribbons!

#FiberArt #knitting #spinning #crochet #embroidery
A brown raffia crocheted bucket hat on a table with a few other items. It has a yellow third place ribbon on it My Flowers embroidery, which is made of hand-spun yarn showing two orbs (1 full, 2 halves) spaced evenly horizontally in a highly textured and colorful embroidery design. I have better descriptions in previous #FiberArts toots about this. It has a blue first place ribbon on it. This same piece got a blue ribbon at Maryland Sheep and Wool also.
A folded short-sleeve sweater in rose, green, deep brown variegated yarn and a tan yarn that's a bit shinier. Both yarns are handspun. It also has a bright pink strap from another person's project because it's got the sad trombone of a 6th place ribbon on it. Sixth place? Why bother with a ribbon?
Karen Strickholm mastodon (AP)
Congratulations Mandy, way to go!! 👏👏👏👏👏

Hanse Mina mastodon (AP)
From 24.02.2022 to 28.07.2024 (Day 886), estimated losses #Russia suffered in #Ukraine.

Highlights:
+1180 Personnel
+13 Tanks
+21 APVs
+51 Artillery
+2 MLRS
+1 Anti-aircraft Systems
+72 Other Vehicles

Statistics: https://www.reddit.com/r/RussianLosses/comments/1edzcgt/estimated_russian_losses_from_24022022_to/

#RussianLosses

Pomaranč mastodon (AP)
This iconic Apollo 9 scene with Dave Scott's stand-up extravesicular activity was created exactly 54 years ago.

#space
54 years ago, would make the year 1970 - a year *after* Apollo 11?

Hanse Mina mastodon (AP)
The number of aviation accidents involving #Sukhoi #Superjet has more than doubled over the past two years, reports the specialized telegram channel Aviaincident. According to his calculations, in 2021 Superjets broke down at least 134 times, in 2022 - 181, in 2023 - 289 (compared to 2021, the increase was 115%).

Most often during the mentioned period, Superjet engines and landing gear broke down.

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/07/27/chislo-avarii-superdzhetov-podskochilo-na115-posle-sanktsii-zapada-protiv-rossiiskoi-aviatsii-a137972

#Ukraine #Russia

Hanse Mina mastodon (AP)
#Russia will trade less. The Central Bank predicts a fall in exports and imports this year.

In April, the Central Bank forecast import growth this year by 1-3% compared to 2023, and the change in exports will range from a decrease of 0.5% to an increase of 1.5%. Now the Central Bank expects that the reduction in exports will be from zero to 2% (minus 1.5 percentage points, p.p.), and imports - 1-3% (minus 4 p.p. compared to the previous version).

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/07/27/rossiya-budet-menshe-torgovat-tsentrobank-prognoziruet-padenie-eksporta-i-importa-v-etom-godu-a137953

#Ukraine

Hanse Mina mastodon (AP)
After Daria fled from her Russian-occupied village to western #Ukraine, she spent weeks restlessly wandering the streets. Whenever she grew tired of walking, she would sit on park benches and tell anyone who would listen — even perfect strangers — what the Russian soldiers did to her.

Daria said Russian soldiers raped her twice in March 2022 in #Havronshchyna — a small village about 30 miles from #Kyiv.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/world/europe/rape-ukraine-russia-soldiers.html

#Russia
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