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"After a month break, I describe U.S. march toward tyranny as a slow cooker, turned up by degrees from Salvadoran gulags to snatched students to detained tourists to big-ticket capitulations. #Trump wants to boil the frog...

...But we are not yet cooked."

If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it.©

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2/ "...The United States of America, no longer the land of the free.

Just over two months into the Donald Trump regime, our own nation is, shamefully, beginning work on its own gulag archipelago spanning the clear-blue waters of the lower hemisphere...There are so many outrages around the U.S. flights of 238 Venezuelan men to El Salvador’s CECOT maximum security prison that it’s hard to pick which outrage to focus on."

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3/ "Most importantly, there is no denying the evil that is being perpetrated in our names...

In this moment, more than any other, our United States had finally become the monster that we feared in our youth, turning any remaining notion of American exceptionalism into a hideous lie, converting the fiction of Franz Kafka and George Orwell’s 1984 into our new reality."

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4/ "Yet circle of life cont's, even under dictatorship...I’d spent most of 2024 warning Trump election victory wd mean…authoritarianism, monarchy, tyranny...Life can look normal even as the air we breathe feels less free.

Since Jan20, Trump regime has been slow-cooking the crock pot of American liberty much like the proverbial frog in boiling water, turning up the heat degree by barely perceptible degree, hoping that we merely feel like we are in a hot tub, not tomorrow’s fricassee"

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5/ "Every time that a Mahmoud Khalil is grabbed off the street in the dead of night, or a Spanish soccer tattoo gets a man who thought he was escaping tyranny in his Venezuelan homeland thrown into an American-endorsed gulag instead, or the president of the United States threatens to defund an entire state because its female governor dared speak back to His Highness, the burner is turned up another millimeter or two."

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6/ "The hundreds of direct targets create a fascism multiplier in the millions who are now too afraid, in such a climate, to criticize the government or attend a protest. The goal is dictatorship without any major event that sends millions into the streets, South Korea-style — and so after just 62 days you can smell the boiled frog legs."

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7/ "It’s instructive to step back from this hour’s headlines and look to history, because almost every shock that we’re feeling right now is an echo of yesterday’s tyrants, from, yes, Mussolini and Hitler in the 1930s to Hungary’s Orbán and Turkey’s Erdogan right now...

But while knowing the history is so critical now, the past is also not our destiny."

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8/ "When you look across all 50 states, you can see a surprisingly large number of everyday folks — some of whom voted for Trump less than five months ago — flooding town halls to ask Republicans just what the heck they are doing here, or to beg lethargic Democrats to throw their bodies against the gears, to make it stop. They are peering over the metal edge of the pot and screaming that we’re in very hot water."
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9/ "...What matters is that so many desperate people feel a need to be in the same place, to know that they are not alone.

It’s utterly demoralizing that our supposed democratic watchdogs — the media, universities, Congress, the courts — are so craven and morally compromised. But there are still paths of less resistance where our nearly boiling water can flow. The rise of America as a consumer nation has meant the power of the pocketbook remains in our hands."

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10/ ""Populist protests outside showrooms for Musk’s Tesla have helped slash its overpriced stock by 50% since Trump’s inauguration, weakening the regime’s right arm. The retailer Target has paid a price for following the lead of Trump, and not its shoppers, on diversity. A new poll finds that 20% of Americans now support boycotts or economic pressure against businesses that support, or comply with, the Trump regime — a capitalist chokepoint that could bring the oligarchy to its knees"

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11/ "We are at a critical point where the frog legs of this American Experiment might soon end up on the serving platter, or we can use them to hop out of their evil, steaming cauldron and gasp the rarefied air of our remaining freedom. We can look inside our hearts and shift the line again. The soaked masses can still emerge to deliver Trump and Musk our simple message: We are not cooked, not yet."

Please read the entire column.

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Wow: between this article, Linda McQuaig’s Rabble piece on U.S. ownership of many Canadian newspapers, and Toronto Star articles this weekend on the 51st state no longer being a joke, it seems many frogs are being boiled to uncomfortable levels. Time for a walk along the lake, listening to music rather than News!
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Printed some bag clips, and annoyingly only a 50% success rate freeing them up 😞 #3DPrinting
in reply to Robee? Na! 🌈

Shame, seems to be a better locking design than similar ones I've printed, they all failed after a few uses.
in reply to Sp4rkR4t

@sp4rkr4t They work well if they free after printing, not had one break in use yet


The Pentagon has buried names of all prominent military and public figures at Arlington National Cemetary who are black, Hispanic, or female, so as not to be seen as doing '#DEI' work by listing them. It's just white men now. That's #MAGA in a nutshell.
npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-53288…
#dei #maga



RTL-SDR with Only a Browser

hackaday.com/2025/03/23/rtl-sd…





Jean Tinguely looking for art construction materials.

His centenary is next month.



ein neues Feature hat in #Youtube Einzug gehalten: Die automatische Synchronisation" von Voice Audio in Videos. #AI galore.

Aber leider ist die Qualität Kacke ( etwa Elevenlabs 1. Generation, mit schlechter Stimme und krassen Speed-Ramps)
Das halte ich nicht aus.

Jemand eine Idee, wie "auto synchronisation" als User bei fremden Videos abgeschaltet werden kann?

Werde ja wohl nicht per VPN aus dem Ersteller-Land da hin müssen, um das Original zu sehen? 🥴

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Ich könnte den Schwachsinn am Firefox einfach abstellen, indem ich die Originalsprache als Tonspur auswählte. Scheint für YT unvorstellbar zu sein, dass man mehr als eine Sprache versteht und keine Übersetzung haben will.


Building a website often feels like cutting a lawn with a pair of nail scissors but I think I'm getting there. chrisstoneartist.co.uk/

#supportlocalartists #devon #plymouth #cornwall #originalart #watercolour #landscape

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Barack #Obama joins #Bluesky - techcrunch.com/2025/03/23/bara… "Other U.S. politicians are already active on Bluesky, including well-known names like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Al Green, Gavin Newsom, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" #aoc

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@RobeeShepherd I'll probably do kits or something once I get it more polished.

Hang on, I’ve got one that fixes compiler errors as well



Starmer is warned against ‘appeasing’ Trump with tax cut for US tech firms - theguardian.com/politics/2025/… the more #starmer concedes, the more #trump will demand; the time to say no is now....



Building a simple Eurorack case


In this video I look into building a simple Eurorack case with two rows of 104 HP. I use aluminium profiles like in the Doepfer casings to keep the modules in place. Let's get started!

Build your own synth - Eurorack kits and PCBs: store.polykit.rocks

Support me on Patreon and make more videos possible: patreon.com/Polykit

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Website: polykit.rocks
Mastodon: chaos.social/@polykit
Store: store.polykit.rocks

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#synth
#eurorack
#synthdiy
#case

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Donald Trump continues to fall in the polls, and so does his agenda. According to CNN’s Harry Enten, 2 months into his second term, Trump is already underwater in public approval. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/w…
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Trump, Musk, DOGE & congressional republicans are gifting democrats the 2026 midterm election to sweep both chambers, and the democratic party leadership don't want it. They're throttling democrats to build an election campaign to decisively sweep Congress. They only want to keep power and get donor money. Tine democrats oust everyone over 65 in leadership team and committees. Time democrats get tough and fight. Some are already doing it, but they need a leadership to unite the party to fight Trump & republicans. Start with theSenate. Oust Schumer, Durbin, others. Keep the best (Murray) and jettison the rest. JMO
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Thank goodness. I'm not sure what I'd feel like if his popularity soared amidst this casual cruelty, nauseating hubris, and rank stupidity.


While I've posted most of these over the last few weeks, I've started a gallery on my site for the Muro Loco / Wall Crazy series.
mikaljakubal.com/galleries/

Still a work in progress. I need to add more shots, caption all of them, write an intro. I'd like to find a place to exhibit them.

Edit to add that I'm still adjusting the gallery in mobile view. The captions override the images too much. Looks better on a big screen. I'm working on it.

#Border #immigration #BorderWall #AsylumSeekers #Art #photography #LandscapePhotography #MuroLoco



Taking a stroll through my spam folder, I saw a bunch of legitimate messages from people and companies with their own domains, that are not publishing DMARC and SPF records. Surely everyone (and by everyone I mean Google) is rejecting their mail? How do they not realize this?

Then I noticed that one of them was received *from* gmail, so their mail probably works fine so long as they only mail gmail users. But another was via Yahoo, so that doesn't track.
jwz.org/b/ykk8

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Google has private deals with Yahoo and other big mail providers like Sendgrid etc, that allow them to bypass some of the usual scanning etc. So a Gmail user using a private domain without DMARC might still be able to send mail to and from a Yahoo user without triggering round-filing.
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The stats we collect for the #SpamAssassin project (mass-scan results from participating sites) have long shown that spammers are more consistent at making SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correct than are legitimate senders. DMARC in particular has no discernible benefit for most senders, so it is a useless signal.

Rejecting mail based solely on authentication failures of those deeply flawed authentication methods does more harm than good.

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@grumpybozo Bonus round: GMail themselves effectively requires 'DMARC' (aligned DKIM and/or SPF) for any sending domain that wants to reliably reach GMail users, including through forwarding. This is really fun when domains don't do that, send email to professors in my university department, and said professors forward their email to GMail.

I'm not sure these domains set out to create unforwardable email but they sure achieved it. (We don't do SRS because that's a hack on top of SPF.)

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@grumpybozo Wow, that's amazing. Great job everybody! So glad we spent so much time implementing all of that crap!
in reply to jwz

@grumpybozo just one more public key in a TXT record, that'll fix email, just gotta add one more TXT record bro


Schon mal eine Katze in vollem Sprint gesehen?
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Update!

Several kind folks have suggested Boston-based The Byte Shop for this. Thank you!

Putting out a call for #RetroComputing help!

Does anyone in the #Boston area (or thereabouts) have with experience with the #AppleLisa? The Museum of Printing in Haverhill, #Massachusetts is looking for someone to help them get their Lisa system booted.

museumofprinting.org

If you think you might be able to help, ping me and I’ll put you in touch with the appropriate folks.

Boosts welcome.

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Had a little concrete left and some yellow paint.

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Alright, so, the Furry artist "Jayrnski", who sadly is not on the Fediverse, does absolutely awesome and cute stuff anyway. You should buy all their stuff!

But now, in particular, they offer a little print of an incredibly cute trans mouse where 100% of profits go to the "Trevor Project".

I'll get some myself to hand to people I know, but yeah, if you want some small, gorgously cute art and support LGBT+ folks in the process: etsy.com/listing/1874103348/mi…

#Furry #Trans #LGBT #TrevorProject

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📣 Kurzer Reminder: Es wird Tickets für unser allerliebstes Lieblingsevent geben.

Wann? Heute um 20.00 Uhr.
Wo? Auf tickets.vvoid.camp

Bitte teilen.

#vvoidcamp #vvoidcamp2025

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Not much going on hobby wise these days. Mostly playing in the local Bloodbowl league.

Have been to a #spacemarine VR thing, tho! That was very fun. Also not cheap.



Going live in 10 minutes - Still time to grab snacks, drinks and plant pumpkin seeds.

youtube.com/live/Ylc84kAKSxI?f…



👋 Hi liebe #DIY und #Balkonsolar Community, vor Kurzem habe ich hier mein Vorhaben geteilt, eine Terrassenüberdachung selbst zu bauen und Module darin zu integrieren.

Danke an alle, die mit Tipps und Links geholfen haben!

Jetzt ist es soweit: Die Planung ist abgeschlossen und die Materialien sind da.

Ich werde die Schritte, die mir bei der Vorbereitung geholfen haben, mit euch teilen. Beim Aufbau werdet ihr "live" dabei sein ⚒️.

👇Folgt dem Thread😃

cc: @diy @balkonsolar

#Solar #Energiewende

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7: Verglasung restlicher Flächen
Am Freitag kamen endlich die Polycarbonatplatten an. Heute haben wir sie montiert – so sieht das Ganze jetzt fertig aus. Es fehlen nur noch ein paar Details wie eine Regentonne und die Beleuchtung.

@diy @balkonsolar @makershour

#diy #Balkonsolar #solar #Energiewende #serfmande #handmade #makershour #SolarTerrasse

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Everyone knows these firings are meant to damage services for Americans and fire our decent public servants, and are not the result of performance reviews.

Less revenue in taxes will arm Musk/Trump to fire more civil servants so tax credits for the ultra-wealthy can be made a reality.

Biden had integrity to hire more workers for the IRS to review tax returns of the rich to check the errors of high earners.

Trump’s Mass IRS Filings a “Fraud,” Warned Top Agency Lawyer:
propublica.org/article/trump-i…



This was quite tempting, but too much to spend on unnecessary stuff.

German educational models to show how epicyclic gears work.

#Dagfields

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@yngmar
I did. I wanted to see if and how they worked. A bit sticky due to old lubricant, but they worked.

I do like mechanical cut aways, and made one from a Ford Kent 1100cc engine and gearbox for Hackney college back in the mid 80s.



#PeerTube picks of the day:

PeerTube is a Fediverse video platform, you can follow and interact with PeerTube accounts from Mastodon etc. (See fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosti… for more info.)

This is a large category so I've skipped the descriptions to keep the thread size manageable 🙂

ART
@helenmclaughlin
@coreyartus
@denmanrooke
@dartilyartstudio
@raghukamath
@brandkopf
@krita
@shiftypumpkin

CRAFTS
@kevin
@michellemay
@mattkmcguire

GENERAL VLOGGING
@mrfunkedude
@chris

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Russia’s Naftatrans Oil Depot in Krasnodar Reportedly Ceases to Exist After a Drone Strike

united24media.com/latest-news/…

#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #SlavaUkraini #uspol




So Far Away 😮‍💨
#CaroleKing
youtube.com/watch?v=zBMGovfHcc…
in reply to 50+ Music

she is truly “one of a kind!” Love her voice and music… 👍🤗🥰🎵🎶🎼



The #Fediverse is growing and we're welcoming more and more new single user instances but #federation can become challenging.

With #Relay instances, single user and smaller instances can quickly become federated and grow which is supported by many Fediverse applications like #snac #snac2 #Mastodon #Pleroma etc.

More information at:
fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

#fedi #community #fediworld #federated #opensource #fedirelay



Official statement from Albert Sellars LLP in response to President Trump's recent executive order.

#uspol

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A first trace of organizing appears in the messy workshop/garage barn. Still so much to do and then redo it several times over before it resembles anything I actually want.

But it's a multi-step process, this climbing of the workshop tech tree. Build crap workshop to build a better workshop with.

Ancient farmhouse furniture has many lives. Once it's kicked out of the house, it just goes into a barn. This one has been patched several times already.

#Workshop #Homestead #Garage #DIY #Cleanup