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FWIW If the 2 MN representatives who were victims in targeted shootings cannot perform their duties (due to debilitation or death), the MN Senate is deadlocked, giving the GOP a potential windfall.
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When fighting #suicidality well intended folx tell me all the time

"The world needs your #Music "

Sure they do...

The facts of my life are I don't wanna live it, people need me but not because of my creativity

Two beings rely on me to eat and have shelter

ko-fi.com/sabilewsounds/goal

What this world needs is for humans to release themselves from #facism and #capitalism and #colonialism

in reply to SabiLewSounds

#Musicians in capitalism are reduced to meager and powerless little toys of distraction in so called #entertainment

I'm not here to be a fucked up #SSRI I'm not Xanax, Lithium or Valium, I'm not here to watch the masses numb themselves or feel good

So yes my #Spotify has 0 plays, #Bandcamp isn't racking up funds from my hard work (🀣 coporate assholes) πŸ–•

Turn up the fire - I don't burn

The brave and the aware can and will dismantle the machine

I have the blessings to call some of them friend

in reply to SabiLewSounds

I can relate. I've lost my medicaid, and only have a few prozac left, and am planning on getting off of it. I'm concerned, so I am taking care to be mindful and thoughtful and measured. I would very much like to get back some part of myself lost under a decade of hard mental health struggles and antidepressants. I want ME back, I want my creativity at peak, able to hear my muse and get to work.

I am at callistagraves.bandcamp.com and all of my music is pay what you want.



Zelenskyy warns oil price surge could help Russia’s war effort | World News byteseu.com/1104664/ #Russia #World


When I bought my car 5 years ago, it came with an app which was actually quite useful. Then they stopped supporting it and replaced it with a new one which was okay but a tad less useful. And now they stopped supporting this one too and I have to buy a new car to have support for their new new app. πŸ₯²

Such fucking bullshit.

in reply to Hanneke

My motorbike is still going strong at age 30, and many cars can also easily reach double digit lifespans. What was their plan for including an app that they're not going to support?

in reply to David Palk#RejoinEU πŸ’–πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ€ŽπŸ•Š

We have over 20 years of scientific studies on the pre-natal brain that clearly show how intrauterine chemicals determine gender identity & sexual orientation. Fear of brain science is a common thread with the insecure & the religious.


Speaker of the MN House of Representatoces Melissa Hortman has been assassinated in her home earlier this morning.

Today the conservos will be frightened by a very large peaceful gathering.


in reply to Europe Says

that's why, he would no doubt aver, he is the smartest president that there has rver been.


Over 300 join β€˜No Tyrants’ rally in Amsterdam against Trump’s β€˜authoritarian overreach’ nltimes.nl/2025/06/14/300-join…


If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourselfβ€”and your dataβ€”safe. ssd.eff.org/module/attending-p…

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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation

Thanks for your sharing, but the font in the linked article isn't friendly for reader XD

We can swap all native apps with e2ee ones so that even if our phones gotten robbed while unlocked, authority is still unable to retrieve any sensitive info.



interesting they chose today of all days to murder those politicians


Zelenskyy warns oil price surge could help Russia’s war effort byteseu.com/1104662/ #122840939 #20242025MideastWars #Article #Conflicts #GeneralNews #Politics #RussiaUkraineWar #WorldNews


im a portland anarcho communisr from israel and i havent been able to jack off with my discord polycule since october 7th #bringthemhome



Managed to fall asleep at a quasi-reasonable time (3am) but woke up after 5 hours, despite having only 3 hours sleep the day before.

I decided I probably ought to take my armodafinil this morning, rather than skip it as usual, since I was up at 8am and sleep deprived, to try to get back on schedule. So I did. Then I fell asleep on armodafinil.

Severe sleep deprivation + melatonin + no stimulants -> lie awake all night.

Recent, nearly sufficient sleep + no melatonin + stimulants -> fall asleep in the daytime.

This is a pattern, not a one-off. The only conclusion I can draw is, my body does not like to sleep at night.

in reply to A feral Cass (they/them)

@JustGrist Thanks! It does help a lot to know that there are human beings who care, and not just the ones I come into contact who "manage" me.



Conservatives are 100% correct that the gender binary is a real, scientific fact.

But what they don't want you to know is that gender is 16-bit, so there are actually 65,536 possible genders.



Ron Filipkowski reports on a Trump supporter who's surprised that his pro-Trump vote has now led to the decimation of his own business:

"Trump supporter Vincent Scardina is upset that ICE just grabbed a third of the workers from his roofing company in the Florida Keys for deportation. To NBC6: 'It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends - not just an employer but a friend.'"

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #economy #workers
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meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poli…

in reply to William Lindsey

"'We’re not able to just replace people as easily as, say, a big city, with very limited people to pull from. Then you would have to train them, and that takes sometimes years.' ...

Scardina was asked if he now regrets voting for Trump: 'Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit. I know of one landscaper that lost 9 or 10 of his whole crew he had and he’s just totally out of business all of a sudden, just like that.'”

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #economy #workers
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"The owner of an Omaha food packaging company says his business has been unfairly hamstrung by federal immigration officials, who raided the plant and arrested more than half its workforce.

The raid took place despite the company meticulously following the government’s own system for verifying the workers were in the country legally, owner Gary Rohwer said Wednesday."

~ Margery A. Beck

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #economy #workers
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fortune.com/2025/06/12/glenn-v…






Tragic news from Minnesota.

MN State Rep Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark are dead.

This is the sort of violence we can expect from an increasingly unhinged party and its supporters untethered from reality.

All the more reason for us progressives to show our support for each other in No Kings Day events around the nation today.

You can bet there will be MAGA trouble makers trying to disrupt events today; let's stay focused, united and peaceful.

cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/minneapo…
#Politics
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in reply to Thomas

have a peaceful night Thomas! πŸ€—πŸ™πŸ»πŸ˜΄πŸ’€



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Deadline has already passed.

PRESS RELEASE: True Deadline to Enact Iran Sanctions 'Snapback' Just a Month Away - JINSA

jinsa.org/press-release-iran-s…



europesays.com/2162938/ Canada permanent residency: Wetin be di pathway pilot to support skilled refugees and employers wey di kontri extend? #CanadΓ‘


Remember kids, if someone you don't know approaches you at a protest and tries to get you to commit a violent act, that's not a protestor. That's a cop.

There are two simple rules that nullify any state sponsored agent provocateur instantly:
1. Sit down.
2. Point and chant "cop".

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Just good neighbours? What nations helping Syria really want byteseu.com/1104654/ #Conflicts #MichaelMitchell #mitchell #MohamedEldoh #Syria #YaşarGüler


Thank you so much for following 50+ Music! Tell your friends, spread the word, boost and favorite! πŸ“
Tip your DJ @rockoutloud11
patreon.com/50years_music

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Over on Xitter, Kristi Noem is promising to help in MN. 10 days ago, ProPublica reported on the 22-yo Heritage flunky she put in charge of preventing hate-fueled attacks. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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BBC reports from Israeli city targeted by Iran byteseu.com/1104651/ #Conflicts #Iran

in reply to The Icarian

A legend. Snd positively crazy. I like crazy people (crazy people, not weird people)! It's the crazy people who come up with new ideas. Weird people just make you feel awkward.


europesays.com/2162934/ NDIS auditor’s shocking past as a convicted fraudster is exposed #australia #dailymail #News #sydney


Know your rights before you hit the streets. Peaceful protest is protected β€” but only if you know how to protect yourself legally. Read, share, and stay safe.
in reply to George Takei πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ––πŸ½

And on the no Kings zoom video two days before the protest they were telling them to
- make sure they wear face masks so they couldn't be identified
- not to carry their cell phones
- if they did bring their phones to make sure it was not set to unlock by their face of fingerprint.

Is that stuff you tell people who you dont expect to be causing problems?





europesays.com/2162930/ β€˜Outstanding’ Chiefs continue Aussie Super hoodoo in NZ #BreakingNews #DailyNews #GlobalNews #inkl #NewZealand #News #NewsApp #NewsHeadlines #NewsToday #TodayNews #WorldNews


in reply to mcc

The reason I started writing my experimental LISP was I tried TCL and wanted a "more TCL-like" LISP. One reason I was captivated by TCL was you could, in principle ( mastodon.social/@mcc/114004547… ) use it as a text templating language, to generate some entirely non-TCL type of text (HTML, verilog, idk). So this feels like the completion of that thought: Since this is an array manipulation language rather than a text manipulation language, output arrays of symbols, and those get consumed by "something"
in reply to mcc

I can’t remember if I’ve shared this with you or not (so forgive me if I have or if you’ve already seen it), but there’s a lovely paper on value representations in Tcl that I reread occasionally: usenix.org/legacy/publications…

I don’t think it describes what Tcl actually uses (AFAIK it was never incorporated into core Tcl), but a lot of the ideas did get implemented, and it’s a pleasant read.

in reply to mcc

I was aiming this way from the start, because a thing that captivated me about TCL is you can sorta use it as a template language ( mastodon.social/@mcc/114004547… ) to generate other text (HTML,Verilog,idk). This is the (obvious in retrospect?) completion of that thought: I made a LISP, so a *list* processor not a text processor, so obviously the output gets fed to things (like an assembler?) that consumes lists (in this case, lines of an assembly language (for which my LISP becomes a macro language)).
in reply to mcc

I have a rule my LISP has "no special forms", so to make any of this work I'm borrowing a Rustism and saying in my language

(function! x y z)

invokes a macro named "function" with arguments x y z passed to it as un-evaluated symbol trees.

Paired with this, !varname or !(expression here) are symbols/code evaluated at "compile time".

This feels clean enough, though it introduces the oddness there are *separate* runtime and compile-time scopes, and it will get VERY weird once I introduce types.

in reply to mcc

One downside of this is the number of reserved symbols is growing more and more, which is supposed to be uncouth for a LISP. Although I do notice something…

` ' " # ( ) { } [ ] : , . !

Other than #, every reserved symbol in my LISP currently is a symbol used for punctuation in English. If I changed the comment indicator from # to ; (which would be LISPier anyway) then there would be a 1-1 map between English punctuation symbols and LISP reserved symbols. (Minus ?, but I have an idea for that.)

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in reply to mcc

always liked scheme's use of ? in identifiers for things that query. when i'm in a mood to cause chaos, i start using latin capital letter glottal stop (Κ”) for this in other languages.
in reply to prozacchiwawa

@prozacchiwawa mutate! and ask? are fun conventions. i don't think i could get used to them, but i like it
in reply to mcc

- β€” / are all in pretty common use in English, too, tho πŸ˜€
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in reply to Mx. Paige Ashlynn

@mxashlynn Maybe I'll use / for types. Those other two are a little hard to type on some keyboards and maybe aren't good candidates for language syntax.
in reply to mcc

Agreed on them not being good candidates.

In any event, what I should have said was "That's awesome you're making your own LISP!!"

in reply to mcc

I'm confused because what you describe is *exactly*, **precisely** the way that special forms are implemented in Common Lisp?!
in reply to Peter Brett

@krans This is *very* interesting to learn and my thoughts are

1. "No special forms, unless the form name is explicitly delineated with !" is a great rule, as far as I'm concerned.

2. I have a mode where you can turn off the macros, so a "no special forms" mode persists

in reply to mcc

Is the β€œ!” a compile time operator, or part of the transformer's name?
in reply to Peter Brett

I.e. can I call the transformers as regular functions without the β€œ!”?
in reply to Peter Brett

@krans 1. The `!` is a compile time directive to the reader, producing a special Macro() node in the AST, which is removed in a particular compile phase.

2. The ! functions are pulled from a special compile-time scope, so yes, although in the final form of the language you may have to import them from `langtools.macro` or something.

in reply to mcc

I love this! Makes it easy to see what's a function call, and what's deranged magic
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