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"Since getting re-elected in Nov., Trump has repeatedly called for Canada to join the US as the 51st state but has said he wants to use economic, not military force, to make that happen"

“After we destroy their economy their will to resist will erode. We will then march in unopposed & deliver Canada to its rightful place as a territory of the U.S. with no political representation.”
-- US right-wing influencer Tim Pool, on X, in a post that got 2.2 mill. views.

The Tyee:
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/12/Onl…

in reply to Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

Goodness this man and his ilk make me embarrassed to live in this country and be from here! I understand why Canadians are angry and the only thing I can do is apologize and tell you that this was not my choice and I will continue to protest as much as I can. This is such shit.
in reply to Hell's Kitchen Bitches! 🦮🔥

@Pawpower 🙏thank you.

And we'll try to be angry at your electeds, not you. ❤ Hang in there.

Send good vibes for our upcoming elections 😀 🤞



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in reply to Low Quality Facts

My page would set the record straight on whether homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. In fact, ONLY LGBTQ+ people go to Heaven when they die. Cis straight allies work their way up from Purgatory. Everyone else goes right to Hell.
in reply to Low Quality Facts

This pope will add a page with locations and phone numbers of all the wine stores.


New year, new big art thread! The place for my almost-daily posts featuring art I love, usually modern and contemporary since that's my thing! First up:

Paintings by American artist Lynne Drexler, 1960s, who studied under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell and was associated with second-gen Abstract Expressionism, but her work was overshadowed by her (then) more successful husband, artist John Hultberg.

#art #painting #BigArtThread #ModernArt



When I opened up Lemmy this morning I could not believe my eyes. The top story was a headline from Forbes stating:
« ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media ».

The article mostly focused on #Pixelfed and did a fairly good job explaining how #ActivityPub works. But they spelled #Mastodon « Mastadon » over and over again with no links to it. Yikes.

B for the effort, but please editors do better!

forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/…



Bookshelves in front of your bookshelves, suspended on barn door hardware with castors at the bottom. The individual shelves can be moved to access those at the back.

Not that I'm trying to give you all ideas, or anything.

#books #reading #writing @bookstodon #authodons

in reply to SeaFury 🦜🍉

@SeaFury @madjo @dunedinmouse
Nooo - Time is a thief like Baggins, and will steal your precious!
Start reading them now, otherwise you may never know important parrot facts like:

"Parrots were used in Moving Pictures to add sound to movies. This failed miserably, in part because the handlemen (cameramen) taught them to say things like "show us your knickers"... and the Discworld wasn't *quite* ready for films like that (yet)."






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Day Use X Mockin' Uh
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My friendica <-> Bluesky config yesterday had something wrong but today it appears to be functional. I think I've learned something for the reference on configuring this integration.

My hope is that this posts to Bluesky this time.

in reply to Ken Gahagan

Cool! I can see the post in Bluesky. I also see posts from folks I follow on Bluesky here in my friendica feed. I liked a Bluesky post in my friendica feed and that like was mirrored on Bluesky... I think this thing basically works!




anticipating the orange toddler’s growing tyranny …

engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

#politics #law #tyranny



Sweary self compassion reminders...

For me today, self compassion looks like Futurama, rest, letting myself cry, and trying to be OK with being exhausted, "useless", and emotional.

It's hard. Fucking hard. But slowly getting easier.

#SwearingHeals #SelfCompassionIsNOTSelfIndulgence




Little Hearts


youtu.be/HyxDmBdrDXI?si=ckTPkO…


To Be A Man


youtu.be/TuyisGsNr4g?si=GhrHcF…


Time for coffee. I made the mistake of reading so many Fediverse posts I actually read “the news”. Which, if you are in the US, is unremitting in horrible things. So I will be retreating with my coffee cup to caffeinate before coming back to look for the friendly and calm folks. 🏳️ 👋


I'd been thinking about going to a protest Monday in Nashville but I'm REALLY turned off by the group's messaging. We are in a Constitutional crisis and supposed to be fighting for American democracy, but the poster doesn't even have an American flag, only Mexican and Palestinian flags. I care a lot about helping people in other countries, but first we need to save America. Democrats are so bad at messaging and outreach. I think events right now that don't focus materials entirely on Trump, Musk, DOGE, and our Constitution will just make protests seem like liberal whining. I will probably go but I wrote to the organizers and begged them to focus on our flag. #50501movement #50501protests
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in reply to Jennifer

I completely agree and I think this is something that the Democrats need to take into account when they consider their messaging which has been shit for the last… 10 years basically since Obama left


We can save it! ❤️🌎 (by u/SeMaKKa6)
(AI Alt-Text)


Do we have any BBC Micro programmers here? I have a stack of BBC Micro programming books that I want to give away! Collect from north Bristol (UK)

UPDATE: the books have now gone to a new home! Thanks to all who boosted and replied

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The U.S. Is Not Ready for Bird Flu in Humans

Bird flu is infecting more people than we think. We need to stop it now before a new pandemic begins

Right after President Donald Trump took office, amid the flurry of executive orders and agency upheavals, the administration told the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not to release any reports or communications until one of Trump’s people could take a look at them. Among the many reports not released that week was a study on how many veterinarians had gotten bird flu.

#birdflu #mutations #epidemic

scientificamerican.com/article…

in reply to Cosmic Librarian

And it's getting LESS ready by the day. Over 1,200 CDC epidemic-focused staff, researchers and post-docs, have been laid off now. Because, reasons...

statnews.com/2025/02/14/federa…

Edit: Source.

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in reply to Cosmic Librarian

@PeterLG Trump is just tired of other countries getting credit for the really big pandmics. "Spanish flu"? "Chinese virus'? What ever happened to good old American know-how?!

We should name the imminent bird flu pandemic after him. Well, maybe not directly. We could call it the Orange Shitgibbon Flu or something.



JD Vance delivered a disturbing speech here in Munich today. So, here's a reminder: Harassment is not "free speech". And racism is not an "opinion". theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…
in reply to ErinMC2

And unless you're a straight, married, working white man you're an expendable extra. It is just infuriating to see where we're headed after so many decades of progress.


You can’t tell me these people are doing this for free. Bullshit, they are getting paid. By who?

Elon’s trolls… The full list as of now…

projects.propublica.org/elon-m…

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Bringing this highly requested feature to #Mastodon and the fediverse is not as trivial as some might think, but quote posts are coming. Here is our latest write-up about our progress:

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…

in reply to Mastodon Engineering

I'd rather we have something like the ability to share a post but with a pointer to a reply. So it looks like a QP but only to your followers. To everyone else, it is a reply. And this means it stays attached but subservient to the OP.

I'd also like to see all replies rankable ala reddit. This would give us something like Community Notes, where the top responses are show up right under the OP. And the worst stuff for popular posts would be easily ignored.

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@BeAware
I assume you'd still be able to link to a post, it just wouldn't show up like a QP. You'd still be able to do what you do now when QPs don't exist on mastodon.



Me: *puts up curtains so the dogs don't loiter by the all-glass balcony door, barking at everything that moves*

The dogs:

#pupdate


in reply to rar

i wouldve said that curl is the “standard unix web client” but wgat do i know
in reply to φ

@fiore no ed is the emacs of unix you can use ed for everything
@φ
in reply to φ

@fiore no. if you want to change that line, you either have to rewrite it or use sed like syntax. sed is actually derived from ed
@φ
in reply to rar

@fiore and you have to do like ,n or like 1,5n to print lines theres no ui at all
@φ
in reply to rar

ooh , okok i get it seems cool and very bad
in reply to φ

@φ @win vim is a successor of ed. It uses ex internally. Though ed is a line editor and vim is a screen editor. I use vim daily though I would not wish ed on someone I don't like. Though sed is a stream editor and I use that regularly as well. All three are related. And both sed, vi and vim were based on ed.
@φ @rar
in reply to Unus Nemo

@unusnemo unrelated but why do friendica tags look like that on akkoma
in reply to φ

@φ @win I have no idea as I have only used friendica and mastadon. I am using a modified scheme on frio called bookface though that would not effect anything unless you were on my server. I believe.
@φ @rar
in reply to 🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞

in reply to 🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞

@🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞ @φ @win Thank you, I am well aware of that. I am a developer. What I was trying to explain to you is that as @φ @win mentioned they could see the changes that the schemes caused to the tags, and you could not. So they are obviously using a client that uses a webview. So the css propagates. You are likely not using a client that uses a webview, or the webview in your client supplies its own css.

This is not uncommon at all.

Now, as I mentioned, of course the transport does not use css. That is not were the view is established or maintained.

Now anything that I view from other sources on my view will only be rendered against my theme. Though this obviously was not the case for the akkoma client being used by the person that asked me why the tags looked like that. The only thing that makes the tags look like that is the css files in the scheme I added.

in reply to Unus Nemo

i'm also a developer and you seem to have woefully misunderstood how fedi clients work. i'm pretty sure we're all using the web frontend of our respective server software (if we weren't, why would a client use a webview, and if it did, where would this css be propagating from, what??). fedi posts have a text content in a specific format—on friendica, probably html, and on akkoma and misskey, markdown. usually, the markdown parsers parse @-mentions and turn them into links that link to the user's profile, however, since friendica uses html and not markdown, the anchor tags stay as they are. for some reason, on misskey, they don't. this is why i'm confused, because last time i checked, they did show like that.
in reply to 🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞

There is limited markdown support in fediverse implementations but if i remember correctly it's expected that a Note's content is actually in HTML unless it's declared as something else. I have yet to see that in the wild though, I know misskey converts everything to html and then has their own misskeysummary (and other related fields) that are the RAW version without any formatting (so mentions just look like @x@whatever instead of being converted into href.)
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in reply to Amber

misskey is also a bit weird because it sets the media type as mfm but like you still get html
in reply to Amber

yeah. just used one of my testing notes.
curl -X GET -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' https://kitsunes.club/notes/a1fcn3gzv6 | jq
returns me
{
  "content": "<p>dododo</p>",
  "_misskey_content": "dododo",
  "source": {
    "content": "dododo",
    "mediaType": "text/x.misskeymarkdown"
  }
}
(note, a lot of that was truncated because I didn't find the other fields relevant, you can just run the command to see the full output)
in reply to Amber

1. ah, yeah, that's what i remember, the text/x.misskeymarkdown thing
2. how can you run that? don't you need authorised fetch?
in reply to 🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞

2) kitsunes.club for some reason does not have authorized fetch enabled for requesting objects. it only signs requests to fetch stuff from other instances. i should probably fix that
in reply to 🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞

in reply to 🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞

in reply to Unus Nemo

i think we're just misunderstanding each other. i thought we were talking about css files on your server that style the posts.

On the other hand you could use a gtkview, or the Qt equivalent, that would parse the html and css


you wouldn't need to. there's no point loading the entire frontend just to parse a post when you can use the api

The other thing that gets me is that if it was a friendica the gtkview idea could make sense though why would a akkoma client be using the friendica api?


it's not, it's using its own api. it could be that akkoma's html sanitiser just left the html that your server federated pretty much as is, whereas misskey's did something more drastic to it (i haven't seen you use post formatting, i'm not sure what it would do in that case)

in reply to 🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞

@🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞ @φ @win Well over my weekend (which is Saturday to next Tuesday) I will be looking more at the code base and api. If I find anything interesting I will bounce it off you ;).

Take Care!

in reply to 🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞

@🌸 lily 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ ⋐ & ∞ @φ @win I just got off a 12 hour shift that I have a 1 hour (one way) commute to. So forgive me if I am doing a horrible job of explaining what I mean. I am exhausted, so I am going to get some rack.

Take Care!



Every time I log into Fedi, I see another post with a guide called something like "Activist's Guide to Smartphones" or "Phone Security Guide for Protesters," and every single one of these assumes that the threat model is the kind of police force that exists under liberal democracy where the law will afford significant protections to protesters. The world is changing, and these guides not only fail to address the threat of an actively hostile fascistic anti-democratic occupying force (I refer here to the police), but such guides generally are limited to "what" and "how" but miss the more critical "why."

If you believe that you are facing fascism (or even something close to it), can I please please please convince you to read something written by anarchists who have faced serious repression and are trying to convey just how much phones can lead to the imprisonment of you and your friends for even things that are allegedly "legal."

opsec.riotmedicine.net/downloa…

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in reply to Håkan Geijer

i like how this is so much simpler and easier to follow than the legalistic stuff anyway
in reply to but you can call me the fediverse squick

(like that one screenshotted page, i can read all the way down, compare it to my own knowledge of how stuff works, and know it's not bullshit or obsolete or overruled by some later court case and boost)


Happy Valentines Day to everyone on Fedi. I want you to know that I love you all in a deeply weird and sexy way. Let's get married and run away together and live on an island and feed each other coconuts. Or hide in an abandoned library and read long lost moss-covered books to one another. I hope you are better than TERRIFIC today and am beaming you all the very best. You can't avoid it I'm afraid. It'll find you and it's going to get you. Hurrah!

:bearhug:

in reply to Shelly

@Vampykitten

Hahaha. Shelly you know it's meant figuratively and always gives me a little laugh to say stuff like that. But I am full of love and light for everyone here and I would whisk you all (AND JONATHAN) away to live in paradise if I could. Given the wealth of some of those guys we hear so much about I would create a real actual Fediverse. An archipelago - perhaps the Hawaiian Archipelago - of 137 'instances', with a complex series of bridges built between them depending on who they choose to federate with. And we'd all live happily ever after, free from the shackles of capitalism and the horrors of humanity. Hooray!

in reply to IndeBENdence Day

I know Ben, I just always like to be cheeky with you, youre fun. I hope you had the best day =)


*playing chess*
"How does the Prawn move?"
"It's shrimple really"



my solution to every problem is to just switch to linux

computer too slow? switch to linux
networking not working? switch to linux
unable to find driver for HP deskjet printer? switch to linux
bleeding? switch to linux




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