theonion.com/bathroom-break-co…
Bathroom Break Considered Self Care
GILBERT, AZ—Noting that just spending a few minutes a day on a toilet had drastically improved her mental and physical health, local woman Jessica Emerson admitted to reporters Monday that she considered her bathroom break self-care.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Alt.Latino: A Latin Jazz survey, plus Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso : All Songs Considered
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/1237991511/alt-latino-latin-jazz-ca7riel-paco?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Music @music-npr
"Weevils, long-nosed beetles, are unsung heroes of pollination"
"A special kind of intertwined plant-pollinator relationship, thought to be rare, is present in hundreds of weevil species"
“We are highlighting a group of insects that most people want to see killed, and we're showing that they can actually be pretty important for maintaining ecosystems and products that we care about,”
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From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension.
As federal datasets disappear from view, scholars explain why it is important to collect and maintain this information:
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From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working ‘in the darkness of ignorance.’The Conversation
Huge win. Huge. Canadian Court upholds government restricting crypto bullshit use of electricity
"B.C. wins case for power use limits by cryptocurrency miners"
(Its not "mining" its wanking, nothing produced, nothing mined)
"The decision upheld an earlier court ruling against Conifex Timber Ltd., a forestry company located in Prince George .... The company was seeking unrestricted access to B.C. electricity."
nationalobserver.com/2025/03/1…
#victory #sanity #productivity #wealth #canpoli #Canada
B.C. wins case for power use limits by cryptocurrency miners
The appeal court ruled that B.C. Hydro has the right to act in the public interest – in this case, to protect BC’s electricity supply and contain electricity prices for ratepayers.Canada's National Observer
I urge going further.
There is nothing produced in crypto, no farms selling eggs, making a small profit, no furniture makers making cool chairs for a choosy market.
There are no eggs in crypto, no chairs, no electric planes built, not a single candy, no fertilizer, just counterfeit money.
REQUIRE crypto build its own renewable green energy source for 120% of their wanking needs, ALWAYS more than they use.
And data centres too.
No crypto use of utility power.
Counterfeit
Spotify tries to defend its artist payout rates
The streamer published its own transparency report.
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Manhwa Fair Trade Committee - E-Komik Gallery
Manhwa Fair Trade Committee (공정거래위원회) dalam Bahasa IndonesiaE-Komik (E-Komik Gallery)
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Congress reignites a bipartisan effort to ban hair discrimination
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5324544/crown-act-reintroduced-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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It is effectively impossible for democracy and billionaires to co-exist.
➡️ jacobin.com/2021/06/billionair…
➡️ inthesetimes.com/article/democ…
➡️ inequality.org/article/billion…
#USA #Government #Politics #History #Economics #Capitalism
The Billionaire Class Is a Threat to Democracy
Since the pandemic began, America’s billionaires have seen their wealth skyrocket to an amount almost equal to a fifth of US GDP. This concentration of wealth is morally unacceptable — but it also represents a mortal threat to democracy.jacobin.com
Inflation eased a touch in February -- but Trump's tariffs cloud outlook
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325264/inflation-consumer-prices-economy-trump-tariffs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This is a hybrid event offering both in-person and online experiences.
France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision
Encryption is saved, but "we must keep fighting for privacy"
techradar.com/computing/cyber-…
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A Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance.
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St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front.
propublica.org/article/st-luke…
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Idaho’s Largest Health System Is Taking on the State’s Abortion Ban
It’s not the first controversial stance for St. Luke’s, which was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines during the pandemic.ProPublica
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One of my biggest gripes with this platform, fixed!
We should now see *all* replies, regardless of which server we're on, or which server they're posted from.
social.growyourown.services/@F…
Thanks @FediTips for the good news.
I'm not a developer, but AFAIK it should apply retrospectively because all it is doing is fetching more posts rather than changing the format of posts.
But I am not a dev! 😅
Hot off the press, y'all - new research from the folks at the Developer Success Lab.
I'm copying and pasting from an email I wrote to @flourn0 after reading a draft of the now available "No Silver Bullets: Why Understanding Software Cycle Time is Messy, Not Magic."
Because I don't think I can advocate for the quality of and need for this work any better than I did in that email:
#Disability
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Mission possible − parastronaut programs can make space travel more inclusive and attainable for all
Figuring out how to make spacecraft more accessible to astronauts with physical disabilities can also make them safer for long-duration missions.The Conversation
Elon Musk’s Tesla hopes to win back customers by offering free charging if you buy a $100,000 Cybertruck
fortune.com/2025/03/05/tesla-f…
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Elon Musk’s Tesla hopes to win back customers by offering free charging if you buy a $100,000 Cybertruck
Demand for the vehicles has slowed considerably.Chris Morris (Fortune)
An urgent argument for the HPV vaccine
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5323229/hpv-vaccine-cancer-rfk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Some good news about #Mastodon, there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳
The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months.
(Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…)
(Via @rolle)
Add Fetch All Replies Part 1: Backend by sneakers-the-rat · Pull Request #32615 · mastodon/mastodon
Fix: #9409 Fix: #14017 Fix: #18150 Original PR Here: NeuromatchAcademy#44 Further description here: NeuromatchAcademy#43 I've never made a PR for upstream before, so forgive me if i'm doing...GitHub
@sjwrenlewis on the button:
'The most effective way the Labour Govt. can reduce the threat from the populist right is to ensure the economic arguments made by populists against immigration have as little purchase as possible. That means providing more money for public services, not keeping taxes low. [Labour's] opposite approach, at a time when the two right wing populist parties in the UK attract nearly half of all voters in opinion polls, is very worrying'!
#politics
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The moves to weaken Germany’s debt brake are welcome, but ultimately higher defense spending should be matched by higher taxes. Public spending cuts will promote right wing populists.
To say I have never been a fan of the way Germany views government debt is an understatement. Here I asked whether Germany’s debt brake m...mainlymacro.blogspot.com
You should all be following @SeanCasten -- a member of Congress who gets what's at stake and is talking about it here with some of the clearest language I've seen.
Example: his thread about a Republican move to reward tax evaders and crooks, via a political scam you won't have heard about anywhere else.
mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/11…
Sean Casten (@SeanCasten@mastodon.social)
Quick thread on ANOTHER bill the GOP is bringing to the floor this week. Specifically, to repeal the DeFi Broker Rule that the IRS issued under the last administration.Mastodon
MAGA STUPIDITY RULES!
"The ironic bit is this is going to hit red states the hardest as they depend the most on federal school funding"
- Aure
2,200 layoffs in a workforce of 4,400!
Trump needs money for his $4.5 trillion in wealthy tax cut
Mass layoffs the latest sign that Trump wants to end the Department of Education. What will change if he succeeds?
The department closed offices and sent "reduction in force" notices to employees Tuesday night.
#AureFreePress
yahoo.com/news/why-trump-wants…
Mass layoffs are the latest sign that Trump wants to end the Department of Education. What will change if he succeeds?
The department sent "reduction in force" notices to more than a thousand employees Tuesday night.Andrew Romano (Yahoo News)
Keep ‘em coming. Pressure works.
“NEW: Across the country, Americans are organizing against the administration's antidemocratic orders. The organic nature of these actions creates the basis for strong opposition in the months and years to come”
- Democracy Docket democracydocket.com/opinion/ra…
Rage Against the Obscene: The Totally Organic Movement Confronting Trump - Democracy Docket
The biggest reason for long-term optimism is the most obvious: people are finding their voices. Please use yours.Democracy Docket
Republicans Quietly Move to Relinquish Power to Undo Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China
House G.O.P. leaders tucked the provision into a procedural measure needed to pass a government spending bill.Catie Edmondson (The New York Times)
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Sources: the BBC plans to ask the UK government to take on the full costs of the World Service to counter Russia's and China's "aggressive" disinformation drive (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/media/2025/mar…
mediagazer.com/250312/p9#a2503…
World Service must be fully state-funded to counter disinformation, say BBC bosses
Ministers must cover full costs of championing western values abroad, senior BBC figures to argueMichael Savage (The Guardian)
Trump’s Own Advisers Are Freaking Out About His Tariff Chaos
thedailybeast.com/donald-trump…
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #tariffs
Trump’s Own Advisers Are Freaking Out About His Tariff Chaos
The president has remained hell-bent on pursuing his plans anyway.Sean Craig (The Daily Beast)
"Russia will not agree to a 30-day ceasefire because it will just enable Ukraine to regroup and rearm"
- Russian MP Viktor Sobolev
He added that a temporary ceasefire is unacceptable and only plays into Ukraine's hands.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war
Wandering Star
in reply to God • • •Space Wrangler
in reply to God • • •PNW Deb
in reply to God • • •Blaise
Unknown parent • •@Dreugan @God Yes, the best way to bring them into the fold is to insult, belittle, and mock them, not try to nurture their growing understanding of reality. I'm sure they'll come around to your way of thinking while you're being a dick to them!
This "not playing" bullshit is directly responsible (on both sides) for the polarization that elevated the current post-turtle administration...
Not Surprised
in reply to God • • •Blaise
Unknown parent • •@Dreugan @God "Keep playing nice and see what happens." - Yes, this has been the rally cry of the progressives whenever "their guy" was in power for the last 40 years. This attitude is what has alienated rural and blue-collar voters to the message, and to reason in general. Every time the authoritarians of the left have used their political power to force these folks to do something, to amplify the message of "You drooling idiots are subhuman, and we can't work with you", or trumpeted the most incendiary version of whatever progressive policy was currently en vogue specifically to get a rise out of them, they have driven them even farther into the arms of the authoritarians of the right.
I've been watching this for 40 years, and it's always the same, on both sides. If you make an enemy of your rival, you can find no common ground to build on!
Christina
in reply to God • • •Blaise
Unknown parent • •@Dreugan @God Warn me about what? The specific thing I've been predicting for decades if the left and right kept up this antagonistic game? Well, I'll use your words: Don't say *I* didn't warn *you*!
Nice touch, by the way, playing the "Think of the children" pearl-clutching card, though. No better way to divert attention from your failed attitudes and policies than to monger some fear, amirite?
Witch Of Scots
in reply to God • • •Blaise
Unknown parent • •@Dreugan @God "I have been watching this just as long and you "progressives" sat back and helped while Reagan started this whole thing." It's cute that you think I'm a "progressive". I bet that helped you feel like you were about to type some kind of a 'mic-drop' moment. Sadly, like everything else you've said here, you were wrong. you dropped the mic, but only from your butter-fingers!
"You are both the enemy of Democracy at this point" - Who is 'you both'? Democrats and Republicans? Because it's certainly not me...
"Sit back and continue to clutch your pearls of inaction." - I'm the one who has *been* doing something for decades, so yet again, your mic-drop is apparently coming from butter-fingers!
Matt Hall
in reply to God • • •Man...
The way she says, "Our lives..."
She absolutely expected devastation but only for other people.
It's gonna be a hot minute before I'm anywhere near willing to share a movement with these people.
Blaise
Unknown parent • •Blaise
Unknown parent • •Blaise
Unknown parent • •@Dreugan @God "You seriously think you can bring any of these people "into the fold". Are you absolutely serious?" - I've *brought* some of "these people" into the fold. So yeah, I'm absolutely serious.
"You honestly sound like you are from Cali and completely out of touch with reality" - Swing and a miss. Based on your torrent of stupid assumptions, *you* honestly sound like you think you are much smarter than you clearly are, and take refuge in insult and false allegations to cover up your dumb.
"It does all make sense. The engineers I know never did know how shit worked in the real world." - I am nearly certain from this statement that you've never actually *known* a single engineer. But your attempt at insult is duly noted. If at first your bluster doesn't succeed in persuading someone, insulting them is your only option, amirite?
Blaise
Unknown parent • •@Dreugan @God
[Nice, dirty deleting. OK, I'll edit too]
Washington was right, sort of. Parties in general are only a problem because we use a shit election scheme. STAR voting (or even IRV) would remove most of the unreasonable advantages there are to being a big party. That said, why do you keep correctly identifying problems that have nothing to do with the conversation?
Minor parties *could* win, if the system weren't rigged against them. As it is, our only hope is to keep supporting them until one finds a chink in the armor.
Blaise
Unknown parent • •Blaise
Unknown parent • •@Dreugan @God "What happened the last time you contacted your representatives, if you ever have?" - What happened the last time you stopped making stupid assumptions about your interlocutor, and listened, if you ever have? I've been writing letters, donating to organizations, marching/going to rallies, and trying to fight the good fight since before "The Simpsons" was on the air. I have file folders full of copies by the literal hundreds. What happened? Best case, I got a senator to call me on the phone and actually listen to me explain how illogical and counterproductive their policy preference was. Worst case, nothing at all. Most were in-between. The most recent time, my Democratic senator sent me a form letter ignoring the contents of my message, telling me how important the issue was, and then taking a verbal victory lap about how morally superior she was for doing the
... show more@Dreugan @God "What happened the last time you contacted your representatives, if you ever have?" - What happened the last time you stopped making stupid assumptions about your interlocutor, and listened, if you ever have? I've been writing letters, donating to organizations, marching/going to rallies, and trying to fight the good fight since before "The Simpsons" was on the air. I have file folders full of copies by the literal hundreds. What happened? Best case, I got a senator to call me on the phone and actually listen to me explain how illogical and counterproductive their policy preference was. Worst case, nothing at all. Most were in-between. The most recent time, my Democratic senator sent me a form letter ignoring the contents of my message, telling me how important the issue was, and then taking a verbal victory lap about how morally superior she was for doing the stupid thing I asked her not to do.
You're right. Nothing gets fixed unless we do it ourselves. But "ourselves" has to be large groups to have any effect at all. So saying that everyone who has believed differently from you is evil/stupid/deluded and thus driving people away is pretty much the *worst* way to effect change.
Blaise
Unknown parent • •@Dreugan @God "You probably didn't vote for Harris or Trump" - Holy shit, did you actually read something I wrote, that time?
"if you think those 30% of people that voted for Trump are capable of being reasonable you are delusional." - If you think you can characterize the motivations and capabilities of a third of the US population with any accuracy, based upon how they voted or what the stupidest/most extreme one of them that a reporter could find said, *you* are delusional!
"Trying to reason with them won't make a bit of difference." Except that I've literally *seen* it make a difference, so your whole premise is unfounded. More importantly, you don't have to convert anyone to minimize harm. If you are willing to treat people as humans, some of them will listen. And the rest won't be nearly as motivated to try to "pwn" you, which weakens their movement.
Y
... show more@Dreugan @God "You probably didn't vote for Harris or Trump" - Holy shit, did you actually read something I wrote, that time?
"if you think those 30% of people that voted for Trump are capable of being reasonable you are delusional." - If you think you can characterize the motivations and capabilities of a third of the US population with any accuracy, based upon how they voted or what the stupidest/most extreme one of them that a reporter could find said, *you* are delusional!
"Trying to reason with them won't make a bit of difference." Except that I've literally *seen* it make a difference, so your whole premise is unfounded. More importantly, you don't have to convert anyone to minimize harm. If you are willing to treat people as humans, some of them will listen. And the rest won't be nearly as motivated to try to "pwn" you, which weakens their movement.
You absolutists *are* the problem, and always have been. Left, right, or anarchist, you all just assume you know people's character and motivations based on one thing, and ignore all the evidence that disagrees with your assumptions. Then you use insult, condescension, and bloviation to cover up your obvious lack of comprehension of how humans work, and make everything even worse!
Passwordsarehard4
in reply to Blaise • • •Blaise
in reply to Passwordsarehard4 • •@Passwordsarehard4 @Dreugan @God While I love semantic redirection as much as the next pundit, using a common turn of phrase that has a widely understood meaning does not imply that every part of every detail and historical context was intended by the speaker.
The only "fold" involved is the group of people who either never had or let go of some harmful belief. So by definition, if they meet the criteria, yes, they are safe...
Bandersnatch
in reply to God • • •Schroedinger
in reply to God • • •Optimistic Moron
in reply to God • • •Phoenix Arise
in reply to God • • •Phoenix Arise
in reply to Blaise • • •Blaise
Unknown parent • •@Dreugan @God "the people that need those things the most voted for the person that told them all he would take it away. Just like the woman in this story. What is that if not stupid?" - Wealthy liberals repeatedly vote for, and elect, people who have committed to raise their taxes and use their money for war and graft, and occasionally a little incompetently administered social welfare. What is *that* if not stupid?
"Honestly, sounds like you don't actually support anything but the status quo." - It could only sound that way to you if you hadn't paid attention to anything I've said. I want a new voting system and a constitutional amendment banning corporations from donating money to political campaigns. I want the elections laws we already have to be enforced, for once. I want a constitutional amendment specifying that you and you alone own your body, and have an absol
... show more@Dreugan @God "the people that need those things the most voted for the person that told them all he would take it away. Just like the woman in this story. What is that if not stupid?" - Wealthy liberals repeatedly vote for, and elect, people who have committed to raise their taxes and use their money for war and graft, and occasionally a little incompetently administered social welfare. What is *that* if not stupid?
"Honestly, sounds like you don't actually support anything but the status quo." - It could only sound that way to you if you hadn't paid attention to anything I've said. I want a new voting system and a constitutional amendment banning corporations from donating money to political campaigns. I want the elections laws we already have to be enforced, for once. I want a constitutional amendment specifying that you and you alone own your body, and have an absolute say over its use, what gets put into it, and what is in it. I want a constitutional amendment that we keep a balanced budget *unless* there is an emergency, where 75% of Congress has to approve the overruns. I want Trump and everyone he gives his unconstitutional orders to to be prosecuted. That might need a constitutional amendment too. I want my kids to grow up in a world where tiny minorities of any stripe are no longer allowed to control our lives.
But I'm not getting any of that if we let Trump institute a full fascist state or we all die in Civil War II! We need conciliation and understanding to prevent that. and until we have that, nothing will ever get better.
So sure be "tired of it". Be angry. Be intentionally divisive. Be a part of one of the most intractable problems the United States of America has ever faced. What could possibly go wrong?