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[Putin and Trump as bride and groom riding in a wedding car. Re: Putin riding in Trump's car to the summit in Anchorage, AK on Aug. 15, 2025].

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#SUCHO

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I found out why my kitchen shelf is sagging #cats #catsofmastodon

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Morgan Wallen Boycotts Grammys In Protest Of Desegregation theonion.com/morgan-wallen-boy…

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Colourful callaloo on the plot. It’s been a really prolific, self seeding, spinach substitute this summer.#GrowYourOwn #Allotment #HomeGrown

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I was amazed by how much "callaloo" looks like amaranth šŸ˜‚

Got it.



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Trump is going after Chicago.

Black Democratic mayor.

Predominantly Black and Latino.

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BREAKING: President Trump said today that Chicago and New York City will be his next targets to decrease crime rates with possible "regular military" following Washington, DC, per Axios

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

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ā€œWe're going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we'll straighten that one out, probably next that'll be our next one after this," he said.

Read more: t.co/BcgqwCso8E

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ADSB/Raspberry Pi aviation receiver rebuild. Card (green with heatsinks) appears to have failed yesterday during the heatwave, cannot receive any signals. Adding a fan. That fan there I was going to use ended up was not working (bearings frozen solid) #adsb #electronics

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Here's the retrofit parts. Massive heat sink fragment I stole off a stereo at some point in the past and had sawing into smaller segments. Working PC fan. New ADSB card. #electronics #adsb #pi

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Components mocked up, then the heat sink taped to the dongle. It looks like a Tie fighter LOL. #adsb #electronics

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Fan mounted with some L brackets. Cardboard box shroud to channel the air from the fan, otherwise the fan would be ineffective for cooling. Yes, it's all kind of duct taped together (except with blue tape, which was closer) #electronics #adsb
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@RnDanger @StumpyTheMutt Yes, that's painter's tape. I had a roll sitting here, but not for a 3D printer... I have avoided going down that path after seeing how many 3D printers my friends have churned through LOL. Though I heard good things about the newer ones (from Bamboo, I think?)
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@StumpyTheMutt
I had an Ender 3 which was a real pain to use. Manually bed leveling before every print and babysitting it to be sure it worked.
I have a K1 now, which i think it's similar to the bambu labs. It's enclosed and levels the bed for me. I have had very few issues with it and i rarely watch it start. Granted, i was used to the Ender when i got it so my tolerance for malarkey may have been pretty high already.
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@StumpyTheMutt
I also tried a goop printer but i didn't like it at all. The stuff is toxic, sticky, burns the skin, requires extra treatment after it's printed before you can safely handle it, and disrupts fish hormones if it gets into the ecosystem
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@RnDanger @StumpyTheMutt I have written fairly extensively about the Bambu A1 and how it compares with my earlier kit-built printer that I stopped using years ago. The A1 is absolutely excellent. It is a tool, not a hobby. You'd have to find my past write-ups including here on Mastodon for the details. I won't go near resin printers.

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@lauren @StumpyTheMutt
Yeah, i think i feel the same. with the Ender most of my time was spent tuning the tool. The K1 just does what i need it to do. I'm just not a tinkering hobbyist now, i can have a reliable workflow
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@RnDanger @StumpyTheMutt
Our Bambu has been pretty reliable thus far. Mr Valentijn made a box for an indoor air quality sensor last week šŸ¤—

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@me_valentijn @RnDanger @StumpyTheMutt I don't think I've ever had a print failure on the A1 that wasn't caused by something I did wrong. And those are very rare. I just assume models are going to print like a very slow Star Trek replicator and they almost always do.

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@me_valentijn @RnDanger @StumpyTheMutt There's an even better TV analogy that predates Trek. From an episode of the Twilight Zone where a man stumbles into a small town whose inhabitants have all manner of advanced technology that was gifted to them that they've kept secret from the world. This includes a device that can instantly create solid objects on a platform based on paper cards they pull out of a file that have the item structures encoded on them. They drop the card into a slot and the actual item appears. This is so close to using the A1 that it's scary. The difference is the A1 is slower, only uses plastic, and you download the models instead of having them on paper cards. If you have 3mf files basically all the settings often are taken care of automatically too.
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@lauren @me_valentijn @RnDanger @StumpyTheMutt

In the Neil Stephenson fantastic "Diamond age" both the poor and the wealthy have "everything" printer.

The poors are super slow.
The wealthy can print a yacht fast.

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I have a Bambu A1 mini. My only complaint is wanting a bigger print bed. However they are locking down their firmware to only work with their software. Which isn’t great. So I probably won’t buy another from them.
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Are you undervolting the fan? I usually do that to reduce noise. If this is going into an airplane, that may not matter, but then you would have a natural source of wind to tap anyway.
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12V fan, the power supply there is going from a 12V battery bank, just sharing the connection point to the battery. The step down converter is going from 12V to 5V and powering the Raspberry Pi, which needs 5V, can't take 12V. Not going in a plane, this is living in a shed in my backyard for terrestrial reception.
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The last time I did a project with one of these 120mm 12V fans I supplied it directly off a USB adapter at 5V. It lasted for years and years, and ran much quieter than at full voltage. Obvs this only matters if you want the shed to be quieter.
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Plugged it back in... the new card is working. Let's hope it survives the heatwave (s). #adsb
#adsb
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Temperature before fan (for a few minutes), temperature after fan. Loaded graphs1090 on suggestion of @rpmik so I can monitor how things are going. #adsb #pi
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@pixelkeen @me_valentijn @RnDanger @StumpyTheMutt I only have experience with the A1, and so far I've never had any problems I would relate to sensor issues. It just works.


Hey all you slick computing whiz kids and nerds out there, y'all are going to retire in hopes of collecting Social Security, right? Well, thanks to tight funding for government some folks wanna squeeze down in the name of small government, you might rightly suspect that the computer systems they still use to process your millennial era checks still use magnetic tape and punch cards to keep records. PLUS the paper records.

For a detailed walk-through of the technology that's likely still processing government paperwork today, look up this one expository presented to you by the 1969 Dragnet episode titled "Frauds - DR28". And I want that to stick in your brains every single time you get tempted to de-fund the gummint. "Small government" my ass.

starringthecomputer.com/featur…


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Nothing like doubling down on it. Every pasty white person can get one of those decals or stickers. Maybe if you find some cops hand them out..
Mexican flag party favors.

Give them to ice if you run across them


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Technician checking my NBN NTD before the scheduled software and speed upgrades next month #CatsOfMastodon #TuxedoCat #CatsThatShareOneBraincell

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Cracker Barrel loses $94 million in a day after disastrous rebrand sparks MAGA outrage | The Independent

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Of all the idiotic whining imaginable, whining about a trivial logo change with no changes to service should not be in the realm of the possible.

This is more proof that MAGA is comprised of people who are just abjectly angry about their situations in life and poor economic success and just looking for ANYTHING to blame. How about we propagandize them to blame the real enemy, the One Percent?

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Next week:
Cracker Barrel stock surges thanks to new logo featuring hooded klansman

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@benroyce I have to ask, are the citizens down in DC going to accept this Trump military occupation long term?

I think here in Denmark, if the government rolled military forces into the streets of major cities, that government would not survive long. There would be mass strikes, blockades and other initiatives to force the government to resign.

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1000 soldiers in a city of 700,000 - mostly hanging around federal buildings.

We all know what this is, a show. We also know that Trump has a short attention span.

Also, Denmark has 6 million people; the US has about 340 million. That makes a huge difference


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I'm buying apples at my local produce market & saw they had on a Spanish speaking station with extensive coverage of the #ICE raids.

I don't speak Spanish, but I saw multiple videos of brutal arrests. That had an impact on me, maybe other customers too.

Since most of our produce is picked by immigrant labor, showing customers this is a smart move, esp since most of us are in our news & social media bubbles.

I asked clerk what station, she said it was Telemundo.
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#ice
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@Spocko
Telemundo is the original network from which MSNBC's JosƩ Dƭaz-Balart came, and unfortunately for the English speaking U.S., went back to. Not sure if that's getting spun off by Paramount the same way MSNBC is.

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@claralistensprechen5th
"Versant will be the new home for MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and the Golf Channel among other assets, while NBCUniversal maintains NBC News, the NBC News Now streaming network, Telemundo and Bravo."

"… #JosĆ© DĆ­az-Balart departed MSNBC earlier this year but will continue anchoring "NBC Nightly News Saturday" as well as Noticias #Telemundo.

Don't like to link to this source but only place that had all the info: foxnews.com/media/liberal-medi…


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Of course he didn't do any patrol.

Nor did he go into the hood.

A photo-op and not more.

Now he's threatening to send the goons into Memphis.

Attacking Black people as always.

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When I saw the headline yesterday, I thought ā€œWell at least the patrols will be where the criminals areā€
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@nekodojo I knew they wouldn't head into the hood. I knew he'd just do a photo-op and head to McDonald's.



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Erik Menendez denied parole, Lyle Menendez to learn his fate on Friday
The board said he can next be eligible for parole in three years. #News

The Parole Board commissioner noted that it is Erik Menendez's behavior in prison, not the seriousness of the crime, that is the "primary reason for this denial."

"Contrary to your supporters' beliefs, you have not been a model prisoner, and frankly, we find that a little disturbing," he said.

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#news

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Neither of the Menendez brothers should get parole due to the severity of the crimes.

They are getting this whole thing
cause they are spoiled rich kids.

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@Jason844@mastodon.social @paul@oldfriends.live I haven’t followed along with the court case and the trial but when I was little I remember hearing about it and that there Dad was doing shady stuff and they took revenge.. if I’m wrong fill me in!
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@jcb20165 The boys said they thought he was in the mafia and it was a hit but they lied about everything else that night.

I watched it all unfold in real time. These boys were the definition of evil spoiled rich kids. Prior to the killings, Lyle and Erik committed multiple burglaries in their neighborhood, stealing more than $100,000 in cash and jewelry. Lyle was suspended from college for plagiarism, wrote a play on the perfect murder. They were about to get cut off.

Afterwards, they lived it up to the highest, went on spending sprees, etc. I think they spent upwards over $3/4 to a million dollars just in a couple months.

My opinion then and now was, they were little rich spoiled wannabee gangsters and needed their parents money. Eventually, they concocted an abuse story.

@Jason844

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@jcb20165

I concur with Paul. Spoiled rich kids. Abused? Maybe, maybe not. Still, not an excuse to commit pre-meditated murder.

@paul


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The Republican Fascist Party governors of three more southern states are sending troops into the District of Columbia - Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee. democracydocket.com/news-alert…

Absolutely this is a modern-day Confederate occupation of the U.S. Capitol, but this time at the behest of a racist authoritarian occupant of the White House.

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Funny thing is now that they’ve sent all these National Guard away. It would be wonderful if there is a way that massive protest would emerge in those states.

So long as I keep it up, you might as well plan to try to do it

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Fear not, those who campaigned to keep their big guns in case they ever needed to protect the country from an oppressive despot should be there any minute now… 🤪

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Picture 1: On August 14 Russia was very proud of their advances in Donetsk, North of Pokrovsk.

Picture 2: Then Ukraine sent in an elite force to cut the Russians off, and in the latest reports I am seeing, hundreds of Russian soldiers have been killed, wounded, and taken prisoner.

And today, Ukraine's military chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Telegram: "As a result of successful strike and search operations, 6 settlements have been cleared and hundreds of russian occupiers have been destroyed."

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From what I've heard, Russians used a new tactic to get behind enemy lines.

Sneak through the cracks guided by a surveillance drone one by one or in small groups, attack the scarcely manned Ukrainian positions from behind when a sufficient force is assembled, without letting the Ukrainians communicate.

Ukrainians tended to react too late and then had to rely on brute force.

In the end, 3 of 4 Russian soldiers died, one was captured. Normally, the ratio is the other way around.

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"Citizen of the Galaxy

"The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Jay Oliva will direct a new animated adaptation of the previously unadapted Robert Heinlein story, Citizen of the Galaxy. Published in 1957, the book follows an orphan sold into slavery, whose life is forever changed when a chance encounter thrusts him into the stars."
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Making an ad hoc stuffed animal, maybe. No plan. No clue. No idea! #sewing

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The line between hobby, obsession and profession is getting awfully blurry.

It's great to see someone lean in so hard into their new hobby.
This interwebs rando is impressed!




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Your Words Start To
Lose Value, When Your
Actions Don't Match.

masterxdanx

#quotes

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The DNC found a way to revoke David Hogg’s election to vice chair, despite him winning the nomination.

The Democratic Party establishment won’t endorse Zohran Mamdani, despite him winning the nomination.

And now the Minnesota DFL has found a way to revoke its endorsement of Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh, despite him winning the nomination.

Democratic Party insiders keep crapping on its new & young leaders, yet wonders why young people are upset with the party & it has 26% approval😐

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That's why they're going independent and looking for a third party alternative.
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Old Democrats Must Go or Trump NEVER Will

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Kim Jong-un hails North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine at ceremony for returned soldiers theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…

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A SERIOUS LIFE TIP:

Even the nicest people have their limits. Don't push them too far and don't try to reach those limits, because the nicest people can also be the scariest assholes once they've had enough.

maxterxdanx

#quotes

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You're going to hear some people, quite sincerely, argue that the California redistricting plan should be rejected by voters, because "we have to play fair even if the other side doesn't".

This is the kind of attitude that got millions of people shoved into ovens by Hitler.

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California's redistricting effort is playing fair. It's just that the rules for what's fair have changed.
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@timrichards I look at our independent electoral commission in Oz, while not perfect still a million times better and ask how do you get such easily corruptible systems in other countries

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Some clear signs of a broken system is when people in power can ā€˜just redraw’ voting district maps in their favor

Another massive one is when a so called ā€˜President’ gets into power and can do whatever he wants without any consequences

If there is someone who should play by the rules, it’s the ones in power

Set the correct example or GTFO and make room for those who do

You don’t have to guess the country

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If you bring a pen to a gun fight, it doesn't matter the example you set.

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Oy!šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

ā€œThe Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for FBI agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine the agency’s primary mission of conducting complex investigations and tracking threats to national security.ā€

šŸŽ nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/poli…

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It’s not really a bar to get over more a piece of tape on the floor.

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M8.0 #earthquake in the Drake Passage (South America)

US Tsunami Warning Center

"Tsunami Information Statement Number 1
NWS National Tsunami Warning Center Palmer AK
1035 PM EDT Thu Aug 21 2025

...THIS IS A TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT FOR THE U.S. EAST COAST,
GULF OF AMERICA STATES, AND EASTERN CANADA...

EVALUATION
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* Earthquakes of this size are known to generate tsunamis
potentially dangerous to coasts outside the source region.

* The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center is analyzing
the event to determine the level of danger.

* More information will be issued as it becomes available.

* This earthquake has the potential to generate a destructive
tsunami in the source region.
"

tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2025/0…

#tsunami #disaster

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"get fucked, get vaxed, and fly your own helicopter"

Giggles

The Case Of: Croc Wranger ... ABC Australia podcast

Hugz & xXx

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I'm tipping that Wright chap is going to face new charges after this case

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