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Clickbait headlines are infuriating. Is there a #SavedYouAClick bot around here?

(The answer is extreme pressure squeezes nutrients out of the organic marine snow making it available as a food source to all kinds of deep sea life.)

RE: @dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud

So normally I would not think of doing this, being too polite and deferential to social norms.

BUT given how they constantly air clips of the president and it’s gotten to the point where I literally cannot stand to hear him talk, I’ve started doing it.

And @dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud is right. Not once has anyone objected.

RE: @BernieSanders@mastox.eu

Don’t ever let anyone tell you “But where are we going to get the money!?”

Housing, healthcare, education, social security, we could easily fund ALL of it if we stopped spending money on war and bombs.

RE: @jensorensen@mastodon.social

And as usual money is both the cause of and solution to this problem.

End the billionaire monopoly on media ownership, drastically restrict the power of the military-industrial complex over government, hold war mongers accountable and the cycle can be broken.

RE: @randahl@mastodon.social

The most infuriating thing about the #Trump era is the ability for politicians to knowingly lie and there are zero consequences for it and everyone just shrugs and moves on.

There is literally more evidence that Trump raped children, than there is that Iran has a working nuclear enrichment program.

And yet he’s allowed to run the country and get us into another never-ending war that will destabilize the entire region and cost us trillions of dollars without any kind of check or balance on those decisions.

If this new information doesn’t spark immediate bi-partisan impeachment, we are not a real democracy. (But you already knew that.)

At this point it’s indisputable that Trump raped children.

It’s so disheartening that every single Republican knows this and is completely fine with it.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/doj-releases-interview-with-woman-who-claimed-trump-assaulted-her-as-a-minor/

RE: @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz

“Slag Queens” has to be the coolest working group name ever. #ecology

RE: @null@puddle.town

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RE: @DarkGalloway@mastodon.scot

These are my favorite kind of accounts on Mastodon. Give me stuff I know nothing about. "Dark Galloway"!? yes, I'm all in on that.

RE: @timkmak@journa.host

Always money for war. Never money for actually helping people survive. This while literally everything gets more expensive and the economy only serves the rich. (Search “K shaped recovery.”)

I don't consider myself an extremist by any means, but there's no fixing this without drastic changes. We need to completely separate the working of government from moneyed interests. Make the only objective for any government program or project to be helping people (ALL people, even people you may not like). This includes helping protect them from the extractive and life-sucking essential nature of capitalism.

Our country has been hijacked by #oligarchs and if we don't take it back the military-industrial complex will bleed us dry for every penny we have simply to sell more bombs, consequences be damned.

And in this case the consequences are our planet and our lives.

This race is my district. Foushee is an establishment Democrat with close ties to AIPAC and Israel. She stopped taking AIPAC money (directly) last year, but apparently the dark money groups are still funneling funds to her. I have noticed a glut of pro-Foushee ads running recently.

The challenger, Nida Allam, is a Bernie Sanders-endorsed anti-corporate progressive.

(No link, paywalled article.)

The Relisten / Phish.net integration is everything.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVOmxMqjgCB/

#Phish

I love and support the journalists and writers going out on their own and developing audiences independently. But it's overwhelming. There are too many newsletters, blog posts, and Substacks to read, and those are just the ones I know of want to. Not to mention discovery of new writers. It was much easier and effective when they were complied all together, you know...newspapers. It's really too bad the oligarchs killed that for us.

My favorite cinematographer is Harmon Hoek. His videos are so relaxing and perfect to put on in the background. Highly recommended.

https://youtu.be/0meEHOdnX64

Anyone remember Colin Powell telling the US Saddam Hussein had "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Iraq? It was an excuse to get us into a 2 trillion dollar war from which we gained…absolutely nothing and destabilized the entire region.

So yeah, maybe don't believe anything anyone tells you about Iran posing a nuclear threat.

This is a very insightful clip from Conan O’Brien on why Trump jokes aren't funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfYyBpQP6fU

Watching old #STTNG episodes and randomly came across the actual Geordi La Forge Drake meme!

S6E09 “The Quality of Life” #StarTrek #geordilaforge

RE: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

Why sell anything at all when you can force everyone to “rent” hard drive space, computational ability, etc. and they have to pay you forever. You’ll make far more money. Plus when you’re the one storing their data, you can mine it and sell it for profit. Privacy be damned.

RE: @knowmadd@mastodon.world

We’re still a good bit away from Skynet awareness.

Isn’t there a new Steven Spielberg trailer about aliens with clicking noises? I found where he got the inspiration:
#StarTrek The Next Generation Season 6 Episode 5.

Horrific but important thread. As suspected, things are much worse than what you read about or see on video.

https://bsky.app/profile/mddoogie3.bsky.social/post/3memhtmptgs2h

Iconic #scifi series #Babylon5 is slowly being uploaded to YouTube in its entirety for free.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/

(via @cos@sauna.social)

The names of the abusers are in the files. There are graphic descriptions of what they did with underage girls. Where are the arrests? Where are the prosecutions?

We’re all just supposed to pretend this is ok and allow them all to walk away?

Society is over. Literal pedophiles can have sex with your children, retain their place in society, and not suffer any consequences.

The #Epstein class needs to be permanently abolished. Prosecute them, take their assets, and lock them in jail forever. Every. Single. One.

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• May 1
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