Meanwhile over on Reddit . . .

Some perspective

How to quit #spotify by @brianmerchant https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify

Israeli Killings UN rights office condemns ‘apparent summary execution’ of two Palestinian men in the West Bank #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Breaking #breakingnews https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/11/1166469

Sometimes I just get an idea and it won't go away

A year ago, I saw someone open a book lamp in a bar. It was a pretty expensive product. Since I combine electronics and paper crafting, I had to DIY it and develop an easy-to-use circuit template and instructions for it. This educational project is perfect for […] [Original post on chaos.social]

"The very fact that this nefarious, ethically vacant man — a man who wears his venality on his sleeve — could twice win the presidency and in all likelihood retire with billions in ill-gotten gains suggests that America is dangerously close to falling into a political sinkhole." — Thomas B […]

Musk revealing the location of MAGA influencers being from Russia, India, and Nigeria proves what we have known all along. MAGA was a foreign psy op — arguably the most successful Putin psy op in history. Let’s make “America First” for real with the world’s best universal healthcare system.

Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.

To make matters worse, not one other person stood up for her. Not one. #jenniferjacobs #quietpiggy #epsteinfiles #trumplies #trumpisstillapedo

👀 @indivisibleteam has launched an all out fight to make the Democratic Party a robustly oppositional force to fight Republican Fascism. https://www.indivisible2026.org/

The Democrats who engineered and/or voted for the odious shutdown deal are even more cowardly and reckless than anyone could have imagined. See this: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/shutdown-deal-would-let-senators-sue-over-jack-smith-searches

Democrats capitulated on healthcare to end the government shutdown and restart SNAP payments. Trump’s lesson learned is that the government needs to make fewer SNAP payments. So ACA subsidies are gone, the economy is reeling from a shutdown, and Dems put the idea in Trump’s head to cut SNAP in […]

I can’t vote specifically against Schumer or the 8 who pivoted to pass tonight’s tragic bill, but fuck each last one of them for not standing up for tens of millions who’ll suffer due to their vote.

The only way to know which Democratic Senators genuinely opposed this monumentally bad cave would be if they were to demand Schumer step down as leader immediately. 2/

Folks, it doesn’t matter that Schumer voted “no”. He got the Dem caucus on board with caving. THEN the caucus figured out who should vote yes to provide cover for D Sens up for reelection in 2026, who might have been in serious danger of being primaried. As for the retiring D Senators, doing […]

What in the goddamn fuck is wrong with Democrats!? Tonight I specifically mean those ten in the Senate. The tide had turned, the party finally had momentum, and the perception of the party being weak and feckless was breaking. They could've achieved a huge political victory *and* won extended […]

Anyone got a list of the 8 senators abandoning us on Affordable Healthcare ? Angus King (Independent-Maine), fucking Tim Kaine (VA), Jeanne Shaheen, (both NH)… who else?

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

#trump has accused boat crews of being *narco-terrorists*. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a fmr military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver. #law #murder […]

Tradwife? More like RADwife!

Gotta love The Guardian for those quotes from Europeans on #mamdani's win in NYC: "Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal." “Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his […]

From a friend here, if you're wondering why what the GOP is really saying: "no food stamps until you agree to no insurance" "Yesterday we got a letter in the mail saying that our insurance in 2026 is going from $226/month to $2984/month. Let that sink in. More than our rent." #politics

❝ you can sleep now ❞ Zohran knows the struggle. yes, tonight i will sleep like a happy auntifa #nyc #2025elections #elections2025 #zohranmamdani

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

Every citizen should be made aware that Trump's masked thugs are violently kidnapping other citizens and then brazenly lying about what prompted the abductions. Every potential juror should understand this, too.

So, who found Cheney’s last Horcrux?

Bernie Sanders says that Democrats are 'way out of touch' https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010489789/bernie-sanders-democrats-are-way-out-of-touch.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=watch

Tariffs are paid by the receiver, i.e. Texas. Luckily for Abbott, there is no price for a person so 100% of nothing is nothing. But hey, thanks for admitting that Mamdani is about to win in a landslide!

US says the greedy colonial part: https://youtube.com/shorts/l-I8Z5KLegg

SURPRISES CONTINUE... The interstellar traveler Comet 3I/ATLAS is continuing to surprise scientists, this time by brightening at an unexpectedly rapid pace as it made its closest approach to the sun. Experts studying the object don't yet know why that happened […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

AURE FREE PRESS FREE on Patreon! "What Will Happen to Americans on Food Stamps After November 1, 2025?" As the clock strikes midnight on October 31, 2025, a silent crisis will grip nearly 42 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

20+ MILLION AMERICANS will see their health insurance premiums rise by an average of 114% due to Trump, Republican cuts Health research nonprofit KFF found the amount people pay for health coverage is set to rise 114 percent on average because Congress has not extended the enhanced tax credits […]

Omg procrastination has paid off *again*: A presentation I haven't prepared for a workshop today was first significantly shortened (notification: yesterday), and this morning, the whole event has been canceled. I'll never change with this kind of positive reinforcement 😅 #academicchatter

Well, fuck. #Dodgers win in an 18 inning game 3.

Peaceful protest has successfully driven Avelo out of Connecticut. Protest matters. Avelo Airlines should be ashamed. Call Avelo customer service at (346) 616-9500. #aveloairlines #andrewlevy #ice #nazicollaborators #boycottavelo #USpol

I need to extract certain information from a bunch of images. I'm a Python developer, but know little about this niche. Can somebody suggest particular toolkits to start with? The problem: The placement of flippers on pinball machines has a rich history. There are thousands of different pinball […]

So, there’s news of a 60,000-employee layoff from Amazon. And I’m reading toots saying it’s because of a downturn in the economy… Meanwhile the #wallstreetmoodring sets new records.

always had been astronaut gun meme but it’s me asking why all the promoted outlets in the premium section of Apple News are the conservative ones

I’d break The bones Of tyrant time Just to hear A fraction Of your laughter Again. #poetry

You know what else pisses me off about the proliferation of all these data centers, besides their unending thirst for potable water and energy and the enormous amount of pollution from the mostly fossil-fueled data centers? The fact that each of them need several football fields of lights to […]

Sometimes I don’t want to comment. Sometimes I just want to nod and point to a Toot when it and replies collectively are brilliant. Like this one. https://blob.love/@nora/115420396735919665 I don’t want to just stink up the thread by adding a comment. That’d be like sticking a post-it on a […]

I get that people have principled reasons for disliking Bluesky, but I'm mostly here rather than there because there's an edit button here and make lots of typos.

California will be fine. Pathetic pot shots at the meek aren't going to change our trajectory.

Dominion Media Television dropped this absolute #StarTrek banger the other day and I couldn't not share it here.

(Sung to d5 of 12 days of Christmas): I cleaned ‘neath a cupboard and what I retrieve: Fiiiiive Cat Hair Globs! 4 elastic hair bands 3 catnip mice 2 fuzzy wire toys And a paper umbrella from a mai tai #whywasntiinvitedtothecatrumparty

We walked around 12km and called in at the Maurice Dobson Museum in Darfield for coffee and cake. My sister-in-law volunteers there, and local poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan volunteers there too and he was in today. I’ve done a few projects with Ian and he’s […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

On a rainy, raw morning, we had more Indivisible Santa Fe members today at our second Speakers’ Corner session than we had last week! Here’s one of my favorite clips. (Mike Johnson thinks she’s somebody who hates America. 🙄)

New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern District of Virginia. “This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. He is forcing […]