#russia enters a shaky ground here, because if you look at 20th century nobody killed more Soviet people than… Soviet people themselves. The ethnic structure of Soviet leadership is more complex - Stalin was a Georgian, even if totally Russified - but leadership of VChK, NKVD, GULag and other […]

New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for? On the recent discourse about the Mastodon becoming an echo chamber and the community's anti-ai sentiment, and how the fundamental tension in that @Mastodon allows for people to create communities and 'place' on the instance level, but […]

Some good news: Tech billionaires tried to run an empty suit for California governor. They pledged to spend bazillions on him. They manipulated the "prediction casinos" to make him look like a contender. They bought him a Super Bowl ad. He flopped, and now this— www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

All corruption, all the time in Trump world. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-economy-insider-trading-pardoning-criminals-chumps

Just when you think he can’t go any lower… #trump Attacks #popeleo Trump’s lengthy post on social media showed there were really no boundaries when it comes to people he might target, including the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. #unfit #disgrace #embarrassment […]

“Today’s primer will be devoted to theory and evidence on the international role of the dollar. Beyond the paywall, I’ll address the following: What do we mean by “international currencies”? What is the dollar’s international role? What explains the dollar’s special status? How much does […]

Here's the #fediverse! https://nevermind.jointhefediverse.net

🔘 Pat Metheny Trio - Giant Steps • https://youtu.be/4rdHObblzPg

Vintage photography is one of my main themes so here I chose a high contrast bw in the theme of classic 1930s night photography a la Brassai... ✌️ #PostProcess #ECK #ClassicMono #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite

“The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.” THATS how you do it. #VOTE

🔘 Gary Burton, Chick Corea - Senor Mouse • https://youtu.be/T5l_MqLzxGA

Fidesz' massive defeat comes despite: - multiple active Russian disinformation campaigns - the US government actively supporting Fidesz - Fidesz owning the majority of TV & radio stations + newspapers - Fidesz having gerrymandered the crap out of the country - many documented cases of voter […]

🇺🇦 Happy Orthodox Easter to all who celebrate.

You could take out someone's eye with that thing: DHS agents still pointing "less-lethal" weaponry at reporters and others filming them, with predictably grim results [Autumn Billings, @reason.com]

In the small town of Williamsport, Maryland, about an hour and a half from Baltimore, the Department of Homeland Security purchased a massive shipping warehouse for $102 million with plans to turn it into an ICE detention center. But local efforts to expose, delay, and shut down the Trump […]

“…Russians used real explosives to kill other Russians and then blamed the self-terrorism on Chechens. In this case, the opposition had…forecast that Orbán would try something of the sort, which is the most effective defense. And the fact that the entire escapade depends on taking Orbán at his […]

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

“It’s not just that the advice from three years ago doesn’t work. The advice from three months ago doesn’t work. This space is moving so unbelievably fast…at some point you’re going to ask me what viewers can do—and I could tell you a few things, but the problem is in three weeks or three months […]

A reminder that Polymarket is still shite even if you like what it is telling you.

Everyone knows I rarely post, right? So why did I start typing yesterday? To find more cool people to follow! Who I can then boost so you can find them too. Seriously. Most of my new followers lately are either bots or "junk" accounts. Following those back? Not a good idea. But real people […]

“…Melania's Epstein presser yesterday ("I was not a participant") was almost certainly driven by Amanda Ungaro, an Epstein victim who had a child with Paolo Zampolli, who brought Melania to the US. Zampolli just got Ungaro deported; she's vowing revenge.” • […]

🔘The John Scofield Band - Like The Moon • https://youtu.be/KLLxOc4SBsQ

Fun new game for art gallery visits: find all the portraits that could be valid UK passport photos

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“Trump’s sensitivity here suggests they’re well aware that a massive, superior military has been getting dog-walked by Iranians because Trump and his advisors were too stupid to understand modern, cheap drone warfare and how shipping in the Straight of Hormuz actually worked. The shipping logjam […]

Up to 777 people have been held at an Arizona ICE facility designed for 157. There are no beds, no showers. People sleep on concrete floors and have been held there for up to 18 days — that we know of. The treatment of these people is utterly inhumane. After we take power back from the fascists […]

Great article by @startswithabang about how crowded it's getting up there (with lots of quotes from me): https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/earths-orbit-is-getting-crowded-heres-how-we-avoid-a-disaster/ By the way, the CRASH Clock is now down to 3 days as of late March (down from 3.8 days […]

“What this development means in practice is if you have criticized a corporation on social media, held a sign that demands ICE leave your city, shared a meme about alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, or publicly condemned Trump’s Iran war at a local town hall, both the federal […]

A longish (10min) updated on stories covering how the Trump Administration is undermining election integrity & weaponising the state against perceived enemies, while we've all been busy (understandably) following the Iran war. youtu.be/Y2zzNYYLPr4

“…as he is taking a wrecking ball to the historic White House East Wing…he seems bent on demolishing a global order he has failed to remake in his image. When an infantile fantasy of omnipotence comes up against unyielding realities, the response is inchoate rage. Psychopathology may be more […]

“…video shows two officers, Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski, shoving Mr. Gugino, who stumbles backward and lands hard on the sidewalk. Blood immediately begins leaking from his right ear. Several officers can be seen walking past Mr. Gugino as he lies motionless on the ground. The fury over […]

In a rare public criticism of a fellow member of the Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh for his justification of racial profiling in immigration-based stops of U.S. citizens. “I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary […]

Lauren Chen and her husband attended the White House Easter Egg Roll. They co-founded Tenet Media, a Tennessee-based company that paid right-wing content creators to produce videos spreading Russian propaganda intended to 'amplify domestic divisions in the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

🇺🇸 ⏰ Eat Heavy 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝘁 𝗘𝗩, 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 Frayed and faded, etiquette says this flag should be incinerated. Not dissing the owner, perhaps the look might be just right. The flag was anchored at the top by a strip of red duct tape. Its staff was a too thin, and […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

I’ll say what we’re all thinking: the FIFA Peace Prize will never be taken seriously now.

“Iran plans to collect cryptocurrency and other digital payments as transit fees from fully loaded oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz during a two-week cease-fire with the United States, according to an FT report. Under the proposed system, tankers must email cargo details to […]

I wish we’d stop calling these abominations “War crimes.” It’s a legal determination that accepts and normalizes war as justifiable while numbing us to the concept. Crimes against humanity is more to the point. Murder is even more so. #politics #iran

#MeerMittwoch (inland sea) Lake Superior taken from Wisconsin Point in Superior, WI. The #lighthouse is the Superior Entry Breakwater Lighthouse (entrance from #LakeSuperior to the harbor. It looks like it is back on the market via the National Historic Lighthouse […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

Iceland Air is running a search for the worst photographers in the world so they can fly them to Iceland to take photos of Iceland. https://reallybadphotographer.com

RFK Jr. is starting a new podcast and friends, we get to pay for it, too. So I’m thinking I’m going to get my taxpayer money’s worth by making it my new hobby. I shall entertain myself by conducting informal scientific reviews of the content. By which I mean rinsing him and posting about it here.

Our Solar System Images beautiful collection of planetary photos. 🌠 Tag a space lover 👉 🚨 Best Telescopes for Beginners! https://telescopeadvisor.com/best-telescopes-for-beginners.php What do you think? #DidYouKnow #Artemis #STEM #NASA

🇺🇸 “…the federal government does not maintain a national voter database, nor has it ever had access to the information the states keep. That is because, under our Constitution, elections are administered by the states — not the federal government. This is not an oversight or technicality. It is […]

"On the acceptance of GenAI" https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

🔘 Randy Weston Trio - You Go To My Head • https://youtu.be/fhLlPpJC0CE

That didn’t take long #iran halts #hormuz #oil tanker traffic after Israel's #lebanon attacks, Iranian media says Iran has halted oil tanker traffic through the #straitofhormuz after #israel attacked Lebanon, semi-official news agency Fars reported. Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif said earlier […]

He literally told us that the objective is to “wipe out their whole civilization”. If that isn’t a crime against humanity, the most fundamental of war crimes, nothing is. Virtually no one wants this. It will accomplish nothing. We must stop it.

“…Short video viewers showed reduced activity in three distinct regions during memory retrieval: the claustrum (integrates sensory details into coherent memories), the caudate nucleus (goal-directed focus and motivated searching of memory), and the middle temporal gyrus (connects language to […]

🔘 Ben Monder - Just Like A Woman • https://youtu.be/1wmFadBOwic

“…We’re not in the 90s or the aughts. We’re in a very different period. In a general way it’s the groups who will take us beyond what is still mostly the guiding sentiment of incumbent federal officeholders, that we’re in normal times or at least need to use the toolbox that we inherited from […]

🔘 Country Joe & The Fish - Bass Strings • https://youtu.be/P9uCG6wV0Ag