https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details?pubid=102979

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5288119/a-soybean-farmer-recalls-how-he-was-impacted-by-chinese-tariffs-in-trumps-first-term

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/understanding-the-lrad-the-sound-cannon-police-are-using-at-protests-and-how-to-protect-yourself-from-it/

I didn’t know what an LRAD was

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/stopped-by-police#ive-been-stopped-by-the-police-in-public

On Boost, the columns got narrowed to each three characters wide, just to fit all columns on screen width-wise

On the one hand, no one here is downplaying this administration’s illegal treatment of immigrants.

On the other, anything that helps my neighbors realize they are not fucking safe either from this administration’s dumpsterfire is a small win.

For anyone who missed the “losers” reference
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/09/03/report-trump-disparaged-us-war-dead-as-losers-suckers/

My take is that bluesky is owned by a corporation making a protocol (AT protocol) to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

See example, Microsoft trying to convert the internet to only run on its own browser. Or Google enticing websites to use AMP, only to entrap those sites to only use Google’s ad services.

When profit drives development, enshittification is not a matter of if, but when.

How is development of ActivityPub protocol funded? Volunteers and their grants, crowdfunding, and enthusiasm, as far as I can tell. @.@ Idk if it’s a reason objectively worth supporting FOSS for, but I love when people pool together for their community’s greater good.

Why make a bluesky account when you have all the different platforms that already run ActivityPub? Want a youtube replacement? Peertube!
For Reddit, Lemmy.
Instagram, Pixelfed.
Twitter, Mastodon.
Interact with all on the same account? Sure!

But with bluesky? Nope.

Where did you download krita from?

https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/1899538362643689806

There are* teenagers

*glances over at my newpipe subscription list*

Yeah, I think you’re right

Source on the quote?

It’s so apt for our time @.@

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_and_poultry_supply_management_in_Canada

Just because I wanted to read more about it

From the article,

A White House spokesperson, Anna Kelly, referred to Brehm in a statement as an “entitled, rogue bureaucrat” and claimed he has “no authority to defy executive orders by the president of the United States or physically bar his representatives from entering the agencies they run.”

It didn’t sit right with me reading the summary saying “The White House called Brehm an [etc, etc]” without the name of the person who said it.

This is the way

https://www.snopes.com/articles/469232/musk-son-told-trump-shut-up/

I understand snopes tries to be objective, but I watched it and still think the kid did it.

This is the way. Every act of blind compliance helps validate doge’s shenanigans.

https://www.snopes.com/articles/469232/musk-son-told-trump-shut-up/

Idc what snopes says about inconclusive; I saw and heard in the vids exactly what you did, lmao

Everyone with the new LED headlights that feel painfully illegal in my eye sockets - they are the bane of my morning commute.