Posts by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
(DIR) Post #AvR2jsDtziY2dgZO1w by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-06-23T14:08:36Z
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An American city is still being occupied by the military. Unidentified masked men are still running around the country kidnapping people. But these facts have all but vanished from the front pages of our major newspapers.Sure, Trump is an old hand at manipulation, but, man, are those journalists easily played!
(DIR) Post #AvkwlCas6YTqIjx5Zw by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-07-02T22:47:30Z
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Laura Loomer is an advisor to Trump, and she's quite clear that what's going on is not "deporting criminal aliens" but the ethnic cleansing of all 65 million Latinos in the US. In fact she's pretty clear she wants this to be the genocide of the US Latino population.I'm not sure many people recognize we're already a few lines into the "first they came for the..." poem. But we are.
(DIR) Post #Avxfg9VB04Yj69m11k by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-07-09T15:47:22Z
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@stux I'm probably not the only person to point this out, but fields that are shaded by solar panels have been shown to be more productive.Covering both is fine with me.
(DIR) Post #AwGXw6TjAwo6f5XGnw by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-07-18T17:15:42Z
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Donald Trump, who claims he has "never drawn a picture in his life," has in fact drawn lots of pictures.https://newrepublic.com/post/198102/trump-old-drawings-epstein-birthday-letter-denial
(DIR) Post #AwN7ZCeSouyARfhFE8 by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-07-21T21:14:48Z
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Wow! Trump is going to release the FBI’s files on MLK. The most important thing to know about this news is that it fails to distract us from the Epstein files, in which Trump almost certainly appears.
(DIR) Post #AwNaRQA3bbL6hN7Df6 by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-07-21T19:44:26Z
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We need a guerrilla campaign of installing Stolpersteine (brass memorials of disappeared persons, mounted on concrete blocks and embedded in sidewalks or roads outside the places the worked or lived) in US towns and cities.Many people have already been disappeared. They should be remembered, and we should not wait decades to do this, but make it happen now.https://sfba.social/@jeridansky/114892897558323683
(DIR) Post #AwZJH93IzhjNPszUGG by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-07-27T01:33:01Z
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@pluralistic A new insurance company insisted I use their app for three months to monitor my driving. I discovered that I simply could not come to a stop gently enough that it wasn't regarded as "abrupt." So I gave up stopping at stop signs, and just rolled through slowly. It's illegal and less safe, but more acceptable to the app. Similarly, braking when you saw a pedestrian about to step into the road increases your insurance. It's better to ignore them and blast on through.
(DIR) Post #AwZJHEe0Ch3Wl9CMee by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-07-27T01:35:30Z
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@pluralistic They also penalized you for sudden acceleration, even if it was to avoid an accident.The problem is that they can't measure much, and what they can measure is devoid of context.It was a relief when the three months was up and I could go back to driving normally (which, generally, was more safely).
(DIR) Post #Awf7Nny1wjbzY3Vjhg by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-04-13T02:22:57Z
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Well, #DarkMatter had a satisfying ending, and I can see how the added elements (those that weren't in the book) make a good set-up for a Season 2. I just hope they don't try to milk this for too long, though.
(DIR) Post #AwjuHIzzqTsO9OnhZ2 by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-08-01T22:06:10Z
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@patrickhadfield It's a warning to her replacement: fudge the figures or face the consequences. Eventually we won't be able to trust any figures the US government issues on employment, inflation, balance of trade, or anything else.
(DIR) Post #AxSfHMXLw5UjvNAW9I by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-08-23T00:46:09Z
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1. What my daughter posted on Instagram.2. What Instagram put over her post.
(DIR) Post #AyEFBXyfxuXYKoE5qa by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-09-15T10:26:14Z
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Taken from another account so that I could add alt text. Please don’t boost posts that lack alt text.
(DIR) Post #B0FFl1ZUebi3L6ENlo by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-11-14T18:42:01Z
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@jawarajabbi You might be in *their* contact lists, which is how IG can connect the two of you. There's a lesson there, which is that a company can know all about who you've been connected with without even seeing your contact list.Anyway, all these companies are evil. I wouldn't have their apps on my phone.
(DIR) Post #B15igCO7wPYzeDcSVk by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-12-09T21:27:09Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/115691564369915601By shifting to 98% renewable energy "The total cost of electricity production [in Uruguay] decreased by roughly half ... About 50,000 new jobs were created in construction, engineering, and operations, roughly 3% of the labor force … Its economy has been growing at 6% to 8% annually, and its poverty rate has fallen from 30% to 8%."
(DIR) Post #B1bizRSibaJRQZPo3M by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-12-25T12:52:58Z
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@KhunKai @selea I wondered that too, but it's a screenshot from a stock video.Being on your phone is not exactly my idea of JOMO.
(DIR) Post #B1bmjcTUIFBWlVUBHM by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-12-25T13:35:26Z
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@selea @KhunKai That's kind of the point. He could be doing anything on his phone, which means this isn't a good image to illustrate the Joy of Missing Out. (In fact he's typing, which means he's almost certainly not reading a book.)
(DIR) Post #B1brD0hzfdXU8kXbZQ by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-12-25T14:25:35Z
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@selea @acsawdey With his thumbs covering the screen that's not very likely.
(DIR) Post #B1ippIjuEzs9GRHmK0 by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-12-28T14:28:09Z
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I loved this, but the person who posted it had crappy alt text, so I'm re-posting.
(DIR) Post #B1njmrS75uKQ7aDT8a by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2025-12-31T02:54:50Z
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I can't find the post, but a week or so ago someone was complaining about #Pluribus being "predictable," and I just want to say, "Dude: whoever you are, if you were able to predict the plot on this show you are an absolute genius. We bow down to you, and are *willing* you to start writing your own scripts. Please, please do it."
(DIR) Post #B2MY3hMk83vdtescLY by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
2026-01-17T03:02:26Z
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@futurebird If someone had been born after a nuclear war, that would show up in their teeth and bones in terms of much higher levels of radioactive strontium compared to contemporary humans.