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• Post #4499447

  @futurebird@sauropods.win Did you see this story? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62qw1qk95eo At first I kind of chuckled than I thought about you.

• Post #4173642

  #Books #Reading #BookerPrize #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter The Booker Prize list was announced today. https://www.npr.org/2026/07/28/nx-s1-5874638/2026-booker-prize-longlist-fiction I often buy the prize winner although I don't know why. I haven't liked a single one. That's probably an unpopular sentiment, but I have the 2024 winner, ORBITAL, sitting in my recovery stack. Started it but won't finish it. I really do need to stop buying them.

• Post #3396736

  #NationalGuard #DC # #Michhigan #Minnesota #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter The National Guard is still occupying DC against the will of the residents here. We were terribly disturbed and stunned to learn 3 Democratic governors sent fresh troops to DC. Michigan and Minnesota are 2 of the 3. If you live or have ties to either state we are asking you to email your governors and ask them to withdraw their troops from DC. I won't be on line for a week or so but go to freedcproject.org/gu...

• Post #2417880

  #mastodon #nerds #video #BlackMastodon Happy Sunday folks. Quick question: for some reason I can no longer play any videos in my threads. Started about a week ago. Any of you know why that is happening? Some change in settings somewhere? How do I fix it?

• Post #2417879

  @stux For the past week or so I can't play any videos on my mstdn.social account. Has there been a change in settings somewhere that I need to fix? Someone mentioned they are also seeing that on another of your servers.

• Post #2417877

  @stux Can you please let us know why video clips are not playing and it seems GIFS don't work either. This is the third request for info.

• Post #2417876

  #books #reading #SciFi #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi There's a book appearing on many lists of new sci-fi to look out for. The title is ALCHEMISED by SenLin Yu. Interesting (and long 900+ pages) story of a society where alchemy rules between two warring factions. IMO there should be a very noticeable CW warning on the book. VERY detailed and repeated descriptions of torture and also extended abuse of women. People triggered by violence should pass this one.

• Post #2106175

  #tech #privacy #Apple #BlackMastodon Need help finding some info from last week. There was a post about the fact iPhones track uses keystrokes by default and it gave info on how to change settings to prevent that. I must not have book marked it. Does anyone know how to change those settings?

• Post #1704374

  #MayDay #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter My daughter (who is grown) said her friends did not know about the general strike called for this Friday, May 1st. She was shocked by that. Let me do my bit and remind people that a general strike is happening Friday. General means its for everyone. Did you march in a #NoKingsDay? Well now it's time to up your game. Check Indivisible for events in your area. In Washington DC we'll all be at the Washington Monument. https://indivi...

• Post #612944

  #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #ThoughtExperiment I enjoy being on Mastodon because of conversations here. I didn’t have to explain to any of you why the phrase “This is not who we are” is ridiculous. It’s like when Kissinger died, you all said he should rot in hell. I was like yes! These are my people. But I do want to talk about how allies and liberals hurt our fight for freedom when they use that phrase in speeches trying to make people feel better. 1/8

• Post #612937

  #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #Abolition #DefundThePolice Want to know where cities can get the money to pay for healthcare, childcare, housing, food security? We can stop paying out millions in taxpayer dollars for police misconduct. We can start there and add in overtime fraud. You can do something with that kind of money. https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-more-than-117m-in-police-misconduct-payouts-last-year

• Post #425530

  #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #Abolition #Food Saw a great a cappella play last weekend in DC called Octet. It’s about a group of people who have digital addictions. One of the songs is about a person who did not post a joke because so many terrible things were happening in the world it seemed inappropriate. I think I haven’t been doing my abolition threads for the same reason. But I have to stop that because things will be bad for a while. Today I’m looking at food security. 1/7