Didn't there used to be a feature to automatically boost posts based on certain criteria? I thought it was a part of the "channels" feature, but I can't seem to find it.
Oh shut the fuck up. Citizens are not competing with recent immigrants for scarce homes. They're competing with Wall St
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Stephen Schwarzman's hedge fund & others like it, own 1 in 7 homes in the greater Atlanta area.
It's not the immigrants making homes unaffordable. It's the hedge fund money laundering.
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Harlan Crow's RealPage is a price fixing "data broker" that got raided by the FBI, despite Crow buying a Supreme Court Justice.
It ballooned rents all over the USA.
Both GOP megadonors fund blameshifting propaganda about immigrants to evade scrutiny
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RFK Jr’s Housing Policy Gives Republican Mega-Donor a Pass
If Kennedy was serious about combating the rise of corporate homeownership—or the perception that he’s a de facto Republican candidate, for that matter—he would call out Blackstone’s nefarious influence by name.aidan-smith (Common Dreams)
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Yes. Harlan Crow, RealPage, and funding fascism are linked.
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Crow Cut Tax Bills by Showering Thomas with Yacht Trips — And May Have Broken the Law - Accountable US
New reporting today revealed that Harlan Crow, Justice Clarence Thomas’s billionaire benefactor, not only maintained a decades-long improper relationship with the Supreme Court justice while bringing business before the Court — but also personally pr…Emily Hoyle (Accountable US)
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Today is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
150,000+ Indigenous children suffered great harm at residential schools in Canada.
Residential schools were established with the purpose of erasing Indigenous cultures, spirituality, and languages.
Students lived in substandard conditions and endured physical, emotional, and sometimes sexual, abuse. One in twenty-five Indigenous children died while attending residential schools.
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So with Cohost shutting down in about 24 hours, a note to every remaining social media site: You should totally rip off the "Following" pane.
Cohost had a view where (as alternative to the normal linear feed), it showed everyone you follow, sorted by last post, and you could click to see recent posts. A problem with social media is the more you post, the more space you take up. Cohost "Following" made everyone take up the same amount of space, while still prioritizing recency. A nice compromise
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#PostOfTheWeek (season 1):
Darwin’s Natural Pet Products responded with an update on the situation:
“Darwin’s is confident our meals are safe. As we’ve also shared with our customers, we commissioned independent, third-party testing using conventional methods, which found that all lots tested negative for listeria,” said Gary Tashjian, CEO and founder of Darwin’s Natural Pet Products.
Argh! Why is @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 not telling me that there's a new version out? I'm on 29 and it's telling me it's up to date.
Maybe it's a PHP thing because I'm still on 8.2.20, but that should be supported.
This definitely looks like an instant buy for me, look at all that #ChronoTrigger inspiration!
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Illinois Autism Registry Update
If you are new here, or you have missed me talking about this before, there is a thing in some United States where autistic folks are registered with the government. Are you in one of these states? Call your reps and demand change, like they did in New Hampshire! Recently, it was brought to my attention that Illinois has a…
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Illinois Autism Registry Update
If you are new here, or you have missed me talking about this before, there is a thing in some United States where autistic folks are registered with the government. Are you in one of these states?…Resiliency Mental Health
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Dear CLI utility writers (*cough* nmcli *cough*) that assume a terminal width larger than 80 columns,
Could you just... NOT, please?
Use two lines per entry if you have to, pad it out, abbreviate something, I don't care. Just don't put important details after the 80th column, please! 😢
(I standardize on 80 columns because that's what old terminals used, and I'm doing more than one thing at a time, always. Thank you =)
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I actually don't think the commands should care about or respect your terminal width any more than it does your terminal height. `less` and similar can provide horizontal scrolling if necessary. And, it quite annoys me when I tool builds in a pager rather than using $PAGER from my environment.
That said, for reasons completely unrelated to terminal width, line/field lengths do need to be controlled. Otherwise human eye tracking stops working well.
The lispy gopher climate will be live in fifty minutes, though you could tune in now to hear @northernlights show (with a more conventional realization of 'music')! anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
#music for the lispy gopher climate will be some of @fstateaudio's Skin Contact imprint.
#lisp ~ that conversation around KMP's port of #zmacs, TRES lost to the sands of time.
This isn't the show toot I'm just making noise that I'm alive, and at least I'm listening to NL right now.
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Glad to hear you're still alive, and thanks again for the continued support!
Without fail, every time I boost a post about discrimination on the fedi, I end up seeing a bunch of white guys trying trying to minimize it and telling the original poster why they're wrong and/or being unreasonable.
I'm getting the impression that just maybe the people complaining about this aren't making it up or something.
Weird, right?
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Aw, Downtown Elvis has died. You were always a delight to see (especially if I was upwind of that terrible pipe smoke). Rest in peace.
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Ron "KW's Elvis" Koch Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information
Share Memories of Ron 'KW's Elvis' & Support the Koch Familywww.henrywalser.com
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Friends, I have a strange ask. Search engines are useless now so I'm hoping someone will know what I'm talking about.
When I was in undergrad, we read a study about drug use in rats. The researchers found that rats can get addicted to drugs, and when you stick a rat in a cage with no community, they almost always get addicted. But when you give them a little rat society with friends and fun stuff to do, some use recreationally but almost none become dependent.
What study was this??
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I have said this several times but it bears repeating now:
A very large portion of the Fediverse values tone over substance. "Politeness" and "civility" over what people are actually saying.
This leads to a constant background noise of just rancid replies that are all phrased in a superficially "nice" tone.
Justified anger and non-diplomatic push-back however is heavily policed and dismissed as "bad habits" brought over from elsewhere.
Unless this fundamentally changes, it will never be a place that's safe for marginalized people who have to stand up for themselves and face a constant stream of condescension, dismissiveness, and outright hostility.
A lot of the time it absolutely does live up to its reputation as a place where middle aged white cis men tell you how your perspective and expertise don't matter, and where you better watch your mouth when talking back to them.
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@liilliil 🇫🇯🇱🇨 "middle aged white cis men tell you how your perspective and expertise don't matter"
They (we) can do this civilly and politely, while additionally expressing concern that your grievances are expressed in bad form, 'why so angry, smile more':
' "Politeness" and "civility" over what people are actually saying.'
The two paragraphs reinforce and expand on each other.
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(14:34 if the timestamp fails)
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Ooh, I can become an "AWS Certified AI Practitioner", because maybe if we throw enough meaningless words together people won't realize it's all bullshit.
I mean, why not? It works for the AI models themselves, right?
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Here you will see @pluralistic on fire about giant extremely tactical teddy bears!
(found via @9hax )
youtu.be/4EmstuO0Em8
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Great talk, though, would watch again
@pluralistic @9hax
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Hi, I was forced to quit my job about a month ago now due to being forced to move by my partners anti-lgbt parents.
We moved to a much more rural area out of necessity unfortunyately job prospects are not looking so great out here.
They effectively kicked us out because they did not approve of what their church teaches them about "homosexual relationships" like the one i have with my transfem partner....
Both my partner and myself have cut down on a lot of our expenses and we desperately need assistance to help pay for a 3+ hour trip to the specialty clinic my partner goes to for her medical needs. Gas is expensive and I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide even if it's only boosting this post.
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Much of that going round these days.
I run with uBlock origin and privacy badger.
And I have no intention of stop running them.
Me in 1991, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation:
"Oh boy, I can't wait until the 21st century. Touchscreens EVERYWHERE!!!!"
Me in 2024:
"Oh dear heavens, not another stupid touchscreen!!! AAAAAAAAAH!"
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