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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 6h

Washington Post:

Joe Biden says 'welcome back' to the man he called an existential threat'
With the president hosting Donald Trump at the White House, Washington decorum overwhelms dire rhetoric.

November 15, 2024

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 8h

We found your section in the library

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 11h

NOW LIVE

twitch.tv/technopoverty

TechnoPoverty - Twitch

An inter-dimensional stream bringing together books and video-games, every Monday and Thursday @ 7:30pm cst, Shin Megami Tuesdays @3pm cst.Older episodes on our YouTube channel.

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 12h

Really puts it in perspective how long this cloying 80s nostalgia stuff has been going on

Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 12h

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (X1/360) $4.49 via Xbox (Game Pass Price). https://ow.ly/61s350XaP21

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Forrest @dunots.voidsent.com · 12h

the best part of this chart is that it's the same as the usual one and in fact is useful for reading the american political landscape and perhaps all political landscapes

N8 þə Gr8 @nclud.bsky.social · 12h

I’m kinda partial to this one

Political axis quadrants from top left clockwise:
Fuck me mommy
Fuck me daddy
Fuck you mom
Fuck you dad

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 16h

(Finishing off?) HEARTWORM tonight! Curious how things will tie together, we'll have some special holiday related reading surprises as well!

7:30pm cst

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 15h

We're on to Dunsany and Borges on tomorrow's HAUNTUESDAY!

Here's a thread full of nifty links to full texts for those that want to read along with Henry and Lux!

TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 10d

For those reading along through Hauntember with us, here's what @tailboi.bsky.social recs for our Tuesdays:

1. The Hell Screen - Ryunosuke Akutagawa

2. How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon The Gnoles - Lord Dunsany

3. The Aleph - Jorge Louis Borges

4. In The Penal Colony - Franz Kafka

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 15h

so thank you to everyone who laughed at my "ICE recruitment ad-read" in the middle of my presentation on Friday.

you have enabled me.

Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 15h

I've always had an uncomfortable relationship with, and an inability to really synthesize, my comedy work and my critical/philosophical work.

Last week's live show was the first time I felt like they not only co-existed, but strengthened each other.

Now need to see if it's replicable.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 10d

MassGrave is a collection of scripts that are open source (see below) that are mostly running a bunch of the old archaic Windows service programs using magic tricks.

Because fuck AI, fuck Windows 11.

Share the video above with the people you know are on Windows 10 still.

GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts: Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting...

Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting. - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

github.com

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 17h

Q: You’re cool, how can I support?

I just made this guide, the tools were by people who have way more patience and time than I do to dig through tons of old windows builds to find this method.

If you have a twitch account, I would appreciate a follow, I’d like to get to 6k (~50 off) before EOY <3

Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 8d

If you are interested in tech stuff, game development or want a place to fall asleep to, I stream on Twitch. I would appreciate a follow (I’m really close to 6k), but you can do what you want, I don’t mind!

Just stay safe and be the best you can be!

And remember to drink water, champ.

SocksTheWolf - Twitch

An American Werewolf in Seattle. Part time streamer, full time buff nerd dad. I’m not like the other wolves 🐺. I enjoy video games 🎮, tech, working out, giving uppies, and full moons 🌕.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 17h

Q: I was moved to windows 11 automatically before I could follow the guide!

If it’s within 13 days of upgrade, a button should appear in your settings app under updates that allows you to go back to win10

Q: Can I block my computer from auto upgrading to 11?

Yes, grab InControl. It is safe.

GRC | InControl

InControl - Disable Windows automatic updates and upgrades

www.grc.com

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17h

“This is absolutely a violation of federal law.”

For @motherjones.com, I reported about how reduction-in-forces in the Office of Special Education Programs will lead to disabled kids' needs not being met, as funding may not be distributed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump's new layoffs hurt disabled kids

"This is absolutely a violation of federal law."

www.motherjones.com

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Henry Beedee @hibide.bsky.social · 17h

Baking dat cake (leg day)

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Zuri Linetsky @zurilinetsky.bsky.social · 17h

Important @attackerman.bsky.social piece for @foreverwars.bsky.social.

And remember:

“even should Trump's 20-point plan take hold, another October 7 will happen. It is foretold by the conditions of Palestinian oppression that the plan leaves intact.

www.forever-wars.com/the-barbaris...

‘The Barbarism of The Enemy’

Notes on the third ceasefire, and prayers that there won't have to be a fourth. Free Marwan Barghouti. Free Palestine

www.forever-wars.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 20h

an underrated problem Bari Weiss has is that there is a tension between "effective propaganda" and "media the regime will approve of"

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 19h

"pre-crime" is the new "pre-cum"

youtu.be/7DXRO1QaF9c

It's Illegal to be Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Christianity Now

YouTube video by Side Burns

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 23h

These are all sourced from “A People’s History of the United States,” and I struggle to think of a more prescient page from a history book that I have read than this one:

useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiro-shima and Vietnam, to save Western civiliza-tion; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save social-ism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all-that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth.
We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable of classrooms and textbooks. This learned sense of moral proportion, coming from the apparent objectivity of the scholar, is accepted more easily than when it comes from politicians at press conferences. It is therefore more deadly.
The treatment of heroes (Columbus) and their victims (the Arawaks)-the quiet acceptance of conquest and murder in the name of progress—is only one aspect of a certain approach to history, in which the past is told from the point of view of governments, conquerors, diplomats, leaders. It is as it they, like Columbus, deserve universal acceptance, as if they—the Founding Fathers, Jackson, Lin-

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 23h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 20h

hey over the weekend people finally started watching this one!

youtu.be/_spw4MnVsHw

Your Favorite Apps are ICE Agents

YouTube video by Michael Burns

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TechnoPoverty @technopoverty.bsky.social · 21h