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But to do that, you have to turn on the BlueSky to Mastodon bridge first.

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#random

A coworker gave (!) my son a Westinghouse WGen3600V generator... 16 running hours. Has anyone done a dual/tri fuel conversion on one of these units, who can recommend one of the conversion kits? It's gasoline, but propane or NG is SO MUCH cleaner and easier to maintain than gasoline […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Is the United States about to shoot down commercial jets flying over South America?

This, unfortunately, is now a serious question.
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.

They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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A lesser known Mastodon pro tip:

Want to mute a conversation, but the mute conversation button isn't appearing on the post?

The only way you can mute a conversation is on a post you have made in the conversation.

But the secret part - Say you want to mute it without actually participating in […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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A study in Science reveals that tiny tweaks to Elon Musk’s X algorithm can produce the same level of political polarization in one week that historically took three years. Users didn’t even notice.

This isn’t content delivery—it’s propaganda manufacturing. X is a Russian disinformation tool […]
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union.place
November 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Terroristic troop commander Bovino lies and lies and lies. His credibility in front of any tribunal should be nil. https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/11/28/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-cole-sheridan-broadview-ice
Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino's 'word means nothing, protester says after assault case is dismissed
<p>U.S. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino stood beside Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the immigration enforcement facility in Broadview on Oct. 3 as she gave dozens of his agents a pep talk, <a class="Link" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DPWqV4aACR9/?hl=en" target="_blank" ><u>telling them</u></a> it was time to “go hard” and “hammer” protesters.</p><p>The protesters included several Jewish faithful holding a pro-immigrant prayer circle. They also included a hospitality worker named Cole Sheridan, who was protesting in Broadview for the first time and planning to go to work afterwards</p><p>Sheridan, 27, was disturbed by the Chicago-area deportation blitz Bovino was leading and by “seeing people kidnapped off the street, dragged out of cars, taken from their jobs.</p><p>“I just felt compelled to be there,” Sheridan says. </p><p>The protest was calm until a convoy of federal vehicles paraded through, Sheridan says. Drones buzzed overhead. Government photographers scurried into place. A tank-like armored vehicle rumbled past, carrying Noem, according to Sheridan.</p><p>“It seemed pretty clear it was a stunt to show force and intimidate people,” according to Sheridan, who says Bovino and several masked Border Patrol agents stepped in front of Illinois State Police officers.</p><p>After some jostling, Sheridan ended up on the ground under Bovino and other agents and was taken away, spending three days locked up — first at the Broadview facility, then at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago.</p><p>In a criminal complaint, Bovino accused Sheridan of pushing him. An agent under Bovino’s command accused Sheridan of taking a “swing” at Bovino.</p><p>The federal charges accused Sheridan of “forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding and interfering with a federal officer.”</p><p>Most of those charges held up until, four weeks later, a friend happened to spot Sheridan getting pushed down in footage from an Oct. 31 <a class="Link" href="https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=CmIVvUZp7XQ" target="_blank" ><u>news report</u></a>.</p><p>“The video demonstrates that, not only did I have no kind of altercation with Bovino, I wasn’t even in front of him,” Sheridan says.</p><p>A prosecutor dropped the charges the next business day.</p><div class="VideoEnhancement Enhancement" data-align-center><a class="AnchorLink" id="video-790000" name="video-790000"></a> <div class="VideoEnhancement-player"><bsp-youtubeplayer data-video-player class="YouTubeVideoPlayer" data-player-id="f0d646f1ba3f545bca480cbf17dc475ec" data-video-id="bDO3pvTt4qY" data-video-title="The video that sank the federal case against Cole Sheridan" > <iframe id="YouTubeVideoPlayer-f0d646f1ba3f545bca480cbf17dc475ec" allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bDO3pvTt4qY?enablejsapi=1"></iframe> </bsp-youtubeplayer> </div> </div> <p>Sheridan’s run-in with Bovino is one of several occasions in which the Border Patrol boss appears to have invented facts, rearranged chronologies or distorted what happened. A string of similar cases has been dismissed against Chicago-area protesters and arrested immigrants.</p><p>In an interview with Telemundo on Oct. 23, Bovino <a class="Link" href="https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/edicion-noticias-telemundo/inmigracion/video/conversamos-con-gregory-bovino-el-jefe-de-los-operativos-de-la-patrulla-fronteriza-en-tmvo13045343" target="_blank" ><u>seemed to imply that he started deploying tear gas</u></a> in Little Village, a heavily immigrant neighborhood, because he had been “hit in the head with a rock.”</p><p>A week later, he admitted under oath that he wasn't hit with a rock until after the tear-gassing.</p><p>Shown a video of agents on the Broadview facility’s roof shooting pepper balls at a pastor and hitting him in the head, Bovino denied seeing that happen.</p><p>When Bovino was played footage of a protest in which he tackled a man who was backing away from him, the chief denied he had used force. Bovino testified that “the use of force was against me.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center> <div class="Enhancement-item" data-crop=""> <figure class="Figure"><a class="AnchorLink" id="image-4b0000" name="image-4b0000"></a> <picture data-crop="medium"> <source type="image/webp" width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d59ec86/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3463x1944+0+183/resize/490x275!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc2%2F97%2F4a398f144e8a93a8ab582e664c3b%2Fbovino-102925-31.JPG 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/753be5b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3463x1944+0+183/resize/980x550!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc2%2F97%2F4a398f144e8a93a8ab582e664c3b%2Fbovino-102925-31.JPG 2x" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <source width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9e55786/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3463x1944+0+183/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc2%2F97%2F4a398f144e8a93a8ab582e664c3b%2Fbovino-102925-31.JPG" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <img class="Image" alt="Protesters marching toward the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Oct. 17." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9e55786/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3463x1944+0+183/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc2%2F97%2F4a398f144e8a93a8ab582e664c3b%2Fbovino-102925-31.JPG 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/159ea50/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3463x1944+0+183/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc2%2F97%2F4a398f144e8a93a8ab582e664c3b%2Fbovino-102925-31.JPG 2x" width="490" height="275" data-src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9e55786/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3463x1944+0+183/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fc2%2F97%2F4a398f144e8a93a8ab582e664c3b%2Fbovino-102925-31.JPG" data-lazy-load="true" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" > </picture> <div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Protesters marching toward the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Oct. 17.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times</p></div></div> </figure> </div> </div><p>Bovino also testified that, during a protest, people associated with the Latin Kings street gang had been found taking weapons from the back of a car and that they wore maroon hoodies. He said the “maroon hoodies … would signify a potential assailant or street gang member that was making their way to the location that I was present.”</p><p>But the Latin Kings aren't known for wearing maroon. Bovino admitted he could not identify a gang associated with that color. And federal authorities provided evidence of only a handful of people on the scene wearing maroon. One was an alderman.</p><p>Bovino's apparent misrepresentations have provoked <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/20/unusual-and-possibly-unprecedented-judge-calls-out-chicago-feds-as-midway-blitz-cases-fall-apart" >rebukes from federal judges.</a> In early November, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/06/judge-sara-ellis-operation-midway-blitz-tear-gas-deportation-campaign" >U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis</a> found that Bovino <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/public-safety/2025/11/04/plaintiffs-lawyers-bovino-views-protesters-as-violent-rioters-tells-officers-to-go-hard-against-them" target="_blank" >“admitted that he lied</a> about whether a rock hit him before he deployed tear gas in Little Village.”</p><p>Asked whether, in Sheridan's case, Bovino and the other agent had been truthful, a Homeland Security spokesperson says, "Our law enforcement shows incredible restraint and prudence in their exercise of force to … protect the lives of their fellow officers and fellow Americans.”</p><p>A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros’ office says the prosecutor's office is “constantly evaluating new facts and information relating to cases and investigations arising out of Operation Midway Blitz,” as the Trump administration dubbed the deportation campaign.</p><p>In a written statement, the spokesman says the “continuous review process applies to all matters, whether charged or under investigation,” and that that process “helps ensure that the interests of justice are served in each and every case.”</p><p>After Chicago, Bovino and scores of his agents focused their aggressive deportation operation on immigrant communities in Charlotte, North Carolina. Their next reported stop is New Orleans.</p><p>Sheridan says people in that city ought to be skeptical of anything Bovino says.</p><p>“He lied on me,” Sheridan says. “He decided to abuse his power in such a casual way that led to me missing four days of work and to a month of fretting over whether I was going to prison.</p><p>“His word means nothing."</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center> <div class="RelatedList-title">Related</div> <ul class="RelatedList-items"> <li class="RelatedList-items-item"> <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/28/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-federal-court" target="_blank" >Judge orders Border Patrol’s Bovino to return to court daily, wear bodycam, follow rules on tear gas</a> </li> <li class="RelatedList-items-item"> <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/10/feds-ask-appeals-court-to-block-extraordinary-order-restricting-use-of-force-against-protesters" target="_blank" >Feds ask appeals court to block ‘extraordinary’ order restricting use of force against protesters</a> </li> </ul> </div> <p></p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center> <div class="Enhancement-item" data-crop=""> <figure class="Figure"><a class="AnchorLink" id="image-990000" name="image-990000"></a> <picture data-crop="medium"> <source type="image/webp" width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c063aa5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6672x3744+0+353/resize/490x275!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F7f%2Fae%2F133e9ef54842bf98eee68e1368b2%2Fwatchbovino-11xx25-01.JPG 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/588cd90/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6672x3744+0+353/resize/980x550!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F7f%2Fae%2F133e9ef54842bf98eee68e1368b2%2Fwatchbovino-11xx25-01.JPG 2x" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <source width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/aa2262e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6672x3744+0+353/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F7f%2Fae%2F133e9ef54842bf98eee68e1368b2%2Fwatchbovino-11xx25-01.JPG" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <img class="Image" alt="Cole Sheridan, who asked that his face not be photographed for safety concerns." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/aa2262e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6672x3744+0+353/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F7f%2Fae%2F133e9ef54842bf98eee68e1368b2%2Fwatchbovino-11xx25-01.JPG 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/58170be/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6672x3744+0+353/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F7f%2Fae%2F133e9ef54842bf98eee68e1368b2%2Fwatchbovino-11xx25-01.JPG 2x" width="490" height="275" data-src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/aa2262e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6672x3744+0+353/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F7f%2Fae%2F133e9ef54842bf98eee68e1368b2%2Fwatchbovino-11xx25-01.JPG" data-lazy-load="true" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" > </picture> <div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Cole Sheridan, who asked that his face not be photographed for safety concerns.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times</p></div></div> </figure> </div> </div><p></p>
chicago.suntimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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This #politicalcartoon by Michael de Adder shows
how Donald Trump intervenes in the Ukraine War.
#ukraine #politics #putinspuppet
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Reposted by Solarbird :flag_cascadia:
#seattle #music
Reanimated Music is now open for business.
And it's kind of awesome.
It's on the corner of Brooklyn and Ravenna Blvd. If that sounds familiar, it's the building formerly known as Cowan Park Cafe & Grocery.
November 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

Theme Drink Recommendation for

💀👻 THE ASPHYX 👻💀

This week we're visiting jolly old England, the Victorian timeline, to see how they do parapsychology. Some guy says he has photographed personal grim reapers of some kind. Seems like this will take a strong beverage to get […]
Original post on mstdn.plus
mstdn.plus
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea.

Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime.

In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to
Juan Orlando Hernández,
the former president of Honduras
who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US
on drug trafficking and weapons charges.

Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving
was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19,
had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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can't stop laughing
May 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Spotted on Craigslist - a found black Trek bike in the U. District with a rather sturdy and expensive folding bike lock still attached undeployed. Is this yours or the stolen bike of someone you know?

Found Bike […]
Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net
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November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We Ain't Buying It starts today and runs through Cyber Monday: Don't spend money at Target, Amazon, or Home Depot in protest of their support for Trump's fascism:

https://weaintbuyingit.com/

#protest #protests #boycott #Politics #target #amazon #homedepot #blackfriday #cybermonday
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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WaPo - As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors. https://wapo.st/49KbUJ1
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever […]
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mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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wow this is a new one on me

anybody want to join the ILLUMINATI?

i'm just _oh wow_ on _so_ many levels. i mean. honestly. who would bite on this? xD

#spam #fraud #holyshit #donot #comedy #illuminati #recruitment #Phishing #phishingscam
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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@moira Need to add "Illuminati Recruiter" to my business cards 😳
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
wow this is a new one on me

anybody want to join the ILLUMINATI?

i'm just _oh wow_ on _so_ many levels. i mean. honestly. who would bite on this? xD

#spam #fraud #holyshit #donot #comedy #illuminati #recruitment #Phishing #phishingscam
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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The observations of the Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission chairperson are amazingly damning
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
this party advice feature from joan crawford in the late 1960s is a ride xD

#joancrawford #inevergoanywherewithoutmy #partycannon #partyadvice
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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do you ever look at an object and think "dragon!"? ​:dragnthinkhappy:​
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
i have a design project where I make random small objects mostly for one-off purposes, so when i saw people posting things they're thankful for I thought I'd post it because 3d printing has not become any less awesome ^_^

this is the last year and a […]

[Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM