Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@qoto.org

X fails to avoid Australia child safety fine by arguing Twitter doesn’t exist https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/x-loses-appeal-of-400k-australia-child-safety-fine-now-faces-more-fines/

Stop living for the approval of strangers who are miserable and dissatisfied with their own lives and looking for things to nitpick about you in order to make themselves feel superior.

Start living for the strangers who might see you and think you’re pretty cool and ⭐️ all your posts and secretly wish you could be best friends but don’t want to make things awkward by saying so.

Ken Paxton sues TikTok for violating new Texas social media law | AP News

https://apnews.com/us-news/social-media-ken-paxton-texas-lawsuits-general-news-d2356da92aaf61646886beced76d70fe

Picture you in a fairy-tale moment
Picture me as I was always meant to be
Picture us rolling through green meadows
Picture everybody happy.

In my life of quiet desperation
I still try to find the time to dream
Look at us, we’re quite a combination
Wonder if we’ll be happy.

Picture love as quiet desperation
Picture life as where we have to be
Picture time away from aggravation
Picture everybody happy.

Panicking Trump Begs CNN to Bully Harris in Her First Interview
https://newrepublic.com/post/185481/donald-trump-kamala-harris-cnn-interview

#EndTrump #GOPWeirdos #TrumpWillLose2024 #TrumpIsUnwell #Project2025 #KevinRoberts #HeritageFoundation #NoRepublicansEverAgain #FuckFascists #VoteBlue #USPol

New Fox News Poll Indicates Arizona and Nevada Abortion-Rights Ballot Measures Are Really Popular..#USA..#elections..#choice https://www.splinter.com/new-fox-news-poll-indicates-arizona-and-nevada-abortion-rights-ballot-measures-are-really-popular?mc_cid=4fc15df2fd&utm_source=PMNTNL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=240829&md5=6964c4f73cdeb19436b4c87f489a6d2d

This Arlington Cemetery campaign event gets way worse. It turns out that #DonTheCon was prohibited from attending, so MAGAt Mike pressured the Pentagon to let him in. I have no idea why that little worm MAGAt MIKE has any say in the matter. It's WEIRD. #DonTheCon isn't POTUS and has no official juice AT ALL so it's also WEIRD that he was allowed to attend this event. He had PLANNED a campaign op. This pig should be sued for the campaign videos he has posted on TikTok. F*cking disgusting.

Only because I could post stuff like this all day and never tire of it.

Via Simon Rosenberg:

Trump campaign = a rollicking, daily dystopian shitshow.

Aaron Rupar:

#Trump fans are getting desperate as Trump is approaching 70 minutes late for his speech in #Michigan

I spent a couple of hours on a windows pc that was working fine but refused to update itself.

Then Helpdesk sent an actual person to help. Another hour has passed. It looks like we might have got it now but it’s still doing something mysterious.

I don’t quite understand how we got to the place where #Microsoft controls so much, so badly.

Serbia Acquires 12 Dassault Rafale Jets in €2.7B Deal
- By Agency France-Presse

https://www.ladepeche.fr/2024/08/29/la-serbie-conclut-lachat-de-12-avions-de-combat-francais-rafale-en-presence-demmanuel-macron-12166421.php
More: https://hype.aero/defense/?story=1c8ac10a-3882-4c64-8874-2e54c7a2cb7d #defense

This spider uses trapped fireflies to lure in more prey https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spider-fireflies-lure-venom-web

Nancy Mace is doing all her speaking through an LLM.

https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113047226041801247

The old season is dying and the new season struggles to be born. Now is the time of very small spiders

“Moving a case to a hearing without interviewing students for their version of events is an unprecedented move, and likely a sign that the university is caving to external pressure from Congress, said Katherine Franke, a professor at Columbia Law School. She has spent the summer advising students facing discipline for protests.”

_Unprecedented_!

#gaza #StudentProtests #activism #law #ColumbiaUniversity

https://theintercept.com/2024/08/29/columbia-campus-protests-gaza-subpoena/

“Those are calculations you make,” said Wysong, who now oversees O’Rourke’s voter registration PAC, Powered By People. “We made a calculation of trying to turn out as many Democrats as humanly possible who typically didn't vote, and they're playing more to moderates. … They're certainly going to have to outperform the presidential [ticket], so that undoubtedly is going to involve persuasion.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/29/colin-allred-senate-campaign-strategy-ted-cruz/

#elections #elections2024 #Texas #USSenate #voting

“The conflation of these two types of studies is problematic because it does not make sense to consider a 5-minute exposure to Facebook measuring momentary mood with a 3-week abstinence from social media measuring risk of clinical depression on a validated scale to be measures of the same effect.”
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-case-for-causality-part-1

I don't always keep up on toots. And when I don't, I just go to Laffy's.

https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff

NPR: In most states, children and teenagers can waive their right to a lawyer during police questioning. Some states are now requiring that they speak to an attorney first.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-4917976/juvenile-miranda-rights-police-interrogations

Intimidation, hatred, anger and threats work to keep people from reporting crimes, keep people from voting, keep the press from accurate/hones reporting. The orange fat bastard use all to his advantage and will ramp up the threats and intimidation through his supporters and goons as the election approaches. That is how he wins.

We have to find a way to stand up to the threats and intimidation, make them back off, and make sure everyone has a chance to vote. That is how we win. The fat bastard and his people are bullies and cowards - turn on the light and expose their tactics. If we cannot do this, and win, the next knock at the door may well be the equivalent of the brown shirts, and death squads.

#HarrisWalz2024 #StopProject2025 #StopTrump

You think indirection is only a computer problem? Pshaw.

I spent 30 minutes on the phone to Lowe's customer service which entailed the customer service rep filling out a form to submit to a customer response team who had to contact a search team to find a customer service rep who knew how to find someone who might be able to handle the problem.