@Lobster When psychological manipulation is amplified through carefully orchestrated propaganda in order to achieve goals defined by the cold hard calculus of power and greed then it becomes obvious that someone has realized it is an exacting science.
But, alas, this is just my humble opinion based on observation.
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
- Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace
#science #math #mathematics #mathematician #ada #lovelace #language #life #bernoulli
Meet Athena
She was the only available adoptable kitten at the shelter the day we went.
The shelter said that she did not like people and the shelter photo seems to prove that.
I reached my hand into the cage and she immediately snuggled into it and started purring.
I was hooked and she came home with me.
Her progression and loving disposition was instant and satisfying.
I honestly didn't even realize that cats could "smile" like that. 🤣
#catsofmastodon #foreverhome #FediCats #Tabby #WorkingWithCats #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #Humane #Rescue
Meet Athena
She was the only available adoptable kitten at the shelter the day we went.
The shelter said that she did not like people and the shelter photo seems to prove that.
I reached my hand into the cage and she immediately snuggled into it and started purring.
I was hooked and she came home with me.
Her progression and loving disposition was instant and satisfying.
I honestly didn't even realize that cats could "smile" like that. 🤣
#catsofmastodon #foreverhome #FediCats #Tabby #WorkingWithCats #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #Humane #Rescue
This post is awesome, and I predict aftermarket shops offering to remove car surveillance to spring up in the next few years.
It shouldn't be necessary, but it is.
https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/
Caller destroys 'spineless' GOP lawmaker on live television
#Cuba #GasPrices #CongressionalNews #Politics #GOP
https://www.alternet.org/trump-gas-prices-republicans-midterms/
Floridians Allegedly Defile Trump's Golden Statue At Doral
#DoralFlorida #ElectionIntegrity #PoliticalControversy ### #ViralNews
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/05/floridians-urinate-trumps-golden-statue
Ukraine Unleashes Devastating Overnight Strikes Across Russia
@jayinkyiv
33:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XueZGkU71MY
Ukraine has launched another massive long-range strike wave, reportedly hitting 23 targets across Russia overnight — including oil infrastructure, aircraft, helicopters, ships, and military facilities.
🇺🇸 🇺🇦
Jay is an American living in Kyiv since before the start of the full-scale invasion, reporting on the war in #Ukraine
#ScribesAndMakers May 15. What's going well with your creative work so far this month?
Two things, both huge!
1) Short story published! It—and many other very excellent works—can be found here -> https://www.loathsomenomore.com/
2) I've "found my voice" as they say. It was masked behind a million deadeners. Now here's the crazy part: that unmasking has trickled into everyday life. Like being myself in writing has helped me be myself IRL.
U.S. President Donald Trump's blustery negotiating style seems to have hit a wall with Iran and may be undermining his own efforts to end a war that has shaken the global economy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/16/world/politics/trump-brinkmanship-iran-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #iran #middleeast #oil #donaldtrump #israel #us #usmilitary
#OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.
As more men in boats are killed by US air strikes in the oceans around the Caribbean & South America, its ever clearer that these attacks are doing nothing to degrade drug supply networks into the USA (their professed reason) but rather are disrupting poor fishing communities & killing seafarers where there is little (o no) evidence that they are in someway complicit with or working for drug cartels.
This looks like little more that brutal target practice.
@alice When I was packing up all of my shit to move to France, I took half of our televisions (LCD, nothing special, but large and *dumb*).
My wife laughed and suggested that I was being silly by not just buying new televisions when I made it across the pond.
The last time I was in her house I heard so many advertisements, so many "AI Assistants" listening, and she (a supposed liberal) has a fucking Ring doorbell.
I'm happy with my dumb TVs, my dumb DVD players, my dumb media server, my dumb record player, and my dumb doorbell.
Before I buy anything "smart" I will first find out how the "smart" can be disabled (the fridge we bought was 'wifi capable', so I opened the back and yanked the wifi card - that trick probably won't work anymore).
Make of this what you will, but it will be no surprise that politicians, journalists & business-people rank pretty low on those we expect to tell the truth....
Of course, the fact that nurses rank so highly is an echo of the secular religion that of the NHS that remains in place despite the engineered crisis of the last decade(s).
Overall, it indicates a major problem of trust with our political class; we think they are essentially a bunch of liars! It does little for democracy!
Mostly reclusive and carrying slightly damaged goods. A 56 yo survivor by some accounts. Definitely in need of much therapy. ;)
Staunchly anti-fascist
Bear in mind that, while I may "like" your "toot", about a person, event or particular topic, if it links to the "bird-site" I will no longer boost and inadvertently contribute to their grift. Everyone has a choice and a part to play when crimes go unpunished.
"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers".
-Elric