Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

All hail the sea cat #SeaWednesday #CatsOfMastodon #cornwall

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I still haven't made it to Black history. I'm still working through all this white US history.

Q: Why do Black folk commit more crime? I hear you on "wage theft should be a crime too" and all that... but if we look at convictions for murder, sexual assault, and drug possession, Black folk just commit way more crime! Those are facts!

A: Black folk are *convicted* more. Black folk are *many times* more likely to be wrongfully convicted. Because racism.

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#BlackMastodon

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution_type=post

Hey Fediverse: Does anyone know of a local #Library that has successfully launched a #Mastodon instance of their own?

The world hates us now. Our closest allies are abandoning us and making deals with China. I don't think most Americans understand how much weaker and poorer the USA is going to be as a result of Trump.

6-minute video
https://youtu.be/ThQuWArTa54

A white MAGA man shot & killed his daughter because she criticized Trump. Why is no one asking the questions they'd ask if he was Black, brown, immigrant, or Muslim?🧐

For example:
•Where was he radicalized?
•Why is their culture so violent?
•Is this what they call "honor killing?"
•Why won't they assimilate to our values?
•What radicalism are they teaching in their churches?
•Was he here legally from Europe or was he an illegal?
•Did you know they cite their Bible to command women to be silent?

They finally did it. Microsoft has successfully over-engineered a text editor into a threat vector.

This CVE is an 8.8 severity RCE in Notepad of all things lmao.

Apparently, the "innovation" of adding markdown support came with the ability of launching unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

We have reached a point where the simple act of opening a .md file in a native utility can compromise your system. Is nothing safe anymore? 😭

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20841

#noai #microslop #microsoft #windows #programming #writing #windows11 #enshittification #cybersecurity #infosec #technology

Notepad.exe RCE Vulnerability 8.8
Are you shitting me?

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841

#cve202620841 #notepad #windows #rce #infosec

Antifascist solidarity with @rojavakommitteerna_com from the antifascist network Varisverkosto and similar in Finland, in English:
"Free K! Solidarity from Helsinki to Sweden"
https://varisverkosto.com/2026/02/free-k-solidarity-from-helsinki-to-sweden/

Analysis: "Trump’s 'Board of Peace' Grift: Con of the Century"

Trump's 'Board of Peace' is "composed of sycophants, global toadies & war criminals, with a failure to communicate."

"It’s a lame attempt to:

"a) supplant the UN as the governing umbrella; &

"b) raise cash for & stoke the ego for Trump.

"Palestinians see the BOP as an adjunct of the Israeli occupation."

~H. Scott Prosterman

https://www.juancole.com/2026/02/donald-trumps-century.html

#BoardOfPeace #USPol #EUPol #CdnPoli #racism #palestine #colonialism .

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/116037341816234575

#ICE #resistance

But they have NO problem with racist country singers talking about guns, lynching and making love to their pickup truck.

Double standard.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-fcc-investigation

An Australian whistleblower facing death threats is in hiding after speaking out about intelligence failings prior to the 2025 Bondi massacre in Sydney.

He infiltrated an ISIS-linked network & reported internally. That failed, so he went public.

The Aus govt has a despicable pattern of persecuting & jailing bonafide whistleblowers.

The Australian public broadcaster aired this doco about the issue:

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners/series/2026/video/NC2603H002S00

#AusPol #USPol #EUPol #BondiMassacre #Whistleblower #News #Israel .

'All over the files': Maddow names names of people in Trump's orbit in the Epstein files

"But if you spend any real time with these files, you will see references to 17-year-old girls, 16-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 11-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls, and I saw a reference today to a 9-year-old"

Donald Trump is, of course, mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files, as one would expect given his close relationship with notorious pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but Trump's association with many of the names in those files did not end with Epstein's arrest, or even death. Rachel Maddow highlights some of the mentions that are oddly still enjoying impunity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSKw1Fv0rAQ

#jeffreyepstein #epsteinfiles #trump

RE: https://mstdn.social/@globalvoices/116049009777708678

Pay attention to how many so-called #China experts have said nothing about Lai's unjust sentencing - or the many others in #HongKong who have been jailed just for expressing their political rights.

Too many of them stay silent for a variety of reasons - visits, or partnerships, or perhaps, I wonder, funding. We need to call them out more.

"A federal appeals court in Texas just handed immigration authorities the power to lock people up indefinitely. …

This is an extreme ruling by two extremist jurists, the most radical pair of judges on the Fifth Circuit, Edith H. Jones and Kyle Duncan. But it does not arrive in a vacuum."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/ice-dhs-detention-5th-circuit

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Minneapolis is our 'Lexington Green.'

1. Stand your ground.
2. Don't fire unless you're fired upon.
3. If they mean to have a war, let it begin here. When they fire, you fire back. Make them own it.

#USPOL #Resist #Fascism

https://youtu.be/urn08SHvNy4?si=XQKqFiKeMxX_FTKe

Wharton High students walk out to protest ICE [Photos] https://www.cltampa.com/news/wharton-high-students-walk-out-to-protest-ice-photos/

We spend a lot of time cuddling on the couch lately.

Happy Dootsday!

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Dootsday #DootsToots #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfPixelfed #Cats #Cat #LynxPointSiamese #OneEyedCats

Team USA curler becomes latest Olympian to take aim at Trump and ICE: ‘What is happening in Minnesota is wrong’ https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/winter-olympics-trump-ice-ruohonen-minnesota-b2917369.html