Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

I think it's so precious when techbros try #mansplaining Web browsers, video transcoding or game development to me.

My dudes, it's likely I've been programming longer than you've been alive.

And transitioning didn't somehow make me ignorant, motherfuckers.

they just called and the treatment i approved overnight (and you all helped me pay for!) is working and he has markedly improved! i was not expecting this

Report: Palestine Action's retrial is rigged against them.

Reportedly:

the jury must not know the trial is for terrorism charges & that long prison terms are possible;

UK media are banned from reporting the above;

the 6 must not explain their motives for damaging Israeli weapons factories.

Arguably, Palestine Action is being targeted bcz of its effectiveness & in providing a model for activism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkzxhQU6QIM

#UKPol #EUPol #USPol #Israel #news #PalestineAction .

Interview: Iran was in full compliance with the Obama JCPOA nuclear deal & "was blindsided by the US decision to pull out."

Now Iran's leaders “don’t know whether the US is really for diplomacy or not.”

~Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Iranian nuclear negotiation team from 2003-05.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/14/iran_blockade

#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #Nuclear #News #JCPOA .

Interview: The Pope Says War-makers Have “Hands Full of Blood”

Trump’s Catholic VP, JD Vance, said the pope should “stick to matters of morality.”

“I don’t know any other more pressing moral issues than war and peace... I don’t understand how VP Vance cannot see that war is a moral issue."

~Father James Martin

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/14/pope_leo_iran_war

#USPol #EUPol #PopeLeo #Trump #Vance #news #IranWar #ChristianNationalism .

Going to the symphony with a couple of good people and seeing Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony has been a terrific reminder of the wonderful things people are capable of.

I needed this, and I can't wait for Rachmaninov next month.

Report: "Iran & US were inches away" from a deal following the "intensive talks at highest level in 47 years”. The US scuttled it.

Iran "encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, & blockade... Zero lessons earned. Good will begets good will. Enmity begets enmity.”

~Iranian FM

https://aje.news/czjcze?update=4488475

#UsPol #EUPol #FakeCeasefire #IranWar #news .

Ukraine's supply of U.S.-produced Patriot air defense missiles is facing a critical shortage, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with German ZDF published on April 14.

https://kyivindependent.com/it-couldnt-be-any-worse-zelensky-sounds-alarm-on-patriot-air-defense-missile-shortage/

#Ukraine #Russia #Zelensky

The U.S. rulers carried out 47 human sacrifices last year in the hope they'd be blessed with public safety.

Whenever the sacrifices seem not to be working, the rulers frantically increase the number.

They keep nearly 2m humans in crowded holding pens — sometimes for decades — and choose the sacrificial victims from among them.

(If someone wrote about the west the same way the west wrote about colonised people.)

#colonialism #capitalPunishment #USpolitics

@cwebber

The fascist playbook is to use the pigs to kill the people who oppose the regime, and to use censorship to silence those who would support them.

What West doesn’t understand about Russia - a Lithuanian who knows

#Lithuania's parliamentary speaker Juozas Olekas said #peace with #Russia can be secured only from position of strength warning unless #Moscow is stopped in #Ukraine, it will continue aggression deeper in #Europe

Lithuania’s #security approach shaped by its history of #Soviet #occupation & by belief Russia’s #imperial attitudes extend beyond #Kremlin

https://kyivindependent.com/peace-with-russia-must-come-from-strength-lithuanian-speaker-juozas-olekas-warns-moscow-will-push-further-into-europe-if-not-stopped-in-ukraine/

#RussianAggression #RussianImperialism #imperialism

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby’s pitch to Trump of a merger with American Airlines shows that Corporate America has concluded that federal antitrust approval now comes from the top. https://t.co/y0jFs02eWL

Is Netgear repeatedly spamming anyone else bragging they got conditional FCC approval for consumer routers?

Because I've gotten multiple spams from them. I don't recall ever registering anything with them.

I haven't used Netgear networking equipment in probably a decade.

The good news about AI:

The worst people you know (like the Trump administration) use a machine that makes them less skilled & less able to solve problems & which replaces thought with a mediocre facsimile.

While this IS dangerous, it also means that a lot of truly evil people are using a machine that they think gives them an edge & boosts their capabilities but which really hampers their thinking & prevents imagination. They are knee-capping themselves.

@cwebber because we are governed by corpo backed Nazis who are eager to consolidate the fascist ownership and control of the media and both parties are filled to the brim with these scum.

We don't know who's funding this stuff for sure, there was the vibecoded analysis that came to the conclusion of Meta, but I suspect that could be true but Meta wouldn't be alone.

Who stands to benefit from this? A lot of forces of centralization, and anti-LGBTQ orgs:

- Microsoft, for sure, since they are seeing Windows' dominance threatened?
- Apple, for similar reasons?
- Peter Theil and similar surveillance company owners and operators?
- Anti-queer orgs and think tanks like the Heritage Foundation?
- Cloudflare, who will probably run the age verification paywalls everyone will be forced to deploy?

Who's behind this? Who's getting politicians so excited about it? There's such a swell of bipartisan support seemingly out of nowhere, and my suspicion is a lot of that enthusiasm is coming from check-writing.

So who's behind it?

I'm wondering if hating adverts on multiple levels is an #ActuallyAutistic thing, or is it just me?

Whether TV, online or in the street, I do not allow #advertising to enter my attention. I mute TV, and look away from it elsewhere. And I include the intensely annoying ways that TV including supposed non advertising channels advertise their own programming. Especially ruining that period of contemplation as the credits roll at the end of #movies. It's abuse.

404 Media - Reuters’ parent company, which also owns and operates the investigative CLEAR database, fired a longstanding employee who spoke out about the company selling data products to ICE, according to a lawsuit filed today. https://www.404media.co/thomson-reuters-fired-worker-for-speaking-out-about-ice-former-employee-says/

Someone please tell her she can't have cheerios, she won't listen to me