Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

https://open.substack.com/pub/kateforthepeople/p/bureaucracy-the-good-kind-and-bondi?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Do I regret turning down VC money? Not for a second.

VC funding is fast growth paid for by betraying your day-one users and abandoning your principles. That's always the trade.

I'll choose failure over selling out every time.

This community actually matters to me, and I mean that.

If I didn't care about you or the fediverse, I would have sold out long ago.

You deserve better. ❤️

#Loops #Pixelfed #Fediverse

After perusing the latest news on the #Epstein dumps I find myself considering:
1. Will #Trump off himself?
2. Or, will he let the rest of the #elite spit roast him while he kicks and screams that it’s all #FakeNews?

Bear in mind the #MadoffRule.
Rule No. 1: You don’t embarrass the elite class and get away with it.
Rule No. 2: You don’t steal from the elite class and get away with it.

They’re gonna make him the #patsy, while they all ooze away back to their child harems w/o. consequences.

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RT @RobinBoardmanUK Dec 20

René Dubos coined 🌏 “Think globally, act locally” in the 1970s. A microbiologist who warned early about antibiotic resistance, he linked human health to ecology, stress, and community, and helped inspire Earth Day. An ancestor of today’s climate rebellion.

If only #BernieSanders had been elected #president

#cbs #sharynalfonsi #cecot #60minutes #stopcensorship #uspoli

WHO AGREES WITH AOC?! 🤚

So Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a placard that said:

'I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.'

It will be interesting to see if Thunberg's case gets to court because its far from clear that this specific wording articulates support for a proscribed organisation...it may well be a case of [edit] City of London Police over-reach!

In any case its another arrest of a peaceful protestor..

#PalestineAction #politics #protest

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/23/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-palestine-action-prisoners-placard

Amber Rose Defends Nicki Minaj for AmericaFest Appearance & Supporting President Trump: ‘I Don’t Know Why People Twist Our Words’
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/amber-rose-defends-nicki-minaj-americafest-erika-kirk-1236145328/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Billboard @billboard-Billboard

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history interview, 1992. Translated from the German is Romani *Karl Stojka* -
"It wasn't Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler or the like who beat me, deported me. It was the shoemaker, the neighbor, the milkman, the postman.
They got a uniform and then believed they were the master race."
#fascist #USA #ICE #uniform #white #supremacy #ChristoFascism #radicalized #WhiteSupremacist #terrorists #attack #kidnap #beat #kill #maim #shoot #spray #club #antifa #Nazis

Hey #Tabletop #RPG folx! I have an #AskFedi for ya!

GMs: What is your top tip for running good games (that *hasn't* been mentioned yet)?

Players: What's something your GM has done to make the game awesome that you wish more GMs would do (that *hasn't* been mentioned yet)?

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I'll start (with one of each).

As a GM, I use the 3-act play / 5-room dungeon style as often as possible. It keeps things tight, makes for satisfying progression, and can be scaled to work for almost anything.

As a player, I was shocked the first time a GM of mine rolled some dice and said "you hit, and it takes Blorp out of the fight, what does that look like?". Every GM I'd had previously would've just said "you kill Blorp". That one question has made playing characters *feel* so much more epic.

they are idiots...

you can copy and paste the text from some of the epstein files to unredact it...

absolute idiots...

Eh, pls #boost my request to #getfedihired, if you could spare two clicks? 🥺

I've been humming and hawing about posting this, it feels strange, something about generational guilt & working class shame & ... but it's either this or start putting my CV through LLMs to include every buzzword on the listing I'm applying to. I haven't been able to stomach that, even though I presume that's a lot of my competition.

I simply can't get to an interview. Historically, I've done three interviews and got the job each time, because I'm a real human being who is friendly and chatty and presents himself sincerely (or, that's my guess, anyway).

#Christmas miracles appreciated!

In #Ireland with my partner, but we've lived in different places and would move happily. I've a year experience doing an IT support role the last year, but have transitioned to this stuff later than usual.

Before I've done: bartender; bicycle courier for Deliveroo in #Berlin for two years (best job ever); private tutor for five years in #Lyon (mostly piano but also maths, Irish, English, flute, tin whistle); bookies clerk for a short period; a few other odd bits - one highlight was writing reviews for a theatre company.

Oh, very comfortably fluent in #French, pretty fluent in #Irish (my first love), and intermediate #German (which I would love to have a chance to go back speaking and learning).

Tech-wise, it's been mostly on the #Linux / #Emacs / #Lisp side of things. I would happily work on anything that is one or more of challenging, interesting, useful, or moral.

Money doesn't rule me. I want to live with a humane level of comfort, that's all.

CVs and references available, DMs open. Thanks so much for any and all help!

what ive learned is when you see a coup happening you do lots of crimes because the president will pardon them all

#DOJ admits it's evidence is fake.

Why is it evidence if it is fake?
How did the DOJ obtain this fake evidence?
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
#NewsRewind

NASHVILLE - TN HS Dems Tennessee High School Dems deliver a petition to Senator @MarshaBlackburn to stop the just-announced government partnership forcing TP USA chapters into every school in Tennessee. (“to stop far right extremism”)

@mcnado By not releasing the Epstein files by the deadline, they have now broken the law. This means they must be deported to CECOT. I don't make the rules.

CBS filed a copyright claim against my YouTube channel for posting Canada's version of the CECOT story that Bari Weiss killed—SO—I downloaded the transcript and read the transcript verbatim. Here it is.

Please watch & share to fight fascism & censorship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uRfXOAKGPI