ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

A person on my feed boosted a post by @wardrup, and I watched this video as a result. I have to say that it is about as powerful a statement against Nazism as I can imagine. I have hundreds of neighbors, acquaintances & family that I wish could/would watch it. Perhaps one or two of them might wake up & understand that the path they have taken is flawed.

Here it is if you missed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYn5t0tuuAk

When did we begin to call authoritarian announcements ... "rhetorics"?

"The former and possibly future commander in chief aspires to strongman power if he wins back the White House next year. He believes his authority would be absolute. He wants vengeance against his political enemies. He’d pose the greatest challenge to the rule of law and the Constitution in modern times, seek to crush press freedoms and gut the machinery of government.

None of this is speculation."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/14/politics/trump-extreme-rhetoric-analysis/index.html

"Can I have one more of your stickers? I have a trans son"
How to make my day in one sentence #AgileTD
/cc @emilyk

The Supreme Court's new ethics code is a confession:

https://open.substack.com/pub/takebackthecourt/p/the-supreme-courts-new-ethics-code?r=27fvr9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

TODAY: It was confirmed that Dauphin County, PA, home to Harrisburg, flipped to Democratic control in last week's elections. For the first time in 100+ years.
GOP incumbent conceded.

One reason this matters? Ballot access. County officials in PA have a lot of discretion on this. I talked to the Dem who won last week about how he plans to expand ballot access: He wants more ballot drop boxes. And he wants to allow ballot curing. https://boltsmag.org/democrats-pennsylvania-election-2023/

Today's deep look is about weevils! Drop everything!

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

If we weren't teetering on the brink of a fascist takeover this would all be so entertaining. As it stands, it's just hilarifying.

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/14/matt-gaetz-house-ethics-kevin-mccarthy-burchett

#gop #gopindisarray

US #privacy groups (citing previous reporting by WIRED) are warning Senator Schumer not to ram through #NSA spying powers.

https://www.wired.com/story/section-702-surveillance-reauthorization-privacy-letter/

During a trial on charges that #Trump committed fraud by inflating the value of his assets, his defense attorneys put up a slide claiming that his 63-story building at 40 Wall street is a 72-story building.

You cannot make this shit up.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2023/11/13/live-from-trump-fraud-trial-don-jr-returns-to-witness-stand/?sh=3dc8c2bc3fa6

Why isn't a bigger story that the entire House of Representatives is in chaos because a Republican member deposed a Republican Speaker of the House to end an ethics investigation into his child rape charges? I mean, I hate this question formation as much as you, but why the hell?

#NaNoWriMo update, Nov 14th: 27324 words, 2263 written today.

This novel has fully three different species of intelligent telepathic corvid.

I know what I like.

(It's corvids.)

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." —Madeleine L'Engle

#NaNoWriMo with #iAWriter

mystery master: murder by the dozen, screenshot, macintosh (1984) https://mobygames.com/game/macintosh/mystery-master-murder-by-the-dozen/screenshots/gameShotId,573433/

I’m going to say this again: I really like @mammoth’s recommendation feed ”For you” and its smart and healthy recommendations algorithm that brings up things I like to see without any monetary gain. Not all algorithms are evil, they help the user at best, when they are opt-in.

I have discovered a lot of new follows and it really makes the change in my way of using the Fediverse. We should really consider something like this as a standard, opt-in, as a choice. It kinda already is because we have Mammoth, but only for limited scope of users (iPhone only).

Good job, Team Mammoth!

#Mammoth #Mastodon #Algorithm #Algorithms #SocialMedia #Fediverse

Let's celebrate the 400 anniversary of the publication of "Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies" also known as the First Folio.

The Folio includes all of the plays generally accepted to be Shakespeare's, with the exception the following plays which are believed likely to have been written, at least partly, by Shakespeare; Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Edward III, and the two lost plays, Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2270

#books

The lobby of an abandoned resort
More abandoned places at https://www.abandonedamerica.us/abandoned-places

What most ancient Greek poets forgot to mention was that in addition to guarding the gates of Hades, Cerberus was also a floofy chonk.

#dog #dogs #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #cerberus #humor #humour #funny