herid @herid@qoto.org

Glaucous-Winged Gull, Kitsap County, Washington

The Heritage Foundation is determined to destroy America/democracy. They’ve aided and abetted Trump at every turn, and so much more.👇🏼

Doug Klain:

🚨The guardianhas learned a major anti-#Ukraine conference will be held in Washington, DC tomorrow.

Heritage Foundation will bring together Hungarian President Viktor Orbán’s team & Republican congressmen to strategize how to end US support for Ukraine.

Hey MSM, Stop calling Mike Johnson 'charming', 'friendly', 'a nice guy', or 'personable' — he's extreme. He voted to overturn the 2020 election. He's a theocrat. He's dangerous AF.

If you can't spot a wolf in sheep's clothing, you're middle school level naive or feigning so — get the hell out of Journalism.

1/ Russian sources say that as many as 70-90% of all Russian deaths on the battlefield are caused by bleeding, rather than fatal wounds. An effective collapse of the Russian army's combat medical care means that anything more than a light wound is likely to be lethal. ⬇️

Reuters: US believes missile likely shot down Prigozhin’s jet. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-believes-missile-inside-russia-likely-shot-down-prigozhins-presumed-plane-us-2023-08-24/

My two cents on the aftermath of Prigozhin’s death is that while this may temporarily stabilize Putin’s position domestically, it was still a forced move, a result of Putin (if we assume he approved it) choosing between three uncomfortable options: deal, prosecution and murder.

I really do like Texas but man how many plagues am I supposed to endure.

Someone should tell #GoTransit that while we appreciate the provision of Wifi on the train, it is considered traditional to put some Internet on the other end of it. #Toronto

Here’s the story of how a 37-follower Twitter account seeded a propaganda narrative about Hawaii that made headlines around the world, thanks to a network of right-wing influencers — and amplification by both Russian and Chinese state media.

My latest — a very deep dive into a coordinated campaign:
#socialmedia #disinformation #propaganda
https://open.substack.com/pub/weaponizedspaces/p/russia-amplifies-right-wing-influence?r=1aupz&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

I first noted this campaign on Twitter a week ago, when I saw an unusual number of tweets not just expressing the same idea, but using the same specific phrase (“fund Hawaii not Ukraine”) to do so. So I decided to look into it.

While I was doing that, right-wing media picked up the narrative…. Then Russian state media started amplifying it… And then a few days later, Chinese state media joined in, too.

At that point, I knew I was looking at something interesting…

Just another #Monday in the USA (after #SCOTUS ruling)

Expect another migration.

Muskrat: Block is going to be deleted as a “feature”, except for DMs

#Twitter #X #Xitter

@queensparktoday

"Ford's argument is basically that corruption is okay if it gets houses built."

#onpoli #ontario
@david_moscrop

Oh, the search feature is coming to Mastodon after all: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344

This clearly seems to follow up the VyrCrossont's idea of the extended search feature that finds public posts.

Gargron: "It is my decision to unite all discovery features in one setting, because all of this stuff is an expected part of a social network and splitting it up into different settings that everyone has to opt-into one by one just to get the same behaviour they get by default on other social media seems like a bad user experience. Also, discoverable is already a federated attribute." #Mastodon #Search #OpenSource