Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

This is absolutely priceless.

MAGA Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas has delayed her reply once more in the infamous #LecternGate case, where she allegedly tried to get Arkansas to pay USD 19,000 to her MAGA friend for a fake speaker’s lectern which was worth less than 1,000 dollars.

Ben Meiselas has the story:

https://youtu.be/C1JtTdhoon4?si=9myojSYeTGjOxN0i

@DemocracyMattersALot
They are being paid to push Russian propaganda, so they are traitors and should be expelled and arrested. This is an attack on the US.

Why rural white Americans’ resentment is a threat to democracy https://theconversation.com/why-rural-white-americans-resentment-is-a-threat-to-democracy-224346

I also made a quick trilobite who surprisingly survived the baking process!

Joel Webbon a white supremacist pastor stressing his hate for women.

Well, hello there.

#texting #humor #humour

Canada: Indigenous fishermen left to walk shoeless after officers seized boots
Justin Trudeau says allegations ‘extremely troubling’ after officers arrested First Nations men and confiscated their boots and phones
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/canada-mikmaw-fishermen-left-shoeless

I’m only 5'6". Can I get a boost?

Denied the nooses, firehoses, and dogs used in previous generations, Texas racists turn to mass firings, in keeping with the anti-DEI theories of Chris Rufo and other GOP darlings, to ensure that people of color never feel comfortable at the University of Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/02/university-texas-austin-firings-dei-ban/

Feeding people is a noble mission. Our hearts go out to loved ones grieving the World Central Kitchen workers killed in Gaza.

Chef Jose Andres and his team have consistently stood with farm workers, from advocating for immigration reform to helping feed farm workers in the early pandemic.

@WTL Yep. As long as corporate/big money is in U.S. politics, nothing significant will change.

Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional.

This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting.

Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.

Your April Fools' Day Reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it.

@DemocracyMattersALot
OMG, I was unaware of this story. God bless him.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/tester-ad-features-missing-fingers-shows-how-red-state-dems-still-in-the-fight

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

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@jbqueru @timbray I won't posit a "solution" at this time, but the core principles of "open source" come from a different time where for all practical purposes the attack vectors (and potential consequences) simply didn't exist. This is going to take more than technical changes alone to fix; the foundational "philosophy" in some ways of open source is unfortunately implicated.

Easter can happen any day between March 22 and April 25

Next year, Easter will fall on Hitler’s birthday

But for some reason, the GOP wants to be outraged Easter coincides with the International Transgender Day of Visibility

They are calling out the President for somehow moving the internationally recognized day to today

Yet it’s been the same day since 2010

Weird hill to die on

…but at least you’ll be resurrected in three days to seethe again

Happy #TransDayOfVisiblity 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️

#USpol

While the US military aid has flatlined, and Olaf Scholz will not send Taurus missiles, Russia has just dropped its first ODAB-1500 thermobaric bomb in Ukraine.

Thermobaric weapons spread a cloud of flammable liquid and then ignites the cloud, creating a deadly blast followed by an lethal vacuum which rupture the lungs on humans.

Does anyone think Putin is worried about this being an escalation?

Stop talking. Give Ukraine every thinkable weapon, so they can defeat the evil before it spreads.