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After pardoning 1500 white supremacist felons for insurrection, Trump has wiped DOJ website of their names so they can't be tracked.

Black & brown people are denied basic SNAP & Section 8 because of non-violent drug convictions but white supremacists roam free despite insurrection.

This is America.




Took my son to McDonald’s today after not going for years and was shocked at the price of a cheeseburger. So I looked it up and a cheeseburger went from $1 to $3 over the course of Biden’s presidency.

I can see why people voted for Trump since Democrats didn’t even acknowledge this problem.

Unfortunately for those voters, not only does he have no plan to lower prices, many of his policies are just going to make the problem worse.

in reply to Dare Obasanjo

There is also this rather interesting distinction between how economists define inflation, which is a price change and how people defined it in their daily lives.

That definition is stuff we can’t afford anymore or stuff we have no hope of ever affording.

When there’s a spike that lifts prices by 10% or whatever and we just don’t go up with them, people are permanently underwater. Worse, the fan is sure to kill any hope of wage improvement. The Fed is out to kill prosperity.

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in reply to Dare Obasanjo

This is cherry picking. Wherever you got those facts they give an incorrect conclusion.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

"The BLS also found that prices in "limited-service restaurants" [fast food] increased by 47% since 2014."

So your McDonalds meal is likely at most 50% more than 2021.

That's an increase, and there was a lot of inflation coming out of Covid, but it is not 300% 2020 prices.

usatoday.com/story/money/2024/…

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Since I never had the opportunity to have a goth teen girl phase, I think I've somehow wound up there permanently in my 50s.

I'm not sure what to do with this.

But I'll continue to be weird in your social media feed because it's cheaper than liquor and therapy.

in reply to Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC

@LordCaramac What if I told you that the hippie phase never ended for me and it's running in parallel with the newer goth elements? 🙃


CIA says ‘more likely’ COVID-19 escaped from a lab
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/27/cia-says-more-likely-covid-19-escaped-from-a-lab?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera



Glad that TeenVogue is addressing this for their young readers.
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains how the ultra-rich are beneficiaries of an unjust economic system where billionaires don’t make money, they take money. It’s impossible to have that much money without profiting off of other people's lack of it." teenvogue.com/story/billionair…




I have talked about accessibility a lot here. But now, it's my turn to ask some questions! I fully admit to being guilty of not capitalising the first letter of each word when writing tags, unless said words are usually capitalised. As a screen reader user, I do realise this can lead to confusion. But are searches on Friendica and elsewhere in the Fediverse case sensitive? If I write goodwriting will it show up in the same listings as GoodWriting? If not, which should I follow, and what about single words, such as writing, which screen readers say correctly? Should I capitalise those (or not) for consistancy?

#accessibility #blind #Fediverse #Friendica #hashtags #screenreaders

in reply to Georgiana Brummell

I know that mastodon hashtags aren't case sensitive, so the capitalization variants all point to the same content. I would expect friendica to be the same, but I'm not sure.
in reply to Georgiana Brummell

hashtags should by convention be camel case, so the first word is not capitalised, while all the others are, so if your hashtag is just one word, it falls in the first word rule, which means it doesn't have to be capitalised. Because of this however, hashtag searches on the fediverse are case sensitive


Conservators at the British Library worked to clean and resecure the textile samples in this 1832 textbook on needlework and knitting. blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare/202…



Penn Libraries has digitized a collection of more than 11,000 photographs in its Harvey Finkle collection, with a focus on Philadelphia area social justice movements. uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/202…





(Toy) balls found in #Egypt, dating around 1,500 BC (18th dynasty). They are hollow and made of linen, with an elaborated red, blue and green decoration, formed by strips of reed. Balls like these were also used for rituals and acrobatic performances.

On display at Museum August Kestner

📷 me

#archaeology



'I don't give a damn about the West,' says Lukashenko as the EU threatens sanctions
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/27/i-dont-give-a-damn-about-the-west-says-lukashenko-as-the-eu-threatens-sanctions?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Europe News @europe-news-euronews




As I pointed out last week, the US owning TikTok would mean that it would be restricted from removing or moderating any content inconsistent with the First Amendment. That would be a disaster.

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xk3rx…





wake up babe robot tentacles are a thing now

youtube.com/watch?v=f-Smu2h28q…

in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell I’ve been super interested in #biomimetic #robots for a long time. 👆🏼👆🏼 This flexible manipulator is great to see. Nature is a great inspiration because it has already solved many problems. I’m still waiting for robotic slime molds!

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Querétaro, Querétaro MX 🇲🇽
in reply to Danielle

A nighttime street scene, brightly lit by numerous streetlights, shows a curved roadway with a low concrete wall and seating area to the left. The seating has some graffiti. A silver car is visible in the background, parked near a stone monument. Trees line the street, and power lines stretch across the scene. The buildings in the distance are softly lit.

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I hope Hegseth won’t be passed out drunk when the next military crisis hits, but his track record isn’t encouraging.


*cracks knuckles *

I was born to womansplain why this is sooo inaccurate, lol



Donald Trump: “They take their prisons and mental institutions and they empty them out into our country.”

Also Donald Trump: [Pardons 1500 violent January 6 insurrectionists… emptying out their prison cells into — you guessed it — the United States]

in reply to Randahl Fink

No surprise at all, fascists always blame others for their own actions
in reply to Randahl Fink

his vocabulary is so limited, he doesn’t understand someone seeking asylum is not from a mental asylum.


the rest of the world was black and white, but we were in screaming color.


It’s late and time to get some sleep :stux: :sleep: :nkoSleep:

Goodnight my dear friends <img class=" title=":mastodon:"/> <img class=" title=":fediverse:"/> :blobcathearts: :ablobcatheartsqueeze: :blobcathugyou:



Why is it that people I know who decide to jump into #Linux for the first time go for Garuda? I mean, there's nothing wrong with it per-se, but it's also not an incredibly user friendly distro for first timers. Vim should not be a default, it should be an opt into, for example. Flatpacks should not be pushed over native packages, and yet they are (and then they cause issues as a result!)

Just... ugh.



[1/2] theguardian.com/australia-news…
stallman.org/glossary.html#cor…
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Billionaires even in Australia (and I presume everywhere else) are sucking up to him, asking for what will make the US a better "investment opportunity." I urge Australians to elect politicians who will thwart

in reply to Richard Stallman

[2/2] those billionaires' desires, and make Australia a good place for all Australians to live in. A billionaire whose loyalty the corrupter has bought is disloyal to per country. Meanwhile, *toadying Brits finally come to realize [the corrupter] has no need of them.*


Mr #Trump could learn from
#Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde re empathy, analysis & human relationships. Human beings can disagree yet don't need 2 resort to vicious thoughtless outbursts. It is often by perceptive & perspicacious questioning that human beings reach meaningful solutions. shorturl.at/xMgDE


The tech bros have all the money in the world and they’re miserable. And people are out here struggling, posting their pets & gardens, sharing meals with friends and books with clubs and video games with groups— and we all know more joy than they ever will.


Five years ago today is the day I first learned about the COVID pandemic. I knew everything would change, but I didn't know how. #covid #anniversary





New bid for TikTok from Perplexity AI could give US government 50% stake apnews.com/article/tiktok-byte…


Liberux NEXX Is a New (Still in Development) Linux Phone lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
in reply to LinuxToday

looks amazing 😻
Hope it's not all hype 🤞