Until someone develops a #SocialMedia platform with ear flaps I won't be impressed.

(hey, my ears get cold)

»Die Grünen müssen populistischer werden«, lautet eine Überschrift beim SPIEGEL, und das Magazin nennt Gouverneur Newsom den »MAGAvin aus Kalifornien«, weil er Trump parodiert.

Mit anderen Worten: Wenn wir uns nur auf das Niveau der Populisten herunterschrauben, dann wird das schon mit der Rettung der Demokratie.

Aber die Rechten »zu entzaubern« funktioniert nicht¹. Das haben nicht nur zehn Jahre AfD gezeigt, sondern auch die furchtbaren Jahre von 1919 bis 1945 – und alles, was an Faschismus auf die Nazis folgte.

Im Gegenteil führt das Übernehmen von Nazi-»Argumenten« und -Taktiken zu ihrer Erstarkung. Und zur zunehmenden Verdummung der Bevölkerung.

Stattdessen sinnvoll wäre es, in Bildung und Information zu investieren. Das darf ruhig in einfachen Worten passieren, aber eben nicht populistisch verzerrt.

Oder?

¹ @Natascha_Strobl 2018 bei @Volksverpetzer⁠: »Wer mit Nazis diskutiert, hilft dem Faschismus.«

volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/re…

#Antifa #Populismus #Bildung #FCKNZS

Lass dich nicht dazu verführen, mit Nazis zu diskutieren - Volksverpetzer

Lass dich nicht dazu verführen, mit Nazis zu diskutieren

^{Natascha Strobl (Volksverpetzer)}

Anarchist Library: **Ignatius - You Have Always Been in Someone’s Hell**

theanarchistlibrary.org/librar…

Author: IgnatiusTitle: You Have Always Been in Someone’s HellSubtitle: Exceptionalization and Reification of State ViolenceDate: August 2025Source: Long Leaf Distro
Rising Waters
The present is unbearable. Genocidal violence continues to be the language of daily life. Mass starvation in Gaza has set in as Israel

You Have Always Been in Someone’s Hell

Ignatius You Have Always Been in Someone’s Hell Exceptionalization and Reification of State Violence August 2025

^{The Anarchist Library}

I saw a post with a map of countries where >90% of the population speaks English. Scandinavia was included, but Canada wasn't. Claiming that Canada has <90% English speakers is interesting, and not entirely trivial to confirm or deny from official sources.

I looked up Statistics Canada, data from 2021. They don't say outright how many speak English, and they switch measurements between "mother tongue" and "first official language". But the bounds for English speakers seem to be 76.1% – 88.4%, so the post was correct about Canada. Calculations below.

canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage…

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76.1% speak English as their "first official language" (27 881 228 people)
22.0% speak French as FOL (8 066 633, of which 7 074 328 in Quebec)
18.0% speak both, but could be from either of the two above
1.8% speak neither

Upper bound for English so far is 94.1%, lower bound is 76.1%.

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42.8% of Quebec native French speakers ("mother tongue") speak English
85.0% of other native French speakers speak English

We don't know how many speak English of those 1.8% who have French as FOL (22.0%) but not as mother tongue (20.2%).

The upper bound for Quebec native French speakers is the 7 074 328 people with French as "first official language".
For non-Quebec it's 8066633 - 7074328 = 992305.
The subtotal upper bound for the number of English speakers is 42.8% * 7074328 + 85.0% * 992395 + 27881228 = 31752499.
The total population is 27881228 / 76.1% = 36637618.
The subtotal upper bound percentage of English speakers is 31752499 / 36637618 =
86.6%.

And then we add those 1.8% with French FOL who may or may not all be speaking English, making it 88.4%.

#canada #quebec #EnglishCanada #FrenchCanada
#english #EnglishLanguage

Coming this fall. Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the internet...

Fediverse: The Movie!

It's just not the case that there was an idyllic #internet, maybe at some point in the 1990s or early 2000s.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s browser popups became a scourge. Microsoft refused to do anything about them, and internet explorer became known as being full of exploitable security holes. The initial rise of Firefox was because it blocked popups by default. That was Firefox's killer feature.

Also from 1998 and at least a decade afterwards, Microsoft and its allies tried to destroy Open Source. It was a complicated multi-faceted battle. Their eventual buying of Github is part of that story of the company trying to dominate and control Open Source, after the realization that it couldn't be defeated via lawsuits or intimidating developers.

Also the early internet was full of spam. Spam pretty much destroyed Usenet, and it was only in the mid 2000s that the spam problem began to be under control.

But surely the late 1990s internet was the ultimate in freedom of online speech? Well, there was that whole battle with PGP and the clipper chip. They were trying to stop - or at least fuck with - encrypted messaging from the beginning.

((O)))

#bnwabstract #photography #water #ripples #riverbed

#jugendliche

Kann natürlich auch daran liegen, dass es kaum noch Zukunft geben wird wegen der #klimakatastrophe...

"Demnach sind junge Erwachsene, also Menschen zwischen 18 und 24 Jahren, heute im Schnitt deutlich unglücklicher, als sie es noch vor ein paar Jahren waren.":
spiegel.de/psychologie/gluecks…

Studie mit weltweiten Daten: Junge Erwachsene sind heute unglücklicher als früher

Kinder, Karriere, kranke Eltern – lange Zeit galten Menschen in der Mitte des Lebens im Vergleich zu jüngeren als psychisch stärker belastet. Das verändert sich gerade, auf gravierende Weise.

^{DER SPIEGEL}

I thought it would be nice to make a quilt for my bed in time for the colder weather.

Suffice to say that after cutting everything out and starting to piece it all together I hadn’t visualised how big a quilt for a super king sized bed would be. It’s f’ing huge. 😳

#quilting #sewing

von-aspern.tumblr.com/post/793…

#fotografie #photography #pinhole

KAY VON ASPERN.visual blog

Kuchl.

^{von-aspern (Tumblr)}

Did I go back downtown to buy another, more expensive set of oil pastels? Yes, I did but in my defense it was 40% off. 🙃
Ofc I instantly had to paint another piece, combining both sets (& a few loose colours I got).

Both of these will be for sale but I had to order a fixative which will only arrive in a week or so, since everything in store was either not adapted to the medium or too toxic for someone living with 12 birds. 😐

#TraditionalArt #OilPastels #LandscapeArt #Mosstodon #Nature #Forest

@altbot

Perché non mi riesce il reblog di
y.cubalibre.social/objects/53f…

Matteo Zenatti

2025-08-30 12:50:15

Bon, aggiunto ultimo dei nuovi progetti, quello su Leonardo, che partì come passeggiata sui colli qui attorno cercando di convincere i partecipanti che i capitelli che incontravamo fossero stati decorati con influssi leonardeschi (tutte balle)

matteozenatti.net/leonardo-ind…

Leonardo, indizi e frottole – Matteo Zenatti

^{www.matteozenatti.net}

globalsumudflotilla.org/

#Gaza #stopGenocide #globalsumudflotilia #globalmovementtogaza

#OTD (Aug 30) in 1910, a #JerseyCityNJ resident files complaint against #NewYork mafioso Nicolo #Taranto for conducting a fraudulent #exorcism.

#NYC #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

I mean you can't deny that that's how you should treat a king

#antimonarchy #antifascism #antifa #anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #nokings #guillotine #comic #activism #anarchism #love

Use your brain, listen to your heart

#anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #meme #memes #anticapitalistmeme #anticapitalistmemes #anticapitalist #activism #anarchism #socialism #nokings

Ho visto il primo concerto in Italia di Drake, che in fondo in fondo è sempre e solo “un ragazzo”
https://www.vogue.it/article/drake-concerto-milano?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su News @news-VogueItalia

Drake, ho visto il suo primo concerto in Italia: ecco cos'ho capito

Dall'amore per il nostro paese alla “crisi d'identità” di un rapper che è anche e soprattutto una popstar

^{Elena Mariani (Vogue Italia)}

A Genova in cinque giorni sono state raccolte 300 tonnellate di cibo per Gaza - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/08/30/genova-raccolta-300-tonnellate-cibo-gaza-global-flotilla/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost

A Genova in cinque giorni sono state raccolte 300 tonnellate di cibo per Gaza

^{Il Post}

new art piece! ✨

"2042"

DeviantArt: deviantart.com/izjustpixels/ar…

#pixelArt #retroArt #mastoArt #futuristic #Aseprite #ドット絵 #yegArts #digitalArt

An einem Transporter gesehen: „Annahme von Störungs- und Reparaturaufträgen“

Man kann also Störungen in Auftrag geben? Spannend. 😜

El 90% dels habitants de la Catalunya Nord estan a favor que els infants puguin aprendre el català.

Ho diu una enquesta de l'Institut Francès d'Opinió Pública.

Però només el 25% en reben formació a primària i el 8% a secundària.

3cat.cat/324/una-enquesta-reve…

Una enquesta revela que 9 de cada 10 nord-catalans són favorables a l'ensenyament del català

Un sondeig d'opinió de l'IFOP sobre les reivindicacions regionals demostra una clara voluntat de descentralització

^3Cat

iPad vs iPad Air: With a $150 price gap, is the Air still worth the premium?
https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/30/apple-ipad-a16-vs-ipad-air-m3-comparison-which-is-better-value/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-9to5mac

iPad vs iPad Air: With a $150 price gap, is the Air still worth the premium? - 9to5Mac

Apple has two great, affordable iPads that most people consider: the base iPad, and the iPad Air. Over time, these...

^{Michael Burkhardt (9to5Mac)}