A thought on this, the 250th birthday of the U.S. which is, I’m very sorry to say and primarily because of the FOTUS and his goon squad to include assholes like Stephen Miller, Scott Bessent, Russell Vought, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Whiskey Pete Kegsbreath, in a world of shit.
#USpol

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the ‘normal people’ as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like ‘Have a nice day’ and ‘Weather’s awful today, eh?’, you yearn inside to say forbidden things.… Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…” —Timothy Leary

"Climate change isn't left wing. The atmosphere isn't enrolled in a political party. The oceans aren't progressive. Bushfires aren't woke. Cyclones don't care how we vote. The climate is an Earth system. It sustains us all. It feeds us, gives us water, regulates heat, shapes seasons and makes human life possible.

When climate denialists call climate advocacy “left wing”, they're deliberately moving the conversation away from physics, ecology, food security, insurance, health, fire risk, flood risk and intergenerational responsibility. They're trying to turn a question of survival into a culture war."

Gregory Andrews https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-world-is-bigger-than-left-and-right

(Edit - by David Abruzzese, one of the best rock drummers on earth)

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

One of the most baffling things about the modern world is just how fucking passive everyone is while a handful of people destroy everything.

Damn right it's time for change! Enough is enough!!! :afb_angry:

"France is currently glowing red with heat. Not metaphorically. Literally. Land surface temperatures in parts of the country have been recorded at levels more commonly associated with the Sahara Desert.

France. The country of vineyards, alpine villages, stone farmhouses, rivers, forests and temperate European summers. Looking like the Sahara. That should stop us in our tracks.

The real story isn’t that France is having a heatwave. It’s that climate change is making places behave like somewhere else. Places are beginning to lose the climate that shaped their buildings, their farms, their infrastructure, their ecosystems, their communities, cultures and expectations of normal life.

France isn’t built for the Sahara. Its schools, homes, hospitals, railways, power stations and aged-care facilities weren’t designed for repeated extreme heat. Its rivers weren’t meant to run so hot that nuclear power stations have to reduce output because cooling water is too warm. Its classrooms weren’t meant to become dangerous places for children to sit exams."

https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #France #Europe

At least as many as in the U.S. Army’s parade last year!

Video: https://xcancel.com/alextaylor.../status/2071116359019188277

Imagine if Republicans had even half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, or the Epstein survivors.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online

https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026

https://blog.lopp.net/call-to-action-stop-the-fcc-kyc-regime/

Stop thinking that the Fediverse needs to compete with corporate owned social media.

It doesn't.

Mastodon isn't in competition with X or Threads. PeerTube isn't in competition with YouTube. PixelFed is not in competition with Instagram. Friendica is not in competition with Facebook.

The Fediverse serves a different function then all of the billionaire funded social medias. The Fedi isn't meant to create a revenue flow for investors. It isn't meant to turn you into a product where your privacy is stripped from you.

The Fediverse is meant to give the USER control. It's meant to protect the disenfranchised. Give power to the people. Be safe from profit exploitation.

The Fediverse and corporate social media couldn't be more different. Trying to put them in competition is like trying to compare a toilet to a flower. Sure you can shit and piss on a flower, but the toilet will always stink and the flower will continue to grow.

LLM advocates still don’t seem to be able to comprehend that ordering the machine not to ‘make stuff up’ doesn’t help. It doesn’t know when it’s making stuff up, and it couldn’t change that even if you told it to. (In fact it’s always just making stuff up, and is only ever true by chance.)

Part of why I’m so negative about them is that their advocates simply do not understand how they work and do not seem to want to.

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116653425489923041

https://thebestworstcase.substack.com/p/dont-subscribe-so-casually

Martha Stewart served prison time for doing exactly the thing Vance admits Trump is doing here on camera. It's called Conspiracy to Commit Insider Trading. They think we're stupid.

The party of fiscal responsibility wants you to ignore the President spending billions of your taxdollars on entertainment and criminals and be outraged over the NYC Mayor spending personal funds on nosebleed seats. #Hypocrisy

#ai #AIDataCenter #datacenter #datacenters #ceo #ceos #greed #water #watershortage #NoBillionaires #BillionairesShouldNotExist #latestagecapitalism #endstagecapitalism #ecology #environment #pollution #HellPlanet #extinction #darkfuture