give ramses and friends your money https://corteximplant.com/@revengeday/116864019930811309

Hey all, I need some help.

Last month we had to replace our home's AC unit here in Minneapolis. Our existing one wouldn't last the season. My housemate has medical issues making the heat a choice between a hotel or the ER -- we've already had close calls. I have savings, but we struggle a lot on my single income.

We'd need $11000 to pay it all off, but anything helps! Thank you!

$2921/$11000

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tess-and-housemate-stay-cool-and-safe

(Edit: Updated amount and link)

#mutualaid

Well, let's see what has changed in a year.

#uspol

If you think loving America and celebrating the 4th of July means being quiet about our racism, and not speaking about the ways that the US could be better?

Then you don't understand Democracy.

And you haven't understood, "What to the Slave, is the 4th of July?"

If you don't know who Baron de Montesquieu, or Édouard René de Laboulaye was, don't you dare try to lecture me about the US Constitution.

If you don't know who Toussaint Louverture was, don't try to talk to me about fighting empire for freedom and democracy.

You don't know what you are talking about.

#rainbows — a thread

Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥

Archipelago mode means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to federate *only* with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers. Communities can link up into an "archipelago" of like-minded "islands" with shared rules, ideal for tight-knit groups, neighbourhoods, assemblies, co-ops, or orgs that want to connect with each other but not necessarily the whole internet.

We also added new admin throughput controls as our latest take on "calm empowerment": simple defaults first, curated overrides next, and full advanced control behind an explicit gesture. In practice, you can keep a busy instance responsive by picking a speed preset, prioritising certain kinds of activity, or fine-tuning each background task queue, no config files or restarts needed.

Also new in 1.0.5:

• Faster search, now powered by Sonic
• Broadcast announcements to everyone on your instance
• Embeddable widgets: put your pinned posts on any website
• PGP-encrypted system emails
• Plus lots of improvements and fixes (federation, polls, media, accessibility, mobile)

Blog post and changelog: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

Looking for alternative video conferencing software ?

some options:

Jitsi
Proton meet
Nextcloud
Signal calls
Visio

Figured I would avoid lawn work until it cools down.

I'm now done with youtube. Every third click is some AI bullshittery or fake drama posing as real. No. Just no.

Y’all remember a ways back when I said 3 major #egg producers were scamming the country, and that #avianflu was not causing the price surges, it was price fixing, cause I can do basic addition?

And industry executives and analysts were saying that there was nothing to see except a supply shock of a disease killing lots of hens. As one industry executive put it at the time, it’s all just “supply disruption, ‘act of God’ type stuff.”

Yeah. It was a #conspiracy to fix prices. Emails between each other writing down the damn conspiracy. They made billions. Guess how much they have to pay in fines? If you guessed less than 1%, you’ve been paying attention to the #kakistocracy.

Eat the rich.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays-the-egg-bandits-made-a

Bringing that #Buffalo energy to the conversation along with the heat, I see...

Background- SSPX runs schools that serve as indoctrination programs for future priests. The whole point of doing this is because recruitment of clergy for the roman catholic church has been down for decades. SSPX was trying to run a numbers game to take over the church. That just got stomped on.

RE: https://ioc.exchange/@flyingsaceur/116851800907823133

As a former cult member of SSPX, I'm really glad this is happening.

On this #CanadaDay I'm struck by how few Americans know their government and the Russians are involved in a psyop in Alberta to incite a separatist movement. The goal: force a populist referendum to leave #Canada and join the #USA.

Albertans are being swayed by glitzy YouTube influencer videos, many of which are #AI generated abroad,, to suggest their lives would be better in the US. You know, Florida mansions, control over immigration, pristine health care, high valued US dollar, and other grass is greener lies. Very #Brexit-esque, Cambridge Analytica playbook.

As the US under this administration seeks to capture and manipulate oil internationally, Hormuz and Venezsudentenland are not enough. They are coming for the Canadian oil fields not with arms, but with algorithmically amplified #disinformation and millions of corrupt dollars to influence an election in their favor. For Russia, cracking Canada means destabilizing yet another Western democracy in the international illiberal project, plus Canada recently signed an agreement to provide drones to the #Ukraine.

How can you help?

I wish I could say call your Congressional Rep, and that might still work in some districts. However, this is digital guerilla warfare, and we still don't have good innoculation against it.

Any information you can get out there on social media --about what it is really like to live in the US (maybe more about how actually likely it is to own a mansion or paying for your health care!), about how disinformation campaigns work, about what happened to democracies that voted to shoot themselves in the face based on peddled lies and are now dealing with the consequences (hello #UK), would help. Please tag Alberta separatism to ensure the message gets out.

And tell your friends. People need to know this is going on.

#elbowsup

Receipts:

https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-separatism-fuelled-by-russian-networks-and-us-influencers/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/co-ordinated-network-of-fake-youtube-channels-pushing-alberta-secession-and-us-annexation-narrative-report-finds/

https://www.cdmrn.ca/slopaganda-the-inauthentic-youtube-network-selling-secession-to-albertans

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/21/Dishonest-Online-Campaign-Support-Alberta-Separatism/

https://disifnowatch.org broke this story with international journalists' help: see: https://disinfowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Alberta-and-Foreign-Interference-Report-Final-052026-web.pdf

Hey, we're just under halfway there, thanks so much for the support this month so far!

This month, by July 1st we need to pay my lawyer $2k. We're not very close to that goal right now.

I also need to catch up on about $1k of bills and survival expenses.

Legal Fund

$456 / $2000

https://www.gofundme.com/f/standing-with-alan-in-his-legal-fight

Survival Funds

$734 / $1000

Paypal / venmo $nullagent
Or via chuffed

https://chuffed.org/project/145522-help-falsely-accused-black-dad-get-back-on-his-feet

#MutualAidRequest #BlackDadsMatter #FamilyCourt #LegalFund

Reminder. It's #SkaDay

OK, that works... Quite impressed with @jlc3dp - zoom in to see the detail!

The PCB with LEDs to go inside is expected tomorrow.

Update: Someone asked me if this image was real, not AI, or proof of concept: FFS, it is a real photograph I took of a real 3D print!

And yes, I am mastodon only now, so bloody well boost 🙂 thanks.

P.S. never expected "bloody well boost" to work. Thanks all.

Video (old): https://youtu.be/WVHiRrihJwM
And making video: https://youtu.be/PWHTEPsODhw

#stargate #openscad #stl

I've tried sweating vertically.

Now, to go sweat horizontally!

the joke isn't mine, but I could not find any SVG on the internet

http://ftp.ol-tele.com/~eloy/stickers/Fish_Linux.svg

Used font is Dutch 801 Bold (Italic), Bitstream's version of Times Ten, which appeared to be close to the original logo but is not an exact match.

So, #Bandcamp has fired most of its engineers. Time to get on the #FediMusic bandwagon.fm and other platforms like @mirlo and @jamcoop or to self host with #faircamp.

https://nham.co.uk/2025/06/how-do-i-connect-with-artists-on-the-fediverse-cheat-sheet/

Give yourself grace when acclimating to the heat. It takes at least two weeks.