I feel absolutely terrible and miserable, having to fight back just giving up completely.

I do need more support but having to ask as often as I've had to is soul-draining, because I know these conditions has working peoples barely meeting their own survival needs (and even 'barely' is a better position than most).

If you are able to help, thank you.

https://ko-fi.com/hardworkingnet/goal?g=28

#boostforhelp #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #MutualAidSavesLives @mutualaidspace

Shame that Verizon HQ is located in NY - makes it harder to joke about throwing bricks through their windows

The good news is I have been putting in ten hour writing days, and this weekend or Monday is a realistic publishing date. Upon publishing, all backers will receive their eBooks.

The bad news is I'm going to have to tell my landlord that I'm late paying rent yet again. I got to show her that I will be doing a book Kickstarter ASAP after this current campaign is fulfilled.

Just a few days left to late pledge.

Please share! 🎉

#NoAI

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai

Trans women are important pioneers in tech. Danielle Berry, Lynn Conway, Sophie Wilson...

Louis is showing his true fascism adjacent colours here. He was also an antimasker (for Covid) back when ignoring the current and ongoing Covid pandemic wasn't popular!

These things go together. Transphobia. Spreading Covid. Shitting on the women who built a lot of crucial tech...

(Start wearing a respirator mask now if you stopped. #Covid is everywhere and causes brain damage.)

https://youtu.be/tupzAEeMS_8

Oh fab. Verizon AND Frontier down, at least for a while. Vzw back up but super fun coincidental failure, leaving us with not even the ability to make an emergency call.

Landlines used to be backed up by generators, mandated by legislation. Cell towers and ISP infrastructure? Nope. Not emergency resilient. I wondered for a moment if Vzw got breached or the US got attacked or something lol. You never know.

Another frontier outage, oh joy. Since.... fucking verizon bought them the service has been interrupted without warning a dozen times. Service center online checks your location and says "no outages detected!", meanwhile the fiber port is down down. Probably maintenance that they just dont feel the need to notify about anymore.

When fascist republican governments attack liberal democrats and say things like "we are going to make it illegal to run as a democrat in texas" or "we will crush the democrats", this is just like when the catcher makes hand signs to the pitcher.

I'm shocked! (Not at all, actually.)

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @davidgerard

#NoAI

https://youtu.be/dTbb7Ub43F0

🖋 "Hello! I also have original songs that I perform in hospitals and on the front lines. If you like them, please publish them." Goodnight everyone! ⚡️ Two Majors

#Victory81 On October 13, 1944, #Riga — the capital of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic — was liberated by from #Nazi occupation. Following a rapid advance towards the city and fierce combat on the outskirts of Riga, units of the Red Army’s 2nd and 3rd #Baltic Fronts — commanded by Generals Andrey Yeremenko and Ivan Maslennikov, respectively, victoriously entered Riga .

https://may9.ru/history/europe-liberation/1286/

Content for Information Warfare The adversary continues to fill positions within units dedicated to media and propaganda campaigns. This year alone, at least 36 such job openings have been advertised. Military personnel tasked with managing social media are becoming an integral part of the Ukrainian army. Блокнот пропагандиста ⚡️ Two Majors

"Everyday life of a soldier." Frontline cats! ⚡️ Two Majors

The Deputy Director of Ukrainian "Kyivvodokanal," Serhiy Horkutsenko, tells what will need to be done. According to him, the water supply system is completely dependent on electricity: when there are power outages, the pumps stop working, and the water disappears from the taps. The biggest threat is during the winter: if blackouts last for 20 hours a day at below-freezing temperatures, the internal plumbing networks will inevitably freeze, leading to a major collapse.

RE: https://dragonchat.org/@lehunoodle/117425218134284661

If you believe being against LLMs (an absolutely correct position) is correct... WTF are you hiding your statement?

This <click to hide, click to reveal> "insert something innocuous here" thing on Mastodon really grinds my gears.

Save that hidden message shit for trigger warning/trauma trigger stuff.

❗️ Sobyanin: From 8:30 PM on October 12th to 7:00 AM on October 13th, 417 drones were heading towards the #Moscow region. The majority were neutralized by air defense systems at a distance. 65 drones were destroyed as they approached Moscow. ⚡️ Two Majors

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @davidgerard

#NoAI

https://youtu.be/SwZ6_Q2lnsc

@SalemsLot @randahl ah, I see. This thread is a neoliberal thing, where anyone who dares argue against this current US proxy war initiative is piled on and "suggested for blocking". Do you guys have a site yet, like bot Sentinel dot Com or something? Or iust email chain letters?

Add me to bot Sentinel, yeah, you fucking clowns. You cant argue this subject because its unarguable, so you harass people who discuss it. Fuck off. Blocked.

Criminal International Sinaloa cartel fighters on someone else's war No matter how much Mexican ministers bury their heads in the sand , you can't hide an awl in a sack. While authorities in Mexico City tell with serious faces that their citizens don't serve in the #AFU ranks, and blame everything exclusively on Colombians

https://qr.nspk.ru/BS1A0068ID10D33B9IBAQRQ4M9T0NIFN?type=01&amp;bank=100000000008&amp;crc=36CB

#Kiev. Bridges Trains on one branch of the metro and buses are temporarily not running across the Southern Bridge. It is not yet clear what happened, but there are videos showing a truck on fire. ⚡️ Two Majors

@johnzajac Again, extensive research from a Princeton professor and an NWU professor that concludes that non-wealthy Americans have no influence on politics through "voting."

Quite literally, the only thing that works, especially since your oligarchy has become fascism, is to work *outside* of the system, to organize revolution.

Every single "vote" is harmful.

https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc