Eldritch

Yes, first question I was going to ask was, if Jesus was his co-pilot? Because I don’t think he’s been certified.

Almost every AM radio station should have been shut down long ago.

I’m sure the further will tell us later today. Probably something to do with someone waking up and becoming woke. With the immediate need to cancel another late night host as a result.

100 years passed.

I don’t know if it is, it absolutely should be. But I don’t know if it is. Republicans and Democrats have so weakened labor power. And I’m sure the owners will try to point out something in the contract that justifies them doing this no matter how bullshit it is.

If peaceful change is possible, then yes, protest should be peaceful. But when peaceful change becomes impossible, violence becomes necessary.

They’re not interested in getting the message. The dog whistles went out a long time ago and there’s no calling them back.

The group behind it or others similar. When you are on a small self hosted instance. You are at the mercy of a hobby admins time and skill. Which is no dig at them. Sometimes it just becomes too much.

I have had a number of Mastodon accounts since 2017 with the groups Mastodon servers. They run themselves as a serious organization. Providing services of a quality absolutely worth paying for. All with donations.

Hell no. Their magic underwear keeps that from happening.

Yes, 100% this. I use both of them regularly. A lot of new releases are on band camp and not even on discogs anymore. But combined with music brains Picard, they are awesome.

Sadly, there is an ever-ending shit-shoot of potential other candidates to follow. They won’t have to capture his audience or be as “charismatic” as he is. As things fall apart and degrade. They will just crack down as authoritarians do. On innocent people of every stripe.

Yep. The problem with these people is less whom they are. And more how they act. If we act like them. Then we are also the problem.

The russian government has a long history of doing it. So it’s certainly not a suggestion out of left field.

A combination. The hardware was woefully out of date before it launched. But for every one of us that would tolerate buggy software to tinker with it. There are thousands that can’t or won’t. Thousands NEEDED to support a project like this.

Mobile/touch interfaces under general *nix right now are 10 to 15 years behind. KDE touch is good generally. I hear decent things about GNOME too. But not to the point of early android or iOS. It will get there but there’s still a lot of pain ahead.

What I’d really like beyond the software to make use of it. Is a small compact interface for network and interaction. That you could just drop and swap compute modules in. A CM5 is still underpowered. But if it was just a drop in replacement. Where you could change out the SOC or use the SOC in a new interface package i’d be set.

And even there. There’s no guarantee. Going to Europe where fascists in Russia, Hungary, etc loom? Maybe you’ll be safe a little longer somewhere on the Asian continent with the currently slower rolling fascist forces there. But it’s only temporary. You can’t ultimately escape.

The question is. Where well the breaking point be for most people. What event will cause the public to drag these fuckers from their homes and hold them responsible. Because that’s what it’s going to take. For them to remember that they rely on us. Not only for their wealth. But continued existence. Only when that fear has been driven into them, will things even start to get better.

And it might surprise us. It may just be a red state that does it. One of these Republican sycophants getting dragged from a town hall. Assaulted by a whole community for their rolls in making things worse for everyone. Police are going to have a hard time locking up a whole town. And these elected ghouls that love to ignore their constituents will reel in terror. To be clear, violence isn’t the answer. Fear is. The fear of knowing we far outnumber them. That they could be subject to violent accountability at any moment. Dragged from their safe beds even.

Sometimes there’s family or other things you just can’t take with you. Support structures you might not have somewhere else. Friends and neighbors. Mutual aid.

There can be circumstances that override that. But honestly, the more that flee. The easier it is to get what the fascists want. And at best you’re only helping yourself short term. Because no matter where you go. They will come for you if they can.