not claiming any special insight, just that the rigged fuckedness of our world happened to overlap significantly with my stupid illusions and fantasies at the time. a combination of dumb cultural absorption, resentment, & cringe romanticism.

when i was young i felt early that if success or money came my way it would be due to luck or advantage, not hard work. other friends who were artists expressed frustrations that seemed confusing to me. now i get that they were trying to build careers. which was smarter than me, but maybe accidentally less perceptive.

Near my body water comes flowing

(Translated by Hiroaki Sato)

Photo Journalist Pete Souza was suspended from X (#Twitter) today for posting a photograph of former President Trump that was published by the Associated Press. The photograph showed Trump's seemingly undamaged ear.

This man has twice worked in the White House as the official photographers of both Ronald Reagan and Barrack Obama. He is a respected professional photojournalist.

Edit: fix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Souza

#politics #uspol #journalism #Press #photojournalism #Trump #elonmusk

#GeorgeTakei #media #fascism

My dad and his family were among them as well.

My little goblin. #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfInfoSec #Nibbler #clingasaur #SideQuest #ZoomIn

Dr. Strange is a Perky Goth.

https://jacobin.com/2020/10/david-harvey-the-anti-capitalist-chronicles-socialism-freedom

Marx also pointed out that freedom is a double-edged sword. Laborers in a capitalist society, he says, are free in a double sense. They can freely offer their labor power to whomsoever they want in the labor market. They can offer it on whatever conditions of contract they can freely negotiate.

But they are at the same time un-free, because they have been “freed” from any control over or access to the means of production. They have, therefore, to surrender their labor power to the capitalist in order to live.

#doublefreedom #freedom #marx #marxism #davidharvey

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#frog

@taylorlorenz i feel like it marks me as a certain type of stodgy crank that the FOSS / federated / self-hosted nature of fediverse software is enough to make me root for it to succeed these other models, even when some of them seem basically pretty fun.

Pretty neat! If you're on mastodon.social (or another server running the latest in-development version of Mastodon), you can go to the Explore page eg. https://mastodon.social/explore/links and view posts that discuss trending news articles (see the "X posts" below the headline link).

via https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112729592397936855

#mastodon #SocialMedia #news #design #UXUI

maybe I’m being unnecessarily pessimistic, but this framing seems like cope! https://www.rawstory.com/trump-project-2025-2668691343/

@stefan @hashraydamon eh, idk, like you said: this is just an auto-search for the urls being posted frequently. it doesn’t seem significantly different than the list of current hashtags. maybe i’m missing something but it doesn’t rly get my hackles up as far as algorithmic manipulation.

The Italian Renaissance style former Wylie Department Store on Buchanan Street in Glasgow. Built in 1889, it was designed by John Hutchison, with details drawn by his assistants Andrew Black and Charles Rennie MacKintosh. MacKintosh may have been responsible for some of the ornate internal plaster column capitals on the ground and first floors. These were still present until at least 2012, and may still be in place.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #charlesrenniemackintosh

thursday 6/20 @ Swan Dive in PDX - Dubais (UK), Dragging an Ox thru Water, West Valley Wolfpack Band, DJs Allison & Molly Wolfe, + visuals by Weird Fiction https://gath.io/CJ25eGDgmieFTGngxoSLO
@CJ25eGDgmieFTGngxoSLO

#pdx #portland #pdxmusic #swandive #dubais #dragginganox #westvalleywolfpackband #allisonwolfe #mollywolfe #weirdfiction

Adobe is facing backlash after the company's updated terms of use allow its machine learning tools to view and use customers' content to develop future Adobe products. https://www.pcmag.com/news/adobe-sparks-backlash-over-ai-terms-that-let-it-access-view-your-content

Trump didn’t cause these people to be fascist bigots. He gave them permission to be open about it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335

Hello everyone. I know that these are tough times for many people. If you derive value from the fediverse and have the means to do so, please consider donating to support your instance. Most instances rely on donations to pay the bills (infosec.exchange and friends cost over $3000/month to host).

Instructions on how to donate are generally available on your instance's "about" page (for example: https://infosec.exchange/about)

Also, I firmly believe that access to the fediverse should not be tied to one's ability to pay, and I think it's even more important for those in difficult situations to maintain the social connections that the fediverse provides, so (at least in my view) donations are welcome, but not required in any way.

And for those people who already donate, my hats off to you. You make the fediverse possible. ​

Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie

#silentSunday