@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-26 02:39:46
Even before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20,
progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans,
often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.”
But too few people, even on the left side of the electorate, listened.
After all, those warnings have been sounded for months if not years.
“Trump is following, point for point, the playbook of …
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-02-23 13:06:21
Italy may be the first EU country to impose requirements on private charging points in its transposition of the EU REDIII into national law: newly installed private charging points must be able to communicate with smart meters from June 30 onwards.
https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?u…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-19 15:09:47
Broncos' AFC title game odds tumble with Nix hurt https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47660476/broncos-afc-title-game-odds-tumble-following-bo-nix-injury
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-01-15 22:39:14
Des nouvelles concernant l’effondrement de l'échafaudage Š #PrillyMalley. Les parallèles avec Crans-Montana sont choquants: selon le rapport des experts, aucune règle n’était respectée, et la question n'était pas de savoir «si» cela arriverait, mais «quand».
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-17 05:42:50
Ex-Raiders QB Rich Gannon Drops True Feelings on Fernando Mendoza https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/rich-gannon-true-feelings-fernando-mendoza/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-21 03:53:59
Lindsey Halligan out as U.S. attorney following pressure from judges
Lindsey Halligan,
a Trump administration lawyer who was named head of a key U.S. attorney’s office in Virginia last year
with instructions to seek criminal charges against Donald Trump’s perceived political adversaries,
left her post at the Justice Department on Tuesday.
Halligan’s departure followed a pair of extraordinary moves by two federal judges
who issued court orders hours earlie…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-16 10:22:41
On the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creature-ptss-5-day-1
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-09 10:01:01
How Hollywood's once-reliable bets are floundering, as stars matter less, auteur filmmakers become selling points, and sequels lose their grip on the box office (David Sims/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/03/…
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-02-24 02:01:13
Boice Thompson Institute in Falling Snow
#photo #photography #buildings #winter
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-15 01:56:28
"We don’t really think about our future – we remember it",
said Dr Hal Hershfield, who studies how humans think about time and how that influences our emotions and behaviors.
When we daydream or envision ourselves at a later point, we essentially create a memory.
We then use these memories to construct our ideas about the future.
This process is called “episodic future thinking”;
it supports our decision-making, emotional regulation and ability to p…