@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
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-17 03:54:13
Thirty-six horses were killed in a barn fire in North Carolina on Sunday afternoon.
The blaze broke out around 12:45 p.m. at the Callicutt Stables on Highway 220 Alternate in Randolph County, multiple fire departments said.
By the time firefighters got to the stable, the 15,000-square-foot barn was already engulfed in flames.
Several fire departments were called in to battle the blaze.
Crews were at the stable for five hours on Sunday.
Despite firefighters’ effor…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-16 19:33:15
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Flying Lotus:
🎵 Pink Dream
#FlyingLotus
https://flyinglotus.bandcamp.com/track/pink-dream
https://open.spotify.com/track/3CsaL2k1lLWC1Bz8k2LHJ9
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-04-17 17:00:41
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-17 16:50:44
Vurt, a mobile-first vertical streaming platform designed for indie filmmakers to upload their micro series or feature films, launches with 100 episodes (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/vurt-mobile-first-v…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-04-16 17:58:26
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Ik vraag me trouwens af of een overheid er bij buitenlandse bestedingen ook rekening mee houdt dat hetzelfde bedrag hier of daar besteden netto eem groot verschil maakt.
Van binnenlandse bestedingen komt een flink deel weer terug in belastingen en premies die werkgever en werknemers betalen.
Voor buitenlandse bestedingen geldt een kleine tot grote mate van: 'weg=weg'.
#DigitaleSoevereiniteit #DigiD
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-17 17:10:49
SEC filing: Liftoff withdraws its IPO filing without specifying a reason, less than two weeks after the mobile ad platform postponed plans to price its IPO (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-16 15:49:53
In his first term, Trump appointed a record-setting 54 federal appellate judges.
Circuit judges are nominated by presidents and, if confirmed by the Senate, serve lifetime appointments.
This analysis provides an early look at how those appointments will likely reverberate nationwide in terms of dismantling or failing to uphold environmental laws and policy, legal scholars said.
“Long term, it’s going to set a lot of precedent that pushes the law away from environmental pr…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-17 10:19:54
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors:
🎵 When Things Come Falling
#AllNaturalLemonandLimeFlavors
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https://open.spotify.com/track/0Y5l77SGOg6aGtoNRPng4Y
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-17 21:51:24
Trump administration deepens quest to stamp out the events of Jan. 6
Trump’s effort to reframe what happened on Jan. 6 appears, in many ways, to be an attempt to shape public perceptions.
The details of what happened that day remain accessible and documented in an expansive universe of videos, accounts and court filings.
The day he was inaugurated last year, Trump pardoned most Jan. 6 defendants, some of whom are now seeking elected office.
The president also commu…
