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This seems like a pretty good rundown on Flock cameras. Also, I like his style.
https://youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ
Edit: oh hey, he's on Mastodon: @…

This is what "elite fracture" looks like. Like I said, I don't expect that Trump will make it to the end of the year.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5418488-july-2025-is-when-the-trump-era-started-to-end/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Casual Hex:
🎵 The System
#CasualHex
https://casualhex.bandcamp.com/track/the-system
https://open.spotify.com/track/2KdlvzoqHRkS2yRFgeYHB3

How the fuck did Trump end up in the Netherlands without being arrested and brought to the ICC?

Hex And Muse
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Apologies for the rant about religion, just, I'm never going to not be mad and disappointed in the US and the foolish things people expected me to believe.

As I'm learning Dutch, I'm reminded that the idea that there are people who believe that the bible is to be taken literally. The idea that a several hundred year old translation of a collection of texts in multiple languages, that were themselves translated multiple times between languages, before the whole thing was translated to Latin, then being translated to English, could somehow perfectly reflect the original text... Yeah, it's only possible to believe that if you have no idea how languages work and have never learned another language.
Like, just from linguistic drift alone if the bible were written in King James English you're losing *so* much context. But Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek translated to Latin, then to English, then to English again?
There are so many things that erg can't be translated, even as a beginner. Dutch and English are two of the closest languages that exist, they're both Germanic languages and they're the closest to each other (other than Friesian). You can't really be much closer, and yet, there are so many things you can't mutually represent. Hebrew and Latin, Aramaic and Latin, Latin and English, Greek and English, these aren't even the same families at all... They're extremely distant. There's absolutely no way to represent concepts from one to another without another book's worth of explanation.
And that ignores all the cultural context, which is mostly lost and a library and decade of education to get the stuff that we *do* know.
Only monolingual Americans could come up with an idea so incredibly asinine.

For anyone outside the US "libertarian" in the US means "fash with a gas station katana." For anyone inside the US, "libertarian" means anarchist (and only actual anarchist, not oxymoronic fantasy politics like "ancap" or "anarcho monarchist" or whatever).

Gonna start calling myself a "classical libertarian" because I feel like it's time to take some appropriated shit back.

A whole bunch of hex grid tessellation options (incl. more complex & colorful ones) for #TilingTuesday in this old thread...
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11249834821340570…

Sometimes you need to know the exact color used in a picture, or you might want to make a pallet from a foto. Check out {eyedroppeR} by @…: https://gradientdescending…

Select colours from an image in R with {eyedroppeR} - Dan Oehm | Gradient Descending
Click on an image to extract the hex code of the selected pixel and return it all within R

Listening to part 4, Beer brings up an interesting point. Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety proposes that, for all humans, there exists a maximum complexity that can be understood.
Beer suggests that we may not even be able to understand our own modern lives (this is from 1977). I wonder if we might think of conspiracy theories as a mechanism to decrease variety within models that have internal contradictions.

Everybody is wondering if some ICE agents are actually just bounty hunters, and that's possible but not super likely. What's much more likely is that a good chunk of the agents deployed today are the American equivalent of Wagner, which is currently named "Tripple Canopy" but you probably know as "Blackwater."
It's reasonably likely that the mercenaries who were grabbing people off the streets in Portland in 2020 are back at it for round 2. After all, this is just another opportunity for Trump to dump money in Erik Prince's pocket and wouldn't it be good for Trump to have a man on his side who happens to own a private army?
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/inside-federal-protective-service-homeland-securitys-domestic-police

Now that I'm back, I'm gonna follow up with a few worthwhile things. Since I'm not from the Army, I checked in with my dad to make sure I wasn't reading too much into things. His response was..
"Yeah, this is one of the biggest protests i've ever seen by the military"
That seems pretty consistent with @KnittingCultLady's YouTube take:
https://youtu.be/UDJ0INvxLLI
There was a whole vets protest. Other mil folks have echoed similar things. Yeah, I'm pretty confident in my take.

Every time the leopards eat the members of the leopard party...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Casual Hex:
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While it's not uncommon for people to know that the political terms of "left" and "right" come from the French Revolution, fewer people realize that using "fancy pants" as a derogatory term also comes from it.
@… #MediumQualityFacts

Looking for pre-built, because I have young kids and no longer have time to solder.

#DearLazyweb: I'm trying to avoid buying anything from the US. What #meshtastic options are available from non-US companies?
Edit: thank you @…, for the answer of "basically all of them." :)

The justification that Trump used to claim (illegally) federalize the California National Guard and deploy the marines is from 10 U.S. Code § 252:
> Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
Specifically he's called out the "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States."
Trump cannot legally hold office because of his participation in an insurrection. Trump should have been impeached and removed on day 1 of his first administration based on the Emoluments clause. Trump colluded with Russia to manipulate the election, so even his swearing in was a failure of the US government to "enforce the laws of the United States." The supreme court justices he appointed explictly undermined and continue to "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States," as with all of his appointees. The troops he has federalized remain deployed, even after being declared illegal.
When, then, do we call the entire time since January 20th, 2017 to now an insurrection and his government an illegal assembly? Who will order them to "disperse?"
#NoKingsDay

"We've been here before" and "this is terrifying and new territory."

Oh right, his solution is "let them eat bullets."

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

Stolen from a chat...

Needs more sandwich...
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dc-2673882863/

I'm not saying any new shit:
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail, MLK

The justification that Trump used to claim (illegally) federalize the California National Guard and deploy the marines is from 10 U.S. Code § 252:
> Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
Specifically he's called out the "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States."
Trump cannot legally hold office because of his participation in an insurrection. Trump should have been impeached and removed on day 1 of his first administration based on the Emoluments clause. Trump colluded with Russia to manipulate the election, so even his swearing in was a failure of the US government to "enforce the laws of the United States." The supreme court justices he appointed explictly undermined and continue to "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States," as with all of his appointees. The troops he has federalized remain deployed, even after being declared illegal.
When, then, do we call the entire time since January 20th, 2017 to now an insurrection and his government an illegal assembly? Who will order them to "disperse?"
#NoKingsDay

So #Trump shut down trade with the rest of the world, then deported or otherwise forced out almost all of the people who harvest things grown in the US, and I'm just wondering if anyone else is trying to figure out where the food is going to come from.
#USPol

If you save someone from having their face eaten by a leopard, you have their ear and the beliefs that lead you to save them suddenly have weight. If you abandon them, you have nothing at best and an enemy at worst.
It doesn't matter if they voted to release the leopards or were simply caught by them, the two possible outcomes are the same.
Anarchists build systems to save people. That will always be our advantage. We should use it.

As Trump's tariffs cut off the US from imports and as he deports the core of the US labor force, I think about the fact that tariffs and other import taxes were a major part of the lead up to the Revolutionary War. It's no coincidence that a bunch of the Founding Fathers were smugglers.
The logistics of the resistance and the logistics of the population were intertwined, meaning that it was not always possible to attack resistance logistics without alienating the population.
All this is worth keeping in mind right now.
#USPol

Oh, how about some free music for your #AmazonPrimeDay
https://youtu.be/dQ0_qLsev5o

All I'm saying is, if you have a gun you should have a passing understanding of ballistics.

Apropos of nothing, AR-15s fire little bullets that can be thrown around by the wind. They're basically high velocity 22s, which makes them garbage for accuracy at range. Snipers use big heavy ammo like 30.06, which are incredibly common for hunting.
To bring down a big animal like a deer, you use a big round and aim at the center of mass.

A comrade passed on this request for support DFW anti ICE protesters. A cop was shot so eeryone the police could grab are getting the book thrown at them.
https://www.givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors

Someone, at some point, recommended it to me and I wrote it in my notes. I have no idea who, but whomever it was, thanks!

#FuckCars as usual. Like Rage Against the Machine songs, social critiques should become less relevant not more relevant over time. This one from 1973 is far more relevant now than ever.
Cars are fundamentally reactionary, both in their purpose and in their utility to the dominant class.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-08-13/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/

I'm absolutely sick of wasting tons of time doing something that should be incredibly easy, just because some fucking ghoul wants another yacht.

Oh hey, relevant
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/community-preparedness-basics-with-live-like-288156408/

There was once a machine that told you "you want this" and "this is good." It said, "there can be no better system and it's foolish to try to build one." That machine has long since failed to function. Now you choke on fumes as it is consumed by the wild flames of an abandoned cause.
That machine could not possibly work anymore because the evidence of it's falsehood has become too overwhelming.
No, only abject terror now can keep you from plotting your escape, from creating an alternative. No, the illusion has long since broken. All that's left now is triggering fight, flight, freeze as hard as possible. Most will be paralyzed, and those who fight can be used as an excuse to escalate the terror.
These are the final stages of a dying sun, expanding and consuming it's children before the final supernova.
There is no longer a stable system, no longer a system with a future. All that remains is the spectacle that hopes to distract you long enough that you too can be consumed, that it may sustain itself a few moments longer.

Cars are the absolute enemy.

Considering the current balance of the universe, it's unclear if this is a bad thing or not.

I just plugged in a USB A blind and only had to rotate it once. I'm worried I may have upset the balance of the universe.

The liberal obsession with optics serves the right and persuades no one. There is literally an active ethnic cleansing happening in the US right now, and the only thing that matters is making that as hard as possible to carry out.
Anarchists destroying intelligence assets saves lives. Every escooter thrown at a cop car is one less escort for a goon too afraid to kidnap random brown people without being flanked by a branch full of bad apples. Spray paint is not violence. Vandalism is not violence. Community self defense in all forms is legitimate.
Make no mistake, these raids are about changing demographics. Demographic trends have been shifting blue for a long time, and the right has, for a long time, been blaming "white replacement." Conspiracy theory aside, Democrats have also been relying on the growth of black and brown voters as a block. The nuances of whiteness as an identity are lost on the current administration and their supporters. They see that "white people will be a minority by 2050" and equate that with the "end of Western Civilization."
The only way to "save Western Civilization" is to change those demographics. Forced birth and forced removal are two sides of the same white nationalist objective. Of course they can't have due process, because they need to be able to kidnap anyone who they see as a threat to their demographic future.
They don't care about optics. The plan is to murder away any threat and flood everyone else with propaganda. There is no mythical middle. There's no one unconvinced. They know this, but they win when democrats buy that myth and save the police the work of policing the protests.
If your protest is 90% "peaceful," they'll take pictures of the 10% that isn't. If it's 99% peaceful, they'll shoot rubber bullets and teargas until someone throws a brick and take 100 pictures from a dozen angles. If its 100% "peaceful" and no one can be provoked, they'll generate pictures with AI or photoshop like they did during the George Floyd uprising and the pictures from the CHOP/CHAZ. Do you have literally no memory?
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movenent #resistance #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOfAction