John B

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Yes, that one. Saying things; around the place. On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. He/him.

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What a sentence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Ancient content which I'd somehow missed up to now. Absolutely brilliant, no notes.

What Your Favorite Classic Rock Band Says About Youwww.mcsweeneys.net The Doors: You have been bitten by an animal while trying to get it stoned. The Who: You own a Goldwing with a baby-changing station. Ted Nugent:...

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It worries me a lot that Dems seem to be preparing for this mostly by like "we're gonna have the best possible lawyers to do oral arguments" and not like "here's how we change the locks on the supreme court building"

People are really underestimating the chances of the Calvinball Court ruling the entire election illegitimate on some fake-ass technicality. bsky.app/profile/pauv...

I forgot this one wasn't public knowledge yet. Recommended to/by IT departments for any machine where you can't access the keyboard or don't trust the user to do so

oh my god the fix is "just try rebooting it over and over"? I'm so happy

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Finally have a name for my Jefferson Airplane cover band

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Thinking about how Andre the Giant has been gone a long time and you can't libel the dead, but I've never heard anyone say a single bad word about him. Not one.

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With all the usual 538 caveats, the contrast between what I see in my morning papers (shut up, I’m old, it’s okay for me to get multiple actual newspapers and to have read them before 6 am) and their current forecast is…striking. It’s even: projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-electio...

Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?projects.fivethirtyeight.com 538’s 2024 presidential election forecast model showing Democrat Joe Biden’s and Republican Donald Trump’s chances of winning.

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kid behind me on this flight - his first - after being told soft drinks were free and he could order whatever he wanted insisted he was going to get a coke and a sprite and mix them together. fuck yeah, little man, live the life of kings.

This worked for me!

CrowdStrike identified a content deployment related and reverted those changes. Workaround Steps: Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it. reboot

This worked for me

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It's just incredibly fucked up that one of the two major parties is demanding the largest forced migration in human history -- the sort that historically result in mass death -- yet since Saturday, the arbitrators of civility have told us that to call this what it is would be fomenting violence.

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Chris Gentle

Crowdstrike: our new motto is “can’t hack it if I won’t boot”

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*ring ring* Hello Crowdstrike. It's me, a large corporation with lots of windows machines everywhere. I would like to purchase a subscription for a single point of failure please.

Mobile phone networks across APAC fall over under the weight of office workers texting their IT departments: "yes I've got the Windows/CrowdStrike blue screen issue but I'm happy for you to prioritise frontline services and we can resolve mine Monday"

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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Joshua J. Friedman

Meanwhile, a football vlogger in Italy was woken up at 2 a.m. by a stream of notifications after being misidentified by Twitter geniuses as an antifa Trump assassin

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Arrest them

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... Happening now. We are as doomed as doomed could be.

In a first, Republican majority on a Nevada county commission refuses to certify electionwww.usatoday.com The Washoe County Commission certifies elections in the evenly split Reno area. Republican commissioners just voted against certifying a result.

The US, but also everywhere else

It is so tiring that one of the parties has to try and navigate the difficult work of trying to govern based on objective reality and asking experts what will happen under various scenarios and the other party's entire platform is random 4chan threads stapled together

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)

Lazy question, buying books for a kid who's interested in historical fiction and has requested this one in particular, is Librarian of Auschwitz a good representation or is it Striped Pajamas-y bollocks?

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The point here is that Twitter is run at a huge loss by a weird freak according to his personal whims and - as Miers says elsewhere in the thread - is literally a counterexample of how to successfully monetise internet services. That isn't how Doctorow's thesis of enshittification works.

Good thread; very few sensible responses

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It’s the fascist international 2.0 and it’s public and coming to try to end American democracy. Trump is signaling the axis of transnational fascism is awaiting him and the republicans with open arms. This is such a massive threat it’s really hard to describe.

The parallels between Southgate and Starmer are so painfully obvious that if you'd written "the UK in July 2024" into a film script then the producer would have pitched you directly out of the window

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itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b... One of the big stories of the general elections is the Liberal Democrats storming across Tory England to secure 72 seats. They are suddenly a larger, more coherent party than they ever were during the noughties. The possible prizes this unlocks are large!

It Could Be Said #55 Good Enemies, Better Friendsitcouldbesaid.substack.com British Liberalism and Labourism are prone to bickering, but together, they make for a powerful tag team

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Farage's first speech in Parliament was a sign of how he'll go from here. Taking a break from congratulating the Speaker on his re-election to whinge about John Bercow and Brexit.

This is great fun, I like to think about what the optimists who made this film would make of the wonderful city of nearly 5m people we have now.

City Of Millions, NFSA, Sydney History, 1964 Construction of Modern Sydney, AMP Tower.www.youtube.com City of Millions was a NSW Government film in 1964 used to promote the development and construction of the city of Sydney. The documentary covers a time in S...

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Taking a break from social media. I’ll see you guys in a couple of minutes.