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 @9944ffcd To me it definitely says “post-apocalyptic” more than “fascistic”.

Because the sun is sinking BEHIND the house, yet the end wall facing the viewer is lit by hellish, bloody light. What’s the source of that light if it’s not the sun?

Nationwide Building Society knows, but they’re not ready to tell us. Not yet. 
 Where does the trope of ghosts looking like sheets come from? Are there any records of sightings ... 
 @3fc65e69 Most likely the "sheets" were originally burial shrouds.

Ghosts rattling chains is more challenging to explain, unless it began as a characteristic of one specific ghost, and then spread to others. 
 @0c1a9324 This is one of those “I don't even know where to start unpacking this" stories.

Is it the chatbot girlfriend? That he thought he was a Sith named Darth Chailus? The crossbow? The mask? That he wanted revenge for a century-old massacre committed by British soldiers?

OTOH, if you wrote a one-sentence summary & dropped it into one of the “how wacky the future is" passages in a revised edition of "Accelerando”, your readers wouldn't even blink: "Hah hah, that Stross, what an imagination!” 
 If Doctor Who was real, the Daleks could conquer the USA without firing a shot: all they'd have t... 
 @0c1a9324 The Daleks aren't afraid to say what they want, and I like that in a politician. They don't talk down to the voters, they've got a clear, simple platform that anyone can understand.

I certainly trust them more than that woke "Doctor" with his constantly-changing lineup of underage “companions” & all that “It's bigger on the inside" stuff. What kind of man says that to a young person? Sounds like groomer talk to me. 

And now apparently “he" is a "she"! Disgusting!!! 
 The US is probably just one bad election away from becoming an autocratic dictatorship. Russia and China are already police states with one-party rule. India seems to be leaning hard in that direction. We're looking at the possibility of an imminent future where all the world's major economies are authoritarian states.

Imagine explaining to someone from the 1940s that our last best hopes for heading off planet-wide fascism are Germany and Japan. 
 If the National Emergency Test turned you into a zombie, raise one rotted, skeletal hand, or say “Braaiinzzz” in a hoarse, guttural voice. 
 At some point, the search results in the Apple App Store stopped correlating with the search term... 
 @b8bd0c8f @b92dcc07 Technically,  this is not ‘enshittification’.

It is Enshittification as a Service (EaaS), because Apple (and Amazon, who do it too) are offering your degraded search experience as a service to their paying customers (*)

(*) Yes, you’re a paying customer too, but you can’t pay to have your experience not degraded. Yet. 
 Cybersecurity awareness month fact: One in three people will suffer from acute cybersecurity duri... 
 @f1c6c5c3 Smokey the Router says that only you can prevent cybersecurity. 
 Citizen: I want a pony.

Realist: There may not be enough ponies for everyone.

Socialist: What if we shared ponies?

Communist: Everyone will ride the People's Pony.

Advertiser: Own the new Pony XL today, with no downpayment.

Capitalist: I don't care about anyone else, I'm going to have a pony. 

Elitist: The poor don't deserve to have ponies.

Environmentalist: Who's going to clean up after all these ponies?

Fascist: Kill anyone who tells you that you can't have a pony. 
 Every time a politician or celebrity repeats some bullshit conspiracy theory, 12 randomly-chosen voters should be allowed to smack them in the teeth with a baseball bat.

(in this case, because British politicians are involved, a cricket bat would be acceptable).

https://www.wired.com/story/15-minute-city-conspiracy-uk-politics/ 
 Another day, another @b92dcc07 Kickstarter project.

I should probably just set up direct debit …

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-lost-cause-a-novel-of-climate-and-hope 
 Apparently these are NOT called “Satan’s Penis Peppers”, but my partner still knew what I was talking about when I referred to them as such.

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 For #caturday, this is Patience. Patience has only one eye, but it doesn’t seem to slow her down any. She lives with the world's laziest pitbull, and together they fight crime.

Correction: the above post contains a proof-reading error that was not caught before we went to press. The words "fight crime" should be replaced by “nap". We apologize for the error.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon

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 I don't think this is what they mean by “crossing the rainbow bridge”.

#nyc #FloodWatch #photos #photography #pollution

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 @3b0f5bf0 @0c1a9324 

“Mommy, mommy, what are those two airplanes DOING?”

"Well, sweetie, when a daddy airplane and a mommy airplane love each other very much … and that's where baby airplanes comes from!” 
 This sanderling is letting me know that it is definitely not putting up with any of my bullshit.

#birds #BirdsOfMastodon #photos #photography

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/078/163/401/260/356/original/826247064c717d1c.jpeg 
 I will confess that I did not have “Sylvester Stallone shadow-boxes with the Pope” on my list of probable headlines for 2023.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-66757105 
 @edabe237 @0c1a9324

I just picture Elon forming his own John Lennon cover band & singing:

“All we are saying/Is give Putin a chance …”

Note that Elon's “Don't use my peaceful invention for violence" posture is not even-handed, because it only deprives ONE side of precision navigation. Russia has GLONASS to help target their missiles & drones.

It's a bit like walking into a DV incident, plucking a baseball bat from the hands of the battered victim & going “Stop, stop, that's not what that's for!” 
 Because today is #caturday, take an extra nap. You've earned it.

This shop cat from Cēsis, Latvia, is here to show you how.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #photos #photography #RetroCaturday

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