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Today we find an anti- #MAGA #protest in...

#JaredKushner and #IvankaTrump, with assist from Donald #Trump and Albanian Prime Minister #EdiRama, want to build a resort on a nature preserve

Just a little #nepotism and #cronyism! It's not fair! (/s)

https://apnews.com/article/albania-kushner-trump-development-protest-tourism-sazan-8d7d0e216c28d23fe1b2e51cbb05b926

#resist

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RE: https://disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/116744843684193974

🚨 Reminder for USA folks 🚨

Have you submitted a public comment on the new OMB rule? The deadline is Saturday, July 13.

This new rule could impact any research study, not just ME/CFS research!

Solve ME has instructions and a template to make writing a public comment easier, link in quoted post.

There's also a tool to help you call & email Congress.

#USpol #Science #Research #StandUpforScience #OMB #Resist

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Not gonna lie, reading this passage from @pluralistic’s book #TheInternetCon on a jailbroken #Kindle (running #KOreader!) felt like a deliciously affirming act of resistance 💁🏻‍♀️

#KindleJailbreak #resist #BigTech #Calibre #SimpleUI

A photo of a hand holding a Kindle on a page that reads: “… sells you a player gets to decide who can make the things it will play and take a cut of every one of those things.

A quarter-century later, that racket has gone viral. Amazon's Audible claims the right to decide who can make an audiobook player that can use the books it sells you, and Amazon's Kindle devices will only run software that is authorized by Amazon. Smart thermostats, smart speakers and smart toys all leave…”

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A while back someone posted about donating air miles to help transport people back home after they've been taken far away by ICE and dumped off on the street.

I didn't get around to it and and now I've lost that information. Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

#ICE #Minnesota #Resist

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@remindme 2026-11-01

In his final days in office, Trump is going to order a flurry of pointless and hurtful executive orders and unnecessarily fire a bunch of people in the government based purely out of spite and sadism - just because he can.

His intent is to hold power until he dies, and if can't then he is going to burn as much of it down as he can, out of spite.

The US is f**** unless Dems massively win the midterms.

Vote in person so there is no question.

#USPol #Vote #Resist #NoKings

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The amazing folks at @yunohost are running a fundraising campaign to cover their operating costs for 2026.

I personally make a monthly recurring donation to them but wish I could give more 🥲

If you use their services and you can afford it, please consider donating to their project. Every Euro / Dollar / Yen counts:

🔗 : https://yunohost.org/donate.en.html

#NotAllHeroesWearCapes #SelfHosting #empowerment #resist #YunoHost

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Good morning Fedi friends,

I have been feeling a rising anxiety over the state of the open web and the fediverse - after seeing efforts by politicians all over the world (in Europe too!) to introduce age verification laws for social media.

My way of coping?

Teaching people how to self-host their own Fediverse profile (using the superb #GoToSocial) via #YunoHost.

Chapter 1 in this series is available here:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up/

#resist #blog #ActivityPub #selfhosting

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The scariest thing about new #AgeVerification laws being introduced in Europe (France, I was expecting more from you) is to see the positive reactions of my family members, who have fallen hook, line and sinker for the arguments discussed in the media. "It's to protect the children!" No it isn't.

I'm sending this superb article by the @eff to all of them:
🔗: https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification

Now is the time to #resist and speak up and educate those around us ✊ #privacy

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Be a part of something really crucial!

By any means we must stand against these Acts and Bills.

They are huge alarming, and outright freedom-crushing bills, laid in front of our plain sight. These bills will do more harm than good while evading your privacy and fundamental rights.

Fight for the cause, it will take only 5 minutes:
https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-vote-tomorrow-four-internet-bills-one-wrong-direction

#privacymatters #privacyfirst #democracy #freedomofthenet #News #resist #journalism #righttoprivacy

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[VIDEO] Vibe Coding My News Feed: Reclaiming Attention from Tech Oligarchs

https://wfryer.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-my-news-feed-reclaiming

Also on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILMhzwZGrcI

From today’s “Civics of Technology 2026” conference. Theme: “Against Tech Hype!”

All session resources (including links recommended by participants in the Zoom chat) are on:
https://wiki.wesfryer.com/Home/your-feeds-your-algorithms

#AI #ethics #vibecoding #vibecode #ReclaimNews #edtech #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #resist #ResistAndHeal

This educational graphic features the title "YOUR FEEDS, YOUR ALGORITHMS" framed by a colorful network icon on the top left and a yellow robot icon on the top right. On the left side, a white flyer titled "RESIST AND HEAL" details a grassroots campaign aimed at building community, sharing trusted voices, healing personally, and resisting cooperatively against techno-fascism. The right side displays a prominent block quote defining techno-fascism as an authoritarian system where technological elites and corporate leaders consolidate power by merging state authority with technological infrastructure to enforce control and undermine democratic norms. The bottom footer includes website URL references to ai.wesfryer.com, resistandheal.com, and wfryer.me/feeds.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/117338327357225931

"I think that's the answer—the response, if not the solution—to all this anti-human momentum. Find people who haven't been bought, who do something that's meaningful to you or helpful for you, and help them do that." - @JuliusGoat

#creativity #humanity #resist

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A basketball coach with a roster, a front office, and a job to protect walked into the loudest night of the WNBA's season wearing four words: Trans Kids Belong.

Then she stood in a hallway and told reporters flat that the innuendo about trans women being predators is simply not what is happening. She named the framing itself as the problem.

#TransRights #TransKids #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Pride #WNBA #Solidarity #Community #Journalism #Resist
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This IS the US #invasion, folks, and it is time we call it what it is.

It looks like a #referendum about whether #Albertans want to 'stay in Canada.' But it is actually a Test to see if #Canada will withstand the massively funded propaganda machine that the United States is blasting at #Alberta as a Hail Mary to crack our democracy and steal our oil while their inflation is soaring, bolstered by Russia which used the same tactics on Crimea and the Donbas, Brexit, and the 2016 US election, among many others.

End this madness. A vote to #leave is a vote to stroll directly into the lion's mouth and to weaken one of the world's great and now-leading voices in the still democratic West against the well funded and encroaching forces of autocracy and oligarchy. As much as we all know there are frustrations, things to improve, and better ways to be a country, this foreign power will see to it that none of us get that chance. And they will not lay off their forces of #misinformation and #propaganda until Canadians give them the boot.

No ground based invasion of Canada can be effective, and they know it. They have to 'crack' us first, by invading our airwaves and electronic media with their poison. It worked for Russia after they invaded Crimea then bombarded the Donbas with propaganda well in advance of the tanks. The US and its illiberal allies are hoping with the tarriffs and all the negative ads on Facebook that all they have to do is sit back and wait for us to shoot ourselves in the face. It is a well laid plan.

Fellow #Canadians, my dear neighbours in #Alberta, do not be fooled by the techniques that have tumbled Western democracies around the world, using #Big :Tech infrastructures to direct targeted messaging and change minds. They stole your voter list precisely so that they can target your neighbours with floods of 'content' paid for by those who would topple our country, take your inheritance and your children's hope of prosperity and safety with them to further engorge their pockets. This is Cambridge Analytica on steroids, the preface to the invasion.

It's not just a #vote to #stay--- it's a vote to #RESIST!