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@GoofSchmoofer @Bronzie I’ve been watching and I think quite a lot has already been happening, it’s just not well covered by the news. A lot of big, furious town halls are just organically happening (Rs are scared to turn up). 50501 and Indivisible have organised a lot of stuff. And some of the Tesla Takedowns have been huge.
@Bronzie @GoofSchmoofer I get it, from the UK. We’ve had the same uncanny valley experience with Brexit going on for years and the same incompetence from politicians (who STILL pretend a massive majority voted “no deal” rather than 52% voting “mystery box”). If it’s any consolation, after a really dragged-out leaving process where we didn’t see any effects for years, most people now think it was a terrible idea. Hopefully the swift insanity going on in the US means minds will change quicker.
@stoy @T00l_shed he put so much effort in he grunted
@Zenodyne @SnotFlickerman the clue should probably have been the fact that Musk openly stated that he would, and Trump actually was going to, go to prison if Trump didn’t win the election. Running the country is their way *into* lawbreaking.
@venotic @MicroWave @earphone843 they’re not asking Trump. They’re asking the boards of elections in three specific counties. I agree that petitions always feel pointless but you said nobody was doing anything - somebody is at least trying to do something.
@earphone843 @venotic Might be worth signing this? https://www.change.org/p/demand-a-hand-count-audit-of-pennsylvania-s-2024-presidential-election There’s a group called the election truth alliance who’s looking into any numbers they can get hold of and finding weird stuff. Also Smart Elections.
https://substack.com/@electiontruthalliance
https://electiontruthalliance.org/
https://youtube.com/@electiontruthalliance
https://smartelections.substack.com/
@danc4498 agree! Just interesting to note that someone is trying a new instance. Unclear, as you say, what control they will have.
@danc4498 @Aatube I’m not quite sure how it’s set up, but someone is trying it: https://bsky.app/profile/transrights.northsky.social/post/3lkm5ii4mo22w
@richardisaguy @Tea sometimes they just come free with stuff. We got given two Google ones when my husband bought a Pixel phone. We were going to sell them on but we never got round to it. You can physically turn off the microphone part though (at least it tells you it’s turned off so fingers crossed) so we use the one with a screen as a digital photo frame (and a speaker) and the other one as just a speaker.
@SouthEndSunset @silence7 supposedly Joe Rogan is the most popular here, too. This article claims to have the top 25. I’d say there are a few more lefties higher up in here https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-top-25-podcasts-in-the-uk-for-q4-2024/
@person1 textbooks! And now ebooks and e-learning platforms. Look at this extract as an example of y, or analyse it to find examples of x, or watch this performance of a scene from a play as a good example of z.
@person1 I work in publishing for schools and it is *so* difficult/expensive to publish support for literature or media. Fair use & fair dealing laws can only get you so far. Great Gatsby finally coming out of copyright was a big moment. But the reason it’s come out is of course because it’s not actually recent literature any more.
@person1 imagine if we applied normal copyright to Disney
@Lost_My_Mind maybe it’s because a lot of our McDonald’s are in central locations where a lot of people live and there’s no parking, so it would be pretty absurd to only allow delivery? Or maybe it’s a competition thing. All the coffee chains do it, and it got really popular over lockdown. The queues in coffee chains can take ages while they’re making drinks for deliveries and pickups - it’s really annoying, but at least it gives another advantage to the independents.
@Lost_My_Mind @return2ozma you can in the UK. Maybe not globally? https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/good-to-know/in-our-restaurants/my-mcdonalds-app.html
@Aliktren @ininewcrow I think they’ve been packing all the little local committees for elections and education for years. It’s not a coincidence that so many black people got kicked off voter rolls at the last minute in certain states.