Nobody speaks up in public. But if you watch the top brass you can catch glimpses of their disdain for Trump and the GOP’s culture war bullshit.

One of my favorite examples is the video of Admiral Gilday sticking up for a non-binary sailor (and the Navy in general) when Tommy Tuberville tried to grill him in a senate hearing. Another time, previous Secretary of Defense James Mattis visited troops abroad and let a line slip about trouble back home.

Ultratramp

5 Non Blondes

Ben Folds Twelve

Twenty-Two Inch Nails

The last extension cord you will ever need.

Relevant Arlo & Janis comic:

You’ll find a new honey someday.

As an American, I approve this message.

Direct link: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7531

Those are coveted by the noncredibledefense crowd. You can get copies on AliExpress, but they just aren’t the same.

Didn’t you hear? Lockheed is “extremely woke” according to the right-wing culture warriors:

https://buywokefree.com/brand-profile/lockheed-martin

When my Waterpik broke after years of use I was happily surprised to learn they still had replacement parts available.

No. I am not sure how we could even craft such a law in the current US legal climate. Political speech, and money tied to political speech, are nearly impossible to regulate in any meaningful way.

I like this representation a lot.

Every day is STFU Friday.

actor Matt Damon, who plays Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s interpretation of Homer’s epic tale, had said in an interview that she had “the greatest arms I have ever seen.”

Damon had been discussing one of the film’s pivotal scenes when he gently corrected his interlocutor, who had mistakenly assumed the biceps in the shot were his own: They belonged to Dalton, who some might be surprised to learn is his stunt double.

A shot of Dalton from behind in the scene, holding a sword and ready to pounce at the giants, is used in one of the posters for the movie.

Confirmed. That’s a damn fine arm.

In such a case, would the two instances still effectively be defederated?

I think so? That’s what I would expect, at least.

The meme is like 99% true.

But watch the video of Portishead’s Roseland NYC Live and tell me Beth Gibbons crooning with a cigarette isn’t dope as hell. You can’t.

If you want to complicate the graph further, I believe hexbear federates using an allow list. Blahaj, lemmy.ca, and sh.itjust.works are not on the allow list, so they are effectively defederated. I haven’t looked further to see which other large instances may be affected.

The beehaw.org/sh.itjust.works defederation is really one-way. Beehaw defederated from us after some exceptionally bad trolls were operating from sh.itjust.works in 2023. IIRC, they requested that we also defederate from them to really make sure the split was made. We honored their request.

We would happily reconnect if Beehaw decided they want to federate with us again. If not, then that’s fine; they have a right to associate with whomever they like.

I believe infosec.pub temporarily defederated from us around the same time for the same reason. It was a rough time.

I recognize Lyndon LaRouche. When his followers showed up on my college campus they were always entertaining in a crazy-meets-stupid sort of way. So maybe this group will at least be good for a laugh or two.

Yeah, a good pair of boots is a wonderful thing. “Never cheap out on anything that separates you from the ground” and all that. My old pair are heavy-duty hiking boots that have taken me all over the mountains. But my feet are getting wider as I get older. A bad blister last week finally spurred me to shop for something new.

My region is known for cherries and (to a lesser extent) peaches. So as far as climate goes, I would say they fit right in with other stone fruit.

As for care, I am a clumsy and sometimes negligent caretaker. The tree is well established in my backyard and does not seem to need much aside from water. I prune it every year or two (my pruning jobs are ugly but the tree doesn’t seem to care). The biggest chore is picking up all of the fallen fruit before it attracts too many wasps.