This is precisely what the fascists want. They want people rioting so they can take pictures of cities on fire and use it as justification to escalate.
Mass action: yes. But people need to be smart about it.
General strike. Hunger strike.
Hell yeah!
Quick reminder:
Dipavali (aka Diwali) is the Hindu “festival of lights”, a 5-day celebration symbolizing the spiritual victory of Dharma over Adharma; basically light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.
🧐 Hmm.
Ages and ages ago, I was looking for free stencils of a fist for a screen printing project and found this one in the commons:
I swear I’ve seen it everywhere for the last 15 years.
Skeets & toots ahoy!
Revision draft:
“The only boots worth licking are your dommy-mommy’s.”
So, about that…
After the original show was cancelled, Burton signed a contract with WNED / Buffalo Toronto Public Media to develop stuff for the Reading Rainbow brand. He did a Kickstarter, raised $5M and talked to Netflix about making a series but reportedly didn’t get Buffalo Toronto Public Media’s OK first, so they sued him. They eventually settled with Burton abandoning the Reading Rainbow brand name.
Burton is still out there promoting childhood reading but not using the Reading Rainbow name.
This is your casual reminder that Lemmy was built to support RSS. Just look for the RSS logo on the top of any community’s list of posts:
And for those pining for the old days of Google Reader, I have been a huge fan of Newsblur.
Bless you, Portland.
So uh, realistically what can someone do in this scenario?
Spread the word. Let people know this is happening. Your allies, your conservative relatives; everyone.
Here’s the link to the actual interview, not a summary news article:
Last time Microsoft tried something like this, they got the shit slapped out of them by federal antitrust regulators:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
Testing replies and edits…
Now hear me out. Instead of a space elevator…
Sadly this doesn’t seem to be working (as of Mon Sept 22 2025, 01:11 AM UTC).
Update (Wed Sept 24 2025 17:17 UTC): It works!
west hollywood indeed
Rich enough to outrun consequences.
Finally these guys are getting a new ride.
If I ever have to sit thru another debate over what a monad is, it will be too soon.