#frivolous — Public Fediverse posts

My latest #frivolous purchses (see
#ADHD) is this rather lovely Edwardian bread fork.

It was made by Roberts and Dore of Sheffield and London and is stamped R&D S&L.

I think it may be silver plated and has a pleasing weight to it.

Lush. ☺️

#frivolous : not having any serious purpose

- German: frivol

- Italian: frivolo

- Portuguese: frívolo / fútil

- Spanish: frívolo

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This. Is. America.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/02/us-olympian-indicted-trump-vandalism-reflecting-pool?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#uspol #Frivolous #Fascism #ABoringDystopia #AbsoluteCorruption

"Waste time on frivolous things!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
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Here's something you need to think about if you are considering a pivot in your career or business: the next big thing often starts looking like a toy.

When big shifts happen, the world usually misses them because they look like hobbies.

The Internet? People were hanging out on clunky "bulletin board systems" just to chat online. Most people looked away while a global, disruptive communications network was being born. Farmville? Critics see kids wasting time on a digital farm. The reality? Those kids are learning the real-time resource management skills needed to run the autonomous, 24-hour farms of the future. How about Minecraft? It looks like digital LEGOs, but a whole generation is learning how to develop sophisticated, interconnected infrastructure for the smart cities of tomorrow.

Or take drones. What started as a "toy" in a park has become the foundation for a revolution in precision agriculture, building inspection, autonomous logistics, and the future of war. How about crypto "gamers"? A decade ago, they were "wasting" money on digital skins. Today, they are the architects of a decentralized finance system that is rewriting the rules of global banking.

Then there are folks all around you playing with OpenClaw and other AI systems. Skeptics see people talking about 'relationships' with their agents, but the fact is, they are busy building one of the most powerful collaborative tools in human history.

Need I go on?

In every single case, frivolous, fringe activities emerged on the edges but exploded into the mainstream, resulting in massive disruption - and HUGE opportunities.

That's why you need to know this simple fact: if you are doing a lot of frivolous things, you aren't wasting time; you are building expertise. You are learning the rules of a new game while everyone else is still playing by the old ones.

But here's the thing: most corporate cultures are designed to kill this "wasted" time. They want efficiency, ROI, and measurable outcomes. But i, I’ve discovered that the most valuable pivots always start as "frivolous" experiments.

If you only spend time on things that are "proven," you will only ever achieve what has already been done.

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Futurist Jim Carroll is probably going to waste some time today doing unimportant things.

**#Frivolous** **#Play** **#Curiosity** **#Innovation** **#Toys** **#Future** **#Exploration** **#Learning** **#Trends** **#Discovery**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/04/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-15-waste-time-on-frivolous-things/

#frivolous : of little weight or importance

- German: frivol

- Italian: frivolo

- Portuguese: frívolo / fútil

- Spanish: frívolo

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@FranceskAlbs I think it just shows how hypocritical, arbitrary, frivolous and wanton some Western regimes are.

#hypocrisy #hypocritical #hypocrite #hypocrites #arbitrary #arbitrariness #frivolous #frivolity #frivolousness #wanton #west #western #westerngovernments #francesca #albanese #francescaalbanese

#frivolous : of little weight or importance

- German: frivol

- Italian: frivolo

- Portuguese: frívolo / fútil

- Spanish: frívolo

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I'm confused: first the #Guardian says it's #frivolous to dress up as #frogs, and now they're saying we should embrace #silliness. Which is it?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/27/no-kings-protests-costumes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #wildlife #Climate #trump #fascism #protests

@scott @maxleibman

More silly, stat.

Maybe find the right #hashtags

#pineapple of course

#frivolous #irresponsible

I like #ludicrous

#pointless #preposterous #ridiculous might help

The silly community needs hashtags.

#carosells #calliope #hats #noodles #peeweeHerman #cats

#spoon

#frivolous : of little weight or importance

- German: frivol

- Italian: frivolo

- Portuguese: frívolo / fútil

- Spanish: frívolo

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2025-04-24 - Illustration - Bêtises

Encore quelqu'un qui a fait partie de la famille de Marève.

Personnage - (Random)
~4h30, Marqueurs Alcool, A7

#traditionalart #illustration #alcoholmarkers #lilaverse #summer #horns #frivolous #youngman #city #river #landscape #river #oc #valley

FFS

Remember the lawsuit, where a federal judge ripped apart the #Trump admin's "evidence" that a woman was in Tren de Aragua?

So, last week the Trump admin arrested her & her husband for a THIRD TIME — & now are saying they are going to use the #AlienEnemiesAct to deport them.

#frivolous #law #immigration #AbuseOfPower
https://elpasomatters.org/2025/04/22/couple-faces-deportation-venezuela-el-paso-court-tren-de-aragua/

#frivolous : of little weight or importance

- German: frivol

- Italian: frivolo

- Portuguese: frívolo / fútil

- Spanish: frívolo

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Voting has begun in every state❗️
💥because overseas and military voters receive their ballots at least 45 days before the presidential election. -- The election is in 40 days.

Voters can be forgiven for not knowing this.

News organizations are still running headlines about this and that #frivolous #GOP #lawsuit
trying to 🧨change voting rules at the last minute.

Their goal: generate #chaos and #uncertainty.
News organizations comply.
The latest lawsuit challenges Mississippi law that allows mailed ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by election day (November 5th) and received within five days of election day.
The three judges hearing the appeal: all appointed by Donald Trump.

Other efforts to block valid ballots focus on “#meaningless and #inconsequential paperwork errors” (Pennsylvania panel of state judges).

These changes come with a cost

https://themoderatevoice.com/voting-has-begun-in-every-state-news-orgs-should-call-out-frivolous-gop-lawsuits/

The #GOP #Scheme That Could Bring Our #ElectoralSystem to Its Knees

An #underappreciated part of the Trump #attack on #democracy: #mass #voterchallenges. A “mass voter challenge” involves individual voters calling into question the eligibility of hundreds or thousands of voters all at once. #Frivolous mass voter challenges picked up after the 2020 #election and the viral spread of #TheBigLie

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-scheme-mass-voter-challenges

Sept 7th: #Trump's team will appear in court in a [ridiculous & #frivolous] attempt to overturn a #civil court ruling that found Trump liable for the #SexualAbuse & #defamation of writer #EJeanCarroll in 1996, where he was ordered to pay a $5M [he’s arguing the #SCOTUS #immunity ruling applies 🤦🏼‍♀️]

#law #TrumpIsARapist

#tRump's law suits—whether he is the 𝜋 or the 𝛿—always employ #lawyers who proffer #frivolous arguments and blatant #falsehoods. A simple, cost-effective way to defeat this litigious imbecile in court is by lodging #ethics complaints against his lawyers to the respective #bar associations.

Over 2 months late is quite pathetic for a so called expert and "protest knower"

What does it say about the quality of journalism when some tin foil hat wearing CHUD, who lives in a basement in Alberta finds out and publishes info something that a top notch journalist should have been able to get find out about and publish from day 1?
I know I did

Maybe someone needs hire some more CHUD informants. The current ones seem to be losing their edge.(As if they ever had one to begin with)

#Protestmania #TopNotchFakeJournalism
#ProfessionMocker
#Frivolous #vexatious

Every #lawyer who chose to work for #tRump will eventually be #disbarred, because this lot knows nothing of the #law, neither substantive nor procedural, and they file #frivolous claims, as a matter of course.

https://bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68582953

& they argued that under the principle of #DoubleJeopardy, #Trump could not be tried #on the #ElectionInterference charges since he had already been acquitted by the #Senate on many of the same accusations during his 2nd #impeachment.

(Absolutely not how that works, so they’re either morons who shouldn’t have gotten through #law school, let alone passed the #bar, or they’re lying in #FederalCourt papers)

#Frivolous #criminal #conspiracy #JackSmith #Chutkan

In yet another #delay tactic,

#Trump Files More Motions to #Derail Federal #Jan6 Case

Lawyers for Trump fired off a barrage of new attacks on Mon night against the federal charges accusing him of conspiring to overturn the #2020election, filing nearly 100 pages of court papers seeking to have the case thrown out before it reaches a #jury.

#Frivolous #law #criminal #conspiracy #JackSmith #Chutkan
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/politics/trump-jan-6-charges-dismiss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Greenblatt called #Musk’s threat of a #lawsuit “#frivolous” & said Musk’s behavior was #reckless & #dangerous, coming 2 weeks ahead of the #Jewish High Holidays.

The Forward, a daily Jewish publication, has since recently started a running list of Musk’s “disturbing comments.”

#Antisemitism #ADL #X #birdsite #WhiteChristianNationalism #privilege #StopHate4Profit

https://forward.com/news/550035/elon-musk-disturbing-comments-jews/

Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury (Video)

https://apnews.com/article/climate-activists-luxury-private-jets-948fdfd4a377a633cedb359d05e3541c

Climate activists have declared war on luxury and wealthy lifestyles. It is the new climate claim after a controversial raid on museums last year. Protesters consider that high-class way of life pose a dangerous threat to the planet.

#climatecrisis #climateactivists #classwar #luxury #danger #planet #emissions #frivolous

They’ll fail just as badly in Judge #Chutkan’s court if not worse than every other #court that already found the cases #meritless & #frivolous.

But they will force us to suffer their foolery anyway.

#Trump #Indictment #TrumpIndictment #Conspiracy #Obstruction #democracy #autocracy #kleptocracy #Jan6 #Law #legal #DOJ #JackSmith

Poll Workers’ Lawyers Bill Rudy Giuliani $89k for Missing Evidence

Faced with a potentially costly #defamation #lawsuit for spreading conspiracy theories about two Georgia poll workers following the 2020 election, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney #Rudy #Giuliani is already facing consequences for refusing to turn over evidence in the case.

Following a federal judge’s order #sanctioning Giuliani last month—and ordering him to #pay legal fees #for #wasting #everyone’s #time—the poll workers’ lawyers on Wednesday submitted a legal bill in court totaling $89,172.

It's less than half of what they say they normally charge for the time they spent dealing with Giuliani's antics.

The final bill is up to U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who previously wrote that Giuliani “#arbitrarily #limited his #search” of an email server and “conducted only an imprecise ‘manual search’ of his text messages,” causing a #ten-#month #delay—only to later #surprise the opposing side with another 4,000 pages of evidence.

Giuliani was once Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor but is now facing #disbarment in the nation’s capital for having “#weaponized his #law #license to bring a #frivolous #action in an attempt to #undermine the #Constitution” in the service of former President Donald Trump.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawyers-bill-rudy-giuliani-dollar89k-for-missing-evidence

#frivolous #crochet Making sleeping bags for friends of my 6 year olds >> Playmobil size

#frivolous : of little weight or importance

- German: frivol

- Italian: frivolo

- Portuguese: frívolo / fútil

- Spanish: frívolo

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Judge Sanctions Kari Lake’s Legal Team, Which Includes Alan #Dershowitz, for ‘Recklessly’ Filing ‘False, Misleading, and Unsupported’ Claims in #Election Lawsuit
https://lawandcrime.com/federal-court/judge-sanctions-kari-lakes-legal-team-which-includes-alan-dershowitz-for-recklessly-filing-false-misleading-and-unsupported-claims-in-election-lawsuit/

Excerpt: The lawyers' "claims for relief did not have an adequate factual or legal basis grounded in a reasonable pre-filing inquiry…[Lake's lawyers] acted at least recklessly in unreasonably and vexatiously multiplying the proceedings by seeking a preliminary injunction based on Plaintiffs’ #frivolous claims."