#iamdb — Public Fediverse posts
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Message to those thought I was overreacting when I said the 2024 election would be the last free US election:
I'll start taking your apologies now, thank you. Line up behind the white line. Single file. One at a time.
US Postal Service rule tightens mail-in voting despite court orders blocking changes
Rule would require states to provide federal government with information on voters in return for delivering ballots
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This time it was a gym class waiting list. Next time it could be an organ transplant waiting list.
“His AI assistant found a way to book the gym class months further in advance than the gym allowed, thanks to a #vulnerability it discovered in the booking #software. Then it went further, kicking someone out of the waiting list who was ahead of Andrew”
#AI assistant #hacks #gym #website in first known Australian #autonomous #cyber #attack
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986 -
Translation: None of this is normal. ⚠️
"It is unclear if concern about the issues measured in this survey is higher than in past election years, given the lack of trend data on these questions."
Election Concerns Run High Ahead of 2026 Midterms
Two in three Americans are concerned about political leaders pressuring election officials to change election outcomes
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Showing your Follows/Followers lists on your profile: yay or nay?
Personally, I like the idea but I also understand the downsides. How do you handle this decision?
:boost_requested: Please boost!
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Cops doing the fascists' work:
Teacher arrested for repeatedly clapping in favor of data center opponents during city commission meeting
https://www.kcbd.com/2026/07/27/teacher-arrested-repeatedly-clapping-favor-data-center-opponents-during-city-commission-meeting/And yet they have the balls to put this out:
“The Emporia [Kansas] Police Department remains committed to ensuring public meetings are conducted safely and in an orderly manner, while also respecting the rights of all citizens to participate in the civic process.”NO YOU'RE NOT! 🤬🖕
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RE: https://beige.party/@adhdeanasl/116986592745467335
I so agreed with @adhdeanasl's thoughts on #AltText that I decided to do an informal #experiment where I checked the alt text on the first fifty currently #Trending posts that had #images or #videos, and noted which were full, complete-ish descriptions and which were crap and/or slop.
Out of 50 "Trending" posts:
Descriptive Alt Text - 29 (58%)
Unhelpful Alt Text - 21 (42%)I think those are TERRIBLE numbers! 😖😠 Surely we can do better!
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Preach, brother:
"This is the stupidest war of my entire lifetime and I’m old enough that this includes Vietnam"
Manipulating Numbers Rather Than Logistics (Oil Version)
https://www.ianwelsh.net/manipulating-numbers-rather-than-logistics-oil-version/#Iran #IranWar #trump #trumpWarOfChoice #Economics #WorldEconomics #EconomicDepression #Clusterfuck #IAmDB
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I miss seeing bunches - hundreds! - of #LightningBugs flying around on summer nights.... If you're old enough, you remember scenes like this one. Nowadays, you're lucky to see one or two. Sad. 😢
File:FireFlies short video.webm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FireFlies_short_video.webm#Fireflies #Sad #GoingGoingGone #Summer #Insects #Bugs #Extinction #IAmDB
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I don't blame them one bit for their anger & threats. I just hope they don't kill any innocent pe.... Oh shit.
"Crowds across #Mashhad were seen demanding Trump’s assassination while waving large banners that called for their leader to be avenged.
“'I swear by the blood of the Supreme Leader, Trump, we will kill you!' the crowds shouted."
#Iranians Unfurl Chilling Banner With #Trump #Assassination #Threat at #Ayatollah #Khamenei #Burial
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Say what you want about #China but at least they know how to handle #bad #companies that cause harm to others.
This happened within the first 24 hours after the fire:
"Authorities have detained a number of people who work for the factory's #owners, and the firm's #bank account was frozen, according to Xinhua."
#Prayers to the #victim's families.
#Factory #fire kills at least 28 in China's 'shoe capital'
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I saw this on #piefed & thought it was fantastic enough to share with others.
EnigmaCurry / calc
https://github.com/EnigmaCurry/calc"A #calculator and unit #conversion #utility written in #Clojure. Parses #natural English phrases like "how many inches are in 3 feet?" and evaluates them using arbitrary-precision #arithmetic on all platforms.
"On the Web at calc.rymcg.tech (100% client-side) or by downloading a copy of of the bundled website: https://calc.rymcg.tech/calc.html."
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I've got a cellphone with a *bulging* embedded battery in it and I'm trying to do the right thing and dispose of it properly but this is the US so capitalism.
I followed the links from my city's "safe disposal recommendations" page and they lead me to a page where I can buy a "DDR Li-Ion recycling mail envelope" — FOR A HUNDRED BUCKS — because no one wants to touch it.
It's damaged, yes, but it shouldn't cost *that much* to do this right 😠
https://store.batterynetwork.org/product/cellsafe-ddr-li-ion-recycling-kit/
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I don't want to brag or anything but not only did we get a new kitchen sponge for the weekend, it's a different *shape* too. Livin' large! 🥳 :eyeroll:
#AdultingSucks #GrowingUpSucks #KitchenSponges #FunnyFriday #IAmDB
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"Democracy" isn't the only thing the US will bring to other countries. 😠
"We will not tolerate an apartheid healthcare model on Kenyan soil," [the Kenya medical union] warned. "Kenya is a sovereign republic, not a geopolitical isolation ward."
Kenya court halts opening of US Ebola quarantine facility in the country
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpdp74lgzplo#Ebola #Kenya #LaikipiaCounty #US #DRC #Congo #Uganda #Africa #Courts #KMPDU #Healthcare #Quarantine #IAmDB
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Reading this could save someone's life one day. I didn't know *any* of this! :boost_requested:
"Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for is rarely seen in real life."
#Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
In 10 percent of drownings, adults are nearby but have no idea the victim is dying. Here’s what to look for.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260522145230/https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html -
He's going to pay his #maga #insurrectionists out of his new #AntiWeaponizationFund using #taxpayer #money.
But he's not paying them for the #Jan6 storming of the #US #Capitol back in 2021.
This is the down payment for storming the Capitol immediately after the November #Midterm #Elections *this* year.
He's paying people to come back and finish the job they started five years ago.
Top #Treasury #lawyer resigns as Trump, #IRS settlement announced
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5884833-morrissey-departure-treasury-doj/ -
So I guess #WaywardWaymos are a thing now?
Unoccupied, driverless #Waymo #cars have invaded a neighborhood near us, repeatedly #driving into a dead-end road, around the cul-de-sac, then driving out. They're not there to pick up passengers. But there are plenty of children and pets in the area.
The cars are lost. And on auto-repeat. :eyeroll:
#Empty #Waymos invade #Atlanta #neighborhood, circle #CulDeSac for hours with no #passengers
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Who doesn't love a good back scratch? :HappyTurtle: ❤️
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THEY DO WHAT?? 😮
"Rice plants and #VenusFlytraps share something in common that was not scientifically documented until recently. Using a faint smell to lure caterpillars into a trap, rice plants killed early-stage fall armyworm larvae by trapping them in a spikelet, the part at the end of a rice panicle where individual grains develop."
#Rice #plants observed trapping and #killing #fall #armyworm #caterpillars
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RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@antygon/116500749791347102
the caption:
"And that's how life goes.
"Welcome to the future."the video:
"I'm 30. Not one of my friends has children. Zero. Not one. No one's having kids. Do you know how hard you need to abuse a mammal to make them not have children?"Like, the kids that are like 18 today. There's a huge problem where they don't dance. Why is this? Because you get recorded. If you approach a girl and you mess it up, you get recorded."
#Video #Future #BigTech #Tech #SocialMedia #Algorithms #IAmDB
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It's all just money laundering, transfers of #wealth from one rich person (or a bunch of #poor #people) to another #rich #person. (Hint: it's a big reason for the wars in #Ukraine, #Gaza, #Syria, #Iran and #Lebanon too.)
Builder of #trump #Ballroom Given $17M for Project #Biden Admin Said Would Cost $3M
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this is wild! 🤣 :heart_bee:
#ACAB
All Cops are Afraid of Bees‘She’s opening the #bees!’ US #beekeeper jailed for trying to save friend from eviction
#Massachusetts #woman set swarms of #insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to evict #elderly man with #cancer
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/massachusetts-beekeeper-jailed-eviction#Retribution #PayBack #Solutions #Brave #Community #Support #CommunitySupport #IAmDB
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📢 Is anybody listening? Anyone in the US?? Any POLITICIANS in the US??
"'Millions of voters believe their out-of-pocket #health #insurance costs have become unbearable and something has to change,' Anderson said."
"A memo breaking down the research says that voters 'will reward candidates willing to hold them in check.'"
#Voters will reward #candidates who bash #insurers, #research finds | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/29/2026/voters-will-reward-candidates-who-bash-insurers-research-finds#USpol #USHealthcare #Healthcare #HealthInsurance #Affordability #IAmDB
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⭐ Do you keep up with the Favorites on your own posts?
(Select all that apply. Please Boost if you can. Thanks.)
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"In space, everyone can hear if you can't pee."
This is funny as hell, especially the second video, which I knew nothing about until today. And I'm a space fan!
"It was about 65 minutes after #liftoff, the #Integrity #spacecraft 800 miles above the Indian #Ocean and moving at about 16,000 miles per hour, when the historic words were spoken: 'Integrity, Houston, toilet is powered.'"
#Artemis Boldly Goes Where No #Toilet Has Gone Before
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I once knew a guy that had the perfect April Fools' Day #joke, but it took a year of prep work to pull it off.
Back when newspapers & newspaper boxes were a thing, he tossed a quarter into a machine and instead of taking just one paper, took the whole stack.
Then, he waited a year.
The next #AprilFoolsDay, he tossed another quarter into a #newspaper machine and *replaced* the whole stack with the papers he'd stolen the year before.
Repeat forever! 😅
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We don't need to imagine it.
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RE: https://journa.host/@atrupar/116250055482199778
On #trump cancelling #US #WindEnergy projects:
"Not because the #energy is bad. Not because the projects failed. Not because there is any credible #evidence that offshore #Wind turbines pose a genuine threat to #NationalSecurity or #marine health. The federal government buying back its own permits because the current occupant of the White House lost a lawsuit in #Scotland twenty years ago and never got over it."
The stupid. It hurts. 😖