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  1. What? No!

    America’s Own Goal: Who Pays the Tariffs? - Kiel Institute kielinstitut.de/publications/a

    "US customs revenue surged by approximately $200 billion in 2025"
    "Foreign exporters absorb only about 4% of the tariff burden—the remaining 96% is passed through to US buyers."

    #inconceivable!

  2. Well, that's it.
    After twenty years of organising free open source events on meetup.com the continual #enshittification of the platform and the raising of rates has got to the #Inconceivable level of $430/year.
    Meetup make it impossible to export an email list of members, or any kind of event history, in an effort to keep your data hostage.
    If you cancel your subscription, they'll GIVE YOUR GROUP to someone else. You have to explicitly close the group first, which they make as difficult to do as they can.
    No more.
    Fuck you, Meetup.
    #DataSovereignty

  3. I hate to link to Facebook, but this guy, Derek Penwell, has an incredible way of pinpointing feelings during #Inconceivable #crisis.

    “The room feels like it does after the sirens stop—quiet, but nothing is okay. We sit with the glow of cable news on our faces. We may not say “collapse” out loud, but our slumped shoulders have already gotten the message.

    “We sit, doomscrolling while our stomachs threaten mutiny. We make sure we know where the exits are. We're a people learning how to breathe through constant air raid sirens.

    “Let me say it plainly so we can stop pretending: we're afraid, not of losing a news cycle, but of losing the scaffolding that lets neighbors disagree without drawing blood.

    “We're afraid of a pattern: power that loves itself, truth filtered through focus groups, memes rehearsing violence until the jokes come true.

    “We teeter on despair, afraid the ordinary tools won’t hold when the beams split.

    “We police our words, depending on who we’re with. We swallow the lump when someone says, "It can't happen here," because history keeps receipts. We mute the thread and call it rest.

    “We count numbers (polls, dockets, casualties), hoping arithmetic can shield us from feeling the kick in the gut. But the body knows: eyes slam shut, jaws clench, the chest constricts ... and you're only in the cereal aisle.”

    facebook.com/share/p/19uV9U6fZ

  4. And tonight's film choice (also at GFT) was... The Princess Bride! Another of my favourite films, that's two of them in the same week!
    #Inconceivable
    youtube.com/watch?v=I73sP93-0xA

  5. Wow, I found my old #FidoNet point address in this point list from 1996 of Scooter’s BBS

    Boss,2:2444/8001
    ,1,CoSysOp,RE,Christoph_von_Keitz,49-2305-96121-21,9600,

    ,15,Scooter's.15,BO,Jens_Klimaschewski,49-2305-96121-21,9600,

    ,21,Scooter's.21,BO,Regina_Hannemann,49-2305-96121-21,9600,

    So I my Fidonet address was 2:2444/8001.15, and my wife’s 2:2444/8001.21. That was before we were married, so I have my original last name.

    #Inconceivable

    FidoNet is still around:

    fidonet.org

  6. #Inconceivable

    During the first table read of "The Princess Bride," Wallace Shawn noticed that his character, Vizzini, had the word “Inconceivable!” scribbled plainly in the script, without any hint of how it should sound. The moment stayed vivid in his memory because he immediately felt that the delivery had to reflect Vizzini’s inflated ego and constant desperation to prove his superiority. Shawn later shared in interviews that he began experimenting right there at the table, trying (1/10)

  7. Show of the Day: Inconceivable

    The LezWatch.TV show of the day is "Inconceivable," with 1 characters and an overall score of 53.00. - #LWTVsotd #Inconceivable - lezwatchtv.com/show/inconceiva

    lezwatchtv.com/show/inconceiva

  8. cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre

    Conservative Leader #neverpoilievre said Wednesday he's a "tough guy" well suited to take on U.S. President Donald Trump and that's why the American leader said he thinks it's easier to "deal with a liberal" in Canada than a conservative.

    #inconceivable

    I don't think that word means what he thinks it means. Poor sad mouse. He's only ever punched down.

    #cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup

  9. @titociuro One might also reference one of the "classic blunders" in this case as well ;) #Inconceivable

  10. I've seen a copy of the e-mail Sam Altman sent to the executive board of DeepSeek

    #Inconceivable

  11. ha costado aguantar , que me caigo de sueño… porque anoche me dio un agobio muy grande y me costó la vida dormirme… y por lo visto (yo no me acuerdo) a las 4:25 me levanté de la cama gritando, súper enfadada, @Savior1980 me tuvo que calmar, y tras 1min caí roque de nuevo… mi Apple Watch está de acuerdo con esta versión de los hechos 🤣 Así que damos por finalizado el cumple, al menos este año me llevo un número primo!!! ✌🏻 naniiit!!!

  12. para sorpresa de nadie, aquí, viendo una peliculilla las tradiciones que molan hay que respetarlas 🎂 instagram.com/p/C7fAKNfCJG2/

  13. In order to support drainage of the neighboring fields, a ditch was deepened and widened.
    The roots of 38 trees along the alley were damaged by this dilettante amateurs action.
    #inconceivable

  14. Imagine that! State troopers lying to cover up their biased policing. Inconceivable!

    ---------------
    Biased policing is just the way things are done.

    Every so often, law enforcement agencies are forced to reckon with their racist brand of policing.

    To keep the heat off your back, you have to at least pretend you’re trying to be less biased. The Connecticut State Police dealt with its own biased policing reckoning by deploying the “fake it until everyone no longer cares if you make it” process...

    State Troopers falsified over 7,000 tickets a year — or more than 20 tickets a day. Nearly 400 troopers were complicit in this...

    Head of the state police, Colonel Stavros Mellekas said he does not believe the department’s racial profiling data was impacted.

    Mellekas insisted that no drivers were actually issued fake tickets; officers only entered phony ticket data into state police computers, he said...

    techdirt.com/2023/07/24/connec

    #ACAB #BiasedPolicing #LyingCops #Inconceivable

  15. Imagine that! State troopers lying to cover up their biased policing. Inconceivable!

    ---------------
    Biased policing is just the way things are done.

    Every so often, law enforcement agencies are forced to reckon with their racist brand of policing.

    To keep the heat off your back, you have to at least pretend you’re trying to be less biased. The Connecticut State Police dealt with its own biased policing reckoning by deploying the “fake it until everyone no longer cares if you make it” process...

    State Troopers falsified over 7,000 tickets a year — or more than 20 tickets a day. Nearly 400 troopers were complicit in this...

    Head of the state police, Colonel Stavros Mellekas said he does not believe the department’s racial profiling data was impacted.

    Mellekas insisted that no drivers were actually issued fake tickets; officers only entered phony ticket data into state police computers, he said...

    techdirt.com/2023/07/24/connec

    #ACAB #BiasedPolicing #LyingCops #Inconceivable

  16. Imagine that! State troopers lying to cover up their biased policing. Inconceivable!

    ---------------
    Biased policing is just the way things are done.

    Every so often, law enforcement agencies are forced to reckon with their racist brand of policing.

    To keep the heat off your back, you have to at least pretend you’re trying to be less biased. The Connecticut State Police dealt with its own biased policing reckoning by deploying the “fake it until everyone no longer cares if you make it” process...

    State Troopers falsified over 7,000 tickets a year — or more than 20 tickets a day. Nearly 400 troopers were complicit in this...

    Head of the state police, Colonel Stavros Mellekas said he does not believe the department’s racial profiling data was impacted.

    Mellekas insisted that no drivers were actually issued fake tickets; officers only entered phony ticket data into state police computers, he said...

    techdirt.com/2023/07/24/connec

    #ACAB #BiasedPolicing #LyingCops #Inconceivable

  17. Imagine that! State troopers lying to cover up their biased policing. Inconceivable!

    ---------------
    Biased policing is just the way things are done.

    Every so often, law enforcement agencies are forced to reckon with their racist brand of policing.

    To keep the heat off your back, you have to at least pretend you’re trying to be less biased. The Connecticut State Police dealt with its own biased policing reckoning by deploying the “fake it until everyone no longer cares if you make it” process...

    State Troopers falsified over 7,000 tickets a year — or more than 20 tickets a day. Nearly 400 troopers were complicit in this...

    Head of the state police, Colonel Stavros Mellekas said he does not believe the department’s racial profiling data was impacted.

    Mellekas insisted that no drivers were actually issued fake tickets; officers only entered phony ticket data into state police computers, he said...

    techdirt.com/2023/07/24/connec

    #ACAB #BiasedPolicing #LyingCops #Inconceivable

  18. Imagine that! State troopers lying to cover up their biased policing. Inconceivable!

    ---------------
    Biased policing is just the way things are done.

    Every so often, law enforcement agencies are forced to reckon with their racist brand of policing.

    To keep the heat off your back, you have to at least pretend you’re trying to be less biased. The Connecticut State Police dealt with its own biased policing reckoning by deploying the “fake it until everyone no longer cares if you make it” process...

    State Troopers falsified over 7,000 tickets a year — or more than 20 tickets a day. Nearly 400 troopers were complicit in this...

    Head of the state police, Colonel Stavros Mellekas said he does not believe the department’s racial profiling data was impacted.

    Mellekas insisted that no drivers were actually issued fake tickets; officers only entered phony ticket data into state police computers, he said...

    techdirt.com/2023/07/24/connec

    #ACAB #BiasedPolicing #LyingCops #Inconceivable

  19. If Buttercup had been played by actresses other than Robin Wright, a thought that is totally...what's the word I'm thinking of?

    cbr.com/how-other-actors-would

    #PrincessBride #inconceivable

  20. I will always and immediately follow anyone who has a #PrincessBride quote in their bio. #Inconceivable

  21. @thomasfuchs it’s incredible that after two full days of planning Twitter Blue verification in Musk’s head, it only lasted two days. #inconceivable