YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture Authoritarians love to do this to their kids.

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YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture You need to hear what Chicago is doing to fight back against ICE. And then copy it.

Who runs your 3D printer? Not Disney, Apple, ICE. The factory built oligarchy. It needs centralization. 3D printers change the balance of power in Ukraine. Factories are single points of failure. Resistance needs mass-creativity. Make the factory & Capital irrelevant.
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YouTube video by CloudFest Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It

As usual, Cory Doctorow explains what's up.

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Auberon, by Blaze Ward. The Jessica Keller Chronicles, Volume One. Part of the humongous Alexandria Station universe (including The Science Officer series). Cover shows a big starship carrier flying through a lavender and indigo nebula, with three starfighters flying escort, everyone coming right at you.

Jessica Keller could win the war if they let her. They are finally desperate enough to try.

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and I am ^this close^ to finishing the sequel series of the sequel series.

Jessica => First Centurion Kosnett => Heather's War

y'all need some space opera.

Ill Tidings, by Blaze Ward. Augustus Derlyth, Occult Detective, Book One. Table with books and candled and a grimoire open to a summoning page. Because shit is about to get weird. Then worse.

Somewhere, a demon runs amok, loosed in a museum and now free in the London sewers.

In desperation, the authorities summon metaphysician Augustus Dexter Derlyth to solve this trouble.

Then it gets worse.

1920s London. Trouble. And sorcery.

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YouTube video by Kevin Cheung Die cut sheet metal with this tiny machine!

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My CoCo's Plug 'n' Play X10 controller is shaking in its boots.

Picture of the upper-left corner of a bare Amiga B2000 EATX motherboard.

Impulsively, I bought a modern replica Amiga 2000 motherboard in EATX form factor. With the crazy price of vintage A2000s, this is probably my only opportunity to get a big box Amiga to go with my A1000s and A500s. I plan to put it in a Gateway case as a what-if piece. Assembly will take months.

Trump Administration’s Targeting of International Students Jeopardizes Free Speech and Privacy Online The federal government is using social media surveillance to target student visa holders living in the United States for online speech the Trump administration disfavors. The administration has initia...

The administration's social media surveillance is fostering a climate of fear. International students now worry a single post or "like" could cost them their U.S. visa—chilling political debate and silencing dissent for non-citizens and citizens alike.

We can’t leave reporters’ ability to protect their sources up to the whims of any President or Attorney General.

just a couple of days left in the sale.

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you need some cozy mystery.

local folks, pass the word

Keep up with the different surveillance technologies police are using across the U.S., from body-worn cameras to cell-site simulators. Stay informed using the Atlas of Surveillance.

Auberon, by Blaze Ward. The Jessica Keller Chronicles, Book One. Nine books, two novellas, and a side trilogy. Picture of a big starfighter carrier with a wing of snubfighters flying righ at the camera, against a purple nebula with a lot of stars. Jessica could win the war if they would let her. They might finally be desperate enough.

Jessica Keller. Then First Centurion Kosnett. Then Heather's War and I'm almost done with book four of five there, scheduled for next year.

Start here and enjoy yourself through some two million words of epic military space opera about one badass chika.

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Custom Dwarven Chocolates, by Leah R. Cutter. A fantasy-looking sign where Gems has been crossed out and Chocolates added instead, with fancy scrollwork around the outside. Very fun and silly story about a fantasy baking championship.

The Fabulous Publisher Babe(tm) has a fun cozy fantasy coming out in May.

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Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. It’s Still a Terrible Idea. More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations o...

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TikTok ban: What's next for app as bidding war rages? | Context TikTok's ban is delayed again as U.S. and China negotiate buyers for app

Instead of banning TikTok, "to truly reduce the supply of data that foreign adversaries can obtain, we need federal privacy legislation that limits how all companies collect and share our personal data,” EFF’s Babette Ngene told @contextnewsroom.bsky.social.

Never comply in advance. Mass-collaboration makes civil disobedience work.

Gives new meaning to telling a centaur to go fuck themselves!

Stands to reason...

Ok they're banning climate change so we are going to start research on Human Habitat Collapse

Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.

just a reminder

alt text missing: 'Almost felt bad for Elon watching his brand go up in smoke-then I remembered empathy is "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization." Moved on.

pic of Elon Musk standing in front of a burning Tesla.

stolen: "Nero fiddled. Trump golfed."