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[巴丢草 Bad ї ucao @badiucao]

1/ Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there
@melissakchan
and I talked with Kat Wong for The Guardian about our graphic novel You Must Take Part In Revolution and more.
The book is coming out today September 1 in Australia.
https://t.co/7mJ6RGBODm

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

Google says YOU must wait 24 hours if you download an app onto your OWN DEVICE if it's from an "Unverified developer". What ever happened to user choice and Android freedom?! 😡

Google has started rolling out its new ""Advanced Flow", which requires you to wait a 24-hour waiting period if you want to install apps from unverified developers.

Find out more: https://t.co/c89lutjITS

Sign the petition:
https://t.co/pMT2Xhsxwa

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

🇺🇦🇲🇩The President of Moldova awarded Volodymyr Zelenskyy the highest state award.

Maia Sandu presented the Ukrainian leader with the Order of the Republic for his significant contribution to the protection of peace and freedom on the European continent.

She emphasized that this award is a recognition of the courage of the entire Ukrainian people, who are holding back Russian aggression.

Sandu stressed that it is thanks to Ukraine's struggle in the east that Moldova currently has the opportunity to live in safety and peace.

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

Nie dajmy się skłócić. Wkroczenie do Zaolzia było jedną z najgłupszych decyzji polskiej polityki zagranicznej w historii ale mam nadzieję, że bracia Czesi pamiętają, że w osobie prezydenta Lecha Kaczyńskiego, na Westerplatte w 2009 roku, Polska za nią publicznie przeprosiła.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Hi, My Name Is Gandalv, and I Have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It started innocently enough. Someone announced that a 50 percent tariff on imported goods would be paid by the exporting country, and I opened my mouth and said that this is not how tariffs work, that the American importer pays it at the border and passes it on to the American consumer, and that a president who does this is essentially fining his own voters for shopping.

The reply came within seconds. TDS. That was the diagnosis.

Not an argument, just three letters and a shrug, the way a doctor might say “terminal” and leave the room.

So I have decided to stop hiding. I am standing up in the church basement with the bad coffee and the folding chairs, and I am saying it out loud.

I have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and the first step is admitting that you find the following things deranged.

I find it deranged that a man imposed tariffs on Heard Island, a territory inhabited exclusively by penguins, and then explained the formula on a cardboard chart in the Rose Garden.

I find it deranged that he wanted to buy Greenland, threatened to take it anyway, and then acted surprised that Denmark, a NATO ally that lost soldiers in Afghanistan on America’s behalf, was not flattered.

I find it deranged that Canada, the country that shares a continent, a hockey rivalry and a nine thousand kilometre undefended border with the United States, was told it should be the 51st state, and that this was meant as a compliment.

I find it deranged that a hurricane forecast was corrected with a Sharpie, that disinfectant was floated as an internal remedy on live television, that windmills were accused of causing cancer, and that the Gulf of Mexico was renamed.

I find it deranged that the men who beat police officers with flagpoles on January 6th were pardoned as patriots, that the Defense Secretary posted strike timings in a group chat that happened to include a journalist, and that a foreign government offered a 400 million dollar aircraft and the answer was not no.

I find it deranged that the East Wing of the White House was demolished for a ballroom, that Zelensky was shouted at in the Oval Office for not saying thank you enough, and that NATO allies were told their protection is conditional while the actual adversary was told he was doing a great job.

And yes, I find it deranged that all of this is defended by people who will pay more for their groceries, their cars and their phones as a direct result, and who will call you sick for noticing.

Here is the thing about TDS. The symptoms are reading, remembering and doing arithmetic. There is no known cure, and frankly none of us are looking for one.

So if you have ever winced at a tariff, sighed at a Sharpie or asked what exactly the penguins did wrong, you belong here. You do not need to whisper. You do not need to hide behind a burner account. Come out of the closet. There are more of us than you think, we are not ashamed, and we saved you a folding chair.

Proud TDS sufferers, welcome home.

Stay deranged, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

[巴丢草 Bad ї ucao @badiucao]

Great to come to Sydney with @melissakchan for @FestOfDanger and talk about our graphic novel You Must Take Part In Revolution.
The book is publishing Australia September 1
Learn more about it https://t.co/r2LEqvCc3B

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

@StephenM has created the SA—groups of violent brownshirts roaming the country to commit racist, inhuman acts of cruelty on a target population.

What kind of animals can even consider putting their hands on ACCIDENT VICTIMS? They all need to be identified and charged.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Palantir just released a new surveillance system that fuses satellites, radars and every camera into one real-time tracker of people and movement

We have to consider the possibility (probability?) that with Flock as the eyes, a system like this could be overlaid onto the US and we could be the targets.

Another reason we cannot allow Flock to exist.

[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

Reminder that if you're on X, Grok also still trains on user data by default, and here's how to turn it off:

Go to Settings and privacy → Privacy and safety → Data sharing and personalization → Grok & Third-party Collaborators → Uncheck all of the boxes.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Donald Trump’s neuropsychological disorders have made the United States more vulnerable than any time in a century.

As I will continue to say until the inevitable: Donald Trump is an existential global security emergency. He is psychotic, demented & collapsing. This has to stop.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

The White House released this North Korean-style propaganda, vomit-inducing bullshit.

The sane world knows the USA has become an absolute fucking joke under Trump. It has ruined its credibility, alienated allies & has become a global laughingstock.

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

It looks like the Chinese government was able to manipulate US scientists into assisting them with incredibly reckless research

The CCP actually carried out the research and allowed the virus to escape but people in the US must be held accountable as well.

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

Fauci pleading the fifth at the Senate hearings makes it obvious there was a conspiracy. The ultimate culprit is the Chinese government, they released the virus and covered it up. But why was Fauci collaborating with them in dangerous research at all?
https://t.co/MtY6qlty77

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

38 months ago these two tried to shut me up, not because I defamed them but because I exposed them for conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government on J6.

I had no money and no idea how to fight them. But I am an American. I know my rights. And I know a traitor when I see one.

For those asking, this has made my life hell and I owe lawyers a lot of money. This isn’t over yet. There’s a hearing next week in Florida to determine what, if anything, I can recover from Flynn.

Kash is another matter entirely. TBA.

FTR: I could never have done this alone. To everyone who helped me, or just supported me along the way. Thank you so much. 🫡

[Kanárci v síti 🐥🎙️🐥🇪🇺 @kanarciVsiti]

Mike Flynn se pokusil Jima usoudit do chudoby: Neuspěl. Nyní to zkouší Kash Patel. Po dnešním rozhodnutí nevadského soudu je vysoká pravděpodobnost, že taky neuspěje.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

TL;DR: If you’re afraid to exercise your rights, you’ve already lost them.

Six years ago, I started looking into QAnon because it was using game techniques and psychological tactics that I was familiar with because I had helped design them decades before. And what I saw was not normal. It was not a natural outgrowth of the internet. It was a death cult.

And so I tracked it for six months until I saw that it was organizing to attack the Capitol. So I warned about it. I yelled about it online. Other people did as well. No one listened. Sure enough, on January 6th, the worst political crime in American history happened.

The seat of our democracy was attacked. And I identified who did it, who conspired to do it, including Mike Flynn as the leader of QAnon and the cheerleader of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who was cheering for his digital soldiers to be ready to die on January 6th.

And Kash Patel in the Pentagon, ensuring through a memo, through Chris Miller, through Mike Flynn’s brother Charles, that the National Guard could not help, could not prevent that crowd of violent QAnon, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers from trying to murder Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi—and cops.

So I’ve spent seven days a week for six years trying to unravel why it happened, how it happened, and how we can build a system that will not allow it to happen again. 38 months ago, Mike Flynn and Kash Patel decided it was going to be a good idea to sue me, somebody who was tweeting about them, who was blogging about them. Not because I defamed them, but because I was right about them. I could have made it go away.

I could have deleted my posts or going crying away and tried to settle. This is America. It is my right to speak about people, especially when it involves crimes against my government.

So if I can be any inspiration or model to anyone, it’s all been worth it. I don’t like the attention. I am not somebody who enjoys being in the spotlight. But if you come at me, an American citizen exercising my rights, I am going to defend them.

And if there’s one message I have for people, it’s that if you are afraid to exercise your rights, you have already lost them. Fight for them. We can and will get through this. We can and will build something better. But we can’t do it if we’re cowards, if we appease them, if we let them rule us.

Not here, not in America. I want to thank everybody who has helped me along the way. There are far too many to mention. You know who you are. And I am so grateful. Thank you. We’ll get through it.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡️ Laura Loomer traveled to Kharkiv to interview Azov founder Andrii Biletskyi.

"He answered all of my questions and walked me through the detailed history of Azov Battalion and the Third Army Corps."

"Full interview coming soon! You don’t want to miss it!" she posted.

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

US to ban Chinese made robots.

All intelligent technologies made in China have to be treated as a threat. The more capable these systems are to act independently, the more dangerous. Robots like these could certainly be used for sabotage. 🔗

[Ivan Bartoš @PiratIvanBartos]

Fosilní baroni slaví. Jejich investice do Klausových Motoristů se jim vyplácí. Vláda raději chrání jejich byznys než české domácnosti a firmy. Škrtnout 90 % zón pro obnovitelné zdroje znamená méně levné elektřiny a větší závislost na drahých fosilních palivech.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

100% convinced after watching this video that he stole every single dollar

Just an opinion, mind you, but every single thing he has ever said or done leading up to this video is also in the pot