floof.org
The New York Times says Trump has learned his lesson and has been chastened by his 34-count felony conviction.
financial crimes have exploded in the last 20 years to the tune of trillions; with #wageTheft being the single biggest crime committed in the United States every single day.
cops kill more innocent Americans than ever before; while stealing from & enriching themselves with impounded property & assets of extra-judicial suspects.
but #media really want you to believe that working class folks too sick to jump a turnstile means “crime” is down.
don't let them lie to us like that.
There is no positive legacy of the #Sunak government.
Would a stronger, more politically savvy PM have taken on the tobacco lobbyists and called their lawfare out for what it was…basically ensuring another generation gets ensnared into a filthy, expensive, health destroying habit, so they always have a fresh group to sell vaping to?
Investigation details industry campaign including legal threats and charm offensive aimed at Tory MPsRob Davies (The Guardian)
There is a strong chance you are right…I just have a feeling there will be some outlets, maybe the Times say, who will be itching to call out Labour hypocrisy. I’m thinking along the lines of the criticism of Brown’s PFI experiments for hospitals.
John Mastodon, Kagari Atsuko, and Miss Key walk into a bar
the bartender says: there sure is a lot of activity in this pub tonight
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut - veggiedefender/open-and-shutGitHub
Who's ready to see this big bat at Anthrocon next week? 😈
✂️ @thatsfurredup
#FursuitFriday #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting
Companies are firing support reps and replacing them with chatbots, even though no one can figure out how to stop bots from "hallucinating." We think the FTC should put companies on notice that their chatbots' fake info will have real consequences:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/how-ftc-can-make-internet-safe-chatbots
No points for guessing the subject of the first question the Wall Street Journal asked FTC Chair Lina Khan: of course it was about AI.Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/28/nx-s1-4992010/supreme-court-homeless-punish-sleeping-encampments
(one of many reports)
Look, let's get this straight.
Homelessness is SOLVABLE. Easily. Especially in a nation with as many empty, bank-owned homes as the US has.
You just have to want to solve it.
America has a homeless problem because corporate America WANTS to have a permanent worst-case underclass. To scare the rest into the corporate yoke.
"See, this could be YOU. Aren't you GRATEFUL that we're offering you a shit job under abusive management for ever-worse pay and substandard — if any — benefits?"
I remain convinced that the only reason companies use #fedex is that fedex must have a department dedicated to blackmailing corporate execs.
Ugh.
Lounging at the couch on this #FursuitFriday
📍: Black Forest Lodge Con, Feldberg
📅: 2024-05-17
🥦: Karl Lauterbrocc
📷: @gustl
Pretty sure the orange colouration, hi-vis striped muzzle and shiny disposition should keep the predators at bay!
#FursuitFriday by Crofty ft Gaz
PLEASE show us your bug characters! 🐝 Your #bugsona! 🪲Your bees and beetles and butterflies! PLEEEEEEEASE! 🐛🦋🦂🦗
#fursuit #fursuitmaker #furry #furryfandom #furryart #FursuitFriday
Periodic reminder that NIST does not approve of expiring passwords.
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#memsecretver
> Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.
When dogs being... dogs. 🐶
Having fun together at the lakeside this wonderful (and super hot) #FursuitFriday.
And hope you meet next week at #Cesfur2024! 🤗
See you there! ❤️
🐶⚫️: @Gini_Berner (Twitter)
🐶: @Treff_GSD (Twitter)
📸: @VazulWolf (Twitter)
#furry #furryfandom #fursuit #furrycommunity
Oh yeah, that'll TOTALLY keep those pesky furries away. 🤔🚧
✂️🦊: Huxley Happygrowl / R&D Fursuits
✂️🦄: @Sierus / @ArtyMadCow
✂️🐴: @poeproductions
📸: DracorumOrder
#FursuitEveryday #CFz2024 #ConFuzzled #Fursuiting #Fursuiter #Fursuit #Furry
Do future historians a favour: #archive the UK general election.
Four archives are collecting general election leaflets. Instead of throwing your leaflets away, please consider sending them to one of the following.
University of #Bristol https://specialcollections.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/06/05/general-election-4-july-2024-an-appeal-for-election-leaflets/
#London School of Economics: https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/whats-on/exhibitions/the-power-to-vote
University of Strathclyde, #Scotland https://guides.lib.strath.ac.uk/archives/electionephemera
National Library of #Wales https://www.library.wales/welshpoliticalarchive
#ukpolitics #GE2024 #histodons #archives
The Swing of the Pendulum: A History of UK General Elections is an online exhibition drawing on the rich LSE Library archives.London School of Economics and Political Science
![ah yes, my favorite genre of sculptures - “hey you know what’d be extremely fucked up to see in the woods at night?"
[Photo of a metal sculpture melding the body of a Buck (Male Deer) and a Human in a Minotaur/Centaur fashion with an antlered Buck's head, upper torso of a human, and then the body of the Buck, standing in the water at the edge of a pond]](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/511147 "ah yes, my favorite genre of sculptures - “hey you know what’d be extremely fucked up to see in the woods at night?\"
[Photo of a metal sculpture melding the body of a Buck (Male Deer) and a Human in a Minotaur/Centaur fashion with an antlered Buck's head, upper torso of a human, and then the body of the Buck, standing in the water at the edge of a pond]")
Intriguing…I wanted to see if the same held true for UK. Sadly it’s not clear it does.
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/20/polls-predict-a-labour-majority-but-what-might-this-mean-for-voter-turnout
Polls predict a Labour win, but what does this mean for voter turnout?
Paula Surridge (The Guardian)