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cis; he/him; '92; Web dev; videos gamer; enjoyer of music, tinkerer of computers; 🇫🇷 in 🇺🇸; Trans & Black lives matter. Your crypto/AI sucks ✌️ Not my first rodeo. @eramdam on 🐦 @eramdam@octodon.social on 🐘


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There were two cute things this morning: me and that one flower I saw on my way to work

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i also have a cohost mutual who told me they spoke to one of the leaders of said gay furry hacker group in a queer dev discord so, like,

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Incredibly damning profile on Macron in Politico. Not much of it comes as a surprise if you're tuned into French politics but still, baffling stuff in there lol
www.politico.eu/article/magn...

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Pelosi be like "I know a thing or two about staying in a position of power instead of retiring but this is too much"

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if the livestreams of their festival appearances are anything to go by: it will kick ass.

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And if everything goes well I'm seeing them 2 to 4 times this year 😈

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I'm seeing Justice (the electronic music duo, not the concept) in less than a month and it's only now starting to settle and I'm being extremely normal about it. Teenage Damien would be so fucking jealous rn. So hyped.

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Macintosh Themes's avatar Macintosh Themes @macthemes.bsky.social
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Wyrmworks - Dale Critchley

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I have yet to watch beyond season 1 and I already was like “fuuuuuuuck” a few times lmao

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Pookleblinky's avatar Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social
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It is a startling fucking failure as a person to look at the French election and think the lesson is to just go out and vote. Or else. Give people something to vote for, for fuck's sake.

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Pookleblinky's avatar Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social
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It turns out people really, really like to vote for a campaign that promises to do specific things to make their lives better, and that this motivates people a hell of a lot more than making a j/o gesture and telling them to enjoy the camps unless they pokemon GO to the polls.

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Pookleblinky's avatar Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social
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In every way, it was the opposite of how the US is approaching the threat of far right power. The message liberals *should* be learning from it, instead of tepid VOTE messaging, is that they are miserable fucking failures at being people. To actually even *try* to fix shit.

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Pookleblinky's avatar Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social
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French politicians weren't telling their voters to shut the fuck up, look what the alternative is. French citizens weren't telling each other to enjoy the camps. There was something to vote *for* other than a tired j/o gesture and a threat.

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damien's avatar damien @eramdam.me
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they should invent an air travel that doesn't turn you into a puddle for two days straight because of jetlag

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Ed Zitron's avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

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damien's avatar damien @eramdam.me
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im curious because i dont think i know why lol

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Chris Levesque's avatar Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.

www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

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JO Petrol is when you REALLY love the oil complex

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

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ElNarez Was Right's avatar ElNarez Was Right @elnarez.bsky.social
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hey hey gang hey sorry to spoil your fun but this is a picture of marine le pen in tears of laughter listening to a fash comedian (gaspard proust) on a fash radio station (europe 1, taken over by fash billionaire vincent bolloré) I promise to update you if marine le pen ever cries on camera

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to be fair Attal would have called even the most milquetoast leftist by that qualifier lmao

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ElNarez Was Right's avatar ElNarez Was Right @elnarez.bsky.social
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THE PRIME MINISTER CALLED HIM EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE LEFT! AND HE'S AN ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE NOW! THIS IS THE PATH FORWARD! ONE WAY OUT!

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ElNarez Was Right's avatar ElNarez Was Right @elnarez.bsky.social
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an antifa organizer (Raphael Arnault, of the Jeune Garde) who was smeared in the media all campaign long for being on a watchlist just won his election in an RN seat; so it's not just that the left won, it's that it has a blueprint for conquest, and it's being unabashedly antifascist

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damien's avatar damien @eramdam.me
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Canal+ specifically is a special case because up until Bolloré took over, it was known for being *very* critical of the governement (whichever party it was). As soon as he took over, that stopped and journalists started getting fired as the slightest criticism of his.

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Like, look up what happened in the 2010s to Canal+ and other TV channels under its umbrella, the guy literally has been working to build a French equivalent of Fox News

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent...

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It becomes more obvious when you know Vincent Bolloré (billionaire) started buying/controlling a bunch of French news organization a few years ago, and slowly made the Overton window shift to the right and promoted the far right as a "reasonable" option.

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yeah, especially given how different the feelings about Labour and the Nouveau Front Populaire seems to be 😬 (for good reasons, Starmer seems like a piece of work to stay polite)

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nattie winters's avatar nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social
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the french have voted: france is now bi

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damien's avatar damien @eramdam.me
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you know i've always feared the opposite, it seemed to me like the french political landscape was copying the us one with a ~3-4yrs delay so if, for once, it can be the opposite, that'd be great

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

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très bon chapeau

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Crowpotkin's avatar Crowpotkin @crowpotkin.bsky.social
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Wishing all French fascists a very happy loser day.

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EAT SHIT RACISTS

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me, ~3 weeks ago: alright i guess brat (2024) is a fine album but i still havent listened to it properly me, now, every other hour: I'M EVERYWHERE I'M SO JULIA UH UH UH UH

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whathappened

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especially given how (statistically) bad right-wingers are at computers (even not just crypto stuff lol)

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simone's avatar simone @simonee.bsky.social
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i am really, REALLY not okay with the idea that someone writing about sexual assault means they must be an abuser. for one thing, the vast majority of art about sexual abuse is created BY THE VICTIMS. the idea that depicting abuse makes you an abuser really fucking pisses me off actually.

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something that i saw in regard to the latest abusive celebrity man that has been bothering me a lot is someone asserting that because the man in question had written sexual abuse into his work, that should’ve been a red flag to let us know that he was a sexual abuser. no. that is not how that works.

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Jeph Jacques's avatar Jeph Jacques @ass.golf
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The slogan for Burger King in France is a guy with a mouthful of food saying “mmh…bourgaire” and it’s the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard

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Modded iPods rule

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As I make my way back home, I can say that a modded iPod is a great music listening device while traveling. New batteries last forever so you don’t have to worry about burning through your phone’s battery. Can recommend if you’re willing to put up with wires.

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