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Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 1d

1. Far-right butcher Netanyahu recommends far-right dictator Trump for the Nobel peace prize.

2. Precisely the day when the Nobel peace prize committee meets for the final decision, Netanyahu accepts a peace deal.

3. Conservative MSM immediately publish and promote the deal.

Something seems off.

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Spud Lovr @spudlovr.bsky.social · 2d

We see you, Union Grove #Wisconsin

#NoKings
Saturday, October 18
10:30am – 12pm CDT

Details >> www.mobilize.us/noki...

#wipolitics #WiResist

NO KINGS Union Grove · No Kings

In America, we do not put up with would-be kings. Even in deep red Union Grove, we know our country will not bend the knee to a king. The American Revolution was fought to break free from monarchy, and our Constitution guarantees that power belongs to the people, not an oligarchy or a ruler who believes he is above the law. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan. It is a call to action. From city streets to small-town squares, people are rising to defend democracy and to use the First Amendment rights that belong to us all: the right to speak out and the right to assemble peacefully. Join us on October 18 to stand together against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Bring your voice, your sign, and your commitment to a stronger, fairer America. Important Details All NO KINGS events are grounded in nonviolent action. Participants are expected to de-escalate any potential confrontation and to act lawfully. Weapons of any kind, even if legally permitted, should not be brought to this event. Let’s make it clear once again: In America, the power belongs to the people.

www.mobilize.us

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

nokings.org

USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 1d

I love it.

The recipe to launch a right wing career is to spout threats and inhuman shit, then claim to have been "canceled" when banned.

If we've now reached the point where showing decency and empathy pisses off RWNJs *and* triggers an anti-outrage reaction, we'll may be headed for better times.

Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 1d

Barf. Went shopping, had to listen to some old lady spew her internalized right wing bullshit: "Did you hear? The EU decided X! Don't they have more important issues to deal with than bla bla bla."

Where X is always some decent yet trivial legislation that RWNJs have been drilled to be offended by.

Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 2d

Those were the times! I remember that jog across the porch :)

If the political spectrum works like a pendulum, it'll come swinging back like a wrecking ball when maga collapses.

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Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 3d

-Maybe it's the tactic from his firs term's tax hike where he invited his marks to post about all the things they're going to do with the $4000 extra they'll be keeping.

Once the media had printed/televised it all, employers cancelled the one off payments and soaked up the continuing tax break.

Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 3d

By calling it "hybrid warfare" aren't we doing the opposite -- that is, trying to give this war some special quality, some "but" that lets us treat it lighter than just saying "war?"

Oil blackmail, financing terrorism attacks, brainwashing our populace into easily-controlled far-right lackeys...

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 3d

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Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 3d

Seconded

She tried to get both governments to talk again, she pleaded for deescalation, she used her visibility to highlight the plight of normal Palestinians to the press and finally, she risked her life and incarceration - multiple times - to bring aid.

Those are the actions that deserve a price

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 5d

We cannot allow a dictatorship in this country. Join me, and millions of people across the country on No Kings Day, Saturday, 10/18, as we march from Roosevelt Park in the Old North End to City Hall for the No Kings Rally at noon. We will meet up at 10:30am. Bring your signs and your noisemakers!

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Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 4d

All I wanted was a convenient database layer for my C++ app. All libraries relied on code generators or ignored `std::u8string`, so I went on a 4-week crusade to roll my own library.

Now I've got a whole ADO.NET like framework, a schema migration system and soon maybe fluent queries.

#programming

$Screenshot of C++20 code in an IDE. The code is: // The connection factory is responsible for establishing new connections // to databases. QtSqlConnectionFactory uses the SQL module from Qt, // while DriverBasedConnectionFactory uses the official client libraries. auto connectionFactory = ( std::make_shared<Nuclex::ThinOrm::Connections::QtSqlConnectionFactory>() ); // Connection properties specify the target and settings to use when connecting // to a database. A 'ConnectionUrl' uses JDBC-style URLs and a 'ConnectionString' // uses ADO.NET-like key=value assignments. auto connectionProperties = ( Nuclex::ThinOrm::Configuration::ConnectionUrl::Parse(u8"QSQLITE:///tmp/test.db") ); // Optional, but useful: the connection pool makes it possible to reuse // connections rather than estbalishing them anew on each access. auto connectionPool = std::make_shared< Nuclex::ThinOrm::Connections::StandardConnectionPool<ProjectDataContext> >(connectionFactory, connectionProperties); // The MigrationRunner maintains a table in the database where it records which // schema migrations have already been applied. It upgrades the database schema // by running your 'Migration'-inheriting classes in the natural order. { Nuclex::ThinOrm::Migrations::MigrationRunner runner(connectionPool); runner.AddMigration<Database::Migrations::M001_ProjectSettings>(); runner.UpgradeToLatestSchema(); } // Queries are independent from any connection (but connections "materialize" and // cache them once touch them). Parameter passing is normalized to the {fmt} style, // but othe SQL dialect specifics have to be honored. { Nuclex::ThinOrm::Query test(u8"SELECT COUNT(*) from Users WHERE Age >= {age}"); test.SetParameterValue(u8"age", 20); auto connection = connectionPool->BorrowConnection(); int usersAgeTwentyAndOverCount = connection->RunScalarQuery(test).AsInt32().value(); connectionPool->ReturnConnection(connection); }$

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Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 @bc60.bsky.social · 6d

Religious zealots did this and soon to come to America 🇺🇸

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 7d

You have to admit it’s hilarious that literally 6mos ago Argentina was the country MAGA was saying was gonna dunk on all the neolibs and show them how to run a proper economy and now they’re literally begging for (and getting!) a handout from American taxpayers.

Clown ideology. 🤡

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Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's response was golden, too.

Like a bad comedian making an unfunny joke, then lashing out at the audience: "people usually clap and laugh when I say that! You're just a shitty crowd! This is MY f-ing show! You can either applaud or go outside wait in the cold parking lot of you don't like it!"

Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 7d

And everyone should fight like hell for that.

It's either a new spring for liberty and freedom where the corrupting influence of billionaires is shaken off and criminal magat/ICE henchmen will be hiding from interpol in Argentina,

or a century of oppression, wars and misery awaits everyone.

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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 9d

nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

nokings.org

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Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 9d

Yep, it's highly suspicious.

Whether they were taken aside individually before/after the meeting or whether each one got a little "top secret" envelope with no digital/mail trail, it's reasonable to suspect that something more was going on than just the wasteful peacock show for drunken Hegseth.

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Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 9d

That would be a truly beautiful outcome :D

Pure karma for foul companies like PepsiCo, Nestle, Mondelez, Raiffeisen Bank and others that preferred their own greed over human lives and moral unity.

Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 9d

Bloomberg: "Russia may nationalize and swiftly sell off
foreign-owned assets under a new privatization mechanism in retaliation for any European moves to seize Russian holdings abroad..."
This would be ideal.
Remaining Western companies in Russia should be punished for... /1

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Michele/Meidas Fan @michelemanziano.bsky.social · 9d

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 10d

Yep, by a factor of like 1 million or whatever bluevirginia.us/2025/09/tues...

Give a Shift About Nature posts: "Just so we're clear, Americans are GROSSLY underreacting to what's being done to their country right now."

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 10d

This was well worth watching

https://youtu.be/Tq3piSqe1z8?si=uSbmSWlGP1jSwjtj

White preacher tears into right wing embrace of white Christian nationalism

YouTube video by Roland S. Martin

youtu.be

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 10d

There’s Only One Way to Read the Data: Right-Wing Terrorism Is an Existential Threat to American Life.

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

There’s Only One Way to Read the Data: Right-Wing Terrorism Is an Existential Threat to American Life

Maybe the president should put that report back up on the DOJ website.

www.esquire.com

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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 13d

They are good at reframing all that’s good into lies. Wake up America.

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Markus Ewald @cygon.bsky.social · 12d

Wishing your all a Blue Wave right into supermajority territory, to be able undo the unfathomable damage Trump and his Russian puppeteers have wreaked upon the US.