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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 14h

As a Tool to troll 45, he's effective. But any last credibility he had as a standup person died with that move. I've never taken him seriously. California needs better.

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 16h

I wrote about this problem almost a year ago when I tried to get disabled seats to @alyankovic.bsky.social & @puddlespityparty.bsky.social at Breese Stevens Field. tarnoff.info/2024/10/24/t...

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 17h

Surrender to the French or Dutch, not really certain due to orientation issues.

nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 1d

Knowledge economy requires people with enough education to thrive. They are free thinkers. They are hard to control. It’s why Dump is dismantling the U.S. Education system. Low education = controllable.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 2d

For my friends and followers in Germany

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 1d

Received my A11Y Antifa shirt from HTMLZ and @stevefaulkner.bsky.social! This is a cool little web nerd shop on ETSY if you haven’t looked.

Nat wearing a heather tshirt. On the shirt is an anarchy symbol as the letter A for the words A11Y and antifa.

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Mz Dela Florez - Sensual Findom & Femdom @mzdelaflorez.bsky.social · 2d

So TikTok is going to be taken over by Oracle & will be using the same surveillance tech as the IDF.

Move accordingly...

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 2d

If the government is going to watch what people post on all social media to find targets for deportation, citizens MUST make it difficult to do. Flood timelines with information that makes the targeted harder to find. Especially if you are caucasian.

zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing to see here. Just ICE planning a 24/7 social media surveillance to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. As you do in a healthy democracy.

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 2d

I have another idea on how to deal with Cookie Banners and other focus stealing dialogs launching at the initial load of a site. Let me know what you think. #a11y #cookies #banners #dialog #accessibility

Rethinking Cookie Dialogs

If you are anything like me, you don't want your data sold to third parties. You probably run ad blockers. Maybe a VPN. Some governments are trying to help by requiring the site to declare what cookies are used and providing the user to opt out. But the current method of displaying this information tends to have some serious accessibility issues.

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Mark Steadman @steady5063.bsky.social · 3d

If you are developing native applications. Please remember that #Accessibility hints are made for extra context. NOT for key information.

Believe it or not, plenty of users of Talkback and VoiceOver disabled hints as they have become to cumbersome

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4d

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 4d

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social i don’t think this falls into fair use. It’s not educational, commentary about the item, it isn’t really parody either. @topmusicattorney.bsky.social

nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. What MSM shows is bad enough. Well, I fully support PR self determining its path regardless of what it may be. Only PR knows what is best for PR. And confusing the hell out of the right with Bad Bunny being everywhere right now.

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 5d

Little less magic, but if you like romance the Outlander series is good. And there is always Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 5d

I can't blame them. Reliant on an unreliable government who forgets you exist and forces taxation without representation. And you only get the "benefits" of being an a citizen if you are off-island, if you get them.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that blocks President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.

The president can't rewrite the 14th Amendment with the stroke of a pen.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 5d

for every post you make about a major pop album today i decree you make one bandcamp friday purchase

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 6d

Same! I went with both in one arm.

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · 6d

ICE stands for "Institute of Cleansing Ethnicities"

Call it what it fucking is. What's being done right now is, actually, without any level of exaggeration, ethnic cleansing.

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 6d

“Dude is American slang for an individual, typically male. From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a male person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner (a dandy) or a conspicuous citified person who was visiting a rural location, a "city slicker".“ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude

Dude - Wikipedia

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 7d

Kyiv region is under a Russian drone attack.

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nattarnoff.bsky.social @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 6d

I miss the days of television specials showcasing scientific breakthroughs with people like Goodall, Hawking, Sagan. The curious for the sake of curiosity, not the money.

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