https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFD-NDbIBlI

For those of you who don't know, we stopped doing public executions because they were notoriously seen as spectacles and parties. People dressed up for them. They gambled. They even soaked handkerchiefs in the blood of the individual being executed, for keepsakes.

I wish that was the end of the brutality, but public executions inspire people within a community to find others to execute. To throw another party. It's like a shark, with blood in the water. If this happens, there will be numerous more to follow. Make no mistake. This will devolve into witch hunts.

This country, that I grew up loving, has gone so far off the fucking rails!

The last public execution (1936) devolved into a carnival atmosphere with around 20,000 spectators, which was seen as an embarrassment to the entire country. And now, our clown of a leader is bringing them back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainey_Bethea

Probably 1/2 of the users on this platform are here as a protest against Reddit. Either the API stuff, or the admins nuking your account, or the mods being... goofy. Or the users, or who knows what.

What's your story?

Mine is simply banana.

Yesterday ABC released an article detailing $6 billion in corrupt business dealings between trump's kids and the US government. 6 hours later this article was censored.

It has been removed from the front page, the reporter's page, and a direct link 404's. It has been completely removed from ABC's website. We are very lucky archive.is got there first.

Original article:
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-sons-investments-won-billions-pentagon-contracts-election/story?id=137049598

Archive:
https://archive.is/0r8k8

Supporting articles that cite the original ABC report:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-brothers-pentagon-contracts

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-has-granted-6b-in-contracts-to-arms-makers-his-sons-have-invested-in/

The censorship of news sources is a major point of violence with this regime. Here is a recent article about ABC's ongoing problems with trump's personal censorship of their reporting.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/06/disney-trump-abc-fcc

Paris Lee was shot six times and killed by Samuel Ward Jr.; this is an indisputable fact. Ward was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in May 2025. He claimed it was self-defense, but the jury didn’t buy it.

This week, however, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals reversed his conviction. A three-judge panel declared that the jury was under the impression Lee was cisgender; that in not disclosing the victim’s status as a trans woman, the trial judge “misled” the jury; and that Ward was entitled to a new trial where he could use this fact to bolster his claim of self-defense.

Zakk Wylde introduces the first-ever Wylde Audio acoustics! Forged with a distinctive blend of craftsmanship and unmistakably Wylde attitude, the brand new Wylde Audio Grand Auditorium Acoustics deliver powerful tone, bold projection, and looks built for the stage.

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Good girl indeed :3
It's hard out here, having a sensitive gag reflex...😉

https://bsky.app/profile/mariapicasso.com/post/3mv3knb3xa22a
https://www.mariapicasso.com/

Damn, that's surprisingly sweet compared to my usual posts 😭
Now draw them having sex :3

https://archive.ph/bVm2X

I love this sequence so much...

The barn cat distribution system is so strong. This little lady already knows her name and loves to be my helper. She sat on my lap today for an hour then sat beside me and watched me portion out horse supplement. She eventually fell asleep on one of the bags.

Ngl, that's quite the motivator 😆

Chris Murphy says Pentagon blocked him from military base in Qatar and Iran strike on US embassy in Riyadh far worse than public led to believe

Senator Chris Murphy said the Pentagon blocked him from a major US base in Qatar, yet saw enough damage on the US embassy in Saudi Arabia to conclude that an Iranian strike would have been deadly had it happened during the day.

The Connecticut Democrat, who sits on the Senate foreign relations and appropriations committees, described the destruction he witnessed in Riyadh as “extraordinary” and much more damaging than the public has been led to believe.

“Had that attack happened during the daytime, there’s no doubt that there would have been many, many Americans killed,” he told reporters on a call after returning from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. He also accused the Pentagon of trying to prevent Congress from seeing the costs of the war first-hand, saying the Pentagon secretary, Pete Hegseth, was “determined to hide the cost and the consequences of this war from the American public”.

https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2108332127318073528#m

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2108345517990129675

Department of Homeland Security

On October 8, at approximately 4:00 PM ET, ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx, New York, to arrest a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Repubic with a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession. He has associations to the Trinitarios gang. The same gang who brutally killed a CBP officer last year.

This criminal illegal alien was arrested by the NYPD on December 7, 2023, but was released into the community a few days later by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk.

During the incident, an ICE officer discharged his weapon and the criminal illegal alien was injured.

ICE officers immediately rendered aid. The individual is alive and at a local hospital. The FBI and HSI are on the scene. The incident remains under investigation. More information will be shared as it becomes available.

When dangerous illegal aliens are released back onto the streets by radical sanctuary politicians, our officers are forced to make arrests at large in the community in unpredictable and dangerous environments. Our officers should not have to risk their lives, and innocent Americans should not have to face unnecessary danger, because sanctuary politicians refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement.

If you're a GrapheneOS user, it's worth being aware of the consequences of revealing device identifiers, which give away privileged device info, effectively fingerprinting your phone permanently. Much of this is tied to RCS as it stands today.

Firstly, whatever SMS/MMS/RCS app you set as your messaging app will have access to

READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE

which the official FAQ notes, regarding the messaging app, is a

...special case that's given access to certain device identifiers including the IMEI. This is normally the GrapheneOS fork of AOSP Messaging but can be changed to another app by the user.

This means that even if you change your messaging app for one moment with network access, that app can (and will) utilize that IMEI and any other identifiers that the privileged state allows. This is a necessary evil of carrier-based messaging.

Secondly, if you've settled on using RCS, which is currently only implemented through Google Messages, it's worth noting, as GrapheneOS devs say,

Some carriers use a verification method (GSMA TS.43) that requires Google Play services to have the permission to do ICC authentication with device identifiers.

This is done by visiting your settings, apps, Sandboxed Google Play, Play services special permissions, and enabling 'Allow ICC authentication with device identifiers'.

Currently, it's obvious that if you're using Google Messages, your only immediate RCS option, that enabling this toggle is not really leaking much additional data since you already spread 'dem cheeks to Google. Again, your carrier already knows a bunch, but that's the price of using modern telecommunications infrastructure. However, by enabling this setting, Google Play Services is also allowed the privileged state mentioned earlier.

If you must have RCS right away, then you're SOL anyhow. But in the future, GrapheneOS devs are planning to attempt their own RCS implementation that doesn't rely on Google (sorry I am not linking to the direct Twitter post). If/when this comes to fruition, RCS will be possible without relying on the infrastructure Google has so thoughtfully trapped us with set up for us.

If you can wait for that day to come, then you should wait for that day to come. Because if you really want to keep Google from having privileged info, you need to know that allowing it now and disabling it later is in part, though largely pointless because the consequences of the decision you made prior are permanent, in relation to identifiers leaked, so long as any of those identifiers remain the same.

Additionally, Google Play Services can communicate with other apps even without networking via an Android feature called inter-process communication (IPC). This allows apps designed for it to communicate directly with each other, in this case Google-to-Google. This includes apps that utilize tracking/analytics through things such as Firebase Analytics. That's a LOT of non-FOSS apps.

Though it's not proven what exactly Play Services exfiltrates via IPC, you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that there may be foul-play involved. Maybe you have an app that is made by Google or uses Firebase that you keep network off for - if you allowed Play Services those ICC permissions, you are, at least in theory, creating a pathway to leak data you may not have intended.

There are a million more ways you might be giving valuable and private and identifying data to Google, but this is one I see often overlooked because RCS is the easiest way to enable encrypted communications with those who don't use any purpose built app such as Molly/Signal or SimpleX Chat etc.

For those wondering, "can't we configure IPC like with other permissions?", great question, you might wanna check out this forum discussion (amongst many others). For those wondering why RCS is so seemingly Google-dependant, check out the wiki page on RCS for some fun history on how Google fucks with everything and everyone on earth.

Caveats:

• If you're running older Android =<10, check the FAQ more cause idk much about that.
• There are things such as Openbubbles that serve a specific niche with different risks/benefits that I'm not covering here. The tech behind it is also very different.
• I'm not a GrapheneOS dev, don't take my word for things, check out the official forums and Github for more in-depth discussion.
• Things can change quickly and unpredictably. Make sure the reality still matches as of this post's date.
• Your decision to use Google on GrapheneOS is not wrong, and it's up to the individual to determine their boundaries or what they deem acceptable.
• Google IPC data exfilfration is not proven fact, maybe a heart still beats within the company somewhere, lol.
• Google doesn't literally fuck everything and everyone on Earth - yet.
• There's subtleties lost here and details simplified, but the overall point is not lost. If you're interested you should read more about it all, it's fun to learn about!

Somewhere in Mason County, West Virginia, there is a grove of trees that should not exist. According to advocacy materials, roughly 200 American chestnuts, reportedly planted in the 1970s from wild survivors, may be cleared as early as November 1, 2026, to make way for data-center development. The project’s official website says the grove is not even on its land. That contradiction is the whole problem, and it has no public answer yet.

What the Clements grove reportedly represents took decades to build and cannot be rebuilt quickly.

The American chestnut blight, caused by a fungus accidentally introduced from Asia in the early 1900s, effectively erased the species from eastern forests. An estimated 3 to 4 billion trees died. The chestnut had been a keystone of Appalachian ecosystems: food source, timber, and shelter.

The grove at the former Clements State Tree Nursery in West Columbia is described by conservation advocates and American Chestnut Foundation materials as having been planted from wild surviving specimens. Think of it as the ecological equivalent of a seed vault that nobody put a sign on. Advocacy sources say the trees carry genetic material that restoration programs across West Virginia depend on, though that role needs independent verification from the Foundation, the West Virginia Division of Forestry, or a qualified botanist.

I'll pay you, just pull it already! 🥺
Won't be asking so nicely next time :3

For those unfamiliar, Immich is a self-hosted photo and video manager, similar to Google Photos, etc.

In the short time I've been using Immich, they've already more or less addressed my main concern, which was around shared albums. Now all I really need is for the option to display select shared albums in a user's main feed.

Some key changes from this version that I thought were neat:

We are very pleased to release the next big milestone towards better sharing: people can now be shared!

As a user you can share people with another user in your cluster group

Lastly, by allowing cross-user merging, you can now merge a face from your own assets with people shared with you from other users. This is especially helpful if you didn't want to re-run facial recognition after joining a cluster group before. Now, after setting up bi-directional sharing, users can manually link people together.

In an effort of making Immich more joyful to use, we are introducing memories for people's birthdays.

If it's the birthday of a person in your library, Immich will now celebrate that with a special memory featuring previous birthdays.

After a long list of optimizations, ML is both significantly faster and uses less memory. This affects every backend, including CPU inference. However, the level of improvement varies by model and backend. Cases where certain backends (such as OpenVINO) produced wrong outputs at times should be resolved.