Trump is using a lie to create a crisis. Then, he's using the crisis to expand his power. We can't normalize 'emergencies' manufactured for political gain. Doing so would risk the foundation of democracy itself.

We can't afford to fight these battles one emergency at a time. We must expose the playbook, reject the lie, and refuse to let fear become the foundation of law.

The frame — and the future — is still ours to shape.

https://www.theframelab.org/unveiling-trumps-big-lie-on-tariffs-and-trade-deficit/

#TLDR This man does not speak for us.

...wrote that she "spent the weekend thinking about Friday's visit -- the actions taken, the words spoken, & how it must have affected each of you."

"I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base," Meyers wrote in the email, which was communicated to Military.com

#uspol #SpaceForce

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/10/space-force-commander-greenland-sent-out-email-breaking-vance-after-his-visit.html

#tldr While this study might seem to be just about traffic, look a bit deeper…it’s really about time, or lack of it. We have a limited number of waking hours during which we can get things done.. any delay, including an unexpected traffic slowdown, can force us to make an unhealthy trade-off.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xmlxpu4drzbkfno5vw4wrv4l/post/3llmnoiy3z22d

New Release Alert! tldr-python-client 3.4.0

Features:
- Support for displaying pages with long/short option placeholders.
- New `--clear-cache`/-k option.
- Support for stylized text inside backticks when appearing in example descriptions.
- Support for Python 3.13.
- Client Specification v2.3 support.

and so on ...

Full changelog: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client/releases/tag/3.4.0

_ Posted by @kbdharun

#3GoodThings (static edition)

• Handel’s Neun Deutsche Arien HWV202-10 (okay that’s nine good things) because I remember when I discovered them, music-making with friends one evening, and how, after each one, we were torn between doing it again (rare to even suggest it in such a situation) and trying the next to see if it was as good. (It always was.) These are one of my sources of joy in music, highly recommended would visit again.
• (related) memory is good, at times.
• (also related) music done well for the pleasure of the participants is a rare and rich treasure.

#tldr music is lifeblood innit.

Digitized an old #vhs tape of a #highschool #basketball game from 1987. A classic memory preserved! #TLDR (#tldw too long, don't watch)
https://youtu.be/bDBTniM3BuQ?si=n6qG0hf53isvKOAx

#3goodthings

• Being not doing. Ah what, were you expecting coherence?
• It was a day when the balance tipped slightly towards kindness, partly because I reduced the number of actions undertaken to near zero (but don’t look too closely at that) which, you’re right, presupposes social interaction of some kind — a secondary good thing I guess, but not, I think, robust enough to stand on its own, though you might disagree.
• Long sentences (vide supra) just because of the amusement they provide me.

#tldr
• Zen and kindness and not enough full stops

I am quite enthusiastic about the toot quoting feature recently announced by @MastodonEngineering ... yes, very often it just makes sense.

But I am not sure about adding too many new complex properties of toots (statuses). How would inter-platform Fedi compatibility of these new privacy levels be enforced, at all?

It would be much easier to associate "quotability" with certain levels of privacy/publicity, which we already have 4, but still very often use just the 2 extremes (all public/all private). If I mark something as globally public, I am fully aware it may be quoted by someone. However, the next "slightly less public" means often sometimes, I don't really want to promote much (and it means also promote by quoting). But this would mean adding feature to limit privacy retroactively, which is not provided yet (only as "delete and repost").

While allowing quoting to people who follow me is not always good bet, generally I wouldn't mind being quoted by people who I follow (I can still unfollow). Quotability attribute may be useful, but would add more complexity. Not being able to be quoted by people I block is must.

Generally, being quoted is more or less identical to reply and boost used together. So being notified is a must, because we are being already notified about replies and boosts.

Being able to block being boosted by someone is also the same feature as being able to block quoting. Sometimes, "keeping it simple and strong" and avoiding redundancy of features is the best design pattern, I believe...

#tldr For all those who are to lazy to read the full article on quote toots

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

Here is how it will work:
- opt-out
- notification
- removal option

(According to the blog post, it took so long, because they did some research and Activity Pub work, so all other services will profit, too)

#3GoodThings (fruit cage edition)

• this afternoon I pushed myself to go to the HofCU and deconstruct the fruit cage, in readiness for conveying it to its new home in a friend’s garden this coming weekend
• the hex key for doing this was no longer in evidence so I used the drill’s screwdriver attachment: four times I dropped the hex bit out of the end into the undergrowth and four times I found it again
• I finished before dark, which is more a good thing about the lengthening days than my efficiency at the task

#tldr #haiku
• I faced the fruit cage
• and fought against entropy
• as days grew longer

#3GoodThings (music version)

• The morning was given over to Haydn (Op71/1) and Schubert (A minor) string quartets with friends, which I enjoyed, happy with my playing;
• In the afternoon I used (had to use) a practice session to try to drive a sudden dark mood away and it didn’t quite do that but it did stabilise me.
• I have blasted through preparing* nearly 600 comments on the latest copy-edit (a large symphony) which can go to the client tomorrow.

* clarifying my shorthand and removing any exasperation and immoderate language that I might have used.

#tldr #haiku version:

• Haydn and Schubert
• the cello as therapist
• second thoughts are best

a good writeup on the #citizenship issue.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order/

#tldr
#tRump is trying to make citizenship a gift and not a right.

It goes down hill from there