The Lute Player
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The Lute Player
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People use “fascist“ or “Nazi“ as an immediate mental categorization for any far-right ideology that opposes democracy and I’m like. No. No, those aren’t fascist. Peter Thiel techno feudalists aren’t fascist. Anarcho-capitalists aren’t. Monarchists aren’t. They can suck without that label
September 11, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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Nagoya, Japan, recorded nearly 105 millimetres (104.5 mm) of rainfall in one hour, the highest ever documented in the city. In a matter of 12 hours, 213 mm of rainfall fell on the community. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat...
Parts of Japan hit by flooding as Nagoya sees highest, one-hour rain total - The Weather Network
Torrential rain flooded roads and subway stations across Japan’s Tokai region, with Nagoya recording its highest, hourly rainfall on record (104.5 mm).
www.theweathernetwork.com
September 9, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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August 2026 was the warmest August ever recorded globally and the warmest month on record

El Niño is pushing temperatures higher, but these records are occurring in a climate that has already been fundamentally altered by decades of burning fossil fuels heating our planet

#Climate 🧪⚒️🌊
September 10, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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Neverknowsbest has made a great Gamergate video. I long operated on the assumption (Even being there at the time) that Gamergate went as far as being a harassment campaign and that’s it. What is really was, was a lot of anger that was forced, kicking and screaming into political lines.
August 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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September 9, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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they're straight up banning people for hurting the poor widdle feelings of AI boosters. but meanwhile if you're in charge of the site its ok to call people who don't use AI "delusional liars" so that's cool

ps: quoted post said the account(s) got unbanned in a reply but they're still gone for me
Just saw my first instance of an account getting nuked by mods over nothing in realtime, @dpad.fm got ethered because an account associated with it hates GenAI shit
September 9, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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RIP 1.5
September 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM