Notices by Corb_The_Lesser (corb_the_lesser@mastodon.social)

@ryanc The "udm=14" thing has been around long enough for browser extensions to be available. No need to route queries through another site. (Don't know about Chrome, though. Don't use it.)

Search is a bleak environment these day. I haven't found Not-Google search to return better results than Google's increasingly garbage results. They won't if they're repackaging Google's results.

I'd really like an extension that could ban searches of "All Sites Owned by Google, Meta, etc., etc."

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@JohnBarentine/116211557541685907

Billionaires don't own the sky.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/u.s.-news-lhl4uphvz/-/a-LdmH0CSCQjCXtzAw_sAdDQ%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

If you don't know how this is another #Trump and #GOP move to take the vote away from women, you aren't paying attention.

Someone get this #FCC #Trump tool to point to a legal definition of "fake news" and then explain how a comedian's show on TV qualifies as a news show of any kind.

Trump sent Brendan Carr, one of his obedient little puppets, to the FCC to turn it into an unconstitutional censorship machine.

https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-equal-time-rule-change-jimmy-kimmel-response/

@bruces Lotta ants. Pretty stable food source.

Giant pumpkin makes a break for freedom in Cleveland 'burb. 🎃

https://apnews.com/article/runaway-inflatable-pumpkin-ohio-police-ace28e64b97c5ec872320113de0bd855

@georgetakei 'fired and investigated" is the usual path of MAGA justice: Punish first, investigate later (or, at least, say you did).

@timkmak It's obvious in Witkoff's language. How could anyone but a dictator with a puppet legislature promise "legislative enshrinement" of anything?

It's a tell, too, of the #MAGA view of government: Obedience.

Leaders of legitimate governments with legitimate legislatures know they can't make that guarantee.

@w7voa Lawsuits to follow.

Republicans can't have their kind of states rights AND a POTUS declaring that the states "are merely an 'agent'" of the person in charge of the Executive Branch at any given time.

Trump is saying he wants to decree that states only use paper ballots (no mail and no voting machines) so set that against his history of demanding complete ballot counts the night of the election. That's impossible with paper ballots in all but the smallest constituencies.

@bruces I begin by doubting the authenticity of any emotion expressed on YouTube.

@georgetakei Assume Republicans are lying until proven otherwise.

This reaction from "Inside the Trump White House" is self-serving spin, to be believed only by #MAGA True Believers.

In his debacle of a meeting with #Zelensky, #Trump acted, either in effect or deliberately after coordination, as Putin's proxy.

#Putin does not want legitimate negotiations with #Ukraine. Putin does want to weaken Zelensky and set him up to take the blame for the continuation of the war.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/trump-officials-zelenskyy

@br00t4c This coordinated savaging of Zelensky by Trump and Musk is intended to embed in MAGA the lie it will use to justify total abandonment of #Ukraine and allying with Putin, who will be framed as a peacemaker.

@xankarn If each of us imagines on July 4, 2026 what they would have been doing on July 4, 1776, #Trump can imagine he's selling intel on American troop movements to the British.

@georgetakei And now! The Amazing Trumpo will force Canadians to put gravy on their french fries!

@glynmoody Also, the Soviet's flew their Tu-144.

I lived west of Heathrow while Concorde was still flying. On some routes leaving Heathrow, it would make a turn and climb out above my neighborhood. Just house shaking can't-hear-the-person-on-the-phone loud.

@_elena Better CC-licensed stock photos than Getty's but stock photos are used by news outlets to grab attention and clicks, not convey information. Their use is a symptom of that industry's rot.

@br00t4c What Trump's Deportation Hotline will need is 10 million people reporting Stephen Miller.

@eff You're saluting Meta for encouraging and monetizing hate speech and oppressing critics of American fascists posing as conservatives and libertarians. Are you that naive about the intention of the Zuckerberg, Musk, Thiel, Trump, the GOP, etc ?

@gtbarry Anyone who needs their notifications and headlines *shortened* and *summarized* needs to reexamine how they spend their time.