Tadonic the Flautulent

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"Breaker of Wind". 😉 Aspiring car-free musician (rock, folk, Celtic / British trad.). Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) advocate, educator, & former developer. Part of the Resistance. #FOSS #musician #rock #folk #celtic #autofree #WashingtonDC #DC

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Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· 15h

The Guardian's AI algorithm becoming smarter, more sarcastic and cynical: Stories related to a piranha found in Pennsylvania. 😏

The Guardian's "Related Stories" for an article "Piranha drama: boy, 8, hooks fearsome exotic fish in Pennsylvania lake"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/boy-catches-piranha-pennsylvania

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· 16d

#CryBabyDonald #ChildDonald #DishonestDonald #NarcissistDonald #FelonDonald

Cartoon: Trump throwing a tantrum.

- The election is rigged... unless I win.

- The news is fake... unless it's flattering.

- Everything is a hoax... unless I tweet it.

- Nepotism is bad... unless it's my family.

- I'm rich... but you can't see my taxes.

- I'm smart... but you can't see my grades.

- I'm a patriot... but I dodged the draft.

- I'm successful... but my businesses fail.

- My staff is the best... until I fire them.

- I'm innocent... but I refuse to testify.

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· 17d

July 27, 2026 headline from @730dc.bsky.social (www.730dc.com). Subscribe to see more and follow the links. #NationalGuard #housing #news #WashingtonDC #DC #AffordableHousing #OccupiedTerritories #resist #protest

SCREENSHOT: SEVEN:THIRTY - Wake to Washington.

[reply to this to tell us how many people you know who've had ~food poisoning~ recently (for this editor: 5)]

WHAT TO KNOW

They don't even go here...

Thousands of National Guard troops will move from hotels into longer-term housing. The price tag? $292M—reportedly cheaper than the alternative, but we gotta ask: Who would be living in these apartments otherwise?! To put this in perspective, last year DC spent around $100M to build and preserve affordable housing for DC residents.

* While Minnesota has recalled their contingent, troops from 20+ states still remain on our streets. Here’s how to tell who’s who—and how to push back on the waste of tax dollars.

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jul 14

Rally/Vigil for Lorenzo Salgado & all ICE victims STOP ICE TERROR Full rights for all immigrants Tuesday, July 14 • 6:00 PM LAMONT PLAZA • 3120 Mount Pleasant Street NW • Washington DC #WashingtonDC #DC #resist #protest #rally #vigil #ICE #immigration

POSTER:

Rally/Vigil for Lorenzo Salgado & all ICE victims

STOP ICE TERROR

Full rights for all immigrants

Tuesday, July 14 • 6:00 PM

LAMONT PLAZA • 3120 Mount Pleasant Street NW • Washington DC

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jul 13

NEWS: Trump's January 6th speech not an official act. Lawsuits can proceed. social.trom.tf/display/dbc8... #news #DonaldTrump #lawsuits #January6th

PHOTO: Donald Trump in front of several American flags, apparently wearing boxing gloves and posing like a fighter.

TEXT:

A federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump's speech at the Ellipse on January 6th, which incited an insurrection, was not an official act and therefore civil lawsuits against him may proceed.

He may have avoided prison for now, but we can still take what matters most to him: his money.

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jul 12

COMING SOON: The Nerd Reich by Gil Durán (gilduran.com) social.trom.tf/display/dbc8... #technology #bookstagram #SiliconValley #reading #PeteThiel #DarkEnlightenment #NeoReactionary #NRx #cameralism #CurtisYarvin #NeoFascism #TechnoFeudalism #book

SCREENSHOT: Post by Gil Durán

Sunday, July 12, 2026 a 3:23 PM

PHOTO: A cardboard box with muliple copies of a hardcover book, one of which is being held. The cover is red with a circuit board tracing faintly laid over it. "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fasscism and the War on Democracy" by Gil Durán

TEXT: Yesterday two mysterious boxes arrived.

And here in my hand is my life's work: "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fasscism and the War on Democracy". It tells the story of how a cult of billionaires became radicalized against democracy. And it exposes their plan to use AI and crypto to wipe the United States off the face of the earth.

Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat -- pre-order today! (See links below.)

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jul 10

URGENT: Let Council know you oppose their Emergency Bill to change the At-Large election structure BEFORE July 14!!! social.trom.tf/display/dbc8... #DC #WashingtonDC #RankedChoiceVoting #RCV #ActionAlert #deadline

Grow Democracy DC page header photo of cherry blossom trees at the Tidal Basin

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jul 8

#Iran #July7

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jul 3

Donald as Jabba the Hutt, Melania as Princess Leia.

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jul 2

#humor #satire #NarcissistInChief #KennedyCenter

Photoshopped image of the curtain covering the Kennedy Center entrance where Donald Trump's name was removed. The curtain now bears the text: "Donald J. Trump Memorial Butthurt Curtain".

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jun 25

The Reflecting Pool shall henceforth be known as the "Strait of Warm Ooze"

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jun 19

The morally bankrupt, culturally bankrupt, intellectually bankrupt Supreme Leader in Bad Taste ruins yet another piece of prime real estate. He hires only the "best people" to indulge his ego. #RefliectingPool #WashingtonDC #DC #resist #protest #IdiotInChief #NarcissistInChief

Posted Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 7:55 PM [Name redacted]

The reflecting pool saga is just such a parable for what happens when you sideline real experts and replace them with hubris.

I had to see it for myself. Yes it’s green, although not radioactively so. Yes, the liner is already peeling, and it’s getting worse. I could see the edge sway in the eddies and currents along the 1.5x1.5 foot hole exposing the slab beneath.

I know a pool guy who may be able to fix it for 14 billion dollars.

Image description:

1. Wide angle shot of the reflecting pool with the Monument In the background. The water surface appears as a mix of blue and green. There is a large irregular dark patch in the foreground at the bottom of the pool rimmed by green algae.

2. Close up of the dark patch. It currently harbors no visible algae.

3. Close up of the edge from a shallow angle. One can see clearly that the liner has peeled off here and is gone. The edge is a few millimeters thick.

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jun 15

06/26 - Concert: INDEPENDENTS DAY (Takoma Park, MD) social.trom.tf/display/dbc8... #music #TakomaPark #poetry #resist #resistance #protest #OCEAN_Trio #community

INDEPENDENTS DAY • A Night of Creative Expression

POETRY (not fireworks) UNITY

and (not military parades) and

SONG (not ballrooms) LOVE

AMERICA FOR ALL.

Friday June 26 at 7:30 pm • Takoma Park Recreational Center • 7500 Maple Avenue • Free Takoma Park Arts Event

Join us for an evening of poetry and music to celebrate real American values of inclusion and community. Donations will bee collected to support Free DC's work for voting representation and true independence for D.C. residents.

SPONSORS: Free DC • Takoma Park Arts • City of Takoma Park

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jun 9

#humor

CARTOON: A woman opening a door marked "EXIT". Next to her, a man, hand to forhead, eyes fluttering, opening a door marked "DRAMATIC EXIT"

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jun 9

07/17 - Still We Sing: A concert for our times (Creative Caldron Stage, Falls Church, VA) social.trom.tf/display/dbc8... #music #concert #resist #resistance #protest #singalong #SocialJustice #solidarity #VA #Virginia

POSTER: Three upraised fists, surrounded by headphones, a guitar, a microphone, and musical staff symbols.

TEXT: STILL WE SING - a concert for our times

7.17.26 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM

Unite in solidarity and song

David Kitchen • Night Train 357 • Valeria Stewart • Arch Alcantara • Dumi Right • Susanne Brindamour • Grey Jacks • Michelle Murray • Joey Campfire • plus guests Eddie Hartness and Gabbi Boguslaw

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jun 8

Jesus or Hello Kitty! #humor

PHOTO: A highway overpass with an altered banner added. The original banner reads "JESUS or HELL", to which some wag has appended "O KITTY!", so that it now reads "JESUS or HELLO KITTY!".

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Jun 2

"What if for one day everything just stopped... And we all just listened to the music?" Play Music on the Porch Day PLAY FOR PEACE Worldwide • Augus 29 • 2026 Register at playmusicontheporchday.com #PlayMusicOnThePorchDay #MakeMusic #PlayForPeace #music #musicians #event

POSTER

"What if for one day everything just stopped... And we all just listened to the music?"

Play Music on the Porch Day

PLAY FOR PEACE

Worldwide • Augus 29 • 2026

Play Music on the Porch Day is a worldwide grassroots event where musicians and music lovers step outside to play and sing together, celebrating the universal power of music to make the world a more peaceful place.

Register at https://playmusicontheporchday.com/

#PlayMusicOnThePorchDay #MakeMusic #PlayForPeace #music #musicians #event

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· May 27

Eli Lilly is preparing a phase 2 trial for VERVE-102, a one-time gene editor. The highest dose cut LDL cholesterol by 62% for up to 18 months in 35 participants. The treatment permanently switches off PCSK9, a cholesterol-producing gene. #news #health #medicine #cholesterol #GeneEditing

SCREENSHOT:

Samuel Hume (blue checkmark) @DrSamuelBHume

It feels very futuristic to imagine a world with one-and-done therapies that lower cholesterol for life, but... it might not be far off!

These aree new phase 1 data for Verve/Lily's PCSK9 base editor: one single intervenous infusion reduces LDL cholesterol by as much as 60%

GRAPH: Change in Time-Averaged LDLD Cholesterol Level from Baseline

Mean Percent Change by Dose Cohort (mg/kg)

Dose Cohort -> Mean Percent Change

0.3 -> 10%

0.45 -> 42%

0.6 -> 46%

0.7 -> 30%

0.8 -> 48%

1.0 -> 60%

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· May 26

Joseph P. Swelterpants 🤣 writes "CALLING ALL PATRIOTS!!! The next This Machine is scheduled for July 5th!!! What better way to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the United States of America than with a protest!!!! It's red, it's white, it's blue, it's what we do!" #Greenbelt #MD #music #resist

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· May 14

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· May 13

More guerrilla art on the National Mall. 🤣👍 Read the alt-text for the best guess at the text on the plaque. #art #satire #humor #news #protest #resist #idiocracy #war #Iran #SecretHandshake

SCREENSHOT:

PHOTO: Two people standing and playing video game arcade consoles featuring artwork branded as "Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell" and depicting Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, JD Vance, and RFK Jr. along with quotes and tweets from some of them. Between the two players is a plaque reading "Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell. The Trump administration knows thatt the best way to sell combat is by making it a video game. That's why they've been pumping out the sickest Iran War video game hype press. But why stop at clips when you could go full throttle? Introducing Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell, a high octane, flag-waving, boots-on-the-ground simulator, where freedom isn't debated. It's deployed. No briefings. No hesitation. Just pure pixelated patriotism. Strap in and play hard because this game may never end."

TEXT:

Getty Images [blue check mark] [Follow]

Yesterday (Tuesday, May 12, 2026) 12:00 AM

People play a satirical video game installation titled "Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell" created by guerilla art group Secret Handshake att the District of Columbia War Memorial in Washington, DC. The three interactive pop-up video games, free for public use, mock President Donald Trump and his administration's handling of the U.S. war in Iran. | May 11, 2026 | Heather Diehl | #GettyImages

Source: https://www.facebook.com/gettyimages/posts/pfbid02C9CQV8oggDrS8w6ka71VuUQXjSU2j3cSF6ibhnZ2fUN5FqEBBdWAaMCVeNYCUgGJl

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· May 11

@dcmediagroup.us The sidebar on your site contains a broken URL to Bluesky. It claims your Bluesky page is bsky.app/profile/dcme... which does not exist.

Sidebar: Search..., Archives (Select a Month), Follow us on Bluesky.

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· May 5

Um... 14,000 feet... Yeah. Right. (Later amended to 1,400 feet. Still wrong. That's the length not the height. Later still, they gave up because "Basic research, fact-checking and common sense are hard." and changed it to "from the top.") #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #WashingtonPost #FactCheck

SCREENSHOT (CELL PHONE): WashingtonPost.com

PHOTO: A man standing on an arch over a bridge.

HEADLINE: A man has stood atop D.C.'s Frederick Douglass Bridge for days in protest. It's Guido Reichstadter's second time scaling the bridge's arch. He called The Post from 14,000 feet up.

Updated today at 8:15 p.m. EDT.

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· May 5

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

DEMOCRATS URGE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO PUBLICLY RECOGNIZE ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAMME

A group of House Democrats is urging the Trump administration to publicly acknowledge Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons programme, according to a report in the Washington Post.

"Congress has a constitutional responsibility to be fully informed about the nuclear balance in the Middle East, the risk escalation by any party to this conflict, and the administration's planning and contingencies for such scenarios," the more than two dozen lawmakers reportedly wrote in a letter to the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

"We do not believe we have received that information," they wrote.

Israel has never confirmed or denied possessing nuclear weapons but instead maintains a policy of ambiguity.

However, Israel is widely believed to have at least 90 warheads, according to this House of Commons Library research briefing, and a nuclear weapons capability which it developed outside of the framework of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, under which the states without nuclear weapons pledged not to acquire them, as long as the weapons states made good faith efforts to disarm.

In 2008, former Democratic president Jimmy Carter said Israel held at least 150 nuclear weapons, in what was the first time an American president had publicly acknowledged Israel's atomic arsenal.

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· May 3

Takoma Park Folk Festival: September 27, 2026 takomaparkmd.gov/m/newsflash/... #TPFF #music #TakomaPark #Takoma #TakomaParkFolkFestival #folk #art #festival #Maryland #MD

PHOTO: The Takoma Park Folk Festival

Seeking performers, vendors, and artists fo Takoma Park Folk Festival on Sunday, September 27

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· May 2

Gerrymandering explained. #gerrymander #gerrymandering #cheating #graphic #ElectionInterference #VoterRights #voting #elections #dictatorship #fascism #resist #protest

GRAPHIC: Gerrymandering explained: Three different ways to divide 50 people into districts.

Original population: 60% blue (30 people), 40% red (20 people).

Perfect representation: 3 blue districts, 2 red districts (10 people per district). Blue wins.

Compact but unfair: 5 blue districts, each comprised of 4 red and 6 blue. Blue wins.

Neither compact nor fair: 2 blue districts with 1 red, 10 blue, and 3 red districts with 5 red, 4 blue.

washingtonpost.com/wonkblog
Adapted from Stephen Nass

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Apr 24

#humor #StraitOfHormuz #Hormuz

MOCK SCREENSHOT: A fake image of a Google Maps listing showing the Strait of Hormuz on the right. On the left, a search box for "The Strait of Hormuz" at the top, and under it, "Details"

One five-star rating

HOURS: Open. Closes 4:00 PM.

Monday: 9:30 - 4:00 PM

Tuesday: 9:30 - 4:00 PM

Wednesday: 9:30 - 4:00 PM

Thursday: 9:30 - 4:00 PM

Friday: 9:30 - 4:00 PM

Saturday: Closed

Sunday: Closed

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Apr 22

RULES:

1. Please treat our chambermaids as if they were your own sisters.

2. No shooting will be permitted in the rooms. If the cockroaches annoy you, cut their heads off.

3. Don't use the gas for committing suicide. A rope is provided for that purpose.

4. Please do not stick hatpins through keyholes. A man lost his eye that way last year.

5. Divorcees will leave photographs of ex-husbands at the front desk for identification. No more than six photographs permitted.

6. Guests are not permitted to invite their brothers to take baths in their rooms.

7. Guests occupying adjoining rooms will kindly call the house detective to act as chaperone if they wish to make social visits after one o'clock.

8. It is strictly forbidden to use bed sheets as towels.

9. Guests who walk in their sleep should have their room number on a card in their pajamas.

10. Please do not forget the name under which you registered.

11. Guests are warned against playing strip poker on Mondays. We test the fire alarm bells on that day.

COLFAX HOTEL, Cliff and Letha Lloyd, COLFAX, WASHINGTON

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Apr 22

April 26, 2026: Free DC Activist Street Fair, Takoma Park, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM. social.trom.tf/display/dbc8... #WashingtonDC #DC #activists #music #art #information #RankedChoiceVoting #RankedChoice #RCV #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #IRV #protest #resistance #news #event

Screenshot: FREE DC Activist Street Fair, Sunday, April 26, 10 AM - 2 PM, Laurel Avenue, Takoma Park. Make protest art. Listen to protest music. Attend Free DC orientation. Meet activist neighbors.

Tadonic the Flautulent@tadonic· Apr 22

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