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Not Like This@brotherbuddha· 22d

3/ I'll leave this with a response of a then 14 year old girl who was on the island that day 15 years ago who had to run, to hide, and to silently bear witness to unforgivable crimes done to her friends to survive a murderous bigot.

Segment of text highlighted in yellow that reads:

"I want you all to know that if I haven't answered to all the expressions of compassion that I have been reading by now, it's because I have tried to think, and I have tried to think of one thing: how can we prevent movements like the movement Breivik participated in?"

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Jul 8

@erinbiba.bsky.social User: purematthew Display name: A spare bowl of candybeans

Screencap of Quote Post from Marisa Kabas showing a single loudspeaker emoji quoting Julie DiCaro:
"Still waiting for the dudes at Zeteo to acknowledge their role in hyping up Platner and minimizing the allegations against him"

Reply from user purematthew:
"Thank goodness so many people have the courage to scold people for wanting to believe in something."

Screencap of a reply to purematthew's prior post shown in last alt image:
"something"

Followed by a reply from purematthew:
"Fantastic policy positions and what we had hoped was the growth of a human being. I know, I know, we're all just awful rubes."

Screencap of a reply to the prior post shown from purematthew:
"*supports a white mercenary with a Nazi tattoo that was a red flag machine to everyone with sense*
'OMG how can you fault someone for having hope 🙄'"

Reply from purematthew:
"OK"

Another reply from purematthew in the same chain:
"Well, I supported somebody who got a skull and crossbones tattoo that he later found out had Nazi connotations. Which is why he got it covered up. Which is literally an admittance of a mistake, which is something I appreciate. Thank you for noticing that."

This is where I decide to hop in with my reply:
"1. It's not a Jolly Rogers tat, it's the symbol of the murderous SS
2. To get Nazi tattoos you have to visit an artist/parlor that is willing to do it which means a Nazi artist/parlor
3. I just wondered into American History X cosplay, if you believe that BS, is itself disqualifying incompetence."

Reply from purematthew:
"It's a skull and crossbones tattoo, that 99% of people had no idea had Nazi connotations before 9 months ago."

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Jun 11

With appropriate #AltText

DroneXL Article Headline: Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained the Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones

Author: Haye Kesteloo

10-12 minutes

Lead: Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and other military robots. Most of the players had no idea.

The pipeline runs from a mobile game to the battlefield in three steps. Players scanned the physical world. Niantic Spatial turned those scans into a 3D map that lets a machine locate itself by sight when satellite signals fail. And in December 2025, Niantic Spatial announced a partnership with Vantor, the defense and intelligence firm formerly known as Maxar Intelligence, to fuse that ground-level system with Vantor’s aerial navigation software for use in GPS-denied operations.

The collected scans, around 30 billion of them according to Trouw, became the raw material for a Visual Positioning System, or VPS. Where GPS depends on a satellite signal, VPS works out where a camera is by matching what it sees against a detailed 3D model of the world. Two recognizable reference points a few pixels wide can be enough to fix a location. Niantic Spatial CTO Brian McClendon, who previously led the team behind Google Maps, Google Earth, and Street View, has said the approach suits robots operating where GPS regularly drops out, such as dense cities, and where signals are deliberately blocked, such as war zones.

Article Callout: Vantor Will Pair the Ground Map With Aerial Drone Navigation

The Vantor partnership, announced on December 16, 2025, joins two positioning systems into one. Niantic Spatial handles localization on the ground by aligning a camera feed against its model. Vantor’s Raptor software, launched in February 2025, does the same job in the air using a drone’s camera and Vantor’s proprietary 3D terrain data. Combined, the companies say, a drone overhead and a vehicle or dismounted operator below can share the same coordinates in real time with no satellite link. The principle is already turning up on the other side of the front, where a downed Russian drone was found matching live camera feeds against preloaded terrain imagery rather than trusting a single GPS module.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Jun 1

The gaslighting propaganda statement from AG Davenport with #AltText b/c the fascist is apparently too busy ordering NJSP abuse of people protesting the atrocities of the concentration camp at Delaney.

Letterhead: Office of the New Jersey Attorney General
Release Date: 05/31/2026

Headline: Statement of Attorney General Jennifer Davenport on Delaney Hall Protests

"We are grateful for the many peaceful individuals who exercised their right to protest and complied with the City of Newark's curfew order tonight. Beginning at 8:15 p.m. tonight, people gathered in the zone covered by the curfew order were given numerous warnings, in English and Spanish, to leave the area by 9 p.m. Many protesters complied with the curfew order. But a group of individuals who had come to the protest armed with helmets, shields, or gas masks deliberately refused to comply with repeated orders to leave the area and were arrested. Their actions put the public at risk, and I am grateful to law enforcement for de-escalating the situation.

We remain firmly committed to protecting the right to peaceful protest and to protecting the safety of the public. We will continue to work with Governor Sherrill and her administration to ensure that all people detained at Delaney Hall are treated with dignity and humanity.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· May 30

Headline: Armed men assert control in north Hollywood bank Can I get paid to write bad headlines now too?

Grainy black and white security camera footage of inside Bank of America North Hollywood branch from February 28, 1997 in which two men wearing ski masks can be seen one holding a semi-automatic rifle with a drum magazine walking in front of another carrying a large duffel bag that looks weighed down by its contents.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· May 25

RIP Kenji Ohba. Just learned he died earlier this month. If you've ever seen the entire film Kill Bill you know this actor from the Okinawa sushi bar scene as bald guy.

Still image from the film Kill Bill of the Okinawa sushi bar scene with JJ Sonny Chiba, who died in 2021, as Hattori Hanzo (left) Uma Thurman as the Bride (middle) and the late Kenji Ohba as bald guy (right). Hattori and bald guy are in the middle of another argument and are both waving their index fingers at the other as the Bride watches.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· May 22

Payphones are here to stay. We need to stop fearmongering about Payphones and start finding out ways that Payphones can be used ethically and to support our causes. Naysayers need to realize that this technology is inevitable.

A bank of three payphones right next to each other, each one an open front metal gray box housing with the phone a smaller black box with a metal gray face mounted inside. A short armored cord connects each to a black handle shaped handset. The word Phone is written at the top of each housing in the same color of blue.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· May 21

Last time I checked creating a $1.776 billion slush fund for terrorists was very illegal for many reasons including laws prohibiting Material Support for terrorists such as giving them money.

Screencap of an official Homeland Security website definition of Terrorism which establishes everyone involved in the violent attempted overthrow of the US government in 2021 is by the government's own definition a terrorist.

What is Terrorism?

There are a variety of definitions for terrorism. In general, it is considered to be the unlawful use, or threatened use, of force or violence against persons, societies, cultures or governments in order to create a desired change. The change sought may be political, religious or social in nature.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· May 17

With #AltText

Let’s be honest about who is doing this, too. This isn’t abstract conservatism, and it isn’t “polarization.” It’s an alliance between oligarchic money and extremist movements, and it isn’t particularly subtle. The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law, and the country becomes a holding pen.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· May 15

Every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace. Eat A Peach.

Picture of the 1972 album cover for Eat A Peach (artwork by W. David Powell at Wonder Graphics) by The Allman Brothers Band depicting a 40s-60s era retro red cabbed peach truck with 6 wheels and one gargantuan delicious looking peach that dwarfs the truck overloading the green flatbed. On a black panel on the side of the truck the words "the ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND" is written in a similar shade of orange and yellow as the peach with Allman Brothers in a much larger font than the other two words.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Apr 24

Small Domino to Big Domino meme with the smallest marked WH Correspondents' Dinner Joke and the large domino at the end of the line marked Christian Schism.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Apr 24

The claims from Dr. Nevin about how his choices are motivated by an endeavor to safeguard the public health of St Clair County residents are hollow. We know this because of Dr. Nevin's MAHA policy pursuing the spread of preventable diseases among the population of St Clair County.

Excerpt from a different article from Bridge Michigan about Dr. Remington Nevin who is mentioned more than once in the ProPublica piece.

Since joining St. Clair County’s public health department in 2023 in a part-time capacity, Nevin has made it easier for parents to opt out of children’s vaccines, sought to prohibit fluoride in drinking water, removed health care services from school clinics and pushed a county ordinance that declared solar farms a possible “threat to public health.”

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Apr 23

Markets and media both are more responsive to BS from the white house on Hormuz than they are to reality in Hormuz. It's not getting any better and the unwillingness of many to simply examine the facts as they are and engage critical thinking skills about it has been dispiriting and disorientating.

Two part post I finally uploaded a week ago after thinking about it and deciding not to for near a month during the ongoing crisis b/c of the sense of doomerism it gives off. The posts reads:

Force majeure
Demand destruction

Words that are not as widely understood as fuel rationing and fuel shortage. Food shortage and food rationing. Global food and fuel crisis.

The price at the pump is dominating the economic headlines on this stateside, but there is a world of suffering being caused and I don't get the sense the profound and grave implications of it near and long term are being widely grasped.

Feels like watching a person who doesn't know they are about to be hit by a train while you're pointing at the train but they don't react until the train is upon them.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Apr 17

Trump 2023: Biden and the Dems caused Oct. 7 by giving Iran $6 billion. Trump 2026: Gifts Iran $14 billion in oil profits while at war w/Iran, considers giving Iran another $20 for their uranium he claimed destroyed last year, and Iran the capacity to make billions more w/a toll system on Hormuz.

Headline: 2024 GOP presidential contenders blame Biden for Hamas attacks on Israel

Sub-head: Several of them baselessly claimed the U.S. funded the attacks as a result of the prisoner exchange deal with Iran.

A picture of then candidate Donald Trump speaking at a podium on Sept. 15 2023 in Washington D.C.

"These Hamas attacks are a disgrace and Israel has every right to defend itself with overwhelming force. Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration," former President Donald Trump said in a statement.

Trump, who has been leading the GOP primary pack, added that his administration brought "so much peace to the Middle East through the Abraham Accords, only to see Biden whittle it away at a far more rapid pace than anyone thought possible. Here we go again."

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Apr 16

Bluesky now❗Forbidden

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Apr 12

Look at that Dove fly @nytimes.com

NYT opinion piece headline that has aged about as well as a carton of milk left out in the summer sun of the Namib.

The pro-Trump propaganda headline is:
Donald the Dove,
Hillary the Hawk

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Apr 5

In the US' war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq this language was normally used to describe people targeted and killed by US forces.

Feature / September 18, 2013

Headline: America’s Lethal Profiling of Afghan Men

Subhead: Despite rules of engagement to the contrary, such targeting pervades the entire chain of command—up to the Oval Office.

$An excerpt from the same article with the words military-age males highlighted. Severe facial trauma and right-leg fracture. Right-leg amputation, lower left-leg fracture and pulmonary embolism. Lower left-leg amputation and multiple shrapnel wounds. Twelve injured in all. And they were the lucky ones. On February 21, 2010, Hellfire missiles from US helicopters streamed down on a convoy filled with militants—military-age males armed with rifles—near Shahidi Hassas, in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan Province. The band of insurgents was preparing to attack a small US force that was conducting a village raid with Afghan security forces. But the Americans had monitored their cellphone calls and knew all about their plans. A Predator drone had been surveilling their every move for hours and sending video feed to a base in Nevada. Air Force personnel there and at other facilities viewed the footage and helped coordinate the helicopter assault that blasted the caravan before it could attack the Americans. As many as twenty-seven Taliban were killed in the strike, in addition to the twelve injured. Except they weren’t Taliban—or insurgents of any kind. There was no evidence they had been talking on the phone about attacking the Americans, and they weren’t converging on the site of the US operation. They weren’t all military age, and they weren’t even all men.$

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Apr 1

Per a law, yes, unfortunately this is the most criminal regime prone to violating law in US history. They just violated Constitutionally delegated Article 1 powers, yet again, by paying TSA agents. The laws can be broken if no one enforces them, and this law isn't even Constitutional. Why does any

“This is not open and shut, this is about Congress telling you you can’t do this, and if you ignore Congress, you’re going to have to fight us in the courts over it,” Anderson said.

If Trump simply declared he was pulling out of the alliance, it’s unclear whether Congress would have the legal standing to sue him for ignoring the law, according to Curtis Bradley, the Allen M. Singer distinguished service professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

The Supreme Court has generally held that institutional conflicts between the branches are political questions best resolved through the political process rather than through judicial intervention.

“For the issue to be litigated, there would need to be someone with standing to sue,” Bradley said in an email. “The only party I can think of who might have standing would be Congress itself, but it is not clear that the Republicans in Congress (who will at least control the Senate) would support such a suit.”

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Mar 30

I don't think asking for something that is already legally required, like a judicial warrant to gain entry into private property for search & seizure (US Constitution aka supreme law of the land), is reform. I find it a symbolic gesture and one that is problematic as it unwittingly implies that

Democrats — from progressives like Connecticut’s Chris Murphy to centrists like Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar — demanded a range of reforms before moving ahead with funding. Those reforms included forcing ICE/CBP to obtain judicial warrants before entering private property, prohibiting DHS agents from wearing masks, and preventing ICE/CBP from operating in medical facilities, schools, childcare facilities, places of worship, or — crucially — polling places.

Many of these demands were basically calls for DHS to simply start following the Constitution, but that was a bridge too far for Republicans. So they insisted they would not pass an ICE/CBP bill with conditions.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Mar 21

Trump 2023: The dems caused Oct. 7 by giving Iran $6 billion. Trump 2026: I'm giving Iran a $14 billion windfall after starting a war w/Iran.

From the AP in Oct. 2023

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and other GOP contenders tried to lay blame on the Biden administration after Hamas militants launched the deadliest attack on Israel in decades, citing a $6 billion transfer to Iran that administration officials insisted Saturday had yet to be spent.

From NBC news this week.

News category: Iran War

Headline: U.S. eases Iranian oil sanctions in scramble to contain energy prices, handing Tehran a boost

Sub-head: Experts say the U.S. risks "funding a war against itself" as sanctions against Iranian oil are lifted, but the step may not do much to contain the conflict's economic ripple effects.

An excerpt from the same NBC article.

“By temporarily unlocking this existing supply for the world, the United States will quickly bring approximately 140 million barrels of oil to global markets, expanding the amount of worldwide energy and helping to relieve the temporary pressures on supply caused by Iran,” Bessent added.

About 20% of the oil that the world consumes every day travels via the Strait of Hormuz, which runs along part of Iran’s coast. But since the war began at the end of February, shipping in the channel has come to a halt.

Retail gas prices have risen 93 cents per gallon and U.S. crude oil has soared more than 70% since the start of the year, as geopolitical strategy and economic reality collide.

At current prices, the amount of oil Bessent said the measures would bring to market would be worth more than $14 billion for Tehran.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Mar 20

It was an ACAB protest. Based on this some of the bastards invented a gang called ACAB and abused laws on the books to persecute the protesters by charging them as members of said fabricated gang. You can't make this shit up. They damn themselves to the designation with their own deeds.

“ACAB GANG”

Arizona statutes regarding criminal street gang classification are broad and only require two of the following criteria to be met: (1) Self proclamation; (2) Witness testimony or statements; (3) Written or electronic correspondence; (4) Paraphernalia or photographs; (5) Tattoos; (6) Clothing or colors; (7) Any other indicators.

Phoenix police Sgt. Doug McBride, a “grenadier” who manages the Tactical Response Unit and former gang detective, testified that all members of the group met the criteria for three reasons.

The first is the chanting of “All Cops are Bastards,” which he claimed is self-proclamation. The second was most of the group dressed in black, which meets the colors requirement. And the third was many of the group carried umbrellas, which McBride claimed was part of their uniform.

The following are exchanges between prosecutor April Sponsel and McBride during an October 30, 2020 bond hearing for defendant Suvarna Ratnam.

TIMECODE: 5:35
SPONSEL: Were they yelling or saying anything?
MCBRIDE: Yes, they were.
SPONSEL: What were they yelling or saying?
MCBRIDE: I believe it was ACAB. And then the group would respond, "All Cops are Bastards.”
SPONSEL: In regards to the ACAB, do you know where that came from?
MCBRIDE: We’ve been dealing with it since May, since these protests started. It’s a specific group of individuals that identify themselves as being part of “All Cops Are Bastards,” or ACAB.

Here’s how McBride testified before a grand jury when questioned by a MCAO prosecutor.

PAGES: 31, 34, 36
Q: What is that name of this gang?
A: It is called ACAB, A-C-A-B, and it stands for All Cops Are Bastards. We first came into contact with this group through graffiti, signage, ACAB written on the back of skateboards and different paraphernalia throughout our 150-plus day employment and mobilization and civil unrest in Phoenix.
—

Q: And what were those two other criteria where you were able to attribute the other individuals listed in the indictment?
A: Both self-proclamation and the colors, the clothing.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Mar 20

Reads like some Mississippi Burning good ole boy shit is going down in Volusia County

The AP requested the arrest report for Royer Perez-Jimenez from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, providing the full name listed in the ICE press release and the date of the arrest. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office responded that it searched its system, and Perez-Jimenez does not appear in it.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Mar 11

Quite the look for a regime so closely associated with CSA to engage in an illegal and unprecedented push to gain access to that massive registry database.

Excerpt from the ProPublica article with the third paragraph that begins with the words "The database also names every child..." higlighted in yellow.

The database contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country, as well as the equivalent details for anyone listed in state unemployment systems. It exists so that if someone owes child support, the government can pursue them for it even if they’ve changed jobs or moved to another state.

The repository includes these personal details and employment records, updated throughout the year, for all types of people — even those who don’t have any children. Only some who work exclusively in the gig or cash economy, or who are entirely self-employed, might not be listed.

The database also names every child in the U.S. who is the subject of a state child support case, including each child’s sex, birthday and Social Security number, as well as family members’ names and relationships. And it identifies when single mothers and kids who receive child support are domestic violence victims — alongside their address.

“This is the most powerful people-finder system that the U.S. government has, and possibly that exists,” said Bethanne Barnes, who from 2019

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Mar 4

Moxie, a little red-brown weiner dog turning gray w/years, sniffs at a batch of beautiful and different colored flowers.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Feb 15

I've seen this report from eyes-and-ears and each time I've checked WoT's status on Prime I've seen no info displayed on the page which indicates it is leaving soon. Note: these screenshots are from less than 1 hour ago and I'm a US based user.

Prime video page for Wheel of Time season 3 with no info indicating it is leaving Prime soon, where this info is usually displayed a self congratulations on being a BAFTA-nominated fantasy is displayed in green text.

Prime video page for film Iron Claw with info displaying it leaves Prime in 4 days written in green standing out in its description of entirely white text.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Jan 31

*Through the Looking Glass The purpose of the gambit is revealed by Humpty in the last line here. "The question is which is to be master — that's all."

"When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all."

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Jan 17

"It's about racism, it's about Nazism, it's about fascism, and we need to do anything we can to stop it.” There's a quote from the mayor of St. Cloud in this story which brought me back to my recent thinking on a double edgded sword of governing that the mayor doesn't seem to consider.

Even in the wake of ICE descending upon his city without warning, brutalizing residents and whisking them away, St. Cloud Mayor Jake Anderson has kept his response passive and tepid: “There’s a lot of folks that are telling me that I should pull a [Minneapolis Mayor Jacob] Frey and tell them to get the F out. I don’t think that helps,” Anderson told a local news outlet earlier in the week. And on Thursday he told St. Cloud Live, “We’re limited in our role and I don’t want to attempt to step into lanes we can’t do anything about, because I don’t think it’s necessarily helpful.”

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Nov 18

Video transcript in #AltText

Intro song Sonata Para Bombachas by Barenaked Ladies plays.

"This is The Learning Channel. Time now for This Day in History."

"Hello, I'm Deirdre Smythe Glieberman. On this day in history in 1534 French explorer Jacques Cartier landed on the shores of what is now eastern Canada. Cartier had hopes of starting a chain of expensive watch and jewelry stores. Cartier travelled inland to explore the new land."

[Jacques has a mock French accent]

Jacques Cartier (J): I claim this land for the glory of King what's-his-name of France. I shall be famous as the man who began a new era of French colonization.

Immigration official (I): Not so fast.

J: Who are you?

I: Stand behind the red line. [waits a few beats] Next!

J: What is the meaning of this delay, I am here to discover Canada!

I: Well you're only about ten thousand years too late, friend.

J: You look familiar, were you in that movie Dances with Wolves?

I: [in mock French accent] Yes, I was.

J: What was your name?

I: Kevin Costner. Reason for visit?

J: Reason? I am here to claim this land for the glory of la France.

I: Well there goes the neighborhood. Occupation?

J: I am an explorer, adventurer, courageous traveler.

I: I'll just put down dork. I love this job. What's your native tongue?

J: I am a master of many tongues.

I: Oh yeah? What are they, Cree, Inuit, Dene?

J: No.

I: Blackfoot, Mohawk, Haida?

J: No.

I: Then you don't know any native tongues. I'll just put down illiterate.

J: How dare you, I am Jacques Cartier, world famous explorer with over fifty thousand frequent sailor points. I am a very important person. I am very popular. I am known all over France. I can have any woman I want as long as I can come up with the cash.

I: Big deal, I'm hosting the Genies next week.

J: Look, the whole reason I am here is to discover Canada. You are treating me like a second-class citizen.

I: Wait until you go through the body search.

J: No way!

I: Application for immigration denied. Next!...Denied!

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Nov 18

Video description in #AltText

He then flexes his now gloved fingers menacingly as he smirks at Jacques. Jacques deflates at this refusing the body cavity search so the official gets out a big stamp and times the smack like presses of it with his words denying the application of immigration. He then says next waving Jacques away who storms off in a huff to be replaced by a stereotypical looking Englishman circa the 1500s carrying the Union Jack. The official is doing paperwork and doesn't notice him approach till he's at the table then he looks him up and down once and just says Denied before going back to his paperwork. The Englishman looks confused as he walks away from the encounter. The words This Day in History fly in from right to close out the scene before cutting to the in studio audience applauding the performance.

Not Like This@brotherbuddha· Nov 18

Video description in #AltText