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Every Legitimate News Agency Leaves The Pentagon Rather Than Agree To Act As Pete #Hegseth’s Stenographer - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/20/every-legitimate-news-agency-leaves-the-pentagon-rather-than-agree-to-act-as-pete-hegseths-stenographer/ more like this please

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115422407120803629

Good morning Fedi friends!

The results of yesterday's poll are in: 53% of you voted for #NextCloud – as in: the software I should showcase in my #YunoHost / #selfhosting for newbies step-by-step guide.

I've been self-hosting NextCloud for 4 months now and it has become absolutely essential to me, replacing Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive and WeTransfer. But it has so many more capabilities too!

I'm excited to do a show & tell.

Yay for #DigitalSovereignty and independence from #BigTech ✊

We’re better than fear.

We’re braver than billionaires.

We’re bigger than ever.

And we’re gonna win. #NoKings

I stopped shopping online at Target when it stopped being supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. So when Target announced layoffs today, I looked to see if the press mentioned this.

AP: Nothing
https://apnews.com/article/target-corporate-layoffs-minneapolis-india-f4d8100fa2bf4af67e4fb4e388cedf50

Reuters, 2nd paragraph: "The move, unveiled by incoming CEO Michael Fiddelke in memo to employees on Thursday, comes at a time its share price has lagged rivals and the company has faced backlash for pulling back from its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies."
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/target-plans-lay-off-1800-employees-wsj-reports-2025-10-23/

CNN, 3rd & 4th paragraphs: The layoffs, which come ahead of the critical holiday shopping season, are the latest sign of struggles at the Minneapolis-based company. It has been been reeling from slumping sales and fierce blowback to its retreat on DEI programs.
Its decision to end some of those initiatives angered supporters of diversity and inclusion policies, who felt blindsided. Target had staked out a reputation as a strong corporate supporter of DEI.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/business/target-layoffs

#Target #LGBTQ #journalism

Amid yesterday's #ExtremeWeather 💨, @bernardchickey.bsky.social was blown away by #NZmedia's reticence to use the C-word:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2OmZprpKo

If the driver of these hot & windy conditions is unusual Sudden Stratospheric Warming over Antarctica:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/576739/antarctica-s-september-weather-driving-current-hot-windy-conditions
then #SeaIce loss over the Amundsen & Ross Seas may provide the link to #ClimateChange:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GL115257

I wrote on Boing Boing about a new book by Bill "Zippy the Pinhead" Griffith: a graphic biography of his great-grandfather William Henry Jackson, Old West photographer and artist, whose photos of Yellowstone were instrumental in the creation of the first national park.

https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/legendary-cartoonist-bill-griffiths-new-graphic-biography-of-his-great-grandfather-william-henry-jackson.html

A bit concerning that the second largest TV station operator in the country thinks an FCC license requires Sinclair to "not bring any biases with us."

No, the FCC is legally prohibited from meddling in content and from being the arbiter of "bias."

https://deadline.com/2025/10/jimmy-kimmel-first-amendment-sinclair-abc-fcc-1236594347/