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[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

. All good over here!

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Idk about the whole US, but I do know about North Carolina as I was an observer at a polling place during that election. I spoke to the wonderful person running the polling place. North Carolina has paper ballots that go through machines. After the election they take a random sample of those ballots and check for major variances. They then check AGAIN a few weeks later. If either turns up major differences they do an automatic full recount. I'd imagine most states have something similar.

While I don't want our current political situation, we have it. These types of articles offer little proof. But what they do is undermine the voting system even more. For them to have rigged the NC election, there would have had to been a massive conspiracy campaign. Someone would have seen somethig and come forward.

Again I WISH this were true. But until there's actuy evidence, and not some random substack article, we let these assholes do what they do and we stand up at election time and do better.

I've been actively contacting my representatives. They of course don't answer, like when I asked them for a comment on a member of their party openly quoting Josef Goebels, or they spin the question. I expected as much, but I'm doing what I can.

Currently it's either going to get worse or better. I wish it will get better, but I'm more confident it's going to get far worse first.

 

On the mobile page. I'm right handed and meant to comment, but the Leave button was blie and right under tge box I was typing and was blue and I didn't even read the Leave and you guessed it, I left.

Suggestion would be to make the Leave button a different color like red? Or move? Idk. :-). Just a thought could just be I'm a silly.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

Asking the tough questions.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I know friends love their ereaders. I'd need an open one, I refuse to get into the Amazon ecosystem. But I also LOVE physical copies. I think they'd probably be great for books I'm sure about and then buy a physical book later. But lots of ebooks are ridiculously priced compared to physical.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I get all of my books through Better World Books. I buy them used as much as possible and they're always in fine shape. I then donate the books on if I don't want to keep them. I seriously love BWB.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/

Better World Books is your online destination for books offering the widest selection of used and new books. We give booklovers across the world access to the power of knowledge at an affordable price and help them stay connected through reading. We better the world, one book at a time, by making a difference with every purchase made through donations and environmental programs. It's simple: Buy Books. Do Good.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you very much! :-)

 

Good day. Everyone! I saw someone else post about their Peertube, so figured I'd do the same.

I'm ozoned. I run the Fireside Fedi show. !show@video.firesidefedi.live . The show is about folks all around the Fediverse, who they are, how they got to where they are, favorite movie (Spaceballs) and how they're involved in the Fediverse. It's a lighthearted show where we get to know PEOPLE.

There's also an audio version available to anyone, including with a podcast app, audio.firesidefedi.live .

And we do every show live via Owncast: stream.firesidefedi.live (and I run the Owncast community as well !owncast@lemmy.world )

I also run a matrix group: https://matrix.to/#/@ozoned:matrix.org

Signal group: https://signal.group/#CjQKIE99Xm1bFD_dYtuibEQqhJ5YKHxrzpBqLgVUtznqcXQLEhBfppOfThDWL3RA3auJ7ZVP

I started a Nonprofit to help advocate and teach digital privacy rights. It's very slow going, but we do have TubeFree.org set up atm for those looking for a general moderated Peertube to join.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Welcome folks, be friendly, get to know people. I've started a podcast, because I had this exact question. I talk to folks from around the fedi and just have a fireside chat. We need more projects like this that show who and what we are and it has to be shown outside of Fedi as well.

If you're interested the show is at video.firesidefedi.live/@show . Also on YT, but delayed by months and with new videos I'm pulling some out as a teaser to go to Peertube.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

Techno King Asshole. TKA for short.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does GoToSocial accounts not work? Couldnt Auth. I never got the message. Tried a few times to auth.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] ozoned@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago
 

This email is from subscription.service@subscriptions.ssa.gov. I have NEVER signed up to receive emails from the Social Security Administration save for invoices. For an administration that is set to run out of money and have to cut benefits by 2033, it's REALLY impressive they found money to push PARTISAN SPAM. I am ABSOLUTELY fucking disgusted right now. I've reached out to my representatives about this. As normal I expect they won't message anything back.

The email states:

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