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Filmmakers skewer fascism with satire and tragic heroes. But what happens when audiences miss the point?

I'm a heavy user of Firefox & Tree Style Tabs. Recently, I tried Zen Browser. There's a lot there to like, but I think I'm sticking with FF.

That said... there is one thing from Zen I'd love to bring back to FF: That awesome collapsible sidebar for tabs. It's great: The sidebar is totally usable in its narrow, collapsed state (which only shows a vertical stack of favicons). But if I want to expand it, I just click a button and I can see the favicons + website names.

I've tried to achieve the same thing in FF & TST with the CSS below, but it's not the same: This CSS creates a minimized sidebar that expands whenever I hover over it. That's not as useful as the behavior in Zen. In fact, it gets pretty annoying.

Does anyone know how to get Zen-style vertical tabs? Thank you!!

The CSS I'm currently using in FF:

  /* Source file https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/tree/master/chrome/autohide_sidebar.css made available under Mozilla Public License v. 2.0
See the above repository for updates as well as full license text. */

/* Show sidebar only when the cursor is over it  */
/* The border controlling sidebar width will be removed so you'll need to modify these values to change width */
#sidebar-box {
  --uc-sidebar-width: 60px;
  --uc-sidebar-hover-width: 210px;
  --uc-autohide-sidebar-delay: 100ms; /* Wait 0.6s before hiding sidebar */
  position: relative;
  min-width: var(--uc-sidebar-width) !important;
  width: var(--uc-sidebar-width) !important;
  max-width: var(--uc-sidebar-width) !important;
  z-index: 1;
  background-color: #110a0d !important;
}

#sidebar-box[positionend] {
  direction: rtl;
}
#sidebar-box[positionend] > * {
  direction: ltr;
}

#sidebar-box[positionend]:-moz-locale-dir(rtl) {
  direction: ltr;
}
#sidebar-box[positionend]:-moz-locale-dir(rtl) > * {
  direction: rtl;
}

#main-window[sizemode="fullscreen"] #sidebar-box {
  --uc-sidebar-width: 1px;
}

#sidebar-splitter {
  display: none;
}

#sidebar-header {
  overflow: hidden;
  /* color: var(--chrome-color, inherit) !important; */
  padding-inline: 0 !important;
}

#sidebar-header::before,
#sidebar-header::after {
  content: "";
  display: flex;
  padding-left: 8px;
}

#sidebar-header,
#sidebar {
  transition: min-width 115ms linear var(--uc-autohide-sidebar-delay) !important;
  min-width: var(--uc-sidebar-width) !important;
  will-change: min-width;
}
#sidebar-box:hover > #sidebar-header,
#sidebar-box:hover > #sidebar {
  min-width: var(--uc-sidebar-hover-width) !important;
  transition-delay: 0ms !important;
}

.sidebar-panel {
  /* background-color: transparent !important; */
  /* color: var(--newtab-text-primary-color) !important; */
}

.sidebar-panel #search-box {
  -moz-appearance: none !important;
  /* background-color: rgba(249, 249, 250, 0.1) !important; */
  color: inherit !important;
}

/* Add sidebar divider and give it background */

#sidebar,
#sidebar-header {
  background-color: inherit !important;
  border-inline: 1px solid rgb(80, 80, 80);
  border-inline-width: 0px 1px;
}

#sidebar-box:not([positionend]) > :-moz-locale-dir(rtl),
#sidebar-box[positionend] > * {
  border-inline-width: 1px 0px;
}

/* Move statuspanel to the other side when sidebar is hovered so it doesn't get covered by sidebar */

#sidebar-box:not([positionend]):hover ~ #appcontent #statuspanel {
  inset-inline: auto 0px !important;
}
#sidebar-box:not([positionend]):hover ~ #appcontent #statuspanel-label {
  margin-inline: 0px !important;
  border-left-style: solid !important;
}```

The week before the election, we go into fash forums and start posting our "Election Day Fits" and it's all just pics of people in head-to-toe Trump gear, trying to convince fash to wear all their Trump stuff to the polls.

Then, on Election Day, they get there and find that they're not allowed to enter the polling place bc they're wearing campaign gear.

Is this anything?

I have this weird plan to dissuade fascists from voting. It's totally legal and I kinda think it could work.

1. we buy rolls of "I Voted" stickers off Amazon

2. On Election Day, we go to polling places in swing states. Pick a district that's heavily fash, and with long lines.

3. As people line up outside, go down the line and hand out the stickers. People in line get frustrated by the wait, but they figure "I already have the sticker. I can post on social. Good enough." They go home without voting.

4. The fascists lose.

I don't think this is totally nuts. And as long as it's just a generic "I Voted" sticker it's totally legal. What do y'all think?

Ok I'm kinda high but I think this could work.

Step 1: We order a bunch of "I Voted" stickers from Amazon

Step 2: On Election Day, we go to the nearest swing state. Pick a county that's deeply fascist.

Step 3: Grab a clipboard and a lanyard and stand outside the polling place. Give everyone a sticker just for showing up.

Step 4: The lines get long, as they often do. People get frustrated. "Well, I've already got the sticker, so I can do the post on social" they think. They get out of line and go home without voting

Step 5: Trump loses

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Am I high or could this work? I don't think it's even illegal. You're just giving out "I Voted" stickers.

I'd go with this one because it's vaguely MAGA

https://www.amazon.com/Heyfibro-Stickers-Patriotic-Elections-Campaigns/dp/B0D8KWMXDG/

Impeachment proceedings against the French president passed their first round of parliamentary scrutiny Tuesday when the assembly's 22-person committee judged the procedure admissable, voting 12 to 10 in favour...

Macron can count on his centrist Ensemble (Together) coalition and the mainstream right Republicans to vote against...

The Socialists have also announced they will not vote to impeach Macron.

What gives?

I use an Android e-reader (the Likebook P6) and I'm so frustrated by the lack of a good read-it-later app. This chart lays out the shortcomings of current apps.

Pocket used to be good but they dropped support for page turning.

Does anyone have a good app for saving and reading articles on e-ink screens?

There's an Omnivore beta app that supports page turning (great!!) but... for some reason, I can't adjust the fonts on my tablet. (I have this issue with the official Ominvore app, too.) And the Omnivore app doesn't auto-download articles?!?! I have to be online to load each article when I open it, and only then can I go offline. Pocket and Wallabag don't work this way; they'll download all your articles at once and you can read them all later, even if offline.

Are there any other options???

New York has a great gallery scene, and every Thursday you can attend gallery openings. But finding out which galleries are hosting events can be a little archaic: The only sites that list openings are really old, and they don't offer any way to subscribe (say, via RSS).

You know what would be great? A Google Calendar that's updated with all the best art gallery openings. For starters, it could source from these sites:

• ArtNet
• NewYorkArtWorld
• ArtCards.CC

Can someone make this *please *so I can subscribe to it?

There's a great newsletter called nonsense nyc that lists great, off beat events for the coming week.

But it's only available as a newsletter, which is kinda annoying. I'd love to have it as a Google Calendar.

I could manually take the events from nonsense and add each one to my calendar, but that's a chore. Does anyone know a good way to automate it?