Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

My fan club sucks.

A room in an abandoned resort
Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/cedar-shade-resort

I’m profoundly offended by Megachurches. Build God a Megahomeless shelter and stop being fake Christians.

Business-genius Trump declared negative income in:
2015
2016
2017
2020

Trump paid a total of $1,500 in income taxes in 2016 and 2017

And in 2020, Trump claimed a refund of $5.47 million

The IRS declined to perform its mandatory audit on sitting presidents for Trump in 2017, 2018 and 2019

So we literally paid Trump to incite a riot and attempt a coup. How’s that feel?

Remember: Trump wasn’t simply “cheating the tax system.” He was cheating you.

The Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act unanimously in March—with the goal of making daylight savings permanent

The house failed to vote on it. They can’t pass something that EVERYONE wants.

(Cough, cough) gun control (cough).

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

- Carl Sagan

#life #astronomy #science #technology #artemis #orion #nasa #CarlSagan #moon #earth #photography

RT @davidfolkenflik: She was an ABC News producer.
She was also a corporate operative.

Part two of my collaboration with @FloodlightNews's…

Creatives sharing their work and showing how people can support it is a legitimate use of social media - if people are passionate about what they make, they will want to share it, and if other people like it, they will want to support it. "Self-promotion" is necessary for most of us to continue to make art, and will continue to be necessary until we can go back to the traditional way of making a living as artists, being patronised by a wealthy Florentine family in their quest for absolute power

A tidy summary of A Christmas Carol

Trump on releasing his taxes:

“We're working on that now. I have big returns, as you know, and I have everything all approved and very beautiful and we'll be working that over in the next period of time”

This wasn’t from last year. This wasn’t from 2016. This was 2,423 days ago. And his first promise to release his taxes was 11 YEARS ago

Now you don’t have to worry about releasing your taxes, chump

The house committee just did it for you.

Elon Musk is Still Silencing the Journalists he Banned from Twitter.

It looks like our accounts have been reinstated, but it's an illusion: We're actually locked out and can't post anything without deleting specific tweets the billionaire doesn't like.

This latest article embeds a Mastodon post and links to posts by @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa and @tony

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/

As newspapers withered in Florida and Alabama, a consulting firm filled the void — using money from power companies to prop up news sites promoting their corporate agendas. https://t.co/yGa7Zxj8i2

Here are answers to some of your most popular questions about COVID risk this year — with advice that's relevant to the current moment.
https://t.co/l8IjUVS5AR

Musk now claiming his OWN POLL, run on a platform that HE OWNS, was rigged against him.

Beyond parody.

So let’s take a look at Elon’s “stalker”:

According to the police: Elon's security followed the victim (they refer to as a stalker). Then they blocked the victim’s ability to leave. Then struck the victim with their vehicle.

In fact, The South Pasadena police department has confirmed that a member of Elon Musk’s security team is currently a *suspect* in the investigation—not the victim

“Elon is a complete lying bitch.”
- vox populi vox dei

It has been just absolutely dumping snow here today, which means that every hour or so, my neighbours get to hear me open my front door, excalim, "Jesus!" and then close it.

FFS, Elon. This is just pitiful.

Aside: Is Elon's new policy at Twitter going to be that Twitter pays for the operational costs of complying with 2703(d) orders instead of passing them along to the government? And if so, are his Saudi financial backers aware of and happy with this plan?

Please let a journalist ask him these questions.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/20/no-the-fbi-is-not-paying-twitter-to-censor/