James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@social.cleverlibre.org

I’ll bet most folks who act like him couldn’t either.

The Girl Scouts came at me today. Normally I’d buy 2 boxes of Thin Mints, but after their fabulous statements of late, I bought 6.

Apparently Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s legal first name is not Danielle. It’s Marlaina. Danielle is her legal middle name.

Which means that in everyday life, she uses, um, a preferred name.

@RustyBertrand Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists have offered explanations for the collapse of past civilizations involving factors such as environmental change, depletion of resources, unsustainable complexity, invasion, disease, decay of social cohesion, rising inequality, long-term decline of cognitive abilities, loss of creativity, and misfortune.
Which boxes do we check first?
Is there one box labeled “All of the above “?

That is precisely right and exactly what happened, and anyone that doesn’t know this just wasn’t paying attention. Some of us were waving red flags all over the place, and we were told to stop the “hysterics,” and that “America has always had such characters.”

Source: @JamesHMcLaren
https://mastodon.social/@JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org/111853330755758533

BREAKING:
Doug Ford announces “make your own license plate” ServiceOntario craft stations at the back of every Michaels store.

😅​🤣​ 😂​ @tdotresident

#NotTheBeaverton #DougFord #onpoli #toronto

Poll: According to you, will Apple Vision Pro be a successful or failed product?

“Listen, if you take an action you later regret you have to live with the consequences, there are no ‘take-backseys’” — the designer of elevator buttons.

Maybe not driving and not causing climate change is the solution.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240124-climate-change-is-causing-a-pothole-plague-are-robots-and-self-healing-pavement-the-solution

Tried to google trauma dumping but autocorrect changed it to trauma dumpling, the results however did not disappoint

That’s some social media messaging.

#USpol #politics #election #election2024 #president

Schrödinger's candidate...

#VoteBlue

'Break them up' -- TekSavvy calls for the structural separation of leading telecom companies
https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/01/23/teksavvy-calls-for-the-structural-separation-of-leading-telecom-companies/

What do you call a pig with three eyes? Piiig

This. Oh my, THIS.

#KochIsScum #KochIndustries #CharlieKoch

Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/22/koch-brothers-asbestos-georgia-pacific