James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@social.cleverlibre.org

You hear a lot about wind turbines killing birds.

CATS kill many orders of magnitude more birds.

How come we hear about wind turbines killing birds all the time but not about cats doing that?

Witness the power of the fossil fuel companies and the way they are able to spread propaganda

#climatecrisis

"Move fast and break things" is just a euphemism for "Move fast and externalize the costs".

A lot of times, the satire sites get right to the heart of the matter.

"Political experts believe that this aggressive new tactic is due to Poilieve’s surprise and disappointment at failing to get any positive feedback when he stopped wearing his glasses and it did not result in the nation realizing he’s been just as pretty and cool as Justin Trudeau all along."

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/07/pierre-poilievre-threatens-to-dox-one-canadian-who-lives-in-a-small-home-every-day-until-hes-made-pm/

#CanPoli #pp #thebeaverton

You call it a jacuzzi, I call it a butt soup pot.

How To Speak British:

Apartment = Flat

Football = Handegg

Elevator = Lift

Woman =Vagina Gentleman

Blanket = Lazy Coat

Coat = Busy Blanket

Automobile = Moving Wheelie

Cat = Anger Dog

Republican = Wanker

I can't believe Paramount canceled their children's Star Trek show about child slaves doing grand theft auto

Mayor of #Ottawa:
"The debate over closing a specific stretch of Queen Elizabeth Driveway is not about whether or not the city supports active transportation. It’s about where and when are the best opportunities for it."

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/sutcliffe-closing-the-queen-elizabeth-driveway-should-be-a-cost-benefit-decision

Me:
Summer is exactly the best time to convert roadways into active use routes.

#ActiveTransportation #ottBike #ottWalk #cyclingInfrastructure #CityCycling #TransportationPlanning #MunicipalPolitics
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@MissingThePt adios!

I love that Mastodon has that thing where someone interacts with you, then you check them out, find out they're cool, follow them, and check out their boosts and find out they follow cool people so now you follow those other cool people as well and now you follow a whole bunch more cool people.

#mastodon #fediverse #cool

Boost if you're old enough to remember ZMODEM.

Robert P. Jones reminds us that, though Republican presidential candidates (except for Trump) flocked to Iowa recently to pander to a large crowd of white evangelicals, "white evangelicals, and their views on sexuality and reproduction, are far outside the mainstream, even among their fellow Christians in America’s heartland."

#Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #abortion #Iowa

https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/wtl-conversations-s3e10-how-many

First delay on my journey, the Stornoway ferry is running late. Forced to look out over Ullapool docks for an hour, it's real hardship.

Flour is one syllable
Flower is two syllables

Click follow for more mad cap realizations and mind bending truths

An excellent summary of the week:

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/closing-out-a-bad-week-for-trump?r=1e6ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

You don't have to die heroically in battle, you can get a bus there these days.