Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

I've often thought about starting up a Mastodon instance for the Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High Point, NC area.

1) Not sure what exactly I'd name it/call it

2) Since I co-admin this instance, I would want it to to be hosted similarly as this one with MastoHost but would love to find someone reliable that could moderate and help run it if necessary.

Just curious if there would be much interest in an instance like that.

#NorthCarolina #NC #Triad #WinstonSalem #Greensboro #HighPoint

I feel Mastodon needs more instances that are focused on various places in the USA like this.

I just personally don't know how many people here on the #Fediverse would be interested in being on an instance that is focused more on the Triad or how many others would want to be on an instance with many others from within the same area of the US.

Carina Pillar and Jets
Credits: #NASA, ESA, Hubble SM4 EROTeam
#nature #space #astrophotography

A thread of commentary today on the ugly games Congressional Republicans are playing as Trump pulls their strings and they block aid to Ukraine and torpedo the border bill they claim desperately to want. Heather Cox Richardson quotes Senator Brian Schatz,

“I’ve never seen anything like it. They literally demanded specific policy, got it, and then killed it.”

#Republicans #Trump #border #immigration #Ukraine
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-5-2024

Trump convinced his 'fans'
he was 'the solution' because
'HE' is on 'excellent friendly relations'
with
#Putin #XI #Kim #Kameini > all declared >enemies<
of the #United #States of #America

Has no #MAGA ever stopped to think about it?

#Trump is on 'personal friendly' relations with the >ENEMIES< of his country ???

These 4 states have been hating America for 70 years
they want power and to get it they must first destroy the #USA
Trump friends ?

NO jokes or chocolate cakes will stop them.

"The GOP doesn’t care about fixing our immigration system. Everything the GOP does is a big distraction from the fact their presumptive nominee is indicted for 91 felonies in 4 different cases.

One thing is certain: The GOP only cares about Trump being in the White House again. They sure as hell don’t give a damn about America’s border security."

~ Scott Dworkin

#Republicans #Trump #border #immigration #Ukraine
/3

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-gop-doesnt-give-a-damn-about

Why in the world would you think you could just sit here and not do ANYTHING to stop fascists from taking over the government. Is that how it's worked ANYWHERE ELSE in the world? EVER?🙄

We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective.

— Kurt Vonnegut, American writer and novelist (1922 - 2007)

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPlus #covid19 #covid #SARSCov2 @novid

NEWS — Moscow Mitch McConnell recommended to GOP senators behind closed doors that they BLOCK the border bill on Wednesday, per multiple sources.

Weak party. No republicans want solutions. Vote them out in 9 months. Take control of the House. Get 60 in Senate

We will remember this betrayal and #vote them out.

#election2024 #election

The ballroom of the abandoned Lee Plaza Hotel in Detroit

Read its story and see the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/lee-plaza-hotel

This photo was taken yesterday in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada yesterday... and it's still snowing there - a state of emergency has been declared.

@chiraag @lednabwm @QasimRashid
Id like to give you a little one up. You have no idea what the 'they' you are referring to are actually doing. The only thing you can possibly know is what the media is reporting and you cannot even be privy to ALL that the media is telling you....AND you cant necessarily trust what the media is telling you, why?

BECAUSE NONE OF US REALLY KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES.

You and I and the media ant everyone else are all ARMCHAIR COACHING this.

All the GOP are going to give GOP spin. All the DEMs will give Dem spin and the POTUS will give POTUS spin and Bibi does Bibis spin.

So when you start speaking like you know something first hand, you do not and neither does anyone else.

For all we know, Biden could be punching the shit out of Bibi in a back room attempting to get compliance. Im sure he is not, but we just DO NOT KNOW what they know.

So we guess and pretend we know.

We do not.

People are dying is what we know.

From "The Analyst":

AVDIVKA UPDATE

Russian forces in the south west salient they created have effectively been cut off as Ukraine has regained the key fortified area of the restaurant services area.
Russia tried to send a column to reinforce their troops in Avdivka’s lower streets, but this was annihilated.
The Russians used a 2km waste water service pipe to get behind the restaurant and into south Avdivka. It’s very narrow and they had to crawl through it, so supplying and reinforcing the now cut off island they’re in in south Avdivka is near impossible, if not pointless.
The tunnel needs to be destroyed at both ends and it’s deep so this hasn’t yet happened.
Eradicating the Russians in the housing they occupied is well underway.
Overall the Russian operation was quite imaginative and it gave them a major gain - taking the southern defences completely and the Ukrainians by surprise. In some ways the Ukrainians should have expected use of the tunnel, or at least taken precautions to block it. It’s far more likely they just never expected it could be used if they even remembered it was there.
Russian success - and it was, there’s no getting away from that, it was a daring and imaginative operation, was simply not followed up. Senior commanders doubted its likely success and no one was ready to exploit it until it was far too late. By then the Ukrainians had snatched back the restaurant’s fortification, because nobody reinforced the Russian forces, and now the few remaining Russian troops are more or less trapped, and the whole thing has turned into a Russian disaster. It’s not something Ukraine will fall for again and they’re probably looking to make sure nothing like happens anywhere else either.
This could have been the most consequential move the Russians made in months.
If they had been ready to exploit the success and acted quickly, given it the support it needed, they could have surrounded Zenit and have broken deep into Avdivka. It would in all likelihood have been the beginning of a much faster end for the town which would have quickly become untenable.
Instead their own handful of competent people were as usual, let down by hide bound commanders with zero imagination. Ukraine has always worked well against such opponents and did so again. That they were just as quick to see what had happened and responded with lightning pace to retake the initiative says it all.
Yet another bad day for Russia!

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!

🧵 This post was written by a friend. I got permission to share, as it was marked followers only. Given the comment in yesterday’s papers from a conservative think tank, it is really important people understand that Ireland was neutral, but did a lot to help defeat the Nazis. There is now a campaign by the British Govt and the DUP to regard Ireland as a dangerous and untrustworthy place, and to demean Sinn Fein every possible way. #NIPolitics

TIL Boeing doesn't build the fuselages for their 737 & 787

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_AeroSystems?wprov=sfla1
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ajicsl/til_boeing_doesnt_build_the_fuselages_for_their/

@Snowshadow @Rasta

😂 That’s too funny. We remembered here in Vermont, Shadow, in the garage… then the power took out the automated door opener and neither my 84 y/o Mom or puny me could get the heavy old thing up in the air. G’morning merry Mastodonians.
Been up convincing a bitchy hiatal hernia to stay still. Semi-annual good time.

Sharing this for cat fanciers. My Tuxxie is a spry 12. Très spry.

"finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call"

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app