Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

"We will shift heaven and earth to help people to get out of Afghanistan. We will do everything we can"

Boris Johnson, 2021.

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"All 6 men who drowned in the Channel were Afghan. Afghans are running from Afghanistan because of the Taliban
They are on small boats because the U.K. government won’t open safe & legal routes for Afghans like they have for Ukrainians.
Don’t even know what to say anymore"

Peymana Assad, 2023.

#SafeRoutes

Cop City is a $90 million dollar, 381 acre police militarization center.

The Stop Cop City Referendum Campaign has launched a ballot referendum to let the people of Atlanta decide.
#StopCopCity
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/08/12/vote-to-stop-cop-city-atlantas-fight-against-corporate-control/

Okay, Trump was right. There was vote fraud and tampering with voting machines in the 2020 election. I guess he knew because his team did all of it. https://www.mediaite.com/tv/atlanta-prosecutors-have-texts-directly-tying-trumps-team-to-ga-countys-voting-machine-breach-cnn-exclusive/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Let me get this straight. The GOP demanded last year that David Weiss be appointed as a Special Counsel to investigate Hunter Biden.

After he decided that a plea deal was appropriate for tax and gun registration violations, the GOP went nuts. And now they’re mad that, per his request, he is being given Special Counsel status?

This sounds like they didn’t like the result, so they want a different referee.

@juergen_hubert

My 92 year old MAGA dad was just telling me he hopes the grid doesn’t fail. I decided to not start a fight and ask him which party has been in power for 25 years.

"Lost boys"

No. These are adult men who are making a conscious choice not only to engage in genocidal rhetoric, but to insert themselves into electoral politics to make that genocide a reality.

Stop infantilizing white men to excuse their violence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/opinion/masculinity-right-young-men.html

What would you like right now?

Last night I shared two posts. The first was positive (Fred Rogers) & the second was abysmal (normalized gun violence).

On #Twitter, I suspect the latter would have garnered far more attention bc a race for publicly visible RTs, likes & follows favors promoting shock & outrage.

But here on #Mastodon, Mister Rogers wisdom was shared more widely.

This isn’t a scientific analysis but a mere observation reinforcing that social media will be what we make it. And I like this neighborhood.

Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Today we retrace Anthony Bourdain's visit to Kyiv only to find the food scene has evolved.

As #Ukraine takes back its cultural identity through food, Ukrainian armed forces make significant inroads in the south.

There’s no name that signals culinary adventure more than Anthony Bourdain.

When we watch him, we expect him not only to explore the food of a locality but also to help us understand the culture and history of a place.

@timkmak Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

We hope you’ll keep supporting and reading us as the war continues on.

Today’s Dog of War are these pups that congregated along the highway gas station as we found our way back to Kyiv from abroad.

Stay safe out there.

Best,
Tim

'…we probably couldn’t say it any better than the 98-year-old Joan Meyer, a newspaperwoman since 1953: “These are Hitler tactics and something has to be done.”'

'It turned out to be one of the last things she ever said. Mrs. Meyer complained of feeling upset and stressed by the invasion of her home when she spoke to us on Friday. Late Saturday, we received the sad news that she had collapsed at home and passed away.'

Raid on Kansas newspaper is an intolerable overreach
https://www.kansas.com/opinion/editorials/article278199777.html

We had a doozy of a lightning storm around 2am and it was like nothing I'd ever seen before, with strike after strike after strike for at least 10 minutes.

This visualization shows what that cluster looks like now after moving farther east off the coast, and good grief—that's a lot of lightning.

Data: https://www.weatherbug.com/alerts/spark/newark-nj-07102

#science #SciComm #DataViz #lightning #NewJersey

LOL

#SexEd

Just insane follow up to this. https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper

This is where I am in life…thoughts and prayers please…

Catface in the French New Wave film “Ma Vie Ennui” (1964)

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

6:30 on a Sunday morning and there’s already 40-50 people on the seawall: running, jogging, cycling, and one guy that just needed a coffee and a cigarette who feels like a piece of shit.

Revenge is a dish best served with slobber.