Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

What the hell? The President can conduct insurrection? What bat shit world is this?

Article: Colorado judge finds Trump engaged in insurrection, but rejects constitutional ballot challenge

#jan6 #uspolitics #colorado #election #insurrection

https://flip.it/HgPANe

Okay, so with news of Sam Altman's firing, I'm just now learning about the sexual abuse allegations against him and holy fucking shit. Can we please, for the love of FUCK stop holding SilVal tech dudes up as heroes or icons or whatever?

Like I already knew this guy was not good, but this is just horrific.

A growing number of X's biggest advertisers are pulling out, leaving the company's ad business in limbo. The move comes after owner Elon Musk backed an antisemitic conspiracy theory. https://t.co/6eFlxDYp0S

She is comfortable enough to routinely steal my chair now.

#CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon

Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk👍

“#Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a "utopian socialist." He lies about being a "free speech absolutist." He lies about which companies he founded”

“Once you start unpacking #Tesla’s balance sheets, you start to realize how much the company depends on government subsidies and tax-breaks, combined with selling carbon credits that make huge, planet-destroying SUVs possible, under the pretense that this is somehow good for the environment”

@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

I need to watch some #StarTrek

Watched #StarTrekTOS "The Trouble with Tribbles."

I love this one, my top fav Trek episode and one that always helps me relax when I need to #relax

Today may be one of those days where it's a choice between going back to sleep or watching my favorite Trek episodes.

The European Commission has had enough of Musk's deadbird site, and people are talking about that.

Which reminds me:

Please don't beat up on people who leave that toxic place, even if you believe, however righteously, that they should have left long ago.

They're doing the right thing now. Thank them, and encourage others to do the same.

https://www.politico.eu/article/no-more-ads-elon-musk-x-twitter-european-commission-tell-staff/

S.Res. 469 by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV] was agreed to yesterday. A resolution commending and congratulating the Las Vegas Aces basketball team on winning the 2023 Women’s National Basketball Association Championship. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/sres469 🏛️

if you get angry learning this, ask yourself why.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/17/hamas-benjamin-netanyahu-ceasefire

whilst i'm planning the next major Fold Up Toys website update, what are some features you'd really like to see?

What's missing from Fold Up Toys right now??

"A celestial dance of stars and clouds 💫🌫️"
A beautiful representation of a starry night, where the clouds are personified as if they were dancing with the stars.

#mastoart #art #ArtMatters #DigitalPainting #generativeart #illustration #CreativeToots #StableDiffusion #fediart #AYearForArt

Politieke debatten

Czech volunteers are fundraising to donate a UH-60 Black Hawk to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️

I visited the Milwaukee County Zoo the day after a major winter storm. There were hardly any other visitors that morning, especially not in the area with snow-covered trees. The image I took appears to be in black and white, but it was actually the natural color of the scene, without any post-processing.

https://beautifulsunphotography.com/featured/winter-wonderland-deb-beausoleil.html

#MilwaukeeZoo #WinterStorm #WisconsinTravel #AYearforArt #BuyIntoArt #HomeStaging #giftideas #FineArt #decor #wallart

@wdlindsy @Nordstahl “It shows either startling ignorance or callous disregard for the ramifications."

Or intentional provocation. We need to accept the fact that Musk and the other oligarchs truly want to sow discord and violence on world society, so that they can profit off it and expand their control. This is not ignorance or disregard. It is cold, calculated instigation.

Musk purchased Twitter not to make more money, but to weaponize it in service of the oligarchs’ war on the rest of us. When fascists tell you who they are, believe them.

#CompostTheRich #EndTheOligarchs

Books written by anthropologists embedded with scientists?

I'm reading a book about an anthropologist who embedded with psychiatrists for several years to figure out how they are trained an what they think. Here's a great quote:

"Sometimes they talk about mental anguish as if it were cardiac disease: you treat it with medication, rest, and advice about the right way to eat and live. A person who has had a heart attack will never be the same—he will be always a person who has been very seriously ill—but he is not his heart attack. His heart attack is in the body, not the mind. When psychiatrists talk in this manner, psychosis and depression become likewise written on the body ... Sometimes, though, psychiatrists talk about distress as something much more complicated, something that involves the kind of person you are: your intentions, your loves and hates, your messy, complicated past ... From this vantage point, mental illness is in your mind and in your emotional reactions to other people. It is your “you.”

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/104443/of-two-minds-by-t-m-luhrmann/

In it, Luhrmann references another book in which an anthropologist embedded with nuclear weapons researchers:

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520213739/nuclear-rites

I'm so curious about this genre. Are there other books like it that you know and would recommend?

This is probably useless, but if anyone is a CA lawyer, I have a SLAPP lawsuit against me for a page that I don't even host but does have text I wrote.

An attempt to sue me for 2 million dollars for what others have described as "a review, like on yelp". I gave a friend anti-transgender hate-speech filled emails someone sent me to publish.

Need help using CA anti-SLAPP to dismiss it.

You can PM and I will give you my email if you think you can help.

#law #california

Gettin’ close. Retirement, that is. Forgetting what day it is, on the other hand, has been a thing for me for awhile.