Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

I think to stop covid we should genetically engineer horseflies that go up your nose on purpose and bite you, that way everyone would wear a mask and stay home, and this plan would work perfectly and have absolutely no horrifying long-term consequences

Minnesota Bound, a TV show about the outdoors, had been running an rerun episode on TV featuring my winter photography and photo workshops. If you missed it on TV, you can watch it on their YouTube channel.

The segment starts at 11 minutes into the episode.

#photography #Minnesota #winter

https://youtu.be/Z6mfB_xA-yg

Columbo is not actually about murder.

It's about a blue collar Italian guy marveling at the unique wildness of rich folks - in their mansions, corporations, boardrooms, yachts, country clubs, private schools - and then throwing them in the clinker.

It's a class morality play.

What is your desktop or laptop CPU?

Boost is very much appreciated.

#Computer #Poll

The petition to remove #LGBT content from the uk curriculum now has 190,671 signatures, sigh. It only needed 100k to force a debate in parliament, so that will be scheduled by #Uk Gov.

The counter petition is rapidly gaining ground, being newer. It now has 33,030 signatures, but we need more!

Pls sign if uk, boost otherwise! 👇

Link to official petition to UK Gov & Parliament: Do not remove LGBT content from the Relationships Education curriculum
https://t.co/IIHgvhpB2O

#LGBTQ #TransRights

Trump secretly colluded with Russia to become president: Bill Barr knew it, and helped cover it up. Putin and Barr’s corruption of the Justice Department and the FBI is the scandal of the century (so far) and must be exposed.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/ghostbuster-bill-barr-was-the-who?r=nl8r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

wrote the thing over on the other site - let's see if I stick to it

Saw on Birdsite someone talking about how people have "given up" on moving to Mastodon or Post.

For comparison I have 7x more followers on Twitter than Mastodon (85.8k vs 12k), yet the engagement is similar.

Here's the retweets / boosts for identical posts:

Viral political post
959 Twitter, 741 Mastodon
Non-viral niche law post
8 Twitter, 18 Mastodon

Boosts on here are what will make or break Mastodon. If people can find other interesting people and content, they will stay and the site will grow. If its too much of a chore, they won’t. Other sites reward lazier social media grazing, and they surface content designed to maximize engagement, which often = lies, hate, stuff that enrages rather than enlightens. Mastodon just surfaces what imembers boost.

This is a great idea!

"There is no such thing as a “routine traffic stop.”

In Canada, I've been stopped by police lots of times. Been arrested lots of times. No big deal.

But I was NEVER so terrified for my life as when I was stopped in Nashville, TN about a week after I moved there.

It was a full on "ugly stop." Weapons out, pointed at me.

"Get out of the vehicle with your hands up!"

"On your knees!"

"I'm handcuffing you for your own protection."

And I'm not even obviously Black. 😢

https://journa.host/@anamariecox/109767155584533137

The Atlantic and NYT and NPR are utterly failing America, as they focus on free speech for rich centrists—while neglecting free speech for average people.

The Founders didn’t put “wealthy people and their kids” into the First Amendment. Free speech “on campus” isn’t more important than oppressing kids and teachers in Florida.
DeSantis’s attack on American values and human rights should be front page news.

Our for-profit press is broken.
@donmoyn:

https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1619336783627681792?s=20
#news #NYTimes #Musk

Reminder…

“White ignorance” == Strategic ignorance

Whiteness ability to leverage systems, institutions, and policies of white supremacy and anti-Blackness to shield itself from challenges and accountability is BEYOND “willfulness”…it’s calculated AND strategic

#RetroComputing

Babe wake up, we got our latest token payment for massive corporate fraud

At the protests in Los Angeles tonight, there were multiple stringers with professional camera rigs acting aggressively, shoving people, getting in people's personal space, and trying to provoke fights. After the protests disbanded, at least three of these stringers were seen huddling with LAPD.

I don't know what say right now that's useful. So I'll just say that if government treated white people the way Black people get treated, the Republican Party would make some sense.