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

Via Sawyer Hackett:

Kevin #McCarthy didn’t even delay votes today so that his Democratic colleagues could travel to Diane Feinstein’s funeral.

Stop asking if Democrats will save him.

@dougiec3

I'm only surprised they don't support Kennedy and his struggle to aid endangered species, such as Smallpox, Polio and Covid...

Doesn't ANYONE care about saving these poor creatures before they go extinct?

Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year, using the first 6 months of data:

• NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside
• Full-time employment increased
• Fewer visits to the ER
• Fewer nights spent in jail
• Reduced use of social and public services

Read the full report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqtOfZG2sSanWgUdzn-lx-pwSXZKabj-/view?pli=1

Lol... 🔪 ⚡

Via Andrea Junker

Republicans should be forced to carry Kevin #McCarthy to term, even if it endangers the life of the party.

A Black woman has just been appointed to something. You know the drill:

GOP:
Why appoint based on race?! Just appoint the best person for the job, which is never a Black woman!🤡

Dems:
Black women will save us! Can I call you auntie? (No). I love Black women! Just... NTBW (Not That Black Woman).🤡

This isn’t a one off and is a trend not only in New Mexico. Not even a year ago a Trump supporting failed candidate organized a string of drive by shootings targeting the homes of New Mexico elected leaders. Just AFTER January 6th 2020, a Trump supporting militia member shot someone at a rally. As the election nears this is only going to escalate - why is no one ringing the alarm bells?

Trump and Gosar’s Death Wish For “Disloyal” Gen. Milley Is Textbook Totalitarianism | Truthout

https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-death-wish-for-disloyal-military-general-is-textbook-totalitarianism/

"Sunday 'Crisis Averted' Toons" https://bradblog.com/?p=14797 — Everything is just fine in @PDiddie's latest collection of the week's best toons…

Theodore Roosevelt, badass: "Schrank's bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest after penetrating Roosevelt's steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech titled 'Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual', which he was carrying in his jacket.

Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not reached his lung, and he declined suggestions to go to the hospital immediately.

Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt... His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, 'Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.'"

http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/milan-griffes/petrov-day-soweto-new-openai-products-anthropic-governance-suicide-forum/22717017-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/attempted_assassination_of_theodore_roosevelt?c=145346df-af5d-45ed-9b21-379654c70efe

"I don't wear 🌈 items to tell you who's in my bed."
#Queer
#LGBTQIAplus
#Rainbows

I was a big Greek mythology buff at school. My dad had bought an encyclopedia in the late '70s, and I was learning everything about it via it. Naturally, my favorite character was goddess Athena. All about knowledge & wisdom. The most kind-hearted of the gods too. So I had to paint a portrait in her honor.

#watercolor #gouache #bookillustration #illustration #sketchbook #traditionalart #mastoart #inktober #inktober2023 #ancientgreece #greekmythology #goddessathena #greece #greek #greekmyth

The same day that Elon Musk fired the entire Twitter team concerned with fighting election disinformation, he also endorses a post where people are being encouraged to vote for the far-right German AFD party. The AFD thanked him for his endorsement and for disbanding the team that was fighting election disinformation.

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #Germany #FarRight #AFD #ElonMusk #Musk #Twitter #X

Eleven years ago, the subways flooded during Hurricane Sandy.

Two years ago, 13 people died in during Hurricane Ida.

Now we get regular flash floods, our infrastructure remains terrible, and the NYPD gets $12 billion.

We need to change everything.

https://t.co/ozK5T5dVMH

"You can't just call everyone you don't like Nazis!"

The people I don't like: "We're going to deport millions of people and put kids in cages and it'll be glorious!"
https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/111149837105515969

Today in 1885, Montreal enacted a mandatory vaccine policy against smallpox after 5,000 deaths in 8 months.
In the evening, a mob of Montrealers, angry at the mandate, attacked health & doctor offices, city hall & the police station.

Learn more 👇
https://canadaehx.com/2023/01/03/the-1885-montreal-smallpox-epidemic/

Republicans are starting phony impeachment hearings today. Democrats in the Senate need to be looking into ACTUAL crimes committed by the Trump Crime Family.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/as-republicans-begin-phony-impeachment-834

Trying to find my people on Mastodon. Please boost and follow me if you:

-want the government to abolish Mondays.

-think that every song could be improved by the addition of an accordian.

-are gaining mass to become too big to fail.

-still have a lingering fear in public places that a flash mob could appear at any second.

-lost faith in our criminal justice system because no one ever went to jail for replacing the lime Skittle with green apple.

Via Prof. IJBailey:

The next time someone pretends only white people can spread or embrace white supremacy, show them this clip.

Via @atrupar:

Tim Scott says Johnson's Great Society was harder to survive than slavery

@TonyJWells @chx @ferricoxide @pluralistic @JamesGleick @NIH_LLAMAS

Amazon Search is broken.

In Kindle, search for an author's name and you'll get a list of their books ranked by some spurious "popular" metric. Use the menu to tell the search to order by publication date and your results will suddenly be filled with books by other authors.

(And that's just one example of Amazon rendering their UI less usable in the past nine months.)