TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@social.cleverlibre.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 71 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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Court proceedings reveal MBS paid Trump “millions in the past two years”: Human rights group
https://www.salon.com/2023/01/17/proceedings-reveal-mbs-paid-millions-in-the-past-two-years-human-rights-group
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Watch: Jamie Raskin draws a direct line between Jan. 6 and accused New Mexico MAGA shooter - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
https://www.rawstory.com/extremism-terrorism-linked-january-6/
Another difference between them and us - Palmer Report
Our brains are different configurations.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/another-difference-between-them-and-us/48597/
Donald Trump is drowning in denial - Palmer Report https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-is-drowning-in-denial/48598/
How Senate Republicans created the airline crisis - Palmer Report
Why is nobody in charge at FAA?
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/how-senate-republicans-created-the-airline-crisis/48595/
New trouble for George Santos - Palmer Report
Sign the petition. Ask George to resign.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/new-trouble-for-george-santos-2/48600/
The Republican war on "wokeness" is becoming completely unhinged - Palmer Report
It's always been unhinged. Just like the people pushing it.
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Breakfast being about ten minutes late means Emily was literally dying.
The second her bowl hit the floor, she had a miraculous recovery.
I have a theater kid for a cat.
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The police don’t protect us from violence; the police are perpetrators of violence.
Ask the non-cis, the non-white, the non-wealthy, and most broadly, the non-men. I do not want to be protected. I want to be free of violence.
Fuck the police. https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-fuck-the-police
"Braverman's audience listened as she told them that so many problems facing our country, from housing shortages to NHS waiting times, were caused by illegal migrants. It was up to her government to resolve this by deporting the problem.
Is it really less than a year since hundreds of thousands of Britons opened their homes to those fleeing the violence in Ukraine?
Such is the power of words; such is the fragility of civilisation."
Joan Salter,
Holocaust Survivor.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/17/confronted-suella-braverman-holocaust-survivor-refugees-home-secretary https://mastodonapp.uk/@ProjectFearlessness/109704053211087722
"January 17, 2023 — marks the start of my trial in absentia in a Minsk court, facing a long list of bogus charges including treason against the state, inciting mass riots and conspiring to seize power."
"Well, perhaps that last part is true."
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
#Zhiye Belarus https://mastodonapp.uk/@ProjectFearlessness/109704207926383347
"I conspired with millions of Belarusian voters to seize democratic power from a dictator who has turned our country into a vassal state of President Vladimir Putin’s Russia. I only became a presidential candidate because Lukashenko’s secret police locked up my husband, Siarhai, for daring to oppose him. And now I find myself fighting to rally our country’s democrats in the face of unprecedented efforts to silence them."
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
#ZhiyeBelarus https://mastodonapp.uk/@ProjectFearlessness/109704225772530075
"Just asking 'Who killed my son?' and 'Why did you kill my son?', this is a crime in Iran.
I go to bed with the news of the death of these youths and I wake up in the morning with the news of the arrests of their parents."
Masih Alinejad,
W.E.F.
Davos.
https://youtu.be/CONV-ugBJPk https://mastodonapp.uk/@ProjectFearlessness/109705602493311562
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Without algorithms it takes boosting to make the Mastodon machine move - so boost often, boost freely and boost abundantly.
Nobody is trying to sell you anything.
Nobody puts their ugly mug at the top of your feed.
Nobody buries your post and (sorry) nobody promotes it.
Posts may settle more quickly here as they fall thru timelines without artificial support.
Mastodon’s rhythm therefore has a different feel which may feel unusual to birders.
Mostly, have fun. Be kind. Learn and share.
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GOP concerns about deficits are like cicadas: they hide underground for years at a time, typically in 4- or 8-year intervals. Then, when there’s a change in the ecosystem – that is, a Democrat enters the White House – they bust out and wreak havoc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/17/republican-deficit-concerns-only-temporary/
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Just to note: No one noticed the classified documents on Biden's property were missing for years. That's how insignificant they are. Those were found and returned.
They immediately knew some dangerous shit got out with Trump and wanted it back right away and Trump refused.
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America isn’t split evenly between Liberals and Conservatives. If it was, Conservatives wouldn’t need anti-majoritarian methods like voter suppression, gerrymandering, manipulating the Electoral College, and claiming elections are rigged.
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I've been speaking and writing lately about how tech companies try to shift the discussion on misinformation polarization, etc., away from the systems and structures that are inherently toxic and toward questions of individual behavior.
This way they can blame their own users for the any pathology and steer clear of calls for systemic change.
Today Elon Musk has come through with a perfect illustration for my future talks.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 71 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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