Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Portland School Board Candidate Waffles on Withdrawal Statement, Confusing Voters a Week Before Election https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2023/05/08/46499012/portland-school-board-candidate-waffles-on-withdrawal-statement-confusing-voters-a-week-before-election

This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.

#funny #dog #Mondog

Comic by Rosemary Mosco & Climate Adam.

@stux I found this site interesting:

https://www.massshootingtracker.site

So far this year the US has had, on average, a mass shooting every 12 hrs 34 minutes — so less than 2 a day (but barely less).

I moved to Canada.

What a beautiful #infographic: the stronger the gun laws, the smaller the gun violence rate. So elegant.

#dataViz #dataIsBeautiful #gunViolence #gunLaws #guns

https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/

Here's a little sunshine for your day!!

This artwork is done by IguanaMouth over on Tumblr.

I just discovered these today after talking about dandelions with Wah. I searched for Dandelion Lion and these delighted me to no end. I love the sleeping one!

I hope you're having a day as beautiful as you are, friend! (Lots!!)

Kids are savage today.

Kid: did you know that something in the 70's that costed $3 would be worth $300 today?

Me: I'm gonna need to see your math because inflation is bad but it's not nearly the bad dude.

Kid: oh not because of inflation, because it's an antique

Me: go play with your friends

I wonder how it feels to be a government official who has always abided by all those rules of per diem, and how much a hotel room can cost, and what sorts of gifts and meals you can't accept at conferences to watch what is being reveal about some of the supreme court justices.

"One of the things that makes science fiction so powerful is its ability to ask how a system would work under some different social arrangement.

It's a radical proposition. Don't just ask what the gadget does: ask who it does it for and who it does it to."

(This is a meaningful quote, but the post by @pluralistic is much richer) https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/

The #NativeAmerican Journalists Association and the #AsianAmerican Journalists Association are welcoming applications for a scholarship to support Pacific Islander students and journalists in their careers.

The funding is intended to help #Indigenous peoples of the Pacific, including #Polynesians, #Micronesians and #Melanesians, pursue careers in #journalism, especially in the U.S. and U.S.-affiliated #PacificIslands.

Apply here:

https://najanewsroom.com/2023/05/02/naja-accepting-applications-for-pacific-islander-journalism-scholarship-with-aaja/