Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@lovelylovely Oh, no. What a great band. Just today I was talking about Ernie Isley's guitar style. :-(

@EALS_Director One of the hallmarks of today's Republicans is pathological lack of shame.

@Miro_Collas @mozilla Funny you should mention Meta. Once in a while, a tracker cannot be separated from its ad, in which case the ad is blocked. When this happens, it's invariably a Meta / Facebook ad. Funny how that is.

@billyjoebowers Indeed. Following two people isn't going to create much of a timeline. There are no "promoted posts" to fill up your timeline and keep you engaged. You have to make the first move.

@literatesavant @ingalls Yeah, I've run into this enough times that I've retrained myself for it. Back in the 60s virtually everyone had heard of ham radio and knew that hams could talk directly with other hams all over the world. This is because ham radio was frequently in the news. Every time a disaster struck somewhere in the world, the first news came via ham radio operators. Often, the only communications in and out of a disaster area was by ham radio.

Today, nobody's heard of it. Nor are they aware of shortwave radio -- not aware that one can communicate over thousands of miles using simple equipment and nothing more. No satellites, no wires, nothing. Not aware that they can easily listen to radio broadcasts from countries all over the world, direct, in their living room.

@DeniseGutzmer This is more serious than many people realize: https://shuttersparks.net/drought-affects-whole-country/

@Miro_Collas @mozilla Hmm, I haven't hit this yet. I don't block ads, I block trackers.

@lauren I went with "better than nothing". Reading there gives me ideas that enable me to solve it myself.

@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon Love that book. 😁

@ai6yr Indeed. DoD has been planning for this since the 80's. They see it as the greatest threat to U.S. security going forward. I agree.