Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

To protect your privacy and shield yourself against 0-days and malicious advertisers, an adblocker is an important part of your security stance.

The FBI, NSA, CISA, and UK National Cyber Security Centre all recommend adblocking as a protective measure.

You'd never disable your firewall or antivirus because a site asked you to. NEVER DO THIS WITH YOUR ADBLOCKER.

That's the only pertinent point here. Everything else is noise.

#adblock

Took off from Hawthorne, California, US.

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: If the punishment for breaking a law is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor.

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They're handing out #patents for "inventions" that don't exist

https://doctorow.medium.com/a-major-defeat-for-technofeudalism-d5d35d6b19f2?sk=a4d5d6915d579685943dc06819878557

#MeansPlusFuntion #PatentTrolls #Landmark

The full sequence of today's #SolarEclipse as viewed from outside San Antonio, #Texas

Such a fantastic experience!

#Photography

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: Once we learn the reason why Donald Trump awarded Jim Jordan the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Jordan will be in prison.

From yesterday: “We’re at a breaking point,” said Anthony Talarico, a co-worker of mail carrier Eugene Gates who died of hyperthermia deliverying mail this past summer.

Josephine Lee revealed how the postal service is falsifying records and breaking its own rules in ways that out #workers' lives at risk ...
https://www.texasobserver.org/usps-worker-heat-death-safety/

#news #politics #USpol #Texas #HeatWave #ClimateChange #environment #USPS

Son shoots father in stomach after argument over weed eater in Pennsylvania https://www.aol.com/son-shoots-father-stomach-argument-164359696.html

GOP: You teachers, librarians and pediatricians are all GROOMERS

Also, GOP: Have you met our next frontrunner for Speaker of the House? His major accomplishments include not owning a sports coat, trying to overthrow an election, and helping a fellow wrestling coach sexually assault 177 students.

Bearded tit a first for me.

www.vickyoutenphotography.com

#photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography
#Mastodonnaturecommunity #beardedtit

Very good news for Ukraine! 🇺🇦

Denmark🇩🇰 and Czechia🇨🇿 has made a deal, where Denmark will pay for Czechian production of weapons to Ukraine.

The first delivery will contain

— 2500 pistols
— 7000 rifles
— 500 light machine guns
— 500 heavy machine guns
— 500 sniper rifles
— 280 recoilless guns
— 7000 anti-tank weapons
— 10000 hand grenades
— 60 mortar systems
— 50 infantry fighting vehicles and tanks
— Anti-drone systems
— Electronic warfare equipment
— Large calibre ammunition

Cremation DID provide some metaphorically comic relief after one grandmother’s memorial service. She’d been a controlling woman who rather dominated my father and uncle. And when they went out to scatter her ashes at the end of a Cape Cod jetty, the wind suddenly shifted and—true to form—there she was all over them in her final act of refusing to leave them alone.