@lovelylovely Yes, indeed. Two can play at this game.
Thank you.
"#California lawmakers passed a bill known as Delete Act that would allow consumers, with a single request, to have every data broker delete their personal info. Data brokers incl a variety of businesses that gather & sell people’s personal info, such as their address, marital status & spending habits. Those companies incl credit reporting agencies, people-search sites & data analytic firms that work with political campaigns." https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-14/california-bill-delete-online-personal-data
California just sued:
- Exxon Mobil
- Shell
- BP
- ConocoPhillips
- Chevron
- The American Petroleum Institute
over #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/business/california-oil-lawsuit-newsom.html
1836: A teenage girl with blue-grey eyes and an oceanic mind is bent over an astronomy book, preparing to revolutionize our understanding of the planet.
No university anywhere in the world would admit her.
No scientific society would grant her membership.
Still, Eunice Newton Foote would go on to become the first scientist to link atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to rising planetary temperature https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/12/eunice-newton-foote/
Hunter in the grass.
This tiny Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) was right outside the backdoor hunting in the grass. I had to take this shot through the storm door (in America, a storm door is an outer door made of glass).
"Blue-gray Gnatcatchers eat small insects, spiders, and other invertebrates. Prey species vary across their extensive range. In the Southwest, for example, prey include treehoppers, froghoppers, leaf hoppers, plant bugs, tree bugs, leaf beetles, weevils, wolf spiders, caterpillars, and grasshoppers. In the Northeast, adult and larval moths can provide up to half of prey taken. The smallest prey are swallowed alive. The wings are torn off larger prey and their bodies beaten on a perch prior to being eaten. Parents generally feed the young these same foods, offering progressively larger whole prey as the chicks mature." - allaboutbirds.org
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #BlueGrayGnatcatcher
"I'm rich enough, why should my kids get free school meals?"
1) Universal provision means for the price of giving food to a kid who "doesn't need it", kids who need it definitely gets it. No barriers. No forms. No questions or tests.
2) Your kids won't bully the "free meal kids".
3) You have an interest in ensuring that your kids are not just fed but fed well. This means you won't put up with the "poor kid gruel" that you might campaign for to "save money" if you're not using the service.
Keep quiet and appear uncaring, or ask if she's done being mad and die.
The whole Republican Party, as an organization, conspired with a foreign enemy to commit acts of war against the United States, and mounted a violent attempt to overthrow our government. One that is still ongoing.
I agree, these decisions are not reversible. Our democracy has no chance of survival, unless a new conservative party is formed. And, at the moment, nobody is even considering doing that.
@ukraine Good. I guess the heat was too hot.
@politicalfinger Agreed. The Southern Strategy poisoned the Republican Party but the poison (Dixiecrats) was around long before that.
@axbom Indeed. I've argued since I was a teen that language strongly influences thinking. So yes, I agree. The more languages I learn, the more I see this to be true.
@freemo The rich are running out of rich things to do. Also, the world has plenty of idiots. Some of them are rich.
Deliberate murders of #Ukraine children by russian soldiers reveal culture of impunity
The story is based on the documentary “Bullet Holes,”
Intro
On a cold March morning, the Mahdyk family bundled themselves into their minivan. Their village near Kyiv was occupied, and they couldn’t bear staying there any longer.
The family – mother Olha, father Valerii, and their two children, 16-year-old Anna and 12-year-old Vladyslav – decided to try to escape
Read more here📎 https://kyivindependent.com/deliberate-murders-of-ukrainian-children-by-russian-soldiers-reveal-culture-of-impunity/
So now SYPHILIS is raging through Texas.
IT'S FUCKING EPIDEMIC THERE.
OMG don't have sex with anyone in Texas.
What a fucking shithole.
🙄 (Or... you can buy a traditional tag with your pet's name and address and your phone number on it, which DOES NOT REQUIRE someone to scan a QR code and doesn't advertise a company). Or, you could make your OWN QR code tag (which is dumb, as it puts technology in between yoiu and getting your pet back) #technology #excess
@ai6yr This is a perfect example of how tech is actually making our lives more complex and much worse. How is this offering (which I'm sure you have to pay for and have technology to use) any better than just printing a phone number on the tag!?
@ChrisMayLA6 The U.S.A. has been exporting its so-called "culture" for a long time, culture that the rest of the world can do without.
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