Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

The Big Melt is now officially arriving...this weekend. Flows on many rivers draining the central/southern Sierra will double or triple (with locally greater increases) as temperatures rise. Some rivers will exceed flood stage,

Which is the best British insult?

Please boost for maximum exposure. This is of vital importance.

#poll

Total deaths per 1M/pop., 12/20:

1. MS 4,389 (+0)
2. AZ 4,387 (+0)
3. WV 4,275 (+0)
4. AL 4,223 (+0)
5. AR 4,197 (+1)
6. NM 4,185 (+3)
7. TN 4,160 (+0)
8. MI 4,071 (+15)
9. NJ 3,982 (+3)
10. KY 3,945 (+0)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Dominion was worth $80 million as a company before yesterday.

They're now about to get $787,500,000 -- some of which can pay for their other defamation lawsuits against:

- Newsmax
- OAN
- Rudy Giuliani
- Mike Lindell
- Patrick Byrne
- Sidney Powell

Hello Fediverse!

@Flipboard is currently a walled garden.

It's a beautiful, highly curated walled garden filled with content from the worlds best publishers and creators curated by Flipboard's editorial team as well as our community of magazine makers.

But it's still a walled garden. Today that begins to change.

We've moved four of our most popular #curation desks into the Fediverse for you to enjoy.

@NewsDesk
@TechDesk
@CultureDesk
@ScienceDesk

Details below:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboards-editorial-curation-comes-to-mastodon/

He's trying to ban drag shows because they "sexualize children."

And he's caught...sexualizing a child.

Any Republican calling anyone else a "groom" is actually a groomer. Full stop.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv8dq/texas-bryan-slaton-intern

Judge who denied girl abortion over grades shortlisted for Florida’s top court - The Guardian https://apple.news/AH2fEa164TlyVNf7hzFp8ug

Trump’s ‘greatest hits’ of Covid misinformation are read out at congressional hearing - The Independent https://apple.news/A3gCsRx0YTB2rjfeiIXRB_g

Musk’s ‘Anti-Woke’ AI Czar Was Arrested for Domestic Violence Last Month - The Daily Beast https://apple.news/A_y5FIOKjTmuXKJFdMghIvg

@gemelliz @Tomthndsh Doug Ford will 1000% attempt to demolish the Toronto reference library and sell the land for condos. His move against the science centre has revealed (again) there are no limits at all to the venality of this government. No institutions are safe, everything is for sale. It's a certainty that plans are already underway.

I had to go to Delft for a meeting yesterday, and the train line between #Leiden and #Delft is closed for repairs, so I decided to cycle it on my commuter bike, 25km there and 25 back. The Dutch bike infrastructure is simply phenomenal - I cycled through small towns and through wide green fields on smooth bike only paths for 90% of the journey. Utterly amazing and it was a beautiful evening where I saw the sun set whilst heading into Leiden.

A timely reminder that “punishable by fine” means “legal for the rich.”

How many more killers, how many more uncounted victims?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna67794

Oklahoma is not OK:

"According to a transcript ... Jennings appears to say that "back in the day" someone could take a 'a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell'...

"'Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can't do that anymore. They got more rights than we got,' Jennings added.

"The governor called for the resignations of Clardy, Jennings, Manning and Hendrix."

Kudos to the reporter who recorded this horror show.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170705908/oklahoma-mccurtain-county-officials-racist-recording-resign

"The... judge who overturned the FDA’s approval of abortion pills removed his name from a Texas law journal article... just before his Senate confirmation hearing...

"The article condemned both transgender health care and abortion rights, using Christian Nationalist-inspired language..."

Abortion pill-banning judge allegedly hid his anti-trans journal article before Senate vote - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/04/abortion-pill-banning-judge-allegedly-hid-his-anti-trans-journal-article-before-senate-vote/

In most wealthy countries, the government figures out how much in taxes you owe them — and for free. As all of you know, that’s not the case here in the U.S.

The reason? Tax prep companies don’t want it that way. And they spend big money on lobbying to make sure of it.
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RT @OpenSecretsDC
As TurboTax faced mounting scrutiny, Intuit spent more than $3.5 million on federal lobbying last year — a new record for the tax prep company. …
https://twitter.com/OpenSecretsDC/status/1648102538955337728

The Colorado law says essentially that "Colorado won’t comply with wiretapping and extradition requests from other states related to abortion or medical transition. The state won’t issue subpoenas, summons, or search warrants either, and state courts won’t consider civil actions brought by individuals" ( https://www.them.us/story/colorado-shield-laws-protecting-abortion-gender-affirming-care ).

This is great and exactly the sort of thing we need to fight for.

This eyesore is repeated, with extreme variations, all across the country.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/18/small-towns-are-the-same-everywhere-all-screwed-up/

"Great Gods" broke 100 ratings on Amazon the other day.

Thank you, those of your who reviewed this. Best reviews of my career -- and not to brag too much, The Long Run was already one of the highest rated SF novels on Goodreads at 4.54, with 700 ratings. (Possibly the highest rated.) This so far is trending better.