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rbreich , 8 days ago to Random stuff

Judge Cannon has postponed Trump's classified documents trial and didn't set a new start date.

The Supreme Court is slow walking Trump's presidential immunity claim, which has delayed his Jan 6 trial.

The federal judiciary is effectively acting like a MAGA campaign arm.

GottaLaff , 9 days ago to Random stuff

ICYMI:

Lawrence O’Donnell on “the orange turd” moment at the #TrumpTrial https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-why-trump-s-lawyer-called-him-the-orange-turd-during-stormy-testimony-210625605606

scalzi , 9 days ago to Random stuff

I'm happy to say that Starter Villain is a finalist for the Locus Award this year, in the category of science fiction novel. Here is the complete finalist list for my category, along with a link to the full award categories and finalist list. Congrats to everyone who is a finalist this year!

https://locusmag.com/2024/05/2024-locus-awards-top-ten-finalists/

davidho , 13 days ago to Random stuff

Hello from here at 10 pm!

If the traffic calming chicane is the first thing you noticed, let’s be friends.

KeithDJohnson , 18 days ago to Random stuff

We're Watching The Elite Panic in Real Time
by Jessica Wildfire

"The #AvianFlu situation is evolving daily now. Farmers & ranchers are starting to show "bird flu-like symptoms," but they aren't getting tested. Nobody is forcing them, either. The USDA is inspecting ground beef, but only in states with outbreaks in dairy cows, & only because other countries started rejecting our beef. As one epidemiologist told Scientific American, "We don't have a good sense of the spread because testing is voluntary and certainly not being done in a systematic way."

Avian flu has been spreading for months in cattle, & none of our government institutions can tell us anything except, "Don't panic."

It's pathetic.

You can look at nuclear meltdowns, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, & pandemics. Almost every single time, government authorities rush out to calm down the population. They censor accurate information. They put most of their emphasis on protecting the assets of the rich***."
https://www.okdoomer.io/were-watching-the-elite-panic-in-real-time/

michael , 18 days ago to plants group

i don't get the hate dandelions get. i think they're great.

i mean, intermingled with purple bugleweed adds a nice touch, but they shine well on their own.

unrelated: no mow may is gonna get real shaggy in my neck of the woods.

@plants #gardening

taylorlorenz , 19 days ago to Random stuff

“The reason so much of the news media sucks is they aren’t writing for you. They’re writing for their sources in Washington, for the industries they cover, for rich people, and for fancy awards committees.” https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept

KeithDJohnson , 19 days ago to Random stuff

Amy Siskind shared: "NEW: Trump found in violation of the gag order by judge. Fined $1k for nine occurrences. Trump must remove posts by 2:15 pm. Judge warns of incarceration if he continues.
womp womp."

KeithDJohnson , 19 days ago to Random stuff

I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why.
by Jessica Wildfire

"Most of my professor friends can't support themselves. That includes the fancy tenured professors, even at nice schools. They have sugar mamas & sugar daddies. They're married to lawyers and bankers, or IT managers. If they're like me, they've got a secret side hustle.

Here's an irony:

My university forces everyone to disclose outside income. So if you have a second job or a side hustle, you're technically supposed to report it. You're supposed to ask them for permission. They can say no.

That's right, the same university that gave me a chocolate bar for a raise also says I can't take on a second job to support my family. They're worried it would distract me from all the free work I'm doing for them." https://www.okdoomer.io/im-a-professor-heres-why-im-walking-away-from-my-tenure/

KeithDJohnson , 19 days ago to Asia

Peter Dynes wrote, Apr 27, 24:

"Human survivability at its absolute limit in #Asia currently: #Thailand, #Myanmar, #Cambodia, #Vietnam, and the #Philippines. All hit temperatures above 40°C, with some places experiencing an incredible life-threatening heat index of up to 52°C."#climate

petergleick , 22 days ago to Random stuff

Don't be a sheep. There are wolves out there.
Vote.

Twitter_expat , 25 days ago to Random stuff

Hey @Gargron
Why I never see a @potus post in the #trending section? Is there are discriminations towards #threads posts?

indivisibleteam , 27 days ago to Random stuff

“We came to show that the majority of people in our district reject the former president and his MAGA agenda—the same MAGA agenda that Brian Fitzpatrick has embraced,”

Bucks County Indivisible took to the streets in a Democracy Caravan, sending a clear message of opposition to Trump's agenda and his supporters. https://www.thereporteronline.com/2024/04/15/indivisible-bucks-county-bring-democracy-caravan-through-newtown-in-response-to-gop-fundraiser/

GottaLaff , 29 days ago to Random stuff

Politico: Several top environmental groups publicly disavowed #RFKJr, calling the former green group leader a “dangerous conspiracy theorist and science denier” who could pave the way for Donald Trump’s reelection.

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Some #TrumpTrial color from Tyler McBrien:

Every day, a few members of the public get in to watch.

I've seen two members of the public so far this morning.

When asked why he's here, one man said "I'm here making sure God is with us."

Another woman is wearing in a bedazzled American flag hat.

KeithDJohnson , 1 month ago to Random stuff

My favorite outlaws.💓
America's most wanted librarians
New #cartoon from @jensorensen (definitely follow her!)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/17/2235557/-Cartoon-America-s-most-wanted-librarians

KeithDJohnson , 1 month ago to Random stuff

"MG: The ice isn't disappearing. I mean, it turns into water. It has to go somewhere. So, when it ends up in the oceans, what does that mean?

WC: Oh, boy. It's pretty complicated, actually. So, Greenland is losing so much ice. In addition to the study that just came out, this is... they're just talking about, 40 million tons of the floating ice at the edge of the ice sheet. But all together, the ice sheet is losing about 5 X more than that or about, 9 or 10 thousand tons a second. It's so much ice that the gravity is weakening over Greenland. That has an impact on how the ocean is shaped.

MG: Sorry, the gravity is weakening over Greenland!
Because the displacement is less?

WC: Well, the mass in Greenland is less.

Think how the moon orbits Earth & it pulls a tide around with it. #Greenland is a relatively massive object, & it holds sort of a permanent tide of water close to it. As Greenland begins to get smaller, its gravity begins to get weaker." #climate
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/12/2234603/-Due-to-massive-ice-loss-Greenland-s-gravity-is-weakening-which-is-bad-news-for-the-S-Hemisphere?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1B9r_C90pns9RP_bmMzHCi6N-WPq45RrEJNc5AIlzV48pT0mRe_OHePUs_aem_AVURxRCDiU2obib7IHqVPiHnctbZ6A5YqCLPHktzLhT89hNXq5fo6XsGTvahV_nIXGYhhyrCZH5GXJTZ5tPrYi_W

taylorlorenz , 1 month ago to Random stuff

"The precipitous decline in traffic to conservative publications raises a larger and possibly unanswerable question: Did these operations ever really hold the political and cultural clout that critics ascribed to them at their peak?" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/

davidho , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Love a company that encourages repairs and will send you parts to repair their products. The sticker is icing on the cake. 😍

KeithDJohnson , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Brian Broome (on another platform) wrote:

"I was just reading the story about the woman who left 1,000 dollars in tips at a #taco joint because she thought she was gonna be #raptured. [during the eclipse]
When she wasn't, she went back to the taco joint and demanded her money back accusing the servers of stealing it somehow.
And I'm really hard-pressed to think of a better analogy for the state of American #Christianity."

KeithDJohnson , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Friday Faves:
Sometimes startling, occasionally funny, curiously intriguing 'True Confessions': @fesshole

#Climate / #weather @davidho

and @ClimateNewsNow

Keeping so many up to date on so much, while moving! FFS.
@GottaLaff
and on a similar theme: @lolgop

One of several good #epidemic updates from @augieray
More later. I gotta go cook.

davidho , 1 month ago to Random stuff

#earthquake

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/earthquake-new-york-new-jersey

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to Random stuff

😱
Via Anna Bower:

Wait so you’re telling me the epicenter of the New York City earthquake was…#Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster??

georgetakei , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Guilty as charged.

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Joyce Vance: “This is a five-alarm fire. We know what the reaction would be if Joe #Biden tweeted a photo of a bound and gagged Donald #Trump in the trunk of an electric car. Why does Donald Trump get more leeway, especially with his past history? He only continues to get it because our institutions—the courts, the Republican party—let him take it.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/we-need-to-talk-about-this?r=br61&utm_medium=ios

scalzi , 1 month ago to Random stuff

Starter Villain is a finalist for the Best Novel Hugo! Congratulations to the other finalists in my category (what tremendous writers! What tremendous work!) and to all the other finalists up and down the ballot. I have some more thoughts on being a Hugo Award finalist in this year above all others, on my site:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/03/29/starter-villain-a-hugo-finalist-for-best-novel/

KeithDJohnson , 1 month ago to Random stuff

"In the last week we have learned that #H5N1 is widespread in ruminant animals across the US. First goat kids were found with unusual neurological symptoms that turned out to be H5N1 at a farm in Western Minnesota. Then widespread unusual symptoms in dairy cows in Texas and Kansas turned out to be avian influenza as well.
Moreover, in the dairy cows this is showing up in large scale operations in places where there are a LOT of cattle feedlots. And cows in #CAFO feedlots are famously sick already - they are fed #antibiotics basically to keep them from dropping dead, but cows in confinement agriculture headed to slaughter are generally unhealthy, which ups the chance that the virus will mutate to spread cow to cow.
In order to prevent that, the solution will almost certainly be the same one that has been used in confinement poultry operations - mass slaughter. So at an absolute minimum, we are looking a substantial increase in the price of beef, goat, probably lamb & milk." https://ko-fi.com/post/Bird-Flu-Round-Two-H5N1-is-Nastier-Than-Covid-J3J4W5DEK

KeithDJohnson , 1 month ago to Random stuff

"Gregory Gray, an epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, calls the new [#birdflu] detections in cows across multiple states a “worrisome” development because it may signal this bird flu strain is spreading directly between cattle, instead of via birds, and has mutated in ways that could allow it to better infect people.
Three U.S. states—Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico—on 25 March reported cows sickened with what scientists are presuming is the same H5N1 strain of influenza that has killed hundreds of millions of #poultry and wild birds.

The cattle infections are spoiling milk and causing limited disease in mostly older animals. Dead #birds have also been found on some of the farms, which may explain the source of the virus. "
https://www.science.org/content/article/bird-flu-discovered-u-s-dairy-cows-disturbing?fbclid=IwAR2pZVJmUVbKpGrSe7i6UEXEDf693FNqzXryXlRCRFQHSEuWbSdkqWUWvhQ_aem_ASQtU2HIFNN5tNVnJZi3_qkq7ZwK7vXHT0dYmEtmJStUzfKB2uiHnCDTSy2XS6gxiVz92GI96DFkuYenm6BjXYc4

Brad , 1 month ago to Random stuff

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Brad , 1 month ago to Random stuff

March 21, 2024. Is it just me or does there seem to be a veritable dogs breakfast supply of new reasons to wear a mask lately? 😷 “dubbed the "flesh-eater", the bacterium – which many people carry without knowing it and without becoming ill..” “One-third of people who develop the disease can die within 48 hours," “.. mortality rate of over 30%”? 🤷‍♂️ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2024/03/21/the-rapid-spread-of-a-serious-bacterial-infection-is-causing-concern-in-japan_6640086_114.html

KeithDJohnson , 2 months ago to Random stuff

Some elevators help you envision equivalent measurement classifications.

davidho , 2 months ago to Random stuff

I used to think it was no big deal that my postdoc research on climate at Princeton was funded by BP, but now I see it as BP's effort to burnish its reputation and influence research.

On balance, taking fossil fuel funding is a net negative and this kind of research should be government funded.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/climate/young-climate-scientists-future.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE0.vfsn.leaDN_dPty4X&smid=url-share

petergleick , 2 months ago to Random stuff

I'm sorry but if you're a Republican finally criticizing the crazy extremists in your party, but you've waited until you're out of office or leaving office, you're not a hero, you're a coward.

GOP elder statesmen’s message to Johnson: Stop dithering

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/24/gop-elder-statesmens-message-johnson-stop-dithering/

georgetakei , 2 months ago to Random stuff

McWinning!

KeithDJohnson , 3 months ago to Random stuff

#cartoon Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of civilization.

Brad , 4 months ago to Random stuff

Greed and corruption at the highest levels made this decision, not science. They must be so worried that people aren’t showing up for work or school that they’ve manifested this to make it happen. 🤦‍♂️- https://ktla.com/news/california/california-health-officials-announce-shorter-covid-isolation-guidelines/

KeithDJohnson , 4 months ago to Random stuff

sophia•of•the•Crows
@DSEDunn wrote:
"This is DEAD weird. Still processing.
Asymptomatic or mild covid infection does not seem to mean that infection was in any way benign, only that the immune system failed to react to or clear the virus

Mice w/o an immune response have just as great damage/deposits in organ systems.

We now know that successive covid infections slowly strip T-cells & rob the body of immune protection, much like HIV.

If humans are anything like mice (immune-wise), more and & covid infections would be asymptomatic.

Everyone would (increasingly) look as if they’re not getting sick with #covid, when in fact, everyone would be spreading it like wildfire (invisibly) and developing increasingly disabled #immune systems.

So. Everyone will always be sick, unable to fight anything off

That’s an ugly looking dystopia. This seems to indicate a possibility that SARS-CoV-2 may develop into an undetectable immune-disabling killer, that, unlike #HIV, is airborne
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/01/mice-without-immune-cells-show-no-sars-cov-2-symptoms

KeithDJohnson , 4 months ago to Random stuff

"They'll pretend they always loved you after they kill you." (quoting @AngryBlackLady

KeithDJohnson , 4 months ago to Permaculture

"For decades, beavers were considered pests – trapped & shot on sight. Now the attitude towards nature's best engineers is changing, & farmers are working to bring them back.
#Beavers are vital to #ecosystems, as their dam building habits spread water through parched landscapes. This can not only help to regulate the flow of water, it provides another important service – keeping fires under control. Beavers are nature's firefighters.
In northern New Mexico, Darr has seen farmers "drastically" change their perception of beavers. "They were pretty hesitant, but they saw first-hand how the beavers provided sustained, reliable #water sources throughout the year, even during the hot dry summer we had. To see it is to believe it. We just have to show people what beavers can do for other wildlife, & humans."
#permaculture #climate #drought #flood https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240111-the-us-is-bringing-back-beavers-because-theyre-natures-best-firefighters

davidho , 4 months ago to Random stuff

I can't wait till Letitia James goes after fossil fuel companies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/nyregion/wayne-lapierre-resigns-nra.html

davidho , 4 months ago to Random stuff

"We put the word 'clean' in front of whatever climate-destroying substance is being sold."