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This is my Instance home for now - maybe a change soon.
Has rocks in my head. My house too. social action, #Progressive, #disability advocate, #caregiver, technology, humor, science, #photography, art, rock collector, #geology, history, reading, #SciFi, Terry Pratchett, #Discworld, #Pterry etc. #Phoenix #Arizona
Now featuring #TipOfDay so I might be a bit grandmothery at times except for enjoying Gogol Bordello and some metal.

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cdarwin , to random
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Christian Nationalists Are Opening Private Schools.

Taxpayers Are Funding Them.

Trump’s favorite Arizona megachurch has one.

Trump held his first campaign rally as a convicted felon at 🔸Dream City Church 🔸in Phoenix, Arizona,
hosted by the arch-conservative student group 💥Turning Point USA. 💥
This wasn’t Trump’s first appearance at Dream City Church;
he also held a rally there with Turning Point USA in 2020.

For events like this, it’s an ideal venue:
A weekly attendance of around 21,000 believers makes this one of the largestchurches not just in Arizona but in the nation.

Dream City, is a mecca for special guests who blur the line between religion and politics.
Its annual conference has featured notables like musician and pastor Sean , who participated in a White House prayer session for President Trump in 2019 and is currently leading a tour of prayer rallies at state capitol buildings across the country.
The lineup for this year’s event also included David , whose organization,
💥WallBuilders, 💥teaches K-12 students about the supposed Christian origins of America;
Jurgen , a pastor at San Diego’s far-right Awaken Church, which has become a stopon Mike ’s
💥ReAwaken America 💥tour;
and Jentezen , a televangelist who also spoke at the 2022 💥Pray Vote Stand Summit💥, which mobilizes conservative Christian voters to engage in political activism.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/christian-nationalists-are-opening-private-schools-taxpayers-are-funding-them/

cobalt ,
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@cdarwin Can verify. A year ago AZ had a 1 1/2 billion $ excess in state funds. So the legislature expanded the school voucher (segregation voucher) and school choice vouchers (segregation voucher) dramatically. This week the legislature refused to reduce that voucher program so most of Arizona departments and programs are being cut by 4-5%.

futurebird , to random
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Parasitic wasps are my problematic favs forever and I love her.

When Darwin saw this he doubted if God could have made such a creature, and took it as evidence of evolution. But, as far as I'm concerned, though she may have evolved, God has blessed her. She is a Good Mother.

(https://www.tumblr.com/futurebird/753489492062699520/parasitic-wasps-are-my-problematic-favs-forever?source=share)

cobalt ,
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@990000 @futurebird Oh! I have been wondering what insects were taking pieces out of the rose bush leaves for the last month. The shapes these ants in the video make look like on our roses. AND I am wondering if this is specific to a "leafcutter ant" or other ants as well. I have not ever seen any insect on any of the bushes, day or night.

cobalt ,
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@futurebird @990000 Phoenix, Arizona!

AND we are questioning if the problem ants in the front yard are fire ants. Did you see the post last week about my son's trip to ER by ambulance? Unbelievable allergic reaction to ant bites. They had come into the house and literally into his bed.

CatsOfYore , to random
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This is a vintage postcard from my collection that I bought because I loved the image so much and the man looked so kind. It was only later that I was able to find out the story behind it: https://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/featuring/church01.html

cobalt ,
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@CatsOfYore What a great story! I imagine "Tom" or "Blackie" was a cat similar to the one my friend @Rasta met on vacation this last week.

cobalt , to random
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Almost 8 hours at ER now. He got a lot of IV drugs for the migraine. Unfortunately he says he still has the migraine. He mostly wants to sleep. Doctor was going to admit him 24 hours but then he thought Drew would have better comfort and safety at home. We think we’re coming home but it’s still iffy. #Migraine

cobalt , to random
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New to our family, sandwich rolls: lavash, mayo, lettuce, prosciutto, havarti cheese. I am trying to find foods Drew can eat since he is not using his left hand very often. Regular sandwiches are a mess since he can’t tell the strength of his grip in his right hand. A firm hold means the sandwich filling falls out. Same for burgers now. Yay for Trader Joe’s lavash - only $2.49 for a large package. 2 pieces for 8 rolls. And it worked well. #Lavash #Food #Wraps #Sandwich

cobalt OP ,
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PS Anyone else having trouble finding food that a person with #Dementia or #Alzheimer can eat, feeding themselves? Since my son is losing more and more dexterity due to declining, he still wants his favorite foods in the way he has always had them yet he really can't deal with using his hands much at the same time he needs a special larger, round spoon to eat. About 1/2 of his meals the caregiver has to finish by feeding him.

cobalt OP ,
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We had Neuro OT for him for almost 6 years until he started having too many hospitalizations. For insurance coverage he has to be “stable”. Neuro OT is specifically for those who have cognitive challenges as well as physical, so both brain and muscles are exercised. We don’t need adaptive dinnerware now but easy to eat and drink foods. As dementia progresses chewing and swallowing become more difficult. But he still is hungry like a hardworking man!#Dementia #Alzheimer

cobalt OP ,
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@mycrowgirl Yes! Both! And also any tips on strategies to coax eating more food when his brain gets tired and stops eating because it’s too much work. We learned if he stops using his spoon, to load it for him. Then if he stops again we offer to feed him. It’s clear he’s hungry but frustrated at the work to eat. I think I’m asking what every caregiver thinks about when seeing declines with #Dementia and #Alzheimer.

cobalt OP ,
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@mycrowgirl Ah, the bonus tip of “if they grip too hard” and “get thrown during a meltdown”!
😄😀😆🤣😂😳

cobalt , to random
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Oh I just had to share. We are at the last of May in Phoenix and I know in just 2-3 weeks the heat wave may come so hot we can’t go swimming. But for now, even seeing the water rippling in the sunlight is a joy.

Backyard swimming pool just showing the water moving in ripples and small waves towards the camera. It’s all aqua tones with the sun bright and highlights from the moving water.

CelloMomOnCars , to random
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"Searing could be a common theme this summer in parts of the United States and might make it one of the hottest on record, according to an updated outlook released Thursday by The Weather Company and Atmospheric G2.

The West Coast, from California to southwest Washington, might be the exception. "

https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2024-05-15-summer-forecast-temperatures-united-states

cobalt ,
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@CelloMomOnCars Although I've lived in Phoenix for 20 years now and saw yearly rising summer temperatures and longer heat waves, I was still astonished at how intense the heat was last summer and about 674 deaths here due to the heat. Everyone here is just waiting to see when the days stay about 115º and the nights only go down to 90º. Yikes.

cobalt , to random
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It wasn’t a fluke Monday, this afternoon Drew went right into the pool, began walking in it and is now enjoying the pool sling chair. We are so thrilled he’s getting exercise again after 7 months without.

My son Drew is in his pool sling chair just floating around. Now he has tipped backwards with his head on the floatation device.

GottaLaff , to random
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ICYMI:

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

cobalt ,
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@GottaLaff THIS I did go ahead and view,first time I saw a MSM TV news segment about the trial. It was worth it! Excellent way to present this is steady clips of exact courtroom transcripts. I wonder if historians in the future will have to describe the use of the term turd in court and why an orange turd is a significant person and why he’s described this way.

cobalt , to random
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You can never have too many flowers. Or the aroma of flowers that drifts out 25-40 feet away as these star jasmine vines do. I finally found my jasmine fertilizer so the pots just greedily soaked up very nutrient-rich water. We went over 100° today! I read that using this fertilizer will help prolong blooming. If scientists figured out commercially viable ways to capture scent for release later, I’d recommend the scent of jasmine. Really stays in my memory. #BloomScrolling #Jasmine #Phoenix

One jasmine vine growing out of a large gray pot at the corner of a white arbor. This plant is now 7’ tall and about 3’ diameter as the vines are growing up the white trellis in the pot and up to the top of the arbor. Tiny white star-like flowers are seen between the healthy and shiny leaves along each vine branch.
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    • cobalt , to random
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    Omigosh the Star Jasmine vines are growing and blooming! I’ve waited 8 months for magic to happen. I think in maybe just 3 days the plants will be covered in tiny white flowers and maybe on a week there could be 1,000. The aroma is incredible. I only smelled it once in San Diego about 8 years ago and have wanted to try growing it all this time.
    #Flowers #Jasmine #BloomScrolling #Phoenix #Arizona

    MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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    On June 21, 1877, the authorities hanged ten Irish miners in a single day in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Known as Black Thursday, or Day of the Rope, it was the second largest mass execution in U.S. history. (The largest was in 1862, when the U.S. government executed 38 Dakota warriors). They convicted the Irishmen of murder, and accused them of being terrorists from a secret organization called the Molly Maguires. They executed ten more over the next two years, and imprisoned another twenty suspected Molly Maguires. Most of the convicted men were union activists. Some even held public office, as sheriffs and school board members.

    However, there is no evidence that an organization called the Molly Maguires ever existed in the U.S. The only serious evidence against the men was presented by a spy, James McParland, working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who provided the plans and weapons the men purportedly used in their crimes. The entire legal process was a travesty: a private corporation (the Reading Railroad) set up the investigation through a private police force (the Pinkerton Detective Agency) and prosecuted them with their own company attorneys. No jurors were Irish, though several were recent German immigrants who had trouble understanding the proceedings.

    Nearly everything people “know” today about the Molly Maguires comes from Allan Pinkerton’s own work of fiction, The Molly Maguires and the Detectives (1877), which he marketed as nonfiction. His heavily biased book was the primary source for dozens of academic works, and for several pieces of fiction, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s final Sherlock Holmes novel, Valley of Fear (1915), and the 1970 Sean Connery film, Molly Maguires.

    My novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill, tells a truer story of these union miners and their persecution by the Pinkertons.

    You can read my complete article on the Molly Maguires here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/

    cobalt ,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor Excellent share today and thank you very much for this.

    cobalt , to random
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    Oh I just couldn’t wait, I just made myself fresh green beans for breakfast. If you saw my photo I posted a few hours ago, my serving I cooked was barely a dent in the bounty covering my table. Now I know fresh cooked green beans with butter on top makes a most pleasant breakfast. I did make a big pot of oatmeal too so when my sleepy son Drew wakes soon he will get his “oatmeal with flies in it”.
    #Vegetables #Green #GreenBeans

    lauren , to random
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    The NY Trump trial starting next Monday won't be televised, but here's what I predict we're in store for.

    The trial will be running mon-tue-thu-fri. Unless granted an absence by the judge, Trump apparently must attend this criminal trial every day it is in session.

    Reporters will be permitted to live report from the courtroom and overflow room. So there will be a continuous stream of information (mostly textual, I assume) pouring out, that will accompanied by drawings of participants and other extras.

    To what extent there will be wall-to-wall coverage on the news networks is unclear, but the trial itself is expected to run six to eight weeks or so.

    Buckle up.

    cobalt ,
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    @lauren @tessarakt I’m going to rely on the great @GottaLaff for pulling together a thread that puts out the play-by-play. She often has quick comments from other reliable folks who are on-site as the trial goes on

    sollat , to random
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    Happy Birthday to Milli! Four years old today!

    (so annoyed)

    #Cats #Caturday

    cobalt ,
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    @sollat Cracks me up! 😄

    RolloTreadway , to random
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    I'm home, I'm showered, and I'm about to have a hot cross bun.

    Some pictures from my walk:

    #Northumberland #CountyDurham

    Close up of a black pony's face. There is a small white mark in the middle of her forehead. She is very well lit by the sun, and looks kind of sleepy as it warms her. She is standing in a field of low scrub, and budding trees hang over her.
    View from beneath two iron arches that hold up a through-arch bridge. The arches are made of a simple lattice, with beams crossing between them. The iron is painted light grey. We cannot see the platform of the bridge, the camera is looking up. The sky is bright blue with light fluffy clouds, and the sun casts dark shadows through the latticework. Behind, we can see the tops of trees, some bare, some coming into leaf, and some evergreen.

    cobalt ,
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    @RolloTreadway @helenclayton What a glorious and wonderful day, well done!

    futurebird , to random
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    "You'd expect this from Joe Scarborough he's a far left opinion commentator."

    -Fox Anchor

    Joe Scarborough served as a Republican in the FL house. And ... as a member of the far left I'm deeply insulted. As I think Joe would be too. We are in crazy town.

    "far left"

    cobalt ,
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    @futurebird I rarely see anyone who is "far left" or even tends "more left". The majority is a bunch of liberals, neo-liberals, centrists and conservative "Democrats". It's ridiculous when you and I are actually far left that people would freak out because you and I are "dangerous" (???), but there it is.

    cobalt , to random
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    An epic thread/essay/rant from @pluralistic regarding far more than the Boeing fiascos this deep dive into Schismogenesis (what a great term!) and the TikTok legislation in the US is essential reading for US citizens. I boosted it on Mastodon. Full essay is titled: “Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis”. BTW, don’t miss viewing the TikTok from “pearlmania” that Cory includes. https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/

    futurebird , to random
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    Where is the space news? Has the storm hit yet?

    cobalt ,
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    @futurebird I saw a post that indeed, it has arrived and is quite strong. I imagine we'll be seeing more posts pop up soon online.

    wdlindsy , to random
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    I"n December 2021, writer Thomas Harding interviewed Brigitte Höss, daughter of Rudolf Höss, SS commandant of the death camp at Auschwitz. Harding's Jewish great-uncle arrested Höss when WWII ended. Höss was hanged for his crimes against humanity.

    Harding pressed Brigitte to condemn what her father did, overseeing a death camp in which countless numbers (there's no full documentation) of people were tortured and systematically murdered.

    #Auschwitz #RudolfHöss
    /1

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/brigitte-hoss-auschwitz-zone-of-interest-rudolf-oscar-winning-thomas-harding

    cobalt ,
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    @wdlindsy EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I read or hear of anything related to the Holocaust I cannot help but think of what the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinians and has been doing for 70 years or so. One difference though I see: the IDF knows exactly what they are doing as if a perverse “Solution”. It’s such a pervasive horror that maybe now any “news” of murder and destruction in Gaza or that whole area also daily brings to my mind the Holocaust. “Banality” no. Unending evil.

    Rasta , to random
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    Have you heard, about the new Dance Craze?

    #GoodNight #Bonsoir

    I've got some research to do, I need this Windoze Tab.. 😂

    ♫ Le Freak ♫ #NowPlaying #NSR Nile Rodgers & CHIC
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRERgcQe-fQ
    #Disco #Music

    cobalt ,
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    @Rasta what a classic! Disgusted YouTube set a commercial for about 2 minutes in. 🙁

    cobalt , to random
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    This is my fave way to cook Corned Beef~
    https://thekitchengirl.com/instant-pot-corned-beef/

    cobalt OP ,
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    The marinated potatoes are to die for. Using a bag of small red potatoes, the cabbage wedges and carrots cook in the pot after the roast is done. I sacrifice 1 1/2 bottles Guinness for this roast. Hoping my lucky day is tomorrow when I’ll hit a few grocery stores early in hopes of scoring more roasts to freeze. Last few years I found the corned beef roasts go for $1/pound on 3/18. 😄😄😄

    saddestrobots , to random
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    this is a helpful example of what a conservative coup actually looks like

    it's not the dissolution of government as you know it, it's merciless murder followed by a fake return to normal where all the machinery keeps humming along but minorities don't have rights anymore

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre

    cobalt ,
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    @saddestrobots What a hefty article in Wikipedia! I had read and heard of a number of such events throughout the South and of course the now-infamous "Race Riots" around the country. But this Wilmington massacre and the devasting coups throughout North Carolina, this is new to me. The years of these events are really not far from present day. Many living descendants surely must know of these evil events through their own family histories.

    adamgreenfield , to random
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    Oh! Dudes. Last week I had to write to SPIN to demand attribution for my 1988 William Gibson interview, which they’d credited to “SPIN Staff.” I’ve always been proud of the piece, despite its manifest amateurism, because I pitched it to my editors & believe it is the first-ever interview with Gibson in a mainstream, national outlet. (Quotes from it have been used as blurbs!) Credit where due: SPIN got back to me within minutes, and actually fixed the attribution! https://www.spin.com/2019/08/william-gibson-mona-lisa-overdrive-neuromancer-december-1988-interview-new-romancer/

    cobalt ,
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    @adamgreenfield Whoa, this article and the interview took me a way back. Thank you! I came on Gibson while browsing in the sci-fi section of a used bookstore maybe around 1987 or so. Since then I’ve read and/or bought every novel he writes that I can find. His work and even he as writer - all frozen in time for me. Of course he and I are only 40. Such a surprise to see a mirror or photos where we look decades older. I bet Cory Doctorow read his work in grade school, right? @pluralistic

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    cobalt ,
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    @constantorbit @dillyd Oh dear, I guess I'd be in for being yelled at. In order to get my son out of the house for "an outing", even though it is just a car ride, I take him and his caregiver to the pharmacy to pick up his meds. When he's not in good enough shape to go inside the store, they listen to "his music" on the car stereo while I run in to get them. Yes, sometimes it can be 10 minutes. Wasteful yes but then there is the ten minutes he's happy. Hmmm.

    cobalt ,
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    @dillyd @constantorbit Sadly my car allows only about 5 minutes on the accessory mode, it's infuriating. Maybe it is a pollution-control or safety "feature"?

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "The future of proselytizing—and surveillance—has arrived. An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is mapping the personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and 'prayerwalking' rituals through their neighborhoods."

    ~ Elle Hardy

    #evangelicals #surveillance #privacy
    /1

    https://newrepublic.com/article/179397/evangelical-app-targeting-immigrants-surveillance

    cobalt ,
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    @wdlindsy I would definitely seek to sue such a use by any religious entity.

    cobalt , to random
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    Wow, raining hard here in Phoenix and that is so unusual and weird. So much rain already that 2/3 the patio has water running in. Fortunately most of our backyard and patio things are raised up above ground level. The forecast is 100% rain at 8 and at 9 pm. Maybe flash floods around here tonight.
    #Arizona #Rain

    cobalt OP ,
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    @Rasta it’s not furniture but many boxes of STUFF I’ve been sorting out for save/give away/trash. There will be many car accidents here, flash floods really aren’t well controlled at all in Phoenix. There will be many intersections deep enough no cars can get thru.

    cobalt OP ,
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    From an icon here in Phoenix who still is on Twitter but at least has a bird.makeup account here: https://bird.makeup/users/clueheywood/statuses/1765831087136374917
    #Arizona #Rain

    cobalt OP ,
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    @Rasta now that I see your list, we are good here! I just wish this night could repeat again a few times this summer. We’re the place in world news last summer with 55+ days in a row over 110°, often at 115°. There was no rain at my area for 3 1/2 months.

    cobalt , to random
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    THIS is on my mind- https://open.substack.com/pub/thomaszimmer/p/what-project-2025-would-do-to-america?r=2263j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

    futurebird , to random
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    Car colors have grown more drab over the decades. I viewed this as a good thing. Cars are the prestige items they once were. Not a thing to impress anyone, just a machine. However, someone pointed out that the most popular colors now are a safety risk. They are the same color as the road or fog.

    Tax break for bright purple and orange cars? Could it save lives?

    cobalt ,
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    @futurebird Ah! You too have noticed lots of new cats in what I call Bondo gray. Cannot at all see choosing gray.

    sam , to random
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    I am strongly considering moving away from Mastodon in the medium to long term future because of Eugen's absolutely abysmal handling of the spam situation and lack of prioritization of proper mod tooling.

    #FediBlockMeta #MastoAdmin #admin

    cobalt ,
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    @sam Hmmmm, in the last 2 days I’ve read posts from folks in my friends and friends of friends specifically talking about a bunch of new tools released and a bunch from Eugen that instances can choose to use. The admins would then integrate any chosen for their own instances.

    I’m confused, is this post in regards to these new tools not being good, or a general observation? I thought some of them were specifically to fight the spam bursts many have gotten lately.

    breadandcircuses , (edited ) to random
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    Sixty years ago today — 29 January 1964 — Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece "Dr. Strangelove" was released.

    That movie could be both the most hilarious AND the most terrifying you will ever see.

    MORE INFO -- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

    cobalt ,
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    @breadandcircuses this was and is my favorite movie of all time. I agree, funny and terrifying. Lived in Chicago area and toured a Nike base installation there via friends of grandfather. Unfortunately they were military and I always knew they were just like the fanatics in this movie. So it is even more grim for me. Was even given a ceramic Oozlefinch figurine by a general there. Creepy as hell.

    bojacobs , to histodons group
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    1/2

    January 27th is the National Day of Remembrance for America’s Downwinders in the USA. These are people who lived downwind of the Nevada Nuclear Test site, and were exposed to radioactive fallout. Much of that fallout remains radioactive and is now embedded into the ecosystem.

    The US government has paid a token compensation to a minuscule portion of this community through #RECA.

    #NTS #NNSS #nuclear #NuclearTesting #ColdWar @histodons

    cobalt ,
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    @bojacobs @histodons I think I read that some of the negotiations of congressmen and senators for voting funds to the government and for border security and Ukraine slipped in a cessation of all funding for Downwinders. I’ve know some of these folks affected. It’s always been covered over.

    MaJ1 , to weirdfolks group
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    I’m not really here, just a figment of your collective fevered imaginations …. That said , just started reading Pyramids again & had to quote this to my Peeps :

    “Much that is weird could happen on a world on the back of a turtle like that! “

    Proof, as if it were needed, that the @weirdfolks ancestral / spiritual home is in fact the Discworld !

    G’Night all , may all that is good guard your sleep 🤗🫶😴

    cobalt ,
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    @MaJ1 @weirdfolks Oh I’m so happy to stumble on a thread filled with #Discworld and #Pratchett fans. Warms the cockles of my heart! Or at least my cackles are heating things up at present.

    PMKeeling , to histodons group
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    Sobering piece on the effects of the British #library cyber attack. Staff have had to get new passports, PhDs are on hold, researchers' careers are affected. Every historian I know has been impacted.

    https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/british-library-cyber-hack-rhysida-ransomware-tom-holland-b1131623.html

    @histodons
    #histodons

    cobalt ,
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    @PMKeeling @histodons Devastating losses! I wonder if this kind of digital hack can result in permanent loss of history and records. And considering the depth of this attack, I think of such hacks to hospitals, city governments, and businesses I have read about in recent years. Can such vast digital storage be retrieved from cloud storage?

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