James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

This makes sense.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

unless your name is 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, there's a good chance i won't remember it

I am trying to find my people on Mastodon. Can you please boost this if you:

-Believe that strawberries could be bigger and that farmers are simply not working hard enough to grow massive strawberries.
-Lie awake at night wondering if the trillions of insects will one day unite to overthrow the human race.
-Suspect that volcanoes are hiding something beneath all that magma.
-Find Tilda Swinton to be terrifying yet oddly attractive.
-Think that you could defeat 50 Smurfs in hand-to-hand combat.

I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!

✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.

✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.

✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default

✔️ I want the country to own it.

@cstross
It's a reasonable diagnosis

“Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.” - Mrs. Mulverhill (Transitions - Iain Banks)

@jeffjarvis @pkrugman

Many people don’t seem to understand Musk didn’t invent anything and he didn’t innovate anything at Tesla or SpaceX. Other people did that.

He brought in money and gave them time to innovate and that’s it. Now he’s exposed as a moron who got lucky.

I knew he was a moron when the Pandemic hit. I expected him to innovate workplace safety and maybe even testing but instead he started spreading bullsh!t conspiracy theories. I knew then.

My new hobby is talking to my dogs like I’m a sovereign citizen.

“Is this a maritime court?”

“Do you have a warrant?”

btw, y’all, I know there’s a lot of misunderstanding about this out there, but your immune system is not a muscle. You do not need to get sick periodically in order to keep it in good working order.

If you’re concerned about the flu, get a gd flu shot. They exist for a reason.

I've been creeping around looking at a lot of people's accounts (I'm doing a survey) Noticed that people with very few followers have one thing in common: they have not boosted the posts of other people often if at all.

(When I see posts like this encouraging boosting I always think "well that person just wants boosts, whatever") That's not it. On twitter it was important to only boost exceptional content -- boost here to invite more people to join in talking about something.

Imagine being trapped on Mars with Elon and his broflakes in charge.

So why are people still posting on Twitter?

Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

I learned all I know about religion from Queen songs. I know Beelzebub has a devil for a son. And that's about it.

You're doing amazing sweetie

In late April, Premier Doug Ford promised Ontario nurses a $5000 bonus. It was touted as part of his $763-million initiative aimed at slowing the exodus of front line health care workers.

Guess what... Nearly eight months later, nurses are still waiting...

#Ontario #malfeasance #HealthCareCrisis

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-nurses-still-waiting-for-retention-bonus-1.6677678?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

#fordnation to #Ontario #Auditor :

"Stay in your lane and keep away from our money laundering operations."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-ag-casino-sting-operation-1.6671190

I don't think this is getting the coverage it needs. Scottish government to require passivhaus standard for all new build homes. This is big. Really big. Growing out of lessons from the 70's oil crisis. Passivhaus buildings use very little energy to heat, or to cool. We've known how to do this for decades. It's gross negligence from all western governments that the same is not true of all new builds in the developed world.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23197204.government-announces-passivhaus-standards-adopted-scotland/

There’s no time to explain, get in the pea