https://mstdn.social/@leahmcelrath/109384255118757294
A thread by Leah McElrath including free links to NYTimes Article concerning "the people who saved lives in Colorado Springs by subduing the gunman."
I read to my wife what I could, as we talk about these things. But I couldn't make it through. Not all heroes wear capes.
Last night, it became apparent that Twitter’s automated copyright strike/takedown system was no longer functional. A user went viral for uploading the entirety of The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift in two minute chunks over a 50 tweet thread.
I read somewhere just now that it's useful to post additional information about oneself. So, I'm:
the daughter of one of the early nuclear engineers. He specialized in materials research for shielding suitability;
70 years old;
retired from a healthcare system after 40 years of employment with them, the last 20 years were in IT;
The proud mother of a mathematics in a Denver university who is also invilved with the LGBTQ community;
fond of #sci fi;
also watch extended versions of #lotr every year;
former mother of a bushbaby, who passed in 1971;
definitely left of center;
a voter;
getting solar panels in February;
a fugitive from Texas currently in Albuquerque, NM;
fond of all animals, used to be the neighborhood snake wrangler;
the daughter of a natural history devotee;
a voracious reader;
the wife of a fine arts scholar, who has read me to sleep every night for 24 years - all of the major classics and many of the minor ones (I got the liberal arts education that I had missed as a science student);
a terrible housekeeper, with an even worse house husband;
glad to be alive even though that might change any day with the current political disaster.
Thanks to @Romaq for inviting me to qoto. I hope to find a home here. Twitter is evil; Facebook is cluttered and confusing. So here I am.
@Chamisa22 Howdy, and welcome! @mikmaqpeek would be my wife.
RT @TonyJ_27@twitter.com
Struggling for gift ideas for your Vote Leave friends? How about this Brexit mug?
Yay, now to see if Mojang will allow me to play #Minecraft!
Dogs taking up bed space
I took time to hug and assure my wife @mikmaqpeek it wasn't her coughing that had me up at various times last night. It was being bossed around and told what's-what, being complained at and grumbled to. Some people's puppies!
Grinnin' Ferret