Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

NEW:
Common narratives about #homelessness and #mentalhealth in #SF focus on people who reject help. But last fall, our reporters met an unhoused man so desperate for care that he asked to be detained just to get his meds. 🧵

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/5150-holds-and-often-vicious-cycle-through-sf-mental-health-care-system/

Did you know … the US is building a floating pier to deliver food and supplies to Gaza … working around the Israeli blockade that has northern Gaza in a famine?

If you read/watch/listen to only US media … probably not.

US Gaza floating pier
NYT: Mar 7, 10; Apr 25, 27; May 1
WaPo: Mar 8, 31; Apr 6, 25, 30

Gaza famine
NYT: Apr 27, 27, 28; May 3, 4
WaPo: Mar 28; Apr 6, 4; May 3, 4

@DemocracyMattersALot Violate 10 gag orders and get the 11th free right here in the land of the brave where no one (else) is above the law.

Sick and tired of public schools pushing their trans agenda on our kids. This year alone my children have learned:

-the importance of public TRANSportation
-how TRANSistors work
-the TRANSitive property
-how diseases are TRANSmitted

The brainwashing needs to stop.

BRB gonna go commit contempt of court ten times and see if I don’t get jailed

@SETIEric @StillIRise1963 If you think $0 is as low as they could go, you aren't thinking like a slimy, rent-seeking fascist. And also you didn't see the story earlier about how Florida charges incarcerated persons a fee based on the full duration of their sentence.

@AlterNewt @TidalFlats @12thRITS

"adopt a rescue governor today- make a difference!”

Oh lort she defected to Russia and is shilling for Putin 🤢

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/30/tara-reade-defects-russia-biden

@MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

If you use the election to make a statement about Gaza by not voting, wish your trans friends well in the camps they’ll be sent to.

You might think this meme from the cat internet is about shaming the second cat for being lazy... but if you do? You don't really understand cats.

This is a celebration of cat progress. Posted as a brag mostly.

The woman talking about her lust for puppy murder to get on Trump's ticket is actually slightly less scary than all the traitors pledging allegiance to a dictatorship to get on Trump's ticket. But she's also that.

@GottaLaff

Today is National Cartoonists Day. Yes, really...it is!

https://nationaltoday.com/national-cartoonists-day/

So I decided to rerun this #NonSequitur edition from 20 years ago...

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2024/05/05

Took the Bear/Man survey w the memory that I once saw sketchy men in the woods up ahead when I was hiking with a friend close to dusk. (huge mistake) It was terrifying. We immediately turned around, & ran back to the beginning of the trail, even though it was a further distance, and it soon turned dark. Luckily, the boy was a former boy scout, and brought a flashlight. My instant instinct was to run & take our chances w the dark, not the men. (PSA it gets dark in the woods sooner than you think)

CREW:

The fact that Tim Scott is refusing to say he’d follow the law and not try to overthrow the results of a free and fair election should scare anyone listening. This is how democracies end.

👇🏼
WELKER: Will you commit to accepting the 2024 election results?

TIM SCOTT: At the end of the day, the 47th president will be Donald Trump

WELKER: Wait -- yes or no, will you accept the results?

TIM SCOTT: That is my statement

Thanks to everyone who joined the virtual get-together today!

We had 11 people on the call, and we did some virtual debugging, demo'd some programs, and talked about other technical topics.

In yet another bad sign for #democracy:

#Netanyahu has essentially banned #FreePress in #Israel. His cabinet *voted* to kick #AlJazeera out of Israel says its #journalists are threats to #NationalSecurity.

I guess the pen truly is mightier than the sword & all that.

#Gaza #Palestinians #Authoritarianism
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-cabinet-moves-close-al-jazeeras-local-operations-2024-05-05/

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Being anti apartheid, anti genocide, anti occupation does NOT make one pro Hamas.
Nor does being against vengeance, cruelty, racism, hate.
Turning all Palestinians into Hamas is to justify genocide. Just as they turn all Jews into Zionists so they can justify ongoing arms deals, defence funding, occupation, and ignoring ICJ…and claim critique of Israel’s genocidal policy is antiSemitic…

To date, zero bears have approached my car after dark at a gas station, knocked on the window and demanded I hold a conversation with them about my physical appearance.

God: In an unfortunate Afterlife mix-up, Jacob Marley will be headlining The Pearly Gates Reggae Festival, and Bob Marley will be teaching a rich old Curmudgeon the meaning of Christmas.

Jacob Marley: IT'S GONNA BE OFF THE CHAIN!

God: No Jacob.

You guys, it's actually pretty easy to distinguish between anti-semitism and criticism of the sovereign nation of Israel.

I just don't get what's hard about this.