TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org

Morning! Florida Republicans are in gaslighting mode, denying the book-banning. In reality, at least one county already is forming a volunteer police force to round up books they deem "woke." One book they hate? Michelle Obama's memoir. https://www.salon.com/2023/02/03/call-the-woke-busters-ron-desantis-sends-volunteer-army-to-snatch-books-from-students-hands/

Colorado Election Fraud Conspiracist Appears to Have Committed Voter Fraud, Court Docs Show

https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2023/02/colorado-election-fraud-conspiracist-appears-to-have-committed-voter-fraud-court-docs-show/50777/

God: OK, just a few animals left to finish. What’s this weird horse looking thing? The hockeypuck?

Angel: the Okapi

G: Whatever. Needs color

A: I think so, y-

G: give the chimpanzee some markers

A: what

Big Journalism grossly downplayed the accomplishments of the Biden administration and Democratic-controlled Congress in 2021-22.

Now, Big Journalism is puzzled that the public isn't aware of those accomplishments.

(Not a hint of this in the Post story, of course...)

So over on the Bird App, Mr "Free Speech" is blocking links to this story for some unknown reason...{snark}

Ivanka, Jared rub shoulders with Qatari elite at World Cup https://www.timesofisrael.com/ivanka-jared-rub-shoulders-with-qatari-elite-at-world-cup/ #politics #musk #twitter

I missed #caturday so I’ll post my cat Indy today. Last week he stuck his paw in a cup of coffee on my desk and shook it everywhere. It got all over my MacBook.

In Syria, the city of Harim, with a population of 30,000 inhabitants, was badly damaged, most of the houses either collapsed or were badly damaged. #earthquake

I'm not saying people have a basic inability to assess and react to threats, but Twitter is still abuzz over a single spy balloon from China, a nation with over 260 spy satellites in orbit. Meanwhile, a mutating virus is causing economy-damaging levels of disability, and fewer seem to care. It's easier to rattle sabers at China than to #WearAMask, I guess.

Earlier this evening over on twitter, a follower put me on a tweet with nothing but @s, including me there were 21 of us. In the follow-up reply they said it wasn’t so much a follow-Friday list as a “wanted dead or alive” list

I immediately muted the tweet & didn’t even ❤️ the post.
I know people mean it as a friendly gesture but to me, being in such a LONG list of tagged accounts feels like a hostile act of notifications bombing

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/04/nhs-fines-mothers-for-claiming-free-prescriptions-while-pregnant

Every single time you think the UK has reached rock bottom under the #ToriesUnderfunding , it manages, effortlessly, to sink even lower. This is piling Pelion upon Ossa. Those poor women.

#Florida y’all!!

I can’t emphasize this enough. The Government is planning to rob millions of workers of their democratic right to strike, force them to work against their will, allow them to be sacked if they refuse & lying to get away with it. UK media must step up
https://youtu.be/YJEYK8576Cw