Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

by the look of it many of the political prisoners in Russia you could often read about on my feed are free - Novaya Gazeta has an unconfirmed list of some of the names not yet in the bulletins: Oleg Orlov, Andrey Pivovarov, Sasha Skochilenko, Liliya Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeyeva

And here is a bit if background on them:

St Petersburg artist Sasha #Skochilenko - sentenced to 7ys for replacing supermarket pricing labels with anti-war messages: "The #Russian army bombed an art school in #Mariupol . Around 400 people were hiding inside," and: "My great grandfather did not fight in WWII for four years so that Russia could become a fascist state and attack #Ukraine ."

She was convicted of spreading "false information" about the Russian army.

#UkraineWar

⚡️ Reporter: "#Trump has said repeatedly that he could have gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange. What do you say to that? What do you say to former President Trump now?"

President #Biden: "Why didn't he do it when he was president?"

Okay, I finally got too annoyed about idiot MAGA zealots incorrectly using the words “coup” and “Marxist” while insisting that “America is a republic, NOT a democracy” and wrote about why such abuse of the English language is both stupid and dangerous. https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/maga-corruptions-of-the-english-language

Gardeners of the Galaxy turns 4 today!

I have recorded a celebratory episode, and there will be cake later.

(For me. Sadly one of the limitations of RSS is that it cannot deliver cake.)

https://theunconventionalgardener.com/blog/space-fruit-and-flowers/

#astrobotany #podcast #SpacePlants

Wikipedia should shut down an hour before the #Olympics opening ceremony and demand a ransom from all the broadcasters frantically trying to come up with facts about the different countries

10 years from now you'l put on a jacket and find a mask in your pocket.
"Oh man, what a weird year that was," you'll chuckle to yourself.

Then you'll pick up your machete and Continue across the wasteland, keeping to the shadows to avoid the roving gangs of cannibal raiders.

Roses are red.
Roses are blue.
Depending on their velocity
relative to you.

In the US, there's been a lot of talk & concern about foreign investors buying up US farmland.

And there is, in fact, a tech startup that helps them do that! It's like Robin Hood for buying US farmland.

And who's one of its key investors, profiting off of every sale?

J.D. Vance.

Who Trump recently chose as his VP to "represent rural America."

Hey UK-educated #trans folk,

You can get your senior school/college exam certificates reissued in your new name for free, as long as you've had it legally changed.

Can confirm AQA, Edexcel and OCR do this, and very respectfully too. ☺️

#transrightsarehumanrights

"Our information system has split into an endless number of micro communities all learning about news and major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats." https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/p/the-pop-craveification-of-breaking

Trump is now the oldest POTUS candidate ever nominated by a major party.

He has repeatedly confused Biden with Obama and Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. He fell asleep at his criminal trial.

Will the media scrutinize his age & mental decline with the fervor it focused on Biden?

THEY DID IT!!!!

My local library built the seed library!

The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!

The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!

Free seeds for everyone!

#solarPunk #postScarcity #gardening #mutualAid

US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.

We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.