Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

When your guests arrive early but they’re special friends so you’re ok with it.

The reversal of Roe v. Wade was a cataclysmic error by radical MAGA Republicans and hypocritical "conservatives" who have invaded secular politics with their religious beliefs.

Pro-life means not cutting food and cash assistance to our most vulnerable citizens. It means legislating a living wage. It means advocating for clean water and air. Pro-life is making sure that everyone has medical care and retirement benefits. And leaving people to make their own personal choices.

They said it was all about handing the choice back to the states. Since that backfired on them, they now want national restrictions put in place. If they think the backlash hurt in 2022, just wait.

Opinion Republicans are doubling down on abortion. They’ll regret it.
https://wapo.st/3K8adYO

I have a theory that there are about 2,000 Americas--that every group is certain that they are the real Americans. Texans are certain they are the Americans, and in North Dakota it is a given that North Dakota is America.
— Maya Angelou in Los Angeles Times, 1992

#MastodonNews Feb 15, 2023

Pathetic.

The Guardian: Elon Musk reportedly forced Twitter algorithm to boost his tweets after Super Bowl flop >>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/15/elon-musk-changes-twitter-algorithm-super-bowl-slump-report

Elon Musk rallied a team of roughly 80 engineers to reconfigure the platform’s algorithm so his tweets would be more widely viewed

Archive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d5Q6oyzrlfXBEhHsLI9cxltdFV_XPrZWQj1mj8Ivc7Q/edit?usp=sharing

#twittermigration

Elon Musk is flooding people’s Twitter feeds with his posts because he’s just that insecure.

Imagine if he were allowed to put a chip in your brain. No thank you!

Facebook has "permanently disabled" my account. I'm appealing, but you know those scum.

Do yourself a favor and reserve 10 minutes today to read this eye opening Oatmeal comic on the psychological "backfire effect”.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Repeating myself for new followers.

I do random PRs for #opensource. My largest is making a #rustlang scripting language embeddable. According to GH search, it unlocked dozens of uses.

https://github.com/rhaiscript/rhai/pull/229

But I'm often I'm too busy/disorg to do more than small things, like writing #cicd for budding projects.

And yet, that''s my prob biggest impact: a Flash impl took off after I added bin releases w/Win MSI.

https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark/pull/357

That's #foss: little things can make a great impact.

He committed suicide shortly before going on trial for trafficking 15 kilograms of fentanyl from Mexico into America.

Charlottesville Tiki Torcher Killed Himself Before Drug Smuggling Trial.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlottesville-tiki-torcher-teddy-joseph-von-nukem-killed-himself-before-trial?source=articles&via=rss

Russia placed thousands of Ukrainian children in camps where they’re subjected to propaganda and forcible adoption by Russian families, a US government-backed report from Yale found https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-14/russia-put-6-000-ukrainian-kids-in-re-education-camps-yale-study-finds?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter via @bpolitics

Oh! Oh! Oh! - - -
#WeSuck

Desk view:

Can't wait to read the twitter files about this direct collusion between elected officials and the CEO of twitter

Two kids were shot in two (probably unrelated) school shootings in Denver today.
It no longer even makes the local news.
To paraphrase Bruce Schneier, the stuff you read about in the newspaper isn't what's going to kill you, it's the stuff that happens so often it's not worth writing about.

“Jesus doesn’t have an image problem, but Christians & their churches do. These campaigns end up being PR for the wrong problem. Young people are savvy. They are digital natives who understand the difference between slick marketing and authenticity. One of their primary issues with evangelicalism, and the modern church in America, is the amount of money spent on itself.” #HeGetsUs

ONE BILLION DOLLARS being spent on this!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/us/he-gets-us-super-bowl-commercials-cec