Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

My friend the brilliant author Rachel Pollack is coming to the end of her life. She won the Nebula, World Fantasy and Arthur C Clarke awards. She is a world renowned expert on Tarot, and her books on Tarot are still regarded as the good standard. She created the first trans superhero, in Doom Patrol in '93. I will miss her very much when she goes. I am writing this at the request of her wife Zoe, to let her friends know that the end is soon, and to let the obituarists know too.

Japanese astronomer catches meteorite smashing into the moon (bottom right)

https://www.space.com/meteorite-impacts-moon-february-2023-video

#Astronomy #Moon #Space

Mitt Romney Drops Truth Bomb on Silicon Valley Bank: Shareholders Should ‘Lose It All’ https://www.smartnews.com/p/4525732427942859012

Someone just called me an “epistemic superpredator” and it was supposed to be an insult but it’s the best thing anyone has ever called me. It’s going on my business cards.

Libertarians are the antivaxxers of economic regulation: having never lived in a world without it, they've deluded themselves into thinking stability is naturally occurring.

Folks on the radio saying we don't need masks in schools until that school has an outbreak of like 40% of the school.

What's the point then? 40% already infected.

I don't get this "wait until after the car crash happens then everyone not injured can put in a seatbelt"

Wild story: A group of conservative Catholics has spent millions of dollars to buy mobile app tracking data to identify priests who used gay dating and hookup apps

"A new surveillance frontier in which private individuals can track other Americans’ locations and activities using commercially available information"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/

2024 Trump Is Even Scarier Than 2020 Trump | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/2024-trump-is-even-scarier-than-2020-trump

@PatriciaLewis

“Temperatures in more than a dozen Chinese cities have hit record seasonal highs this week, with central China’s Wuhan and Zhengzhou more than 10C hotter than average for early March, official data showed.” 😳

The harm Fox has caused to America, viewers, employees... is unfathomable. Punitive damages should be in the BILLIONS$: Filings have shown that Fox’s top execs admonished members of the news team for their “disrespect” to the network’s audience. A text exchange with former Fox producer Phil Vogel, who told her he was taking a pay cut & forgoing 6 weeks paid leave to get out of the network bc “I couldn’t defend” their voter fraud coverage to his daughter-: https://www.mediaite.com/news/its-a-sht-network-new-texts-reveal-ex-fox-news-reporter-claiming-network-muzzled-her-for-fact-checking-trump/

Landed in Oakland, California, US. Apx. flt. time 3 Hours : 49 Mins.

Women stranded in #snow for three nights in #MendicinoCounty and had "no cell signal and... no way to call for help." (luckily, saved before perishing) #snowpocalypse https://abc7news.com/california-snowstorm-mendocino-county-rescue-woman-trapped-laytonville-ca-snow/12926757/?ex_cid=TA_KGO_TW&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

😂 😂 😂

“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” Carlson texted Jan. 4, 2021. “I truly can’t wait.”

“I hate him passionately,” Carlson added.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/07/fox-news-lawsuit/

https://archive.ph/GBlhb

Musk seems like the sort of guy who would have made fun of Stephen Hawking because Hawking had "a silly sounding voice."

Admittedly, it's not fair that driving around a Tesla these days is to many onlookers like wearing a giant MAGA hat and a sign that says "Making fun of people with disabilities is so cool!" -- No, it isn't fair. But that's what sleeping with Musk these days will get you.

Elon Musk Publicly Mocks His [ex] Employee for Daring to Have Muscular Dystrophy - https://futurism.com/elon-musk-mocks-employee-disability

Please pay attention to GOP in Georgia: they just passed a bill in Senate to give GOP ability to remove any prosecutor. This is 100% so they can remove DA Fani Willis who is on verge of indicting Trump. GOP is willing to change law to protect Trump! https://ajc.com/politics/georgia-das-could-face-new-oversight-under-gop-measure/67NBPFTYQVHX7BCNF5KS5BIFDI/