Let’s try a little sharing game on my stream. #TipOfDay
As long as I know folks may be interested, I’ll do a one-a-day theme post. Creates a collection searchable by hashtag. Any topic but to be part of it, repeat the hashtag of my daily post. Show me if you are interested by a comment, reply with a new top, fave or boost. Each day you can do a hashtag search if you wish to find one. Next post starts it.
Twitter is dying, but my advocacy work helping trans people raise money via fundraisers depends on my five years of work I've spent writing on Twitter, so I need help.
If you're a trans person who needs help raising money for any reason, reply to this toot with your fundraiser. I'll reach out.
If you're a cis person and you can, please boost this post so your trans followers can see it.
Via @KlasfeldReports:
Interesting moment from earlier in the day:
Echoing the state judge who presided over Trump's arraignment, the federal judge presiding over #EJeanCarroll v. #Trump warned the parties to refrain from making statements that would incite violence or civil unrest.
There are precisely two cases I've covered in more than a decade in which I can recall the judge giving such a warning, both with case captions ending in "vs. Trump." #legal
Crows Carrying Mines Are Becoming a Major Problem in Kharkiv Region
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/16349 #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russia #UkraineWarNews
As a Neo-Luddite who knows quite a lot about modern technology, "ambient computing" is one of the most horrifying ideas in tech over recent years.
I sure don't want buggy, corporate owned, oppressive bullshit disembodied all around myself like some vague malicious miasma.
I prefer my technology in a form where I can smash it to pieces if needed, thank you very much.
New federal bipartison bill would set age limits for social media and establish government run Internet-use ID system [like in China]. Both parties want the U.S. Internet to be like the Communist Chinese Internet. -
https://www.wired.com/story/protecting-kids-social-media-act/
The United Nations Human Rights Office pressed Singapore on Tuesday to "urgently reconsider" its scheduled execution of a man over one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cannabis. https://cbsn.ws/41QLEWg
We've already been the victim of a coal ash release upstream from one of the retention ponds. It's not this power plant but another one that closed and is being "cleaned" up.
They quietly were dumping it before getting caught when cleaning it up.
Our water came out all dirty, stinky and whatnot. Our water intake for city service was downstream of the release
Florida surgeon general altered key findings in study on Covid-19 vaccine safety
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510
Why is Elon Musk constantly in the news? Every day. Several times a day.
It's a conscious decision and intentional. Musk plays the news media and they are happy to be played.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/22/elon-musk-the-barking-mad-publicity-hound-00093293
I wish I could be half as brave as she is. In Montana!!! I’d be scared as hell.
Fragile Republicans Want Trans Lawmaker Censured for Fiery Speech
Want to die in a hail of bullets? Move to a Red State. The statistics aren't even close. #guns #GOP #NRA #politics https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413?fbclid=IwAR2-0deKyXQJ1NLiHCjdGRMJ2VcAuT1gwGsAPid6LleM12la2YOwSIICps4
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"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump