Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

I'm 59. When I was born, segregation existed, interracial marriage was illegal and women were not allowed to have credit cars in their own names until I was 11 years old. CIVIL RIGHTS ARE A NEW THING.

I feel like everyone joining threads has completely forgotten about zuckerburg giving cops the user data of women seeking abortions.

The federal attorneys prosecuting former President Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case are "at risk" due to death threats, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade warned on Saturday
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans

https://www.newsweek.com/prosecutors-families-risk-amid-trump-documents-case-ex-us-attorney-1811720

What a sad and dark day.

These beautiful souls are Hughes Van Ellis, 102, Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, and Viola Fletcher, who just turned 109. They are the oldest living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. They have received $0 reparations.

They sued for justice. Sadly, Tulsa County District Judge Caroline Wall just granted the City of Tulsa’s motion to dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning the case can’t be refiled.

https://t.co/kJRnvQweL2

Reparations Now.

Thinking a little big about #CW100Days on the blog.

https://www.kc8jc.com/2023/07/07/after-cw100days/

So #Meta's new #Threads app needs your health and fitness info. It also needs your browsing history and your location, and your purchases, and...well, it seems to need everything. If you want to get fully creeped out, here's the whole #privacy policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.

One real thing I've noticed as a parent of a young child is how EASY it is to emotionally manipulate me by evoking harm to a kid, now.

An action movie with a baby in danger messes with me.

It's a visceral, physical sensation, and fascists like Moms 4 Liberty intentionally play on it.

‘Revolutionary’ solar power cell innovations break key energy threshold | Solar power | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/06/revolutionary-solar-power-cell-innovations-break-key-energy-threshold

Good news for a hot planet

Since there's apparently something like 300,000 more users on here, here's some articles I've written about getting started with #Mastodon and the #fediverse.

How to Get Started on Mastodon
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-get-started-on-mastodon-and-leave-twitter-behind

Alternative Social Platforms
https://www.pcmag.com/picks/quitting-twitter-try-these-alternative-social-media-networks

How to Find Your Friends on Mastodon
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-find-your-friends-on-mastodon

How to Follow People on Mastodon
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-follow-people-on-mastodon

How to Pick a Mastodon Server
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-pick-a-mastodon-server

Threads is Instagram. Instagram is Facebook. Facebook is Meta. Meta is Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook was complicit in a literal genocide.

Meta is a surveillance capitalist that exploits you for profit.

Mark Zuckerberg straight up called you “dumb fucks” for trusting him.

What’s it going to take for you to not help these assholes continue to fuck people over?

I've been experimenting with induction cooking. I bought one of those ubiquituous Duxtop 1800W units.

Some results:

1. The surface is glass and far too smooth. There's not a lot of friction - it is too easy for a hot skillet or pot to slide off. That's rather dangerous.

2. The sliding gets worse if there are drops of water on the glass surface. Those turn to steam and form a nice gas bearing so that the skillet or pot slides as if it were on glare ice, sometimes under its own power. This is *extremely* dangerous.

These faults could probably be cured by having some groves in the cooking surface so that steam under the pot can vent and some texture to the glass to give some frictional resistance to prevent things from moving so easily.

#induction

"Threads, because Facebook isn't shitty enough for you."

I was not looking for Painted Buntings this morning, but I heard one singing at one site near Manhattan KS, and this one singing at another site a few miles away. Hope this July territorial behavior means that they are going to raise a second batch of babies this summer!

#Nature #NaturePhotography #Birds #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #Photography #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #FlyoverCountry

Can I see posts from other mastodon feeds? Sorry new to this

#ThreadsNews July 6, 2023

WTF... To delete Meta's new Twitter rival you also have to delete Instagram

Vice: Threads Instagram 'Trap' Shows Why Facebook Should Have Been Broken Up Years Ago >>> https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjvb5/threads-instagram-trap-shows-why-facebook-should-have-been-broken-up-years-ago

TechCrunch: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account >>> https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/

“I deactivated my threads account already but it turns out you can’t delete your threads account *without also deleting your Instagram account* so maybe just don’t sign up!”

Comparing and contrasting app privacy policies for Threads, Bluesky, Twitter and Mastodon:

No importa la nacionalidad,
no importa el país...
La Chancleta sigue siendo la mayor herramienta motivacional jamas inventada!
(sino que lo que lo diga mi abuela que en paz descanse!)

What is it called when something makes you laugh, but also makes you want to cry a little?