Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

Very good news for Ukraine! 🇺🇦

Denmark🇩🇰 and Czechia🇨🇿 has made a deal, where Denmark will pay for Czechian production of weapons to Ukraine.

The first delivery will contain

— 2500 pistols
— 7000 rifles
— 500 light machine guns
— 500 heavy machine guns
— 500 sniper rifles
— 280 recoilless guns
— 7000 anti-tank weapons
— 10000 hand grenades
— 60 mortar systems
— 50 infantry fighting vehicles and tanks
— Anti-drone systems
— Electronic warfare equipment
— Large calibre ammunition

Cremation DID provide some metaphorically comic relief after one grandmother’s memorial service. She’d been a controlling woman who rather dominated my father and uncle. And when they went out to scatter her ashes at the end of a Cape Cod jetty, the wind suddenly shifted and—true to form—there she was all over them in her final act of refusing to leave them alone.

Wow, this cat is so much cooler than me

Rudolph Isley dead: Isley Brothers founding member dies at 84 https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/10/12/rudolph-isley-obituary-isley-brothers/71157566007/

Maybe Dennis Hastert as a compromise candidate? You'd get the sex crimes vote, the racism vote, and the felon vote. That's the entirety of the Republican caucus, yeah?

Utility post; not gonna give Musk content when I can help it. Three-year inflation rates since Reagan

@Teri_Kanefield

I've seen it so often, but it still bemuses me. Why do people blame the Democrats for the Republicans' bad behavior? Why don't they blame the Republicans for their bad behavior?

The Democrats are NOT the Republicans parents. You can't blame the Dems when the GOP acts up.

Republicans are responsible for their own behavior. And they should be treated that way.

Trump tells court he had no duty to 'support' the Constitution as president - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/trump-wont-support-constitution/

Please make it stop

People have been trying to use Threads to follow the news about the war in Israel, and Meta is still wholesale blocking searches on dozens of words, downranking journalism, and does not seem to want news on its platform at all

"Migrants are poisoning the blood of America."
- Donald Trump

Let that direct quote sink in. That quote is from the most popular Republican in the United States.

This should terrify the Hell out of you!
#AureFreePress #News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans

"Global economic losses could reach $5 trillion under a "plausible increase" in extreme weather events linked to climate change that cause crop failures and food and water shortages, insurance marketplace Lloyd's of London said on Wednesday... #climate #weather #ExtremeWeather #insurance

Tried to deactivate my X account and I keep getting an error that say “oops, try again later”. 🙄

Louisiana public school punishes 17-year-old for dancing at a party - https://boingboing.net/2023/10/10/louisiana-public-school-punishes-17-year-old-for-dancing-at-a-party.html "told by the school's principlal, Jason St. Pierre, that she wasn't "living in the Lord's way." " sounds pretty boring, this Lord person...

You all probably know the iconic red track point of IBM Thinkpads. Here is the story of its invention. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTCXyjapwXA #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Seems like the purity scolders here on Mastodon have moved on from policing CWs to replies complaining about cross-posting and references to social media posts from other platforms.

Let's explore why this is really annoying. When you hijack a thread to scold the poster not only is it rude, you take the thread off in another direction. This is not cool. If you want to discuss something like cross-posting you are free to make your own post on the subject. Don't be a threadjacker.

#threadjacking

Officially unplugged from the bird site. Excited to continue to expand those I follow here in #pediatrics #Science #politics #democracy #baking #nature and just life in general

Just deleted/deactivated my Twit/Xitter account. Gonna miss all those aviation peeps, but it had to be done.

Any #avgeek #aviation peeps here on the elephant, give me a follow - will follow back!

Black employees at Tesla who took part in the lawsuit "described the prevalence of racist imagery as 'frequent,' 'constant,' 'a regular thing,' and occurring 'too many times to count," the federal filing claims. https://t.co/O2Q0LbCiFZ