Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@sass Hot take - the only way we're gonna make zipper merges work is if the stop telling people which lane ends.

If a sign just said "Caution: Lane Reduction in Three Miles" we could force people to take turns.

But saying "Left lane ends" means planners will plan, they get over, then they're annoyed at the people who didn't plan, they don't let them in, yadda yadda.

Ginni Thomas confirmed in her Jan 6 deposition testimony the “best friend” she referred to in texts with Mark Meadows was in fact Clarence Thomas.

Ginni’s texts implied that calls with Justice Thomas helped her to “keep holding on” as she worked to overturn the 2020 election.

Posting links to Twitter in Mastodon is similar to saying you don’t care about your ex by obsessing about your ex.

You are better than that. Stop it.

#UPDATE The United States has condemned Myanmar's junta for handing ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi a total of 33 years in prison in its final sentencing and demanded her release.

The fight for #DCStatehood is a critical component of the movement to expand, protect and defend voting rights throughout the country. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/dc-statehood-explained

There was a wooden shoe in my toilet.

It was clogged.

If your #god has the ability to do anything, why does he always do nothing?
—@KrisQuestionz

#atheist vs #faith

@AlliFlowers not anything you did, just sad at how few stars people near cities get to see these days.

Andrew Weissman is reporting on MSNBC that Trump 2016 campaign manager and convicted felon Paul Manafort made a deal with Putin to help Trump get elected. In return Trump would not oppose his invasion of Ukraine, nor would Trump allow weapons to be sent to Ukraine. Sounds right?

Wall Street has consolidated into 5 giant banks.

Airlines have merged from 12 carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

A handful of drug companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

Four giants control over 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

A coalition of voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit on Dec. 20, 2022, alleging that Mississippi’s state legislative district maps “illegally dilute the voting strength of Black Mississippians.”

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29900/state-district-maps-dilute-the-voting-strength-of-black-mississippians-lawsuit-alleges

For 3 big Alabama newspapers, the presses are grinding to a halt - The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and Mobile's Press-Register will soon go all-digital. In Birmingham, where people have been reading the paper since the late 1800s, the news hasn't been easy. #Alabama #npr

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1143410955/newspaper-alabama-digital-journalism-birmingham-huntsville-mobile

If your #god is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving, then why would you need to #pray?

George Santos uses the death of six million Jews in the Holocaust as part of his fraudulent campaign yet No GOP leaders denounce him. Perfectly sums up how vile the GOP is.

Kabul professor tears up diplomas on live TV to protest Taliban ban on women's education - A Kabul professor tore up his diplomas live on television in Afghanistan in protest over the Taliban's barring of women from higher education. #cnn

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/29/asia/kabul-professor-taliban-ban-intl/index.html

Soccer legend Pele has died at the age of 82.

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps.

EDIT: Replies tell me that this doesn't function in the UK without a VPN.