Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I hold Donald trump & every single Republican directly responsible for the killing of Laura Ann Carleton. She was murdered for hanging a rainbow FLAG outside her store. The hate that’s been sanctioned by the Republican Party against the #LGBTQ+ community, women, & black & brown people is simply evil. And it must be rooted out. May Laura Ann Carlton rest in peace & may her family find comfort.

#OnThisDay, 22 Aug 1943, Yvonne Cormeau parachutes into France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

She worked for 13 months and was never captured. You can hear her story on the Imperial War Museum site. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80007171

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WorldWar2 #WomenAtWar #SOE #EuropeanHistory

Former US Rep. Debbie Murcasel-Powell will challenge Rick Scott for a Florida Senate seat. Vote Blue to save Florida, Social Security, and democracy! #VoteBlue #NeverRickScott #DebbieMurcaselPowell #FloridaBlue

#FediTips #MastoTips #Video #VideoCompression

🎬 I know a lot of people struggle with posting videos on Mastodon as the file limits can be very strict, so here's my guide:

🗑️ 1. There's a million tutorials about video compression, but unless you're interested in the technical details, you can ignore them.

📥 2. Go and download Handbrake, a free open source video converter that works on Linux, Win and Mac: https://handbrake.fr/

📂 3. Open it and drop your video file in.

🎛️ 4. Ignore all the complicated settings, instead find the preset button/dropdown.

🎞️ 5. Select a preset: I recommend 'very fast 720p' to make your vid even smaller. It'll still look good, I promise!

📽️ 6. Set a file name and click "Start". Wait for the bar to finish and then your new video is ready to be posted!

🗜️ About 1min of video should be around 6mb this way, which is smaller than most animated gifs!

🔃 If this post helped you, please boost!
Help your instances by keeping their hosted media small!

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

For people not hospitalized when they got covid, substantial risk remains 2 years later for several major organ systems such as gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal and neurologic systems (Aug 2023). [most (90%) of the study cohort was men]

Updated my covid19 resource page to include that study (under the "General" heading).

#Covid #Covid19 #CovidSequelae #sequelae #LongCovid #COVIDisAirborne

https://www.christopher-james-hall.com/covid19-research

Did you have that on you Climate Change Bingo Card?

Panama Canal has had to reduce cargo capacity of ships due to low water levels in portions of canal.

☢️🇺🇦IAEA: Situation 'precarious' after multiple explosions near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant (more) https://kyivindependent.com/iaea-situation-precarious-after-multiple-explosions-near-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant/ #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#PutinEndTheInvasion

📚 Florida's Escambia school board seeks to toss PEN America, Penguin Random House, authors and parents' book ban lawsuit

In a move that signals the intensification of a battle over literary freedom, the Escambia County School Board in Florida has called upon a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit mounted by a coalition of authors, a publishing powerhouse, concerned parents, and a non-profit entity.

#Books #BookBans #bookstodon #lgbtq #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Florida

https://howtobe247.com/florida-school-board-toss-penguin-random-house-book-ban-lawsuit/

If you want it, persist.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017856552 Jack Smith DROPS THE HAMMER in Brief that Judge Cannon DID NOT EXPECT
Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on breaking news that Special Counsel Jack Smith has fired back in the Mar a Lago criminal case at Trump & Judge Cannon informing her that Trump is continuing to interfere with truthful witness testimony by having lawyers he’s paid for convince key witnesses to lie to the grand jury. 08/22/2023.
#JackSmithIsaBadAss #JudgeAileenCannoncorruption #trumpdocumentscase

Whole family caught #COVID for the first time after years of caution. We relaxed our mask stance and caught it on the first week of school.

The other Sith teased him mercilessly for his shopping addiction, and that’s really why he was called Darth Mall

Lucian K. Truscott comments on what it portends that Trump's Mar a Lago "IT guy" Yuscil Taveras has just recanted his testimony to the grand jury in the Mar a Lago case and has admitted he was lying and now will tell the truth.

A filing today from the Special Counsel states,

#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #obstruction #NationalSecurity
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-flipper-in-florida

Have you ever called the phone # for the time and temperature? I remember calling it fairly regularly growing up.
#Poll

@TonyStark @marcelias as far as I can tell, stopping people from voting is the only plank in the GOP platform that they all agree with. They’re fascists all the way.

What a slimy, racist, crooked POS Trump is!

Donald Trump to surrender at Fulton county jail on Thursday night

Exclusive: Trump had lawyers negotiate booking to take place during prime viewing hours to get maximum television ratings
#AureFreePress #News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Breaking #BreakingNews

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/22/donald-trump-surrender-fulton-county-jail-thursday-night?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other