Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

DeSantis can't run a charm offensive because he's simply offensive w/o the charm.

[Not an exaggeration. Guy's charmless, a big problem when running for president.]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/25/desantis-african-american-studies-black-history/

Politicians should be forced to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we can easily identify their corporate sponsors.

And Prince is the spawn of the devil...Betsy Devos, The Destroyer of Education.

If republicans succeed in crashing the American economy full Social Security checks will immediately stop.

Meet “Ugly Gerry” - a #font using outlines of gerrymandered US congressional districts.

DAILY REMINDER: Today's MAGA GOP is no longer a political party, it's a white nationalist, FASCIST party that seeks to force their religion upon us by law. They are BANNING abortion, books, Black History + more. They must be politically crushed in order to preserve our Republic.

Long overdue but still welcome.

Teachers in Florida can choose which guns to have in their classroom but not which books because DeSantis would rather kids die than have their own minds.

Cast not pearls before swine. They're absolutely useless at making jewellery.
#jokes #humour

An ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING message from a teacher in Duval County, Florida who is being forced to make her classroom library inaccessible as a result of @RonDeSantisFL@twitter.com's policies

(via @MelissainJax@twitter.com)

So I talked to @gedeonm at The Iconfactory over email this week about the loss of Twitterrific and, more importantly, what it means for the disability community and what it says about accessibility at Twitter.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/01/25/the-iconfactory-co-founder-gedeon-maheux-talks-accessibility-on-twitter-the-blow-of-losing-twitterrific-in-new-interview/?sh=789f59c79438

Listen to teachers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/25/richneck-elementary-shooting-teacher-attorney-speaks/

9 fatally shot in separate incidents in US Monday!

OK, #GOP, when is it enough? If you want to be taken seriously in your "protection" of embryos and fetuses, how about caring for us after we’re born? #ONEV1 #DemVoice1 #GunViolence #NRA

https://www.bendbulletin.com/nation/9-people-fatally-shot-in-separate-incidents-in-u-s-on-monday/article_caa4310a-23e8-5870-9286-646a2def271c.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily-headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline

via @thebulletin

Mystery of George Santos’s $700,000 in Campaign Loans Deepens - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/nyregion/george-santos-loan-campaign-finances.html

Jan 6 was largely a Christian nationalist assault, Mike Pompeo told the committee that he met “with a group of pastors who were in town” on January 6th, and yet January6thCmte asked no follow up questions about that meeting?! #NAR #ChristianNationalism #Pompeo #January6 #Pompeo #dominionism Thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1606534526142144514.html

Someone asked me, "Why use 3rd party apps when an official Mastodon app exists?"

It comes down to this: being open source, Mastodon is built for choice.

Some people like vanilla ice cream. Others like strawberry or chocolate.

Well, some people like vanilla Mastodon. Others like strawberry @icecubesapp or chocolate @ivory.

The fact Mastodon allows 3rd party apps is one large reason it's better than Twitter.

It's nice that we all get to choose our preferred flavour of the Fediverse!

Remember how all the data stored locally from Signal Desktop is completely unencrypted?

Since the developers clearly aren't interested in changing this, I've written a shell script that makes it a breeze to encrypt and decrypt your Signal Desktop data using VeraCrypt.

It will also create a launcher for you (an .app on MacOS and a shell script on Linux) to automatically mount the encrypted storage before launching Signal, and automatically unmount it when exiting.

Just run the launcher instead of the app, and pretend that the password prompt is a Signal feature :)

https://github.com/n0kovo/Signal-Desktop-Encrypter

#signal #signaldesktop #signalmessenger #opsec #privacy #privacymatters #encryption #cryptography #cypherpunks #cypherpunk @signalapp