Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@bethsawin New Zealand is slowly phasing out single use plastics and the changes so far have run really smoothly (no plastic bags at the supermarket, no straws, moving away from plastic single use forks/knives/spoons)

Angelo John Gage, a neo-Nazi who recently started using the name "Lucas Gage" and whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of antisemitism and racism, says he received his first payment through the platform's revenue sharing system.

It's was $165.52 — not much, obviously. But it's also not nothing.

Elon Musk has not only welcomed Nazis. He's now directly paying them too.

Synchronized napping. #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday

“AR Gov Sanders suggests course on Black history spreads ‘hate’ against U.S.”

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: Some white people were enslavers. Other white people were abolitionists. If you think teaching that accurate history “spreads hate”—then you’ll have to first explain why you associate more with enslavers than with abolitionists?🤔
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/sarah-huckabee-sanders-ap-african-american-history-hate-comments-rcna100657

Conservative media personality and former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis is taking to GoFundMe to raise cash for her defense fees after she was indicted earlier this week in Georgia. Ellis shared a link on Tuesday via Twitter to her fundraising page, where she’s already raised more than $46,000
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #AureFreePress

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jenna-ellis-begs-for-cash-to-fund-defense-after-indictment-alongside-trump

Mark Meadows has filed a motion for dismissal of the Georgia charges. It will fail, but I am just galled by the hubris. Fuck this guy.

#FuckMarkMeadows #Georgia #GOPTraitor

The Monterey Bay Aquarium have announced their departure from Twitter with this.

I placed my phone up against a beer can on a picnic table and set it for a 30-second nighttime exposure.

I am sometimes surprised by what it picks up that I cannot necessarily process with my own vision.

This capture absolutely floored me.

Let’s not forget to #IndictRonnaMcDaniel!

How’s that work?

President Truman began a policy known as the "Fairness Doctrine" which compelled radio & TV talk shows to give equal airtime to opposing opinions whenever political views were aired. Reagan ended that doctrine & facilitated the "Fox Propaganda Network" to brainwash the citizenry!

Young people: The GOP is floating an amendment to raise the voting age from 18 to 25. Vivek Ramaswamy is openly promoting it. They’re scared of your votes and want to silence you. Act appropriately in 2024.

Has it been long enough since the last mass shooting to talk about what we can do about mass shootings without accusations of "being political"?

#Repeal2A

@Hey_Beth @therobburgessshow the best block is to not use X at all.

Would you be here if you didn’t have good #internet access? High-speed internet is no longer a luxury but an “absolute necessity.” Pres #Biden has pledged that every household in the nation would have access by 2030 using cables made in the U.S.

“These investments will help all Americans,” he said. “We’re not going to leave anyone behind.”

#Democrats make things better with #IRA.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-internet-broadband-bead-0b95fabd7f6833ce420c80d474a145a5

Sad to see great public universities in decline. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html #wvu

Teacher Is Fired for Reading Book on Gender Identity in Class. The teacher in Georgia was fired for reading to fifth graders “My Shadow Is Purple,” which is about a child who cannot relate to the colors blue and pink.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/georgia-teacher-fired-gender-book.html

#NYTimes #GeorgiaTeacherFired #GenderIdentityBook #FifthGradeClass #MyShadowIsPurple #BlueAndPinkColors #Politics #News

message to all reverse engineers and hackers of fedi: when youre figuring out some really obscure thing and you finally crack it PLEASE document it somewhere on the web. maybe youre the first to ever walk this path, maybe youre the first person to care. but i promise you are not the last, and there will be a day when some lone hacker follows the path you took years or decades ago and they will find what you wrote and they will be eternally grateful and wont forget it ever. and thats so beautiful