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Four members of the Oath Keepers were convicted today of seditious conspiracy in the second batch of guilty verdicts related to January 6th.

nbcnews.com/politics/justice-d

“What do you do?”
I’m a cartoonist.
“But what do you do for money?”
I draw comics.
“No like, what’s your job?”

Today I learned from @0xabad1dea that a lot of large solar farm owners use sheep herds to maintain their grass and they're called solarpunk grazers and life seems a little better. 🤘

Just a reminder that yesterday four Republicans in the West Virginia legislature introduced a bill that would make being openly trans in the presence of a minor child a felony punished by five years in prison.

There are 10 phases to a genocide. This puts the US at phase 6.

One day after quoting MLK on MLK Day, Florida MAGA Gov Ron DeSantis cancels AP African American Studies Program, saying it ‘Lacks Educational Value’

This is literally white supremacist talking points & a reminder how much these people still hate MLK today.

Indeed, DeSantis banning AP African American Studies is a reminder of that old quote -- White privilege is when your history is the curriculum and every other history is an elective.
#BlackMastodon

You know, I understand why people who have built up community on Twitter stay post-Musk (esp #BlackTwitter), why people put up with the #enshittification of Facebook & Instagram because their offline friends are there. I get it. But- the naked truth is no matter how much social media became the default public square in the last decade, they’re all private platforms owned by people who (at the very least) are tolerant of fascism. Whether you stay or go, we all have to come to terms with that now.

Music Before Bed:

This was my morning alarm for a long time because the longer it plays, the better it gets: youtube.com/watch?v=8Aa937o_PI

I maintain that everyone in IT needs to know this •one• Yiddish word and use it often.

Farpotshket: Broken, because someone tried to fix it.

#PSA #WordOfTheDay #X

Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.

Not the case.

It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.

Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important *because* it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.

By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.

So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.

take it from me, if you're ever lost in the desert and see a coyote painting a road on a rock, it is 100% safe and effective to drive right into that rock at high speed

While much has changed
over the course
of the pandemic
some things
have been consistently true
namely: that everyone
in the zoom meeting
wants to see your cat,
and that you should
try your damndest
to protect those around you.

I love e-ink ereaders because they're like this vestige of when tech was good

The battery lasts like a month

They work fine (better) without an internet connexion

You can interact with them using the file manager and it's perfectly good

The files are an open format

It isn't surveillance ad-tech

People say you’ll never use those word-maths problems from primary school in real life, but consider this: for the past 30 years, I’ve run 15km once a week, but now I’ve started doing the same run 3 times per week. So by my calculations, by 2033 I’ll have aged another 30 years.

RT @GenderRHUL
"Go, Run, Lead" applications for this inspiring and free programme close on 31st January. Please share with your students, colleagues and friends. Emal Josephine.Carr@rhul.ac.uk with any questions. @RoyalHolloway @RHUL_Law @SURHUL @RHULManagement @RHULScience @RHULEarthSci

just chilling in the same room with someone can be a form of intimacy

Thoughts Before Bed

So, after seeing my electricity bill at $250, I set my thermostat down from 73 to 68 to see if I could save some cash. I do start feeling chilly around 70, so I started wearing a bit more clothes to stay warm.

Tonight, I was feeling chilly, and thought about the recent posts about the sweater/legging combo and thought "Don't I have a set of leggings from back when I lost a ton of weight on ketoacidosis?" Turns out I do, so I decided to put them on with a T-shirt to stay warm.

Something that has always bothered me (other than knowing I gained all the weight back thanks to antidepressants that did more harm than good and the fact that leggings end up tight in the calves and loose in the hips) since I transitioned was tight clothing.

I've always found things like leggings, or wraparounds and some of my more stretchy tops, which aren't so much tight as they're form fitting to feel very constricting. I wondered if that was because they're tailored to a shape I don't really have, but it's more of a "this bothers me" feeling versus a "this doesn't fit me." In fact, I'd forgotten I bought another pair of leggings to try and get over that "this bothers me feeling."

I wonder if I had been raised as a girl, where you get dressed up in tights and close fitting clothes from an early age, if I'd have gotten used to that snug feeling.

I obviously never got over that feeling cause I completely forgot I had two set of leggings for over ten years. :)

Apparently I'm making Kenyan and Egyptian food next week. I wonder if I could make that Kibbe dish I had in State College all those years ago.

So making that Bannock was great and all, but on Day Four of it, it's just...oof. Tasty, but it sticks in your gut for HOURS.

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