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If you’re donating to a food bank, consider donating some respirators too!

Food banks will be overwhelmed and crowded.

Covid is still with us, still disabling and still killing.

Many folks are losing food assistance & healthcare.

A well fitted respirator can keep you healthy!

Western researchers didn't realize how common post-polio illness was for about 10-15 years after the disease became an epidemic in Europe. Covid has only been around for 5, and full "mask off" for about 3. Unfortunately folks, yes, it can be That Bad without people doing anything about it.

Billie Eilish Calls Out Billionaires After Announcing Her Own $11.5 Million Charitable Donation The pop star put her money where her mouth is while calling on billionaires to do the same during the WSJ. Innovator Awards on Wednesday night.

"According to People, Zuckerberg did not clap along with the rest of the audience at Eilish’s comment."

Of course he didn't. Billionaires don't have souls.

consequence.net/2025/10/bill...

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Secular options like Mutual Aid Funds, food banks/cupboards or Food Not Bombs can be preferable because they do not turn people away due to immigration status, gender, sexuality or demand recipients engage in religious activity, which churches sometimes do

Rochester Mutual Aid Network - Helping people connect and get what they need The Rochester Mutual Aid Network exists to help sustain our community. Our goal is to connect those in need to those who can offer help.

Seconding the recommendation to donate to your most local food bank (food banks often receive fed funding, and the govt shutdown likely impacts them too.)

Also rocmutualaid.com

And rocfnb.org/index.html accepts $$, there's also a map of food stands you could drop off at or steward

Love this idea!!! Also, if you're thinking of ways to run up your grocery bill to qualify for the free turkey: Buy a few Thanksgiving extras, like vegan and allergy-friendly alternatives and side dishes, that may not be readily available at your local food bank!

quick psa: if you use GDrive, go into Settings -> Manage Apps and make sure the Gemini AI horseshit is turned off.
Just got a heads-up about it elsewhere, and sure enough, Gemini had been turned back on without my permission

I'm extremely concerned about Perticone's horrible interview on WXXI. How could an "experienced leader", not cite a single crime statistic about Irondequoit, where he's been on the board for 17 years?

His dismissiveness on "innocent until proven guilty" was also shocking & gross.

Re-upping for #nokings

"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material." ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

God bless the work you do 🫡

Takeaways:
- DNC is just that out of touch
- Progressives are probably better off usurping the Dem party as MAGA has the GOP rather than go third party
- Progressives can absolutely do that with a modicum of charisma

Yes, please give to food banks. But also please consider giving to mutual aid groups that do direct food aid and distribution, often to people for whom food banks are not a good option.

One of my favorite local orgs is PWC Mutual Aid: linktr.ee/PWCMutualAid

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

“Staff members at ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently discovered one recruit had previously been charged with strong-arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident, the current DHS official said.” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

China's Mingyang Unveils Plans for Massive 50 MW Floating Wind Turbine China’s Mingyang Smart Energy has unveiled plans to develop a massive 50 MW floating offshore wind turbine featuring a twin-head design similar to the company’s Ocean-X platform.

This is *massive*.

Two 25 MW turbines... To put that in context, the current largest operating single (non-floating) turbine is 26 MW.

www.offshorewind.biz/2025/10/21/c...

The only people in NYC who will vote for Cuomo

Cuomo's political ship is so sunk, he's now resorting to overt racism as a hail mary that the KKK will work their good ol magic and get him elected

I’m still not fully desensitized at seeing modern politicians just so casually and readily espouse *overt* racism. Most of the time I saw politicians growing up, they’d at least veil it more

Wild to think that there’s an entire generation who has only ever seen overt hatred from their leaders.

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival “We’re going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.

Really enjoyed this episode of Movement Memos on making: truthout.org/audio/making...

Wanted to share here for the #DHMakes community (it made me think of so many of y'all!). Thank you to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social and Red Schulte for the conversation!

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Since when did the DSA not support him???

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.