Lindsay Anne Black

🎵Let me in the groupchat Heathcliff🎵

Perfect.

Thank goodness. Thanks everyone.

That was in 2023. It wasn't even X yet.

As a social media manager, it was my job to spend a lot of time on Twitter. Come Elon, my clients' feeds began to show me videos of actual hate crimes / murders next to our branded content. Having to remain on there while I convinced my clients to close their accounts wrecked my mental health.

Trump and Rubio have brought Cuba's government to the brink A blockade on oil imports is leaving Cuba with few resources. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants Cuba's government on its knees. The situation has become even more tense following a fatal confron...

At some point the Trump regime's devastation of the Cuban people is going to be noticed.

Can we have other political parties again please?

@hrw.org is closely monitoring initial reporting that Israel and the United States have launched strikes on Iran. Our focus remains civilian protection and carrying out our mandate by monitoring for any violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.

Qatar & Bahrain’s airspace has been closed.

Here in the UAE, there are reports of explosions heard in Abu Dhabi & airspace is now closed.

Many people who live in these countries fled wars in Iraq, Palestine & beyond. News like this is traumatic for them. Keep them & all civilians in your thoughts.

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

That's an understatement, yes.

Pierre Poilievre: Liberal launches vicious attack... against himself. For more than a decade, this Liberal government piled on taxes, regulations, and barriers to every nation-building economic project. The fix is clear: get government out of the way. Let our workers build, invest, and create wealth once again in an affordable Canada. Quoting Toronto Star: Bureaucracy in Canada is slowing the country's ability to boost its economy, Dominic LeBlanc says #cdnpoli

Tell me you didn't read the fucking article without telling me you didn't read the fucking article.
LeBlanc was referring to provinces, most of whom are conservative, slow-walking the elimination of trade barriers.
Just an utter clown show.

Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony

OpenAI says it would've flagged Tumbler Ridge shooter's account to police under new protocol | CBC News OpenAI says it would've referred the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooter's ChatGPT account to police under new safety policies the company has implemented in recent months.

This is decent journalism but it’s not great. It’s the 20th+ piece that I read from varied outlets that don’t mention the fact that self-regulation is the norm. Canada’s trade strategy welcomes American tech then lets the sector regulate itself. Why is this context always missing?

Or perhaps more of the 'chilling effect'? I don't know the contents of the Defense Production Act, but I wonder if it's an attempt to subvert Anthropic's technology because they've stood by their stated ethics so far.

Big question: what does the DOW want the tech to do.

Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces - National | Globalnews.ca Federal departments and the Canadian Armed Forces must answer by April how many members of anti-fascist groups work for the public service and the military.

Next time Lisa Raitt has a fit about people saying the CPC is rife with Maple MAGA.... #cdnpoli

Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit, AP sources say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pressuring Anthropic to give the military broader access to its artificial intelligence technology or lose its Pentagon contract.

There were only eight years of daylight between the Wright Brothers' historic first flight and airplanes being used in warfare.

Of course the US news is saying the cartels are taking hostages from the airport in Guadalajara.

Except im literally here. Right now. Been here all day, trying to get my flight rescheduled. And cartel members never entered the airport.

I'm so tired of lies.

A black-morph Eastern Grey Squirrel, who appears to be pregnant, is sitting on a wooden fence. The background is snowy, and there is a tree trunk to the side. The squirrel has her head tipped slightly to the side, but she is looking at the camera.

"Excuse me, would it be possible to book your feeder for a genders reveal party?"

There is a connection to private equity having entered US healthcare, but that's all I know about that so far because I'm only on page 38 of Bad Company by Megan Greenwell. :)

(Canada also has some staggering wait times for specialists, plus we have a shortage of GPs.)

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

(The Tranzac Club is how I started drinking tequila.)

For a normie, I imagine that's a fact. With my bad superhero power, however, I had to keep going until I could taste the actual beer.

Fortunately, I didn't find myself in too many places where you could also taste the lines and taps. Looking at you, Tranzac Club.

Oh yes, she is correct, imo. (Hi B!)
I sold the dishwasher that came with this house. I also felt a lot of beer was ruined by dishwasher when I was still going out into the world for beer. The good news is that it ruined only the first half of the first pint.

Deal.

Permanent chemical injury isn't usually an advantage, but it does make lightly contaminated food taste too disgusting to eat, so I guess there's that.

Reheating plastic food containers: what science says about microplastics and chemicals in ready meals - Greenpeace International How often do you eat takeaway food? What about pre-prepared ready meals? Or maybe just microwaving some leftovers you had in the fridge? In any of these cases, there’s a pretty good chance the contain...

My bad superhero skill of being able to taste my food's most-recent packaging has scientific backing.