Clare

The best way to punish rich people for their bad behavior is to make them poor people.

Alternately, use a passcode on your phone and disable face and fingerprint recognition. It's been said that they can't obtain your passcode without a warrant.

If you can afford one, by a burner phone with cash for your trip, and do not connect it to your email and social media accounts. It'll be a pain to manually enter contacts that you want, but it might be the safest way to travel with a phone.

Someone mentioned that we need to screen shot all the awful things that MAGAs are saying on all the social media platforms so that the things they said can't ever be erased.

Dems better start using the sharp end of the stick if they ever regain power. We need to teach these assholes that we won't put up with this kind of nonsense ever again. Ever.

After his performance today, I'm more inclined to think that's the only way he can get laid. Sofa King!

Trump and Vance are the asses of evil.

If it were only that easy.

British Company Introduces AI Granny That Talks To Scammers And Wastes Their Time Daisy works by answering calls in real-time, mimicking human conversation to engage scammers, ultimately reducing the number of successful scams and protecting vulnerable consumers.

Not a fan of AI, but this is pretty cool: www.ndtv.com/feature/brit...

Today is one of those blustery winter days that lets you know it was a mistake to go outside as soon as you walk out the door.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :)

A Beginner’s Guide to Reading “S” This post is intended as a short, spoiler-free introduction to new readers of “S”, a book authored by Doug Dorst and conceived by J.J. Abrams. Seasoned readers – you probably alre…

Oh, I went down that rabbit hole when the book first came out. There are a couple of puzzles in the book that haven't been found or solved if memory serves. You might like this blog:
whoisstraka.wordpress.com/the-ship-of-...

Yeah, but I'm not sure that a competency argument will succeed either. Conservatives like their toadies compliant and stupid.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert The Cult Of Cthulhu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-yr...

Done shoveling snow. Thankfully less than an inch of the stuff.

Honestly, I'm not going to get all upset if Wikler gets it, as long as he burns the existing DNC down. Doing the same thing over and over again is stupid.

I'm in Iowa and so my relationship with the DNC is complicated. The last 3 or 4 DNC chairs have failed us. I stopped donating after the caucus fiasco. I'm cautious about getting too excited lest the new guy really just becomes same as it ever was.

Hey wow this is me!

It might have to do with the fact that he wants to get rid of the consultants and expand reach into all 50 states and not just the blue and swing states. He's basically promising to retool the party of the ground up and there's always a segment of the old guard who is going to be threatened by that

He's not from D.C. for one and he's promising to replace the consultants with organizers. He also wants to expand Dem reach to all 50 states and the 7 territories and make the state leaders a paid position. Plus Minnesota hasn't lost a state election since he's been running the party in MN.

zucchini chips are always delightful. Slice thin, dredge in flour and either deep fry or shallow fry in a frying plan. I sometimes grate and fry them like hashbrowns, but it does take a bit of time because they have so much water in them. You can eat them raw in salads. Make them into zoodles.

Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations Many groups in the US are focused on preventing the further rise of authoritarian forces by raising alarms about authoritarian power-grabs in key states; by building financial, legal, and electoral st...

Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations

“This report proposes nonviolent resistance strategies and support systems…for informing a broad-based pro-democracy struggle under [an]… authoritarian.”

www.hks.harvard.edu/publications...

Ah, kittens. They are an unholy combination of toddlers and teenagers. The common sense (or absence of, really) of toddlers combined with the "you're not the boss of me" attitude of teenagers. The struggle is real. 😁

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From Mary Oliver

The Rivers of London series is excellent as well.

The Murderbot Series and the Ancillary Justice series are my go-tos when I am in the mood for rereads. Martha Wells and Ann Leckie are the respective authors. Not so much humor, but still good.

I know folks in Iowa who've literally been begging for the support.

ssd.eff.org#index

EFF has a great resource for personal privacy here, even if you don't read the whole thing, it breaks everything down by lists topical to specific interests.

Been there, done that. :)