My new apartment is along a high-traffic arterial street in Spokane. It boggles my mind to watch cars and trucks go by with the driver's arm out the window holding a lit cigarette.
There are literally relief groups offering support for people who lost their homes IN THE PARKING LOT THE CARS ARE DRIVING BY.
How has our species persisted for a couple hundred thousand years?
RE: https://438punk.house/@coolsquid/117054529643467733
I think that the CEO *fled* from Salem.
I've seen no reports that the crowd chased him.
This actually shows that Nelson is perceptive enough to read a room. Let's see if other CEOs are smart enough to learn from this chud's experience.
DuckDuckGo trolled Meta by selling, and I quote, "Normal F***ing Sunglasses"
These sold out in under a week.
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/duckduckgo-sunglasses-22377693.php
(anti-) #pervertglasses
How can this be verified?
For science, I mean.
Yay! "They" downgraded my location's from evacuation class 2 to class 1, and the areas adjacent to me from class 3 to class 2. So people should (officially) be allowed to return to their homes - although I think a lot of people went home anyway before the downgrade.
Woohoo! Time for grocery shopping and maybe a taco :)
Chimpanzee capitalism - Existential comics
Now that I've unbroken my Mastodon, I must (re)share this banger.
Spokanki is fire. I've got the first 8 bars about 1/2 lifted, but since I know fuck all about female vocal writing and ranges it's slow going.
Wear headphones. Then turn them up.
Wow. Spokane is having a bad day.
I thought I was done with this shit when I left San Diego.
Red zones are level 3 evac, yellow is power outages. I'm in the shaded level 2 (get ready) zone. Sheesh.
RE: https://social.lol/@ctt/117018652274629803
There are nearly 1,900 votes on this search engine poll already, and yet Bing is in last place with approximately 0% of the vote. Behind even Uruky, which I have never heard of.
My friend
the climatologist
worries
that the heat
is rising.
My friend
the epidemiologist
worries
that cases
are rising.
My friend
the historian
worries
that fascism
is rising.
My friend
the activist
worries
that we
are not rising.
Listen to this! Watch this! It's a sweet video by a very talented group of women.
Put on headphones - turn them up.
In the last couple of weeks I moved from the sticks to town. Today I set up my TV, with a cheapo antenna. And now I have a couple of dozen crystal clear digital channels.
This blows me away. I lived here years ago, and we had 4 channels, sometimes 5, and picture quality was so-so.
I can't tell if I'm "country mouse" amazed with urban life, or if I'm "grandpa" amazed with modern technology. Either way - score one for OTA HDTV.
It's not like I watch TV anymore - I wanted a source of mass media for emergencies after yesterdays brush fires and subsequent evacuations.
But I might end up watching one of several PBS channels now :)
If you're hot, they're hot
I went into my bedroom and casually saw a large plume of smoke from my east-facing window. Fired up the SDRs and SDRTrunk software to hear what's going on.
Yikes. Lots of evacuations, including what sounds like an old-folk's home.
Damn. I'm 6 miles away, and totally safe. Just amazing how fast a day goes from boring to holy-shit!
This is on point on where we are now
"What Do You Do?" by The Proclaimers.
This 💯
How criminals are taking down Flock cameras
#surveillance #politics #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #policestate #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #nokings #abolishice #privacy #flock #palantir #4thamendment #Chatrie_v_United_States
Give Ben Maton a listen - he's a great player and tells fun stories.
There's a guy on YouTube who travels around England, stopping into country churches, and plays the organ.
Today he played a piece of Purcell that's I only knew as the basis Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra".
Here's the piece on strings and harpsichord - and a fairly bright tempo, at least to my ears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVivtti-n-w