@andypiper FWIW... I really wish someone would put together and idiot's (me) guide to available Fediverse platforms like, mastodon, bookwryn, writefreely, etc. (My list may be inaccurate; it is certainly incomplete.)
I don’t know if we’re prepared for how many people do not and will not give a fuck about serious transmissible infectious disease outbreaks and future pandemics. Considering #covid is already over according to every government and no one is seriously grappling with what happened over the past four years, I’m not hopeful on a large scale #cdnpoli#onpoli#ontario
@grivettcarnac I suppose someday politicians will notice that this style of post-birth family destruction is "less pro-life" than abortion. But then, I guess the logic of having 8 billion resource abusive creatures on the planet is not really 'sustainable'. In that sense perhaps, we should not deny families the right to self-destruct.
@stux
As a cat owner, I worry about these numbers:
"The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) estimated that free-roaming cats in the contiguous U.S. kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals "
@stux I know you love cats. I did not intend my comments as a personal affront or accusation. I simply, probably unwisely, chose the opportunity to inform people of a tragic, little known problem.
@stux We have never had that problem. Our cats have always been rescues (except for our first). All were converted to indoor cats without any fuss or muss.
C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien first meet in Oxford.
Both men served on the English faculty at Oxford University and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction and encouraged the writing of fantasy.
While the crises in the Middle East are being escalated, #Turkey's foreign policy is busy meeting the #Taliban & making hypocritical statements about #Israel & #Palestine, actually attempting to take advantage of the situation & continue its genocidal politics against the #Kurds
@stux Assuming you are using the drive mostly for Mastodon this type of drive might be more than adequate and more reliable / cost effective than an SSD device (long-term).
America's five-alarm #nationalsecurity crisis: presumptive #GOP nominee for president looks to be compromised by a hostile foreign power via foreign entanglements