Nonya_Bidniss

Nonya_Bidniss, 9 months ago to random

#Elmo is going to demand a selfie and a copy of your ID and an Israeli company will be handling the data. I can't possibly stress enough how strenuously you must refuse to do this...if you still for some ungodly reason wanted to remain on Shitter but this means leaving, LEAVE. https://www.pcmag.com/news/verifying-your-identity-on-twitter-will-require-taking-a-selfie

Nonya_Bidniss, 1 year ago to random

Anderson Cooper: people who decided they're done with CNN after the recent debacle are choosing a Trump-free "silo"

No Anderson, Trump's lies, treason, and criminality have permeated every fucking corner of American life. Dropping CNN like a sack full of angry vipers will not end that in any way. It'll just give CNN what it deserves for participating in the damage.

Nonya_Bidniss, 4 months ago to random

It's just terrible how #Biden made Trump rape and defame a woman, steal TS//SCI & SAP documents and obstruct efforts to retrieve them, instigate a violent coup attempt and an ongoing domestic terrorist threat, support U.S. enemies, cheat $millions on taxes, pay to hide information from voters to interfere with an election, and call my fellow veterans and war dead "suckers" and "losers." It is just unforgivable that Biden made Trump do all these things.

Nonya_Bidniss, 5 months ago to random

"There is no place to have the conversation about how our daily discourse is being manipulated by Fox, and also foreign countries. There is no effort by people to come to terms with how the discourse is being manipulated and poisoned, either at the governmental or political level. I don’t know that our democracy will survive if there isn’t a broad strategic response.” #propaganda #disinformation https://newrepublic.com/article/177560/biden-fox-news-formidable-opponent-2024

Nonya_Bidniss, 9 months ago to space

#NASA will host a media briefing at 10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 14, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington to discuss the findings from an unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) independent study team it commissioned in 2022. About 30 minutes before the briefing, the agency will publish the team’s full report online. The briefing will stream on NASA TV, app, and website (https://www.nasa.gov/live).
#UAP #UFO https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-release-discuss-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-report

Nonya_Bidniss, 3 months ago to random

Got results of yesterday's CT scan. Pneumonia improving. I figured after taking massive amounts of antibiotics in December that would be the end of it. I've never had pneumonia before and I didn't realize pneumonia can take months to fully resolve?! Or maybe getting old is the issue...the ol' carcass takes its sweet time getting around to just about anything.

Nonya_Bidniss, 10 months ago to random

When I hear people say #evangelical right wing theocrats aren't real christians, well, they are real, since they say so. They're in a sect of their own design. Calling them not real doesn't make them stop laying claim to the term, it doesn't make them stop going to their mega churches, it doesn't make their hateful pastors not clergy. I'd bet that every religion has at least one sect that other followers don't want to claim. But they still exist. Anyhoo, let's all be humanists! 😏

Nonya_Bidniss, 7 months ago to ethelcain

#Alabama Mayor, Pastor Dies by Suicide After Being Involuntarily Outed as #Transgender Woman

"I am so angry right now and heartbroken. I witnessed a good man be publicly ridiculed and crucified over the last few days…to the point that he just took his own life today.” ... "Are you happy now? What crime did he commit? Some of you people make me sick.”

https://www.advocate.com/news/alabama-mayor-outed-transgender-dead

Nonya_Bidniss, 10 months ago to random

Currently looking for a Mastodon instance to move to that allows a high character count of 1000 or higher (the default of 500 is not working for me). Well established server that is well administrated. Suggestions appreciated.

Nonya_Bidniss, 9 months ago to random

Red states are mooching off Blue states, "using essentially stolen tax money to reinvent the old Confederacy, 'own the libs,' and wage 'war on woke.' Most Red states have become oligarchic white supremacist medieval-like fiefdoms with obscene levels of often multigenerational wealth at the top, extreme poverty at the bottom, and working people, women, and minorities kept in subordinate roles through explicit government and corporate policy."
https://www.alternet.org/welfare-queens/

Nonya_Bidniss, 8 months ago to space

#Firefly Aerospace just set a new responsive-launch record. Its Alpha rocket lifted off from #Vandenberg SFB on Thursday just 27 hours after the U.S. Space Force gave the order — less time than on any previous national security mission, demonstrating the "Space Force can rapidly integrate capabilities and will respond to aggression when called to do so on tactically relevant timelines" #space #DOD #military #USSF #USSPACECOM https://www.space.com/firefly-aerospace-rapid-launch-space-force-success

Nonya_Bidniss, 9 months ago to random

Communication of COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media by Physicians in the US
52 physicians practicing in 28 different specialties across the United States propagated #COVID19 #misinformation ... Twitter was the most common platform, where 71.2% of the doctors spread misinformation and had a median of 67,400 followers.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808358

Nonya_Bidniss, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

A special find on the trail today. What a treat. #bloomscrolling #hiking

Nonya_Bidniss, 6 months ago to random

I have heard two different nonfiction #audiobook narrators in the past couple of weeks pronounce W.E.B. DuBois' name wrong. How is it that their education did not include this little factoid of how he pronounced his name? And do narrations not go through some kind of review process?

Nonya_Bidniss, 7 months ago to random

I finished #Foundation season 2 and am still stumped as to how this show is so good when the books were so horribly dull. I read a ton of scifi and I read the series again after a couple of decades to make sure my memory wasn't failing me. Nope. The TV show is 100 times better than the books.

Nonya_Bidniss, 7 months ago to atheism

Penn Jillette (Penn and Teller): "The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine." [#atheism

Nonya_Bidniss, 7 months ago to books

Finished audiobook The Clan Corporate by Charles Stross. The slow pace of this book reflects world walker protagonist Miriam's frustration throughout but it finally ends with a bang, tying some loose ends together. #3 in the 6-book Merchant Princes series. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #bookstodon #SFF #audiobooks #books

Nonya_Bidniss, 4 months ago to Battlemaps

Advice for Southerners experiencing a terrifying dusting of #snow today, if they have to go out and drive.

Nonya_Bidniss, 3 months ago to random

Mitch McConnell has done incalculable damage to U.S. citizens. He is one of the most evil influences we've ever had in politics. I hope for only bad things in his future and they'll be well deserved.

Nonya_Bidniss, 7 months ago to random

I think we should start viewing power-hungry men as inherently unstable human beings who should barely be trusted to make their own breakfast much less make decisions affecting anyone else's life. #patriarchy

Nonya_Bidniss, 3 months ago to random

Former AUS PM discusses Trump's creepy adoration of Putin and future instability of U.S.-Allied relationships if Trump is reelected https://youtu.be/aGvzfOkdFMg?si=SGDD4iHh7KDoBMU6

Nonya_Bidniss, 2 months ago to random

The day I've been dreading finally came. My 2011 Tucson chugged a few times and died as I was driving down the road. I was able to pull into an empty lot and wait for a tow. Of course it's the weekend. No loaners or shuttle available from the dealer, all car rentals closed. Podunk town. Took a cab home & just hope I can get a loaner Monday. I was supposed to be at a chicken wing fest!!! 🤬 😭 😩

Nonya_Bidniss, 1 month ago to random

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: "To normalize extreme ideas, you get them circulating through institutions and the public sphere, aiming for prestigious platforms that offer maximum legitimacy. Enter the Supreme Court, which is making itself the tool of bad actors who want issues that should be settled in a democracy seen as up for discussion–including whether a head of state can order an assassination of a political rival and pay no consequence." #SCOTUS
https://lucid.substack.com/p/information-warfare-and-the-supreme

Nonya_Bidniss, 27 days ago to random

Why has it taken over 3 years for American media to report that an extremist SCOTUS Justice flew a "duress flag" -- a symbol used by the insurrectionists -- for days after January 6? Why 3 years?
#SCOTUS #Alito #extremism

Nonya_Bidniss, 16 days ago to scifi

Still working my way through Three-Body, the Chinese TV adaptation of The Three-Body Problem. Sometimes it gets slow but it is so much better than the Netflix version. Especially if you read the book(s). #scifi