Born and raised in Scotland, currently living in New Hampshire. Author of several books, mostly on meditation and Buddhist practice. Fan of Scots language. Learning #dansk and #svenska. Dabbler in #Pali.
I have a horrible feeling that a lot of people look at forest fires, floods, record heatwaves, etc., and think, "This is how it's going to be from now on."
It's not. We're still pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, where it's accumulating.
The future is going to be much, much worse. Unless we take drastic action now.
You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.
@randahl When a US businessman says that falsifying business records is no big deal it’s probably a good idea to look very closely at his business records.
Due to global warming, Vivaldi's Four Seasons have been reworked so that the Summer movement is 30% longer and played fortissimo, Winter is 10% shorter and played pianissimo, with some random bars played sforzando to account for the slowing of the North Atlantic Current, and both Spring and Autumn are now played very quickly and with abrupt changes in key, indicating their chaotic nature.
I'm just blocking "liberals" who say they can't bring themselves to vote for Biden/Harris because he's "disappointed" them on some issue or other.
The choice is between preserving and expanding democracy and letting fascists destroy democracy altogether.
This is so obvious and well-known that I have to suspect that many of these accounts are actually sleepers set up to bait and switch, aiming to put liberals off of voting.
This law is horrifying. It doesn't just affect people under 18, although that’s bad enough. All "sexually oriented" material is now banned from libraries, for all persons. This covers any book that contains "representations or descriptions" of sexual intercourse, homosexuality, lesbianism, and even buttocks or breasts. If your book describes a breast or a bum, it's banned from libraries in Mississippi.
This is Luna's new way of getting my attention. While staring intently at me, she politely places a paw on my hand or arm. If this fails, she taps on the laptop case with her nails.
Remember when "let me Google that for you" was a neat, although sarcastic, way of telling people that they could easily find information on the web if they took a moment to look for it?
"Let me Google that for you" would now mean something like "let me relieve you of the burden of combing through an endless series of useless, spammy, ad-laden, malware-ridden, AI-generated websites in the vain hope of finding an answer to your question."
I've seen several people post this image, but none of them have used alt text, despite the fact that the web interface for Mastodon even offers to extract the text for you.
Anyway, here it is. And this is indeed some Nazi shit.
I just got a bill for $3,001.36, which is for one visit to the hospital. That amount is what I have to pay after insurance.
Vote the Tories out and protect your #NHS. The system in the US is the system they want for you. They want a profit-making health service because they'd own it and you'd be making them richer every time you go to the doctor.
And people in Scotland: in the long term Labour are not going to save the NHS. Vote #SNP. Make Scotland independent!
An incisive letter to the Washington Post, pointing out what that newspapers editors and journalists fail to see: that their failure to report on Trump's obvious mental decline and manifest unfitness for any employed position whatsoever is a gross dereliction of duty.
Inspired by @cstross's experience of Google's Bard generating increasingly inaccurate "fun facts" about him, I had a go at that myself.
I asked for five fun facts, then five more, and another five. Bard increasingly just made shit up. At the start of the second set of five facts, Bard states I'm a musician. I've never recorded any albums of "meditative music."
Bard is a bullshit generator. It reminds me of grading essays by students who hadn't done the assigned reading.
'Tate’s organisation has been training men to groom women, peddling an ideology that centres on enslaving them. “This isn’t just, ‘Oh, women should stay in the kitchen and the gender pay gap is a lie.’ This is advocating the subjugation of an entire gender into slavery. If you imagined an extremist group with a similar ideology aimed towards an ethnic group, you would think this was one of the most dangerous extremist groups in the world.” ' https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/aug/28/to-his-followers-this-man-is-a-messiah-matt-shea-on-his-long-fight-to-expose-andrew-tate
