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TonyStark, 2 months ago to random

Would you rather our kids have an education and healthcare or Elon having another $100B?

I know what I'm choosing.

#VoteBlue

Biden unveils a budget that would cut costs for families and hike taxes for the rich:
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/10/1237398034/biden-2025-budget-proposal

floating, 2 months ago to random

It's information warfare with three goals:

1. get people to believe a falsehood

2. get people to distrust people who don't believe the same

3. make people feel cynical and helpless and give up

^ IF YOU HAVEN'T FALLEN FOR 1&2, DON'T FALL FOR 3 EITHER

https://refusefascism.org/2024/02/25/combatting-disinformation/

emmaaum, 2 months ago to random

feeling down and underwhelmed by the long story i was writing. i've gotten used to not liking the short one but i miss being happy about the long one.

floating, 3 months ago to random

Meanwhile in France

French Senate approves a bill to make abortion a constitutional right https://apnews.com/article/6e8cfc46d3fa4553c4d78e8a227f23b2

floating, 3 months ago to random

Jonathan Glazer's two-films-in-one (narrative/sound) approach in making The Zone of Interest was hugely impactful for me as a viewer. I'm not a fan of many "Holocaust movies" but this one spoke to me.

Here, Oscar-nominated Johnnie Burn, the sound designer for the film, "explains his 600-page bible of Auschwitz sounds."

https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/577622/zone-of-interest-oscar-jonathan-glazer-sound-design-auschwitz/

floating, 3 months ago to random

We should all be talking about and acting against plans for building facilities to create efficiencies around large-scale arrests:

“So you go around the country arresting illegal immigrants in large-scale raids, you have to have somewhere to put them,” Miller said in a November podcast interview with Kirk. “So you create this efficiency by having these standing facilities where planes are moving off the runway constantly — probably military aircraft, some existing DHS assets — and that’s how you’re able to scale.”

Gift link.

#USPOL #MAGA

https://wapo.st/48tFoGy

TonyStark, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

I've been very fortunate to find myself in a nice career.

I know many people who haven’t had the same path and the weight of student loans is financially drowning them. I'm truly happy that this will do something to give back to people who put so much in, but can’t break out from underneath the system.

This kind of policy won’t be coming from Republicans. Joe Biden has my vote.

150,000 more student loan borrowers to receive debt relief beginning Wednesday:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/150000-student-loan-borrowers-receive-debt-relief-beginning/story?id=107395007

Tengrain, 3 months ago to random

this! This! THIS!

https://mstdn.social/@nomoremister/111907808200781841

H/T @nomoremister

floating, 3 months ago to random

Want to read The Holocaust: An Unfinished Story, but there's no room in my life for more books right now.

https://forward.com/culture/577113/holocaust-unfinished-history-dan-stone-misconceptions/

dukepaaron, 3 months ago to random

<the western 'anti-imperialist' crowd ducks>

"A court of the #Iranian-backed #Houthis in #Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public #execution on #homosexuality charges, the French wire service AFP reported on Tuesday. Another 35 people have been detained for similar charges."

https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-785766

floating, 3 months ago to random

I had to open a new account on Twitter for the sole purpose of finding out how to access a rep via the Chase Bank phone tree without an account number. I closed my only account there two years ago, and now they're sending me email suggesting they think I'm still a customer. I called one number, they confirmed my account is closed and not "dormant" as their email says, and that rep referred me to Chase Journey. In order to get through to someone at Chase Journey, the first thing I have to do is enter my SSN. I AM NOT EVEN A CUSTOMER OF THEIRS ANYMORE. Fuck that????

floating, 3 months ago to random

Yeah, I'm pushing another must-listen episode of Straight White American Jesus: "Ahead in 2024? Abortion, Violence, and the Global Far-Right" with journalist Annika Brockschmidt talking to Brad Onishi about reproductive rights, Trump laying the groundwork for increased physical violence/terrorism in the US, and far-right organizing in other countries.

#abortion #FarRight #maga #Trump #2024Election #USPOL #afd #violence

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/ahead-in-2024-abortion-violence-and-the-global-far-right-bonus-content/

floating, 4 months ago to random

It's interesting how hard it is in the US to organize and sustain interest in large protests against oil companies as compared to getting a lot of people to show up repeatedly to protest against "Zionists" (I mean "for Palestinians").

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-for-1-in-5-deaths-worldwide/

👁️​

EllieK, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to vegan

Soy Tempeh finished

The first tempeh I made, about 6 years ago, was soy. I do have an attachment for my mixer to crack the beans.

Total fermenting time was about 36‐40 hours.

Talk about being forgiving! I let it get too hot the first night (46° C) but it recovered and produced beautiful blocks.

My method for making other tempehs is in this thread
https://mstdn.ca/@EllieK/11170…

#Recipe
https://www.tempeh.info/maketempeh/how-to-make-tempeh.php

@wfpb @vegan #WFPB #veganRecipe #EllieKPosts #tempehMaking #tempeh #soyTempeh

dukepaaron, 4 months ago to random

There's no such thing as left #antisemitism.

🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃

floating, 4 months ago to climate

"Roughly one fifth of the globe has already warmed by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) compared with the late 1800s, before humans started burning fossil fuels on a large scale. Around 5 percent of the planet has warmed more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4F) — a fast-warming area around the Arctic."

#Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Arctic

Gift link

https://wapo.st/423EXRN

emmaaum, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to writing

editing out the hashtag cause i'm getting some weird responses I need a very brief, subtle way to indicate that one character is just beginning to take a romantic interest in another.
An actor might convey it visually by softening their face but trying to write that is awkward and takes too many words.
The best I can come up with is a "slowly sighs", but sighs can be negative.
It can't be a smile quite yet, that comes next. There's already eye contact. Ch 1 smiles, Ch 2 responds.
help :)

dukepaaron, 4 months ago to random

Saw a post today that said the Jews should have been given a country in Finland.

There has to be a term for this practice of reimagining the various places they would have dumped the Jews right?

It's a pretty constant topic.

floating, 4 months ago to random

This is not about religion in general as the headline indicates, but primarily about Christianity (why are the two so often conflated?) and White Christian Nationalism.

Anyway, I’d forgotten this doozy:

“In spring of 2023, 26 members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee refused to sign a letter denouncing white supremacy.”

#uspol #2024Elections

https://japantoday.com/category/features/opinions/how-religion-and-politics-will-mix-in-2024-%E2%80%93-three-trends-to-track

TonyStark, 4 months ago to random

If Republicans are going to blame Joe Biden for gas prices when they’re higher, they ought to be out thanking him when they’re lower, but, you know.

Gas prices fall under 3 bucks a gallon at majority of U.S. stations -
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gas-prices-california-diesel-holiday-travel-oil/

Gif of a person looking around captioned “awkward silence.”

dukepaaron, 5 months ago to random

Ok I'm not usually one to bash the left flank of the Dems but these talking points are rehashed deicide shit. This stuff is crazy.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/25/news/aoc-slammed-over-christmas-message-about-israel-hamas-war-jew-hate/

floating, 5 months ago to random

1/2

https://forward.com/culture/574318/unapologetic-third-narrative-podcast-palestinian-israeli/

kolev, 5 months ago to vegan

@wfpb I need to stop eating #vegan junk. Meal ideas?

• whole wheat spaghetti
• mashed potatoes and gravy
• stir "fry"
• sushi
• bean burritos
• whole wheat macaroni and peas
• chili
• vegetable soup
• beans and cornbread
• sweet potatoes and broccoli
• oatmeal

Non-meals:

unsweetened black tea,
sparkling water,
dates,
rooibos,
chamomile,
Baked tortillas and salsa
grapefruit