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Former digital marketing strategist. “Vote Blue No Matter Who” is a stick. I prefer carrots. Americans lack #universalhealthcare and that pisses me off. Yuge #DEVO fan. #TwitterRefugee
Duty now for the future!

[Header: DEVO’s New Traditionalists poster. Drawing of DEVO on stage defending 3 infants from a crowd. 5 approach the stage: a man in a pilgrim-style hat with bible, a woman in bathrobe and curlers with rolling pin, a pirate with sword, a long-haired hippie, and a punk rocker.]

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jake4480, to opensource
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May is almost over, but this month is 'Month of LibreOffice' (see https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/05/01/do-something-awesome-join-the-month-of-libreoffice-may-2024).

I recently went back to using @libreoffice again (I used to use OpenOffice) instead of Microsoft Office, because now Microsoft wants to start charging monthly for Word, Excel, etc.

I don't know why I ever stopped using it (Having Microsoft Office already installed on a new laptop?) but LibreOffice is SO great, I never should have stopped. I love the ease of it, .odt files that work wherever -- the whole thing is superior to Microsoft products.

shansterable,
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@jake4480 @libreoffice
I've been using it for a couple of years now, and I love it.

I, too, was using OpenOffice prior. I also appreciate that #LibreOffice is here on Mastodon, where I get tips on use. Viva LibreOffice!

shansterable, to USpolitics
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"Private equity firms owned more than 20% of the health-care companies that went bankrupt last year. The nonprofit Private Equity Stakeholder Project, which investigates multiple industries, said it spotted at least 17 such bankruptcies in 2023, compared with eight in 2019 and even fewer during the previous three years, marking a 112.5% increase over the last five years."

"There are about 418 rural hospitals at risk of closure, according to a new report from Chartis, a healthcare advisory services firm." https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/418-rural-hospitals-at-risk-of-closure-breakdown-by-state.html

With private equity firms failing to find success in healthcare, and with rural hospitals unable to keep their doors open, now is perfect time for the US government to take the healthcare industry public.

Profit and healthcare don't mix. Scoop up the hospitals and clinics for pennies on the dollar and restore healthcare access to rural areas.

#Healthcare #PrivateEquity #GetProfitOutOfHealthcare #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #USPol #USPolitics #PublicHealth

https://www.benefitspro.com/2024/05/23/private-equity-bankruptcies-in-health-care-increased-112-in-2023/

shansterable, to random
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I follow COVID scientists here on Mastodon. I've seen them post links to studies showing waning effectiveness of COVID vaccines after 6 months.

I received the updated booster last October and want to get boosted again prior to some planned travel in July. (Air travel to the MAGA anti-vax cesspool known as Florida)

I have contacted three pharmacies in my area.

One has no COVID vaccines at all and said they won't receive any until fall.

The other two say they will not vaccinate me because they must follow US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines stating that only people 65 years and older should receive boosters at this time.

They won't vaccinate me even if I am willing to pay out of pocket.

Both say I must get a recommendation from my health care provider before they will even consider it.

Less than 20% of people in my state are up to date on their COVID vaccines. For those of us who want to follow the science and not some arbitrary age limitation, why not let us get vaccinated?

shansterable,
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@VeroniqueB99
Washington state

shansterable, to USpolitics
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So, super fancy, exclusive restaurant catering to wealthy diners rips off its customers, harasses and steals from its employees, then washes its hands by gifting real estate to a proselytizing Christian organization that provides housing and meals to people who have been pushed down, abused, and displaced by the kinds of people who endure a waitlist of up to year, jet to a dining destination, and pay $500 for dinner. Can’t help but think this illustrates the capitalism circle of life.

The Willows Inn, a super fancy, fine-dining, farm-to-table, restaurant on a remote island near Bellingham, WA, that the New York Times in 2011 labeled "one of 10 Restaurants Worth a Plane Ride,” had a precipitous fall from grace in 2022. Now, the property is selling, and the proceeds will benefit Lighthouse Mission Ministries, a shelter for the unhoused.

In its heyday, as it topped the culinary world's best restaurant lists, fraud and abuse festered behind the scenes.

Employees alleged a nightmare environment of sexual harassment, bullying, misogyny, and racism.

The Willows Inn paid $1.37 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for wage theft.

Turns out, the restaurant's "farm-to-table" claims also fell short. Some of the supposed locally sourced and foraged food actually came from random grocery stores and even Costco. At $500 a plate, that’s not what you bargained for.

To make amends, the former owners, Tim and Marcia McEvoy, donated the property to Bellingham’s Lighthouse Mission, a Christian organization that provides shelter and services to the unhoused (and only hires Christians). The property, reportedly worth about $2.4 million, has accepted an offer and is expected to change hands soon.

https://seattle.eater.com/2021/4/27/22406043/lummi-island-restaurant-willows-inn-allegations-sexism-racism-harassment

shansterable, to technology
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Following a bunch of techies on Mastodon be like:

I am a run-of-the-mill Android-phone-Windows-desktop-Gmail-user but now I'm in the process of transitioning from Gmail and using Duck Duck Go to research how to set up a Linux desktop.

Oh, and also now Signal-curious.

What is this place? Some kind of privacy cult LOL?

#Technology #Privacy #InfoSec #Spycrosoft #Spyware #Fascism

shansterable, to USpolitics
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What's the chance* that GOP MAGAts will come around to banning vasectomies now that the young'uns are choosing to sterilize themselves rather than face the Big Government overreach of abortion bans?

I mean, how can you enslave child-bearing folks under the boot of capitalism if they refuse to create a steady labor supply?

*The chance is very likely slim to none since the patriarchy by definition values men's rights. But still, capitalism also requires an underclass, and forced birth plunges many into that category without regard to gender.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-05-14/younger-patients-sought-vasectomies-after-roe-vs-wade-overturned

shansterable, to Camping
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As camping season in the northern hemisphere is upon us, I offer my yearly reminder that almost any meal can be encased in a large tortilla, wrapped in foil, frozen, and reheated on a campfire or camp stove.

When you variety-pack a cooler full of homemade frozen "burritos," you have more time to chill by the fire and enjoy the view.

Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

shansterable,
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@Edent
The remedy is to hang up and call the bank directly, right?

rbreich, to random
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Reminder that Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional.

This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the government agency that holds them accountable for union busting.

Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.

shansterable,
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@mbrailer
You beat me to it. I don't know why @rbreich always leaves out Trader Joe's in his posts on this topic.

Let's hold ALL the companies trying to dismantle workers' rights to organize accountable.

shansterable,
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@jadugar63
Ooh. I didn't know that Aldi owns Trader Joe's.

A bunch of foreign automakers who set up shop in the US south, where unions have struggled to take hold, are about to reach the find out stage. Sean Fain's UAW is selling their 2023 successes and the southern workers are buying.

shansterable, to USpolitics
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Today, the new minimum wage of $17.28 in my city of Bellingham, WA goes into effect.

Compared to some other cities in the US, this may sound high. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 (since 2009).

Unfortunately, experts have calculated Bellingham's "living wage" closer to $23.52 for an individual and $29.97 for a family of four with two working parents.

According to Redfin, "In March 2024, Bellingham home prices were up 12.2% compared to last year, selling for a median price of $685K."

Average rent for an apartment is $1,863, and average rent for a house is $2,891.

Whatcom County, where Bellingham is located, recorded a 27% jump in unhoused people in 2023 (the most recent data), the highest increase since the point in time survey began in 2008.

#USPol #USPolitics #MinimumWage #HousingIsAHumanRight #MayDay #WorkersRights #LivingWage #UnionStrong #Unionize #TaxTheRich

alexwild, to random
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Biology faculty at UT are meeting today to talk about a hiring plan. I really don't envy their job of trying to make a department located in Texas attractive.

We're in the middle of an ongoing purge of black staff, the adminstration just called in the state police to beat and jail students, and no one in their right mind would want to risk pregnancy to have a family here. It's bleak.

shansterable,
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@alexwild
When they can't recruit athletes for their coveted sports teams, that's when they'll begin to pay attention.

shansterable, to USpolitics
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Whenever I read a news article that includes something like:
"The traffic accident has now been cleared, according to a police department post on X," I think it sounds as ridiculous as ""The traffic accident has now been cleared, according to a police department post on Truth Social."

It's unbelievable to me how these organizations can continue to believe they sound legit on X. If you want me to trust your info, use a real platform, not a Nazi cosplay forum.

tzimmer_history, to random
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This is the type of comment I’ve been getting a lot for my latest piece: Always from self-regarding liberals who never want to grapple with the fact that the civil rights protests of the 1950s and 60s – the legacy of which they surely want to claim – clearly violated those principles.

shansterable,
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@tzimmer_history
I looked into organizing a protest in my city. To obtain a permit, I would have had to file all the paperwork in my name. If anything goes wrong, who do you think will be blamed?

"Getting the proper permit" may be a risk too life threatening to take in a political environment pocked by stochastic terrorism.

I won't take that risk. I'd rather take my chances on protesting without a paper trail to my name, thank you very much.

eddie1perez, to random
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As a former director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve been disturbed for some time about what Elon Musk is doing with his private global platform.

Today, I took the step of leaving Twitter, completely.

Why?
Here’s my last tweet:
https://mem.ai/p/e83QTrTPntGEmmZYQUEc

shansterable,
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@eddie1perez
Thank you for joining us here on Mastodon. Twitter is losing quality Tweeps one at a time. Soon, there will be only a black hole of hatred that will implode on itself and hopefully take its Wanker-in-Chief with it.

shansterable, to Devo
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To all the brave university students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, I see you, I hear you, and I applaud your resolve. Also, please protect yourselves.

It is my duty now for the future to point out that the band DEVO formed in the early 1970s "in response to the failed promise of utopian progress peddled by post-WWII politicians and consumer culture" and amid the turmoil surrounding Vietnam war protests in the US.

The core members of DEVO were friends with two of the four students who were shot by gas-masked National Guardsman at the May 4, 1970, Vietnam war protest on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Three founding members of the band attended Kent State at that time.

Gerald Casale (co-founder, co-lead vocalist and bass player) said that was "the most DEVO day of his life." The theory that humankind is evolving in reverse. That was the first evidence that hit him square in the gut and the heart and the mind that this was true.

"In the next two years, I realized that the system was rotten to the core. That everything I believed was an illusion."

#DEVO #WeAreDEVO #USPol #USPolitics #KentState #AntiWar #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Protest #BoojiBoy

GottaLaff, to random
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“Volkswagen workers at the carmaker’s Chattanooga plant in Tennessee have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers, a historic victory for the union and the labor movement’s efforts to expand to the southern United States.” #UnionStrong https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/volkswagen-unionize-uaw-tennessee?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

shansterable,
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@GottaLaff
This is the kind of news that jettisons me into positivity.

popcornreel, to nyc
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Karma is something. It’s been exactly 35 years since five boys were arrested for things they did not do, then held for a vicious attack they did not commit. The evil thug who put out this 1989 ad against the five boys (now Exonerated Five) is NOW in a NYC courtroom ON TRIAL. #nyc #centralpark #exoneratedfive #Mastodon #BlackMastodon

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@popcornreel
Further salt in Mango Mussolini's wound: Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam won a seat on the New York City Council, November 7, 2023.

Turnabout is a bitch!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/exonerated-central-park-five-member-yusef-salaam-wins-new-york-city-co-rcna124120

flexghost, to random
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Laura Trump and the RNC furthering the big lie with robocalls

"We all know the problems: No photo IDs, unsecured ballot drop boxes, mass mailing of ballots…

“voter rolls chock full of deceased people and non-citizens…

“Your vote could be canceled out by someone who isn't even an American citizen."

This is what happens when when there are no penalties.

🇺🇸

Static of CNN audio player. Is laura Trump from Fargo? What’s up with that Great Lake accent it makes me want mediocre cheese.

shansterable,
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@flexghost
MAGAs are ALWAYS projecting. THEY are ones committing voter fraud.

"Other Trump supporters have been caught trying to vote more than once, including multiple residents at Florida’s retirement community The Villages.

Still others have been caught trying to cast votes in the names of their dead spouses or family members, one of whom was initially a right-wing cause célèbre after claiming someone had stolen his dead wife’s absentee ballot.

And just last month, a former election official in Milwaukee was found guilty of voter fraud for using her position to get obtain fraudulent absentee ballots and send them to a Republican state lawmaker who’d boosted Trump’s election lies."

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-voter-fraud-convictions-2024-rcna146434

JoshuaHolland, to journalism
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There’s no reason in the world to believe raised $50 million at that fundraiser but the quarter just started and the claim will be forgotten by the time they have to file FEC reports so, thanks to a credulous press, mission accomplished.

shansterable,
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@JoshuaHolland
Even if he didn't raise $50 million, Trump most likely raised some millions.

Billionaires will literally donate millions to a failed, fake stochastic terrorist "businessman" who attempted a coup and promises to destroy American democracy rather than just pay their goddamned taxes.

They will risk internment and torture in camps of "people Trump used to like but now doesn't" just to avoid paying one more cent in taxes.

Irredeemable wastes of human flesh, they are.

And yes, let's mark our calendars to find out from the FEC reports just how much they actually did donate to Orange Mussolini so we know the depths of their depravity, measured in $$$.

icastico, to vinyl
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Tupelo Chain Sex - Spot The Difference #vinyl @vinylrecords #punk #jazz #reggae #ska #80s #nowPlaying

From 1984. Evidence that at least some of your #GenX friends have been aware of the #antifascim fight for a long time.

shansterable,
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@icastico @vinylrecords

Yes. Some of us GenXers have been navigating the world with eyes wide open for a long time.

We know that shit when we see it.

This 1986 album from the Dayglo Abortions, Feed Us a Fetus, hangs on the wall in my main hallway.

#Vinyl #Punk #80s #Reagan #Fascism #AntiFascism #Music #USPol #USPolitics #SocialJustice #GenX

flexghost, to random
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** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

Tonight’s theme is:

🤲🎗️🆘 PLEDGE DRIVE 🫂🌍🎁

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🎵 This SUNDAY April 7 is our Fediverse — make sure to stop by and help your local instance

Post any song with “Pledge” or “Drive” in the title along with what you’re drinking 🎶
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You know when you're close you really turn me on
That's why I want you so bad when your gone...

🍷 You Drive Me Wild - The Runaways + Redbreast🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

Joan Jett looking all hot n shit - album cover of the Runaways to music

shansterable,
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@flexghost
Drive That Fast
by Kitchens of Distinction

Whisky + soda water

https://youtu.be/9JXk_oV4nbo?si=Pjj1zXUojY-XNPX9

GottaLaff, to random
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#WompWomp

Exclusive: Tesla scraps long-promised low-cost car plans that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker ..amid fierce Chinese EV competition

Entry-level Tesla car won’t be built, three sources tell Reuters
• Tesla to focus on self-driving taxis instead, sources said
• Strategy shift comes as Tesla faces competition from China EV makers including BYD

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-scraps-low-cost-car-plans-amid-fierce-chinese-ev-competition-2024-04-05/

shansterable,
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@GottaLaff
My husband and I have a pact: Every time we see a Tesla on the road (and there are many in my area) we call out an alert to it.

We are seriously afraid of those vehicles given all the news stories about them revving out of control and veering wildly.

My friend's boss relied on the Autopilot feature of his Tesla, hit two pedestrians, and is now being sued.

I wouldn't ride in a Tesla with driver on board, much less a driverless Tesla taxi.

Crash and burn, Elmo. Crash and burn.

april, to random
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kudos to google for offering a free option to keep AI out of search results

shansterable,
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@april
I'd considering paying to keep AI OUT of my search results.

Now THERE'S a business model:

  1. Create and hype a "groundbreaking new technology"
  2. Proliferate the technology widely
  3. Watch it predictably hallucinate snippets of lies and nuggets of corporate liability
  4. Witness the public recoil from the horror
  5. Witness corporate subscribers dump the service in the wake of lawsuits
  6. Having unleashed a scourge on society in the name of efficiency and innovation, business now charges to "protect" you from the monster it created

Instead, Google is so deep into the punch bowl of AI Kool-Aid, they still believe AI is worth paying for. Sunk costs are bitch.

#AI #Google #Business #Tech #Technology #SocialJustice #Legal #Finance

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