@zebrafinch

I do approve almost all follower requests. I have my account locked for personal security reasons.

I am glad your here.

We be cool !
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Woman accidentally discovers 280 million-year-old lost world while hiking in Italian Alps

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/fossils/woman-accidentally-discovers-280-million-year-old-lost-world-while-hiking-in-italian-alps

I want to thank everyone who enrolled in last night's class "Statues, Poppets & Dolls in Traditional Witchcraft". All classes are recorded and available on-line.

"Why aren't there any toxic accounts here?"

Because unlike every other social on the internet, CounterSocial actively enforces its Terms of Service, which includes a very specific clause that allows us evict malevolent users. #CoSoTips

Climate change

The Library of Congress said hackers “accessed email communications between congressional offices and some Library staff, including the Congressional Research Service.” The hackers had access from January until September.
Last year, it gave congressional staffers more than 76,000 custom responses to inquiries, according to its most recent annual report.

The notice did not cite who was behind the hack, only referring to the hackers as “the adversary”
#security

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/library-congress-says-hackers-accessed-emails-lawmakers-offices-rcna180662

Latest data breaches from https://databreach.com

#CoSoSec #cybersecurity

Should we be asking whether oligarchs can manipulate elections at will through media control and mass brainwashing? If we wish to preserve democracy over demagoguery, what actions can we take?

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2017/04/26/the-russian-babushka-who-said-it-all-about-the-country-of-morons-a57827
Grandmothers against bullshit.
Moscow Times
#news #Russia #GrandmothersAgainstBullshit

Preach, Hank.

Sweden is preparing its citizens for the possibility of war. https://www.msb.se/en/advice-for-individuals/the-brochure-in-case-of-crisis-or-war/

I firmly believe that these Ketamine “therapy” advertisements are unacceptable and way too dangerous to be so damn common. It’s a cash grab and will lead to a lot of damaged people that shouldn’t go anywhere near ketamine or any other psychedelics.

Not to mention that they are gaming it by posting moderately attractive “normal people” to make it seem legitimate.

Ketamine CAN help for those with extreme chronic PTSD/Major Depression but you need to be under the care of actual psychiatrists.

More than half the adults in America read on a sixth-grade level or below, according to the National Literacy Institute. (Article from 2023) https://www.al.com/news/2023/03/archibald-we-all-get-screwed-because-americans-cant-read.html

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek (D) announced her state has secured a new supply of the abortion pill mifepristone to last nearly through the entirety of the second Trump administration.

In the announcement, Kotek’s office directly cited the “national results of the general election” as to why the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) updated their agreement to provide emergency mifepristone.

#News #Abortion #Politics #Oregon

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4997831-oregon-secures-mifepristone-supply/

So, to my surprise, going with the spicy pepper treated bird seed mix has both kept the squirrels out of our BirdBuddy and attracted an huge variety of birds. We are now getting blue birds, cardinals, wrens, tufted titmouse, and even woodpeckers. Last year it was all squirrels and cardinals. Here's the titmouse.

#birbs #BirdBuddy

#humor

Orwell had nothing on Florida:

“In yet another case, Florida's government is arguing that book removals in public schools are "government speech," meaning they are unrestricted by the First Amendment.”

Censorship is free speech.

Wow.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/19/florida-government-argues-first-amendment-does-not-prohibit-book-bans/76407329007/

Men, try to bear with feminine anger at the nomination of a sex-trafficking, child-raping, mysogynistic creep for the highest legal position in this country. For you, it changes little. For women, it portends an environment where none of us are safe. Where the already abysmal rate of rape prosecution would crater, and men given a green light to sexually offend at their whim.
Please, try to sit with your discomfort as we process this.

"Attorneys representing Amazon and SpaceX are in court today (11/17), arguing that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional.

If they get their way, two of the richest people on the planet will have gutted the enforcement of labor laws designed to protect working people."

~Robert Reich