Call to action w/hope and steps to combat fascism include:
"Stop spreading panic on social media. It does nothing and adds nothing to drown in a sea of everyday negativity. For some reason, Americans are obsessed with raising awareness, as if problems magically go away when people find out about them. I’d rather we be obsessed with raising barricades. Or money."

Florida's fascists' forthcoming failures
#gender #trans rights #politics #transgender #antifascism

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/floridas-fascists-forthcoming-failures/

Putin has run out of tea or windows or...something else?

leader of Russia's Wagner private mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, says Moscow's plan to "demilitarize" Ukraine failed and that the invasion of its neighbor "turned Ukraine's army into one of the most powerful in the world"

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-wagner-prigozhin-failure/32425650.html

#ukraine

"Eventually after much tom foolery, the critter was captured and removed from the freeway...The bovine was not charged and is back in the pasture with a story to tell all the other livestock.”

https://apnews.com/article/steer-freeway-detroit-horseback-lester-police-0dd0bb6ae79970e6f75f82cb19f8f281

This just in:
The dogs report that banana is "NOT FOOD" and "UPSETTING" and "PLEASE REMOVE"

...this from animals that eat dirt but okay whatever

Very excited to surrender the house today to a horde of electricians. We're on their seasonal migration path -- it was impossible to get them here before today. Some safety issues, some upgrades. The punch list is long and they think they can knock it out in one day so they can continue on to the next feeding ground before nightfall.

Happy Garlic (Allium sativum). Another year won't have to worry about vampires.

#growYerOwn

"an accounting error ...will allow the Defense Department to send more weapons now without asking Congress for more money. " --AP News

"The military starts the war and the teachers, engineers and accountants end it." --General Zaluzhny
#ukraine #politics

https://invidious.poast.org/TadXxP_26V8

Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean reported at a security forum in Bucharest on May 18 that Moldova has severed its dependence on Russian gas.
#ukraine #politics

@thewebrecluse is reclused?

Going to virtually attend this conference on AI and the disinformation landscape, although I'd love to go to Brussels...
https://www.veraai.eu/posts/registration-open-meet-the-future-of-ai-event

#ai #disinfo

The Favorites feature enables me to mark a long read* from my mobile device so I can read it on a monitor. Great. Thanks @th3j35t3r

*Looks at the substackers who are getting more reads

Glad Molson-Coors is showing more stones than Anheuser but I don't know how to show support: ain't drinking that.

Molson also has the better ad campaign. Bad $#!T to Good $#!T is funny.

#news #beer #backlash #whineyRight

Saw a sawed-off Prius, a la Truckla. Nicely done too.

#ElCamino #道

So Gerhard Schröder and wife counting change in Putin's pocket.

Glad that's in the open now.

...photographs revealed Schröder and his spouse were at a reception at the Russian embassy in Berlin on 9 May

#politics

Going to finish the ramp and frame the deck today.
Damn the mosquitoes full speed ahead.

#alsoRain #shed

Prigozhin must think he has some kind of leverage. I think he's going find out he only has velocity, specifically 10m/s^2

https://english.nv.ua/nation/prigozhin-suggests-granting-navalny-internet-access-to-pursue-further-investigations-50324639.html

#ukraine #politics

Just escorted an ant out of the house because it was so big the dog took one look and remembered something really important at the other end of the house.

#ANT

So the headline, Thirteen-year-old girl punches shark is going around and I'm glad she survived a freak-y rare incident, especially given the shallow water, but sharks really need a break. This wasn't really headline material.

We've done our best to wipe out the planet's predators and we need them.

P.S. if you can punch a shark in the nose you can just squeeze the tip instead and put them in tonic shock.

#survivalTip #seeWhatIDidThere

Terrorist barbarians.

As the Ukrainian band Tvorchi was about to perform on the Liverpool Eurovision stage, Russia bombed their hometown of Ternopil in Western Ukraine

#ukraine