How to Make Sure You’re Not Accidentally Sharing Your Location
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-not-accidentally-share-your-location/

#privacy
#cybersecurity

Congratulations Canada on having two cities named top five most livable cities in the world:

US? We didn’t even crack the top 20:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/travel/article/economist-world-most-liveable-cities-2022/index.html

How many Big Lies are there?
Advocating for school vouchers, Gov. Abbott said public schools will be ‘fully funded’. They won’t
#politics #LiesOfLyingLiars
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/article/greg-abbott-school-voucher-misleading-17791327.php

Killing Texans is profitable
CenterPoint is the grid operator that killed at least 200 people in the Big Freeze. Republicans have made sure that after killing us, they can make us pay for their mistakes and recklessness

My winter electric bill used to be just over $100/mth. Last month was $479

CenterPoint Energy reports $1 billion profit for 2022 https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/centerpoint-energy-reports-1-billion-profit-2022-17790528.php

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38,000 gun deaths a year . . . GOP opposes gun control laws.

2 cases of voter fraud a year . . . GOP passes 361 new voter suppression laws.

Fascist assholes. ~Steve Rustad

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Meet Vinnie
Sex: Male
Breed: Springer Spaniel
Age: 5 years
Weight: 47 pounds
This adorable boy is Vinnie. He is a kind and gentle soul that just wants to be around his person(s). He does well with the other dogs in the unit but honestly, he just prefers to lounge around and be loved on.
For more information on how you can adopt Vinnie visit www.jaildogs.org and fill out an adoption application.

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When you've covered all of your obligations and finally have time to do some wri—

#UNMappers calls all mappers to support the Turkish Open Street Map community following the earthquake that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday 6 Feb.

Together with Copernicus and the International Charter activation, #UNMappers has also been activated. The community has organised a "#mapathon", that will be held live on Friday 10 Feb from 15:00-17:00 CET, although mappers are invited to continue the activity over the weekend. Registration is already open!

https://un-spider.org/news-and-events/news/un-mappers-activation-mapathon-support-turkey

I was playing with Sounddraw today. It's the AI that can generate music. But let's first qualify that it's more like background score music to all those "I got a new Camera so let's assemble a random series of shots to see what it can do." Videos.

In other words, Random soulless techno music fit only for advertising and elevators.

If you are curious:

https://soundraw.io

I need this on a t-shirt...

@ToolPackinMama 💯👍🏼

😂 😂

Would whomever control the space lasers please pop that balloon. 🙄

@Eulimnadia
I put the question out, but no replies yet. Everyone is quiet tonight, even normally busy communications routes. I'll keep checking, and let you know when I hear something.

In the meantime:

@OldCountryDoctor @TeelaResists @DrBashir2022

Do you guys know why Aunt Crabby has been silent this month? No tweets since Jan 4, no posts on CoSo since the 8th.

I figured if you don't know why, you'd at least like to know she's gone silent. Hope she's okay! 😳

FAA has closed the following airports amid expectations that the Chinese balloon will be shot down:

Charleston International Airport
Wilmington International Airport
Myrtle Beach International Airport

~BNONews

#ChineseSpyBalloon