Aine, Verified Witch

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ā›§ Witch • Green Party šŸ’š • EcoSocialist • @Aine • ULC Ordained 4/20/98 • USN Disabled Veteran • Displaced Yooper •

President Carter, now in his last days, home to be with his family as he passes, once personally saved Ottawa from a Nuclear Disaster, at risk, and cost, to his life, suffering from radiation poisoning all his life.

Canada had a Nuclear Accident in the 50s, asked the US for help, Lieutenant Jimmy Carter lead a team out of NY.

The future President Carter, had his team lower him into the reactor.

I had no idea. I have no idea why this isn't widely known

#canpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574

How a future U.S. president helped avert nuclear disaster near Canada's capital | CBC News

In 1952, an experimental nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont., about 180 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, partially melted down, becoming the world's first nuclear reactor incident. Disaster was averted, in part, with help from future U.S. president Jimmy Carter.

CBC
I'm on Threads too. @[email protected]
In Blue Machine, I cover how the structure of the ocean helped produce the vast guano reserves near Chile that were extracted by western nations in the mid-1800s. I’m just reading The Devil’s Element by Dan Egan (recommended!), which includes the grim source of phosphate fertiliser before the guano arrived: human bones from the battlefields of Waterloo, Crimea etc. This extraordinary quote by the biologist Liebig describes his fears about the ruined environment this was creating: #science #books
There's a juvenile crow that has been SQUAWKING all week and their parents are so patient. Lol, teaching them how to bathe in the gutter, get food, etc. This fledgeling is just BWWAAHHHH all the time.

@ocornut EU cookie law is not the problem. You don't need to ask for consent for essential cookies, like the ones that store your login session ID or the shopping cart in a web store.

Every time you see the cookie popup, it's about selling your browsing data to third parties.

We see these popups everywhere and the reasoning is "the EU did something stupid", but it's the opposite. They caught the thieves red-handed.

"We value your privacy." Yeah, no shit. By putting a monetary value on it.

Logging on to Mastodon… I think I will read six hundred posts today. Perhaps I shall even indulge myself and read six hundred and one

Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.

Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person.

...but wait! It's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it.

#TwitterDown #Twitter #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

could have spent a full year spitballing how musk was going to kill Twitter and couldn’t have come up with anything close to the unbelievable dipshittery of ā€œusers can only read 600 tweets a dayā€ like, what do they put in billionaire cocaine anyway
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Periodic reminder:

Marginalized people don't owe you shit.

Let them find joy in twerking in public at 4 am if they want to.

Let them laugh about stupid memes and spinning their skirts.

Let them post thirst traps even if you think it's kinda cringe.

Let them talk in uwu and wear fursuits.

Let them use neopronouns and have a gender that takes 2000 words to describe.

Let them wear their leather to Pride, or dress in exaggerated drag or dress in outfits that most people their age don't wear.

We're in a boiling world, in an end stage capitalist christofascist hellscape, and the forces who hate us ain't going to care how much we try to conform: they want us dead.

If you think less of someone because they're finding joy in an utterly harmless activity, that says far more about how you're a pathetic piece of shit than it does about them.