@An_drew

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Teacher of English. Living and working in Auckland, New Zealand / Aotearoa
When was the last time you took a flight to anywhere for any reason? #poll #pleaseBoost (and don't get picky on the time descriptions because you know full well what I mean in the limited characters)
In the last 24 hours
1.6%
In the last week
2.8%
In the last month
8.2%
In the last year
32.4%
Over a year ago
35.3%
So long ago I don't remember
16.4%
I've never flown
3.3%
Poll ended at .
We gave the anti-vaxxers an inch of respect and they're still not done pulling a mile of concessions. Treat them like QAnon rejects and other lunatics. Shun them and make them small.
Scottish Greens (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The switch to 20mph roads in Wales meant: 🟢 100 fewer dead or seriously injured 🟢 26% fewer injured 🟢 The lowest 3 month casualty figure since records began 46 years ago That's in just the first year. Real lives saved, real families spared a lifetime of pain and hardship.

mastodon.scot
#caturday Fran basking on warm mid-morning bricks after a night on the tiles.
#marshmadness Auckland City, seen from the mangroves at the tip of the Te Atatu Peninsula.

I've been looking at the background of Branden Spikes, the senior member of DOGE who is director of IT over at X (his OG email is [email protected]).

Prior to joining up with Musk, Spikes ran a company called Spikes Browser, which tried to create a sandboxed browser environment. I met Branden in DC in 2013, and I actually used Spikes for a short while.

It seems that Branden used to be married to a woman named Natalia Haldeman (she went by Natalia Spikes then). Records published by ProPublica show that Ms. Haldeman is the CEO of a nonprofit called the California Russian Foundation.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/452775704

https://unicourt.com/case/ca-la2-branden-spikes-vs-natalia-haldeman-855382?init_S=c_relc#dockets

When I search in the breach tracking service Constella Intelligence for spikes.com, I find tons of Yandex profiles for people in Russia who have spikes.com email addresses (all [email protected]).

Going to keep poking at this.

edit: corrected name of the foundation.

California Russian Foundation - Nonprofit Explorer

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as well as download tax filings going back as far as 2001.

ProPublica
#nzpol Interesting timing of Chinese naval visit down under. tRump is notoriously hostile to the concept of NATO, siding with Putin over Ukraine. Is ANZUS going to fare any better under his watch? The fate of Taiwan provides the backdrop to all of this.
#catsofmastodon None shall pass!