Buffalo Rude

71 Followers
233 Following
859 Posts
Trying to do the next right thing. Part time musician, full time desk jockey. He/Him. Just here for the ambience.
@Netux @JoeStewart @fsinn @SrRochardBunson @GottaLaff That long, long, long, long predates Clinton.
@johnmcquaid @shoq I’m sure this will work out great for everyone involved. From “Democracy Dies in Darkness” (lol it dies in broad daylight, too, apparently) to “More Pure Rent Extraction Machine Watching Democracy Die”.

Roy Cohn's Rules for the Unscrupulous, according to one documentary: “Deflect and distract, never give in, never admit fault, lie and attack, lie and attack, publicity no matter what, win no matter what, all underpinned by a deep, prove-me-wrong belief in the power of chaos and fear.”

Delay, delay, delay is not in there explicitly. Perhaps it is a Trumpian riff.
https://digbysblog.net/2023/07/11/if-its-trump-its-got-to-be-bullshit/

If it’s Trump, it’s got to be bullshit - Digby's Hullabaloo

Delay, delay, delay Mentor Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump well. Basic Rules for the Unscrupulous for defeating all enemies, according to one documentary:

Digby's Hullabaloo
Oof. #climatechange
Text edited to add citation from Paulo Ceppi, a climate scientist at London’s Grantham Institute via WaPo: "Instrument-based global temperature records go back to the mid-19th century, but for temperatures before that, scientists are dependent on proxy data captured through evidence left in tree rings and ice cores. “These data tell us that it hasn’t been this warm since at least 125,000 years ago, which was the previous interglacial,” Ceppi said, referring to a period of unusual warmth between two ice ages." https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/05/hottest-day-ever-recorded/
This July 4 was hot. Earth’s hottest day on record, in fact.

Scientists say the average temperature on Earth was 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit on July 4, the highest since at least 1979 and a sign of the worsening climate crisis.

The Washington Post
@JoshuaHolland Well that was certainly something. Lol, wow. I hope she gets the mental help she clearly needs. Then she can work on her being a giant hateful asshole problem. But I’m not hopeful.
Just tried to load TweetDeck and got this message…

Just lost an hour browsing portable wind turbines. I'd love a small vertical unit I could rig to run the fridge after storms take out the power grid again. (Full disclosure, I've two solar arrays charging a whole house battery backup already, but hey it's fun tech to look at and why not have a backup plan?)

#renewableEnergy #solarpunk #windpower #alternativeEnergy

@Max @rysiek Portable scale wind turbines seems like an under-explored utility.
A nationwide blackout by DirecTV of 159 Nexstar-owned stations — including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and CW network affiliates — began today. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-02/nexstar-directv-blackout-channels-dropped-newsnation
Nexstar channels, NewsNation dropped from DirecTV in blackout

Millions of DirecTV customers lost access to Nexstar channels after the two companies failed to agree to a new distribution contract by a Sunday night deadline.

Los Angeles Times

This is my regular nitpicky post that "walled garden" is really a terrible metaphor for "corporate controlled monolithic media environment."

People put up walls around gardens largely to keep things like deer and sheep out. In a lot of places, if you want flowers and vegetables, you have to have walls.

Mastodon is much more like a lot of walled gardens (IN A GOOD WAY!) than the big socials.