Marie Angell

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Musician/songwriter with The Worldwide Whelks, The Snakecharmers, Gato Dama

Cat, powering up for a busy Tuesday ... of napping.

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour #funny

If NPR is “State Media” because it’s 1% US funded then why isn’t Elon’s Twitter account “Saudi State Media” when it’s 4.5% funded?

Let’s get real about #SocialSecurity .
The 2023 taxable max is $160,200 We pay 6.2% into Social Security on earnings up to $160,200 for the year. So the rich slide by while the rest of us pay a disproportionate amount. This can be fixed. Raise the cap!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/18/2153360/-There-is-no-Social-Security-Solvency-Crisis-Why-is-MSNBC-telling-us-otherwise

Our latest story (also my first Mastodon post!):

Twitter users were drowned with adult content spam when they searched for information about the historic anti-lockdown protests in China.

Through data analysis and interviews with people behind bots, we found that much of the spam is linked to commercial bot networks.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/19/technology/twitter-bots-china-protests-elon-musk.html

How Twitter Bots Drowned Out Posts About Protests in China

Chinese protesters shared videos and photos to Twitter. But their posts were swarmed by escort and gambling ads.

The New York Times
One of the things people value in a principled person: stability and reliability. If you know their principles and they have shown themselves to live by their principles: you know what you are going to get. You know their actions are not going to swing dramatically by circumstance and appetite. Of course, the content of principles matters, and if a person's principles are bad, you get reliably bad results. But that seems rarer than the chaos and dislocation that comes from unprincipled people.
Here’s a poem in the shape of a Christmas tree. It’s called ‘Needles’.
@WordwenchCA I do not know why it still says Pending instead of Following but in my heart I'm following!

Here's a New Jersey train station, being visited by a ghost.

Original at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/21010463488

#photography

West Trenton Railroad Station

Flickr