The company that

- Ran a secret, illegal, manipulative psychological experiment on hundreds of thousands of users
- Has documented proof of working to put competitors out of business
- Literally shopped our data around to other companies, including direct messages
- Conspired to manipulate a presidential election
- Has been proven to support or at least turn a blind eye to genocide

But ooh hey shiny new app let’s sign up

I don’t understand people. I just fucking don’t.

Since July 1 you no longer need a concealed weapon permit to carry firearms in Florida

Ben T. Davis Beach, FL:

A 7-year-old was shot in the head and his grandfather was shot in the hand trying to defend the child

This escalated when the grandfather told people on jet skis they were endangering children

There were 17 mass shootings over the July 4th holiday
This year so far:
360 mass shootings
923 children under 18 murdered

It’s the guns.

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6 July 1937 | Dutch Jewis girl, Rosetta Sophia Gudema, was born in Groningen.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

Reality Winner had 1 classified document: no bail

Trump had
27 documents in his office
Of those
6 Top Secret
18 Secret
3 Confidential
75 documents in a storage room
Of those
11 Top Secret
36 Secret
28 Confidential

Yet Trump is free to roam.

This stochastic terrorist posted Obama’s address and directed his minions against his enemies

Two justice systems.

As a climate scientist who has warned about the threat of climate change for decades, I think the fact that we just saw what was probably the hottest day in recorded history, and probably in thousands of years, is deserving of attention...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/world/hottest-day-world-climate-el-nino-intl/index.html

Monday, July 3 was the hottest day EVER recorded on Earth. A hugely significant record that stood...

... a mere 24 hours when Tuesday, July 4 broke the record for hottest day ever measured.

This is the #climate crisis. Every day is record-breaking, every day is heartbreaking.

It gets more absurd every day for Big Journalism to keep pouring its work into Saudi-government-funded Twitter, which is controlled by a right-winger who hates real journalism and boosts extremists.

It gets even more absurd for journalism orgs to keep embedding tweets in their stories, given Musk's unfathomable destruction of the platform's usefulness.

I keep wondering when journalists will discover that big tech is not their daddy.

People on Twitter: "Please! Give us a social media app that isn't centrally owned by sociopath Patrick Bateman from American Psycho! It's time for change!"

[Threads, owned by HAL from 2001 & the psychopathic killer robot from Logan's Run, launches]

Same people on Twitter: "Yay! God bless Threads!"
#threads #twitter