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Eco-socialist punk and folk musician in Portland, Oregon. He/him

Since I know we will be hearing a lot from the Tucker Carlsons of the world about how the shooting in Nashville was allegedly perpetrated by a transgender individual, and that this was a motivator, I'm already gonna ask......

Did all of those other shootings happen because the preparator was cisgendered?

No?

Judging by how I get bored with zombie shows, I'm pretty sure when the apocalypse comes I'll kill myself before the end of season two
According to rent.com, at $15 per hour (supposedly a living wage) you can afford $781 a month for rent. The average rent in Portland for a 1 br apartment is $1507. A couple could both be working full time, and still have to sleep in a tent on the sidewalk. But let's blame them for the problems our city is facing. Let's blame the pandemic. Let's blame protesters, drugs, or laws that allow the working poor to exist while off the clock. Let's not blame landlords or bosses. That would make no sense.

I just finished watching "The Playlist" on Netflix, and I gotta say.... As a musician and songwriter who also is a software engineer working for startups as my day job... I found the first 5 episodes repulsive, albeit impossible to look away from. But episode 6..... You gotta watch the whole thing.

And then delete Spotify. Buy CDs from that indie band you love and support. CDs sound sooo much better, and now that nobody owns a burner any more, they are precious. CDs are the new vinyl... again.

Working for Twitter stinks.

Yahoo! Voices: Elon Musk Fires Twitter Janitors, Reportedly Forcing Staff To Bring Own Toilet Paper.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-fires-twitter-janitors-055637498.html

Yahooist Teil der Yahoo Markenfamilie

Who exactly is the audience for this regret? Nobody takes it seriously. Impeach her husband, and then she will know regret.

ABC News: Ginni Thomas says she regrets post-election texts to Meadows.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ginni-thomas-regrets-post-election-texts-meadows-95993254

Ginni Thomas says she regrets post-election texts to Meadows

Virginia Thomas says she regrets sending texts to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows after the 2020 election, telling the House Jan_ 6 committee in a September interview that “I would take them all back if I could today.”

ABC News

How warped do you have to be to think this stunt makes your party look good? I don't think it's about politics anymore. It's just some sort of gratuitous fascist theatre.

CNN: More migrants dropped off outside vice president's home in freezing weather on Christmas Eve.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/24/politics/migrants-dropped-off-vice-president-christmas-eve/index.html

The irony of being a meteorologist on shift forecasting wind #energy output while wondering if my power will last through the night. #pdxtst
Those choosing (and for many — not all, but many — it IS a choice) to live in the heavily subsidized suburbs are NOT ALSO entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety & quality of life of city-dwellers.
HT #IanLockwood cartoon
#Sprawl #SuburbanSprawl #traffic #cars #city #driving #commuting #transportation #cities

Journalist & suffragette Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a founding member of the NAACP. She was known for her tireless crusade against lynching.

After the lynching of her friend, Tommie Moss, https://tinyl.io/7Zwg, Wells-Barnett investigated the causes of lynching.

Her writings on white mob violence resulted in her Memphis, TN newspaper being torched; she moved to Chicago afterward. https://tinyl.io/7Zwi

#BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #Journalism #Lynching

March 9, 1892: The People’s Grocery Lynchings - Zinn Education Project

A white mob seized three African American business men in Memphis and lynched them without trial.

Zinn Education Project