This is so cool!

A modern sailboat loses its rudder at sea. They send out a distress call and...

"They did not expect an 18th century merchant ship to come to their rescue. Or in their own words: 'This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it?'" 😳
https://www.gotheborg.se/en/news/rescue-of-sailing-boat/

“The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem.”

—Martin Luther King Jr.

#climateDiary #Spain braced for record-breaking April temperatures of 40C

“The extreme conditions will follow the driest March in 20 years in some areas which has increased growing concerns about the nation's water reserves and officially placed Spain into long-term #Drought.

Reservoirs are around 15% below average levels with some shrinking to just 26% of capacity, while the dry conditions are raising fears about the outbreak of more wildfires with summer approaching.” https://news.sky.com/story/spain-braced-for-record-breaking-april-temperatures-of-40c-12865085

Just unreal that Bed, Bath and Beyond was able to persuade suckers -- with full disclosure -- to send money that they were almost certainly never going to see again.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-24/bed-bath-moves-into-the-beyond

Kind of like a lottery ticket...

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I guess I’ve wondered for a while now how we will know the moment when fascism has unequivocally arrived either in the US or UK.

There were Jews who recognised that same moment in 1930’s Germany and made escape plans.

I’ve just witnessed a number of GoFundMe pages on here for trans people to escape from the states they had long called home.

That moment is no longer a theoretical possibility, it’s sadly arrived. We can’t just pretend it’s not happening. We need global action.

When this is over, we're going to owe Musk a debt of gratitude for demonstrating not just the folly of relying on sociopath billionaires to give us places to speak and collaborate.

He's demonstrated the danger inherent in all centralized services where one person or company can control what we say and do.

"Why won't you pay the $8?"

Five months ago, before she died, my 91-year-old great-grandmother described to me how, while her mother was taken to the gas chambers by the Nazis, she asked her mother, "Where are you going?" and "When are you coming back?" She never saw her mother again. I was literally shaking while I was listening.

Now, when I checked Twitter, I bumped into two accounts, one "verified," and the other one lost their "verification" yesterday. I'll just leave it right here...