The stink from Ducey's $200 million shipping container border wall just got a little stinkier

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2023/01/10/the-stench-from-gov-doug-duceys-200-million-border-stunt-is-growing/69795502007/

#AZpolitics
#uspolitics
#BlackMastodon
#immigrationpolicy

Cory Doctorow -@pluralistic is red hot again today on the challenges and possibilities of the #fediverse.
Doctorow channels @catvalente and her essay on how popular social networks of the past have been destroyed: 'Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media'.

A long read, but well worth it.

https://medium.com/@doctorow/what-the-fediverse-does-nt-solve-f2ea32e52afe

#mastodon #socialmedia #Facebook #Twitter #mySpace

Deming’s post office, seen from a post.

#DemingNM #ITookAPicture

The newest omicron subvariant is even more highly contagious: SARS-CoV-2 is getting better at spreading. Early to tell how severe it is but that might not be the right question anyway: More spread means more mutation, more people getting sick and widespread risk of "long COVID."

https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/01/11/new-covid-19-subvariant-arrives-new-mexico/

#COVID19 #NewMexico #DemingHeadlight

Photographer 📸 Gerald Nguyen, aka @gerald_nguyen on Instagram - "Albuquerque Skies…"

#Albuquerque #ABQ #NewMexico #sunset

Native Americans are asking The Apache Software Foundation, "…to take the necessary steps needed to express the ally-ship they promote so deeply on their website, to act in accordance with their own code of conduct, to “be careful in the words that [they] choose”, and change their name."

It'll be a big change, but IMO one that's necessary and overdue.

https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/

#OpenSource

We take no pride in being #woke. We don't think we're special. We just don't like to pretend.

#racism #justice #politics #GOP #uspol