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Rocking the greater Houston area 'burbs. Exiled from New Orleans, but not in the Napoleonic sense. Trans-Sabine Texmudgeon.
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 "If folks can simply force you out of a commons online, then they’re more likely to engage in similar activities offline, and that spells disaster for any kind of public discourse."
https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/
The Whiteness of Mastodon

A conversation with Dr. Johnathan Flowers about Elon Musk's changes at Twitter and the dynamics on Mastodon, the decentralized alternative.

Tech Policy Press
Can't help but think today that the birb app has been experiencing a death by X amount of cuts both to it as an entity and to the workings of the app itself...it just didn't get so big that everyone could see it until now.
Grateful for the pachyderm app, but the bloodletting the Tweeter Tube has been experiencing has me a tad melancholic. A lot of folks I know are still on there. We'll find each other again in these virtual woods or we won't.
Meanwhile, Wallace and Gromit are moving right along, though I freaked a bit on Wallace's vest stitches the other day...
My blog post on leaving New Orleans.
Goodnight New Orleans https://marygriggs.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/goodnight-new-orleans/
Goodnight New Orleans

Goodnight moon Goodnight kittens Goodnight little house After house hunting in the Crescent City for two years, I bought my home in the Milan neighborhood in April of 2005. Unfortunately, a storm n…

Mary Griggs

Fun fact: during early development the gonads of the human fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.

- So, if biological sex can't be changed,
- And if life starts at conception,
- Then all men are trans.

Sorry, Republican men. You made the rules.

RT @ElieNYC
So, for visual learners, @AshaRangappa_ 's chart is, like, amazing. This is EXACTLY what we're looking at in terms of possible Trump charges/theories of the case. It's all here. You really don't need to read or listen to anybody else about it. https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1638207054299947008
تغريدة / Twitter

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RT @ltgrusselhonore
⁦@GOP⁩ ⁦@SteveScaliseGOP⁩
To be clear, #nola has big problems. The mayor ain't helping, true. But much more needs to be done and invalid signatures are the cherry on the crap cake.
RT @dangerblond
So dumb. If you look through school yearbooks of certain eras they are full of pictures of guys in drag. New Orleans has an entire Red Dress Run with hundreds of guys in drag. Guys in drag make America great. Leave them tf alone. https://twitter.com/mcbridetd/status/1632389318361612288
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If you can find your way around it. Then again, the folks living there feel the lack of signage is part of its charm. I know it gives my MIL fits.
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RT @RWallaceFOX26
Niche's Best Cities to Live in America 2023: The Woodlands, near Houston, ranks 3rd

https://fox26houston.com/news/niches-best-cities-to-live-in-america-the-woodlands-houston-texas
https://twitter.com/RWallaceFOX26/status/1638255558267400198

Niche's Best Cities to Live in America 2023: The Woodlands, near Houston, ranks 3rd

The Woodlands, near Houston, make Niche's list of the Best Cities to Live in America for 2023.

FOX 26 Houston