Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.

> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?

There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.

> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?

None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.

> But are you / they in the cloud?

No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.

> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.

*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*

Kellyanne Conway wants people who lose Medicaid to get a job.

Let’s look at some typical examples.
- single mom (dad died in accident) with two kids, one of whom requires 24/7 care in the home because of an infection as a baby.
- 59 year old guy with a destroyed leg and broken back after being hit by a car as a teen.
- 23 year old male who has to use pictures to communicate because he had a stroke last year
- 40s female with heart failure, who is also caregiver for her 80 year old mother.

The billions and billions of dollars this bill pumps into ICE far exceed any conceivable legitimate need the agency could have, even if you agree with its mission.

This bill takes the same masked, anonymous gunmen who have been kidnapping people off the streets and gives them a budget the size of a military.

This is not about honoring the law. This is not even about immigrants.

This is about creating a police state.

I see no other way to read these numbers.
https://mastodon.world/@MJmusicinears/114764606160963355

Over 10 million Americans would lose their healthcare under Trump’s Tax Scam — and that doesn’t include the millions more who would lose their coverage because of GOP cuts to the Affordable Care Act.

Call your GOP senators: https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-republican-senators-you-dont-want-pay-price-their-billionaire-tax?source=mastodon

Or send an email: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutting-programs-to-fund-handouts-to-billionaires_senate?source=mastodon

An experiment in Lahaina on Maui in Hawaiʻi is providing prefab homes to those affected by the wildfires almost two years ago.

https://wapo.st/46hmMfs

Every time I read these history articles about Pride and the timeline of decriminalization of homosexuality I always want to shout the dates out loud.
I’m not ancient and I was a teenager when homosexuality was decriminalized in Ireland.
Canada was the first North American country to ban conversion therapy and that was 3 years ago.
Let me repeat: THREE YEARS AGO.

In many countries homosexuality is still criminalized and conversion therapy is still prevalent.

Pride isn’t just a party. Yes it’s a celebration of life for those who survived and also an acknowledgment of the many who were/are being persecuted, fired, tortured, neglected, killed, and told they are sinners, pedophiles, and so much more.

This is not old history. This is my lifetime. This is now.

#Pride #LGBTQIA https://mastodon.ie/@clickhere/114760745024073799