Shortly after midnight I woke up because a bright light shined directly into my eyes. I got up, totally confused and realised that all the lights containing the dimmable Phillips Hue lamps were shining at maximum power. This happened because of the settings in the hue app on how to react to power failures. If you are using these kind of lamps, maybe you should check the settings too.
American Evangelicalism: For when you're a shitty judgy wrong prick but you don't think other Christian sects are racist or Nazi enough.
Fuck Jason Aldean,
and if youβre a fan of his,
Fuck YOU, too.
Be a better person.
Listen to Tim McGraw; heβs a decent person whose art, music, and values are more in line with Americaβs best qualities and greatest promises.
#JasonAldean #RaceBaiter #RaceBaiting #CountryMusic #TimMcGraw
"Your decision to rewrite history to ingrain #WhiteSupremacy into the minds of children is a colossal step backward and an insult to Black people, descendants of slaves, and the intellect of the American people." #Florida #education https://www.commondreams.org/news/florida-slavery-education
@WarnerCrocker
Who'd a thunk it?
Anyone who lived through Reagonomics and had a mortgage interest rate of 10.5%.
But I'm not going to point any fingers.
Whoβd a thunk it?
Morgan Stanley credits Bidenomics for 'much stronger' than expected GDP growth https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/bidenomics-spurred-stronger-gdp-growth-morgan-stanley.html
@rticks@universeodon.com @georgetakei
With his "if the president does it, it can't be illegal" was at least fascist adjacent.
@ScottSoCal @KimPerales Here's an excellent resource on sundown towns for anyone interested in learning more.
James "Loewen started working on sundown towns in 1999. Having grown up in Illinois, he knew he would do more research in that state than any other, simply owing to his familiarity with it. He anticipated finding maybe 10 sundown towns in Illinois and 50 across the nation. He had no idea." https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/
Many people are surprised to learn that ants sleep. Even more surprising is the evidence that suggest they may dream (RAE is a sleep state found in ants and bees chattered by Rapid Antennae Movements and possibly similar to the REM sleep in mammals)
Ants sleep frequently and in funny locations. Generally they will rest their thorax and gaster on the ground, fold their antennae and be very still. They nap for 10min up to an hour. Queen ants will sleep for up to 4 hours at a time.
@ScottSoCal Yes, youβre correct, it happens throughout America. We need to continue to expose the horrific behavior & crimes & work toward eradicating systemic racism.
We cannot afford winning close elections, Georgia, Montana, Nevada, and all the many places where attempts to defeat majority votes with bad faith are red flags that voting alone is not enough. Vote like your life depends on it, because it does!
cc: @StillIRise1963
It's not just in the south and midwest, it was all over the country.
In Eastern Washington state, the Tri-Cities is Kennewick, Richland, Pasco. Kennewick and Richland were sundown towns, all the "domestics" lived in Pasco, and had to be back there before the sun set, or face arrest.
Aldeanβs song has resonated with ppl who idolize small-towns, but heβs actually legitimizing vigilantism & violence, blaming Black people for crime & more diverse big cities. #DEI can lead to unity, respect & a stronger nation: Thereβs a reason that Black people still talk about βsundown townsβ in the South & Midwest, places that arenβt safe for us to be after dark -itβs precisely bc of a kind of glorification of small-town tribal violence thatβs in Aldeanβs song & video. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/21/tulsa-race-jason-aldean-true-crime/
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.