ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

28 March 1921 | A Pole, Jerzy Bielecki, was born. He was a prisoner of Auschwitz no. 243 (first transport of Poles to the camp from 14 June 1940).

On 21 July 1944 he escaped from the camp in an SS uniform taking with him a Polish Jewish female prisoner Cyla Cybulska. They were in love.
https://jfr.org/rescuer-stories/jerzy-bielecki/

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Our online lesson about escapes from Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_15_ucieczki/

Hey all I am totally exhausted from a long day of meetings, negotiations, and anxiety over the future. Closing the laptop for now though I'll be back if there's any updates tonight. Please keep sharing the GoFundMe, thank you so much. I wish I had the spoons to reply to everyone individually.—Kit @oconnell

https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff

BREAKING: Zero schoolchildren murdered by wokeness today

Nobody messes with #Texas the way Texans mess with Texas and @TexasObserver staff needs our help. Please give what makes sense for you for #journalism and #democracy. https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff

three sins for the price of one

Fuck you.
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RT @laurenboebert
My prayers are with the beautiful children whose lives have been lost, their families & the first responders who are dealing with this tragedy in Nashville!
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1640402369157513225

I didn't have Vikings reassembling on my 2023 bingo card
https://news.yahoo.com/norway-sweden-finland-denmark-struck-104242982.html

Canada's news system has been seized, bought sold off, and is now under the control of a far right American Corporation (most Canadian Newspapers large and small)

There are a handfull of excellent small regional papers, Halifx Examiner for example, and The Tyee. The Tyee has come to Mastodon, and thats great, its a great paper, swining and landing far about its weight, more than regional paper, well worth a follow, maybe even a bell.

@thetyee 👈 👈 👈 Click to follow. Recommended 👍

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on...

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

@MeidasTouch Wait, the former publisher of the National Enquirer is named David Pecker? How did I not know that? I love when reality is ridiculous like that.

Yes, the Spring colors are beautiful. 🙁
#Calgary #Alberta #Canada

Missouri's attorney general has been harassing a gender clinic in St. Louis because they work with youths.

Now he has an online form for complaints and concerns regarding "gender intervention" in the state.

Prime trolling opportunity, pass it on.

https://ago.mo.gov/file-a-complaint/transgender-center-concerns

The outrage over security from TikTok might be taken a bit more seriously if we didn't just watch Facebook admit to enabling Rohingya genocide, help to manipulate the 2016 election, cause massive PTSD to its own employees, and face zero meaningful accountability whatsoever.

In your current life, how big of a deal would an extra $5 per day be for you?

That's about $150 per month or $1825 per year which seems very significant to me, but I'm curious if I'm out of touch with reality or not.

#poll

Well, I just found out the Texas Observer is shutting down at the end of the week and I'm, quite abruptly and with no warning, out of work.

Pass your leads on to me.

@Eamon1916 @nico_forgot @Talia_christine

LOL!

The current Wisconsin Supreme Court has a 4-3 conservative majority. An ultra-MAGA justice is retiring. Dan Kelly wants to replace her.

We beat Kelly, flip the court majority—and open the door to ending our abortion ban & securing democracy.

VOTE #JanetForJustice on April 4th.
#WISupremeCourt #JudgeJanet #wisconsin #madisonWI #milwaukeeWI

@ScottSoCal Lol -- fair enough.

I think it's okay, (even good), to be wrong about one thing.

Today in my newsfeed there are all kinds of articles telling me that Brandon Sanderson is actually awesome and that Wired article about him is super mean.

Except, it's really not. Read anything Foster-Wallace has written about anyone, ever.

To imagine that this is some kind of hit piece or takedown is, frankly, weird and, honestly, stupid.

The Wired article is what happens when a good, but powerless, writer is given the impossible assignment of making rich-guy nerd crap look cool.

My god, internet defenders of literally everything bad, take a weekend to read "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" before filling space with yet more nonsense about poor, beleaguered, B. Sanderson.

The Wired article is funny. It's intended to be funny. It's about a millionaire writer who cranks out crap for people who like to eat crap.

That's okay. Sometimes we like to eat crap, especially in America. It doesn't need to be defended.

https://www.wired.com/story/brandon-sanderson-is-your-god/

#BrandonSanderson #Wired #Writing

If your $dayjob is at all related to security, I'd love to hear from you about what type of mobile phone you currently rely on.

I've never really seen a data-based breakdown of the answer to this question, and I'm genuinely curious. Thanks!