Portland Airport Grows With Expansive Mass Timber Roof Canopy
https://design-milk.com/portland-airport-grows-with-expansive-mass-timber-roof-canopy/ #solarpunk #cyberpunk #solarpunkart #sciencefiction #future #community #ecopunk

Time for the panic calls from IRL #MAGA Trump/GOP voters panicking over the possibility their Social Security and other things will get disrupted if the government shuts down. I told one person who called me today, "Well, you voted for Trump, Vance and the GOP. It's going to get worse. I told you if you voted for that mess, you would #FAFO. Enjoy the Fvck while you still have some afterglow left. It's going to turn bad, and fast." She hung up on me. #USPol

Last few boosts:

I mean, Bernie shilling for Jha & Biden in the deliberate murder of 160 years of public health is the reason I personally distrust him.*

YMMV, your reasons may be your own.

Electoralism isn't producing any results anywhere except toward favoring the already powerful.

Evolve, grow past it. They ain't helping us, ever, unless we hold a figurative gun to their heads.

*Once you let that genie out of the bottle, it's very difficult to get it back. The disease surveillance apparatus, the vaccination uptake, the universality precautionary measures. Biden all but assured a new Dark Ages that is lied about & heavily surveilled.

The odds that Trump is inaugurated on a Trump-branded Bible that is then marketed as the "Inauguration Edition" are probably about 50-50. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/20/trump-products-bible/

So. Essen war ok, Geschirrspüler läuft, Küche ist aufgeklart. Die Frau hat Feierabend gemeldet. Jetzt bissel chatten auf Ximig und Musik hören. Ich wünsche euch einen schönen Freitag Abend. 💻🎸🎶🔊🍷🥃😘

It's blowing a gale outside at the moment and not exactly warm in my office. I've had to put another layer on and have a brew.

Note it's always time for tea, but sometimes it's more urgent.

“Trump has sewn himself into a sack with Elon Musk, a few billion dollars, a cat and a snake, and had the sack tossed into the Tiber. That’s the story here. And it will go on for a while.” - Josh Marshall

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-trump/sharetoken/50385625-ee47-4692-a1c8-aa6ea081d9c6

#USpol

#GuteNachtFreunde #AgeSagtGuteNacht #GoodNight
Klostereingang Paderborn Nähe Dom

Vaccines are a leading
cause of old age.

Who made this?! Brilliant!

Fallen

#Photography

Better way too late, than never, I suppose.

cc @ben @dangillmor @jeffjarvis @froomkin

Today's Risky Biz newsletter (thanks @campuscodi) has a really good analysis of the growing influencer problem to national security.

"China and Russia appear to have understood before everyone else the role social media influencers play in modern societies, and are using them as weapons against unprepared Western democracies.

Both autocratic regimes have passed strict laws regulating the online presence of social media personalities while at the same paying foreign influencers in covert operations designed to subvert and influence foreign societies and elections.

China passed a law at the end of last year mandating that social media influencers and bloggers with over 500,000 followers must list their legal names on their profiles.

Similarly, in Russia, the Kremlin passed a law this year requiring any online personality with over 100,000 followers to register with the country's internet watchdog by the start of next year.

The two countries now have firm control over their social media landscape through the new laws, as well as their national firewall and internet censorship systems.

The crackdown is both the normal response from two paranoid autocratic regimes fearing they might lose control of their societies, but also a means of self-defense.

On the flipside, both countries have used opaque networks of companies to pay and weaponize influencers in other countries to promote their political agendas.

A Recorded Future report published last week concluded China has established over 100 so-called international communication centers (ICCs) across the country since 2023. The centers are tasked with running news websites that push Chinese-friendly propaganda and criticize democratic countries in various areas of the globe. The ICCs have also assembled "networks of thousands of foreign influencers" that get paid to push the same narratives inside the borders of other countries in posts that are designed to look as genuine as possible. Australian think tank ASPI also published a report on this."

https://news.risky.biz/r/8aeee661?m=ebb10ba8-118c-4ebb-aa1e-761703373571

@PatrickoftheG @lowqualityfacts it was more it didn't exist was the point I was making.

Blood emeralds would have right up their greedy street though.

Warum werde ich eigentlich genau immer dann so müde, wenn ich gerade was erledigen wollte?

except chickens, because fuck chickens

The decay of democracy is certainly evident in the embarrassment of Musk representing the American billionaire oligarchy. But the decline has only just started. The ultra conservative, Christian nationalist (led by ultra conservative Catholics), Heritage organization’s Project2025 will end the great American story. https://universeodon.com/@TomWellborn/113686602443325037

Trump transferred 114,750,000 shares of Trump Media & Technology Group stock as bona fide gift to Donald J. Trust Revocable Trust - Trump owns 0 shares and indirectly owned 114,750,000 shares, and is the sole beneficiary of the Trust. Don Jr. is the trustee.

#Trump #DonaldTrump #DonJr #DonaldTrumpJr #DJT #TrumpMedia

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000147450624000291/xslF345X05/primary_doc.xml

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000147450624000290/xslF345X05/primary_doc.xml

Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Nice, our County has a resilience and sustainability program (which people apparently haven't signed up to yet, or it's brand new). Lots of preparedness resources along with energy savings/climate resources.

"With these increasing risks from climate change, it's important to prepare not only for extreme weather events and disasters as they have happened in the past, but also for potentially larger or more extreme events that may happen in the future. It's also important to take actions to decrease our impact on climate change! "

#DisasterPreparedness #climateemergency #climate

Video of dog rescued from landfill https://abc7.com/post/kind-stranger-rescues-dog-from-landfill/15673037/
#dog #rescue

Speaker Johnson has said: We will not have a government shutdown.

They will vote on the bill that failed last night, without debt limit, per Punchbowl.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

"$277 million. That’s how much Musk spent to help elect Trump, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. No surprise, that’s more than any individual has ever spent on a single election.

And for all that money, you too could be co-president.

The Trump campaign claimed it was all about lifting up average Americans."

~ Dan Rather

But it must be asked why so many Americans swallow this obvious sham — repeatedly.

#Trump #ElonMusk #EconomicElites #broligarchy
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https://steady.substack.com/p/plutocracies-thrive-in-darkness

Koffein in Bonbons!

-> Ernährungsfachleute haben die Angaben bei 49 Produkten geprüft und warnen vor möglichen Schäden bei übermäßigem Konsum.
-> Tückisch: Die maximale Tagesmenge ist schnell überschritten.
-> Die Werbung richtet sich oft an Jugendliche, die die Risiken einer Überdosierung möglicherweise unterschätzen.

https://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/pressemeldungen/presse-nrw/von-wasser-bis-kaugummi-immer-mehr-produkte-mit-zugesetztem-koffein-102299

#werbung #koffein #vergiftung

President says Israel's actions in Gaza 'transcend all boundaries of humanitarian law' https://jrnl.ie/6577683

'Clearly illegal': Trump megadonors reportedly employ undocumented migrants - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/liz-and-dick-uihlein/

#Publichealth data shows #vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives worldwide over the past 50 years. A biochemist breaks down how claims by RFK Jr. about vaccine safety and effectiveness are inaccurate: https://theconversation.com/vaccine-misinformation-distorts-science-a-biochemist-explains-how-rfk-jr-and-his-lawyers-claims-threaten-public-health-246000 #measles #mumps #polio #mmr #science #vaccineswork

Elon Musk lashes out as he gets first taste of political failure when spending deal voted down - Big Tech billionaire humiliated on Capitol Hill after meddling leads to pre-Christmas chaos for lawmakers as government shutdown looms

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-spending-bill-trump-johnson-jeffries-b2667833.html

Wealth, shown to scale

https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/