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ThatPrilla

@ThatPrilla@theatl.social

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ThatPrilla, to random
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I feel like I'm probably talking to a crowd that mostly knows this, but if you are planning on skipping the primary election in Georgia because "it's already decided", you should still go vote because the Non Partisan general election is happening at the same time.

These races will not be part of the November General election. This is your only chance to vote on these this cycle.

While many of these Judicial races are simply unopposed incumbents, there are two with challengers.

1 State Supreme Court Seat, 1 State Court of Appeals seat.

Democrat John Barrow is running against appointed Republican incumbent Andrew Pinson for a seat on the state supreme court.

Athens politics nerd has a great write up on Pinson and Barrow. https://athenspoliticsnerd.com/voter-info/candidates/andrew-pinson-v-john-barrow-for-ga-supreme-court/#Andrew-Pinson

Democrat Tabitha Ponder is running against Republican Jeff Davis for an open seat on the state court of appeals.

https://athenspoliticsnerd.com/voter-info/candidates/jeff-davis-v-tabitha-ponder-for-ga-appeals-court/#Tabitha-Ponder

These Judaical races matter.

#gapolitics #gapol #voting

ThatPrilla, to random
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#hoa

In the course of running an HOA, I have to send out letters informing homeowners that they are in violation of the Covenants.

An unresolved violation of the covenants can result in a $25.00 a day fine.

I personally think that before the organization levies that kind of fine, it is imperative that we have assurance that a homeowner received notification that they were in violation.

I like certified mail for this because it gives me tracking and assurance that the homeowner received the notification (which avoids "I never got notified").

My HOA doesn't have any other unified system for notifying homeowners (yet), so mail is my best (and legal) option.

Of course, the people receiving these are mad that they have to drive to the post office (pretty sure they don't).

ThatPrilla,
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Also, the people who say things like "you don't have to send a letter, you can just talk to me, I'm a reasonable person" are the most likely to have a sign that says "This house doesn't call 911" or "this house is protected by smith and Wesson" signs.

GossiTheDog, (edited ) to random
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Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban (not a joke, they seized the domain name).

https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AenoDMPN0SdVXSq9ZY

ThatPrilla,
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@GossiTheDog

It took me longer than it should have to realize they own the tld.

melissaryan, to random
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Claudine Gay pens an essay about her resignation. Everyone should read and absorb this paragraph. Because it encapsulates everything that the next year is going to be. From the election to culture, education, culture, you name it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/opinion/claudine-gay-harvard-president.html

ThatPrilla,
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@TEG @thetechtutor @melissaryan

Sure, it could be used against anyone.

But if someone tried to use it against a white conservative academic it wouldn't stick because the conservative media wouldn't push the narrative, the centrist and liberal media wouldn't uncritically report on it for fear of being called out as "biased", and a lily white house committee majority wouldn't announce an investigation into the academic or the university that employs them.

ThatPrilla,
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@TEG @thetechtutor @melissaryan

This was the conservative culture war machine being turned against a prominent black woman, with the goal of destroying her career, and the architect, as always, bragged about it.

ThatPrilla,
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@thetechtutor @TEG @melissaryan

Yeah, sure. The massive pressure campaign coordinated by the guy who started the CRT panic , says conservatives need to link Black Lives Matter to Hamas, and called Gay a "DEI Totem" has zero racist motivations.

ThatPrilla,
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@thetechtutor @TEG @melissaryan

It's not a "purely" racist attack. It's also a political attack. Gay was seen as the weaker of the two remaining presidents, and they hoped going after her would give momentum to going after Kornbluth.

But the loudest voices calling for her resignation don't give a shit about antisemitism, or hate speech in general.

When this political flywheel runs down, they will go right back to talking about how "elites" and "globalists" are trying to replace white people.

ThatPrilla,
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@TEG @thetechtutor @melissaryan

I don't believe at any point during this I've said that antisemitism (even on the left) isn't real or is overblown.

I just don't think it's the actual motivating animus for the current conservative attack on higher education.

zackwhittaker, to random
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New, by me: Mr. Cooper says customer data was "exposed" during its cyberattack.

The mortgage and loan giant, which has more than 4.1 million customers, says it plans to mail notices to affected customers “in the coming weeks.”

Mr. Cooper's outage is stretching into its second week.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/09/mr-cooper-confirms-customer-data-was-exposed-in-cyberattack/

ThatPrilla,
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@zackwhittaker

I'm still getting better status updates from you than from this company.

MattHodges, to random

One year ago today Bloomberg published the "100% chance of recession within year" forecast that never happened

ThatPrilla,
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@MattHodges

"Democrats are in disarray, here is why the lack of a recession is bad for Biden."

CultureDesk, (edited ) to languagelearning
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"Address terms" — the words we used to address people — are becoming more inclusive. For @TheConversationUS, linguist Scott F. Kiesling analyzes the different terms that are emerging, their origins ("dude" comes from the "doodle" part of "Yankee Doodle Dandy"), and why we can say gentlemen, but not ladies. Which do you think is the most inclusive address term for a group?

https://flip.it/byg.FG

ThatPrilla,
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@CultureDesk @TheConversationUS

Folks and y'all.

stefan, to random
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Reminder! If you live in the US, you can get your free covid tests starting today.

https://www.covid.gov/tests

ThatPrilla,
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@stefan

Somehow... the order form has gotten worse than it used to be?

It wouldn't validate my address unless I put everything into uppercase and gave the extended zipcode.

ThatPrilla, to random
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I cringe internally when my wife says "Rumor around school is that tons of students are getting covid".

This shit shouldn't be rumors. We should know with some measure of certainty if that is true.

heidilifeldman, to random
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U.S. #law schools should discourage students from applying for clerkships with #ClarenceThomas; faculty should refuse to recommend students for those clerkships; firms and other legal employers should refuse to hire people who have chosen to clerk for Thomas starting this year (when the large extent of his corruption became known). To do otherwise is to be complicit with Thomas’s unethical conduct. #LawFedi #LegalEthics #JudicialEthics

ThatPrilla,
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@freemo @heidilifeldman

They said "starting this year". Anyone who worked for him in the past is fine, but people choosing to work for him are most certainly aware of the reporting about him.

Personally I think that's generous. It's unlikely that his clerks were totally unaware of how he was operating.

ThatPrilla,
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@freemo @heidilifeldman

Since 2020 he has had 18 law clerks.

6 from Yale, 5 from Chicago, 3 from Harvard, and 1 each from NYU, Virginia, George Mason, and Alabama.

Each class of 37 law clerks (4 per justice 5 for chief justice) is on a path towards being able to wield power and influence that will impact every person living in the United States.

ThatPrilla,
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@freemo @heidilifeldman

None of these folks would have trouble getting a job with likely better pay.

With very few exceptions, they have a previous clerkship with a federal judge.

By helping Thomas justify his opinions, they literally further his potentially corrupt influence.

ThatPrilla,
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@freemo @heidilifeldman

That might be a compelling argument in the case of a justice who wasn't tainted by the appearance of corruption.

Corruption isn't something you sway with a slick legal argument. Corruption dictates the outcome and finds justification after the fact.

ThatPrilla,
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@freemo @MattFerrel @heidilifeldman

No one called for anyone who ever worked for him in the past to be blacklisted. (I did note that it's hard to believe they weren't aware of his activities).

Everyone who was working for him at the time or in the future has an ethical choice to make.

ThatPrilla, to random
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Local Paper: we are going to be including your letter to the editor in the upcoming edition.

Me: Cool, thank you.

Also Me: oh fuck, oh shit, oh no, why did I write a letter to the editor. People will see my thoughts attached to my name.

Also me posting on local elected officials Facebook posts with my real name: hey congressman, you suck, your legislation sucks, your party sucks, your ancestors suck, and you should resign.

😂

ThatPrilla, to random
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#GApol #GA6th

So last night, Rich McCormick followed the trashiest members of congress into making fun of Biden (and who has a stutter) for misspeaking once during larger remarks.

Biden was talking about the cancer moonshot initiative, and instead of saying “we can end cancer as we know it”, he said “we cended cancer as we know it”.

This morning, his team realized it hadn’t landed well, and deleted the post without comment.

I regret not grabbing a screenshot.

1/n

seldo, to random
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A major feature of your forties is bits of your body that used to be silent starting to make clicking noises.

ThatPrilla,
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@seldo

Just wait till you need to replace something and you start sounding like a rusty screen door hinge.

seachanger, to random
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I literally get more texts from random democrats across the country asking for money than I do texts from my own elected democrats asking me to help organize my neighborhood, that’s a problem

ThatPrilla,
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@seachanger

It's the same system that generates $15 Million in donations to a Democratic against a Republican incumbent in an R+22 district that just can't win mathematically, while the Democratic candidate running for an open seat in the adjacent R+11 district only raises about $300,000.

It feels like the focus is entirely on fund raising, while just ignoring the ground game.

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