Someone who has "anti-fascist" in his profile just boosted a post calling for conservative supreme court justices to be immediately removed and replaced. No impeachment. No due process. Just kick them out.
@bodhipaksa Sir Thomas More:
Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake
Driving to pick my son up from school, I saw a bearded guy standing by the side of the road, holding the stars and stripes upside down. He was still there when I drove back home again.
I bet you dollars to donuts this same guy has used the phrases "Snowflake," "Fuck your feelings," and "You lost, get over it" in the past.
"56% of Americans believe incorrectly that the U.S. is in a recession. ...Almost half of those polled—49%—think unemployment is at a 50-year high. Seventy-two percent think inflation is increasing. Fifty-eight percent of those polled blame Biden for mismanaging an economy that is in fact the strongest in the world."
The news media are failing to do their job, which is to inform.
Not to tread on too much @thisismyglasgow's territory, but yesterday as I strolled with my 92-year-old dad along Great Western Road in Glasgow's west end, I took a photograph of this lovely Art Deco building, which I've seen a million times and often wondered about. It turns out it was originally Walter Hubbard's bakery and tearoom. As you'd expect it was built around 1930. The new signage doesn't do the building any favours, and the side has been much messed-with. Still, it's magnificent.
The last photo I will share of the aurora: This doesn't look spectacular, but you can clearly see the Big Dipper standing on end, right in the middle of the shot.
It's extraordinary how far phone cameras have come. This exposure took several seconds, yet because of the digital image stabilization, the stars are pinpoints rather than blurry streaks. Hats off to the engineers involved!
There are some amazing photographs of the aurora on Mastodon. Bear in mind that a lot of these are enhanced, even if the photographers "forget" to mention that fact. I just looked through the comments on a photograph taken from the Isle of Wight. The landscape almost looks like it was taken in daylight. This tells you it was a very long exposure, and that the human eye would have seen something very different, with not nearly as much color. Why is this important? 1/