Notices by John Lusk (tarheel@mstdn.io)

@GottaLaff

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Going straight back to the reason grand juries were invented, in... Medieval England, because corrupt, oppressive governments were a thing even before the Enlightenment.

@GottaLaff

Oh, hey, I found some waste, fraud, and abuse.

Just to say... threw some money at Susan Crawford (WI Supreme Court election) just now. Threw some money at Florida special elections (Josh Weil, Gail Valimont) a day or two ago.

I'm not doing banner drops or protesting on a Wednesday at noon, but, in the spirit of everybody doing what they can....

@danwentzel

Not just AIDS. No infectious disease respects international borders. TB, polio, ebola, ...

@pluralistic

@GottaLaff

Glad you turned me on to Democracy Forward in Jan., and @heidilifeldman induced me to contribute more recently. If I wind up on a list, I couldn't be prouder.

@inthehands @benroyce @StillIRise1963

Caveat: that's a public debate. Cost of losing is high. (Benefit of winning is high, too, but, new caveat, it might not stick. Wow, I'm so negative. :/ )

@benroyce

I think there's a large fraction that doesn't know, doesn't care and/or doesn't care to know. Low-info voting prolly won't help; turnout doesn't help any more.

So it's more "care, motherfuckers." Maybe a taller order.

@ananasparachute

So, we hate royalty, except when...

@inthehands

@VeroniqueB99

Saint/Communist:

"When I feed the people, they call me a saint. When I ask why the people don't have enough to eat, they call me a communist."

@_L1vY_

@simon_brooke

I see the argument, but for you as a coder of CMSes, static is a step down in complexity, but for me (also a coder but, you know, cobbler's children, etc.), interposing a build/deploy system (unless it's on Netlify or some such, and that only adds complexity) is a step up. I "blog" from a variety of places (home pc, work pc, android, ideally linux) and having a build system, with all dependencies resolved, everywhere, is an issue.

@pls @dansinker @liztai

@dansinker

P.S. If you're just starting a blog now's a great time NOT to use WordPress.anything.

@liztai

@GottaLaff

There's always wonkette. 🙂

https://www.wonkette.com/p/actually-trump-caved-to-colombia

@onyxraven

Now I'm way overdoing this because I'm a dork, but my go-to recipe is from the old Joy of Cooking: https://www.reddit.com/r/Old_Recipes/s/EzNEPf9vBN

@timbray @mekkaokereke

@onyxraven

Yaaas, butter! Also: buttermilk (instead of milk) reacts with the baking soda and you get fluffiness, if you don't over-mix.

Throw fresh blueberries ON TOP of the pancake you just started in the pan, right in the still-raw dough. Short-order cook trick I once saw.

#dadsCook #menCook I guess.

@timbray @mekkaokereke

@Ciaraioch

Thanks for asking this dumb question. I'm a techie with 4 (four!) neurons to rub together and I needed the answers you got.

@evacide @sabrinacostell3

At some point (conceivably), it will cease to be fashionable for young women to be involved in politics, at which point Teen Vogue will cease to be leading the revolution.

But, for now, it IS fashionable, and I surely do support it.

@jessepeterson @mekkaokereke

That *is* interesting.

There's at least one article somewhere about cell phone use among those in poverty (because I've seen it). If one were to visit young people in extreme poverty (I have), one would see that almost all of them have a cell phone, which, in the US, is taken as a sign of not-really-in-poverty.

But they do have actual economic benefits (in the article, knowing what/where the best prices for goods are, since small business is key).

@mekkaokereke

Out of curiosity, how does this relate to something like M-PESA? Are they interoperable? Can one be seen as a superset of the other?

@KamalaHarrisWin

Focusing on donating to legal aid groups who are going to be the sand in the gears for next 4 (or more?) years.

* SPLC
* NAACP Legal Defense Fund
* ACLU
* Elias's org, once I Google it up

@tchambers @heidilifeldman

@kat_kime

Yes, yes, we are. ☹️

@liztai