Notices by Tea 🍵 💙🎶🌻 (tc_morekindness@c.im)

From L.A. Times:

“I think I’m in shock right now,” said Malibu city councilmember Bruce Silverstein, who evacuated with his family shortly after he smelled smoke while at home in the hills above City Hall around 11 p.m.

Silverstein... watched as fire gradually approached his property through the Internet-connected Ring cameras stationed around his house.
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hundreds of firefighters responded to the fire and had been hampered by winds of 50 to 80 miles an hour.
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Firefighting helicopters were picking up water using the lakes at Pepperdine’s Alumni Park to drop on the flames, the campus said."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-10/franklin-fire-malibu-wildfire-triggers-evacuations

#FranklinFire

i saw a post a little while ago that was so shocking I had to look into it further. These stats on literacy are really disturbing.

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2022-2023

#literacy #reading #education #US #USA

Joy Reid:
I think we just watched an episode of Ted Lasso.

#DNC
#TimWalz

per MSNBC

NC, SC, and TN have already pledged all their delegates to Kamala Harris. ✊

#USPol #USPolitics #Election #Harris

"The media and sullen nonvoters should listen to Ken Burns. The historian knows something about civil war — and moral responsibility in politics...

"The choice this election, he explained, boils down to this: “There is only the perpetuation, however flawed and feeble you might perceive it, of our fragile 249-year-old experiment, or the entropy that will engulf and destroy us if we take the other route.”"

Gift link/no paywall:
https://wapo.st/4bDaDSa

#USPolitics #USPol

@Gargron How do you do it? In Chrome, I'm used to right-clicking on the tab and then having a choice of which window I want to move it to. Do I need to reduce the windows enough that I can drag tabs between them? Or is there an easier way?

@Gargron I've been using Firefox primarily for several months now. But one thing I miss from Chrome is the ability to move an open tab to another window that's already open (not just move it to a new window). Also putting a label on a group of tabs. I'm one of these people who always has a gazillion tabs and several windows open. (Maybe I need to cure myself of that habit.)

There are some Firefox features I like, though, that Chrome doesn't have.

@roadriverrail Quite possibly. Just anecdotally, my grandmother was cooler and less prudish than my mother.

@zombierustpunk

@zombierustpunk Haha. Right.

Another way to look at this, though, is that every generation gets increasingly more shocking/ pushes the envelope a little further. Stuff we take for granted or shrug off now was radical back in the day. They wouldn't show Elvis (the Pelvis) below the waist on tv. 😅