Notices by Kit Malone (thekitmalone@hoosier.social)

Challenge to Democrats to, just once, maybe not tank every candidate who's repeatedly shown they can get votes and capture voter enthusiasm just because they are scared of low propensity voters who probably aren't going to vote for them anyway.

Hey I have fear about the future of democracy and the future of elections too, but getting folks online to consistently, helplessly kvetch that it's a done deal and therefore electoral advocacy and public opinion doesn't matter is about as sure a way of making the end inevitable as I could devise.

Learn to tell the difference between an internet rando with a wild theory and an informed opinion.

Both can be right, and both can be wrong and it's not always immediately obvious which is which.

But only one of them is someone you should be sharing news from during a fluid crisis.

It's far too easy for even people of good will to contribute to misinformation, paranoia, and ultimately that can have bad consequences in a crisis.

Some of the folks who regularly share wild takes designed to get liberals to reshare them? Yeah, they are disinfo actors - some are even state actors. Their goal in getting you to reshare their content may not be obvious or easy to ascertain. You are probably not even their primary target. Don't help them out.

Stick to reputable sources that you have a history with. Even that's not a replacement for just having some discernment, though. You should also cultivate that.

Yo I'm probably going to have to replace my old phone soon. I'm also probably going to switch away from Pixel. What name brand phone (ie available on my upgrade plan) should I be looking at? Especially if I intend to degoogle it as much as possible?

If those militia types actually had any convictions other than gun worship and racism they'd notice that the ICE raids and the invasion of LA is exactly the kind of overreach they pretended to be worried about back when a black person was president.

Hanging at the Garfield Park Aquatic Center with the kiddo today and this place is just shockingly nice for a small neighborhood pool. I've never managed to make it before but I think this is about to become one of our summer fixtures!

#HoosierMast

Yes even I, an allegedly experienced professional, have occasionally hit the big green update button without backing up my config and then spent the night unwinding the mess I made

I'm just going to unfollow people who spend too much of their time online yelling at mediocre, moderate-lib normies. We get it: some people are basic. I just think it's harmful, unimaginative, and corrosive to everyone's spirit.

If your social network can "go down" than it is not decentralized.

When the US created the Dept of Homeland Security, ICE, the PATRIOT act, and all this other post 9/11 police state nonsense -- a lot of us knew the day would come when it was all used against the American people and here we are.

Freeze warning! Get those garden beds covered, #HoosierMast!

They aren't being stupid, they are being evil They are purposefully crashing the economy, erecting a trade-wall, dismantling organizing rights, and gutting oversight so that the oligarchs can get rich doing whatever the hell they want with a newly minted class of increasingly desperate, low-wage workers.

Happy #internationalwomensday

Trans women are women.

But you don't have to agree with me on that to know that demonizing people for a harmless characteristic, telling the public they are an "enemy within," and passing highly targeted legislation intended to deny them access to public life is immoral, undemocratic, and dangerous to us all.

Like you don't have to have any particular position on gender to know that isolating a group of people and purposefully ginning up public resentment against them with misinformation and propaganda is going to lead to something terrible.

All the cis people who insisted that they had a right to be "skeptical" and that they "weren't hateful" and would "speak out if we were really being threatened" are curiously silent these days.

In #trans people, right-wing extremists have finally found the perfect minority threat. An insular, minuscule group about which the general public knows little. They're primed to believe any ridiculous made-up nonsense.

The rhetoric is getting more extreme literally by the day. Academics can debate gender theory and feminist critiques, but out here in reality-land we can see very well where this is leading.

That should concern anyone with a conscience.

That "first they came for" poem says you should speak up for certain minorities because eventually you'll be a target too.

But you know, you could also speak up simply because it's wrong to target people. Self interest isn't the only reason to oppose oppression.

@voxofgod The story is that the author was a Lutheran pastor and Nazi sympathizer who turned against the movement after witnessing the horror that it caused. I think that's ok. I think the poem is ok. I just think it's a cliche that is overused by the simple minded.

Consider good old-fashioned canning jars for freezer storage – they stand up well if you use a little common sense:

* Don’t overfill them – leave a full inch of space at the top.

* Let the contents freeze thoroughly before fully tightening the lid (to release air pressure).

* Thaw gently, after removing the lid. I’ve had no issue thawing my frozen canning jars in a pot of water on the lowest heat, or in the microwave on defrost.

#EverydayThrift #Survival

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