Notices by Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 (realtegan@wandering.shop)

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/breaking-news-9mhchbihz/-/a-GCzTKxd0Ryqjo6cqUAhZLg%3Aa%3A436232176-%2F0

Another reason to boycott CBS, as if we didn't already have enough reasons.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@llorenzin/116528610271499411

Damn. If you want to know what it's like to be a computer professional right now, this essay Lisa linked to is perhaps the best description I've seen.

God help Sara, and God help everyone who relies on her and doesn't even know it.

The thing I like about doomscrolling on Mastodon is that I get the news I feel I need to get - but in between there are photos of cats, moss, and beautiful old trees, discussion of repairing and reupholstering old chairs, lockpicking discussions, out of context comic book panels, various pieces of artwork, really horrible dad jokes, and sometimes just surreal stuff that makes me smile.

So, yeah, you all are keeping me sane. Keep it up.

Well, a civilization died tonight.

It was ours. Congress didn't step up and stop him. No one in power invoked the 25th Amendment to remove him. We failed, utterly, as a civilization.

@mekkaokereke
When school lunch programs throw out the "who deserves to get free lunches?" and just provide for every child, the entire program is cheaper due to the lack of an enforcement layer, all children get fed, and children learn more and pay attention better.

Being overly concerned that someone might get something they don't "deserve" usually ends up screwing over the ones who need help most.

We're supposed to "promote the general welfare" of the public - not gate-keep who gets help.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/116329772361638234

This is the kind of April Fools I can get behind (particularly when the alt text is so excellent).

@riley @soatok
I've noticed that furries tend to figure out a lot of things first. They do seem to be ahead of the crowd in lots of ways.

@soatok
My god, this is such a good idea! For any convention - not just fan ones. Offering STI testing is simply an awesome thing that makes perfect sense when large groups of people get together for a weekend/days of fun and mingling. Why doesn't every convention offer it?

Oh right. Puritan moral values among the American public. Bleh.

@inthehands @rasmus91 @cambria @jillL

Thank you. This is *exactly* what I was talking about.

@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands
I'd never become a billionaire because I'd never sit on the money that long. I'd be like, "Ooh, here's a charity that needs it!" or "Hey, that guy needs a new car for work," or "I bet I could revitalize this town by hiring a bunch of people, so let's see how that might work."

So I'd just never accrue the money in the first place.

@rasmus91 @cambria @jillL @inthehands

Money, to me, is a means to an end - that end being security and happiness. Depending on the person and the society, security and happiness isn't all that expensive. Anything left over should be used to help other people into security and happiness, thus creating a world that's even more secure and happy.

Wanting more and more money is just an illness - a failure to understand when you have "enough". That's how money perverts and rots a person.

Schumer is selling out the American people once again. Giving ICE any money at all is wrong. Even evil.

No more funding for the DHS. Abolish ICE and prosecute all the thugs involved in it. Remove all fascists from all government positions and prosecute all who participated in criminal activity. Help all victims of ICE, and compensate everyone they hurt.

We need leadership that doesn't coddle pedophiles and fascists. Schumer needs to go.

Today it's time for an angry song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

In The Air Tonight

Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies

ICE is a terrorist organization and all ICE agents are terrorists.

Every single state should arrest and detain any ICE agent. They should be treated as domestic terrorists.

@StillIRise1963
No one has ever had to apologize for being white.

They should damned well apologize for being racist scumbag assholes who think the entire world should bow to their whims. But that's not a function of their skin color, it's a product of their upbringing, selfishness and hypocrisy.

The only reason any white person feels the need to apologize is because of those racist scumbag assholes sharing their skin color. But no one is required to apologize for the acts of others.

@WuMargaret @StillIRise1963
They think they're safe because they're white.

But they have *something* that the fascists will hate. Everyone has something that can be picked on. We are all criminals if the fascists want us to be.

The moment they aren't useful, they will be targeted as well.

And not one woman should ever trust a fascist. To them we are little more than walking baby incubators. Our lives are insignificant to them.

I have no idea where this clip originates, but it's made me laugh repeatedly tonight so I'm sharing it with you in the hopes it will give you a little joy as well.

@farah @StillIRise1963
This... so much.

They don't think women feel much pain to begin with. Then they double or triple down with black women. So while my white ass is suffering terribly, that black woman across the waiting room is nearly passing out with pain and the medical profession is all "this is fine."

And if we fucking DARE to ask for painkillers, then we're drug-shopping. "Oh, they're just an addict looking for a fix." Fuckers.

@ai6yr @msbellows @davidcampey
Our first house had a back yard completely full of blackberry plants. It took us three years to manage to cut it all back, and during that time one blackberry plant managed to grow under the back door of the garage while another went up the gutter spout. The things grow so fast in the Seattle area it's almost impossible to stop them.

The mounds of blackberries were so high we never realized we had a well in the back yard until we cut them back.

@StillIRise1963
Oh GOD yes, this. I'm hoping it's spectacular and ruins the lives of the upper management.