Notices by In vain (coreyf@sfba.social)

I find it hard to believe that a judge’s order preventing DOGE from having anything to do with Treasury systems *now* will be effective. They’ve probably done what they needed to—created a way into the systems, and downloaded the data.

@mekkaokereke My husband made gluten free pancakes from scratch for me this morning and I asked him to beat the egg whites separately. Definitely fluffier! Thanks for the tip.

@evan The FEC site states that there are PACs, Super PACs, and Hybrid PACs. Corporations are not permitted to contribute to traditional, nonconnected PACs. Not so with Super PACs or Hybrid PACs: “Who can and can’t contribute to a Super PAC or Hybrid PAC—
Political committees that make only independent expenditures may solicit and accept unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor organizations and other political committees. They may not accept contributions from foreign nationals, federal contractors, national banks or federally chartered corporations.” Your phraseology indicates “US citizens”, which corporations are not “US citizens” in reference to voting.

@evan Maybe I’m being overly nitpicky, but the fact that citizens have a maximum amount they can contribute to a candidate yet corporations, organizations, and the rich folks who are behind these entities can contribute any amount indirectly during an election is a tremendous problem. Citizens’ United is the downfall of fair elections in the US.

@evan Corporations are people in the US. So unless you limit or eliminate those contributions, any person—citizen or not—can hide behind a corporation contributing to a Super PAC or Hybrid PAC.

*We*—society, made up of individuals, especially in the US—have allowed this to happen. *We* have allowed charlatans, long before the current charlatan, to convince us, the gullible, that they had our best interests at heart when their plan from the start was to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few. Not to benefit society because these charlatans believe that only they are worthy. *We* are personally responsible and only *we* can change this. If we can.

From: @persagen
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113612855191673426

#SanFrancisco, #bayarea please keep an eye out for my niece. She is an at-risk minor and missing since yesterday. Please forward. Could be in the Tenderloin or The Haight, hangs out at skate parks and punk shows.

OMG #pixelfed is AMAZING. I follow my own Mastodon sfba.social account and it picks up only photos I’ve posted. I’m on the iOS beta.

@kissane Thank you for your work on this. Like many Bluesky/former Mastodon users I had a really tough time with the sign up and paralysis over which instance to choose. The first one I chose (mastodon.social) was huge and overwhelming. I didn’t even understand the fediverse AT ALL at that point. Fast-forward to late last year, when Twitter changed hands. I changed my instance to a regional one (made much more sense) and have been pleased with it. /1