Notices by birds in the bush (nightdream@sfba.social)

Shirt finally arrived. Let’s go!

#USPOL #harriswalz2024

This probably doesn't mean anything, right? 🤔

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-campaign-hires-stop-the-steal-organizer-jan-6-conspiracy-theorist-alex-bruesewitz/

#USPOL

Boiling mad.

"Donald Trump has been speaking with the powers that be about Israel’s war on Gaza—but it’s not in an effort to end the genocide.

Instead, Trump has allegedly been talking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avert a cease-fire deal, fearing that doing so could help Vice President Kamala Harris win in November, according to PBS."

https://newrepublic.com/post/185076/donald-trump-scheme-beat-kamala-harris-benjamin-netanyahu-ceasefire

#USPOL

More Women Are Being Denied Care Because of Abortion Bans

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/more-women-are-being-denied-care

#USPOL

@TonyStark It's hard to be funny and charming and charismatic when you're taking school lunch away from kids and sentencing women to die from treatable pregnancy complications.

#harris2024 :stealie:

"In the two years after Donald Trump's 2016 election, there was a significant increase in the number of non-white women in the U.S. who gave birth to children who were premature or underweight. UC Berkeley researchers say stress and policy impacts likely account for the increase in adverse health outcomes."

#USPOL #PublicHealth #MAGA #Trump #racism #Harris

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/07/25/after-trumps-election-women-of-color-had-more-underweight-premature-babies-study-finds/

An open convention at this point would disenfranchise primary voters. Talk about contested elections. #ItHasToBeHarris

In my weedy #garden

#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Photo

#Florida arts groups left in the lurch by DeSantis veto of state funding for theaters and museums https://apnews.com/article/d8d63b529c2276af5046b463cc0388e2

#art #culture #uspol

Two #Mastodon features I'd love to see:

1) Hashtag mute for short durations, maybe 1 to 24 hours (this would be useful for following a hashtag on the main timeline without being flooded by posts at certain times)

2) Add hashtag to a list (so I can remove it from my main timeline but still follow)

There's some overlap between these two so maybe just #2 would suffice. I think they'd both be useful.

A coworker just shared a couple of scary stories about how targeted scams have become.

In one scam attempt, he received a phone call in his daughter's voice asking for help paying for a tow truck. He thought that didn't sound right, so he hung up and called her and she answered her phone nonchalantly with no idea about what was going on. But someone had found her voice somewhere, knew her relationship with him, and targeted the scam with precise details.

In another scam attempt, he was contacted by someone in the soccer league he coaches for asking for help getting gift cards for some legitimate-sounding purpose. In that case, it took a few rounds of communication before he realized that something wasn't right. But again, someone had the data on him and his role/relationship to the soccer league, and customized that scam to a degree that he didn't think anything of it at first.

It's scary out there. I think we're all at risk, but I worry most about my older relatives living on their own.

#Plants #Succulents #Walking #photo