Notices by Joan Mastodon (jonielena@pirate-wire.com)

Can't sleep, heart-in-throat, worried sick about my hometown. We're used to snow, but this storm is a whole different beast. A cat 3 hurricane, but with snow and ice. My Facebook is full of people asking for help - trapped in houses with no heat, trees down on top of houses and gas lines, hundreds of motorists stranded in cars...

This Christmas is going to be very tragic for a lot of families ?

#Buffalo #BuffaloBlizzard #Blizzard #BombCyclone

Reddit thread of businesses in Buffalo refusing to let people seek shelter from a life-threatening blizzard. Scum of the earth.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buffalo/comments/zub2da/in_this_post_we_will_shame_businesses_who_refused/

#BuffaloBlizzard #Buffalo #Blizzard #Elliot #WinterStormElliot

Buffalo police report a deceased person found at Kensington & Bailey intersection, bringing total confirmed death toll to 3.

#BuffaloBlizzard #Buffalo #Blizzard #WinterStormElliot #Elliot

There's a video circulating the internet of the man who lost his life on Kensington. If you come across it, please report and don't share.

#BuffaloBlizzard #Buffalo #Blizzard #Winter

The whole "I'm from Buffalo, I don't fear snow, catch me hauling ass down the I-190 in a Blizzard with a super mighty in my hand" persona is a fun joke for locals but a terrible disaster preparedness plan for the government.

How does **Buffalo** not have snowmobiles and an emergency response team for blizzards?!

#BuffaloBlizzard #Buffalo #Blizzard #winterstormelliot #Elliot

Crowdfunded #BuffaloNY map of assistance needed, shelter available.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1ZUemnZjkOTR-ChwzciQK-Q7WL9cs09c&ll=42.91553691664182%2C-78.75279578244253&z=7

#BuffaloBlizzard #Buffalo #Blizzard

Make no mistake.

When this is over, #Buffalo's unconscionable structural inequalities will be laid bare like never before.

Poverty, inadequate housing, homelessness, underinvestment in mental health & domestic violence prevention, systemic racism... all of it.

#BuffaloBlizzard

I wish I had better news about Buffalo but the city is in a state of emergency. To summarize the overnight police scanner:

- Hundreds of people trapped in cars.
- Thousands without power and freezing in their homes for 30h+
- Everything is on fire - cars, houses, everything.
- Emergency crews are trying but they're stuck. Fire engines breaking down all over the place. The Nat'l guard showed up and got stuck, too.
- 7 people are confirmed dead.

#BuffaloBlizzard #Buffalo #Storm

On behalf of the #ActuallyAutistic community, I am once again BEGGING journalists to learn the meaning and history of aspie supremacy.

You literally cannot understand Elmo's mindset - or longtermism - without it.

Better yet, now's the perfect time to learn about the #NeurodiversityParadigm. @DrNicky should be on your #FridayFollow list and her foundational work Neuroqueer Heresies should be on your bookshelf!

#TwitterMigration #Birdsite #Qelon #Neurodiversity #Tech #AspieSupremacy

Here are some more, gotta block 'em all! #fediblock

Gotta block 'em all! #fediblock

Spoiler: the folks over at nicecrew.digital are not, in fact, a nice crew.

Pro-Elon trolls are joining the #TwitterMigration so here's your regular reminder to block and report them immediately. If a server continuously fails to take action against abuse, block that server and demand your instance admin do the same.

Here, we're the content moderation. I've got major respect for the folks who built this place because, while the rest of us were complaining over on the #birdsite, they were successfully de-federating Gab.

Let's continue this proud #Fediverse tradition.