Notices by M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im), page 5

2/ Lyricdancer and I are considering retiring in Newport. It's a wonderful community!

Yes, there are immigrant workers there, but it's challenging to be a blue collar worker there, because of both remoteness and very limited housing. It's not a place that's desperately in need of, you know, ethnic cleansing. It's in need of worker HOUSING. ...

Maddow's reporting on ICE considering opening a facility in the remote, coastal community of Newport, Oregon, which is... interesting.

The Oregon coast is both gorgeous and economically challenged. Remember the great (GREAT!).Ken Kesey novel/film Sometimes a Great Notion (a.k.a. Never Give A Inch)?. Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Lee Remick? That's neat there.

It's REMOTE, people. 1/

3/3 Here's something really interesting about ICE putting a facility in Newport, Oregon:

There basically are only two routes between Newport and Portland. One through mountains, the other along the coast then through through mountains.

Both two-lane roads. With trees and hills with boulders lining them for dozens of miles.

I can't think of a better place to block the movement of fascist vehicles carrying shock troops or prisoners. If you were a location scout for a movie about the French resistance stopping Nazi convoys? You'd set it here.

These people have no fucking clue what they're up against here in Oregon.

Here in America.

@steter In our experience, Ziply's contractors are extremely fly-by-night. We had three different ones out to install our line and each one screwed something up.

Damn, I love being more literate than they are.

Happy Exploding Whale Day to those who celebrate!
#ExplodingWhale #ExplodingWhaleDay
https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?si=a53Iyx4TctYHXzl9

Capitalism at its very worst (at least to gardeners in Oregon's Willamette Valley): #evil #gardening #EffLutherBurbank

@davidcampey Because Himalayan blackberries are both prolific and invasive here. No one needs to buy one, and if they do, it will consume their garden and then their neighbor's garden and then gardens a mile away. (And Luther Burbank, who actually was a great horticulturalist, is who imported them to California, not realizing birds would spread them everywhere.) https://positivebloom.com/risks-of-growing-invasive-blackberries-you-shouldnt-ignore/

God, I love Portland.

(Tickets link: https://www.portlandopera.org/performances-tickets/25-26-season/la-boheme/ )

Imagine one person at the Jamestown colony having more wheat in his barn than the poorer half of his peers PUT TOGETHER, and not distributing it to his starving community. What would the starving people have done?

Imagine one member if the Donner Party having more beef jerky in his saddlebags than half of his fellow travelers COMBINED, so that they are forced to starve while he sits smugly on more than he needs. Who would the others have eaten?

Trillionaire Elon Musk has more wealth than the bottom 52% of Americans combined. Hell yes, I would seize 90% of it via tax, spending it for the public benefit and leaving him to struggle on somehow on a mere (does math) $100 billion.

@mcpinson @dgar I NEVER NOTICED THAT BEFORE !!! THANK YOU!!!

@dgar Yes, I send this to clients every time I forget to attach an attachment.

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@gemlog @swart @EveHasWords @paninid No worries. Yes, I was joking about Brian. And also,. I think the rulers' response to Jesus's message 2,000 years ago makes a while lie more sense now that I've seen how readily modern "Christians" despise it today, too. Nothing has changed.

@admin Hi, nice administrator team. I can't get past the Cloudflare authentication on my Samsung Galaxy Tab A, whether using Tusky or the Mastodon app. Any suggestions? Thanks.

@AnnaAnthro Everything old is new again.

@Konstantin @maxleibman @Gargron Because Christmas before Thanksgiving is an abomination unto the Lord?