Notices by Waldenpond (waldenpond@mastodon.social)

Miami is doomed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/11/06/bail/

@Elizafox At a rock/fossil show recently and there was a big box of 1 inch magnetic marbles. The adults were having a great time shoving the kids aside and telling them they aren't safe for kids.

[Timmings, 62, & 61 Catlin,..rent a room on combined disability pymnts..friend died & couple on Stl’s sts..used savings 2$ used RV for $300 & $300 2 register..car $275..near a small airport..no running water..propane..bathroom in bucket & dump it behind business..shower @nonprofit..water at grocery..stench human waste inside RV overwhelming..exhausted, scared & defeated, w/no solution..]

#leftpolitics
https://apnews.com/d480434bbacd4b028ff13cd1e7cea155/Homeless-explosion-on-West-Coast-pushing-cities-to-the-brink?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP https://mastodon.social/media/HL77cXnT7DXI3-WWjMY

AP PHOTOS: Tents, RVs serve as homes in West Coast cities
[San Diego scrubs its sidewalks w/bleach to counter hepatitis A outbreak that has spread to other cities & forced CA to declare state of emergency. Anaheim, 400 people sleep along a bike path in the shadow of Angel Stadium. Organizers in Portland, OR, lit incense at a recent outdoor food festival to mask the stench of urine in a parking lot where vendors set up shop.]
#leftpolitics
https://apnews.com/d6387265778e41ba85234772208ed6ba/AP-PHOTOS:-Homelessness-surges-up-and-down-US-West-Coast?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

‘I Think of Cops as People Who Want to Kill:’ Relatives of the Dead Revisit Albuquerque Police Shootings-
[police reform..justified under law.. excessive force.. addiction...recession.. private security firms..]

#leftpolitics
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/06/i-think-of-cops-as-people-who-want-to-kill-relatives-of-the-dead-revisit-albuquerque-police-shootings/

[evidence is too prevalent to ignore..(1) abundance of insects plummets 75%, (2) tropical rainforests mysteriously emit CO2 (3) Mt Everest’s snow too toxic to pass EPA water standards(4)squid @ 1,000 fathoms carry toxic furniture protection chemicals (5)ocean oxygen production plummets..something is wrong..
All of which begs the question: What does it take to determine when the ecosystem is losing it?
#environment
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/06/the-ecosystem-is-breaking-down/ https://mastodon.social/media/H47WMbI_14yM4dmtgTs

Astro Picture of the Day
Where do comet tails come from? no obvious places on the nuclei of comets from which the jets that create comet tails emanate..Rosetta not only imaged a jet emerging from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, but flew thru it..picture showing bright plume emerging from small circular dip bounded on one side by a 10-meter high wall. Analyses of Rosetta data shows that the jet was composed of both dust and water-ice..
#apod
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
https://mastodon.social/media/OZ9NtzV3rv7opO1CVLg

Pet Research-100% of Owners are Never Coming Back
“data show.. human who says they’re going 2 work is, in fact, gone forever.. any instance an owner scratches a dog/cat on head & says, ‘Be back soon, buddy!’ .. is indication that the animal has been left 2 fend 4 itself & will eventually die unloved beside its empty food dish.”
@PRESS time, elated Nugget danced on hind legs, report 100 % of owners who pull in2 driveway @ end of day came back 2 their pets after all.
#humor
https://www.theonion.com/pet-researchers-confirm-100-of-owners-who-leave-for-wo-1820122953

@amylsacks We have older relatives and acquaintances.... after one gave up on Clinton (parent) it's ok to support Sanders. A younger person almost voted for Trump, now supports Sanders. When someone says Clinton is too old yet they would support Sanders, the entrenchment is over and we get to discuss policy.

It's taken many low key conversations about some basics of political ideology, what individuals want and policies to get there.

@amylsacks Seems impossible to get the conversation to switch to the system rather than sunk in idpol.

So blatan,t the establishment attack on w/the 'millenials ruin everything' as they are the largest group... you'd think a light bulb would go off, yet same people who complain & mock it are the same that default to 'boomers ruin everything' just as mindlessly.

It's not any establishment/media target. It's the system. Capitalism, greed, corruption.

@FallenTitanic This is only one instance (site) out of more than 2000.

You can join any instance you prefer or set up your own with no terms at all.

https://mnm.social/instances/?page=1

@TheAmazeman Everyone here puts politics behind a cw. Find an instance where you don't need to.

Having a different opinion on politics isn't an issue here. Sneering at others politics in derogatory terms is.

@amylsacks I wasn't on bird long, just a few months, so not hard to dump.

The lefty sites aren't bot'd here so I just bookmarked a few in a folder and I 'openall' in the am to catch up.

I'm still waiting for a normie instance. I need to at least give it the same amount of time I did bird.

@amylsacks Hey, our accounts are good for 30 days until they delete!

@TheAmazeman Read the terms of this instance.

Put politics behind a cw.

@parent Users have made up a rule that the moderators here are mummy and daddy and need to count 1, 2, 3 before there are consequences?

@photopuck 16 to 18 are hardly kids.

This is a group that was just banned by twitter for harassment, misogyny, racism and homophobia.

They are repeatedly using the words ni88er and fa99ot and giggling about getting banned.

They are merely waiting for their twitter suspensions to be over.

@shammack @kellycrow Reporting, not blocking as they, same as the last burp of rejects from bird, they are purposely violating the terms of the instance.

This is the second influx of bird rejects. They get banned for harassment, racism, homophobia and misogyny and then come here.