Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.coop

Artwork by Wenqing Yan aka Yuumei
https://www.artstation.com/yuumei

Setback for #Bolsonaro after poor results in #Brazil local elections - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/setback-for-bolsonaro-after-poor-results-in-brazil-local-elections yay; this environmental criminal can't go too soon...

Facebook PAC disbursements in the 2020 election cycle, October update: https://pastebin.com/j1prsyF7

Counting only contested elections (incumbents with support below 70%), the totals are:

House:
D $28,000
R $69,000
Senate:
D $39,500
R $95,000

The same 3:1 ratio was observed in my previous update from May:
https://mastodon.social/@angdraug/104263035477941282

@mathew “We did not make changes with the intent of impacting individual publishers.” – Always read what’s left unsaid. If they could say “there was no intent of impacting publishers in a specific part of the political spectrum” they would have said it.

The negative space in Facebook’s statement statement says “it wasn't just Mother Jones, the intent was to throttle all progressive publishers.”

quick little breakdown on whos funding some of these props in california

The right has long held that homelessness is a symptom - of a lack of self-control, a lack of foresight, of addiction, mental illness, etc - and therefore the solution to it is training, incarceration, rehab, or rigid discipline.

None of this stuff worked.

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After a hiatus of over half a year, we finally get to visit a museum today!

Museum of Glass has some amazing exhibits by Chihuly, Richard Marquis, and LGBTQ glass artists

#art
#equality
#glass
#museum
#pugetsound
#sunday
#tacoma
#travel

just galpals

A powerful #dissent from a soon-to-be-ex #Facebook employee. Good luck Adin, and thank you for these needed insights and for sharing them widely.

#monopoly
#SocialMedia

https://www.facebook.com/adin/posts/10158605099447999

Covid can change UK like 'new Jerusalem' of 1940s, Johnson claims - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/06/covid-can-change-uk-like-1940s-new-jerusalem-johnson-claims but but but you told us #brexit would do that...isn't it working, or something?

We can use less energy and still live good lives.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/we-can-use-less-energy-and-still-have-good-lives-1845230817

People, I hope you realise that the correct answer is "have started the process a year or two ago": https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/30/how-to-move-to-canada-google-searches-trump-us-debate

Seriously, though. When we started our immigration process 2 years ago I tried to encourage certain friends to do the same, and none could see that they might need it. Now I know others taking serious steps to get out of the US. I wish I didn't have this vindication.

The Three-Body Problem, by Chinese scifi novelist Cixin Liu, opens with a scene depicting a "struggle session" from the Cultural Revolution. His vivid writing personalizes the experiences I've seen in overview in historical documentaries, and read and heard about at the Rewi Alley memorial in Springfield.