ClockworkCanary

The cutest orange kitty asleep on a green blanket with his paw over his head.

The possibilities are endless! Or, you could sleep all day.

me, fiasco, a fluffy grey tabby with green eyes, looking to the left. i am sitting in a ray of sunshine on a patterned blue and brown rug.

Hmmmm wat trouble will Fiasco get up to today

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

A huge oil fire in Tehran

me: voluntarily adding $10 to my airline ticket to offset carbon emissions

meanwhile, our government:

GOP lawyer who headed Texas redistricting wins congressional primary Gober is one of the only Texas Republicans known to have played an instrumental role in last year’s redistricting scheme, a process conducted so secretively that even the Texas House and Senate’s Repu...

NEW: Chris Gober — a Republican attorney who played a key role in the GOP’s effort to redraw Texas’ congressional map mid-decade — is now the party’s nominee to represent one of the very districts he helped redraw.

This November, he will face Democrat Caitlin Rourk in the GOP-leaning district.

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Embodied in John Spaulding's classic 2021 tweet:

[Libertarians are] house cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand.

This is one of the reasons techbro libertarians are so annoying: they've got no respect at all for the legal systems that enable them to be such huge dicks about not wanting to have legal systems.

I think the "but seriously" response to the tongue-in-cheek question is that if your micronation genuinely isn't recognized as falling under somebody's civil jurisdiction, you're simply a target for somebody to send the military after without any due process concerns at all.

And if you pay someone using a credit card, you are not anonymous. Actually, lets make it even simpler.

You are not anonymous.

The only question is how hard you've made it to find your identity. It's not impossible. You have made at least one mistake, and that's all it takes.

One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.

(Polio. It's polio)

Why are emergency services mostly volunteers like this and firefighters and EMTs/Paramedics in remote and forest areas?
They are critical yet gov doesn't care to make them real employees.

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever We heard from more than 40 current and former emergency managers in 11 states about what they need to prepare for the next disaster — and what they aren’t getting.

More than half of the 1,689 local emergency management agencies that responded to a survey last year have either one or no permanent full-time employees.

A “notable percentage” of local emergency managers who responded are volunteers.

I JUST told my doctor to be careful going to a US conference in Chicago

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.

my main contribution is that it's possible and commendable to foster love for reading through college and we ought to do that

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I also love that coat.

(I also wish I had been fearless far earlier in my life.)

I have no pictures because it was before I had a cell phone, but, I had a long coral cotton skirt that I usually wore with a pink silk shirt. Both were from a mall retailer that no longer exists.

I loved that outfit.

Real Housewives of Melbourne were true innovators for boldly making one of the genre’s most beloved guest star archetypes - “Psychic Who Is Confidently Wrong About Everything” - a linchpin of the main cast

thrilled the new London one has done the same with “Hot, Ruthless Gay Man Who Knows Everyone”

there are a hilarious mix of Brits and Americans in this cast and I desperately want to be watching it with Alice

it is right and appropriate that careers end over supporting this administration

some of them will try to lay low for a minute and then take a swing at state office after enough time has gone by and I hope by then Trump is so radioactive that anyone who ever backed him is unelectable

Gonna watch this one closely to learn if it's confirmed by another source bc if it is this is the FBI's version of screaming "FIRE!!!!!!" in a crowded box of fire.

White House blocks report warning of rising homeland terror threat linked to Iran war Story by Shawn Cohen and Philip Nieto

As with so many other stories, this should and would be the major scandal of any other administration.

"They don’t want anything getting out that says what they’re doing in Iran is raising the threat level at home."

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My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

38% of haunted murder house attendees disapprove of plan to stick together in one central location until morning

38% of polled shipwreck survivors think deflating corner of life raft will make it rocket through water like a jet ski

38% of airline passengers vote to open plane door midflight because that bitch stewardess said not to

Driving has gotten *significantly* worse since covid began, and I think it’s a combination of factors.

1) people got out of the habit and a lot of us never went back to commuting

2) literal covid brain damage

3) people decided in those years we are no longer a society