Let me guess… They got it all backwards?
#dyslexia
I have two MetroNorth tickets to Poughkeepsie I need to use in the next few weeks, so gonna do a ride up around New Paltz and Kingston. There will be a lot of gravel, so hoping that goes well.
I thought about listing it as a @npub1feasvyttsd3kmqek54n9w5e6lhfp3a7jhzkak4zkxzklngftuy0s9wahxp ride, but I’m not quite up for that level of organizational work. I did list it as an OutCycling 🏳️🌈 ride knowing far fewer people would sign up. Looks like one of my old ride buddies will be joining me - which is great.
A little over a week ago I had an hour long conversation with two women in a coffee shop. The conversation centered on Gravel NY - a cycling group I started a few years ago. I was only expecting to meet with one person but she brought another woman with her to the meet up. Afterwards I started thinking the second woman seemed really familiar. I mentioned as much to my husband when I got home. Then I started digging and realized it probably was who i thought it was.
Without giving away too many details - I think she’s a fairly well known celebrity. She introduced herself by teling me her nickname and mentioned her legal first name (to explain her nickname). Since I didn’t realize I was talking to a celebrity until afterwards, her celebrity status simply wasn’t an issue and we had this great, really connected conversation.
Afterwards the first woman mentioned that the celebrity(?) really appreciated our conversation. I’m guessing it was because for an hour she just got to be a regular person.
I’d love it if I saw her again sometime - we bonded over her love of gravel cycling. Would be incredible if she brought her bike to NYC and rode with the group. But the chances of that happening are pretty slim. Still, I can hope, right?
#CelebritySighting
#Insurance companies are refusing to pay on old #SexualAbuse claims brought under a #NY law that allows a lot more time for the claims to be filed against groups like the #CatholicChurch and #BoyScouts.
To me the solution is for the organization to pay - then let them sue their insurance companies. I mean if the Catholic Church sold St Patrick’s Cathedral to a developer - that should be enough to pay quite a few of the claims, right?
https://apple.news/AmC_xSoGuRtSZtnRX10SplQ
#religion #abuse
I’m #ProIsraeli, #ProPalestinian, #AntiNetinyahu, #AntiHamas.
To be even clearer…
👍 People
🚫 War criminals
No one forced them to get vaccinated. They chose fear over their career. They chose fear over their own health. Their job was to protect others. They chose fear over that essential part of their job.
https://apple.news/AHkT_FiI0SJCtPHyPsT-xqw
(Footnote: vaccine mandates for essential workers like police & fire fighters were important early on. Now that most everyone is vaccinated and there’s clearly herd immunity it’s right that they’ve been lifted. They were a tool in a critical moment. The moment has passed.)
Two contrasting articles from this morning’s news…
The judge who heard the case when we sued the landlord of the building next door did a summary judgement saying #Trump committed #fraud and dissolving all his #NewYork businesses…
https://apple.news/A9nK2BcZ-TjmN97avRmwZvQ
Compare and contrast that with this article where a Mormon newspaper reports that more #Republicans think Trump is “a man of faith” than any of his rivals…
https://apple.news/A50h96KC6T0iCyH67zzEMWw
What does that say about the #GOP, #religion and #BusinessEthics in the US?
Here's a curious "freedom" / "government intrusion" issue. I'm not quite sure how I feel about it…
As I understand it, when the FBI takes down malicious botnets they sometimes get control of the botnet and use the botnet to stop all the computers in the botnet from being part of the botnet. That can include everything from just telling the infected computer to stop "calling home" to "botnet central" for instructions to using the botnet to install software on the infected computer that will delete the malware and better secure the computer from future attacks - ALL WITHOUT ANY NOTIFICATION TO THE USER.
Needless to say that means they could do some pretty bad stuff to you without you ever knowing. According to the article they're using the power of the botnet for good - and they do get a judge to sign off on it. But it's one warrant for thousands of computers and again - no notification to the user. There's very little actual oversight to ensure they aren't doing stuff like snooping on the users.
I usually give law enforcement a pretty long leash, but this whole thing makes me a bit uncomfortable. What's the likelihood an anti-porn administration might snoop on the porn viewing habits of people, or an anti-abortion administration might look for evidence of a woman having an abortion?
https://apple.news/A6HN6R6SANlqgbnN6Pr452g
#FBI #GovernmentSurveillance #botnets #malware #ethics #LawEnforcement
This article made me think twice about the #ElectoralCollege - it's a good read…
The TL;DR summary is that the Electoral College is a major obstacle to parties #StealingElections and should be kept for that reason.
Without the Electoral College if a candidate thought they needed say 100,000 votes to win a national election they could add those votes in places where their party dominates and the other party would have to first, find the source of the fraud, and second, be powerful enough to fight it in that jurisdiction. If #Democrats engaged in fraud in say NYC or #Republicans in West Virginia - they'd probably get away with it.
In contrast, with the Electoral College the loser would have to engage in fraud in one or more battleground states. That makes the fraud easier to find and the loser in battlegrounds is nearly as strong as the winner - so much more capable to fight the fraud.
So yeah, the Electoral College means the winner may not have won the popular vote, but that's a small price to pay for free and fair elections…
https://apple.news/A77a8S2Y4QjGbOj2PiNjHuw
#ElectionFraud #elections
So many #Christian #conservatives are criminals. How exactly is that being “Christ-like”?
https://apple.news/AoZlCNZYcQRigKrN_xCDLeg
#ChristianValues #homophobia #lgbt #lgbtq
#China is literally paying people to be #heterosexual.
https://apple.news/Afr2lFADBR_qgp1yij3VRIA
#heteronormative #overpopulation #BirthRate #demography
If it’s unsung, how can everyone be talking about it?
#GranmarPolice #AdvertisingFAILs #contradictory
Right on schedule #Putin has killed #Prigozhin. (When the coup happened I said one of them will be dead within 90 days)…
https://apple.news/AfEgFvlnBSPqnoObzwm7fJA
#Russia #dictator #totalitarianism
From one of the most #homophobic countries on the planet comes this unintentional compliment…
>> "Military theorists and historians know which army in Greece was the strongest, remember? The Spartans! They were united by a #homosexual brotherhood. They were all #homos. These were the politics of [The West's] leadership. I think they are planning the same for Ukraine's Armed Forces," Sergei Markov, a former adviser to Putin, said while appearing on Russian TV, Newsweek reported.
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>> Markov said the U.S. and Ukraine will use "neuro-linguistic programming" and other brainwashing techniques to turn Ukrainian soldiers #gay against their will.
Is that going to be their excuse when they finally accept defeat? "Of course they won - they're all homos - and we're no homos!"
https://c.apple.news/AgEXQTJnak9qMmVYU2ktX294ZHVuOGNkVmcAMA
#homophobia #LGBT #LGBTQ #GaysInTheMilitary #GaySoldiers
Of all the ways & places to die… Please not this one…
https://apple.news/AaiTCH5KsRQ2DMwQUTIdHDg
#death #misfortune #ick
The #GOP just seems cruel these days…
https://apple.news/AW7kiq1myTGysL6KnTwBewg
#ConstructionIndustry #cruelty #WorkersRights #evil
There are allies, and then there are allies…
RIP Colin…
https://apple.news/Arvdc0sFSSRGXqsRz7XJxag
#trans #lgbt #HateCrime #transphobia #bigot #murder
This is too funny…
“The Republican party was embarrassed when a tweet from its official account celebrating Independence Day featured the wrong flag.” (The Liberian flag, not the US flag).