Personal Portals /Social Media Organizer Apps

I just successfully completed my first THREADED Buffer post that goes to my selected 3 free connections (Twitter/X, Threads, and BlueSky), and it worked great, after getting the hang of doing the multi-threaded post, and using it on those three, which happen to be the 3 which limit the length of posts. It’s really frustrating and a real shame that Continue Reading

Online support channels

I’m thinking this morning about finding a way to host a “online support community” on the Ecological Crisis that runs during all my “waking hours”. Preferably, something that “sleeps” when nothing is happening, but wakes and notifies me when someone shows up to talk or even “be a fly on the wall” (to which they could be pre-emptively notified as Continue Reading

MSNBC is counting on Rachel Maddow’s return to bring viewers back – The Washington Post

Unfortunately, only the people who can afford that level of cable package. I would want to access her thoughts, but cannot. Too stretched. And tired of the media’s lack of modernizing away from traditional subs models. We, foolishly, expected this soon after the Internet. And News should be reaching out to “the people”. Instead, they just jump on the bandwagon Continue Reading

Call on Congress to Speak Out Against the Funding Freeze – Third Act

Assholes! What they just did: The new administration has launched a brazen attack on critical government programs that millions of Americans rely on for survival. On January 27, 2025, the administration began cutting off grants that Congress had already appropriated on the basis that they contribute to “Marxist equity” or “green new deal social engineering.” These steps amount to an Continue Reading

Trump Takes His Corrupt Retribution Against The Justice Department

If you were taking a measured approach to see how things played out once Trump took office, the waiting is over. It’s a five-alarm fire at the Justice Department. Ousting independent career prosecutors is just Step 1, a prelude to Step 2, which is using the Justice Department to protect Trump and his administration from accountability for their wrongdoing. Step Continue Reading

Trump plays politics with California’s water as wildfires burn

Not even news anymore. There’s NOTHING he’s involved in that doesn’t involve some “deal” for him, or some inane bone he’s throwing to his base. Nothing is for the greater good. He’s actually, as an Anti-Christ, one who works against anything for the Greater Good. Source: Trump plays politics with California’s water as wildfires burn

How We Make Progress Now – by Bill McKibben

We are seeing a triumph of illiberalism unlike anything in our recent history, when cruelty is not obscured but exalted. I think for me the single most disheartening news of the past week—not close to the most important, but somehow the most illustrative—was the news that the Air Force would no longer be telling its new recruits about the history Continue Reading

For reality – by Bill McKibben – The Crucial Years

It is hard, watching the richest men on earth grovel before the new king, not to feel a little fear. I have some early morning bouts myself—perhaps I’ve caused enough trouble over the years for the fossil fuel industry that they will come for me. Those fears are tiny next to those of the millions of immigrant families who must Continue Reading

LA’s Hurricane Andrew Federal Response Uncertain

will the visual link preview work on regular POST type posts?
Nope. Why does Facebook do this successfully
( I get an embedded visual link with SC's logo and everything when I "share" the link on Facebook, but "Error loading block: the response is not a valid response". arggghhhh.. Update: It actually loads right when I view the saved page. It's the editor that gives this error. I wonder what that's about?

Of course. Fed bad. States on their own. Opposite of “national community” and mutual support. Always. A-holes.https://open.substack.com/pub/susanpcrawford/p/las-hurricane-andrew?r=2xhws&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Being a community of “interrogation” rather than “legitimation” **

This Bonhoeffer class** ending has me reeling on how we so desperately need a way to bring home the horror of the EcoCrisis in much the same way that the world came around to SEEING and “letting in” the horror of the Holocaust and Hitler. People are much less prone to accepting war when it is brought right up on Continue Reading