Katherine Villyard @kvillyard@librem.one

Via Keith Boykin, for those who like to keep score:

91 criminal charges
26 sexual assault allegations
6 bankruptcies
5 draft deferments
4 indictments
2 impeachments
1 convicted company
1 fake university shut down
1 fake charity shut down
$25 million fraud settlement
$5 million sexual abuse verdict
$2 million charity abuse judgment

#Trump

So, I read a book that wasn't bad. Inexplicable things that didn't follow from what came before happened in the last page.

It finished with a message from the author: sign up to my mailing list and you'll get another chapter, the epilogue that (I really hope) explains things.

I feel betrayed and I'm certainly not signing up for the mailing list.

Would you?

#books #reading #bookstodon

It looks like Southwest is extending some Aloha to help get people to shelter/facilities by offering a number of OGG to HNL flights for $19!!!

#maui #fire #hawaii #flights #disaster

#MauiWildfires #MauiCounty #Maui #FoodBank

Drop off your food donations for the Maui Food Bank!
The drop off locations below accept ONLY non-perishable items. Perishable donations and produce (fruits and veggies) should be dropped off at the Maui Food Bank warehouse, located at 760 Kolu St in Wailuku, on Monday–Friday from 7am–3pm (except on holidays).

https://mauifoodbank.org/food-drop-off-locations/

@Blackfist

Americans gave up the following to thwart black access:
1. Public health
2. Low cost post secondary education
3. Well funded public education
4. Publicly funded hospitals
5. Public pools
6. Libraries
7. Food programs
8. Life expectancy
9. Climate action
10. Pollution controls
11. Public Broadband
12. Civil rights to vote & bodily autonomy
13. Public transit & high speed rail
14. Housing
15. Drug price controls
16. Gun safety legislation
17. Election security
18. National defense

Too real.

#Fantasy #Vampires #writing #books

(this is not a sub toot aimed an anyone in particular)

Hey creative people. When you write a post about your work on social media, no need to put in a disclaimer like "shameless self promotion" or to lead with an apology.

1) You made a thing. That's amazing!
2) You're allowed to tell other people about the thing you made.
4) You're even allowed to say it's for sale.

You're not forcing your message on anyone - especially not here, where there's no algorithm - and you're not manipulating anyone, or lying to anyone, or spamming anyone.

You made a thing, it's available for sale. No need for apologies or guilt about letting us know.

#WritingLife #Drawing #Art #Music

Business networking. 1946. #CatsOfYore #Cat #Cats #History #catsodon #catsofmastodon #catcontent #ilovecats #vintage #BusinessCat #1940s #LinkedIn https://playingintheworldgame.com/2012/10/19/los-angeles-1946/

Burbank's Dark Delicacies bookstore are comrades #SAGAFTRAstrong #wgastrong

Edwardian soot pixie. #CatsOfYore #Cat #Cats #History #catsodon #catsofmastodon #catcontent #ilovecats #vintage #blackcat #blackitten #kitten https://digital.lib.usu.edu/digital/collection/Compton/id/540/rec/3

Armful of marmalade. 1934. #CatsOfYore #Cat #Cats #History #catsodon #catsofmastodon #catcontent #ilovecats #vintage #kitten #kittens #Indiana #1930s #orangecats https://images.indianahistory.org/digital/collection/dc034/id/116

"All in" it now costs about $2300/mo to run Newsie.social.

That includes servers, moderation staff cost, insurance, etc. (most of the staff including myself work free on Newsie)

That's a big jump in costs over the past 3-4 months (largely because of Twitter's meltdown)

However we've reached the point of unsustainability because we take in only $1000/mo and we're running out of runway.

Contribute now:

Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/newsiesocial

PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BCV5VZ5HRMB3U

Just a reminder that the government has alien technology, but minimum wage is still $7.25...

#RaiseTheWage

Good morning from the United States, where an entire political party is pretending that a conspiracy to upend an election is somehow protected by the First Amendment #uspol

Quote from article: This movement by the morbidly rich, which has fully captured the Republican Party, is led by fossil fuel and big business oligarchs who are using the social, religious, and political values of the old Confederacy to build a modern nationwide movement. They’ve built their political house on the foundation of bigotry, misogyny, and hate.

That movement, at its core, is fascist. And just like fascists of Europe in the 1930s who claimed that their main enemies were communists, these fascists label all who oppose them as commies.

They don’t actually believe that Democrats are communists, of course; they’re not that stupid. It’s just a convenient term of demonization. Fascists have always known that to enrage people to the point of violence it’s necessary to first turn their opponents into “the other,” and “communist” is a convenient all-purpose term to do that.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/why-american-fascists-label-all-who-452?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Print ARCs of my new book, LIBERTY'S DAUGHTER, arrived today! If you are a reviewer and would like a copy (print or ebook) let me know!

#EveryChildMatters

All First Nations ppl deserve to know the names of the children lying in unmarked graves at every single site at Indian Boarding schools. #Indigenous #WeAreStillHere

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/calls-for-residential-school-abuse-records-to-be-re-examined-for-names-of-deceased-1.6491378