Social Notes
Short posts that are often pushed to social media (a.k.a. tweets).
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Decades ago, I celebrated the Texas 11 fleeing the state to break quorum during a redistricting special session. I’m more cynical now. I don’t see any path that would change the outcome, and this becomes just more political theatre. The conversation is about breaking quorum, not why. Not all the other problems we have.
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KMFA, Austin’s wonderful classical music station, is losing $200k in funding from Pres. Trump’s attack on NPR & PBS, even though it isn’t affiliated with either. They are a community pillar. We’re members and hope others join as well. #cpb https://kmfa.org
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I’ve had an odd itch over the years to display the post’s date as sols (Martian days) since the site started. Martian timekeeping doesn’t have an actual calendar, but missions are calculated on sols since initiation. So I made a block: https://wordpress.org/plugins/mars-sol-date/
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More transparency on who knew what, when, and what they did about the knowledge is always the correct answer. This is true for religious & educational institutions. It’s also true for other groups that seem to have some corporate involvement in such crimes. #uspol #epstein
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My youngest spied a caterpillar yesterday, whom seemed to have passed away. She informed me I’m to attend its funeral in ten days time. #fatherhood
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If you’re in this part of Texas, you know. One of the many reasons we love our HEB grocery store—they deploy emergency services faster than anyone. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHbsvAA9ewnQ-TbTEo/ #TXFloods