lol - true!
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I’m pretty sure LGBTQ+ folks will be safe here in NYC. And last year I heard Syracuse & Rochester are hotspots for trans migrants on tighter budgets who are seeking safety.
https://image.nostr.build/7d5efd087016dd98e0210b23e91a13e35d300a1a56d0955f0f6432484a897ef8.jpg


To put things in perspective…
#usa #gop #maga #nazi #trump

https://nostrcheck.me/media/ddc6d81383c6e6ced3c78e38edb02ab6ac0c7b23afbf7a685410ea7bf689ba33/a7c38385e466f871620817fe8025fb5a6633e296c04f0a15138ba77b7cceb691.webp


And this…
#trump #maga #usa
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THis…
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I would say fear and hatred won yesterday. All the anti-trans stuff wasn’t exactly misogyny, and definitely not about racism.

The pandemic (and a fair amount of corporate greed) caused inflation. A lot of that’s on Trump. Biden actually got it back down near the 2% Fed target. But the way inflation works - prices don’t go back down when the inflation is over. Consumer confidence and spending are back up - so saying the election was about inflation is just wrong.

And (sadly) no one really cares about the wars - Americans aren’t dying. So not about that either.

It was just about fear and hate. Which is really sad.


⬇ THIS ⬇ (from Politico)

“#Trump simply cannot beat President Joe #Biden relying solely on the votes of people who think his legal travails are a politically motivated scam, and who cheer Trump not in spite of his transgressions but because of them.

“There are plenty of such people — enough to power this generation’s most important political movement — but still not enough to win the #election. Trump’s only path to victory is a coalition that includes many #Republicans and #independents who find him deplorable but think a second Biden term would be even more so.”

🤞

https://apple.news/AYIMp7eRkQ3yp7mXEvgX6eA


“David Pecker to be first witness in Trump's hush money trial: New York Times”

Couldn’t they have found a Richard Pecker, or a Randy Pecker? I mean it is a trial about hush money paid to a #porn star…

https://apple.news/ADaLBX2MtQMytsqNZj3vvQA

#Trump #politics #TrumpTrial


On my way to get an MRI this morning I walked past a window where I saw a woman running on a treadmill - with a view of Central Park. The weather was perfect for running outdoors, and Central Park is a runners nirvana. Which raises the question - why indoors when she could be running in the park?

🤔🤦


This an incredible article that explains so much about the conflict in #Israel / #Palestine…

https://apple.news/A-peJ7qPzRDaAQnnNWpee6g

#MizrahiJews


#SanFrancisco is truly the tech capital of the world… 🤣

https://apple.news/An_Y0mTlXRHO4o0y4QFm2lg

5 1/4” floppies were archaic even in ‘98 when #Muni installed the system!


Was he given red pills while he was held captive?


That’s a bit harsh, but not untrue.

I like how the Jews approach it. You start life with your first breath and end it with your last breath. Ergo fetuses are part of the mother, not a separate life - until the point of viability when they can survive on their own.


I’m so happy to see #conservatives getting voters out for #Biden! And doing it in a purple state is an added bonus 👍

https://apple.news/AICxi5CuxT9uxeImnHA3_5g

#BlueWave #politics #abortion


Billionaires who condemned Trump are now flocking to his campaign.

It’s obvious why.

Biden wants a 25% tax on billionaires.

Trump wants to double down on tax cuts for the rich.

All they care about is lining their own pockets no matter the cost to everyone else.


I don’t get how the toll on the NJ Turnpike is OK, but the toll on Manhattan roadways isn’t. Both are the same thing.

#CongestionPricing #nyc #ny #nj


Just felt another #aftershock. 4.0 this time.

Clearly #NJ isn’t happy about #CongestionPricing… 😐

https://image.nostr.build/936e687d26f69de4e582a0fbcf5caeac232dc3f44943ef89766340fea4c3879e.jpg


It used to be that the economy had to add 250K jobs every month just to tread water. So 300K doesn’t mean anything substantial happened - it just means we didn’t lose jobs and might have added a few.


Ah, the irony… The guy who gave homophobes their cherished bible was actively bisexual…

“The King James Version of the Bible is the preferred version of many fundamentalist Christian churches — and the one being hawked by Donald Trump in a “God Bless the USA” edition … But what some promoters of the King James Version don’t realize or — at least ignore — is the queerness of the king who commissioned it.

“James, known formally as King James I of England and King James VI of Scotland, would likely be understood as bisexual today.”

https://apple.news/AD8w7-teMT5qvkuufzJS8pg

#LGBThistory #LGBT #LGBTQ #homophobia #bigotry #christians #christianity #history #queer #QueerHistory


Do you have dates yet?


Let me guess… They got it all backwards?

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#dyslexia


So I’ve since discovered I got it all wrong - she wasn’t who I thought she might be.


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.)


spammy hashtags


Woke up early, so went to the gym… #gymstr

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https://www.strava.com/activities/10024505012


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


BeatingUpwind

Gay white guy who lives in Harlem and cycles a lot. Founder of GravelNY.