Jim Parkin

@parkinjim.bsky.social

parkinjim.bsky.social Engineer, European, Brit @parkinjim on twitter parkinjim@toot.community.

Misinformation is everywhere. Listening to Hannah Spencer you realise how cynical & targeted it is. Confirmation bias of all who oppose her leads to most believing fake news without even an attempt of double-checking the 'info' they read. All it takes is a screenshot of her shirt & a reverse search.

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

The VRA was part of a response - a very successful response - to halt violence against Black Americans exercising the franchise or simply existing as equals. Erasing it cuts away at the suffering and sacrifice of generations of Black and White Americans alike, fighting for equality

As SCOTUS was dismantling the Voting Rights Act today, I was leading a staff ride at Antietam, the single bloodiest day in American history and the campaign that permitted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, beginning a century-long path to the VRA All of that feels incredibly fraught

As long as a single russian invader or colonist remains in Ukraine, Europe is in a state of war. As long a single russian agent of influence holds political power in a democratic society, the world is in a state of war.

This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?

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I just block AI slop now. Yesterday, it was an 'amazing rock-throwing octopus'. The day before, 'the beautiful swirls of gas on Jupiter'. Mate, the world is amazing. I don't want to see it through the lens of some fascist tech-bro's thirsty waste of electricity. #AI #FakeSlop Ugh. No thanks.

Jen , the MT liberal bird lady@liberal-jen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've seen the rock-throwing octopus video posted many times now. The video is fake. Yes, female octopuses have been seen shooting sand and debris at unwelcome males, but they don't throw strikes with their tentacles.