Posts by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AWUHdktCVN4J2TLNCK by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-07T14:52:30Z
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PSA from a southern Californian: Your N95s and KN95s (and even your cloth masks to a certain extent) will help a lot against wildfire smoke. Stay safe out there, friends.
(DIR) Post #AWUHdoHPtnDnYRhFrM by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-07T15:15:50Z
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I just realized I have some expertise here that might help if you have questions you need answered. I was a breaking news reporter for a billion years and around here that means covering a lot of wildfires up close and personal (without proper gear, but I digress.) As a highly curious environmental and indigenous rights reporter I learned a lot of fire science as well. If you have questions about how to deal with an ugly fire season I can try to answer them as best as I can.
(DIR) Post #AWUHdrWPqU0Bbpjm9g by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-07T15:41:54Z
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Also those Corsi-Rosenthal boxes are supposed to be excellent but I haven't tried them out. I do use air filters when things get exceptionally bad, and humidifiers can help too, at least around here where humidity can get so low that it sucks all the moisture out of your eyes and nose
(DIR) Post #AWkDhCW27a5dAUFsiO by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-16T03:39:00Z
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rachel-hunt-north-carolina-twitter-video-abortion_n_648b4257e4b0756ff8631dec
(DIR) Post #AWr36MxSh8pbPAbR68 by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-18T21:57:28Z
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@vortex_egg We're just fucked. It's awful.
(DIR) Post #AWr36PmwAjCABOhZbs by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-18T22:57:33Z
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@seachanger @vortex_egg Oh! I was specifically talking about how dipshit billionaires have been allowed to basically use our info systems as social control but @vortex_egg might have been talking about something else. There's plenty to choose from but it's all bad :(
(DIR) Post #AWr36ScPeJYixcni7c by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-19T15:29:08Z
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@vortex_egg @seachanger Oh yeah neither was I. I truly believe in the power of the fediverse to change our discourse for the better. I'm more concerned right now about our journalism, our libraries and books, our classrooms, our ability to track down peer-reviewed info on line, etc. It just all feels so fragile right now, as we tremble on the precipice of a very different world
(DIR) Post #AWr36TL4yFHvC9hNk8 by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-06-19T15:33:43Z
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@vortex_egg @seachanger Mastodon could have the power to pull us out of this and I had such hopes for Bluesky which are now fizzling into "well at least I can shitpost there." But I missed whatever the hell's going on with Meta and the fediverse today, only seeing reference to it
(DIR) Post #AXYhFDtOCVlRzeiBjk by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-07-10T17:18:47Z
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https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/del-cerro-neighbors-wake-up-to-antisemitic-flyers-on-car-windshields/3260708/
(DIR) Post #AXYhFEfbJGKSPBGgsq by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-07-10T17:33:49Z
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I spent a good decade of my career in and around southern California newsrooms getting branded as "a maverick" because I kept insisting there were organized hives of white supremacists using San Diego as their home base lol. At least some of my colleagues have finally apologized to me
(DIR) Post #AXYhFFHt0uxCJvBGYi by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-07-10T17:38:37Z
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Also, Del Cerro is the next town over from my own hometown, where this happened in June 2020. Only white people were surprised. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/gallery/photos-looting-rioting-hit-la-mesa-after-protest-turns-violent
(DIR) Post #AXYhFG2gCwNsf34dUm by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-07-10T17:46:03Z
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This was the La Mesa police patch until, I think, 1992. Again, one town over from Del Cerro, which is also where Brenda Spencer carried out the very first school mass shooting in the nation ("I don't like Mondays"). The hill is Mt. Helix and the cross was originally put up there to tell Jewish people to keep out. There's a similar one that's much more famous in La Jolla that was originally put up for the same reason.
(DIR) Post #AXnpQBCfItYc9IbZ4a by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-07-18T00:40:43Z
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@alexwild Agreed. Instead, we get overmoneyed dipshits sinking their un-earned lucre into stupid fucking bullshit like Threads
(DIR) Post #AXnpQDJ7TruOftdkPY by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-07-18T00:40:59Z
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@alexwild Which I firmly consider to be an act of war in the form of resilience targeting
(DIR) Post #AXvSk85ulGToiUIusy by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-07-21T17:20:46Z
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-tells-poland-any-aggression-against-belarus-is-attack-russia-2023-07-21/?utm_source=reddit.com
(DIR) Post #AY23r9klzTmM6h3lSa by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-07-24T21:39:11Z
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@inquiline Henry James would know, that bloated old fuck
(DIR) Post #AY5wiH19gtXAz2Na6q by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-07-25T23:46:54Z
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4119158-man-who-misused-donations-solicited-for-trump-agenda-sentenced-to-prison/
(DIR) Post #AZ6406wFXIsLnPjvJw by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-08-25T17:13:27Z
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Hellooooooooo I just heard a rumor that the Farscape digital boxed set is on sale for USD$22 so it's my responsibility to pass this along to everybody else (did you see this, @chigh?!?!)
(DIR) Post #AZfxwmecetV27Q0nEO by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-09-11T14:47:24Z
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Good morning, not sure who needs to see this story from last week but I think probably a lot of us. Don't listen to any polling stories this election cycle -- they're being run and apparently reported on by fucking amateurs https://newrepublic.com/post/175387/wsj-poll-showing-trump-biden-evenly-matched-trump-helped-pay
(DIR) Post #AZlSPXmMfUbpyUdgrQ by brooklynmarie@mastodon.social
2023-09-14T17:13:41Z
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Hey look, it's that thing I spent years warning about while so-called "experts" gaslit the public about the truth. They should be fucking pilloried for how bad they fucked the country. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7byyd/2024-election-neo-nazis-visble-on-streets