Generational-wealth elitist @SenFrankNiceley briefly cosplayed homelessness (just like his go-to reference for decision-making, Hitler), camping along highways in his dad's truck w/friends on a fun crosscountry trip. Is it only criminal when u don't have a nice home 2 go back to?
@AnthonyBalducc5@boxofduststudio@NYCMayor Anthony, get a grip. Since I have encountered you, none of the words u use refer to reality. I suspect you could benefit from reality testing the things that are bringing you distress. Put down the AI for a few days. Call a sibling. Take a walk. Anger can kill you if you let it.
@AnthonyBalducc5@NYCMayor So, you exposed your low-info status w/ your "Parks&Rec" jab, yet still declined to do any research bfore doubling down on your impotent rage? A choice. The team & goal r new. A focus on timely parks repair. The name IS catchy, tho! There's even a tracker: https://t.co/6jnxS0k3lM
Tonight, while you're asleep, several hundred million birds will fly over the United States in the dark. Most of them will pass directly over your house, a few thousand feet up.
More than 80% of North America's migratory birds travel at night. Warblers, thrushes, orioles, tanagers, sparrows. Birds that weigh as much as a few coins, crossing a continent between sunset and sunrise, navigating by stars and by the earth's magnetic field.
Mid-September through early October is the peak. On the biggest night ever recorded, radar picked up 1.25 billion birds aloft over the US at once.
And there's one thing standing in their way that you personally control: your lights.
Artificial light pulls night-migrating birds off course from as far as three miles away. Once they're drawn in, they circle the lit area, over and over, burning fuel they can't spare, until they either drop from exhaustion or hit glass. It's worst on low, foggy nights, when birds fly closer to the ground and the light bounces off the cloud ceiling.
Building collisions kill somewhere between 365 million and nearly a billion birds a year in this country. In Chicago in fall 2023, close to 1,000 birds died against a single convention center in a single day.
Two things you can do tonight to help them out:
1. Turn off non-essential outdoor lights between 11pm and 6am. Porch, floods, landscape uplighting, the string lights on the deck. All of it.
2. Close your blinds. Interior light spilling through a window does the same thing as an outdoor fixture, and it's the one people never think of.
One more thing worth doing, purely for yourself. BirdCast runs live migration radar and it will tell you how many birds crossed your specific county last night. Not an estimate for the region. Your county. Go look at the number, then go outside and stand in the dark knowing it.
If you want to actually see some of it, watch the sky at dusk over the next couple of weeks. Common nighthawks are one of the few migrants that move in the evening, in loose scattered flocks, flying with a stiff-winged flicker and a white bar near each wingtip. Most people who see them assume they're bats.
North America has three billion fewer birds than it did in 1970, and long-distance migrants took the worst of it.
techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”
We are rapidly devolving into a dystopian state.
ICE is ordering $2 MILLION worth of robot dogs that can open doors, track people and see 360 degrees. They’ve also approved the purchase of “shock gloves” capable of delivering up to 380 volts.
Add Flock cameras tracking vehicles across the country and a growing surveillance network capable of automatically detecting and following human movement.
None of this is normal or good.
🔴 A heartbreaking scene that captures the harsh reality in Gaza: A Palestinian girl inside a displacement tent tries to ease the summer heat for her infant brother using the lid of a plastic container, amid power outages, water shortages, and the absence of the most basic necessities of life.
@AnthonyBalducc5@NYCMayor Pointlessly negative & disingenuous. The Renew Crew initiative IS being facilitated by Parks &Rec, launched by Mamdani & Parks Commissioner Shimamura. I guess prioritizing neighborhood repairs wld seem petty to an out of touch AI slopmonger tho, so, keep building that brand, guy.
When stressed, this comb jelly reverts to a larval form, then matures again when favorable conditions return.
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First trailer for 'IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME', starring Danielle Brooks and J. Alphonse Nicholson.
The film follows a boy who attempts to connect with his distant father while sensing mysterious visions, from airplanes & Greek gods that follow him through his everyday world.
In theaters on September 18.
A very large piece of the Elites’ plan is to create a timeline so in-your-face evil & cartoonishly stupid that most moral people with brains just shut down/give up. They create a world where using your brain and your heart is punishment. They’re counting on you giving up.
Don’t.