The Lone Pipet(wo)man

She/Her. Researcher, artist, gamer. 🏳️‍🌈🧪👾Hoarder of dice and brownie recipes. I'd rather be hiking.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

When we say "crime is a social construct", what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

This is from an American I know fighting in Ukraine. It appears @elonmusk isn’t even hiding it anymore.

There are competitors to starlink and the US needs to consider funding them. Musks enterprises cannot be sole source anymore, obviously.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

TikTok reportedly taken on a creek that runs from East Palestine, Ohio. Notice that it’s full of dead fish. This combined with reports of chicken and livestock die off and reporters being arrested in the area is painting a startlingly more dire picture than is being reported.

[The Lone Pipet(wo)man @WasatchMatcha]

@DukeOnYou1 @emrazz Married woman with no desire to have children, especially since now the government will basically have no problems watching me die if anything goes wrong with the pregnancy. Most of my female friends from 25-40 feel similar.

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

For the last few months I've been reporting on a group of people who travel across America blocking wind and solar projects.

In my research and interviews, I kept hearing about one man who has helped block dozens of projects.

Here's his story:

🧵

[dara faye @darafaye]

A mother & her 6 yr old daughter were found dead after police responded to a DV call&didn’t secure the weapon of the boyfriend who had been making threats.

Within minutes of officers leaving, the mother & daughter were shot to death.

This is a gun law & police training issue.

[Jenny Stojkovic @jennystojkovic]

Alfalfa, which is primarily used to feed cattle, uses two-thirds of the entire state of Utah's water.

https://t.co/czqDmdGzKD

[Jenny Stojkovic @jennystojkovic]

In fact, more than 75% of all Utah cropland is growing alfalfa and hay to feed cattle.

Two and a half hours of water usage in one single field of alfalfa is the same amount of water used by a family of four...for a year.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

BREAKING: The 5th Circuit in Texas just struck down the federal domestic violence restraining order gun prohibition. Given that domestic violence is often a precursor to gun violence, this ruling is a death sentence for women and families in the US.

https://t.co/CWHH5jEE31

[The Lone Pipet(wo)man @WasatchMatcha]

@cmclymer I hope you are right.

[dara faye @darafaye]

46 men were arrested in Frisco, TX because they were all part of a sex trafficking ring.

A volunteer firefighter, a HS teacher, a youth pastor, a semi-pro hockey player, & a hospital director of operations are some of those arrested.

But ZERO were drag queens.

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

a weird amount of people are struggling with the fact that if you are a successful author donating 10% of your income to a notoriously homophobic cult then it doesn't matter how friendly you are to my face, you're sticking a knife in my back, this is mundane gay ally theory 101

[tern @1goodtern]

I have been genuinely gobsmacked this week by the widespread use of HEPA in government buildings and at events like Davos.
I've been campaigning fruitlessly for HEPA in schools for two and a half years.
Meanwhile those two-faced turds protect themselves with it.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

This is the same bill where Utah senators EXCLUDED cis breast implants from the bill on a vote. They only care about targeting trans kids, not cis ones.

https://t.co/KdOLjluXmp

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

It was never about protecting kids.

Yesterday in Utah, Senator Escamilla called Republicans bluff by making them vote on banning teenage breast implants in an anti-trans healthcare ban.

All Republicans voted against it.

Subscribe to support my work.

https://t.co/KdOLjluXmp

[The Lone Pipet(wo)man @WasatchMatcha]

@kazweida 😞 It’s very upsetting and I’m disappointed but…not surprised.

[Greg Fish @_neutronfish]

“Governments have no right to tell you what kind of stove to use,” cries the party that wants to use the government to tell you how to dress, who to date, how and when to have sex, what books your libraries can carry, when to have children, and what teachers can teach.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Moderna is planning to charge $130 for its COVID vaccine, but the vaccine only costs $2.85 to make.

Meanwhile, over the last two years, the company made over $19 billion in profits off the vaccine.

Folks, this is what corporate greed looks like.