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@GottaLaff
We aren't sliding into a New World Order, we fell over the cliff and hit bottom

@SnowshadowII @GottaLaff

Waaaait... this is week 1... there's a lot more coming.

@VeroniqueB99 @GottaLaff

P25 forewarned us. Nothing is "coming". They have been readying everything, setting it into place. It's only a matter of sharing announcements.

@SnowshadowII @GottaLaff

yup... but there'll be things like restrictions in traveling from State to State and other creative things...

Go check out the State Dept website... I've never seen gaslighting this pure.

@VeroniqueB99 @GottaLaff

Not tonight, thanks. Project 2025 was enough for me.
Anyone paying attention to the news over the past two years knows what is happening.
States closing borders with each other over abortion was only the start.
We truly are in a sci-fi dystopia.

@SnowshadowII @GottaLaff

yeah... but I'm still shocked. Even though I knew. It's weird....

@VeroniqueB99
I am past feeling shocked.. I moved on to the "Fuck this shit. Make Plans to resist and survive" stage.@GottaLaff

@SnowshadowII @VeroniqueB99 @GottaLaff #MargaretAtwood, asked about her dystopian novels (#HandmaidsTale) said everything she's written has happened somewhere.

@SonofaGeorge
Brilliant woman. It's a shame people don't bother reading more of her writing.
@VeroniqueB99 @GottaLaff

@SnowshadowII @GottaLaff yeah I should warn you the bottom is filled with quicksand so you just keep on sinking!

@MayhamMonday Weird you should say this, look for my new post about my nightmare. @GottaLaff

@SnowshadowII @GottaLaff yeah this realization came to me last June so I painted it.

@MayhamMonday

I recently bought new art supplies and decided to make time again each day. It's been too long. It's great for mental health, eh?@GottaLaff

@SnowshadowII @GottaLaff I have a whole stack of ideas I'd like to paint but I haven't been able to do them because when I stress out I organize & that's what I've been doing since November organizing everything in my flipping life! I even made the decision that this coming weekend I'm going to be reorganizing the furniture layout in my living room. I just want to paint!

@MayhamMonday
Could you set aside 10 minutes each day simply to draw or paint. A way to break the cycle.

@GottaLaff

@SnowshadowII @GottaLaff eventually I'll run out of things to organize & my creative side will kick in again but right now there's been too much chaos in the world & over organizing my personal world is all I can concentrate on.

@MayhamMonday
I get it. If the world is in chaos, controlling your personal space gives you comfort.
I do the same when I am angry. My home becomes sparkling clean. lol
@GottaLaff

@GottaLaff I guess I need to use a different search engine. Their AI junk info at the top of a search is super annoying and I automatically skip down a half page before I look at the info presented

@FaithinBones @GottaLaff Kagi comes to mind as a solid contender (albeit with a subscription fee).

Other than that, Ecosia and Qwant are looking at building their own search index instead of simply repackaging Bing so it might be worth keeping an eye on that.

wired.com/story/ecosia-qwant-e

WIRED · Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on GoogleBy Paresh Dave

@FaithinBones @GottaLaff I’ve been having a decent time using Startpage.

@GottaLaff

Giggle was never a stalwart for anything but its own profits. Caving in so blatantly to a nonsensical demand sets the framework for a cascade of future cave-ins.

@GottaLaff they’ve all figured 🍊🐓💩 * out.

Because of his vindictive tendencies, there is no point in fighting him over silly things that trigger him. It’s wiser to let him believe you are 100% behind him and do your own thing when he’s not looking.

* Orange cock splat. A name given to Trump when visiting Scotland and congratulating them on Brexit, unaware that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 voted overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union.

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cockspl

Wiktionarycocksplat - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

@GottaLaff Of course they will, because they have no interest in incurring the wrath of the orange man-baby.

@GottaLaff
What pathetic losers. The billionaires have more power than the Dotard Traitor. Why don't they know that?

@GottaLaff So this means they’ll be renaming the White House, the Reichstag?

@Steveotter @GottaLaff Führerbunker or Reichskanzlei …

But why rename. The new US ›branding‹ also works with the original names.

@GottaLaff

Time to break out the Liberty Cabbage 🇩🇪 and Freedom Fries 🇫🇷 🍟, Trump has renamed the Gulf of Mexico 🇲🇽.

'Merica. 🦅 🇺🇸

(Sarcasm, obviously)

One of my favorite people works for Apple, @GottaLaff, so I’ve been using AppleMaps recently. Here is another reason to toss Google Maps. “Don’t be Evil” my ass.

@TheFerg @GottaLaff
Google gave up that slogan ages ago.

OpenStreetMaps for me.

I was introduced to GPS in the early ‘00s on my BlackBerry. I spent 3 days a week in the field working the big cities on the West Coast. That was their native Maps app, one step up from the Thomas Guides.

With Waze I saw the power of crowd sourcing coupled with NOAA and of course the personality. Now Waze is owned by Google and I’m using an app for navigation almost 30-hours per week.

I may spend a few minutes looking at OpenStreet but I need to actively minimize my use of all things Google.

@GottaLaff

OMG

I'll cling to my 1957 Rand McNally Atlas of World History.

@GottaLaff

lol fucking bullshit and waste of time/money/oxygen, this entire administration

@GottaLaff I wonder what other countries will rename the US on their maps.

@GottaLaff The fact America is, North America, South America and Central America. I recall from grammar school? Why not name it Golf of Trump?

@GottaLaff

You may or may not have noticed that the Palestinian Territories do not exist on Google Maps.

@GottaLaff hmmm seems like good time to flood google with suggested edits for the name.

@GottaLaff not sure google gets to decide what a large body of water is called…or a President. In any case….I will avoid google to the greatest extent I can.

@lillyfinch @GottaLaff
I stopped using G in favor of DDG about 8 months ago and have only slipped twice. (But I don’t drive anywhere that needs a map)

@cynblogger @GottaLaff I don’t drive much and when I do I use Apple Maps. Won’t use g as search engine…thinking of changing my mail server. How do you like DDG maps?

@lillyfinch @GottaLaff
I only use DDG for day to day knowledge questions.

@GottaLaff I am signing my own executive order and changing their name to Goober Maps.
👏There it’s official.

@GottaLaff I will be filing bug reports every time I see this on a map.

@EdwinG Or stop using GoogleMaps

@GottaLaff That’s one solution we can easily embrace 😄

@GottaLaff as long as google spells it 'Gulf of 'Merica' <sarcasm>