parent.cider maker.photographer.traveler
Flx, NY
Joined April 2007
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Simon Ingall retweeted
Thomas Massie should dedicate his remaining 7 months in congress to burning it all down and revealing every last name on the Epstein list, including Trump’s.
Simon Ingall retweeted
The way some people here talk to others indicates that many, if not quite the majority don't really care if nobody would want to hang out and have a beer with them IRL. You have to give grace if you ever wish to receive grace. It's ok to scroll past a dumb tweet. I think this meanness at a distance actually gives people the sense it is OK to do at the more intimate level as well. I sense this puts the very on-line on edge, wondering who they can trust.
Kindness isn't free. It takes a little time and a little self-giving. I find myself drawn to those who connect people. Who pay attention to their mutuals and find connections. This platform allows that kind of connection.
A few years ago I was chided for "hanging out with communists" who imperil my soul. Turns out none are commies!
I've broken bread in Italy with @SirEvanAmato and @BogatyrH. I've broken bread with @keeper_orchard and visited his pecan trees. I've hosted @cognazor. I attended @dogeatcrow's Baptism and Confirmation and First Communion. @derrick71203411 and his wife have become good friends and travel with us. @gwbled has become a dear friend who has traveled to see my family perform in community theater. There are others I'm not mentioning, as well. I've sent wild apple cuttings to @IntractableLion
and @simoningall and received cuttings as well.
Consider @nealjclark1's whistling man meme. One turn of a phrase might change your outlook on a person from the angry dude who hates the world to the whistling happy man.
If you're spending time wondering what people are thinking of you, save your brain bytes. They're not. But once you start connecting people and helping them find their path in life, suddenly they'll let you know how much they think of you.
Simon Ingall retweeted
4 of @simoningall apple grafts from last spring on a single tree are strong this year. New ones I took this Jan from MN seem to be doing well so far. Hopefully they will burst soon.
Simon Ingall retweeted
If you are worried about the rise of AI - taking your job, sucking up all the energy / water, bombarding your kids with online slop, amplifying 'the machine', destroying humanity... - probably the most tangible thing you can do is to resist data centers coming into your community
Simon Ingall retweeted
Dude this thing is $80 and made of American glass & steel go reserve one rn
3 months ago, I quit my job to chase a dream: to build an affordable, convenient, plastic-free coffee maker.
Grateful for everyone who has reserved ❤️
puresteelco.com
Simon Ingall retweeted
If your representative, Democrat or Republican, is still silent about the Epstein files, or claiming it’s “much ado about nothing,” it’s time to elect a new one. Check their public statements today.
Simon Ingall retweeted
Carrying a firearm is not a death sentence, it’s a Constitutionally protected God-given right, and if you don’t understand this you have no business in law enforcement or government.
If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you.
Don’t do it!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The U.S. Constitution (particularly the 2nd, 4th, and 14th amendments) prohibit officers from shooting citizens merely for possessing a weapon that is not an “imminent threat”. This was reaffirmed in Graham v Connor, which says force must be reasonable.
supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/…
justice.gov/jm/1-16000-dep….
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitut…
Simon Ingall retweeted
The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability. What the rest of us are facing now, is what Aimé Césaire called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland. The tyranny Athens imposed on others, Thucydides noted, it finally, with the collapse of Athenian democracy, imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, and often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics, as long as they were directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned and betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.
ALT Protesters clash with law enforcement after a federal agent shot and killed a man on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis (Photo by Arthur Maiorella/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Simon Ingall retweeted
Every gun owner who is not a hypocrite or a fudd knows what happened to Alex Pretti today — regardless of your views on immigration — was wrong. There is no excuse, whether it's at a COVID protest or an ICE protest. The Second Amendment does not have a political exception.
Simon Ingall retweeted
How much GDP have we lost by turning the apparatus of the state into a jobs program whose primary function is to impede the producers of GDP
Simon Ingall retweeted
twitter management has never really understood their own app. but i’m surprised at the incuriosity about how these communities formed in the first place
how did users find each other for years without a big button showing who to follow? maybe there’s some threads to pull there
Simon Ingall retweeted
ICE is arresting children as young as 5 in their driveway after they get home from school and shipping them to detention centers in Texas. This is objectively depraved and it’s insane Dem leadership refuses to support reducing ICE’s budget (which was TRIPLED this year) at all
CBS Minnesota: ICE has arrested four children in same Minnesota school district cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/m…
Simon Ingall retweeted
Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley just dropped a bomb:
For the last two weeks, police have been flooded with complaints of U.S. citizens being stopped with no cause and forced to show “papers” to prove they’re here legally.
He says it’s happening to officers too, even off duty.
And every single person targeted has been a person of color.
This has to stop.
Simon Ingall retweeted
A serious question: why does Israel still hold a seat at the United Nations while it openly bulldozes UN facilities, undermines humanitarian work, and violates the very charter the UN is supposed to uphold?
BREAKING: Israeli crews bulldoze a UN headquarters in east Jerusalem as Israel tightens restrictions on humanitarian groups. apnews.com/article/israel-pa…
