The grifting conspiracy theories & lies about the devastating LA fires are cynically preying on people who are in deep pain. Thank you @gavinnewsom.bsky.social for this website debunking the lies.
Please remember that LA is a blue collar town. Sure there are celebrities and producers and wealthy people, but many of the people are very hardworking folks, mostly working paycheck to paycheck. If you talk shit, I shit you not, karma will fucking find you.
Sadly it’s only going to get worse.
The swift change in the climate has wiped out so much money from insurance & they decided to cut their losses.
They did it to my family in NorCal. And my dad & sis worked for ages to get new insurance through the CA plan, which I fear will be wiped out by the fires because of ins being canceled in LA prior to the fires & it being the only option. It’s happened to so many people I know all over the state.
Me too. Feeling sick to my stomach all the time.
It is wild to see this happening in real time
“Private firefighter force” what fresh hell? Imagine having so much money you have your own firefighting forces
Something bugging me is this idea fanned by media that LA and CA were “unprepared” to contain these fires, in particular the Palisades Fire. It was a fire hurricane. Welcome to what climate scientists, activists, and regular folks who understand what they’re reading/seeing have warned for decades.
Instagram is just slide after slide after slide of GoFundMes to raise $$ to rebuild peoples’ entire lives. Much like with healthcare crises: you shouldn’t need to have a social media following to be able to recover from disaster.
The 13th Amendment allows for modern day SLAVE LABOR. They risking their lives for pennies.
we're out here paypaling and GFMing the last $25 we have back and forth to infinity while slogging through a labyrinth of ridiculous injustice, and they are freaking out because someone suggested they should have more money than they could spend in 2999 lifetimes instead of 3005 lifetimes.
Some days it just hits me how every one of us--every single person reading this--is braver, tougher, and more generous than any of the billionaires who fancy themselves our superiors, and how ridiculous it is that this handful of cry babies with the luxury of doing ANYTHING THEY WANT choose... this.
I’m so glad I stayed up north but I also feel so guilty to not be in LA to help
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In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde; it was condemned by Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance”
All we seem to do these days 😭
Hello! I forget about this app all the time too. I’m doing well, stayed with my family up north for the time being. Hope all is well with you! ❤️
So glad you’ll hopefully have a fix soon!! ❤️
a venn diagram. the left circle is “people who understand that climate change is an existential threat” and the right circle is “people who use Al, but, like, not for real work! lol! i just needed a silly pic of a dog on a scooter and it's surprisingly hard to find good reference images”
waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
Truly exhausted of living in “unprecedented” times
I am so so sorry. Sending you so much love.
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For SoCal friends,
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When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “God is punishing them.”
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
Fox News is a disgrace & I hope every anchor/reporter trying to push the narrative that enough isn’t being done (or letting people say things aren’t being done & they’ve been abandoned) about the fires is ashamed of themselves
I’m good! I’m still in Northern California watching along on the news and doing what I can to help friends back in LA. Thank you for checking ❤️
I didn’t even know this was a thing until I saw multiple posts about it and now I’m kind of like what’s the point of being on here? I’m boring af so I don’t post much but I do like reposting stuff but now it seems like it’s something annoying. Ah well. We’ll get used to this new place soon.
Interesting. We curate our spaces how we like. I find so many things from reposts so I doubt I’d ever be able to turn them off.
I've seen multiple people asking for ways to turn off reposts from people they follow (which you can in Settings>Following Feed Preferences) but I'm confused to why people don't like reposts. Is that not why we're here? To share things we see & enjoy? Am I missing something?