January, 2022 - Policywank

Amelia King

I’m mostly posting this because I want there to be yet one more entry in search results for Amelia King. Only a white lady could threaten a school board that she’s going to show up to school with loaded guns and suffer no consequences.

Virginia Mom Threatens to Bring ‘Loaded’ Guns to School If Her Kids Have to Mask Up

Amelia King ranted at a school board meeting that “there’s a lot of good science” to support ignoring commonsense COVID precautions.

The best twitter thread ever

I urge everyone to read this full thread. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a more effective way of calling out people who twist and distort Dr. King’s legacy without actually understanding what he was about.

I was invited to give an MLK speech today and a small number of members of the group hosting me wrote and then leaked emails opposing my giving this speech, as it dishonored Dr. King for me to do so. They called me a "discredited activist" "unworthy of such association with King"
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) January 17, 2022

LOL. Conspiracy.

I think Kayak just earned some of my business. The mom in this is less deranged than the people drinking their own urine to cure Covid.

Mom’s a KAYAK Denier

You can’t reason with them. They do their own “research.” They believe it’s all a conspiracy. Yup, you’ve encountered a KAYAK Denier. Which means that no amo…

ShiftCam ProGrip and lenses

I was really excited about the ShiftCam ProGrip from the people who created the ShiftLens system. I have to say that I do not recommend this product to anyone using an iPhone 13 mini. I will write a longer post in the next few days with photos and details on why you should avoid this grip. I think it has a lot of potential for users of the larger phones, but their support is not great, their website isn’t updated regularly enough with accurate information, and that has left me in the position of selling my kit in the near future.

Climate Change News: That Old Propaganda

The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing

Since the 1980s, fossil fuel firms have run ads touting climate denial messages – many of which they’d now like us to forget. Here’s our visual guide

These people should be tried in the Hague. That’s if you want to be genteel about it.

Three years earlier, in 1959, America’s oil bosses had been warned that burning fossil fuels could lead to global heating “sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York”.
Their knowledge only grew. A 1979 internal Exxon study warned of “dramatic environmental effects” before 2050. “By the late 1970s”, a former Exxon scientist recently recalled, “global warming was no longer speculative”.’