Thursday, 16 January 2025

Who can you trust?

I've been setting limits on my privacy on Facebook, especially during our work against the gun range in our backyard. It's the place where I can keep up with family and far-away friends. Trolls are not welcome. 

Whether you are on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, or WhatsApp, Meta announced a loosening in standards and fact checking. 


This includes the ability of people to use rainbow themes. Heaven forbid we show our Pride, or show that we are allies to friends and family. 




The billionaires are sucking up to the far right bigots, misogynists, and disrespecting people they consider different. They are out of their minds. Profits over principles. 

Look at what they did on Facebook to someone:

There are huge conspiracy theories around, but we know who are doing the most harm to our children. It's not the LGBTQ community.

You really have to check your sources. 

Here are the antiheroes

The new convoy people are planning to head into cities on Jan. 25th. 
Convoy Watch


Look for the heroes!

In the meantime, there are a lot of people working really hard to look after one another.

 Firefighters, what a plane! This was from CBC.


Our plane, hired by California, collided with a drone flying illegally. It's been under repair for a week. What a criminal action. The fines, in the US, are $75,000 for the incursion in the area of the fire. 

Witnesses can report their concerns to Transport Canada through its drone incident reporting portal. Other aviation incidents may be reported at Incident reporting: Report an aviation incident.

Wed., Jan. 15, at 16:51 hours, Quebec sent another water bomber to California. 
I found out it was diverted in Columbus, rather than heading to St. Louis. I hope they don't have a problem. 




12 comments:

eileeninmd said...

Hello,
I have been seeing people leaving facebook lately, they are not happy. Things are changing and they are not good changes.
I agree the firefighters and first responders are heroes.
Take care, have a great day!

Yamini MacLean said...

Hari OM
The mind boggles - no, it collapses in despair... YAM xx

Barbara Rogers said...

Oh geese, I didn't know while they removed fact checking that Meta had taken away some LBGTQ rights. There's also a new social network called Bluebird, or something like that. I signed up, but haven't been back to see if they have anything interesting happening. I do so appreciate the Canadians who are helping with the wildfires. Golly, I hope the trucks don't take over your city like they did last year.

Kay said...

Kay of Musings: Misinformation in the US will now be rife with lies and distortion. It’s absolutely nuts. And yes, I agree… they are sucking up to Trump. I heard about that drone hitting the Canadian plane. Absolutely crazy!

Cloudia said...

More and more decent people are starting to understand what's going on. Hang in there friend. Hold the sanity! Aloha

DrumMajor said...

Thank you dear Canadians for watching out for the good folks in the U.S. Hope those beautiful planes get repaired ok. Linda in Kansas

Elephant's Child said...

I am with YAM, and worry for the world.

Ontario Wanderer said...

It is a stranger and stranger world we are living in.

Red said...

You cover a lot of territory i the post. I agree with you. the fat cats are doing exceptionally well for themselves. It's evil to give the folks in California a rough time about the fires.

Anvilcloud said...

I am mostly on BlueSky for social media although I have some reasons to use FB.

DeniseinVA said...

It is all becoming very toxic, and despicable. But yay for the firefighters! They and their kind give me a flicker of hope.

William Kendall said...

It's become bizarre.