If you strip away the noise, the Republican takeover of formerly progressive New College boils down to:

1. Paying themselves excessively high salaries from public money.

2. Purging people who might criticize them.

3. Giving campus restaurant and other business contracts to their friends.

4. Lowering academic standards so they can attract tuition payments from students too gullible to notice they’re just marks for a grift.

#NewCollege #HigherEd #Florida

https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2023/11/15/new-college-florida-desantis-transformation

Vibin’ to ROSE GOLD (and other Kitty Ray projects) while I keep movin’ through this #Elixir book.

https://kitty.bandcamp.com/album/rose-gold

#Florida #Music

ROSE GOLD, by kitty

16 track album

^kitty

URGENT need for 400 dollars for legal fees:

Help Mari, a trans woman raise money for her legal fees and flee florida's anti-trans legislation and find some security in a better place, away from her parents, likely in minnesota.:

Goal: 3553/5700

Link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-trans-woman-flee-florida?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

Tags: #TransCrowdFund #LegalFees #TransMutualAid #MutualAid #GTFOmyState #Minnesota #Florida #Boost #Fundraising #Fundraiser

Help a trans woman flee Florida, organized by Mari B

Hello Everyone I am Mari I am a Transgender Floridian who needs help to leave Florida due … Mari B needs your support for Help a trans woman flee Florida

^gofundme.com

Help Andy, a transmasc individual flee florida's anti-trans legislation. They need to be able to pay for their rent and other living expenses to be able to sustain a safe life away from violence by shipping their goods to WA and moving there :

Goal : 445/3500 dollars

Link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-escape-from-florida?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

Tags: #TransCrowdFund #TransMutualAid #GTFOmyState #Florida #Washington #Fundraiser #Fundraising #MutualAid #TransMasc

Help a transmasc escape from Florida, organized by Andy Luengo

Hello, I'm Andy, a queer person living on Florida. I moved from Venezuela a year ago… Andy Luengo needs your support for Help a transmasc escape from Florida

^gofundme.com

URGENT!

Help Mia, a NonBinary individual cover for their living expenses as they recently had to flee florida due to anti-trans legislation, it is a bit urgent so if we can reach the goal within a week, it would be swell!

Updated Goal: 185/300 dollars*

*REQUEST: good job yall! pls BOOST again/keep BOOSTING!

Link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mia-flee-florida?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

Tags: #TransCrowdFund #MutualAid #TransMutualAid #NonBinary #Florida #GTFOmyState #Fundraiser #Fundraising

Help Ex-Floridian Pay the Bills, organized by Mia K

Hi all, I'm Mia, a nonbinary person who recently moved out of Florida due to its hateful legisl… Mia K needs your support for Help Ex-Floridian Pay the Bills

^gofundme.com

Here is our 11:15 PM ET update on #Idalia, and it's rather grim for the Big Bend and Apalachee Bay, where as much as 12 to 16 feet of water may arrive Wed AM. Winds are now 110 mph near the center, and Idalia landfall is expected as a Cat 4. Major hurricane force winds will come close to #tallahassee Lots of details and most questions answered in our post.

https://theeyewall.com/idalia-about-to-become-a-major-hurricane-and-will-deliver-catastrophic-storm-surge-to-the-big-bend-and-portions-of-apalachee-bay/

#florida #georgia #northcarolina #southcarolina #ncwx #scwx #gawx #flwx #tropics #hurricane #storm #weather #gulf

Malaria used to be endemic and not uncommon in the United States as far north as Chicago, before being eradicated by large-scale public health campaigns involving the draining of mosquito breeding sites and pesticide spraying.

This resurgence in Florida really wants to happen. The disease and the insect vector are both happy here, and I really wish people appreciated the scale of government involvement required to keep Malaria out.

#Florida #Malaria #Mosquitoes

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/florida-records-second-rare-case-of-malaria/ar-AA1cQzAu

Florida Records Second Rare Case Of Malaria

A​ second very rare case of a person being infected with malaria from a local mosquito bite is being reported in Florida.

^MSN

Jaycee is a #trans teacher who needs to flee #florida with their spouse, they recently got a job (congrats!) and need to cover travel costs! :

goal: 1771/3000 dollars

https://gofund.me/9d2846ac

Tags: #MutualAid #TransCrowdFund #Fundraiser #GTFOmyState #boost #TransMutualAid

Content warning: Long thread/37 Click to open/close

To get a sense of how that would work, check out #InteroperableFacebook, a video and essay I put together with @eff to act as a kind of #DesignFiction, in the form of a user manual for a federated, interoperable Facebook:

https://www.eff.org/interoperablefacebook

He points out that this kind of mandatory interop is a preferable alternative to the unconstitutional (and unworkable!) speech bans proposed by #Florida and #texas
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Interoperable Facebook

In this video, we discuss the forces that keep us using services like Facebook long after we stop enjoying them (hint, it's not because social media is "addictive") and we present a short "design fiction" explaining what it might be like to use socia…

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}