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JohnShirley2023

@JohnShirley2023@mastodon.cloud

Writer of novels in several genres, and story collections; also nonfiction; movie and animation scripts, song lyrics. Speaker (TEDx and elsewhere). Futurist. Blogger. Interests in science, spirituality, the arts. Writer of science-fiction, horror, techno-thrillers, thrillers, westerns. One of the original cyberpunk novelists. Vocalist, records albums, eg "Escape from Gravity" with Jerry King. Has worked in TV and movies: Co-wrote The Crow. New novel: SUBORBITAL 7. https://john-shirley.com

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JohnShirley2023, to random
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[Did you know there were women Islamic commando teams fighting alongside the USA against the Taliban? There were. ]

She was lucky to escape Afghanistan. Two years later, she’s stuck in limbo.

This former commander of an Afghan military all-female special ops team, Mahnaz Akbari was among the 77,000 U.S. allies successfully evacuated to the United States...her status here still isn't cleared up as Congress has failed to deliver on the promises made to our allies...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/08/afghanistan-withdrawal-allies-afghan-adjustment-act/

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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Who learned to type on a real typewriter?

Please boost for a wider demographic.

JohnShirley2023,
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@dancinyogi I learned on a manual. Electric was a big innovation.

JohnShirley2023, to random
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These damned young people today...

"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions." - Plato, 4th Century BC

JohnShirley2023, to random
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Evangelicals Are Now Rejecting JESUS as TOO LIBERAL (not a joke! Not The Onion!)

"Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount and...'Where did you get those liberal talking points?'"

"When the pastor would say, 'I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ' ... The response would be, 'Yes, but that doesn't work anymore.' "When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, we're in a crisis."
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

JohnShirley2023,
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Yes they DO think Jesus is too woke. Not all evangelicals take this attitude. But there's a MAGA faction of Christians. Some are saying, "We need to get more Old Testament"--others say no, because that's so...Jewish

JohnShirley2023,
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@octorine They never understood Christianity in the first place.\

They're idiots.

JohnShirley2023, to science
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I take it this means there may not be dark matter, or may be less than we'd supposed

Smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-smoking-gun-evidence-gravity-gaia-wide.html

JohnShirley2023, to random
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Reservation Dogs’ Revisits a Shameful Moment in American History

Third episode of third and final season of FX/Hulu series reveals Deer Lady’s tragic backstory, flashing back to her time at “Indian training school”

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-recaps/reservation-dogs-season-3-indian-training-schools-deer-lady-hulu-1234801699/

JohnShirley2023, to jazz
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  1. Some kind of restrictions have been imposed on me by Mastodon, but it doesn't tell me why, just that it happened and I can appeal. And I clicked their thing and put in my appeal, including "I have no comprehension as to what is going on here". The restrictions that I grasped were, if I follow someone, every time they must approve it before I'm following and also if I go to include hashtag this or that--like --it no longer works. If I look to see if it made it there, it didn't.
JohnShirley2023,
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  1. I hypothesize that this happened because someone connected to the right someone else's complained because I did not agree with 2% of someone's politics. Indeed I think it came down to a single word. That I didn't think the word "genocide" should be used in too broad a sense. Then I got some attacks, and some people said they hoped I killed myself soon and so on. So maybe it relates to that. I find this discouraging enough I will probably leave mastodon.I got along without social media before.
JohnShirley2023,
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@Hawkmoon Couple days ago. But I just noticed the thing now

JohnShirley2023,
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@Hawkmoon I think as it's probably politically motivated (hater motivated really), that my appeal won't have an effect. But it may take them a while to process that, if they do at all.

JohnShirley2023,
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@Hawkmoon I already follow you

JohnShirley2023,
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@Hawkmoon ok i did. It says it's now a request to follow

JohnShirley2023,
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@Hawkmoon I am just not hip to these systems enough to do that stuff Jack. I don't know from migration, here--that kind of thing sounds time-consuming to undertake. I'm not retired yet. Still writing full time.

JohnShirley2023,
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@glitzersachen @Hawkmoon but why would it be just this server, where I'm being punished?

JohnShirley2023,
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@glitzersachen I don't know how to do it though

JohnShirley2023, to random
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JohnShirley2023, to random
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This Candy Tasted Like Nothing. Why Do People Miss It?

Flavorless (?) Candy, a convenience store product in Japan, spurred debate over what the “taste of nothingness” tastes like, if anything.

A flavorless candy appeared briefly in Japanese convenience stores and may never be sold again.

It had no taste by design. Even its name, Flavorless (?) Candy — yes, with a question mark — suggested more of an absence than a presence.

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JohnShirley2023, to random
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Many teachers said a principal sexually harassed them. He was promoted.

Educators and others reported Joel Beidleman to Montgomery County Public Schools 18 times in seven years. It made no difference.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/11/joel-beidleman-montgomery-county-principal/

sundogplanets, to random
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talks are about to start! I'm sitting next to a biologist who studies the effects of light pollution on sea turtles in Australia, and another who studies the effects on mammals in the western US. This is so cool!

JohnShirley2023,
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@sundogplanets There are a lot of pollutants that create hormone mimicking chemicals...endocrine disruptors...which may be involved: https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm

GottaLaff, (edited ) to legal
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Via Kyle Griffin:

Today at 10am ET, U.S. District Judge Tanya #Chutkan will preside over her first hearing in the election interference case — and decide whether to limit what #Trump can reveal to the public about government evidence. #legal #TrumpIndictment 1/… 🪡

JohnShirley2023,
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@GottaLaff but then there's that other judge on the other Trump case...

mattsheffield, to random
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Right-wing superstitions about Satan and God having invisible political battles has gone so mainstream in Republican politics that Fox just ran an essay "explaining" that maybe UAPs are actually demons and angels fighting before the "end times."

These delusions are believed by tens of millions of people. They are not harmless stupidity that affects no one.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/fox-columnist-maybe-aliens-are-demons

JohnShirley2023,
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@mattsheffield Trump had a "spiritual advisor" in the White House who warned about "water spirits" that were after us.

JohnShirley2023,
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@mattsheffield the UFos as spirit beings thing (also time travelers, also interdimensional beings) is an old thing actually. But now it's coming back I guess

JohnShirley2023,
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@mattsheffield
She is one crazy lady. And she was in the White House with them.

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