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mekkaokereke, 3 months ago to random

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Day 26: Bama football

Q: OK fine! There's a lot of racism! But we can't do anything about it! You can't change hearts and minds! I've flipped from denial to helplessness! Talking about racism depressed me and makes me feel bad, because we can't do anything about it! So, can you stop talking about it?

A: No, we won't stop talking about it. Yes, we can do something about it. Let's look at one specific example of a reduction in racism, driven by racists themselves! 🙂🙃

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to legal

Via Lisa Rubin:

"On Friday, Judge Arthur Engoron is expected to release his ruling in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud trial, a ruling that can be appealed but cannot be wiped away simply by virtue of #Trump’s election to the presidency. And the consequences could be, well, yuge." #legal

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1757819747951878336.html?utm_campaign=topunroll

RitaWerner, 3 months ago to random German

Es gibt viele Gesetze der Straße. Einige habe ich schon benannt.
Den größten allerdings nicht und ich weiß nicht, ob es euch bewusst ist:

Es stärkt Bewegungen auf der ganzen Welt. Autoritäre Parteien und Gruppierungen sind auf dem Vormarsch. Das wissen wir und hat uns in Schockstarre versetzt.
Aber dieses Phänomen ist nicht an einen Ort gebunden.
Durch die Massendemonstrationen haben wir immense Strahlkraft.
Das heißt wir strahlen aus und geben Menschen in anderen Ländern Kraft und Mut.🖤❤️

deborahh, 3 months ago to random

Wow! 😄 Just think, what this could change!

Without paywall: #giftArticle https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/albert-einstein-college-medicine-bronx-donation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU0.xHcm.KGd5ffmXFPes&smid=url-share

@GottaLaff https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111998205648411810

deborahh, 3 months ago to random

Margaret Atwood said that everything in A Handmaid's Tale already existed, somewhere.

Coming soon to a bedroom near you.

OfFred says, "Blessed day."
(Just ignore the wound on her head)
https://mstdn.social/@12thRITS/111964799158671823
#usPoli #christoFascism #BodilyAutonomyIsAHumanRight

Handmaid's Tale gif: OfFred looks directly at the camera, with a deadpan face, saying: "Blessed Day" She wears her red and white uniform. Just ignore the red wound on her forehead.

deborahh, 3 months ago to scifi

Yep. Evidence that the Hugo award admins bowed to Chinese government political pressure and excluded many deserving authors from the running.

This makes me so sad for them. And angry 🤬

#Scifi fans, please watch.

@ashedryden https://scholar.social/@ashedryden/111970063474435815
#bookstodon #hugoAwards #whatToRead

deborahh, 2 months ago to random

“There’s a fundamental mismatch between this [AI, Bitcoin] technology & environmental sustainability,”

"if Google were to integrate generative A.I. into every search, its electricity use would rise to something like twenty-nine billion kilowatt-hours per year. …."

"How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy? (In the U.S., data centers … expected to climb to six per cent by 2026.)"

#giftarticle link: https://archive.is/TMNzW
https://publishing.social/@wmclark/112065887352421191

deborahh, 3 months ago to random

@GottaLaff 👀#scotus
https://bird.makeup/users/mjs_dc/statuses/1759951941868646547

deborahh, 2 months ago to random

Thinking of throwing some white clover seed on our tiny (city-sized) front yard, to add some green and nitrogen to the poor thing. Bonus: needs no moving.

deborahh, 3 months ago to random

Today is a good day for justice.
#FAFO

deborahh, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Petition signed ✔ Join me!
👉 https://mstdn.ca/@ckkellymartin/111863051995833370

Why?

Canada is signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child :
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/national-child-day/united-nations-convention-rights-of-the-child.html

In which Art. 13, 14 & 16 say:

▪ Children have the right to share freely with others what they learn, think & feel … unless it harms others

▪ Children can choose their own thoughts, opinions & religion…

▪ Every child has the right to privacy
https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text-childrens-version

AB legislation contravening this convention is immoral & violent

deborahh, 3 months ago to Canada

😰 #housingCrisis #canada #cdnPoli https://mastodon.social/@JasonThorne/111907328597003740

deborahh, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Waiting for the results of my MRI, but my experience suggests this is true in my case.
😢

Fortunately, the impact on my job is minimal. But not everyone experiencing post-covid brain fog is so lucky. (Are you counting on being a lucky one?)

Mask up in public, folks.
If not for yourself, then for everyone's children.
😷😷😷

Article via @DenisCOVIDinfoguy https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/111898828714059208
#covid19 #longCovid

Edit: Direct link to the article (thx @gdinwiddie )
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-evidence-suggests-long-covid-could-be-brain-injury-2024a10002v0?form=fpf

deborahh, 3 months ago to random

Pffft! Scientists! 🤦‍♀️
Tell us how it tastes! 🤷‍♀️
https://flipboard.com/@sciencealert/sciencealert-3mvdqjtaz/-/a-ua5itUtcQt6zXo64TNoz1w%3Aa%3A565656366-%2F0

deborahh, 3 months ago to random

This was my initial reaction, too:

"In what universe is Donald vibrant, productive or capable?? And this statement wasn’t even tongue-in-cheek. Stewart was making a straight-up comparison.

There are no excuses here. Stewart knows who Donald is."
-- Mary Trump

Full disclosure: 🤔🤨 A small part of me hopes it's some kind of attention-getting Trojan horse ... a.k.a. #JohnStewart playing the long game.
🤞🤞
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111930355710488744
#theDailyShow

deborahh, 2 months ago to random

These past 3 years, I've made some difficult choices. The hardest ones are always important choices between things that are both good -- or both bad.

But: when I clearly lay out what I value, the decision-making is easier.

I learned as a coach: when choices align with what matters to me I sleep well, I don't second-guess myself. (I used to be a worrier! It's astonishing, now that I think about it)

I invite you to name what makes your life great.
https://abiggergame.today/namewhatyoulove/
#lifecoach

deborahh, 4 months ago to random

Have you used up all your subscriptions' "share this" opportunities? It's the end of the month, don't let them go unused!

Share your fav articles with #giftArticle so others can find and share them :-)

deborahh, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to USpolitics

👀 New book from @Teri_Kanefield !

A Firehose of Falsehood breaks down the mechanisms of the attack on democracy into its component parts with fierce clarity and narrative power. A Firehood of Falsehood is so lucidly written and analytically acute, that it will be treasured by readers from young adults to scholars in the field.
―Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy, Yale

Via @phaedral https://mastodon.social/@phaedral/111943070997439586

#bookstodon #whatToRead #nonFiction #usPoli #usPolitics #dystopia
Edit: typo

deborahh, 2 months ago to random

@futurebird Hi. I once asked you how to parse/pronounce your user ID. (I don't think ypu replied).

Since then, I came across the root "myrme" somewhere else, which gave me a handle on it, and introduced me to new facts about ants. So it seems the "propagandist" part is working. 😂

deborahh, 3 months ago to random

Henry 'Box' Brown was a celebrated Black abolitionist and magician. In 1849, he famously escaped slavery by “mailing himself to freedom” in a 3 foot long box (by rail, steamboat and wagon 😨) to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Fearing re-enslavement, he moved to England, & spent the last decade of his life in Toronto. 😢

Now, in historic Old Toronto,
Henry Box Brown Lane comemmorates him.
#blackHistoryMonth https://mstdn.ca/@KWT/111858708107134757

(His whole story is here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown )

deborahh, 2 months ago to solarpunk

#hopepunk #solarpunk readers, do you know author @susankayequinn ?

She's interesting, and fun to read!
Also: YA fiction for your teens.

About Susan: https://susankayequinn.com/about
You're welcome :-)

#followFriday #whatToRead #librarydon #bookstodon

deborahh, 2 months ago to random

What do you really want? 🤔

Sometimes a client struggles to meet conflicting expectations. I'll say: just blurt out what you really want. (It's a fun moment; I have no idea what they'll say!)

▪ The tired lawyer really want to open a bakery!

▪ The angry tester wants to shout You betrayed my trust!

▪ The bored creative wants to do work that makes the world safer for their children.

Say what you want.
Open a door to change:

Start here ➔
https://abiggergame.today/simpletruth/
#lifecoach

Video clip: James Corden and Adele sing cheerfully while driving in a car: "I"ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want. So, tell me what you want, what you really, really want!"

VeroniqueB99, 3 months ago to random

deborahh, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Canada

Retail food profits in #Canada have more than doubled:
▪ 2019: $2.4B net income
▪ 2023: > $6B

🧐 The grocery chains were called to Ottawa to explain…

Loblaws, Metro, Sobey:
😱 "Profiteering? No, no, no!"

But food inflation has been higher than the general rate of inflation, & Cdns are buying fewer groceries (honestly, I don't know how some of my neighbours manage.)

So what explains these record profits?

A new Fifth Estate investigation:
https://youtu.be/Zuz5SgcHnrQ?si=RotKslCe6lqvq0iw
#FoodPrices

FAIR, 3 months ago to geopolitics

Media That Benefit From Inequality Prefer to Talk About Other Things

The rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But there’s little sign of distress.

https://fair.org/home/media-that-benefit-from-inequality-prefer-to-talk-about-other-things/

#CorporateOwnership #Economy #Inequality