BREAKING: At least six indicted Republican fake electors in several states expected to be electors again this November. (May be a paywalled article.) https://tinyurl.com/25knssy3
How is it legal for petition gatherers to get paid per signature??? this is nuts
"Dana said the petitioner told her that he receives $12 for every signature he collects for California Forever. Another petition circulator collecting signatures in Solano County, who preferred not to give a name, told the Vallejo Sun that California Forever pays $6 per signature and an additional $3 bonus for a total of $9 per signature if the initiative qualifies for the ballot. The other petitions the circulator was offering to voters paid $3 per signature."
@StillIRise1963
As glamorous as I find shooting them into the sun when they think they're going to Mars, this is probably much more responsible. @hannu_ikonen
Nobody asked the horses whether theyโd like to participate in our wars, but they had to do so anyway. This week, we look at the early history of the horses who found themselves at the center of human violence.
@bookstodon Hi all. Can anyone recommend a good informational book about bipolar disorder, especially if geared toward family and friends of bipolar folks? Thanks.
We haven't yet had anyone guess this week's #MysteryCoin, it must be a tricky one! It's a worn, but nicely decorative piece, but from where?
Let us know! And don't forget to subscribe to the Coin of Note Newsletter, as it's due out this week with the answer: https://coinofnote.com/newsletter
@alexf24
Once you said Spain and pointed out the towers it occurred to me that castles and lions would probably the heraldic device of Castile and Leon.
Something a lot of white folk don't realize happens to Black people a lot:
When there is a competition between a Black person and a white person for a coveted prize, if the white person wins, they're celebrated. If the Black person wins... they're asked to share the prize with the white person that came in second place.๐ฎ
This happens to Black women more often than Black men.
Privacy theater is when we use privacy practices to demonstrate intention, even if it doesn't mitigate risk in the wild. For example, why do the Ninja Turtles wear masks? Are there other squads of anthropomorphic turtles with weapons in these streets? What's the point of this? This is keeping me up at night, make it stop
People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.
You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ
Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person