Dimestorehalo @Dimestorehalo@qoto.org

- A Shelby County commissioner told FOX13 on Friday that state leaders in Nashville are threatening to take away funding from Memphis and other Shelby County projects if the county commission decides to reinstate expelled state Rep. Justin J. Pearson. https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/memphis-could-lose-funding-for-major-projects-if-pearson-appointed-back-to-seat-commissioner-says/article_a314c216-d582-11ed-9766-8f4212e502ec.html

I just saw
"No Justins, No Peace"
and how perfect is that

#blackmastodon #blackfedi #uspol #mastodon

List of major corporations that have headquarters located in Tennessee:

FedEx Corporation
International Paper Company
HCA Healthcare Inc
Dollar General Corporation
Tractor Supply Company
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc
Asurion LLC
First Horizon National Corporation
Regal Entertainment Group
Cigna Corporation
CoreCivic Inc
Delek US Holdings Inc
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
ServiceMaster Brands
Thomas & Betts Corporation
Genesco Inc
CarePayment Technologies Inc
Kirkland's Inc

#tennessee

Notice how when Republicans do crazy shit like "expel members of the Tennessee legislature for protesting school shootings" there's no hand wringing in the media about how this will change norms and open the GOP up to retaliation from the Dems the same way there is with Trump being prosecuted.

Please stop laughing at CatGPT. Please stop sharing this picture. It's not funny. This is a slippery slope. It might only meow for now, but what's next? What will our cats do if CatGPT takes their jobs? Do we really want artificial intelligence to sleep all day? To scoff at the $50 worth of cat food you just purchased? To knock your full glass of water over and feel zero remorse when it shatters on the floor? Call me a Luddite, but I believe we must destroy CatGPT to protect our feline friends.

On today's expulsion of the two Black representatives, but not the white rep, Elie Mystal summed it up pretty darn well: "Tennessee has now given the entire country an object lesson in critical race theory better than any AP history course ever could have. Everybody sees it now. Everybody knows it now. Everybody gets exactly what is going on."
#Racism #SystemicRacism #WhiteSupremacyInAction

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ALRIGHT, FRIENDS. SUBMITTING THE DISSERTATION TODAY. IF YOU HAVE ANY ✨GOOD VIBES✨ GOING SPARE, I'D HAPPILY TAKE THEM OFF YOUR HANDS.

OMG. I just toot-gasm'd!

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Randy Rainbow. #TrumpIndictment

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1642784208559955968/vid/1920x1080/9FbihU4iWm1qKcCv.mp4?tag=16

Lightning over Grand Marais

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Minnesota #Wx #MNwx

Hoping the fediverse can help out: I'm in touch with a Ukranian family in #Toronto who are trying to get their cat (named Milana, in photo) from #Kraków, #Poland to Toronto this spring. They can cover some transport costs but are trying to connect with someone already making the trip. Email milana at hypatia.ca if you can help. Please boost!

#Ukraine #CatsOfMastodon #Canada

Still life with Snowdrops
Watercolor painting by Olena Kishkurno

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/still-life-with-snowdrops-olena-kishkurno.html

#art #Snowdrops #painting #stilllife #watercolor #spring #springtime #flowers #nature #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #MastoArt #nature #watercolour #blue

Back in the old days...


#Inequality #Anticapitalism

All of Evan Gershkovich’s @wsj reporting is now paywall free.

As you read these, remember Evan was out on assignment, trying to bring us all more articles like these, when he was detained in Russia last week. #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/news/author/evan-gershkovich

The doors were locked.

The teachers were armed.

TN expanded firearm access.

The police arrived in minutes.

Covenant school had everything that MAGA GOP assured us prevents & stops mass shootings. And 3 babies & 3 adults were murdered in seconds.😳

IT’S—THE—GUNS
#GunReformNow

Everyone is suddenly reporting what I’d already tooted/was already announced the other day, that #Trump will speak from #Florida on Tuesday after arraignment.

Dear The News:

Do not carry one word of this live. If he makes real news, report it afterwards, show clips if you must, but don’t play into his tiny hands yet again.

Who am I kidding? Sigh.

#TrumpIndictment

There need to be more good reconstructive recordings of Chaucer that distinguish all the sounds reconstructible for 14th century Middle English, and I guess if you want a thing done right you gotta do it your own self.

So here's me reading the first 78 lines of the prologue to the Canterbury Tales (the opening and the description of the Knight), complete with a somewhat freehanded modern English prose paraphrase.

@histodons @medievodons @linguistics
@bookstodon