Echinocentric @Echinocentric@qoto.org

A new study showed people videos of chimpanzees and bonobos' 10 most frequent gestures — like raising arms and shaking an object. About half of humans could recognize what the movements meant.
https://t.co/InZg1pZwjh

I did not have this feud between two drag queens on my 2023 bingo card but I am here for it. 😂

https://www.comicsands.com/trixie-mattel-shades-george-santos-2659304818.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

North Korea's capital is under lockdown until Sunday to fight the spread of an unspecified respiratory disease. Authorities have made no mention of COVID. https://t.co/rIIL5PcKYF

Majorie Taylor Greene has been named to Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. She's the same person who does not understand the difference between underwear and a medical mask (i.e., KN95 or N95) — or flatulence and viruses. Science is not an SNL skit.

Pope Francis called laws that criminalize homosexuality unjust — and said the Catholic Church should work to put those laws to an end.

He said while Catholic teaching holds that homosexual acts are a "sin," being homosexual is not a "crime."
https://t.co/eMg9Di3Nw5

The people (and critics!) have spoken! Allegiance is a hit! I am having so much fun bringing this story to the people of London. Come see what all the buzz is about at the Charing Cross Theatre! Get your tickets at www.allegiancemusical.com

“Millions of American workers have never known a world without the specter of mass layoffs. That kind of instability has characterized the economy since the late 1970s and ’80s, when the notion of prioritizing shareholders above all else took root and companies embraced the strategy of growing fast and then cutting down quick.”
There it is. And the rise of inequality along with it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/business/layoffs-remote-work.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@thejenniwren @PeggyStuart

No, we can't teach you about Martin Luther King, slavery, and the Haitian Revolution, but we can spend time teaching you how to hide from an active shooter or where to get your conceal-and-carry license. We can protect you from "ideas" that may improve your life, not "idiots" who might kill you.

You are not paying attention if you don't think America has become a hellscape for all of us. There was more freedom in the Soviet under Stalin than Florida under DeSantis

Ron DeSantis says Florida should not require a unanimous jury to put someone to death.

The party of pro-life, everyone!

Mass shootings in the US:

2014: 273
2015: 336
2016: 383
2017: 348
2018: 336
2019: 417
2020: 610
2021: 690
2022: 647

In the first three weeks of 2023: 39

We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.

Took off from Oakland, California, US.

Pompeo trashes a journalist who was brutally murdered by an authoritarian regime. Classy.

"As broken as the electoral process seems now, history tells us it can, and will, get much worse if we don’t take a stand and make the choice to elect leaders who will protect our democracy from further erosion."
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/registering-texans-to-vote-with-my-van-named-for-barbara-jordan/

I cannot tell you
exactly what we must do
to end the pandemic
trust me, if I knew
I would tell you
and though I know
that I cannot tell you
exactly what we must do
to end the pandemic
I can still say
that what we are doing
is clearly not sufficient.

@dangillmor they didn''t accidentally do this--the NYT does bad things because they want to do bad things, it's not some sort of slip & stumble problem

Every day that passes without an apology from the New York Times for its atrocious 2016 campaign coverage -- and a meaningful description of how it will do better -- is evidence that the "Paper of Record" remains broken in one of its most important functions. There is a fundamental arrogance to the institution, and a relentless insistence on business as usual in political coverage.

If and when democracy falls, the New York Times will have been complicit.