Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org
Retired Analytical Chemist
League of Women Voters -voting methods, election security
Board Member Colorado Citizens for Science
Joined Oct 2022
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Apparently now people are sending death threats to UFoI members... all this does is reafirm to me the dire need for sonethi g like the UFoI
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For everyone grieving how close it was in Georgia, I am thankful to see the descendants of those once held in bondage return a Black man of their choice back to the Senate in a polarized nation. They suppressed the vote, changed rules, challenge votes but all that maneuvering is a reminder that each vote matters.
Voting isn’t everything but it’s something. This is the registration of my ancestor Henry in 1867 in Elbert, Georgia. We’ve come a mighty long way. Ain’t that good news? #BlackFolk
Avian Flu has been killing off commercial egg producing hens in Colorado since last April. Millions have been slaughtered in attempts to contain the spread. Now infecting bald eagles and other wildlife: https://coloradosun.com/2022/12/12/colorado-worst-bird-flu-outbreak-raptors-wild-bird-deaths/
@charlesornstein @ProPublica People need adequate funds to restart their lives, but in many lowland coastal and riparian zone areas, leaving is the right thing to foster. We still need to fund cleanup of the ecological damage. We need to support
planned evacuations, not higher levees.
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Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner sum up Musk's ugly attack on Dr. Fauci:
"This isn’t about facts and the truth. This is about scoring political points. It is about flooding our global discourse with horse manure. It is about attacking the very notion of expertise. It is about saying everything can be true so nothing is true. It is about intimidating scientists and health officials. It is about feeding the MAGA crowd with the red meat of a sacrificial lamb."
@DrLygo Sadly, Henry Cowell State park is a small and heavily visited protected zone (Near Santa Cruz, CA). So straying off the path is discouraged. Historically, women's groups played key roles in protecting these areas from logging. https://scholarworks.unr.edu/bitstream/handle/11714/8220/Knoll_unr_0139M_13782.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
@FrankSchumann I think that this paper offers many interesting ideas. It ought to be part of an opening to an evaluation of the practice of science from many different cultural perspectives, not just the European-US American originating, capitalistic system underlain one we have now. I think that the paper should be more openly acknowledged as coming from a particular, Buddhist influenced one. And should an opening to fostering connections from other cultural perspectives.
It is important to support a collaborative, greater social and ecological good approach while still embodying the discovery aspects of scientific pursuits. Tibet, for example, has been a very static culture.
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1. This man moved from New York to Florida a few months ago
Now he wants to ban 3600 BOOKS from the school libraries
And he's already made significant progress
Follow along if interested
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Here's my favourite photo from the #Artemis1 mission photo album. The detail is gorgeous, and the angles of the light really shows the relief on the surface. Looking forward to much more!
See the full-res version here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/52549239085/in/album-72177720303788800/
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Say it with me: To control inflation, we must take aim at corporate profits, not working people.
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Tell me - Where were these kids radicalized?🤔
White Kansas HS Students Threaten to Hang Black Players, Taunt w/ Blackface Babydoll & Attempt to Raid Black Player’s Locker Room After Game
But yeah, lets ban teaching about America's history of racism—which by the way is exactly what MAGA Republicans in Kansas are trying to do.
@impermanen_ @drvolts Here in Colorado, providing some shade and wind protection to the ground can be an advantage.
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To: POTUS
Railroads were exempted from Obama's 2016 executive order requiring federal contractors to give their employees 7 paid sick days. (Railroads have been federal contractors since the mid-19th century.)
So you could de-exempt them by executive order.
Maybe Monday?
@drvolts Solar panels flat to the ground sounds problematical. Water and ice build up? Animals walking across? Build up of leaves? Or simply uses up too much space. Better to raise up the panels and put something useful underneath https://www.jackssolargarden.com/
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I swear the causal “nice white people” racism on here with the “decorum” and “civilized” tone policing is something else.
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Germicidal UV: a tradeoff between disinfection and indoor smog
A Substack (blog) post with a first estimate of the magnitude of the tradeoff.
TLDR: still uncertain, but GUV smog is likely to be a significant concern, needs to be carefully evaluated.
https://jljcolorado.substack.com/p/germicidal-uv-a-tradeoff-between
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Kyrsten Sinema single-handedly stopped Democrats from ending a tax break for hedge-fund managers and private equity executives.
Meanwhile, she received ~$1 million in donations from Wall Street.
Don’t be fooled: Sinema isn't “independent.” She's beholden to her donors.
Retired Analytical Chemist
League of Women Voters -voting methods, election security
Board Member Colorado Citizens for Science
Joined Oct 2022
