Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

In 2023, I will write a book.

This is not so much a "New Year's resolution" as an "actual contract." (1/n)

@Blackfist

This is the post that blocked on c.im for being *about* racism.

It's a really nice post, relatable. Ironically enough it's about how one can feel left out-- even when those making it happen might not be aware of what they are doing.

This isn't the first time this kind of misguided block has occurred on this server.

Check your friends and let them know, it's just not a place where this is welcome.

(I reached out to the admin, no response.)

#FediBlock #BlackMastodon

This should be interesting for #FrontRange #Colorado #AirQuality research. I wonder if the improvement will be significant.

Anyone know which charts and data to watch?

https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/12/29/suncor-shutdown-cold-equipment-commerce-city/

> Motorists in Colorado should get ready to pay more at the pump after Suncor Energy announced this week it would shut down its Commerce City oil refinery for as long as three months due to equipment being damaged at the sprawling facility by last week’s “extreme and record-setting weather.”

In schools, we teach science through the lens of single subjects - biology, chemistry & physics - but it’s the ways they interact with economics, psychology & more that shape our world.

Ultimately, science is related to every significant challenge we face. It’s written into the agricultural policies that sustain us. It ensures we have clean drinking water & enough energy to keep the lights on. At is core, #science is fundamental to our health, safety & future. https://sheril.substack.com/p/a-dissertation-on-democracy

The Santos/fraud situation is bad news for journalism on two grounds, but the Washington Post noticed only one of them.

The Post's coverage highlight's Big Journalism's utter failure to do its job in a timely way even when a smaller news org had blown the whistle on some of Santos' lies weeks before the election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/29/north-shore-leader-santos-scoop/

1/x

CW: Native genocide 🧵

Today is the anniversary of the largest mass shooting in American history, Wounded Knee, a massacre on December 29, 1890 that has been relegated to history as a "battle".

#woundedknee #Native #Indigenous

As Southwest CEO Bob Jordan pretends to apologize—remember—SW got a $7B federal bailout, spent $5.6B of that on Stock Buybacks, gave their CEO a raise to $9.1M, & forced frontline workers into 16 hour shifts under threat of termination—while spending $0 updating SW software😳

Southwest’s debacle isn’t an accident. It’s the predictable result of billionaire & corporate corruption & greed—& thousands of workers & travelers are paying the price.

In a just world SW execs will face criminal charges.

It's about time! This is the best news for the new year.

👉 #sesame will join the major food allergens list on January 1, FDA says

#FoodAllergy

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/29/health/sesame-joins-major-food-allergens-list-fda-wellness/index.html

I’m somewhat surprised how much the expression ‘explaining something so simple that one’s mom can understand it’ has persisted. It’s so obviously sexist and condescending, and I cringe every time I hear it, especially from people who should know better.

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

The waxing, setting moon tonight not long after sunset. When it's this close to new, it tends to get this "earthshine" that allows the viewer to see the dark of the moon. @kimmnunez

I am furious. For 10 days, Lakota Sioux have been snowed in and trapped in South/North Dakota. I just now heard about this. People are dying. Many have no heat, they can’t get food or fuel. They are burning clothes.

In America. In 2022. The National Guard was called out, *finally*. Unconscionable.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64083848

I am waiting to hear re: donations but this appears to be a start (not sure how quickly the goods can be delivered): https://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/a-blankets-quilts-comforters-donation-drive-for-pine-ridge-reservation/

As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.

Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.

Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

The “War on Christmas” propaganda was always the silliest version of the Culture Wars. But even in this most ridiculous form, it’s significant as a manifestation of the Right’s increasingly desperate attempts to uphold white Christian patriarchal dominance in America.

Behind Blue Eyes

Did you know that reindeer are the only known mammal whose eyes change seasonally from golden in the summer to a wintry blue? Their eyes also become a thousand times more sensitive in winter, adapting to dim light in the near darkness to avoid predators.

Part of this is because of changes in the tapetum lucidum (TL), a mirror-like layer under the retina. 1/n

#ScienceSunday #ScienceMastodon #Christmas

Happy Birthday to a brown-skinned Jewish refugee and migrant, a major prophet in Islam, a socialist, a champion of equality, who was arrested and abused by authorities, who preached for love and against exorbitant wealth, hatred, hunger, and homelessness. Merry Christmas, friends! ❤️

The NORAD Twitter account has been suspended for doxxing the location of Santa's sleigh.

#Science Santa and a Cellular #Christmas

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the lab
Not a creature was stirring, not even a postgrad.
The pipetmen and tip boxes were arranged with care,
In hopes that scientists soon would be there.

The postdocs were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of job offers danced in their heads.
The PI, at home, took off her many caps
And rested her brains for a well-deserved nap.

1/n

"If women would just say what they mean using the right combination of words in the right place at the right time in the right pitch, tone and volume using appropriate body language and demeanour while wearing the right clothes and doing their hair and makeup just so, men wouldn'...

Journalist & suffragette Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a founding member of the NAACP. She was known for her tireless crusade against lynching.

After the lynching of her friend, Tommie Moss, https://tinyl.io/7Zwg, Wells-Barnett set out to investigate the causes of lynching.

Her writings on white mob violence resulted in her Memphis, TN newspaper being torched; she moved to Chicago afterward. https://tinyl.io/7Zwi

#BlackFriday #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #Journalism #Lynching