James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

If only we'd done that. Why didn't we do that? Oh right... WE DID. And we continue to do so. Ad nauseam. In multiple countries. By many different competing teams of independent researchers. Guess what? They mostly work and are mostly safe. To a very high degree.

CNN & FOX News have done to our parents exactly what they thought Marylin Manson and violent video games would do to us.

Via @decolonialatlas "Each 8th of July, at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world's population is experiencing daylight. This day should have a name, and it should be a holiday." Original source: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/99-percent-sunlight

Potato wars have commenced. (I’m making this up.) Choose your potato carefully.
#Poll #Polls #Potato

Does anyone know what kind of hummingbird this is?

He survived the Afghanistan war, he survived the Taliban, but he could survive America's gun violence.

Afghan interpreter who fled the Taliban in 2021 shot in D.C. while on his shift as a Lyft driver.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/07/us/lyft-driver-interpreter-afghanistan-killing/index.html

@JamesHMcLaren I don't know which superhero that would be, I just know it would be played by Jack Black.

If you would like more followers ---- follow people! No one will know about you if you don't. Most ppl follow back. And even if they don't, you get lots of interesting posts in your feed.

#BBCNews reports Canada's federal government said it will pull all its advertising from Facebook and Instagram. It follows parent company Meta's move to restrict news content for Canadians after parliament passed a law that will force tech firms to pay media for news.
Cdn officials said they stand by the law and will not be "intimidated" by Meta. #PPFPM, lying, says Libs want to funnel money to their preferred media. #Postmedia aka #CdnMedia oh look #PeePee no glasses no tie. How handsome he is.

There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

If you ever wanted a visual to explain how binary in works.

Once at bar trivia another team submitted the answer “Hugh Jass” and the announcer read it out loud without noticing, so there’s still magic in this world

Using the word “woke” as some sort of snarky retort is the most effective possible way to signal that you’re a blathering moron.

#Ottawa Police say the reason Pimisi Station was restricted on Canada Day was because the station's design is..... unable to handle crowds. 🥴​

#WhoDesignedIt #WhoApprovedIt
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/pimisi-lrt-station-not-built-for-substantial-crowds-ottawa-police-say-1.6466969

#Mastodon feels like the first blush of the social networks. Having barely any followers & following enough people to count feels like a 1st date. Learning a sort-of new platform is fun. I'm overwhelmed & beaten down by years of blocking trolls on #Twitter, & envying my friends who are off the grid & don't doomscroll. It feels like peace here, comparatively #twittermigration #introduction

Good news: we're not raising the retirement age.
Bad news: it's because we've shaved several years off your life expectancy.

Adult life mostly consists of exclaiming “christ, that happened ten years ago!” about a variety of different events until you die.

It’s happened. Our department has lost a young faculty member to a better offer in a safer state.

Texas’s extremist government will end up wrecking the universities here. Given a choice, people don’t want to subject themselves to fascism.

#Texas #GOPextremism #UTAustin