Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

France is trying out the American solution to police brutality, which is much, much more police brutality.

Hey atheist creatives, you can now tell Christianists and other religious fascists to pound sand if they want to employ your services.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-web-designer-refused-work-sex-weddings-rcna68629

the idea of being visited by aliens lost its appeal when i realized they’d likely just be some other planet’s asshole billionaires

I must not engage with the discourse
Discourse is the time-killer
Discourse is the little error that leads to table-flipping
I will ignore the discourse
I will permit it to pass through me and over me
When it has gone past, I will turn to my timeline and see no posts
Where the discourse was, there will be nothing
Only cat pics will remain

#Alito is a full-throated fucking neo-Nazi who would greenlight the Nuremberg Laws if he got/gets the chance, and his sadboi, aggrieved entreaties for "respect" for the "institution" should get lost in a neverending chorus of "Shut the fuck up, Nazi."

I hate flying. I love trains. Trains are wonderful. High-speed rail is one of those things that would make America so much better for literally everyone except airlines, oil companies, and car manufacturers. Can we build it, please?

Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).

In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.

The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.

...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.

https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/

The world is short on lithium and we're letting the same car manufacturers which sold 8mpg SUVs make electric cars as big as they want.

Y’all — let’s challenge Joe Rogan and RFK Jr to publish a peer-reviewed paper in JAMA or NEJM showing vaccines are harmful. If they can come up with funding, design a study, pass IRB, recruit participants, collect data, analyze those data, write a paper, get it through peer review, and pay for publication, maybe then we can talk. Otherwise they’re just a bunch of cowards too scared to do research.

GOP: We are pro-life!

So—free pre-natal care?

GOP: No

Extend child tax credit?

GOP: No

Paid family leave?

GOP: No

Universal pre-K?

GOP: No
Universal healthcare?

GOP: No

Gun reform?

GOP: No

How exactly are you pro-life?🤔

GOP: Ban reproductive health access & increase women’s death.

Really impressed by the number of people on social media who turn out to have expertise in both deep sea engineering AND modern Russian political dynamics.

Nice to see #Mastodon is becoming as good as #Twitter used to be in it's heyday when global news is breaking.

If you have a hard time understanding where the shortage of empathy for the sub crew comes from. here is a pretty good explainer.

@w7voa later, he affirmed the US's commitment to making sure the Palestianians are murdered with American weapons

Happy birthday to the 19" equipment rack, which turns 100 next month. From the July, 1923, Bell Systems Technical Journal: "All panels are to be of a uniform length, designed to mount on vertical supports spaced 19>< inches between centers. The height of the different panels will vary, according to the amount of apparatus in each unit, but this vertical dimension is in all cases to be a whole multiple of 1-3/4 inches."(p139 at https://archive.org/details/bstj2-3-112/page/n27/mode/2up )

Most people don’t realize when dogs sleep they convert their local frame coordinates into modified Rodriguez parameters to avoid gimbal lock 😳 #dogsofmastodon

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish by flying him by private jet to a fancy fishing resort, you lock in a supreme court vote whenever you need one.

One my biggest frustrations is with siloed networks of transformation.

FOSS, social activism, environmental activism, personal growth, spiritual understanding, group dynamics, Actually Doing Stuff Together, co-ops, new economics, nature connection, land rights, vagabonding....

I do find little spaces of overlap, but surprisingly little.

I would prefer to nurture 5% of each of those things than go 100% into any of them.

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My goal isn't for Mastodon to replace Twitter.

My goal is for the Fediverse to attack and dethrone God.