Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

When you touch the star on one of my toots, I like to think it's because I touched your heart. The reality is more like I slapped the dirty part of your brain with a floppy dildo. Win's a win, though.

Pork Chop dosed right off listening to Vince Guaraldi 🎶 I think it was the soft brush work on the drums. #Caturday

@nancyann @funnymonkey here's one of my three custom bumper stickers here in Houston, TX

Happy #Caturday from Patrice, who just can’t get enough of the sink 🤪
#waterbaby #tabby #cat #catsofmastodon #adoptdontshop #formerlyferal #wetbum

Maybe the real friends we made along the way was the buried treasure.

“‘I Stand With Them:’ Famed Lesbian Swimmer Diana Nyad Reverses Stance on Trans Athletes”

“‘We are all sisters and siblings under the blue sky, and we should all have equal opportunities to play the sports we choose, the sports we love.’”

“‘I have come to understand that the science is far more complex than I thought, and there are clearly more educated experts than I who are creating policy to ensure that elite sports are both fair and inclusive of all women‘”

https://www.them.us/story/diana-nyad-trans-women-athletes

Imagine you hear that there’s a lawmaker in, say, the Middle East

That person hears the voice of God

He’s told to make laws against the LGBTQ+ members of the community

Take rights from women

Stop social services for the poor

The voice tells him to do things and he listens—thinking he’s the chosen one

You’d think this was describing a dangerous theocracy fueled by mental illness

This toot is amount Speaker Mike Johnson

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-moses-christian-nationalist-gala-1234918565/

Today I managed to reach a real live human being at Senator Butler's office to register my concerns about KOSA. I went through my concerns that this bill would be used by red state AGs to silence queer people online. But then I did something that seemed to make an impression.

I've said this before, but my guess is that if this bill passes, it will be similar to what happened with sesta-fosta.

Platforms will either ban content that might be challenged, or merely shadowban it.

There is a lot of fear-mongering right now about algorithms recommending harmful content to kids.

In response, platforms may do the opposite: set up algorithms to ensure that nobody sees content that Republicans don't like.

@malkavon @wall_e @pluralistic @WIRED the movie Dogma is part of the fallout from Harvey Weinstein basically being a stain on humanity. He owns the rights and won't sell them, nor allow the movie to be released digitally or on bluray. There are more details in this link: https://www.thewrap.com/why-isnt-dogma-streaming-kevin-smith/

Voters in solidly “blue” states sometimes feel as if their vote isn’t important, that it all comes down to a handful of swing states, so why bother?

But, increasingly, every single vote matters because the popular vote highlights the illegitimacy of the Electoral College.

Vote like your life depends on it. For many it, does. #protectdemocracy

Yes, do go on!

Is Santeria a Christmas Song? #diehard #poll

Point-of-order on the lyrics for the beloved holiday classic “You’re a Mean One, Mr Grinch” — I don’t think it’s a bad thing to have garlic in your soul. That sounds amazing, actually.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the people who are constantly saying we need to go back to our roots, eat, sleep, and live like Amazon tribes or Neanderthals. If you do any research at all, this is just a ridiculous concept. Especially when you the are also encouraging people to reject modern medicine in favor of "natural" medicine. Now I understand that our current modern medical establishments are rife with issues, and I'm not denying or excusing that. But let's just address basics, life expectancy, only about 20% of Neanderthals made it past 40 years of age, and the average life expectancy for modern Amazonian tribes is 53 years. Being that I am now 42, I'd like to live a little longer than that, and the reason I can is MODERN MEDICINE, access to clean water, good and plentiful food, living indoors when it's too cold or hot, working jobs that aren't as physically demanding. Telling people that if they go back to some kind of traditional past lifestyle, that they will live a healthier happier lifestyle is a falsehood and a dangerous one. Get medical advice from a medical professional, who bases their research on science, not some person on YouTube who bases their ideas on things that seem true to them.

I'm sorry this was so ranty!

What's better?

@Joe_Hill @thepoliticalcat @GottaLaff
That guy is a true Republican.
A liar and cheat and criminal. Doing nasty things because he can.
Without a hint of care for the law, or the people of Texas.
Course the people of Texas keep voting for these vile criminals.
#texasisnotfree

Today I learned that if you host your lab web page on the cloud via your own domain name, then when you are hit with vexatious legal threats your university will refuse to provide legal assistance on the grounds it is a "personal professional page" rather a work created in your university capacity.