SpinozasHeresy @SpinozasHeresy@qoto.org
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Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.
Joined Nov 2022
@anildash
I believe another inflection point was the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Governments, especially emergency managers, began to recognize the power of the network.
@wearerosie
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I love it in here. There's currently a hashtag named #thicktrunktuesday that is basically pics of massive, beautiful trees.
I humbly submit El Tule, an incredible ahuehuete from the state I was born, Oaxaca. It's over 2000 years old. "Tule" means "Tree of Enlightment" #Oaxaca #Mexico #ElTule It has the thickest trunk in the world.
@philipncohen @sociology
Surely another example of "woke" America turning away from God.
@NanWiegand
I think it just take time to build up a good "following" list (For me it was around 150 or so) for things to start getting interesting.
@Davidtoddmccarty
Whenever I accidentally tune in to right wing radio they almost convince me to purchase gold to avoid the coming market collapse. Praise be I can still get erections and have a full head of hair!
I think Elon will have plenty of advertisers happy to grift Twitter users. Elon just made it a lot cheaper for them to do it. Move over Mike Lindell!
@heidilifeldman I wish journalists would quit asking for republican politicians to condemn others for their fascism and ask, without flinching or retreating, why it is that white supremacists and other bigots find such great attraction to the republican party. Until republicans are asked these questions directly there will be no progress.
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RT @AndrewSchuman@twitter.com
Every December eve I post this piece of Housman, and every year it moves me all the more. The unexpectedness of ‘Prompt hand and headpiece clever’; the ‘winterfalls of old’. And maybe, just maybe, the ordering of the poem (‘XX’) also stands for two kisses?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AndrewSchuman/status/1598079599963144193
@shoq
This one instance where I would object to French kissing.
@BruceMirken
Yes! John Oliver is like the 60 Minutes of the Daily Show.
It's terrifying that a comedy show has to be the vehicle to shine a light on the very undemocratic forces that are threatening the country right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsa3tiS2VTo&list=TLPQMDExMjIwMjKzgZmsbphmUw&index=2
Saw the movie "Tar" and this was in it briefly. Always have liked this one.
@conradhackett
Thanks for these. Are you aware of any elected officials on Mastodon yet?
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Mark Twain, born on this day in 1835, on racism, how religion is used to justify injustice, and what his mom taught him about compassion https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/24/mark-twain-on-slavery-empathy-compassion/
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As right-wing extremists are re-platformed everywhere from Twitter to Mar-a-Lago, it’s more important than ever that we hold our journalists, researchers, & others to high standards of accountability when it comes to reporting on extremism and extremists. We need journalists who will tell us the truth, not stake out a position in the middle of two unequal sides. I keep coming back to this quote about reporting on the weather, but it was missing something — so I modified it to make it complete.
@rvawonk
Thank you for piecing this stuff together. Nice work!
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In the spirit of wanting more irreverent content on this platform, and speaking of predatory journals, today I was invited to contribute to a volume on new applications of aspirin.
My invitation came on the strength of a letter I wrote with Brian Wasik and Rich Lenski in Brit. J. Clin. Pharma. in which we noted that Scorsese had been misidentified as Kissinger in a previous report about misidentifications.
Anyway, the letter and my reponse.
@ct_bergstrom
OK. Had to look at it a couple of times. F'n hilarious!
Maybe a better question for Mitch McConnell would be to ask why it is that Kanye would want to bring Nick Fuentes to meet the man that is not only running for president but is, in fact, the head of the Republican Party? /2
It's great that Mitch McConnell is condemning racism and blah, blah, blah. For me, a more fundamental question that needs to be addressed would be, why do bigoted people seem to be attracted to the Republican Party? /1
- Country
- The Nation/State of California
- Amusements
- Art, Music, Dance, Film, Politics, Economics, Science (of course)
- Vocation
- Listening. Really listening.
Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.
Joined Nov 2022
