@spladayum @Spladayum@qoto.org
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Raised by pirates aboard the ship Flying Buttress, educated on the Island of Gont in the Archipelago, but transferred to the ISS to study public health.
Joined Oct 2022
I absolutely hate how the federated timeline keeps scrolling. I spend no time there as a result.
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The thing that strikes me most about Kyrsten #Sinema from listening to her interview with Jake Tapper is how palpably inauthentic she sounds. She gives off a very strong vibe of being a manipulative person.
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Support free speech. Condemn hate speech. That is not so hard at all.
#Equality #Diversity
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The Queens of Punk, 1980
Chrissie Hynde, Pauline Black, Debbie Harry, Poly-Styrene, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux
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Usenet: find your people! there are several dozen of them on rec.arts.funny!
Listservs: find your people! there are 100 of them on this obscure list devoted to Marxist cultural criticism
Blogs: find your people! each time one of them visits your site, your little counter will increment! look! it has reached four digits!
Social media: find your people! there are several million strangers who are calling you names!
Post-social media: find your people! there are several dozen of them!
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A couple days ago I was considering the noun and verb "conglomerate" for reasons, and thinking about it having Latin roots.
It dawned on me thus that the verb "glom" has a Latin root, which I find delightful.
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Unless leaders put serious prevention measures in place to get viral spread under control, we are not going to be able to retain healthcare workers. Thanks to the negligence of politicians, healthcare workers keep being pushed to the limits. This isn’t sustainable.
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Did you know that for centuries, a “gossip” was a woman who attended her pregnant daughter’s, sister’s, or friend’s delivery? The word was a corruption of “god-sib” or “god-sibling,” meaning “sister in the Lord.” The gossips offered emotional and physical support to mother and midwife. It was only later that the term took on a derogatory meaning.
This remarkably detailed wax anatomical model (c.1787) is now housed at the Javier Puerta Museum.
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@DrLindseyFitzharris yes! It was related to the Churching ceremonies. Being a godsibling/gossip was analogous to being a godparent.
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Our podcast explains the role of the German company IG Farbenindustrie in the expansion of Auschwitz, creation of Birkenau & why in March 1942 the concentration camp became also an extermination center for Jewish people. Listen here: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-4-Transformation-of-Auschwitz-concentration-camp-into-an-extermination-center-e13bat2
#Auschwitz history #podcast #Holocaust #Shoah #education #listen #Jews #histodons @histodons @educationecon
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Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906.
As far as I’m aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her.
Image: Computer History Museum
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I have the feeling, the black week season is not very much used by the music industry. Nothing new for weeks. At least this week, the Crosses EP came out. Here's the opener from the super group with Chino Moreno.
And this is not dating, just geeking.
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(For those interested in the revised New Millennium Editions of the first nine Young Wizards books: they're over here...). https://ebooks.direct/collections/this-weeks-bestsellers/products/young-wizards-new-millennium-editions-9-volume-box-set
CAS has nights where it's 21+, they serve drinks, and sometimes you can touch the science.
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OK DR. JUDGE OKUR OKUR
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When trying to process how to feel about #BrittneyGriner, here are 3 facts that aren't in dispute...
1. #BrittneyGriner is indisputably NOT a US spy
2. #BrittneyGriner IS an US citizen
3.#BrittneyGriner's sentence WAS more harsh/longer than given for similar offense in Russia
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Brittney Griner
🤔 I can't remember any other prisoner exchange, hostage exchange, or POW exchange involving a US woman prisoner where there was this much negative sentiment of "It was her own fault!" or "But at what cost?"
No, I'm not interested in hearing theories or excuses as to why this might be.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Asks Simplest, Most Damning Question As Supreme Court Entertains Canceling Democratic Elections
Xcessively Black Fully Vaccinated Artisanal Author
Raised by pirates aboard the ship Flying Buttress, educated on the Island of Gont in the Archipelago, but transferred to the ISS to study public health.
Joined Oct 2022
