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Civil rights at stake: Black, Hispanic students blocked from class for missing class

https://hechingerreport.org/black-and-latino-students-get-suspended-more-for-missing-school-is-it-a-civil-rights-violation/

#BlackMastodon
#Education

Texas court dismisses case against doctor who violated state's abortion ban

https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-court-dismisses-case-doctor-violated-states-abortion/story?id=94796642

#USpol
#BlackMastodon

NGL: Yoshi P getting on main and saying Black people can't be in FF XVI because of "historical accuracy" has me very not interested in this trailer.

My dude you said I don't belong there so why the fuck would I give you my money? #GamesAwards2022 #gaming #blackmastodon #BlackMastadon

#BlackMastodon #TrevorNoah #BlackWomen #DailyShow

On his final show, Trevor Noah thanks his fans with special thanks to the Black women who have shaped his life.

"If you truly want to learn about America, talk to Black women because unlike everybody else, Black women can't afford to fuck around and find out."

https://youtu.be/QeJAdlV4fXM

Dude.

I'm at the Exoratorium. #Exploratorium.

Slightly schnockered. Geeking out.
I asked a volcano scientist lots of stupid questions. I learned what a caldera us. Is.

This is amazing. I love it.

The DJ has a flute.

#SF
#Nerds
#BayArea
#ILoveGeeks
#TinyOldFashioneds
#BestieDate
#BlackTwitter
#BlackMastodon

Every social movement & every culture can be judged by the behavior of the people in it.

A constant struggle for group organizers & leaders is managing group norms of behavior. It is our own responsibility to create & maintain our values.

I believe in justice & won't look away.

From the Dept. of Unconscionable Stupidity, parents refuse vaccinated blood to save their baby ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/30/new-zealand-parents-refuse-use-of-vaccinated-blood-in-life-saving-surgery-on-baby

'It’s this kind of libertarianism—the you-do-you ethos of American culture that sees the “public” in public health as anathema, clinging to a medical model of private risk and private cures—that dropped us down to the 40s in global life expectancy rankings before the pandemic, and will land us below the 60s by 2040. “Give me liberty and give me death” is the reigning mantra of America today.'
@gregggonsalves

#PublicHealth

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/public-health-covid-pandemic/

Really cool work in #Immunity by Annika Frede, Eduardo Villablanca et al. using a mouse DSS model of intestinal damage

"Although neutrophils and monocytes expanded transiently during the inflammatory process, B cells continued to expand during the recovery phase, becoming the most dominant cell type within the colon LP. Using flow cytometry, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), immunofluorescence, and RNAscope, we identified an interferon (IFN)-induced B cell subtype that accumulates in damaged areas of the regenerating colon. B cell depletion (BCD) during the recovery phase enhanced tissue repair and a transcriptomic program associated with the extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. "

#MucosalImmunology #Immunology #TissueRepair #IBD #Colitis

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(22)00592-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1074761322005921%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Okay... this is *not good.*. AO3 being scraped by Open AI...?! https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/z9apih/sudowrites_scraping_and_mining_ao3_for_its/

Hey Minneapolis, if your car is parked on a snow emergency route you need to move it RIGHT NOW! St. Paul, if your car is parked on a night plow route you need to move it RIGHT NOW! Restrictions start in both cities at 9 p.m.!!! Don't get towed!

Wow it turns out that Elon Musk owning twitter and allowing all the nazis and shitheads back on has... driven a huge rise in hate speech! Couldn't have seen this one coming. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/2/23489808/elon-musk-twitter-hate-speech-increase-content-moderation

I'm really, really, really more than a little sick of non-Jews discussing the whole thing with Kanye et al and talking about how there's a "reemergence" of antisemitism .

Please allow me as someone who is Jewish to spell this out for you: antisemitism 100% has never, ever left. We deal with it on a regular basis. I actively avoid large amounts of the witch/pagan/occult communities due to it and stick to much smaller circles as a result.

Most synagogues actively hire armed security for services

...on Talk Like a Pirate Day, we like to celebrate Talk Like Stephen Maturin, Cook Like Preserved Killick Day...

#PatrickO'Brian #AubreyMaturin

WTF... it’s #CyberMonday, and I may as well get this over with. :)

It's #CyberMonday, and for 24 hours (...or actually until local midnight on November 30th, because there’s always somebody finding out about this kind of thing a bit late...), get our whole #DRMfree Ebooks Direct# Ebook store (35 novels & short works!) for USD $44! The info's here:

https://bit.ly/WholeStore44ForCyberMonday

(...And then I can sit back and stop worrying about the fecking Marketing Season, and get back to writing and cooking.)