Barbara 🇺🇦 @babs_at_masto@qoto.org

Although wolves use varied vocalizations to express themselves, howls are certainly the most popular.

Just like us, each wolf has a unique voice so distinctive features of each individual’s howl allow wolves to identify each other.

If you listen carefully to Silas + Nikai, you'll notice that their howls are unique yet somehow come together to create the most beautiful music.

#Wolf #WolvesOfMastodon

https://youtu.be/Y34pkuUp4uw

This is a part of the line of remembrance, where the Berlin Wall ran, in the middle of the city. It was 3.40m high and flanked by numerous other protective structures. As a child I was used to the Wall, and since 1990 it slowly disappeared, piece by piece. And yet - sometimes I am simply flabbergasted that today I can stand here with one foot on each side, just like that. Still an incredible feeling of happiness.

#ThrowbackThursday #History #Berlin #BerlinWall #StreetPhotography

The road to success for Black female lawyers has not been easy, especially as prosecutors.

Of the roughly 2,400 elected prosecutors in the US in 2019, only 45 of them were Black women, less than 2%.

Since then, two Black women have won high profile posts: Fani Willis in Fulton County, Georgia and Letitia James in New York.

They've proven to be two of Donald Trump's nemeses -- and the targets of his attacks.
https://theconversation.com/black-female-prosecutors-like-fani-willis-face-the-unequal-burden-of-both-racist-and-sexist-attacks-200219
#BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #TrumpIndictments

Really, truly: there is no good reason for any media company or publisher to still be posting on X. #Technology https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

“Smith chose to tell the story of an abstraction, crimes against democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. Willis is telling a concrete and detailed story of crimes against voters and election workers; Black voters in particular, female Black election workers in specific.… They are two very distinct acts of violence against elections. Smith reminds us what the country nearly lost, and Willis recalls what Black voters have almost never won.”

@Dahlialith
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/trump-indictments-jack-smith-fani-willis-themes.html

This type of militarization and brutalization of the border is the manifestation of a level of cruelty and disregard for the lives of fellow human beings that is simply disgusting, disturbing, and outrageous. No one who is ok with this gets to call themselves “decent” in any way.

https://twitter.com/laikenjordahl/status/1688976652234371072?s=46&t=1xecvNVImNo8TKt3oEvqnA

Butterflies can remember specific flower foraging routes https://www.popsci.com/environment/heliconius-butterfly-spatial-learning/
Studying enhanced cognitive abilities like spatial learning could help scientists better understand how ecology can shape evolution.

The rank corruption of Clarence Thomas continues to be exposed, one sleazy item at a time.

How are we learning about this? Not from law enforcement or others who have subpoena power (e.g. Congress), but by journalists.

Latest example, from the NY Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=US%20News

When will the Senate begin its much needed investigation into the toxic corruption scandal unfolding at the Supreme Court? It’s time.
#Scotus

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html?unlocked_article_code=guOfuazVHGFW9p987eZyJlkYQRlhxSVBJPX8x5stN5EhpbXjBxqvXI4WkYk4Jq9VCfiD_l0xNdkUBo7FVxqPQL7ZrLwiEsWrBw1pr1PA9hNLMB9busH7FjmQx4J0gQg56gag7l4pjX10lwHv4tXJanhdnrUdVPA_th7GsHsVtVK6c9KvjRcM4eELrrAHeJJ9qHnYvDWTKNcVVofOJCGAVk4ZloZWCFZfaGKHnqUD14PGiwyKqU-YFx_sbAoZsUtGXxDqRxU3zAftjlLbOSvb3KSlTvLYG4UbJQ31ufOCp0wXY_OcGbiroWWOcoGnQ-d-g-MQSDs_Un7T50I06SzmIAZKEg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

When the risk is known to be existential, you would think the precautionary principle would apply

For everyone who forgets that this was not just an unconstitutional attempt to stay in office, but an explicitly violent one

So,e (so-far) unindicted co-conspirators discussed in #DOJ #TrumpIndictment:
Co-conspirator 1 = Rudy Giuliani
2 = John Eastman
3 = Sidney Powell
4 = Jeffrey Clark
5 = Kenneth Chesebro

Not named in the indictment, but identifiable because of public reporting on their activities, which matches facts in indictment. #LawFedi

In numerical terms, this must be one of the biggest corrections ever made by a newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/24/the-big-idea-why-the-laws-of-physics-will-never-explain-the-universe

This is REALLY important.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Let that sink in. It costs less than accepting homelessness.

#Finland #Helsinki #homeless #cities #homes
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

🔊 #OnThisDay in 1957, New York radio station WQXR aired a 10+ minute recording of then-Senator John F. Kennedy reciting the Declaration of Independence in full. Listen to this captivating piece of history ▶️ https://archive.org/details/TheDeclarationOfIndependence #July4 #IndependenceDay #JFK