Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

Every New Year I look forward to what @neilhimself will write in his blog.. 💗 #NewYear #quotes

7 people dead and 1 injured in yet another mass shooting today. This one also in California, Half Moon Bay.

That's the 38th mass shooting of 2023

That's 2,715 total gun violence deaths in 2023

It’s only January 23 😑
#GunReformNOW

Tucker Carlson recently attacked "woke M&Ms" for looking "androgynous" and "less sexy."
M&Ms just responded with the following attempt to appease him. I'd have taken a slightly different approach. I'd have said, "Instead of pandering to fish-stick fascist Tucker Carlson's grotesque efforts to monetize bigotry, we sent him a crate of 'lesbian' M&Ms to shove so far up his ass they gushed out of his mouth in a rainbow cascade." #LGBTQ

Folks are treating the recent tech layoffs as something spontaneous. They were not. The current layoffs were orchestrated by a hedge fund (TCI Fund).

This hedge fund demanded that the big tech companies lay people off because they were being paid too much. Let that one sink in: a hedge fund manager saying that you're being paid too much.

Note that TCI is demanding that Google lay off more people.

"We investigated everyone but the justices and couldn't find the source of the leak" is a remarkable SCOTUS self-own, bordering on outright admission.

I spent 3 years of my childhood living in American military bases in Germany. The whole time I was there, I never saw a single German "honor their heritage" by waving Nazi flags or erecting Nazi statues. Not one. Because unlike certain Americans, Germans don't put evil on literal pedestals.

Jacinda Adern has resigned. I am not familiar with NZ politics, but following from the UK, she has been a model of authentic, empathetic and bold leadership. She's a mensch.

In 2020, her bold response to covid showed the world how to bring society together when faced with a crisis.

She says that she needs time off. I see no need to look for other motives; I am happy for her. Her example will encourage other good people to become leaders.

#JacindaArdern #EmpathyInPolitics
#HopeForMyDaughters

Jacinda Ardern resigns: ‘I no longer have enough in the tank’ https://bbc.in/3XJ4xZ8

while i'm sad for the country that #JacindaArdern has resigned, i'm happy for her. given everything she's had to navigate us through during her term, and the unrelenting - at times unhinged - hatred directed at her, i'm wishing nothing but peace and love to her and her whānau. hope she finally gets her ideal wedding and some well-deserved respite from the stress and the haters.

#nzpol

And you know you've won your staff's hearts and minds when you bring a couple of bodyguards to a staff meeting. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-twitter-takeover.html

The way mainstream news outlets will drool over fascists makes me sick.

My kingdom for some logic!

So, insurance companies are beginning to add premium increases on employers in counties with low vaccination rates to cover the benefit payouts.

Not on unvaccinated employees.

Not on employers whose employees have a low vaccination rate.

But on employers in COUNTIES with low vaccination rates.

*BLINK*

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidDeathRate #Covid

George Santos, who stole from a small businessman, will be on Small Business Committee.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, who incited Jan 6, will be on Homeland Security Committee.

Scott Perry, who's being investigated by the FBI, might investigate the investigators investigating him.

I see reports of slowing growth on #Mastodon. Good. Don’t tell anyone else. Everyone here is awesome.

Except the artists. Tell them. And the scientists. And the musicians. Tell them too. And the chefs. And the space nerds. And the mountain climbers and surfers. And the farmers. Tell them. And the horticulturists. And the photographers. And the software developers. And the poets. And the astronauts. And the dancers. And..

Tell interesting people, the fediverse is where you want to be.

I just had the worst #interview of my entire #career . It turned out to be an insightful list of precisely how NOT to attract talent. In that way, it was really useful to me as a candidate.

Presented for your amusement, here's a thread of what I asked. It's going to be a longboi, but here's my absolute favorite:

🚩 Do you have any queer peers? Is this a safe place for them to work? "We don't talk about that here."

#lgbtq #trans #job #discrimination

The only time I ever think about the vaccine I got is when people cry about vaccines. That's it. Other than that, I literally never think about COVID vaccination. I have a life, friends, and hobbies. I'm writing a book. I'm not an obsessive loser who is fixated on a shot.

It’s *possible*, in the sense that it probably could be true without violating any of the laws of thermodynamics, that the recognized consensus of the top researchers in a field is completely wrong about this thing that you believe. But it’s really not the most likely explanation for why you disagree with the experts.

Ten years ago, #AaronSwartz died by suicide following a prolonged and relentless crusade by the U.S. judiciary to prosecute him for allegedly downloading academic articles.

After his death, @freedomofpress took over maintenance of the open source whistleblower submission platform he had been developing, now called SecureDrop, hoping to get news orgs to adopt it. It's now used by dozens of news outlets worldwide.

Thank you, Aaron. ❤️ We are honored to carry on your legacy.

"She is drawn to hatred as a moth to a flame. She is the poison that courses through the veins of parts of the right—the vicious, reality-challenged right. If she is to be normalized by the GOP, it is the party, not she, that is changed." https://www.thebulwark.com/the-normalization-of-marjorie-taylor-greene/