Rose Rudd @roseannerudd@qoto.org

Decided to take my “Government Ethics -The Essentials” course today, for no special reason. Let’s see what rules I and other non-#SCOTUS employees are held to, under threat of firing and criminal prosecution…

The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy #OTD in 1633.

He spent the rest of his life under house arrest. During this time, he wrote Two New Sciences (1638), primarily concerning kinematics and the strength of materials, summarizing work he had done around forty years earlier.

Galileo Galilei @ PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39014

#books #literature #science

As the world turns its attention to the missing Titanic submersible, don't look away from the crisis off the Greek coast.

More than 500 refugees are presumed to have drowned, in what is likely one of the worst refugee and migrant shipwrecks on record. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/21/titanic-submersible-greece-migrant-ship-pakistan/

#June is #Alzheimer's and #Brain Health Awareness Month. #JohnsHopkins is offering, through July 21, 30% off on books about #dementia (#diagnosis, #caregiving, #science of #neurology, #narrative #medicine) with this discount code: HDEM23, including the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #BruceMiller at #UCSF's extraordinary #MemoryandAgingCenter in #SF. Sending strength to all whose lives have been affected by this #disease. #EndAlz

Gas explosion reported in 5th arrondissement of Paris; several buildings on fire. https://www.bfmtv.com/en-direct/ #France

Dr. Peter Hotez, professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine has been attacked all weekend by Musk and Rogan on the bird site. Dr Hotez is a vaccine scientist and a threat to disinformation con artists like the two twits mentioned above. He will have a new book out soon and it is important to spread his book title message far and wide.
#FactsMatter #DisinformationKills #VaccinesWork #Science #Medicine #Canada #USA

Ancient Britons built Stonehenge – then vanished. Is science closing in on their killers? Jonathan Kennedy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/19/ancient-britons-stonehenge-killers-plague-britain-migration

Rock slide narrowly misses Swiss village of Brienz, so far. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65926381

#ClimateDiary

Etched glass mask being cut out. Anthemions, scrolls, butterflies and designs taken from the cornicing in the clients home. #stainedglass #Glasgow #Scotland #etchedglass

Not the same, NYT, #ButHerEmails

Conservative parents are like "Yes my child is totally straight, I just need to shield their sensitive eyes from any books and/or rainbows because I know for a fact that will immediately turn them gay. The kid is straight as an arrow though."

“A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin,” reports The Debrief. https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/ #ufo #uap #aliens

You have to admire good engineering.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/05/the-good-little-robot/

#RonnieBarker #DogsOfMastodon in the River Ceri

@harald @gutenberg_org you don’t have to feel bad. We have a lot of nice people here too. Not everyone spends all their time telling others how they are wrong.

You joined a Mastodon instance and you did in fact join Mastodon.

There is more to the Fediverse than mastodon, but that’s ok. We love that you joined us. It’s great having you here.

That’s much more important than figuring out intricacies of protocols or underlying technologies.

Welcome! Have fun. Spread the word about all the good things you do.

Fascism defined and intelligently explained.
May 29, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-29-2023?utm_source=substack&publication_id=20533&post_id=124727841&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true

Whether you're a life-long #Friends fan (like me!) or just interested in the peeking behind-the-scenes, it's hard not to be thoroughly impressed to see what it takes to make a #TV sitcom from start to finish.
Especially in a time like now (with the #WritersStrike), it's clear to see how essential writers are to many aspects of entertainment & how they shape the shows you know & love (...even right up to the day of filming! 😅)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBScomgeX5E

Heads up 99%.

Whenever someone from a think tank talks about “the economy”, mentally insert the words “rich people’s yacht money” into the sentence.

We can’t provide free healthcare, because it might harm rich people’s yacht money.

Nurses are going to have to feed themselves from food banks in order to protect rich people’s yacht money.

We’ve decided to let kids work in slaughter houses to help boost rich people’s yacht money.

It works every time. Give it a try.

#RichPeoplesYachtMoney

Well said David! 👍🤔🤬 -ER