Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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I often get the sense that quite a few people do not actually know what I write about and instead make assumptions about what I must write about based on another set of assumptions about who I must be.
But, if you ask me, I write about democracy, and this column — about the near-total absence of accountability for American police departments — is very much about democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/opinion/tyre-nichols-police-accountability-democracy.html
Bird charity locked out of Twitter after woodcock tweets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-64451977
Still waiting for a comment from twitter but Musk apparently said this is ironic.
Hmm, so twitter allows racist and anti Semites on but post about a bird and you get this..
Someone needs to explain that to our home secretary in the UK, we have left all those Afghans who helped us to the mercy of the taliban, despite endless statements this wouold not happen.
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❗ Europe is sleepwalking into next migration crisis!
Existing European migration policies have failed.
We urgently need a new Migration Policy that is:
✅ fair with those in need
✅ firm with those who are not eligible
✅ harsh with the cynical human smugglers
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1620361440879157248
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Data stored in #ice #cores dating back 55 years brings new insight into #atmospheric levels of a molecule that can significantly affect #weather and #climate.
#EarthScience #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/01/en01312301.html
@AuldFoggerty "The British are used to cuts" Randy Lal, Carry on up the Khyber
@vivienhessel@toot.io @theweaselking @SamuelBepis
I also watcheda documentary, about moses, the parting of the red sea could be a misinterpretation of reedsea a sea of reeds which grow near water.
@vivienhessel@toot.io @theweaselking @SamuelBepis
Everything is open to interpretation, the story of fire and brimstone from god has some truth, well in the fact they have found glass in the area, thing is that glass was caused by meteors or similar hitting the sand, superheating the sand, forming glass, so the science and investigations explains it. At the time, it would have been terrifying for the people, so saying it was a punishment from god at the time, would make sense to people at that time.
I picked up the complete audio book collection read by @stephenfry last week.
@theweaselking @vivienhessel@toot.io
Based on their attitude we could assume that the word Mormon is just a simple misspelling of the word Moron which would be far more descriptive.
Could be seen as offensive and insulting but no more so than their attitude towards relationships.
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@zleap @theweaselking The thing is, the Bible probably doesn't say anything about homosexuality at all. The "clobber passages" that conservatives cite are pretty ambiguous in the original languages. The word "homosexuality" and the concept of sexual orientation as we understand it now didn't even exist when these texts were written.
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Any scientists in aerospace engineering here who can comment on a study about a new kind of “space skin”?
#science #scientist #research #space #spacecraft #engineering #spaceTech
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We have to overthrow capitalism before we invent time travel because we can't ever let the rich be more in control of the past than they already are
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The response from the DDoS hasn't been, "Grr! Mastodon sucks!"
It's been, "Wow! It's so cool how Mastodon works!"
😆
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Postdoctoral scholar in multiplexed imaging of cancer tissues
#ScienceJobs #job
Cologne and Berlin #Germany #PostdoctoralFellow
https://jobrxiv.org/job/center-for-molecular-medicine-cologne-and-charite-university-hospital-berlin-27778-postdoctoral-scholar-in-multiplexed-imaging-of-cancer-tissues/?feed_id=35993
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A number of folks have reached out to us over the past few months asking how they could help Mastodon out. Unfortunately, we haven't had the capacity to accept those kind offers at the time.
If you're interested in getting involved as a volunteer, please fill out this form (and share it around!) so we know who could help with what. (There is plenty that needs doing!)
On the topic of puberty, this is a difficult time as it is, I would hope these kids are given just as much access to mental health support as these drugs. Body changes are kinda bad enough at 13, but at 7 must be pretty scary if no one else is going through the same, on the other end of the scale being the only person in the class not going through puberty would be awkward and lead to bullying too.
So is there a correlation between states that practice religion more widely and these policies. ?
We have issues with the Church of England, they will bless Gay Marriage but not actually do the ceremony or something.
I kinda understand their teachings apparently outlaw being gay I just wondered if that is actually explicit in scripture or has been added over the years as people just object.
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RT @RoyEntSoc: Interested in taking a #course in #entomology?
We have compiled a list of institutions in the UK and in Ireland offering full and part time #entomologically-related courses to help you build a #career in #InsectScience:
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Plants_EFSA/status/1620099310137528321
@lynn@mstdn.social @dubikan @lassielmr @DidiQ
This must cause a lot of problems when people from different states cross each others path and find very conflicting and strongly held views don't exactly co-exist easily.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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