Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social
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#Allusions are one of the trickiest #LiteraryDevices to teach young people, largely because allusions by their very nature expect the reader to already understand people and events generally considered to be “common knowledge.”
You see the problem.
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Okay, look, America.
It's *Canada* Geese, not Canadian Geese.
It's just a name, they don't belong to us, they're not our fault.
Sorry, though. 😉
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"No publicly traded company would consider naming Trump to an executive position... None of his billionaire friends would trust him with their money." He couldn't work in a school or a lawfirm. And yet we might elect him president, @sykescharlie writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/trump-reelection-2024-assault-allegations/673957/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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(Even God has to be saying by now: ‘Sheezus, just make it harder to get semi-automatic weapons. Just like you do renewing your license at the DMV or beating a red-light camera ticket.’)”
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Vietnam has reported a record-high temperature of 44.1C (111.38F), as weather experts and authorities told the population to remain indoors during the hottest parts of the day.
Scientists have said global warming is aggravating adverse weather. Neighbouring countries registered record temperatures during a heatwave in Asia in April.
#News #climate #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/07/vietnam-records-highest-ever-temperature-of-441c
@SrRochardBunson Of course not, she has no physical hands.
@deannapizzuti Fact: I cannot hear (or read) Maple Leafs without humming Joni Mitchell’s “Raised on Robbery.”
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Elect people who know right from wrong. It’s a simple test you can apply to any political zealot on the right or the left, to any judge, school committee member, sheriff, or pastor. If we can no longer do that simple thing, if the money and the power and the media have forever changed our ability to tell what is right and to desire what is right, crawling our way back to decency will take generations.
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On Tuesday, President Biden is scheduled to meet with House Speaker McCarthy, Leader Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Leader McConnell at the White House.
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"More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of #publishing giant #Elsevier."
👉 ‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global #science #journal over ‘unethical’ fees
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees
#science #research #APCs #ethics #journals #subscriptions #libraries #academiclibraries
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Donald Trump posts provable lies; prosecutors should seek gag order. Because #JusticeMatters https://youtu.be/Si-XD2noT3U
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Weapons of war don't belong into civilians' hands.
The U.S. military is the only admissible & well-regulated "militia" empowered & armed to defend the nation.
An army of civilian lunatics armed with guns to kill masses of people in no time is not, what U.S. forces approve & are there for.
How credible is the U.S. military defending American lives abroad, while Americans are allowed to use military-style weapons to slaughter their fellow-Americans at home?
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"Our father, Eugene Stoner, designed the AR-15 and subsequent M-16 as a military weapon to give our soldiers an advantage over the AK-47,” the Stoner family told NBC News late Wednesday. "He died long before any mass shootings occurred. But, we do think he would have been horrified and sickened as anyone, if not more by these events."
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-ar-15-inventor-speaks-out-n593356
#SaveLives #RespectLife #GunReduction #GunControl #GunControlNow #YourLivesMatter #YouMatter
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The Mormon Church is being fined 5 million because it hid a 32 billion dollar investment fund. This was not accidental. The SEC proved that both the investment firm and church went to great lengths to knowingly hide these assets. For the folks playing along at home, that’s a fine of 0.016% on the investment. Imagine lying on your taxes and you hid an extra $100K offshore and the IRS said “No sweat, pay us $15.63.” If there are no other repercussions, that’s not a fine, that’s encouragement.
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🥥 Heidi and #TedCruz are praying and #praying, and still the shootings go on and on.
Anybody see the problem with this picture of the man who gets the most money in #Congress from the #NRA URGING #Prayer as a solution to #GunViolence in the USA? 🥥
https://nationalzero.com/2023/05/06/heidi-and-i-are-praying/
@realTuckFrumper @kennethb If that works so well, the state of TX should be required to pay Cruz with thoughts and prayers. Who needs cash when you have thoughts and prayers.
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This is nominally a list of all the horrible things Desantis has recently done in Florida, but it's also a blueprint for what's in store for the rest of the country as Republican sadism continues to advance: https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/wellthat-happened
@tofugolem We live in an age of instant, mass communication. There is no longer a need for amplified “calls to prayer” from any organization.
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Seems very poignant indeed, USA.
Get with the program.
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A book filled with killer jokes is a DieJest
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