Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

🇱🇺 Luxembourg has allocated €80 million to Ukraine for the purchase and production of Ukrainian weapons, following Denmark's example, according to the Deputy Chair of the Ukraine-EU Integration Committee.

https://weukraine.tv/exclusive/ljuksemburh-vidiliv-z-ljutoho-2022-roku-ponad-200-mln-dlja-prjamikh-zakupivel-zbroji-dlja-ukrajini/

Fuck Greg Abbott.

Everyone needs to know that NO ONE IS REQUIRED TO ANSWER ANY KIND OF CITIZENSHIP QUESTION ON INTAKE FORMS IN ORDER TO RECEIVE HEALTHCARE--not in TX or anywhere else in this country.

& again, fuck Greg Abbott. Everyone dies--even this vile handful of cretins who believe they're emperors--& someday, we'll all wake up to his obituary, & won't that be a lovely gd day. #TexasIsAFascistState https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/113138

Traditional tests are outdated. They measure memorization, not the higher-order thinking skills needed in today's world.

Bitcoin Tulips.

Because irony is dead, a Dutch tulip farmer is heating their greenhouse with Bitcoin mining: The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting its...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdm

#politics

@AlliFlowers I vote for the 90-year-old-me and my very own dark chocolate, wine, gelato, and persistent posts on Mastodon.

Someone posted a version of this to the Seattle Indies Discord server and I'm still tickled by it. Boost for visibility if you would, and no you don't get any more information about them than this...

Who would you trust more?

@ChrisMayLA6 @Sine_Nomine @MikeFromLFE

If you tax the churches and the 1%, you will have enough money to cover most of the major social benefits people in many European countries have.

Louisiana governor wants to punish university prof who slammed Trump voters:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/11/27/landry-calls-lsu-punish-professor-alleged-speech?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=dca72b2828-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-dca72b2828-238276834&mc_cid=dca72b2828

“Beware the official who comes calling for censorship under the banner of free speech.”

In retaliation for any tariff from the USA, I believe Canada could impose a tariff until such time that the USA implements gun regulations and ends the massive gun flow across the border.
#solvingrealproblems

“If Trump wants Mexico to crack down on unauthorized migration through its territory,” Isacson told me, “then Biden has already gotten Mexico to do that to a greater extent than anyone has ever done before. He did it without tariffs.”

During the campaign, Trump simply pretended none of that was happening.
It’s one of MAGA’s biggest deceptions, and his latest scam carries it forward.

The very idea that Mexico must be bullied with tariffs into cracking down on migrants is designed to imply that it’s doing nothing right now—it’s taking advantage of us, Trump might say—and only his fearsome threats can force it into submission.

This massive swindle is getting lost in the coverage.
Much of it is focused on the potential consequences of tariffs, such as upending trade throughout the Americas and creating extensive hardship for U.S. industries.
That’s understandable, since the damage could be severe,
but you can read whole articles about this that don’t inform you that Mexico is already doing much of what Trump wants it to do
—or that this was apparently accomplished through diplomacy, without Trumpian bluster.

https://newrepublic.com/article/188854/mexico-sheinbaum-responds-trump-tariffs

Wearing A Salmon On Your Head Is Back In Fashion For Orcas, After A 37-Year Break

https://www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-salmon-on-your-head-is-back-in-fashion-for-orcas-after-a-37-year-break-76971

When they round up the immigrants and nothing gets better and in fact gets worse they’re not going to say oh hey our bad. They’re going to shift the blame to some new group to get rid of. That’s how this works.