Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Dear Lord please let 2023 be boring. Like a complete and total fucking yawn fest.

My New Year’s resolution: Annoy more Russian diplomats in more countries worldwide—by elevating more Ukrainian voices on the walls of their embassies.

#Theists:
Three possible reasons for #god's continuous inaction. He
• is malevolent
• is not all-powerful
• doesn't exist

#atheist vs #faith

Foods with sesame will be subject to regulatory requirements in 2023, FDA says - Sesame has joined the list of major food allergens defined by law, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. #cnn

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/01/health/sesame-joins-major-food-allergens-list-fda-wellness/index.html

Bill Gates Made 2022′s Biggest Charitable Donation - The Microsoft mogul gave $5 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to finance work in global health, development, policy and advocacy, and U.S. education. #huffpost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-gates-2022-charitable-donation_n_63b0bf34e4b0ae9de1b77bc7

New Year’s resolution: We stop saying history will judge them. We judge them now. With judges.

# of COVID deaths per year in Canada:
2020: 15,307
2021: 14,606
2022: 19,035

Let's get one thing straight: 2022 wasn't the year that we “learned to live with COVID.” It was the year we were told to ignore COVID while it continued to cause mass suffering, disability, and death.

Hi everyone! Here's my #introduction . I'm a PhD candidate at Harvard University primarily studying how selective breeding and lifetime experience shape the brains of #workingdogs such as herding Border Collies and service dog Labrador Retrievers. I use #neuroimaging, #surveys, and behavioral experiments to answer my research questions. You can participate in my research with your dog by visiting caninebrains.org! I'm excited to be apart of the #Mastodon community

New report: “I Don’t Think the System Will Ever Be the Same”: Distance Education Leaders’ Predictions and Recommendations for the Use of Online Learning in Community Colleges Post-COVID

https://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai22-687.pdf

#CommunityColleges #OnlineEd #FacDev #HigherEd #edutooters

#SCOTUS "Charity" Took $190K in Secret Donations from #Chevron With Pending Cases Before the #Justices #Corruption

NYT Gift Link: https://tinyurl.com/yba2ndnz

#BlackMastodon HELP! I’m looking for the source and full text of a quote that i saw on the wall of an exhibit at National Museum of African American History and Culture: it said something like “if I’m not represented in your vision of the future, do I exist in it?”. I’m pretty sure those aren’t the right words…

Boost for reach? Thanks!

@AlliFlowers
Yup. That's when I hit 'em with the impossibility of free will existing with an omniscient god. If the #god has forever known what you'll do, and you can do nothing else besides what he's foreseen, then where's the free will?