Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

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?

#Christians:
For argument's sake, let’s say #Jesus existed and cured a blind guy.

Why would #God create blindness?

The U.S. keeps laws on the books so that regular people won't think they can commit the same crimes that rich and powerful people get away with. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/30/north-carolina-meadows-voting-charges-00075881

@pyutaros @zleap @therobburgessshow

I chose an instance pretty much at random, and then I discovered that I really liked the person who was managing that instance (@KuJoe). Other than that, it doesn't seem to matter much who else is on that instance.

@sass Hot take - the only way we're gonna make zipper merges work is if the stop telling people which lane ends.

If a sign just said "Caution: Lane Reduction in Three Miles" we could force people to take turns.

But saying "Left lane ends" means planners will plan, they get over, then they're annoyed at the people who didn't plan, they don't let them in, yadda yadda.

Ginni Thomas confirmed in her Jan 6 deposition testimony the “best friend” she referred to in texts with Mark Meadows was in fact Clarence Thomas.

Ginni’s texts implied that calls with Justice Thomas helped her to “keep holding on” as she worked to overturn the 2020 election.

Posting links to Twitter in Mastodon is similar to saying you don’t care about your ex by obsessing about your ex.

You are better than that. Stop it.