Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Because of the rise of anti-science thinking and conspiracy theories I have been dreading a day when, if you want to tell a ghost story while camping you must first soberly explain that ghosts aren't real.

But ghosts ARE real. They are real while you are telling the story, that's the whole point to let them be real for a little bit and then... to let it go.

It's real in the way that myths are real. Are we too deep into the age of nonsense for wonder and fun to survive?

All Tyre Nichols wanted to do was go home.

All Trayvon Martin wanted to do was go home.

All Amadou Diallo wanted to do was go home.

Breonna Taylor WAS home.

#TyreNichols #BlackMastodon

Hi friends, I was laid off from Google last week and I'm looking for new opportunities. I'd like to find a role where I'm directly working with people to address their infrastructure needs.

A few of the types of problems I'd love to work on:

- building internal platforms
- on-prem/hybrid cloud
- cost optimization
- ops/infra tooling

But I'm also open to many other areas of focus. If you're looking for a senior engineer with an ops/infra focus, please get in touch.

CLIMATE HEAT!

The largest glacier between the high peaks of Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak has melted away after a long battle with global warming.

For thousands of years, the Hinman Glacier graced the crest of the Washington Cascades in what is now King County.
#climate #climatechange #weather#ClimateEmergency

https://apnews.com/article/seattle-washington-climate-and-environment-glaciers-7728bc6812f45a76ac15deb406624e0e

Try not to smile. I dare you.

Out doing errands today when I noticed a large crowd gathered for an anti-abortion rally outside the State Capitol building in Salem, OR. I decided to walk by and get a sense of who was in the crowd and spotted these Oregon Nazis standing in the back handing out fliers for a Holocaust denial film. You'd think "Nazis against genocide" would be a tough PR to pull off. But intellectual consistency and fascism rarely go together.

Do you know someone who has long COVID or had serious illness from COVID-19? Please boost for wider distribution!

#covid #covid19 #BringBackMasks #MaskUp

Wenn #Schnee Spaß macht 😊

After raking in record profits, Chevron has announced that the company will buy back $75 billion of its own shares.

Oil and gas companies jacked up prices to line their own pockets at the expense of the American people.

White supremacy is having empathy for the insurrectionist white woman killed by police for trying to overthrow the government but having scorn for the innocent Black man beat to death by police as he called for his mom while just trying to get home.
#tyrenichols #blackmastadon

The racist governor of Florida has given us no choice.

FREE Ebook: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1646-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation-expanded-second-edition

If you’ve been touched by #ReligiousTrauma or know others who have, please share this. Early Bird sales have started. This online event is open to the public with CE units available for mental health clinicians. I also offer partial scholarships for those in need. Www.religioustraumaconference.org #secular #therapist #cult #exchristian #exmuslim #exjw #exmormon #exhindu #excatholic #autonomy #criticalthinking #patriarchy #colonialism

Trump Made Secret $1M Donation to Arizona 'Audit' Trying To Overturn Election
One of the enduring mysteries surrounding the chaotic attempts to overturn Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential race results has been solved: who made a secret $1m donation to the controversial election "audit" in Arizona?
Now the Guardian can reveal that the person who partially bankrolled the failed attempt to prove that the election was stolen from Trump was … Trump.

@kityates

Reminder: health care workers and teachers died in droves during the height of the pandemic.

The rich responded by launching media campaigns against their requests for pay increases.

The rich are orchestrating a recession by demanding tech and media layoffs.

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/01/28/dont-do-evil-massive-layoffs-at-google-shine-a-light-on-tech-giants-ugly-side.html

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/25/google_investor_more_cuts/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/23/google-staff-overpaid-company-must-cut-thousands-jobs-investor/

https://www.worldatlas.com/economics/10-countries-with-the-most-billionaires.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/01/08/are-we-headed-for-a-richcession-why-the-wealthy-stand-to-lose-the-most-if-the-economy-stalls/

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/24/no-i-will-not-die-damned-economy

“This is warrior policing on steroids” said Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler of the brutal police beating of #TyreNichols. “What the video shows is an American citizen, who apparently has done nothing wrong, being tortured and executed by armed agents of the state.” #velshi https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/paul-butler-this-is-warrior-policing-on-steroids-162054725819

(Heard at the spa’s milk bath)

“Do you like your milk pasteurized?”

“Just up to my chin, please.”

Here is the AP African-American Studies Florida Wants to Ban - College Board has not released the syllabus for AP African-American Studies but Florida wants to ban it because they just know it has “no educational value” https://dianeravitch.net/2023/01/28/here-is-the-ap-african-american-studies-course-that-florida-wants-to-ban/ via @dianeravitch #DeFascist