Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Blossom, a goose who lives on a pond in a cemetery, tragically lost her mate Bud. The staff at the cemetery noticed she was lonely & posted a personal ad seeking another match for her. The ad worked, & Blossom met Frankie, another widowed goose. They hit it off and are now inseparable. #MadeMeSmile
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-hartman-on-the-road-cemetery-staff-personal-ad-for-goose-whose-mate-died/

@DrPsyBuffy @ManOfRust having taken my mom who is almost 90 to appointments I can assure you it gets much worse . She’s physically frail but fine mentally. They called me in and the doctor proceeded to address his comments to me rather than my mom until she spoke up and said “if you want a medical practice where you speak to the person who brought the patient in you should switch to veterinary medicine”. The very elderly are treated like things, not people.

Clever match-up for energy conservation:
* Heating pools is expensive...
* Cooling hot-running data centers is expensive...
Combine them and you get ...

"Digital boilers" proven practical enough to be deployed to heat 65 pools & some Danish & Swedish homes.

#ClimateChange #Energy #Innovation

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64939558

HISD takeover: State announces it's going forward with Texas Education Agency takeover of Houston ISD - ABC13 Houston

https://abc13.com/houston-isd-state-takeover-official-what-is-next-for-hisd-board-of-managers-commissioner-mike-morath-interview/12956975/

#houston #hisd #texas #education #school #k12

Nebraska state senator Machaela Cavanaugh is 3 weeks into filibustering an anti-trans bill. "If this Legislature collectively decides that legislating hate against children is our priority, then I am going to make it...painful for everyone." https://apnews.com/article/filibuster-transgender-gender-affirming-therapy-bill-nebraska-cavanaugh-b9018fd1bf72112ca984ff58679eda6d

Oh, great! Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse…

We’re being attacked by a giant avocado!

Speaking of Social Security modifications...

Once again my political hero - Elizabeth Warren - attacks the 1% instead of just bemoaning their crappy scams

https://tinyurl.com/5n99xd64

The Glass-Steagall Act was the law of the land until 1999.

It prohibited banks from using their deposits to pursue high-risk investments — separating Wall St. from Main St.

I say bring it back!

Florida: Legislators Plan to Lower Age to Buy Guns from 21 to 18 - Owning the libs is making Florida more dangerous, less equitable and more callous. https://dianeravitch.net/2023/03/14/florida-legislators-plan-to-lower-age-to-buy-guns-from-21-to-18/ via @dianeravitch #DeFascist

@StillIRise1963 I figure a lot. Cops around here love those open and shut cases and they won’t investigate anything they can possibly mark down as “accidental” or “natural causes.” Anyone who’s a member of a marginalized group is in danger. Especially if they don’t have family willing to stand up for them. When we all realize that and band together as allies, it may make it stop. There are more of us than there are of them.

I was let go from my job yesterday. If you know anyone that has a need for a creative yet pragmatic #AgileCoach, #ScrumMaster, #ProductManager, #ProductOwner type of #Agile worker, let me know! (Boosts for reach appreciated!)

We have opened a junior faculty position (tenure track) for #machinelearning in #astronomy

Application deadline: 2023-04-27

https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12796377/junior-professorship-w1-with-tenure-track-leading-to-a-w2-tenure-track-professorship-/

DeSantis is punishing the Hyatt Regency Miami for hosting a Drag Christmas ball back in December. He’s actually taken away its liquor license.

DeSantis is out of control, obsessed with oppressing freedom and gender identity expression and willing to abuse state power to do it.

The Family Research Council is now recognized as a tax-exempt "church".

Below is a link to the IRS publication dealing with churches and religious organizations. How on God's green Earth does the FRC not violate the rules on pages 4 to 7 ?!

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1828.pdf

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 1462

I love this Senator! She represents everything good about government

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senator-warren-feds-powell-should-recuse-himself-bank-review-2023-03-14/

Woody Guthrie fam re “This Land is Your Land” has message for Sen Josh Hawley: This song is not your song to “co-opt.”

Hawley intro'd This Land is Our Land Act which wd “ban Chinese corps & indivs assoc w Chinese Communist Party from owning US agric land.”

Guthrie’s daughter: “In this partic case co-opting or parodying of the lyric by those not aligned w Woody’s lyrics— i.e. misrep by autocrats, racists, white natlists, anti-labor, insurrectionists, etc-is not condoned" https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3899663-this-land-is-not-his-song-woody-guthries-family-rejects-josh-hawleys-use-of-lyrics/