Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

my gods, I took a look at Twitter and saw a tweet from a weather service account in an area that was hit with severe storms yesterday. The weather service account explained that Melon Husk's savvy business decision had caused the account to lose the ability to read tweets sent to it or replying to it about severe weather.

A melon husk reply guy suggested that the account should stop doing weather advisement tweets in Spanish.

Because you know, in his mind, Spanish speaking people don't count.

I'm now seeking grad students and post-docs:

https://fossacademic.tech/2023/07/02/GradStudentsPostDocs.html

I'm interested in working with folks who want to study #AlternativeSocialMedia, including the #fediverse, from a critical perspective.

York U (in Canada) has some generous funding now, thanks to a major grant the university received (I'm affiliated with the grant).

Please do reach out if you have questions! Boosts appreciated.

For new people (or returnees) settling in here, this is a piece of advice I haven't seen mentioned yet. Go to Settings and choose "Advanced Web Interface." That means Mastodon will pretty much look like Tweetdeck on your desktop. Much easier to manage lists and replies, and easier to follow people from that set up.

#Jacksonville is at it again. The Save Southern Heritage group is asking our new #mayor #DonnaDeegan to preserve confederate monuments and displays.

These constant reminders of #hate and #racism need to be taken down and stay down! We’re not going to celebrate traitors.

#TakeEmAllDownJax

What's the most common way you read novels?

@flexghost
What you’re illustrating is the prospect of our personal rights and freedoms being subsumed by (Catholic) religious doctrine - beginning with abortion and continuing through the entire spectrum of sexual behavior, long codified & with eternal damnation attached for “sinners.” They’d include masturbation if they could figure a way to monitor.

The USA is a constitutional Republic - NOT a theocracy. We must fight this.

#MAGAfascism
#voteblue
#gotv

Ella Williams, conocida como Mme Abomah (Madame Abomah),
1865-19???

Trabajó durante años en el mundo del espectáculo a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX. Debido a su impresionante altura de 2,28 metros, era promocionada habitualmente como la mujer más alta del mundo y, gracias a su belleza, recibió también en muchas ocasiones el apodo de "la bella giganta africana".

https://momentosdelpasado.blogspot.com/2022/01/mme-abomah-la-bella-giganta-africana.html

French Police Union Calls Rioters 'Vermin' | Barron's https://www.barrons.com/news/french-police-union-calls-rioters-vermin-f10740ea (Me: If appears the French Police Union has crossed a line that revokes its democratic authority and it should apologize to the French people)

@CarlG314 @JRBuckley Universal vote be mail should be everywhere. Automatically, everyone registered gets a ballot, you get the updates. Done.

Scenario: A Black guy walks into a bar, orders a drink, and the bartender tells him:

"Sorry, we don't serve your kind here."

Brotha says, "It's ok to serve me. I'm not LGBTQ."

To which the bartender replies, "But you're still Black. We don't serve your people here."

The Hez'Bollah wing of the Supremes just this scenario possible.

Blacks, Latinos, Gays, Jews, Native Americans, all minority groups.

Once we are vanquished, next up would be purity tests among Christian sects.
#BlackMastodon

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I had to stop laughing/crying/wheezing long enough to post this.

Warning: Do not drink anything before reading.

In case you needed further proof that Ron DeSantis is a racist asshole.

PRESS RELEASES ›
Chinese Immigrants Sue Florida Over Unconstitutional and Discriminatory Law Banning Them From Buying Land

ACLU and Partners Argue SB 264 Violates the Constitution and the Fair Housing Act
Affiliate: ACLU of Florida

May 22, 2023 3:00 pm

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A group of Chinese citizens who live, work, study, and raise families in Florida, as well as a real estate brokerage firm in Florida that primarily serves clients of Chinese descent, are filing a lawsuit to combat Florida’s discriminatory property law, SB 264. Signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the legislation unfairly restricts most Chinese citizens — and most citizens of Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia, and North Korea — from purchasing homes in the state. Unless the courts act, the law will take effect on July 1, 2023.

The plaintiffs are represented by the...
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/chinese-immigrants-sue-florida-over-unconstitutional-and-discriminatory-law-banning-them-from-buying-land

https://www.aclu.org/documents/complaint-shen-v-simpson

Found a new font called Schrodinger Condensed.

(Typographic art designed by Yash Mathur https://theinspirationgrid.com/clever-antonym-typography-by-yash-mathur/)

"Peter J. Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi began development on the vaccine, known as CORBEVAX, in 2020 and currently are awaiting the final results of Phase Three clinical trials to determine its efficacy rate with respect to the Omicron COVID-19 variant.

In sharp contrast to the four dominant vaccines globally, CORBEVAX is protected by no patents or other intellectual property protection."

#RachelThrasher

https://www.bu.edu/gdp/2022/02/06/open-source-covid-19-vaccine-offers-potential-pathway-for-vaccinating-the-world/

#COVID #vaccines #CORBEVAX #DrugPatents

When your best friend lets you win
#caturday