Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Oooh, boy, if you thought conservatives wanted to kill her before...

Michigan governor signs ‘overdue’ laws that aim to end child marriage
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/michigan-child-marriage-law-signed

>Minimum age raised to 18 in state that allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to wed with written permission from parent or guardian

"ChatGPT, write a joke about Twitter in the style of Mastodon's Missing The Point."

ChatGPT: "[Rate limit exceeded]"

Adam McKay, the director of Don't Look Up, says: "Remaining calm about climate change will kill us"...
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Anyone insisting that you “calm down” about climate change is living in denial about the catastrophes at our doorstep.

When you express alarm about how rapidly the climate is warming, the “calm down” crowd will correct you with the most remedial facts. They believe that for you to be so bothered when they are not, there must be a fundamental misunderstanding on your part.

“You do know the global warming temperature is taken from a multiyear average, not single extreme heat events, right?” they will say, like a bemused uncle gently letting the kids know that elephants don’t actually talk like they do in storybooks.

But be careful. Because by mentioning any of this you are committing the greatest sin there is for the “calm down” crowd: stating the obvious.

So adverse is this group to stating the obvious that after a while, “the obvious” or the “semi-obvious” pretty much never gets stated at all.

The oil industry and their attendant financial institutions’ almost preposterous hold on the government and its elected officials?

An economic system that has nurses paying a higher functional tax rate than billionaires?

A world climate plan that after hundreds of forums, treaties, and “net-zero pledges,” still saw emissions reach their highest levels ever this past year?

All of it risks not only upsetting the “calm down” guy’s well-developed delicate late-twentieth-century aesthetic taste, but worst of all, it might just get “the people” riled up or in the worst of all possible outcomes, actually demanding change and accountability.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.levernews.com/remaining-calm-about-climate-change-will-kill-us/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

#ALweather #ALwx
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210 PM CDT Wed Jul 12 2023

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...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Mobile
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At 209 PM CDT, National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
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I hope you have the best day possible. Thanks for all you do. And thanks for being you. You’re making a difference, and the world’s a better place with you in it. Keep going. You rock.

#Disabled #Voters Were Evenly Split in 2016. Now the GOP Is Pushing Them Away. Lawmakers seek to curb early, mail-in and curbside voting. Measures spark backlash among voters with disabilities #ableism is #discrimination #Election2024 #elections #mailinballots #votingbymail https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-12/republicans-risk-alienating-disabled-voters-key-swing-group-angered-by-new-laws#xj4y7vzkg

The GQP is trying to defund the police , and the Justice department. Why don't they defund themselves first..Be an example..

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: Judge Rules Bannon Must Pony Up $500K for Unpaid Legal Bills

#SteveBannon was ordered to pay nearly $500,000 to his former legal team....

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-steve-bannon-unpaid-lawyers-ruling-20230710-x3k2jqqkvzamrjkfbzup3rvihu-story.html

@persagen This is horrific.

Forced sterilisations on Indigenous women happened in #Canada until 2019.

2019.

2019.

#HumanRights #Gender #Policy

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Special Marine Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
Issued by National Weather Service New Orleans LA
1055 AM CDT Wed Jul 12 2023

The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a

* Special Marine Warning for...
Coastal waters from Okaloos https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/f/2023-O-NEW-KMOB-MA-W-0174_2023-07-12T15:55Z

Got this phone up and running, and it is every bit as satisfying as I had hoped to be able to dial using punch cards.

#ALweather #ALwx
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Special Weather Statement
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Issued by National Weather Service New Orleans LA
1054 AM CDT Wed Jul 12 2023

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1054 AM CDT Wed Jul 12 2023

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
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Maria Bartiromo wants to speak to the whistleblower manager! #FAIL

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/bartiromo-yells-mccarthy-over-luft-what?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=76855

Geology rocks, but Geography is where it’s at!