Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

<20 Black women physicists in U.S. have tenure. This scholar just joined the club
As the 1st Black woman to earn tenure in particle theory or cosmology theory, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is breaking barriers in physics
https://19thnews.org/2023/07/chanda-prescod-weinstein-physicist-tenure-rare-feat

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanda_Prescod-Weinstein
* American theoretical cosmologist/particle physicist
* advocate of increasing diversity in science

#BlackAmerica #WomensRights #GenderInequality #tenure #academia #SystemicRacism

Well, fuck.

Just been informed by my GP practice's pharmacist that there's now a national (UK) shortage of Rybelsus, aka Semaglutide, my most effective diabetes medication, that's likely to last into 2024. Influencers have been boosting it as a weight loss drug (it's the same drug—in tablet form—as Ozembic/Wegovy) and private clinics are buying up all the stock for image-conscious idiots, depriving diabetics of access.

(I have 12 weeks in the cupboard, then I may lose access for months.)

Wow, that's a lot of weeks.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Are there any people who are interested in #programming and wanna learn #commonlisp ?

I could become a mentor taking help with my opensource projects as a "payment".

Please, boost this message!

The meta description for Ron DeSantis' campaign page is uncannily on-brand. A few clunky sentences that capture his utter lack of charisma and his knock-off Trumpism -- like a fake Gucci bag at the swap meet with interlocking Cs.

Reuters: US to announce as soon as tomorrow a $330 million weapons package for #Taiwan.

Fantastic new Ed Yong article has just dropped, about fatigue and post-exertional malaise (aka "crashes") in Long Covid and ME/CFS.

This is CRITICAL READING if a loved one has either #LongCovid or #MECFS

Here's a link that gets around the paywall. https://archive.li/sBL8T

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542 PM CDT Thu Jul 27 2023

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
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Here’s what I want to know: Why did Al Franken have to resign for a joke photo he took years before he was a senator, but the Republican members of Congress who participated in or encouraged an armed insurrection to overthrow our democracy are allowed to stay in government?

#criticalthinking #logic #reason #science #atheist #nullifidian #SecularHumanist #ReligiousTrauma

The media are not reporting on Mitch McConnell but if Biden even bumps his knee they're all over it, and that's because why?
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/why-the-news-blackout-over-mitch
Biden is in much better shape than McConnell and Trump but he's not allowed to have any bumps.

👀👀Three’s a charm!

BREAKING on MSNBC:

A third defendant has been added to the #Trump classified #documents case. Carlos #DeOliveira has been added to the docket charging Trump and Walt #Nauta.

NYT identified Carlos Deoliveira as the worker who drained the pool at Mar-a-Lago in October and, in the process, flooded the room where surveillance footage is kept. #legal #JackSmith

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
451 PM CDT Thu Jul 27 2023

The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
West central Baldwin County in southwestern Alabama...

* Until 530 PM CDT.

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Senator John Fetterman is introducing a bill that would allow striking workers to get Food Stamps.
#WGAStrike #WGAStrong #SAGAftra #Fetterman
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/27/strike-food-stamps-bill-john-fetterman/

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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
446 PM CDT Thu Jul 27 2023

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446 PM CDT Thu Jul 27 2023

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY THROUGH
530 PM CDT...

At 446 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles northeast of Loxley, moving west at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Wind g https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.php?pid=202307272146-KMOB-WWUS84-SPSMOB

Trump needed $225 million, Axos Bank (formerly Bank of Internet USA) came to the rescue.

CEO & GOP donor Greg Garrabrants approved the loans.

Much of this story was previously reported, but an interesting detail is noted - the Axos loans have drawn scrutiny from NY Attorney General Letitia James in her fraud case against Trump.

#Trump #AxosBank

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/27/trump-loans-axos-bank-gregory-garrabrants/

Gratitude Post!

Thank you to the creators and managers of all videophone devices and software. If not for your work the recent Covid-19 pandemic would have so much harder for people to endure. You literally helped humanity stay connected and you did it with charity and reasonableness. THANK YOU people at ZOOM, people at WhatsApp, people at FaceTime, etc. from a personal perspective your work allowed me to SEE, not just talk to my isolated elders, my growing nieces and nephews, and far-away friends.

#videocall #zoom #whatsapp #facetime #pandemic #covid #isolation #communication #gratitude #elders #kids