Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I’m a bit annoyed. Got on the bus today (Friday) and the bus driver said “I tested positive for Covid on Tuesday, that’s why I’ve got my mask”
he was not wearing a mask, it was under his chin.
I was too gobsmacked to respond appropriately except for saying how things like Covid affects people differently, and for some it’s really bad.
Yes he agreed, his wife had it really bad but he’s just got this cough.

We really need to get better at dealing with this disease.

I’m hoping my mask was enough.

#Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 4733

@AlliFlowers self employment means individual plans mean you either have to get high deductible plans or pay a literal fortune each month.

Insurance should not be tied to employment

Self-copying #RNA #vaccine wins first full approval: what’s next?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03859-w?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=299a7ef4ab-briefing-dy-20231207&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-299a7ef4ab-50974792

"Researchers look ahead to the potential uses and benefits of a technology that has been more than 20 years in the making."
#RNA #Vaccines

Your reminder: the GOP selected a special counsel to investigate Clinton before Monica Lewinsky

They went fishing and they got a big catch

Clinton lost moderates and center right voters
Hillary was still affected when she ran
Dubya got a boost and kept many of the Reagan era officials from his dad‘s term
Dems didn’t take the house until 2006
This normalizes impeachment for Trump

It’s time to put Jared Kushner front and center. Fight back.

I almost wish we could force students to do something they love, do something that restores them. I think most of us know that the kids are not okay (heck, staff and faculty aren't okay either), but incorporating self-care can be hard to teach.

#AcademicChatter #HigherEd

#Breaking: In historic decision, FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease

https://www.statnews.com/2023/12/08/fda-approves-casgevy-crispr-based-medicine-for-treatment-of-sickle-cell-disease/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

"French man sentenced to 12 years in prison for antisemitic attack"

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-777243

"During the heinous attack, the perpetrators tied up the couple, ransacked their home for cash under the stereotype that 'Jews don’t put money in the bank,' and subjected the young woman to rape."

#antisemitism #France

@StillIRise1963
I've learned that someone telling me they're a Christian means they want an afterlife, but can't be bothered with actually doing Christian stuff. if they tell me they're not racist, they almost always are. Often, they're the same people.

@katmckatniss
Back in Reagan's day churches churches thought they could control government but it was a trick. In reality government controls churches and how their congregations vote, just like in Russia.

While attacking #ReidHoffman (#LinkedIn), #Trump managed to defame #EJeanCarroll again. He repeated the same lies for which a jury found him #liable both for #defamation & #SexualAssault. His continuing defamation could, according to a prior ruling, increase the #punitive #damages at her next #trial beginning 1/16.

#law #legal

"Should college students be disciplined for calling for a genocide against Jewish people?"

Yes. The answer is always: Yes. This isn't hard at all.

They survived Oct. 7. Then Netanyahu used their home for publicity
https://forward.com/news/572439/oct-7-survivors-netanyahu-musk-kfar-aza/

#Netanyahu #Elon #ElonMusk #Israel #Hamas

@AlliFlowers @fzer0 @lednabwm
No, it's real hats for imaginary gods.
Therefore we wear imaginary hats for.... Oh, wait.

Trump filed notice on Thurs saying he will appeal a DC judge’s ruling that he was not #immune from being charged w/ #federal #crimes for his efforts to undo the outcome of the #2020election, either by his fmr role as president or the #Constitution’s rules for #impeachment. (Both frivolous arguments)

Trump’s legal team says the charges that he conspired to #obstruct Joe #Biden’s 2020 victory should be thrown out for 2 reasons:

If #Biden follows through this is something that will help so many people including #democrats in #2024
Just take the damn patents from greedy #drug #companies already

https://newrepublic.com/article/177403/biden-big-pharma-seize-drug-patents

France’s Le Pen ordered to stand trial in EU funding scandal https://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/frances-le-pen-ordered-to-stand-trial-in-eu-funding-scandal/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon