Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

#DidYouKnow ?

If you ask Rick Astley for his copy of the movie Up, he cannot give it to you as he will never give you up. However, in doing so he lets you down. Thus creating the Astley Paradox

Runtime Garbage Collection

[THREAD] I am reading The Woman and The Car, A Chatty Little Handbook for All Women Who Motor or Who Want to Motor by Dorothy Levitt, circa 1909 and it is TOO DELICIOUS not to share with you.

Miss Levitt is known to automotive history as the inventor of the rear view mirror. In her day she was famed as a speed racer of boats and cars, who taught British Queen Alexandra and the princesses how to drive.

She felt women should not have to rely on male chauffeurs or mechanics but be independent.

#GunControlNow

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-ordered-to-pay-new-york-times-nearly-400k-in-legal-fees-for-frivolous-lawsuit/

Some old blackhouses in the Scottish Highlands weight their thatch down with stones. These ones made me think of those theme park rides where people dangle from a track.

That one in the front has just seen what's coming.

#sillyScribbles #photography #stone #Scotland #silly

WHO: "Five years, 10 years, 20 years from now, what are we going to see in terms of cardiac impairment, pulmonary impairment, neurologic impairment? It’s year five in the pandemic, but there’s still a lot we don’t know about it."

https://fortune.com/well/2024/01/12/covid-jn1-pandemic-world-health-organization-warns-dangers-repeat-covid-infection-cardiac-pulmonary-neurologic/

A prominent doctor asked
“5 years,
10 years,
20 years from now,
what are we going to see
in terms of
cardiac impairment,
pulmonary impairment,
neurologic impairment?”
and while I do not know
the answer to that question
I imagine our response
will be to deny we are seeing it.

For those of you that have never seen a truly dynamic duo here ya go

#WompWomp

Via MaddowBlog:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24359048-trump-fee-decision. #Trump #legal

Regardless of income, all mothers in Flint, Michigan can now receive $1,500 mid-pregnancy, followed by $500 a month of #basicincome for 12 months after their child is born. This is the most universal of any guaranteed income program so far, with zero means-testing.

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigans-55m-experiment-guaranteed-income-begins-flint-moms

Sue Kingery Woltanski: M4L Supports Parental Rights Except When They Don't. - Why is Moms For Liberty, a so-called ‘parental rights group,” arguing against parental involvement in their child’s grade retention unless they use vouchers? https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/sue-kingery-woltanski-m4l-supports-parental-rights-except-when-it-doesnt/ #Reading

#Oregon Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a bid to remove #Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the #14thAmendment’s “insurrectionist ban,” saying it’s waiting for the US #SupremeCourt to rule on the issue. #legal

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/politics/oregon-supreme-court-trump-ballot-2024?cid=ios_app

Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, they said in a court filing Friday.

https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-death-penalty-b6ab8eda541c2c0a0b512a89b0471b91?taid=65a171641f42680001d775e5

@GottaLaff Sherrod Brown is running neck and neck with Frank LaRose, Ohio's atrocious Secy of State. LaRose is well known for attempted voter suppression and has worked tirelessly to defeat popular citizen initiatives on abortion and gerrymandering.
The race should not be this close. We need Brown in the Senate. As a former Ohioan in a blue state I'll be supporting Sherrod Brown from afar. For the sake of democracy I urge others to do the same if they can.
#voteblue

I’m a Katie Porter fan, but this got my attention. In a very good way.

“Adam #Schiff is calling for a major overhaul of American institutions, including getting rid of the Electoral College, expanding the Supreme Court and eliminating the filibuster.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/12/schiff-pro-democracy-plan-filibuster-electoral-college-00135232

"When you want to take their books away, they're children. When you want them to work, they're adults." -/u/xFurorCelticax/ on /r/LateStageCapitalism

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/194g10g/when_you_want_to_take_their_books_away_theyre/

#censorship #childlabor