Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

And I'm extremely tired of the people who act like it's not their problem and what happens to trans people doesn't matter because they buy into the same belief there's something evil and wrong about us that deserves to be punished, they're just a little more quiet about it.

Especially the ones who want to present themselves as super progressive or leftist or "allies."

Pfft.

Apple releases macOS Ventura 13.2.1 with important bug fixes for Mac users https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/13/macos-ventura-13-2-1-update/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#iOS 16.3.1 software update available for iPhone and iPad.

This better not break the Advanced Data Protection I’ve set up seeing the #iPad and #iPhone are the last devices to receive the 16.3.1 software update. 😟

ICYMI: Animals reported sickened as more details come out on toxic Norfolk Southern tanker derailment in eastern Ohio https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/11/pzct-f11.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I’ve a theory there are more Mac than Windows users here. Vote. Boost. Cheers.

#mac #windows

I don't know how many people are aware of this fact, but #Israel doesn't have a constitution, & it only really has 2 branches of government: the executive and judicial (the prime minister controls the legislative chamber).

Now the PM, #Netanyahu, is trying to dissolve the independent judiciary (including their supreme court) to make it subject to political hirings & firings with zero oversight from anyone other than the majority party, which must only garner 61 out of 120 legislative votes.

When a school board, a library or a state bans books, it’s not a show of strength. It’s a sign they’re ruled by fear. Fear of knowledge. Fear of opposing views. Fear of democracy.

A new real-world effectiveness study documents 85% reduction of deaths and 55% reduction of hospitalizations for Paxlovid, independent of vaccination status, age, variants https://thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00011-7/fulltext…
@TheLancetInfDis

So, I thought I'd dust off the #SecretSciFiNetwork for a pair of questions.

What is your favorite #SciFi trope?
I mean what will you watch every time they make a movie about it?

And what's your least favorite SciFi trope?
What are you tired of or never really liked.

As always, please boost to reach as many science fiction lovers as possible, and include #SecretSciFiNetwork in your response.

And of course no gatekeeping, no arguing. Plenty of room for different takes.

Using the new U2 navigation system, the streets have no name and I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

WOW- the more you lie the more the GOP loves you. Female George Santos as LIES found in newly elected GOP lawmaker's backstory https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/

All female doctors and health workers in Kabul have been ordered to wear the full hijab and cover their faces with black masks while working by the Taliban Ministry of Public Health.

“We female doctors have studied for a lifetime and gained the expertise to what, perform operations under the burqa?”

“If the order is not removed, no female doctor will be able to continue working.”

'Muqtaba'
Female Doctor,
Afghanistan.

#Afghanistan
#LetAfghanWomenWork

https://rukhshana.com/en/taliban-orders-female-staff-in-kabul-hospitals-to-cover-their-faces-and-wear-all-black-hijabs?s=09

A new #exhibition of anti-war posters in st. petersburg by the veteran russian #artist and activist Yelena Osipova has been closed the day after it opened after police confiscated all the works.

Speaking to RFE/RL, she said her protests against russia's invasion of Ukraine would continue.

(4 Minute) YouTube📽️ 🔗 https://youtu.be/JJ-uJ-LS1SI

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine

Covid-19 infection rates are increasing in England again.

But don't worry, folks, I'm sure that herd immunity that the covid minimisers promised us back in the summer of 2020 will kick in any day now.

#covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/10february2023

#GeorgeSantos has taken his fraud on the road: from Brazil to Amish Country to the US Capitol.

Yet Kevin #McCarthy wants him to have access to classified #China briefings.

For my ED friends who like following the AI/ChatGPT stuff (wars? arms race? explosion? Or some other non-military word) as it connects to education, The Sentient Syllabus Project is a useful public substack:

https://sentientsyllabus.substack.com/p/reading-between-the-lines?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email