Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

PAID OPPORTUNITY

More jerbs! I'm looking for a 3D character rigging specialist for our upcoming character action game. If that fits you or you know someone that would, please check out the listing:

https://shirakumo.org/jobs

Women, LGBTQ+, folks of colour very much welcome!

And please share so folks can see this, thanks!
#gamedev #indiedev #job

Scottish doctors have warned the decision to remove face mask guidance in healthcare settings is "playing Russian roulette" with staff and patients' welfare.

Dr Shaun Peter Qureshi, of the Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition, said: "At-risk patients have entirely legitimate concerns that they may endanger their health by visiting their GP or hospital."

#COVID19 #Scotland @auscovid19

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66215539

And finally, my co-author's piece on what it's like to be cut off from music in prison. A painful thing to read, but beautifully written. #incarceration #music

https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/musician-in-prison/

Feline coronavirus strain kills 300,000 cats in Cyprus.

#COVID19 #Cyprus @auscovid19

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/dead-cats-lying-covid-kills-300000-felines-mediterranean-island-2023-7

@SenTuberville is an Un-American Traitor & White Supremacist who HATES the US Military
He is also remarkably stupid & utterly unqualified to be a US Senator
A former football coach & the only people dumber than him are the ones who voted him in!
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tommy-tuberville-white-nationalists-racist-1234786169/

This is what Union-busting gets you. 2023, and they're just introducing air conditioned trucks. Nationwide across the US, operating in much hotter climates than ours. It took a human fatality to get Amazon to put air conditioning in their Virginia warehouse. Capitalism is dangerous to workers, and it is creating skyrocketing inflation by mooching all the money and spending power away from the masses of consumers to funnel into the static bank accounts of the rich. #Union

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ups-drivers-track-get-air-conditioned-trucks-first-time-ever-rcna88460

@MSNBC Tuberville would blame the Biden administration for soiling his pants. Nothing this bipedal skid mark says should be taken at face value.

How to use Mastodon:

Step 1: Sign up.

Step 2: Do regular social media stuff.

Journalists: Only those with advanced degrees in computer science should even attempt to navigate Mastodon, the frustrations of its complexities will drive the average user to a state of hysteria.

My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.

Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”

Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”

An enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, Haaland is the first Native person to serve in a presidential Cabinet, leading a department that oversees a fifth of U.S. land and was long charged with the systematic removal of Indigenous people from their tribal homelands. ($)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/17/deb-haaland-road-to-healing/

If Harlan Crow's yacht was a business, as he has claimed in his tax filings, then I don't see how Clarence Thomas's freebies on the high seas aren't payments, hence income, hence tax fraud by Thomas.

If Crow's yacht wasn't a business, that all might still be true--but Crow too, is a tax cheat.

Either way, the two of them have been stealing from the American taxpayer for decades.

https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht

This is such a disaster for Texas A&M. Also, who in their right mind would take the job as head of the journalism program?

Texas A&M Celebrated a New Journalism Director. Then Came the Complaints. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/us/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy.html?smid=tw-share

"Trump continues to confess to his crimes on national television. During a speech this week at a conservative gathering, the Turning Point Action conference, he acknowledged that he had the documents he’s accused of illegally retaining in his possession, saying there was nothing wrong with it. But that’s quite a concession."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #crime #criminal
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-e6e

Very high turnout so far in early voting around Columbus, Ohio.

Yet another data point for how salient abortion rights are for folks. Remember this is the referendum the GOP rushed for August to change the rules of an abortion November referendum. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/14/early-vote-counts-for-the-august-ohio-special-election-higher-than-expected-issue-1-franklin-county/70414392007/

Maybe they could have combined Barbie and Oppenheimer and made a blow-up doll.

LB: We told you. WE TOLD YOU THIS WAS COMING. They will not stop until we are locked into the Handmaid's Tale. This fight is central to all the fights. It is a Civil Rights issue. It is a Black Issue. It is a labor issue. It is a LGBTQ+ issue. It most assuredly is a women's issue. The fight is the same, and this is one of the key battlefronts, which we are losing. #AbortionRights #Contraception #BansOffOurBodies

We’re looking to buy a place in Ireland (because renting here is nigh on impossible these days) and so I approached a mortgage broker and they just got back to me with this gem:

“Bank of Ireland will not consider your mortgage application because you run a not-for-profit.”

How bloody lovely.

Congratulations on creating a system that rewards the worst of the worst and fucks over those striving to work for the common good. I, for one, wont be shedding a tear should it burn to the ground.