Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

These people saying that, given enough time, they could write as well as Shakespeare is asinine. The idea that I could write plays or sonnets of the quality of Shakespeare’s is as ludicrous a proposition as Shakespeare thinking he could shitpost at my level.

Who could have predicted that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' "parental choice" voucher program would turn out to be a massive grift of taxpayer dollars to private Christian schools? https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/report-arkansas-voucher-program-gives

@johannes

When people say "Israel gets what it deserves" or when a Jew is saying that they're worried about a missing family member and the reply is "Free Palestine!", or when someone says "See, all religion is bad!", etc.

With >50 reports, my brain is fried.

I have coined a new term:

Spoon Eater.

For all those people who waste your time and energy, leaving nothing for the stuff that is important.

#spoonies #spoonEconomics

The current generation should not be burdened with guilt of the atrocities of the previous, it should however hold shame for the past. You can not build a mythic past if it is a shameful one. You can not idealize the past if you have felt it’s truth.

Reminder: if you find my (or anyone else’s) posts to be insufferably tedious, arrogant, stupid, or dull, you can protect yourself from the misery of having to read them! Mastodon has a set of secret features, available only to those who know about them, for controlling whose posts you see in your timeline. They’re called “unfollow”, “mute”, and “block”, and can be found in the menu next to each post.

But if anyone asks, you didn’t hear about them from me.

Did you know that home schoolers have their own NRA-like lobby?

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/10/john-oliver-takes-look-powerful-nra-home?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=80232

This is a very good time to speak carefully and attend to your language around state versus people.

The STATE of Israel absolutely engages in genocidal behavior.

But a whole lot of antisemites are trying to use that reality to sow hate by pretending that the state and the people there are one and the same.

They are not.

Trump bragged he gave Israeli military secrets to Russia.

Russia is allied with Iran and Hamas.

THIS is why Trump’s abuse of his privilege holding classified info is NOT trivial or bureaucratic.

When intel security is breached, people DIE.

Iranian hackers leak photos of former PM Ehud Barak - Israel News - The Jerusalem Post https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-762021 Instead of protecting Israel Netanyahu was collecting Intel about his rivals

A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for #Murder
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The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a #baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable.

Yet the test is still being used to bring murder charges — and get convictions.

#Pregnancy #Stillbirth #Mothers #Parents #Families #Health #HealthCare #CriminalJustice #JunkScience #Science #Forensics #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/is-lung-float-test-reliable-stillbirth-medical-examiners-murder?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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