Catherine H. Michael

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Communication Librarian, #IthacaCollege Library. Opinions are my own. 
Liaison to: #Journalism, #Television, #Radio, #Screenwriting, #StrategicCommunications, #SportsMedia, #EmergingMedia, #Philosophy, #Religion, #Politics, #Law
Personal studies in:#EnglishLiterature, #History, #Jungian psychology, #Philadelphia history, #Theatre,#Folklore & #PopCulture#AnimalRights & Welfare advocate. Mostly #Vegan
Ithaca College Libraryhttps://library.ithaca.edu/
Just checking in. I’ve not been here for a year.
It is a quiet ordinary day. Phew.

>> @Jim_Gardner: "Permit me a final word, if you would. The American free press has been under attack, not by forces from other countries, but from elements embedded in our own society, and even our own government. It worries me deeply..."

https://twitter.com/sbobcat/status/1605923266195062788?s=20&t=vmU94Fruv_FiIblZbZyetQ

#6abc #philadelphia #journalism

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“Speaking with truth a trusted source and legend, @Jim_Gardner .”

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Peace and Love to all Beings ~ not just humans...💗

#greenwitchtea #greenwitch #yuletide #christmas #harmnone #vegan #witchcraft #witch #forestwitch

Happy Holidays, #NewsResearch #January6thReport
ENDNOTES
Executive Summary 762
Chapter 1 317
Chapter 2 378
Chapter 3 141
Chapter 4 329
Chapter 5 329
Chapter 6 502
Chapter 7 341
Chapter 8 333
Appendix 1 202
Appendix 2 388
Appendix 3 229
Appendix 4 29
Yes that is 4,280 footnotes😱
https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/Report_FinalReport_Jan6SelectCommittee.pdf
No free #PACER as U.S. lawmakers exclude proposal from spending bill. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/no-free-pacer-us-lawmakers-exclude-proposal-spending-bill-2022-12-20/ Go to Free Law Project for RECAP https://free.law #FreePACER
No free PACER as U.S. lawmakers exclude proposal from spending bill

U.S. lawmakers have left a proposal to make the federal judiciary's PACER online court records system free out of a sprawling, $1.66 trillion spending measure <a href="/world/us/us-congress-advance-17-trillion-govt-funding-bill-2022-12-20/">unveiled on Tuesday</a>, a setback for advocates as the current Congress nears its end.

Reuters
Oh hell yeah. @mozilla is launching a Mastodon instance in early 2023! I’m very excited for this. Mozilla is really good at what they do. Firefox has over 200M monthly active users, and with any luck they’ll build better support for the fediverse into Firefox itself. Mastodon will greatly benefit from easy to use professionally run instances that can handle massive scaling https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/
Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative | The Mozilla Blog

Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st

Merry Christmas 😈
I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”
Carl Sagan returned to stardust on this day in 1996 and left us, besides his cosmic poetics, his timeless Baloney Detection Kit for critical thinking that should be in every classroom and every voting booth https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

The Marginalian