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I'm here for the finger sandwiches, animals and politics, but mostly the finger sandwiches.

BREAKING: Putin plans to destroy nation of Moldova.

Ukraine intercepted the Russian plans and handed them over to their western neighbor Moldova.

Putin's plan for 2023 is clearly to expand his war of aggression, surrounding Ukraine on another front.

Moldova must be defended.

I mostly point this stuff out for snark value, but there is a larger point worth making about the shoddy epistemological hygiene practiced by the US Right. They read archivally-grounded and empirically impeccable modern historical scholarship and say "dur, this is all woke revisionnism," and then they recirculate fake founders quotes that have were debunked decades ago and have been exposed as fakes over and over again. And then they have the temerity to say WE live in a bubble.

#JohnMastodon is proof that things *CAN* go viral here on Mastodon, but the key is that *YOU* are the algorithm. The reason that the John Mastodon meme showed up on other people's timelines is because so many users boosted the posts.

The lesson here is: please don't just favourite something if you really enjoyed it; BOOST it so that other people can enjoy it, too! This is the only reason why I bother to create as large a social graph as I can on Mastodon—to act as an amplifier. You can, too!❤️😉

Feasible.

#BlackFriday
The Brothers Johnson was a Funk/R&B band popular in the late '70's and '80's. They toured with some of the greats including Quincy Jones, and Bobby Womack.

Unlike chart toppers "I"ll Be Good To You", "Stomp", and "Strawberry Letter 23", "Get Tha' Funk Out Ma Face" only climbed to 30 on the US charts but it's pure gold to me.

https://youtu.be/huzYji2OAD4

Brothers Johnson - Get The Funk Out Ma Face

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Photographer Renatas Jakaitis captured this unintended moment when three fallow-deer were walking along a path and the sound of her camera caught their attention. Like an optical illusion, the deer appeared as one body with three almost identical heads.

To: POTUS

Railroads were exempted from Obama's 2016 executive order requiring federal contractors to give their employees 7 paid sick days. (Railroads have been federal contractors since the mid-19th century.)

So you could de-exempt them by executive order.

Maybe Monday?

When the COVID pandemic hit, one of the ways I dealt with the depression of not being able to sing with people anymore was to record these 1-man a cappella quartet videos of xmas carols. This was the first one I did, which was actually commissioned by a friend of mine. I figured I'd share with my new friends here on Mastodon.
https://youtu.be/DS-FUzIF5K8
#acappella #xmas #CarolOfTheBells
Carol of the Bells – 1 man a cappella quartet

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RT @[email protected]

A LEGACY w/o “LIKES”
#Racism & #Antisemitism

Having led the NAACP, founded by Black & Jews,I’ve seen the HATEFUL WORDS by a famous few cloak the HEALING ACTIONS by the less prominent many. Let’s neither underestimate the danger of words NOR the power of real work—done TOGETHER .

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CornellWBrooks/status/1600908715015622658

Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks on Twitter

“A LEGACY w/o “LIKES” #Racism & #Antisemitism Having led the NAACP, founded by Black & Jews,I’ve seen the HATEFUL WORDS by a famous few cloak the HEALING ACTIONS by the less prominent many. Let’s neither underestimate the danger of words NOR the power of real work—done TOGETHER .”

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Sen. @[email protected] has been committed to protecting the right to vote for every eligible voter in Georgia and across the country. And he will continue that fight when re-elected to the Senate.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/candidate-qa-sen-raphael-warnock-on-his-re-election-run-for-u-s-senate/
Q&A: Sen. Raphael Warnock on His Re-election Run for U.S. Senate

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) lays out his pro-democracy platform.

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