Doc Quixotic🌹

@Docquixotic
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Our local #Reykjavik cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson.

One week after leaving substack

My subscribers are up.
My paid subscribers are up.
My traffic is up.

S/o to @jkottke & others for the push.

I'm glad I took the leap.

“Scratch the surface and something far darker is exposed: a white nationalist marketing machine. Accounts like Stop Zionist Hate are part of an even larger white nationalist, neo-Nazi and far-right project: exploiting the war in Gaza as disinformation explodes and a friendly billionaire/social media site owner gives them free rein.” https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-israel-gaza-war-antisemitism-rcna131327
Elon Musk's X is a hotbed for antisemites exploiting the Gaza war

Accounts on Elon Musk's X are part of an even larger white nationalist, neo-Nazi, and far right project: exploiting the war in Gaza.

MSNBC

Bezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.

The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

Just saw the cybertruck referred to as a "sport futility vehicle" and I died.
this is the real trolley problem
This horrific ruling should make very clear to every woman in this country that when ANY Republican is elected to ANY office, NO WOMAN IS SAFE. Republicans are sadistic, twisted, hollowed-out, woman-hating freaks acting out their sickness on a national scale. https://wapo.st/4adJrce
Texas Supreme Court rules against woman at center of abortion battle

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, had already decided to go out of state for procedure, after learning that her fetus had a fatal genetic condition.

The Washington Post
Pretty disappointing that microbiologists and biologists are the same size, generally speaking.