Researchers have estimated that if we still had a federal assault weapons ban, we would see 70% fewer mass shooting deaths.

S-E-V-E-N-T-Y PERCENT.

Reinstating it should be a no-brainer.

RT @[email protected]

NOW: The mother of a teen victim of the Parkland shooting has just DEFEATED the school board chair hand-picked by Gov. Ron DeSantis and will now chair the school board.

My local public #library publishes its newly ordered materials list each week.

I continue to be astounded at the "don't shove that crap down my throat!" reaction it generates.

We spend so much time explaining that it's not a recommended reads list, it's not an agenda, it's *literally* just the new stuff.

But the concept isn't clicking. And the fragility of people unable to accept the existence of #books that don't explicitly follow their view is incredible. I don't know why they use a library. By *design* it exposes the #reader to a wider view of the world.

Some of the complaints go to me directly, others are passed along as an FYI after a library worker has an encounter.

I realized after the latest one just now how much of a bodily stress reaction has built up with exposure to ire over... nothing important.

If you're going to yell at a #librarian for a library carrying >> books << maybe take a walk and leave us in peace! We're well past done with yellers.

Wonderful to be back in #Oxford today! As ever, lots of great finds in the Bod including this lovely colour plate of a #gynandromorph Gouldian finch described by biologists F. A. E. Crew and S. S. Munro in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in June 1938.

#history #histodons @histodons #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #queer #QueerHistory #lgbtq #birds #ornithology #zoology