@brimcmike

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#CancerRehab Physician, double-boarded in Rehab (PM&R) & Palliative (HPM). Formerly: Teacher, Health Educator, ARNG/AR Armor Officer & USMC K9 Handler. Opinions Are My Own.
#GeorgeSantos is on an apology tour, why are journalists skipping out major question, “where did you get $700,000?”

Through the #Wikidata query for nonprofit organizations with Mastodon accounts (https://w.wiki/69Sr) I learned that #OpenAccess nonprofit @scipost has a carefully set up dedicated presence here, with multiple handles for posting open-access #science papers in those fields. Neat, hope it picks up steam!

- Physics: @physics

- Astronomy: @astro

- Biology: @biology

- Chemistry: @chemistry

- Computer Science: @compsci

- Mathematics: @math

- Political Science: @polsci

Also looks like someone at the UK's Royal Astronomical Society set up a Mastodon account and is crafting custom posts for it, but it only has ~300 followers compared with their >50K on Twitter:

@royalastrosoc

I see this all too often -- major public/nonprofit organizations set up shop here, but don't know how to best cross-link/promote it, so the accounts get kind of lost. If you care about #astronomy & like their work, give them a boost or follow :)

The frozen lake near my cabin in the wilderness glows with winter magnificence. When I visit there, it feels like nature has placed a pure, spotless white blanket on the utterly pristine Earth. I danced on the iced water to create joy, hope and warmth. I'm dispatching to you too. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aNP6l6Tg0pk
Dancing on Frozen Lake to create Joy, Hope and Warmth in the Yukon Territory, Canada

YouTube

"Musk’s actions are fully consistent with the worldview that dominates among far-right reactionary extremists. Yet, many observers seem reluctant to acknowledge that what is happening is exactly what it looks like.

People who cover the tech world are still searching for a grand business strategy that would explain all this behavior."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/elon-musk-liberal-twitter-plans-benevolent

Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent

Tech barons’ lip-service to democracy and pluralism was always conditional on preserving their own positions at the top

The Guardian
Follow me for more recipes.

Now that the man I had dinner with is passed out from carb overload, I'm stepping up to my soapbox:

Sorry, but the ACA fixed very little and was never meant to be an endgame. People are still going bankrupt from medical debt. Many people still can't afford to go to the doctor, even with insurance, due to outrageous deductibles.

Medical care is still a privilege in the US and not the right that it should be. We tend to fight for things, make a little progress, then move on.

Keep fighting.

“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).

Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”

#linguistics #wordplay

Probably unfair, but when I saw the (unconfirmed) report that a "threat actor" had obtained detailed data on 400 million Twitter users and was threatening to use it for bad purposes, my first reaction was to assume the bad guy is Elon Musk.

In America, this is what you can do when you’re white.

And to put it plainly, appeals to racial animus are like catnip to millions of White Americans. In the modern era, Trump (and Abbott, DeSantis, the GOP writ large) know this and go all in. It’s their secret sauce.

“The migrants were dropped off in below-freezing temperatures.. some wearing only sweatshirts and shorts.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/25/kamala-harris-migrant-buses-christmas-eve-texas

#Abbott #Migrants #Texas #Racism #News #Kamala #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter

More migrants bussed to Kamala Harris’s home on Christmas Eve

Three buses of Central and South American migrants arrived at the vice-president’s home from Texas

The Guardian