Patrick McCarronDo yourself a favor and reserve 10 minutes today to read this eye opening Oatmeal comic on the psychological "backfire effect”.
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Mike Masnick ✅A reminder that running a website that allows others to speak is incredibly difficult and tends to involve being on the receiving end of all sorts of unfortunate abuse.
This obviously sucks for @nathan , but it is a useful lesson for others as well.
Nathan 🏳️🌈 (@[email protected])
Mastodon.lol will shut down on May 9, 2023, 3 months from today. Information on how to migrate to a different server: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/ I'm not doing this anymore. It's not worth it. Personal attacks calling me of all people a Nazi, a TERF, an antisemite... Congrats on destroying something I cared so deeply about. I hope you're happy. One last message before anyone tries to further assassinate my character: Fuck Nazis. Fuck TERFs. J.K. Rowling can die in a fire for all I care.
I have to be trained, licensed, & tested to drive a vehicle in most (all?) states in the USA.
For most states in the USA I can acquire a gun (type dependent) without any training, licensing, or testing.
I have to be more vetted to adopt a dog than to acquire a gun in most states in the USA.
I own several guns (various types). I am more than willing to give up some of them, and to be vetted, trained, tested & licensed if all states in the USA would require the same.
Are you?
A Gang of turkeys strolling down the touchline during a Cal Rugby match at Witter Field in Berkeley California.
SUNSHINE!!
Jed HartmanWes Moore will be the first Black governor of Maryland, and only the third Black elected governor of any US state. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/08/maryland-governor-results-2022-wes-moore-00065789
Tina Kotek (Oregon) and Maura Healey (Massachusetts) will be the first openly lesbian governors of US states. https://people.com/politics/tina-kotek-maura-healey-first-openly-lesbian-governors/
James Roesener will be the first openly trans man elected to any US state legislature. https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/11/08/james-roesener-first-trans-man-elected-state-legislature-us
Sherrilyn Ifill#USPOL #ElectionNight2022
I am SO proud of Maryland’s new Gov-Elect @iamwesmoore. A superstar who is brilliant and dedicated. He is the first Black Governor in the history of the state and only the third Black Governor elected to office in the U.S. since Reconstruction. Wonderful! If you don’t know him learn about him!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/08/maryland-governor-results-wes-moore-dan-cox/
I am SO proud of Maryland’s new Gov-Elect @iamwesmoore. A superstar who is brilliant and dedicated. He is the first Black Governor in the history of the state and only the third Black Governor elected to office in the U.S. since Reconstruction. Wonderful! If you don’t know him learn about him!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/08/maryland-governor-results-wes-moore-dan-cox/
Rachel ClevesImportant tusk news of a different variety: the oldest sentence in alphabetical writing has been discovered on a 3700 y.o. ivory comb, an invocation against lice! From the New York Times. #archaeology #writing #histodons #history
My favorite tree in #Tilden.
#EBRPD #EastBayRegionalParkDistrict #TildenPark #photography