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Yep, I’m probably depressed.

I’m not angry; I’m just disappointed.

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There’s a lie being told in marketing circles that people want personalized ads. They don’t want personalized ads. They don’t want ads. A small few people think that if they have no choice but to see ads that they should be relevant to them. But they falsely assume they are required to see ads. They aren’t.

A lot of folks talking about #Substack Notes (and even planning moving most of their interactions over there).

We believe in #mastodon and the Fediverse (especially for #independentmedia ) and hope folks stick around.

Thanks for being here with us!

She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.
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Black women overall are more than twice as likely as white women to have a #stillbirth, according to 2020 #CDC data.

In some states, including #SouthCarolina, #Kansas & #Tennessee, they are around three times as likely to deliver a stillborn baby.

#Parents #babies #health #healthcare #pregnancy

https://www.propublica.org/article/stillbirths-pregnancy-mothers-parents-racial-disparities

She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”

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Since Mastodon is the elephant app, that makes all other social networks irrelephant.

Now seems like a good time to talk about how far-right extremists are using the Overton Window theory to force their ideas into the mainstream. The premise here is that today’s fringe ideas/beliefs can become tomorrow’s normal by shifting the boundaries of acceptable discourse. You do that by introducing people to more & more extreme ideas, so everything else seems reasonable in comparison.

eg, when “praising Hitler” becomes the comparison point, low-key bigotry suddenly doesn’t seem so bad. 1/