You folks were super enthusiastic about my posting more on Mastodon, so let's try this.

RT/boost and let's see if there's interest in a regular #Ukraine thread!

Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

For the last year, I've been tracking a notorious Russian unit known for its role in killing 100s of civilians.

This past month we published how we found them.

Meet the critically endangered Talaud bear cuscus (Ailurops melanotis). Hunting & deforestation have forced this shy marsupial to the brink of extinction.

Living in the forest canopy, the Talaud bear cuscus eats leaves & fruit. It also helps to limit invasive plants.

We know very little about this quiet & rare species, which scientists believe inhabits just 4 Indonesian islands. I hope we work to protect it before it disappears forever. https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/to-win-island-wide-conservation-indonesias-talaud-bear-cuscus-needs-to-win-hearts/ #SharedPlanet #nature #science

"Lügenpresse," which translates to "lying press," was a popular slogan used in the Third Reich.

"Fake news" is a popular slogan used by the far-right.

Despite being almost a century apart, both terms are used for the same purpose - discredit dissent & undermine public trust

#Fascism101

Today on the first day of Women’s History Month I learned that after no fault divorce was finally legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%🤯

The "strong 1950s family unit" that the GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy.

But maybe that's GOP's goal all along?🤔
#WHM2023

Gonna have to ask folks to stop telling me "you can't keep saying everything is just like Hitler" until the American fascist party stops cribbing directly from the literal Nazi party in terms of its bills, laws and policies.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/texas-republicans-tax-cuts-straight-couples-many-children-1234689876/

Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.

It's also about the people who are behind that hype, and about what their way of thinking has the potential to do to us.

It's worth reading all the way to the end.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

RT @SenSanders
Corporate Health Care Lobbyists: Medicare for All would lead to rationed care.

Gallup: A record-breaking 38% of Americans were forced to delay needed care last year because it was too expensive.

The greed of private health insurance companies is literally killing Americans.