Happy #Caturday!
Today, Little Man and Lisa share the photo they would use for an album cover.
Valerie
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Advocate for youth and young adults experiencing housing instability. Not cynical, just taking good notes. #Rochester, NY. Pronouns: she/her. Migrating v_a_l_e_r_i_e_x from the birdsite.
The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/#
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/#
HRC Grieves Loss of Jacob Williamson, Teenage Transgender Man, Killed in North Carolina - Human Rights Campaign
https://www.hrc.org/news/hrc-grieves-loss-of-jacob-williamson-teenage-transgender-man-killed-in-south-carolina
https://www.hrc.org/news/hrc-grieves-loss-of-jacob-williamson-teenage-transgender-man-killed-in-south-carolina
15 LGBTQ Kids' Books Featuring Cats - Mombian
https://mombian.com/2023/08/08/15-lgbtq-kids-books-featuring-cats/
https://mombian.com/2023/08/08/15-lgbtq-kids-books-featuring-cats/
Police stage 'chilling' raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones - Kansas Reflector
https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/
https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/
Police stage 'chilling' raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones • Kansas Reflector
In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters, and the publisher's home.
Francois HeinderyckxI am floored and fascinated by the near-literary quality of many of the descriptions of images that people carefully craft when appending pictures to their posts on Mastodon. Some of them will reveal a detail that had escaped my attention. Others will help me understand a subtle joke I had missed. Others still are true poems. ALT are their own microblogging world that reveals itself as you hover on a picture. And I hover, and hover.
Jen C MarsThe Supreme Court ruled in favor of a web designer who had never actually designed a website, for a man who was not LGBTQ and didn't even know his name was involved in a Supreme Court case, for a wedding that never existed, and a solicitation that was completely manufactured by a group of far right lawyers, I guess so they could make discrimination legal. A very legitimate court.
ETA link to story.
ProPublicaSouth Carolina, the only state with an all-male Supreme Court, heard arguments today about the constitutionality of an abortion ban.
ProPublica recently looked into how SC's highest court ended up without a single female member:
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-carolina-ended-up-with-all-male-supreme-court
How South Carolina Ended Up With an All-Male Supreme Court
An abortion ban struck down. The lone female justice retiring. And a majority-male legislature rallying behind the one male candidate to replace her. This is how South Carolina ended up with an all-male Supreme Court as new abortion legislation looms.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️"The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, not as a moral standard, but as a social contract.
If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it."
See thread about the Paradox of Tolerance: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/109667628453454747
ZhiZhu (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image The philosopher Karl Popper published what came to be known as the Paradox of Tolerance in his book "The Open Society and Its Enemies" in 1945. It dealt with the question of how a society that promotes tolerance is to deal with those who are intolerant. #Paradox #philosophy