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Trying to make a new online social home here in the Fediverse. Husband/Father/Biologist/Liberal. Will be looking around for a while and hope to find some new and interesting peeps! Opinions are my own #WeAre #LoveIsLove
@Teri_Kanefield one question I had re Trump and the civil judgement/bond is this: Would we know if someone like the Saudi's or Putin came to the rescue or would it be hidden by lots of shell corps? Like he can't get the bond allegedly, then what?
Yes yes we don’t throw things and yell and β€œshow our ass” here Nick. #CollegeFootball

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Via Julia Claire:

Putting a baby in a freezer would kill it, but freezing embryos keeps them alive. That's why an embryo isn't a baby. Hope that helps if you're very stupid <3

When people in 2021 and 2022 were demanding indictments now, I warned people that indictments are the beginning of a long harrowing process.

That is where we are now. It will never end.

People told me "once there are indictments I'll be happy because I'll know the DOJ is actually doing something."

I said, "No you won't be happy." It will be nerve wracking.

The reason: even a criminal conviction will not save democracy from the threat Trump poses.

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Go @MichaelEMann !

β€œMichael Mann, a prominent climate scientist, won his long-standing legal battle against two right-wing bloggers who claimed that he manipulated data in his research and compared him to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky, a major victory for the outspoken researcher.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/08/michael-mann-bloggers-defamation-trial/

Famed climate scientist wins million-dollar verdict against right-wing bloggers

The verdict comes amid heightened attacks on scientists working not just on climate change but on vaccines and other matters.

The Washington Post
Every town should have a cable depot where everyone brings the cables they aren't using and they sort, test, and store them, and when you need some random cable you simply drop by the cable depot to pick it up. And if they don't have it they'll request it from the next town over, like inter library loans.
Whenz white powdery stuff comes my momszes sometimes gives me a cape to dryz my fur. I like to pretendis I Superman in it. #Mondog #dogsofmastodon

Still, there’s a real tension here: it is my job as an educator both to make students β€’comfortableβ€’ and to make students β€’uncomfortableβ€’. And by meaning too many different things at once, that word β€” β€œcomfortable” β€” complicates the job.

Instead, try breaking comfort/discomfort along different axes:

- seen / unseen
- valued / unvaled
- safe / unsafe
- unchallenged / challenged
- unfrustrated / frustrated
etc.

Doesn’t that make the problem clearer?

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Via Kyle Griffin:

The #Biden admin is canceling $5 billion in #debt for 74,000 borrowers.
President Biden said 44,000 approved borrowers were having their debt wiped clean after 10 years of public service β€” including teachers, nurses and firefighters.

Nearly 30,000 borrowers have worked toward repayment for at least 20 years but "never got the relief they earned through income-driven repayment plans."