I love that a country founded by men in wigs, tights, high heels & powdered faces, is trying to ban drag shows.
The irony & hypocrisy is amusing & infuriating.
Give these Navajo women credit for making the Apollo Missions possible:
"The historic Apollo moon missions are often associated with high-visibility test flights... But intricate, challenging handiwork — comparable to weaving — was just as essential to putting men on the moon... the Navajo women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer... who wove the computer’s core memory."
#Navajo #Indigenous #Native #WomensHistoryMonth
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/core-memory-weavers-navajo-apollo-raytheon-computer-nasa
what's causing this flare
the correct answer is who cares
The Luddites were a labor movement.
"The Luddites themselves 'were totally fine with machines,' says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called 'a fraudulent and deceitful manner' to get around standard labor practices.
'They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,' says Binfield, 'and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.'"
Also the men wore dresses and called themselves brides of Ludd.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/
Let me get this straight. Republicans spent Friday cosplaying machismo by encouraging their supporters to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, which was 11 miles up in the atmosphere, a balloon so large it could hold an entire football stadium inside of it. No consideration of the danger of their useless bullets falling back to earth.
Meanwhile, Biden had already given the order to the military to shoot it down when it was safe to do so back on *Wednesday.* They had already jammed their signals so it couldn’t send any info back to China, and instead was collecting info on the satellite.
So as usual, we have Republicans acting like idiots, encouraging actions that posed danger to the American people, all the while hoping to “stick it to Biden,” when in actuality, Biden had already handled the situation days before by involving the military who had neutralized the threat and then ultimately shot down the balloon over the waters past South Carolina.
Vote blue, people. #news
A reporter once asked me if I knew SBF personally. Apparently sensing I was confused by why that might be likely, they pointed out that we would've been in college in Boston/Cambridge at the same time. Especially since then, it's been very weird to read stories about how maybe he's just a poor smol bean who made a whoopsie when most of us have managed to somehow not toddle our way into financial fraud at the fragile age of 30 YEARS OLD.
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-fried-is-not-a-child