It’s still hard for me to believe that everything in cellular #biology I learned in #highschool in the early 90’s had been discovered as little as 40 years before.
It all seemed so definitive, so orderly, all set in stone, like it was obvious it had to be known since forever, it was so elegant! Stop telling me scientists in 1952 did not know this!!
Online Safety Bill passes - Attacking privacy and restricting freedom of expression
A headline from Open Rights but I think it encapsulates the dangers well. Through ignorance and misinformation the U.K. is dreaming it’s way to a very dark future. Remember when they have taken it from us it will not be easy to get back. And don’t expect Labour to roll back.
Fox News tells viewers 'they' let Tropical Storm Hilary into the US 'because it’s Biden’s America'
Host, "42 million desperate souls in the path of the storm which made landfall in Mexico several hours ago. But they let it right into the country because it’s Biden’s America.”
Said it was the first of these storms to hit SoCal since Biden started his political career.
The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer
They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence.
#RFKjr is very confused about how content moderation, and the rights of social media platforms work. He seems to believe that his status as a presidential #candidate means #YouTube and other platforms lose their #FirstAmendment right to moderate #speech and enforce terms of service. Given his chronic #ignorance on a range of topics, it's not surprising that he got this one completely wrong, as well.
Tell me you’re not an #Ohioan without telling me you’re not an Ohioan. I hail (and escaped) from rural southern #Alabama, where a hundred-mile step in any direction was like simply turning one’s head. Wall-to-wall #ignorance, #xenophobia, #racism, #illiteracy, and love for #WrongJesus were the scape to all our horizons. My first visit to #Ohio lifted a great weight from my shoulders - maybe I hadn’t been fatally born in the worst state after all.
I normally don't like doing this at all, but when I made the payment for the #DIYHRT shipment, my bank account comes up short and there's not enough money to pay my insurance this month. Insurance that I will need for appointments and paying for #HRT the legit way in the future.
So below is my venmo account for anyone who wants to donate to help me fund my insurance payments for this month. I was originally thinking "This isn't as severe as helping trans women move to a less-hostile environment," but then I realized that that was impostor syndrome talking. And that if you need help, you need help.
To anyone that will say "Get a job," I'm working on it via talking with job coaches. The process is slow, but steady. Hopefully, I will not have to do this again.
Mom is being a paranoid fuck right now and completely ignorant of what is required for #trans care. I should've known better than to put the Venmo account for the donations because mom pays $200 a month in the insurance--and she can see what gets donated on that page.
She now thinks I'm selling my ADHD meds for money for a sex change operation.
I'm going to have to do a long talk to her to explain this whole mess. And talk to her about the concepts of HRT, #TransMutualAid , the international pharmacy, and everything she doesn't know.
Then mom has the audacity to say "It's time to learn to move the fuck out. You have got your priorities screwed up. You need to focus on getting a job first. You think they're going to hire you wearing THAT? pointing at my dress "
I got a long talk ahead that could've been saved had I not put the Venmo link.
Finally took Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars" off the shelf. Wish I'd read it decades ago, when the idea of people settling on other planets – more to the point, surviving/cooperating on Earth long enough to do so – might have seemed less improbable. Still, I'm enjoying it as a feat of imagination and society-building
It’s the combination of anger and joy that makes the MAGA enthusiasm so hard to break but also limits its breadth. You experience his movement as an attack on your life, your choices, your home and even your identity. If you’re part of the core MAGA community, however, not even the ruthlessly efficient Ron DeSantis can come close to replicating the true Trump experience.
Reactions played out over the holiday weekend. Pete Buttigieg jumped in smartly, as he often does: “I just don’t understand the mentality of somebody who gets up in the morning, thinking that he’s going to prove his worth by competing over who can make life hardest for a hard-hit community, that is already so vulnerable in America.”
Interesting. I'm in Canada. Maybe this is just one (more) of those things that the UK and/or Europe do correctly and North America are just a bunch of primitives #hooting around a black #monolith in #ignorance .
Some people think that fascism is an image. They imagine people wearing armbands and waving flags. These are just symptoms. The causes are everyday composed of apathy towards rights, legislation slipped through without your knowledge, and micro aggressions. Those who run around wearing nazi uniforms are the direct result of their mentors. Be careful as to what you choose to ignore and what you are willing to let slide without criticism. #Fascism#Nazis#Ignorance
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that #democracy means that "my #ignorance is just as good as your #knowledge."