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davidho, 4 days ago to random

The kind of people who would modify their car’s exhaust to be louder also scored high on the “psychopathy and sadism” scale.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60983144/study-loud-exhaust-psychotic/

ProfLouiseL, 5 days ago to random

Genuinely quite surprised at the number of people coming out to say throwing a milkshake at Farage was 'assault' and must never happen to politicians. I absolutely agree politicians should not be subject to violence, but there is a long, proud history of throwing foodstuffs at people as a form of protest. Intended to humiliate and ridicule, not to injure. Pleased to see Mastodon mostly agrees. #Farage #Milkshake

https://criticallegalthinking.com/2019/05/24/a-short-history-of-throwing-food-at-fascists/

Sheril, 5 days ago to random

Science isn’t “truth.” It isn’t simply a series of facts.

Science is an iterative process. We continue to test hypotheses & refine ideas.

Science is always changing as we learn more.

annaleen, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

It's me, desperately trying to look cool while losing my shit because my name is on the Powell's Books sign! Today is book release day for Stories Are Weapons and I'll be at Powells at 7pm tonight, in conversation with Dave Miller. Come say hi!!

grimm, 5 days ago to random German

Zeug, das extrem wichtig ist, aber nicht klickt und deswegen nicht die größte Nachricht ist:

Es gibt eine hohe Chance, dass der "Golfstrom" (korrekt: AMOC) in den 2030er Jahren stoppt

sue, 5 days ago to random

These days whenever I'm in a pub like stereo in glasgow where they've had gender neutral toilets for many years, it strikes me over again how utterly dishonest transphobic "feminism" is

It's one of the safest pubs in the city, because they've actively, intentionally cultivated it as a safe environment largely through inclusion

The idea that policing people's bodies to decide which toilet they can have a piss in would somehow make some of us safer is such manipulative nonsense

w7voa, 5 days ago to random

Two people have been arrested after the Brexit architect,British right wing politician Nigel Farage, had a milkshake thrown over him while launching his personal election campaign. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pp7yg0y3po

anniezaidi, 5 days ago to random

"So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women especially that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women did not pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here at home. It was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown Muslim men with beards, right?"

https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-if-harrison-butker-was-a-muslim?s=09

philipncohen, 4 days ago to random

"The Destruction, Starvation and Death in Gaza Are Israel's Defeat." This is what you call a searing indictment, by Amira Hass in Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-06-04/ty-article/.premium/the-destruction-starvation-and-death-in-gaza-are-israels-defeat/0000018f-e31a-dce5-abdf-e33f1d9a0000

ThomHartmann, 5 days ago to random

After this cancerous mind virus conquered Iran and large parts of Iraq and Afghanistan, it now is reaching out to take over America…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/america-is-under-assault-by-a-cancerous-ceb

chrisgeidner, 5 days ago to random

I'm 2,000 words into a story involving hundreds of pages, in dozens of documents, over multiple years.

It's an important story — worth the time and money I'm putting into it. But I can only do this b/c of you.

Subscribe to Law Dork to support my work: https://www.lawdork.com/

tofugolem, 5 days ago to random

Sorry for repeating myself, but if you live in a Christian-majority country, pay attention to ex-Muslim atheists.

Christians in Christian-majority countries and Muslims in Muslim-majority countries frequently make false claims about being persecuted. After a while, it can be easy to find yourself tuning out such claims.

But it's different if we're talking about Christians or Muslims in a place in which they are not in power.

1/4

augieray, 5 days ago to random

Hospitals are killing patients because they don't feel like doing infection control

Unfortunately, true. #COVID19

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/hospitals-are-killing-patients-because?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

seachanger, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

just to expand on Arendt's whole banality of evil thing: this entire climate crisis, gaza genocide and a great deal of past and modern white supremacy and colonizer bullshit coasts on social processes made possible by careerism and respectability politics. the road to right now has been so polite, so professional

theogrin, 5 days ago to queer

"Does kink belong at #Pride " is trending again, no big surprise there.

I invite those seriously discussing this question to ask themselves whether there is any level of respectability to which we could possibly aspire, which the cishet conservative folks would possibly accept as publicly acceptable, and then consider why you're letting them define the limits.

These are, after all, people who would consider a "Let Trans Kids Grow Up" shirt as morally indefensible, who believe that a book about two male penguins raising a chick is a vile and outrageous piece of media.

To the amoral conservative guardians, throwing homeless people in jail and burning their belongings is perfectly defensible, but we, the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, are in our very existence a kink, a moral aberration.

I'm not saying genitalia should be on full public display. I am saying that if we let the busybody crowd set the rules, before long there won't be any Pride celebrations anymore.

D_J_Nathanson, 5 days ago to random

Eagerly awaiting fall football tailgating season on US college campuses to see how those “no structures” policies are enforced against primarily non-student people on campus.

revoluciana, 5 days ago to random

What if you, as a parent, decided to be your child's liberator instead of their prison guard?

Defiance, 5 days ago to random

Oh man, my Nextdoor is gonna go crazy over this huge backlog of wage theft. They HATE all the crime we have these days!

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-05-31/major-backlog-of-wage-theft-claims-in-california-state-audit-finds

e_urq, 6 days ago to random

In his annual Pride declaration
President Joe Biden made a condemned bans on healthcare for transgender youth as antithetical to the basic American values of life, safety, and dignity.

Where did I hear about it first? Oh, just the Daily Wire.

Look, I'm not a big Biden booster, I'm particularly unhappy about the genocide support thing, but I do think we need to be willing to give credit/call attention to strong supportive statements by the US President!!

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/biden-supports-trans-youth-healthcare

charleshb, 6 days ago to random

Democracy Now! Exclusive: USAID Contractor Resigns After Presentation on Maternal & Child Mortality in Gaza Canceled https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/31/alex_smith_usaid_resignation_gaza_war

JoscelynTransient, 7 days ago to random

Is it just me or does it actually seem like corporations are afraid to do a Rainbow Capitalism this year?

Maybe it's just because Pride started on a Saturday, but I'm noticing far fewer featured pride product lines, sales, etc. than the past several years. Last year, Target started to retreat and hide away Pride merch or just take it out of their stores altogether in some places. But other companies that would usually do a little email announcing the sale of Pride merch or something are either not doing it or are actually making it hard to find and featuring other sales instead.

Maybe it's too early and they are planning it over the next few weeks...it just seems conspicuous. I'm gonna circle back around to this after the month goes on because this could actually be an important thermometer on the state of things in some circles

terraboops, 6 days ago to random

i would like to take a moment to say that u deserve to thrive

bogiperson, 6 days ago to queer

Have you seen a #Pride book display with an #intersex book?

I haven't seen one yet this year :O

Some resources I made to help!

Intersex ownvoices books (all I know of):
https://www.bogireadstheworld.com/intersex-ownvoices-books/

Books by Black intersex authors (any topic):
https://www.bogireadstheworld.com/a-list-of-books-by-black-intersex-authors/

#bookstodon #PrideMonth #queer #LGBTQ @bookstodon

kdnyhan, 8 days ago to random

Interesting paper HT @dupuisj

Schwalbe, N., Nunes, M.C., Cutland, C. et al. Assessing New York City’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Strategy: A Case for Risk-Informed Distribution. J Urban Health (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-024-00853-z