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Ottawa, Ontario. Retired medical researcher and professor.
Joined Nov 2017
Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find
(New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html
Twitter today is like a social media app in some William Gibson novel.
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i posted the link to Stonekettle's essay 'Flawed' on the dumpster fire.
one particular person is having fits saying i called conservatives "Nazis". all i did was post the link. if you think you might be a Nazi, well, fix yourself.
https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/12/flawed.html
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The media still wants us to think that when we call people who repeat antisemitic lies, think Hitler was pretty cool, and want to destroy democracy "fascists" we're engaging in over-the-top, uncivil exaggeration, and if we want to be taken seriously, we need to stop with all this talk about Nazis and fascists, because everybody knows they don't really exist anymore.
Which is funny, because fascists are literally antisemites who love Hitler and want to destroy democracy.
@JasonStiff I’ve had that happen too. I just close the app and reopen and it usually is fine. To keep from losing my post, I copy it first and then paste after reopening.
@foxtrax1 Chicken if the Woods. Delicious! (But don’t eat them if they’ve grown on eucalyptus).
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#TransRights and #TransHealth Care in the UK has been under a sustained, virulent attack from the Tory (Conservative) government, and organizations like LGBAlliance. It has become so bad there that the UK has now been placed with Russia and Poland for the extensive attacks on the LGBTQ+ community.
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-01-26/uk-named-alongside-russia-in-lgbt-hate-report-due-to-transphobia
How the American anti-LGBTQ hate machine is posing a threat to Canadians
https://t.co/WY2YONVNhn
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#WaylandFlowers (1939-1988) would have been 83 today.
With his bawdy puppet Madame, the comedian and ventriloquist was a regular on #SolidGold, #HollywoodSquares and their own sitcom #MadamesPlace.
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@voltronic I am tired of outrage. Now action, that's what I like to see.
@JanMoleski They’re required to be public. They can only go in camera for very specific types of items (discussing individual personnel, legal issues, that sort of thing). But the chair can have security remove people who disrupt the meeting.
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@ZonaPellucida I wonder if it is feasible to schedule a closed meeting. What a pain in the ass this is.
Ottawa, ON school board meeting has had to be adjourned this evening because of disruption by despicable antivax, anti-mask convoy people taking over the meeting and not letting anyone speak.
@BlytheAwesome They arrested them!
Down here on Martha’s Vineyard this week. Nice and quiet.
Enjoying the 
MAGA troll-free zone today.
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@mrfumblethumbs First thing I programmed was a set of routines for an imaging system written in C on a CP/M machine with 4K of RAM.
@krbutler I didn’t feel mine at all.
Jay 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Ottawa, Ontario. Retired medical researcher and professor.
Joined Nov 2017