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We have a Google Nest thermostat. It does some inexplicable things. I call it our “err conditioning.”

Damn, is that a pun and a dad joke?

“ The records show that after long struggling to attract members, the American College of Pediatricians gained outsize political influence in recent years, primarily by using conservative media as a megaphone in its quest to position the group as a reputable source of information.”

But they are not.

This is where people use their credentials to lie.

“ It promotes conversion therapy, a discredited practice intended to change the sexual orientation…”

Whoa. Fuckers!

apple.news/AZl8AkDSGSyuENPVqFq

I think people ought to quit panicking about AI and start worrying about teenagers with mad skills.
After 14-year-old Preston Mutanga's Lego version of the trailer for Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse went viral, the team hired him to animate a short Lego sequence for the actual film.
youtube.com/@legome_theog

I had missed it but some conservatives were pushing for a boycott of Kellogg's. Why> Because Tony The Tiger posed for a photo with Dylan Mulvaney.
DAFUQ?

i 💜 libraries. i've been using them (again!) for the past 15 yrs or so.

& i donate to them in every city i've lived in during that time.

don't get me started on how they impacted my childhood - a childhood where there were no books in my house except the bible b/c we couldn't afford them.

anyway, this is a handy little calculator on how much you can save by using your local library. this 1 is vancouver based but it's pretty awesome.

vplf.ca/library-savings-calcul

Please for the love of sanity, hashtag your posts about sensitive topics. (read anything that you think could start a fight at your highschool or family gathering)

It 1) allows people to filter what they want to (or dont want to) be bombarded with.

2) it lets people find you to join the discussion on that topic if interested

3) it gives you more exposure, because honestly you will get muted if you continually post things without letting people choose.

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CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.