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how fucking great is it to have a president who can laugh at himself and isn't motivated by spite and revenge
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Until today, I'd never wondered about what 'summoning an ambassador' really means. And then I learned about a demarche and an invitation.
From the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48949534
From the Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/81776f42-4eac-3d9c-bac3-1edeabadcc0c
I'm in awe of the candor in this UK police report. I don't believe the USA is capable of anything close to this and we have exactly the same set of problems with our police forces.
Djimon Hounsou's story is a long, winding road.
I had no idea Merle Oberon had to live a sort of secret life because of her South Asian heritage.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/06/merle-oberon-oscars-best-actress
Montana Republican and U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale posed for a photo with neo-Nazis. Might not be Rosendale's fault.🙄
One of the Nazis, Ryan Sanchez, "appears to be wearing a World War II-era M36 German officer trench coat." His last name is Sanchez
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It doesn’t matter how the bar of decency is lowered, corrupt, reactionary, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic, lying azz and fascist republicans still manage to slither under it. They used to hide behind codes and dishonest policies, but no more.
@Alfred What is your favorite guilty pleasure trashy movie, the one you are ashamed to admit you watch every time you run across it?
You're probably sick of hearing about Murdaugh but Matney's podcast, especially the first season, had some righteous fire in it. You can hear Matney's fire in this interview.
As Europe tries to send tanks to Ukraine, they are finding "theoretical tanks"
If all this is true, it adds more weight to US shame.
If you haven't seen Summer of Soul, whether you remember the music or not, you MUST give it a listen. The Fifth Dimension segment reminded me of how much of a crush I had on Marilyn McCoo when I was a tween and teen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Soul
I only recently discovered the Veritasium videos and I love them. This one on the Sleeping Beauty Problem is a good example of their work: https://youtu.be/XeSu9fBJ2sI
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Dogs are so much smarter than....
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dog-lost-for-36-hours-rings-animal-shelter-doorbell/
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Good morning lovelies.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has now reached the one-year mark.
I hope we'll all be gentle with ourselves as we move through the weight of this cruelty.
Today for #OnlySky, I start with my recent experience of armed robbery, to reflect on what we talk about when we talk about "bad" humans - and whether a better vocabulary might serve us, as we try to move ahead in a world where so many make terrible choices that do harm to us all.
#Humanism
https://onlysky.media/mclark/what-makes-a-bad-human-being/
Interesting data points on "the first war of the internet" from the head of CloudFlare:
Large format images of Larry the Cat from the Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/02/photos-larry-the-cat-12-years-chief-mouser/673186/
Read this
and follow along as the author comes to this surprising explanation for why the US South has the worst credit scores of any US region.
"In states that immediately expanded Medicaid, medical debt was slashed nearly in half between 2013 and 2020. In states that didn’t expand Medicaid, medical debt fell just 10 percent, the JAMA team found. And in low-income communities in those states, debt levels actually rose."
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Jefferson County, Alabama, USA. Database programmer mostly.
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