James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@social.cleverlibre.org

TikTok: Look! I discovered hot water melts frozen food faster!

Twitter: Look at this TikTok video showing how to defrost your food faster!

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Mastodon: Please read my academic white paper describing the impacts of public school system underfunding

Libertarians are the antivaxxers of economic regulation: having never lived in a world without it, they've deluded themselves into thinking stability is naturally occurring.

"OK, DAMMIT. GETTING IN THAT BOX WAS A MISTAKE_

How I feel when I have to scroll down to the year I was born:

What kind of biologist should you be?

I adore this charming - and pretty accurate - chart by @rosemarymosco to help make the decision.

Also, fungi wins 🍄 #art #science

The Ontario government announced today they’ll let students to drop out of school in Grade 11 for full time construction work. Upon completing apprenticeship, they’ll give them a high school diploma.

I was a dropout. I’m a construction worker. I’m a Red Seal tradesperson, an electrician. I am now a trades instructor.

These children are fifteen years old and they should be in class. Construction can be dangerous backbreaking work.

Let’s be very clear: this is child labour, and it’s *wrong.*

A cooking recipe that tells you how long it will take to clean up the mess after.

People storming school board meetings are “concerned parents,” which implies that their motives are genuine and just, basically shielding their “concerns” from political scrutiny; but students protesting a racist speaker are always “activists,” never “concerned young people.”

I just spent 45 bucks for a 3 day regime to clean out my system for an upcoming colonoscopy.

That's $45 to do what a $6 order at Taco Bell could have achieved almost instantly.

Did you all see this statement the #B52s just posted? 😢❤

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheB52s/status/1633591649791279104

"assholes were literally the primary target market when automakers wanted to make SUVs mainstream"
https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

How about this idea…

Conversion therapy for bigots?

When I couldn’t find any scissors, I was reduced to tears.

#EnglishIsHard

This is supposed to be good news but I have a need for honesty, fairness, justice, and a system where someone's word can be trusted. And this flies in the face of that.

I guess I should grow up, but hearing Marsha Blackburn and other TN GOPers rail against "woke, green, liberalism" and then show up for the groundbreaking of the Ford EV battery plant THAT THEY VOTED AGAINST just pisses me off.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/clean-energy-gop-red-states.html

Act normal as you read this and boost if you are pretty sure the squirrels are up to something.

Today in 1896, Charlotte Whitton is born.
Serving on Ottawa's Board of Control in 1951, after the sudden death of Mayor Grenville Goodwin, she was appointed acting mayor.
This made her the first female mayor of a major Canadian city. She serves from 1951-1956 & 1961-1964.

#Canada #History #Histodon #Histodons #Canadian #WomensHistory #Ottawa

#Seattle sparkling this afternoon across Elliott Bay before the next storm rolled in, viewed from the deck of the King County Water Taxi Sally Fox: #Photography

come children let me tell you of a golden era when every day didn’t start with the words “the fuck did they do now”