Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Another right-wing member of Congress with a (partially) fictional resume. Not as egregious as Santos, but still pretty flagrant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/anna-paulina-luna-republican-biography/

I'd like to see a foundation fund an organized crowdsourcing of resume checks of every candidate for Congress.

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Your waiter has noticed you have left a lot of French fries on your plate.

#photography #fotografia #fotografie #Mapache #raccoon #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Nature #naturephotography #Cozumel #AreYouStillWorkingOnThat? #TheWaiterIsCute
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elon musk has figured out the one weird trick for not having to pay the employees you fired: make them sign arbitration agreements, then don't select arbitrators or pay the arbitration firms

"the company is refusing to pay its share of filing fees to the arbitration company... in cases where the arbitration agreement does not specify a particular arbitration firm, Twitter will not agree on selecting an arbitrator, simply ignoring her emails to Twitter’s own lawyers."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/02/10/ex-employees-suing-twitter-say-its-not-cooperating-on-arbitration-asks-to-keep-case-in-court/

This Change Is How You Know Elon Musk's Twitter Experiment Has Already Failed.

Musk keeps thinking he can make Twitter better by making it worse.

#FuckElno #FuckElonMusk #ElonMusk #TwitterIsGoingGreat

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/this-change-is-how-you-know-elon-musks-twitter-experiment-has-already-failed.html

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange

I don’t have to bother separating the art from the artist if the art sucks.

It's Sunday.
#GoodNight , fellow tooters!

Thank goodness the local #CVS reopened the drive through. Between covid and agoraphobia, I hate going inside, but it’s been closed a lot because of short staffing as CVS tried to siphon off all the money they can. Sigh. I dislike being so cynical. But…it’s CVS.

Breaking non-UFO news: The Trump campaign hired a group to look for anomalies in the 2020 election. After looking under every rock and crevice, they concluded that Biden won the election. Their report was not well-received, and the Trump camp had access to it in December— before January 6.

WaPo archive: https://archive.ph/No7Bw

Q.Q : Who stole Hunter Biden’s laptop … and who distributed his personal data?

Both are crimes.

Sinking so fast I almost missed it!

Head’s up. The crypto world is trying really hard to pivot decentralized social media.

It’s important for everyone to know that the Fediverse has NOTHING to do with cryptocurrency, or NFTs, or whatever Ponzi scheme the “coin” hucksters have been trying to peddle.

Whenever something gets trendy, that’s when the bottom feeders arrive.

https://www.blockworks.co/news/web3-social-media-apps-to-watch

Our for-profit healthcare system is such a failure that it helped grow the anti-vax movement during a pandemic. The profit-motive erodes trust. Not only would universal healthcare be more efficient and lead to better outcomes, but it could also help restore trust.
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RT @acsifferlin
"Many physicians are now finding it difficult to quash the suspicion that our institutions, and much of our work inside them, primarily serve a moneymakin…
https://twitter.com/acsifferlin/status/1622237611585576960

Not sure where in Germany but … dayum.

“An 88-year-old man died in Germany recently. He had a private library that no one knew about and he built all the furniture for the books himself.” - from the FB page BRICO ER DECO’

Real #Gundam

#japan #photography

@MeidasTouch The Republican party is totally divorced from reality, so people like Santos fit in perfectly.

@StevenBeschloss I hope that downward spiral also applies to dissolution.

Happy #Caturday!#cats #CatsOfMastodon

@Nordstahl @dangillmor i loathe people who think they are more intelligent and lack the humility to realize that they too are a bag of meat with an ego keeping their contentiousness in check while it reacts to environmental stimuli