Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

#OtD 25 Mar 1920 Black and Tans sent by British politician, Winston Churchill, arrived in Ireland for the first time. Mostly former British soldiers recruited to the colonial police force, they had a reputation for brutality and committed many atrocities

Does anyone else's cat lust after cheese, especially cooked cheese?

@graphxgrrl caught this great photo of Ellie begging for pizza, a few days ago.

(We've never given her any!)

#cat #cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catsodon

I don't want to hear any Republican ever again complain about cancel culture or being shouted down when someone doesn't like their opinion. They're only against it when it happens to them.

See the Stanford takes if you don’t believe me.

The Republican motto: I got mine, the rest of you can f*k right off.

Parkland dad detained in DC after being removed from hearing on gun regulation-
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-ne-parkland-father-detained-20230323-kba4gxcq25hhzd7frpttjvnkqm-story.html

Historical Vintage Map Reproductions. https://buff.ly/3FPlEBH
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#antiquemaps #maps #vintage #art #historical #reproductions #wallart #homedecorideas #travel #tourism #worldtravel #buyintoart #MastoArt

The only thing that will stop a bad guy in a dress is a good guy in a dress.

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
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Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files.

“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

#Insurance #Health #HealthCare #Cigna #Medical #Hospitals #Doctors

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

@Rasta
Maya is gorgeous, my 18 year old was limping, it turned out to be over long, ingrowing claws. We have to get them clipped every couple of months. Now she feels comfy, she is out with the boys keeping an eye on their behaviour. Like Maya she is the boss!

Dear academic journal editors and department editors: If your standard turnaround allowance for assigning referees to a journal is 3 days, and you assign it on a Friday morning, you're implicitly requiring your volunteer senior and associate editors to work over the weekend on it. Is that fair? Or, instead, should you program your manuscript management system to only count business days in your deadlines? I'll give you a hint: It's the latter one.
#academia
p.s., and here's a kitten

A Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries. Here’s their full challenge. The parent writes that the book should be considered indecent under Utah’s new book banning law, after seeing the other titles that have been pulled.

“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote in their request, listing topics they found concerning in the religious text. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.” https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/

For almost certainly not the last time:

"Gaslighting" doesn't just mean lying. That's just lying. It doesn't even mean a huge cover-up with intent to deceive. That's just a cover-up.

Gaslighting means lying with the specific intent to make the person you are lying to doubt their mental health and their ability to percieve reality.

My new book "Crypto for Dummies" is only three words long. "Dont buy Crypto". I'm putting it into the public domain. You're welcome.

@jeanettepizzurro I've been designing in my head again.. My neighbour was complaining about my fence, I said, don't like it, you do it. And he did. Wall and fence. Thousands and thousands, but all over *aesthetics* that pleased him. In my yard. He *gifted me* this expensive wall. The old fence that I put in, was all plastic lattice. I've made mini-kennels for the cats to stay out in, and plans to add shelves like the cattery in the country home

"Had voters known about Trump’s indiscretions with Daniels and McDougal, Trump may never have become president in 2016." And the hush-money scheme was orchestrated because they knew it. https://www.thebulwark.com/why-trumps-hush-money-matters/

Gordon Moore was not only the co-founder of Intel and the namesake for Moore's law, the claim that every two years the number of components on a chip double, he was also, together with his wife Betty Moore, one of the donors who made Wikidata possible. Gordon and Betty Moore were known for their philanthropy. Gordon Moore died today at the age of 94.

Thank you for enabling us to make Wikidata happen.

#Wikidata #GordonMoore #Intel

#caturday #catsofmastodon
Ollie is where I want to be 😂🐈🐈

Good Morning Canada!
Most people don't know that a cold war era bunker and nuclear missle complex sits just outside North Bay Ontario. Today instead of fighting the evil USSR the site is fighting to avoid decommissioning. Built 200m below ground in1960s it was meant to withstand a Soviet nuclear attack. The public cannot access the facility since it is attached to the NORAD air base but there is a museum that you can visit.

#Canada #CanadaIsAwesome #ColdWar
https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/features/the-hole-truth-five-fast-facts-about-north-bays-cold-war-era-bunker

It is never "all of a sudden",guys
And it's almost always weak pathetic white men who plot ..

Give a listen to the treasure that is Jane Elliot

#thinkingcap

It's not a sight people in Newfoundland get to enjoy every day, but people on the island were treated to a northern lights show unlike any other in recent memory on Thursday night. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-northern-lights-march-2023-1.6789975 https://nitter.hongkongers.net/CBCNews/status/1639462138367598593#m

The "Paradox of Tolerance" completely disappears if you look at tolerance not like a moral standard but as a social contract.

If someone does not abide by the terms of a contract, then they aren't covered by it.

In other words, the intolerant are not abiding by the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered BY the contract and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated.