Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

Dropped my toothpaste. I’m crestfallen

I have come to the conclusion that the minions of climate denial do not like me.

I can't really blame them ... as I trash their beloved movement every day ... and plan to continue to do so.

🌏🔥 #ClimateBrawl 🔥🌏

United Healthcare's "AI" plainly does what the bosses want: It denies health care to elderly people who were conned into signing up for Medicare "Advantage" -- a program that is only good for rapacious corporations and often a disaster for the human beings these companies claim to serve.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Had a great time tonight at Bowie Experience in #southampton - special props to the female backing singer/percussionist who also pulled off a stunning Freddie Mercury for Under Pressure!
Award of the evening though goes to the music sign language interpreter who spent the whole evening dancing, signing brilliantly, and radiating sheer joy from the music including rocking out with her air guitar during the guitar solos - wonderful communication!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/3etESJrNyCABUYEJA

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

- Isaac Asimov

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down, and you see a Christian baby, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The Christian baby lies on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

"The use of the word 'vermin' is a surprisingly precise and archaic choice of language for a man with a limited vocabulary. Too much so to be coincidental with the Nazis’ use of the German word for vermin, 'ungeziefer', to describe and dehumanize Jews. Trump clearly understands the power of marginalizing segments of the population by dehumanizing them…."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Hitler #Nazis #vermin #fascism
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-drops-the-pretense-of-democracy

Somebody just referred to capybaras as "guinea bigs" and I don't know what to do with this information.