Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm on Nerds of a Feather's recommended reading list for my story, 'Mid-Earth Removals Limited' in The Sunday Morning Transport!!

I'm so happy because I love this funny little story so much!

I see a ton of my friends and acquaintances here too. Congratulations!

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2024/01/nerds-of-feather-2024-hugo-award.html?m=1

We interrupt our regular schedule for this short squirrel boop.

*BOOP*

#sillyScribbles #photography #boop #squirrel #silly

AP and the #WashingtonPost haven’t completely ignored the story—although the #NYTimes, as of this writing, has more or less looked the other way. But as the right celebrates Greg Abbott’s defiance and legal scholars worry about a constitutional crisis, the two big papers and the major wire service have clearly underplayed the standoff’s significance.

https://fair.org/home/the-real-border-crisis-texas-vs-the-constitution/

The state spending more resources on prisons and incarcerating people over education is disgusting. The states disregards human potential over profit. The state perpetuates crime. Instead of punishment, people need education and rehabilitation. We need to uplift people, not continue the cycles of imprisonment.

Google has just unveiled an AI upgrade for Android. Google’s AI will read and analyze your private messages, going back forever.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/28/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/?

Abolish capitalism, exhibit eleventy-million:

"Moderna is quadrupling the cost of covid vaccines, from $26/dose to $110-130. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel calls the price hike "consistent with the value" of the mRNA vaccines. Moderna's manufacturing costs are $2.85/dose, for a 4,460% markup on every dose...

What will Moderna do with the billions it reaps through price-gouging? It won't be research. To date, the company has spent >20% of its covid windfall profits on stock buybacks and dividends, manipulating its stock price, with more to come...

It's not an outlier. Big Pharma is a machine for commercializing publicly funded research and then laundering the profits with financial engineering. The largest pharma companies each spend more on stock buybacks than research."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity

#Pharma #BigPharma #Corruption #Medicine #Covid #Vaccines #Capitalism #Healthcare #HumanRights

New descriptor just dropped.

I saw a woman sleeping. In her sleep she dreamt Life stood before her, and held in each hand a gift — in the one Love, in the other Freedom. And she said to the woman, ‘Choose!’
And the woman waited long: and she said: ‘Freedom!’
And Life said, ‘Thou hast well chosen. If thou hadst said, ‘Love,’ I would have given thee that thou didst ask for; and I would have gone from thee, and returned to thee no more. Now, the day will come when I shall return. In that day I shall bear both gifts in one hand.’
I heard the woman laugh in her sleep.
— Olive Schreiner, Dreams, 1891

Disabled signups for now, a lot of "random generated" users(bots) just signed up, all using "@mail.ru"

Little heads up for admins and mods

Suppose I had a week to spend travelling around #Wyoming and I wanted to see a lot of #sauropod #fossils. Apart from the Wyoming Dinosaur Center and UWGM, where should I visit? (Let's assume for now that I can arrange collections access.)

Please boost for coverage!

The fact that business owners fought to keep remote work from being more widely adopted is a fucking tragedy. Remote work solved so many problems i.e. less greenhouse gases, less traffic (which means less strain on infrastructure), more money circulating in smaller towns, less wasted time commuting for employees (which also means less money being wasted on gas) etc. But nope, we gotta justify these buildings somehow.

New FINAL edition, huge print run! Still priced cheap for vandals & antifascist neighborhood protectors!

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Immigrants & Refugees Welcome
No Human Is Illegal
No Ban No Wall

مرحبًا باللاجئين و المهاجرين لا أحد غير شرعي
ضد الحظر ضد الحائط

Inmigrantes y refugiados son bienvenidos
Ningún ser humano es ilegal
Ni prohibición ni muro

Single stickers available for sale, as well as packs of 5/10/25 and now mega packs of 50 or 100 here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/977301497/

Read about the origins of this sticker design here: https://kolektiva.social/@municipaladhesives/105895644433886298

Thanks to @WahbAllat for Arabic corrections.

When a tv show says it contains "adult themes" I'm expecting it to be about stuff like hurting your back, having indigestion, going for a nice nap

If you would like to learn more about tail clamping and other dog body postures that tell you they are yelling NOT HAVIN A BAJA BLAST RIGHT NOW, TWO LEGS!! check out this lengthy set of pictures of dogs making all kinds of statements through the power of their body languages. https://ourdogssavelives.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/canine-communication-1.3.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Way-Faire-Tale-Holly-Walters/dp/1959350374/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UNMNAE7RKTGN&keywords=the+way+by+holly+walters&qid=1705966221&sprefix=the+way+by+holly+walters%2Caps%2C83&sr=8-1

Ron DeSantis should be forced to carry his dead campaign to term.

1. At age 10, all boys have their vas deferens severed.
2. After age 25, the vasectomy can be reversed at any time if a woman agrees to have a child with him.
3. After the birth, he has another vasectomy.

Oh, too extreme? Great, then fuck off with your laws about women’s bodies.