Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

If you feel pain, you're alive.
If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being.
Leo Tolstoy

I bet you’ve heard of Galileo & Hubble, but what about Henrietta Swan Leavitt?

Leavitt changed astronomy. She figured out new ways to measure a star’s distance from Earth & her work helped determine the universe is expanding.

Her boss, Edward Pickering, published her findings UNDER HIS NAME. Later, Shapley used her findings to determine distances around the Milky Way w/o credit.

Leavitt’s work is still used today. So next time you hear about famous men in #science share her remarkable story.

Pastis is on fire with this one

No one it going to see this, but I'm trying out my first Toot. (hah!)

Both parties have held the debt ceiling hostage as a political tool. For example, in 2011, the Republicans did it. But in 2013, the Republicans did it. On the other hand, this year it is the Republicans who are doing it.

Just to be clear, when the New York Times reported that the FBI saw “no link between Trump and Russia” — a week before the 2016 election — the FBI agent who was just arrested over ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska was heading up the investigation.

Just an absolute scandal.

#NYT #Trump #Russia #FBI #news

Honestly? Give the dumb AI model it's MBA degree, let it run businesses, it can't do any worse than the dickhead humans doing it.

This is ultimately why fact checking and debunking cannot stop a fascist creep or fascist propaganda in general.

It's very hard for folks to accept that the people around them do not believe the things they're saying, and are indeed actively lying to generate power - but this is more or less the entire history of fascism. They're playing to win; over your dead body. It's that simple. Doesn't matter if they're in your family, if you work together, if you had BBQ at the cottage together one time.

I don’t have much of a network on here, but hi, hello, I’m a front-end web developer and web accessibility specialist and I am looking for work

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Georgia election officials, supported by the Republican Party, tried to prevent 70,000 citizens from voting on a Saturday before the Senate runoff election.While Republicans didn’t get away with it, the fact that they tried should be a national outrage.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what-georgia-teaches-us-about-voter-suppression/

I haven't played Monopoly for many years now. The last game was with three housemates at university. One housemate was winning and really enjoying his triumph over the rest of us. So I suggested to my other two housemates that we form a cooperative. We would let each other off rents on our properties. The standards rents would apply to anyone not in the coop. And you could leave the coop if you wanted. None of this is forbidden in the rules of Monopoly because it has little market regulation.

Here we go again.

This time its an implant to help people manage cluster headaches. The company that made the devices has collapsed leaving 700 people with implants and no way to manage them.

There has to be a better way to deal with this.

#disability #righttorepair #dutyofcare

Hat tip to @DrCuriosity for the link

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html

Google likes to claim it loves the web. Google fucking broke the web.

Cookie notices on every fucking website? They need those because they use Google Analytics or Google Ads.

Recipe sites that go on for fucking days? That’s because Google penalises websites when you leave too quickly, and they can’t show as many ads.

Obviously-bullshit machine-generated “content” designed to entice you to click ads? That’s because Google Search is a monopoly.

I’m so tired of Google.

@Gargron You can say you did actually improve the world of many. While no end might be in sight, how far Mastodon has come is truly impressive. Thank you.

I've started working on Mastodon when I was 23, and now I'm 30

This is from fricking 2019. #Twitter has always been soft on right wingers, because they are SUPERB at cranking up the outrage machine. Twitter treated them with kid gloves back then, and look where it’s gotten us now. https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-treat-white-supremacy-like-isis-because-it-would-mean-banning-some-republican-politicians-too

Domestic violence is often a precursor to committing a Mass shooting.

Shooter at Lunar New Year Festival in Monterey Park was a 72 y/o man who was angry at his wife for going dancing to dance hall she was invited to, he wasn't, jealous & suspicious he showed up at Dance hall where his wife was dancing, shooting 20 people, killing half of them.

5 men killed
5 women killed
Many senior citizens

20 people were shot & killed over a jealous angry husband.

Domestic violence is domestic terrorism. 🤬