Seattle writer, former '80s Berkeley teenager. (she/her)
10 Oregon Republican senators can't run for reelection, the state supreme court confirmed, because they walked out last year to block 100s of bills.
This is due to a ballot initiative approved in 2022 that required lawmakers to be present in the session. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/01/oregon-supreme-court-gop-walkout-00139079
Apparently, Rep. Greene has introduced a measure to censure Rep. Omar over what appears to be a mistranslated (possibly intentionally) speech Omar gave recently. The vote will be next week. The MN Reformer story with translations from two separate translators indicating she said nothing controversial: https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/01/republicans-smeared-ilhan-omar-over-a-faulty-translation-heres-what-she-really-said/
Big news in bug math. This is the first year since 1803 when both 13-year cicadas and 17-year cicadas will emerge from the ground simultaneously in the US!
13 and 17 are both prime. It's believed cicadas evolved to have prime-number life cycles, thus avoiding predators that emerge more frequently, like once every 4 years or 5 years or... whatever. By showing up infrequently, with a prime number life cycle, cicadas can starve out those predators.
And since 13 and 17 are both prime and 13 × 17 = 221, both kinds of cicadas emerge simultaneously only once every 221 years. And
1803 + 221 = 2024
so now they'll both emerge simultaneously and we'll have 𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 of cicadas!
Also, this year the two kinds can interbreed! Maybe they're be fruitful and multiply... and we'll get 221-year cicadas. 😆
The last time the Northern Illinois Brood’s 17-year cycle aligned with the Great Southern Brood’s 13-year cycle, Thomas Jefferson was president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/science/cicadas-emergence-broods.html
BREAKING: Musk's SpaceX and his anti-labor lawyers at Morgan Lewis filed their motion for a preliminary injunction tonight in their case aimed at getting the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.1946370/gov.uscourts.txsd.1946370.37.0.pdf
Area Geoduck Wonders How Naked Man Breathes Through That Little Thing: https://theneedling.com/2023/11/21/area-geoduck-wonders-how-naked-man-breathes-through-that-little-thing/
#Bluestockings Cooperative is an indispensible feminist bookstore in NYC. It's been a fantastic community space for as long as I can remember.
Now it's facing eviction because the store is providing Narcan — and they've actually saved lives!. Please do what you can to help. Details below...
#Florida district pulls many #Jewish and #Holocaust #books, including Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and [Rebecca Walker's] ‘Black, White and Jewish’
https://www.jta.org/2023/12/21/united-states/florida-district-pulls-many-jewish-and-holocaust-books-including-saul-bellows-herzog-and-black-white-and-jewish
Also removed: Sophie's Choice by William Styron and the complete plays of Lillian Hellman.
YOUR 2023 CALENDAR WRAPPED
You spent 31 DAYS in each of the months of August, March, July, January, October, and May. That’s a six way tie. Guess you’re the type who can’t be satisfied by just one month! 😎
Your longest day was NOVEMBER 5, a whopping 25 hours. Falling back like a champ! 🍂
This year was the 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF 2013. Here’s to another 10 more! 🥳
You’ve had 51 MONDAYS so far this year. Yikes! We won’t tell Garfield if you won’t. 🐈
Today is John Mastodon Day: On this day one year ago, a journalist misunderstood some facts and created the person of “John Mastodon” out of them (https://web.archive.org/web/20221216232836/https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy-and-fear-all-the-way-down-at-twitter). That day, the Fediverse got a new meme, a patron saint and a running gag at the same time.
Let us all celebrate it!
Kate Cox's tragic situation is why the whole idea of "exceptions" to abortion bans is utter, complete, unmitigated bullshit meant to make power moves on women while striking fear in to the hearts of their doctors. #texas https://crooksandliars.com/2023/12/kate-cox-flees-texas-death-panels-get
“The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity | Slack”
Surprising? This is literally literally what almost every post-WW2 productivity study has told us and has been the consensus in work and organisational psychology since the seventies https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/news/the-surprising-connection-between-after-hours-work-and-decreased-productivity
I listened to #ElonMusk accept what #AlexJones said happened and why he was set up by a PR firm and the media.
#AndrewTate saying he was set up by the CIA.
The whole call was bonkers.
YES!!
Biden administration announces funding for Cascadia High-Speed Rail through to #Vancouver | Times Colonist
All these donors are so sensitive: #Amazon had given a $5,000 donation to #theCheech in both 2022 and 2023. But going forward, the company said it would no longer be providing anymore money because “the artist then gave an interview expressing hostility towards Amazon.” https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/amazon-cuts-ties-riverside-cheech-museum-critical-work-1234688961/
Been trying to get a sense of the kind of Speaker Mike Johnson will be. This is certainly clarifying.
A trans girl who socially transitioned in second grade and has never gone through testosterone-fueled puberty is at the heart of a massive controversy in Florida, after her high school principal and 4 other school staff members were suspended by the superintendent after he received a tip that a trans youth was playing volleyball.
#trans #sports #news #journalism
This is the reality of trans sports bans. More here:
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/fl-student-lived-as-a-girl-since-2nd-grade
🇫🇮 Finland: Air purifiers used at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third
"It would be a big savings if we could get rid of 30% of sick days spread by children, as well as the illnesses that go home to parents," Dr Sanmark said.
#COVID19 #Finalnd #AirPurifiers #CleanAir @auscovid19
Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381
As @Forbes publishes its latest "30 Under 30" lists, it also premieres a "Hall of Shame: The 10 Most Dubious People Ever To Make Our 30 Under 30 List."
Sam Bankman-Fried
Caroline Ellison
Charlie Javice
Nate Paul
Martin Shkreli
Cody Wilson
James O'Keefe
Phadria Prendergast
Steph Korey
Lucas Duplan
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesunder30team/2023/11/28/hall-of-shame-the-10-most-dubious-people-ever-to-make-our-30-under-30-list/
