The Black Panther Party learned that sickle cell anemia was a neglected genetic disease affecting mostly people of African descent. Although disease had been known since 1910, it attracted little govt attention and even less funding.
So the Panthers set up a screening program. #BlackSky#Disability
"Approximately 1 in 365 African American children are born with sickle cell, according to the CDC..
Tens of thousands of lower-income families with children suffering from sickle cell disease have applied for SSI. But roughly 76% of those applicants had their requests denied between 2015 and 2020."
a second rat has joined the fray.
I'm really happy with the robes and skin, though i meant to make the skin more pallid by adding some yellow, but it didn't change as much as i thought.
used a blue i had from my tyranid kit, it definitely contrasts nicely with the copper but not the *right* blue
Remember when some of y'all got real mad at me for doing some back-of-the-napkin math about how much water "AI" likely uses, in light of the fact that they refuse to release their actual numbers?
Anyway.
Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools.
Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
May I introduce you all to Spooky Cat, a toy he can always find immediately when asked "where's your Spooky Cat?" no matter where in the world he left it. A+ toy. It was originally part of his Halloween costume but he ate the part that made him look like a little horse
May I introduce you all to Spooky Cat, a toy he can always find immediately when asked "where's your Spooky Cat?" no matter where in the world he left it. A+ toy. It was originally part of his Halloween costume but he ate the part that made him look like a little horse
I did an Alice In Wonderland-themed escape room today with four other neurodivergent people and folks, the truth is I'm pretty sure the five of us could solve for global warming in about a weekend. Maybe a fortnight on the outside
I feel like there's some kinds of white collar crime that are like "it would be bad if everyone did this so we have to make a rule against it and enforce it even if each violation doesn't cause a lot of harm" and others are like "stole $2M in tips from the servers at the restaurant he owns..."
A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes.
It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.
A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes.
It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.
Holy. Shit. They're literally saying Trump's felonies aren't that bad compared to the "real felonies". Bear in mind, they're ignoring J6 and "gimme 12000 votes" call and the stolen docs.
We joke, but this is literally Newsmax copy.
anyway, bluesky is absolutely not ready and not prepared for the flood of authoritarian-funded trolls that are already beginning to flood it, so, you know, block early, block often.
the thing about political punditry is that most pundits make confident declarations based just on the vibes of their particular online worlds but when you talk to a random voter they're mostly concerned with stuff you've never even thought of and couldn't possibly follow the logic of if you tried
the thing about political punditry is that most pundits make confident declarations based just on the vibes of their particular online worlds but when you talk to a random voter they're mostly concerned with stuff you've never even thought of and couldn't possibly follow the logic of if you tried
i know nothing about whoever put their litter-covered paw in your coffee. i have no idea who is behind it. i disagree with some of the things they're doing & some of the things they're doing are absolutely ridiculous & abysmal. anything they do, i wish them luck, but i have nothing to do with them.
ok I make a lot of jokes about Indian food in other countries, but real talk, if youre a country whose cuisine is being created in local versions elsewhere, that's kinda says good things about your cuisine even if you wouldnt eat all of it, take the compliment, avoid the tikka masala
It is possible I will be angry about what Amazon did to Comixology for the rest of my life. I read and discover so, so much less without that incredible website to browse. The kindle store version isn’t even “we have comixology at home,” it’s “you don’t get to have comixology, eat a dick”
Amazing the Olivia Nuzzi story can’t get a single person to go on the record, and the strongest evidence against Biden’s mental health is he didn’t remember her name.
I used to think that the Trumpified GOP's constant, unsubtle calls for political violence would only end with another Oklahoma City-type event but it's become pretty clear that they'd just claim that Tim McVeigh was an FBI plant and continue on unabashed.