Take it from the biochemist who used to work with vaccines:
1. Some vaccines will keep you from getting sick: measles, mumps, rubella, etc.
2. Some vaccines won’t keep you from getting sick, but it will keep you from dying: COVID, flu, etc.
3. Some people can’t get vaccines, or vaccines don’t work for them. They are a tiny percentage of the population.
4. Side effects from vaccines are normal.
5. mRNA vaccine technology has been around for 20 years. It’s not *that* new.
6. Vaccine cards have been around for a very long time. You’d know that if you traveled to certain countries, or looked it up on Google.
7. I’m getting tired of saying all this stuff to people. At this point, I don’t give a flying fuck what you believe, grow the fuck up and just get your fucking vaccine and/or booster shot. But if you insist on being a selfish asshole, stay the fuck away from me.
Note: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez graduated Cum Laude from Boston University.
Wasn’t she working as a bar tender before she got elected?
Folks on the right always seem very concerned that AOC was a bartender. They ignore her prestigious education and the fact that she graduated with distinction. They ignore that she has relevant degrees. And they ignore that she worked for the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute gaining relevant experience in activism.
I’ve also noticed that conservatives constantly complain about “elites.” They propped up “Joe Six Pack” because they felt too many lawmakers were out of touch and they wanted people who understood the common folk. Blue collar workers are the heart and soul of America, right?
Did you know that nearly half of congress is filled with lawyers? And the rest are mostly businessmen. What do lawyers know about my life? What do lawyers know about struggling to pay bills? What do lawyers know about what it’s like to hold a low wage job? How are they supposed to represent me and my needs?
Do you know why AOC worked as a bartender? Her father died and her mother’s jobs as a house cleaner and bus driver were not enough to fight foreclosure. So Alexandria put her career ambitions on hold and got a job as a bartender to help her mom. Conservatives are all about “family values” right? AOC valued her family so much that she worked a grueling job out of love for her mom.
And you want to trivialize that?
AOC knows my struggle more than Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. I have confidence that AOC will represent me and my family’s needs more so than any lawyer or businessman who is just looking to enrich themselves.
Maybe we need a few more bartenders and a few less lawyers.
So about this project. For awhile now I’ve noticed almost every single time I see a darker skinned black woman “going viral”, she’s half naked, oiled up, and/or sexualized in some way shape or form. It’s very rarely ever “Look at this amazing dark skinned woman who accomplished this thing.” Or “Look at her smile, she’s gorgeous”. Please don’t misinterpret what I’m saying. There is nothing wrong with darker women and black women in general being free and expressive about their sexuality and provocative features. BUT that is NOT ALL they are. They are so much more than sexual beings, but for some reason, that seems to be almost the only thing that grabs viral appreciation. So here’s my attempt to have darker skinned black women go viral for just being cute, creative, stylish, bubbly, beautiful, and black. Aside from the videographer EVERYONE involved in this project IS A BLACK WOMAN. I hope you guys like it. I ask that if you enjoyed this and agree with my objective, share it with a few people please.
A special thank you to @aggienes, I couldn’t have done this without her.
I worked on this project with @ohpenmike and other talented black artists. Enjoy 😊
While watching the News
The political ads in north Texas are just too much for me. The difference between the democratic and republican ones are like night and day.
Democrats: Half are “look at how awesome I am” and the other half are “this is how my opponent has screwed up America, I’ll do better”.
Republicans: Half are “this is how my opponent has screwed up America, I’ll do better” while the other half is “criminals will run through the streets and bathe in the blood of your children after raping them, they will take your job and guns and laugh at your pain, they will burn America to the ground! Dont let the democrats win. Vote republican.”
Miss me will the both parties are the same crap. At least one side is trying to act with civility.
Subject change, I want to get as close to the Federation from Star Trek as I can get. Which party is headed in that direction? Tell me how if you want.
The far-right Proud Boys group, whom Donald Trump refused to denounce this week, have been linked
to assaults on protesters, white supremacist organizing, the spread of
Covid misinformation and other threats against Americans.
Emily Gorcenski has been tracking them every step of the way.
Since 2018, the 38-year-old data scientist has been exposing members
of the far right and cataloguing white supremacist violence across the
US through her site, First Vigil. The project grew out of the attack on her Charlottesville, Virginia, community the year prior – the deadly Unite the Right rally, which brought Gorcenski face to face with neo-Nazis bearing torches and swastikas, shouting racist and transphobic vitriol at her. One of her attackers was later revealed to be an active service US marine.
Using court files and other public records, the anti-fascist researcher has catalogued hundreds of criminal cases,
connected the dots of dangerous neo-Nazi networks, and revealed links
that journalists and authorities have missed. These days, it can be
difficult to keep up. Far-right violence has escalated dramatically under Trump, who has ignored his own government’s domestic terrorism warnings and encouraged vigilante violence against leftists.
For her safety, Gorcenski has relocated to Berlin, where she has some
distance from the US white supremacist threats and the groups she
investigates.
In the latest installment of the Guardian’s series on trans activists at the forefront of protest movements, we talked to Gorcenski via Zoom about
her predictions of increasing violence, the best 2020 tactics for
fighting neo-Nazis, and the links between anti-trans movements and white
supremacist groups.
A variation on this shows up in Topsell, so I think it’s safe to assume at least one mole used to be a person, maybe more:
[Oppianus saith, that there was one Phineus which was first deprived of his eye-sight, and afterwards turned into a Mole: It should seem he was condemned first to loose his eyes, and afterward his life.]
Other mole facts from the greatest scientific minds of history:
Aristotle: moles are the only animals without eyes
Bartholomaeus Anglicus: moles have eyes, but only when they’re dying
(“some men suppose, that that skinne breaketh for anguish
& for sorow when he beginneth to dye, and beginneth then to open the eyen
in dieng, that were cloased lyving“)
Edward Topsell: moles are created out of wet earth and rain
Pliny the Elder: moles understand human speech and will run away if you talk
about them
While it is interesting informtion, can someone help with something else in this post? Are “s” and “f” the same sound in ancient Greek or did someone just get confused with one sound having two different letters?
