Doug Johnston

studio dweller

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

Giant stone artefacts found on rare Ice Age site in Kent https://t.co/DvMXRx3K6P

[Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) @cbouzy]

🐳Dear journalists and news outlets, we are making a new home for you at https://t.co/hfFdnf3iBl. Your work will be valued on my platform, and together we can create an environment of factual information.

[Doug Johnston @hawktrainer]

If anyone is switching/trying Spoutible, you can find and follow me: https://t.co/JyuEIHrMo7
I’d love to follow you there.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Missouri Republicans passed new rules:
1. Women lawmakers are banned from showing their bare arms.
2. Women lawmakers are required to cover their dress with a “second layer”.

The road to the Handmaid’s Tale world is lined with people telling us to stop overreacting.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Keenan Anderson—a 31-year-old high school teacher & father—stopped LA police for help after an accident. They instead cuffed him, pinned him, & tased him repeatedly as he begged them to stop.

Keenan died of cardiac arrest from excessive tasing.

His crime—asking police for help.

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

Where's the beef? It is where tropical forests used to be. 41% of tropical deforestation is driven by pasture expansion for beef (Our World in Data). Please eat more legumes for protein and "give peas a chance".

[Andrew Chung @thisisandrewc]

One of the biggest lies we’ve been sold is that talent is rare. As someone who works in the arts, it’s absolutely not. Once you realize that, you’ll understand how much luck (and privilege) is involved in being chosen to be one of the few who get the limelight.

[Kurt Vonnegut @Kurt_Vonnegut]

How embarrassing to be human.

[Ella Al-Shamahi @Ella_AlShamahi]

Lots of comments about why a pseudo-science archaeology show is on Netflix - and why the ideas aren't robustly challenged within the show. Part of the answer may be quite simple - Graham Hancock's son is a senior manager of unscripted at Netflix.

https://t.co/kcuS1y0mei

[Azraël (עזראל) 🐉 @EmiliaDecaudin]

Today, we got the news that NYC currently has 38k vacant rent-stabilized apartments. Each one of those units is a failure to supply housing—a family who can't afford to stay in our City. There's a lot that we can do to address this problem, and you can be part of the solution.

[Nrken19 @nrken19]

Description of the Nuragic village in Tiscali, an Bronze Age settlement that was built inside a crater, Italy - Sardinia.

[Prof Jamie Woodward @Jamie_Woodward_]

The Vogelherd horse is a miniature ice age masterpiece. This remarkably accomplished work is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. It was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35,000 years ago in southern Germany. It is breathtakingly beautiful.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

The “international community”

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Finally. A Democratic candidate just correctly pointed out that red states like Oklahoma have HIGHER crime rates than New York and California.

The Republican candidate and moderator refused to believe it.

[Team Katie @TeamKatiePorter]

Bigger corporate profits account for *over half* of the higher prices people are paying.

[Ken Feder @fiftysitesbook]

A thread.

1. If you’ve been following the controversy about the new Netflix archaeology series, here’s a broader context.

[Kurt Vonnegut @Kurt_Vonnegut]

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

[Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag]

A canoe canal in Alabama linking Mobile Bay with the Gulf of Mexico has been found to date to about A.D. 600.

https://t.co/7qLrvkTWX4