📚A Personal Opinion🔬

kind of an Elly May Clampett who grew up to be a microbiologist. I love animals, nature, science, reason, ideas, books, creativity and art. @sableviews1 backup

[📚A Personal Opinion🔬 @SableViews]

@SpeakerVos You obviously slept through the wake-up call of Walker's defeat and learned the wrong lesson. This doubling down on authoritarian politics to subvert the will of the people is going to guarantee you lose next election.
Good riddance, though!

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Corporation: "We made $4B but spent $3.9B so we only owe taxes on $100M."
Government: "Totally reasonable."

You: "I made $60K but spent $58K on survival."
Government: "You owe taxes on $60K."
You: "That's not—"
Government: "File by May 15."

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

COPS ARREST A MAN FOR ORGANIZING A PROTEST AGAINST A DATA CENTER:

Video shows Illinois police arresting Harley Delander for organizing a protest against a data center in his town.

He explains to police that he did nothing wrong and they’re violating his First Amendment rights.

The police don’t care and arrest him anyway. This is the current state of America.

Our government and both parties are completely owned by the tech billionaires who are rewiring our entire economy to usher in their AI techno-capitalist dystopia.

This is why you are seeing the government do whatever it can to silence any and all opposition to the dystopian nightmare their tech billionaire owners are pushing onto us.

From labeling anti-data center protesters “extremists” to now arresting people for planning protests, the US government is actively attacking and jailing its own people to protect the Tech oligarchs it serves.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

I agree more people need to be visiting libraries because there’s a lot of ignorant people around.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓪 @elioralux]

A woman on my flight yesterday switched seats with her husband because their toddler wouldn’t stop crying.

The second she sat down alone, she closed her eyes for maybe 30 seconds.

Just resting.

Not sleeping.

When the husband walked past with the kid later, he laughed and said loudly,
“Must be nice to finally get a break from doing nothing.”

A few people chuckled.

She laughed too.

But something about it felt off because for the entire flight she had been:
holding the baby,
packing snacks,
cleaning spills,
walking him down the aisle,
missing her own meal trying to calm him down…

while the husband watched a movie with headphones on.

And honestly I think that’s why so many women are exhausted.

Not because they’re doing everything alone.

But because they’re doing everything while someone else calls it “nothing.”

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

Speaker Johnson publicly making the argument that members of Congress should be allowed to engage in "insider trading" because they are poor and barely able to survive says at least two things.
1. They all have done it.
2. They all want more of it.
Reminder" insider trading" is illegal as defined.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Everyone needs to understand that the capitalist class would rather destroy all life on Earth, including themselves, than give up their money or power. This is not hypothetical; fossil fuel companies have already shown how far they are willing to go to protect their interests.

[Lemma the Optimist @DoctorLemma]

In Australia, a man named Alfie Date moved into a retirement home at the age of 109. About 12 hours after he arrived, two of the nurses came to his room and asked if he could knit. He could, he’d been at it since 1932.

They told him about a program asking volunteers to knit tiny woolen sweaters for an endangered species called Little Penguins. The sweaters stop oil-covered birds from cleaning themselves with their beaks during a spill, because the oil is toxic if they swallow it. Alfie said yes. He spent his last two years knitting hundreds of them. He was lost in 2016, at 110.

[Kid Riles @kid_riles]

Yo Wisconsin:

Tom Tiffany sided with Scott Walker 100% of the time when he was in the Wisconsin Legislature.

He has sided with the rapist 100% of the time he has been in Congress.

That, is a shitty fucking résumé.

Fuck Tom Tiffany 🖕

[Governor Tony Evers @GovEvers]

The Trump Administration is actively withholding $29 million in funding that Wisconsin was supposed to receive to continue our work preventing waste, fraud, and abuse and modernizing our state’s unemployment insurance system. It’s absurd.

Read More ⬇️
https://t.co/Ml7BuWGCfu

[— • C H E E K Y • — @andreagail_k]

@RonFilipkowski Does it involve a Trump Tower in Tehran? And rare earths? Or renaming the Strait?

[Ben🕊️ @2BJDJ]

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[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I don’t want a city on Mars. I don’t want AI in every app. I don’t want data centres in space. I don’t want humanoids or flying cars. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive. And a habitable planet.

[Lemma the Optimist @DoctorLemma]

A medieval palace in the English countryside has a small bell mounted by a window, with a rope hanging down to the moat below.

Since the 1850s, the resident swans have been pulling the rope to ring the bell when they want to be fed. The tradition began when one of the bishop’s daughters taught it to a single swan in the 1850s, and the swans have been passing it on ever since.

The current pair, Grace and Gabriel, are the latest in the line. Each year, after their cygnets hatch, Gabriel walks them up to the bell and teaches them to pull the rope before they leave the moat to start their own lives. The tradition is now 170 years old.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Switzerland has made it illegal to place live lobsters into boiling water, following increasing scientific evidence that crustaceans may be sentient, capable of experiencing pain.

Over recent decades, research has challenged the idea that lobsters operate on simple reflexes alone. Studies suggest their nervous systems are more complex, showing behaviors that go beyond automatic reactions and point toward decision-making under distress.

For example, experiments with related species like hermit crabs have shown they will abandon their shells, essential for protection, when exposed to electric shocks. This kind of trade-off suggests an ability to weigh risk in order to avoid harm.

Lobsters themselves possess nociceptors, specialized nerve cells that detect damaging stimuli such as heat. When exposed to extreme conditions, they don’t just react momentarily; they can exhibit prolonged behavioral changes, indicating a deeper response.

Under the new law, lobsters must be stunned before being cooked, either mechanically or electrically, to reduce suffering. The legislation also bans transporting lobsters on ice, requiring conditions that more closely reflect their natural environment.

Supporters view this as a necessary step forward. Many scientists argue that if there is credible evidence an animal can feel pain, it deserves consideration similar to that given to birds and mammals.

But this raises a bigger question.

With billions of crustaceans used globally each year, and practices varying widely—should other countries begin to rethink how these animals are treated?

Source: CNN, “Switzerland bans boiling lobsters alive.”

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

It’s mind boggling, it’s a cult! 😡

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

The biggest scam in the U.S. was tying healthcare to your job.

Lose your job, lose your health.

That’s not a system… that’s control.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Publishers have real questions about AI, but let’s be clear: @waybackmachine isn’t a backdoor for AI scraping.

For 30 years, it’s been built for people, not bulk harvesting. We actively monitor to prevent abuse. Learn more ⤵️
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