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The Embassy of Ukraine in South Korea and diplomats from several European countries criticized Russia's state-owned Bolshoi Ballet's planned performance in Seoul. They argue that Russia uses cultural events as a form of cultural weaponization.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/03/120_370064.html


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From James Baldwin. He has his ๐Ÿ’ฏth birthday this year. As always he was right on target. TRUTH TELLER.๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฟ

(From the book and film I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO) #jamesbaldwin


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So let me get this straight, Anti-LGBTQ+ author Helen Joyce has filed a police report against someone for reporting on her viewing porn in public on a train, while she was *checks notes* viewing porn in public on a train?



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Baltimore touts equality, so why did it lavish tens of millions in tax breaks on a single development: Harbor East? https://therealnews.com/baltimore-touts-equality-so-why-did-it-lavish-tens-of-millions-in-tax-breaks-on-a-single-development-harbor-east?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #news #leftist

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The joy of finding an amazing bookshop, spending hours browsing the shelves, discovering new books, carefully deciding which ones to takeโ€”and having the magic destroyed by someone yelling at you: โ€œWho are you, and what are you doing in my house?โ€

#books



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Itโ€™s been a long day, but it is a day that I have gone through full of gratitude that I am still alive for it โ€” because 5,000 days ago I decided that my life needed to change. Living a sober life on a day like today reminds me that, for me, sobriety makes my life possible. ๐Ÿ™

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American mathematical physicist and physical chemist Richard C. Tolman was born #OTD in 1881.

In a 1916 experiment with Thomas Dale Stewart, Tolman demonstrated that electricity consists of electrons flowing through a metallic conductor. A by-product of this experiment was a measured value of the mass of the electron. In 1938, he published a new detailed work that covered the application of statistical mechanics to classical and quantum systems. via @wikipedia

#science #physics

in reply to Project Gutenberg

About Einsteinยดs work:

"[The author] is also glad to have this opportunity to add his testimony o the growing conviction that the conceptual space and time of science are not God-given and unalterable, but are rather in the nature of human constructs devised for use in the description and correlation of scientific phenomena, and that these spatial and temporal concepts should be altered whenever the discovery of new facts makes such a change pragmatic."

~Richard C. Tolman

#books #physics



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I found this cat personality test through one of the cat email lists I am on. It offers a lot of great insight into your cats, I think!

https://www.idrlabs.com/cat-personality/test.php


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Content warning: What do you call it when you see the same ghost twice?



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Republican lawmakers have made it more difficult to vote, but Dems can still win.

29M Americans live under new voter ID laws put in place since 2020. The stricter requirements were years in the making. NCโ€™s law, passed in 2018, was blocked 3 yrs later by the state SC, which ruled the law was โ€œmotivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American voters" -reversed that decision last yr after the election of two GOP justices-.

#VotingRights
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/voter-identification-states-law-map-rcna137555

in reply to Kim Perales

Next they'll bring back the poll tax. AKA having proof that your ancestors voted. Or a test on citizenship. That kept Blacks from voting in the South. One reason why my family left for Los Angeles and San Francisco.


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โ€œA woman clutching an infant is found in the rubble of Ukraine building after Russian drone strikeโ€

https://apnews.com/article/8b487e61199be901156e3845d1a79398


in reply to Lightfighter

@Lightfighter @hannu_ikonen what has shocked me is people saying these cases are what solidified the courtโ€™s illegitimacy and not ROE being overruled. But maybe that was just cover for Biden not to have to attempt to expand the court?
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LA Legault โœŒ๐Ÿป
@hannu_ikonen wishing you guys the best of luck or the political will to burn the SCOTUS building down ๐Ÿ”ฅ xo

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Fans gather to say goodbye to Flaco the owl in New York City memorial

https://apnews.com/article/17e7f1aedc181d905880a73b37f8a5ae




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I keep thinking of the film we watched last night- Past Lives. So gorgeous. Every shot was important. Every conversation understated and yet hit hard. Just a lovely piece of film making. I'll be watching Celine Song's career with great interest. Also, why the hell didn't Greta Lee get an oscar nomination? Also, NYC looked gorgeous and I got homesick a bit.
in reply to OldAndCranky

#PastLives

#GretaLee got a Golden Glove nomination for Best Actress in a Film (Drama) but lost to Lily Gladstone for her performance in " Killers of the Flower Moon."

Greta didn't get an Oscar nomination because the Oscars has only 1 category for Best Actress, while the Golden Globes has 2 for Drama & Musical in Film , as well as fewer nomination slots.

So, the odds of a Oscar nom were against her.

FWIW, I think Gladstone will beat out Emma Stone for the Oscar too

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After 10 years of trying, a Palestinian woman had twins. An Israeli strike killed them both. @palestine @israel

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-children-twins-killed-gaza-25282b273b92aec7fc75c3212f8d8e3f




in reply to Sozan

@GRA3432 since it was in Mada Masr (and their ed-in-chief was called in by the prosecutor), and his name is in multiple publications including NPR, that they are playing cute and not naming him to avoid friction with the Egyptian government. Otherwise, that omission isnโ€™t up to the BBCโ€™s standards.

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The Monocentridae or Pinecone Fish swim throughout the subtropical and tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. These brightly-colored fish, have bioluminescent bacteria in two organs located on their lower jaws, that produce beams of light. Those lights which are essentially natural headlights, help them find food!


#blackcinema #westernfilms

How a Century of Black Westerns Shaped Movie History

How a Century of Black Westerns Shaped Movie History

https://flip.it/1wmGBh

Mario Van Peebles' "Outlaw Posse" is the latest attempt to correct the erasure of people of color from the classic cinema genre

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Women's History Month: The Forgotten Black Women Of The Pin-Up Industry

Women's History Month: The Forgotten Black Women Of The Pin-Up Industry

https://flipboard.com/@hellobeautiful/women-s-history-month-the-forgotten-black-women-of-the-pin-up-industry-d2i4llsf49npea7j?from=share&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=curator_share

Pin-up models originally became famous in the early 1920s and gained more recognition during World War II when photos and cartoons of pin-up girls were displayed in the lockers of U.S. Army soldiers and even on fighter jets. Popular pin-up girls included Betty Grable and Bettie Page, who was referred to as the โ€œQueen of Pinups.โ€ Page was known for her jet black hair, blue eyes and porcelain White skin, the ultimate standard of sexuality according to Western beauty ideals at the time.


#WomensHistory #happymarch



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Question for Mastodon IT people! Was my phone hacked?
I was scrolling through posts on #Mastodon and clicked on an interesting sounding link someone posted. It took me to a website with a wrong address in the URL A big notice immediately popped up with an Apple logo saying "Your iPhone has been hacked!" Hackers now have access to your phone. Do not close this security window or they will post all your personal info.
So I hit the flame icon in the DuckDuckGo browser which immediately closes the web page you're on, all open tabs, deletes browsing history and cookies and turned the phone off.
I'm sightly worried about powering it back on. Should I be worried?? It feels like a scam notice on a website and didn't click on anything once I landed on the website. But???
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in reply to AskPippa๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

I can't imagine Apple making sn official dialog box with that wording.

Apple security is OK: unless you are a human rights lawyer etc., it's unlikely that you'd be hacked without at least having to install something.

in reply to NNN

@NewNordicNormal I found this article. The thing I encountered had the timer bit mentioned in the article. So maybe nothing happened because didn't follow the instructions and flamed it all.

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-your-iphone-has-been-hacked/

@NNN
in reply to AskPippa๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Those kind of scam sites are typically designed to try and get you to click and install malicious links or take advantage of bugs in out of date browsers.



in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D.

That's a hard stop for writer's block, right there.

I'd offer suggestions for getting past it, but... I got nothing.

in reply to Kat

@KatS I'm certain that asking him to move is Illegal
@Kat
in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D.

You're probably right. Best not to risk the penalties, for safety's sake.
in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D.

It counts as a lack of oxytocine crisis, that needed immediate intervention.


in reply to Brad Johnson

I'll bet those despairing ranchers that hate the Federal Govt. won't be turning down the Federal aid coming their way...and they will still call Biden a communist and vote for Trump.
in reply to COD

@chrisod conservative logic isnโ€™t logical itโ€™s emotional
@COD

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Dismal Manor gang roused the minion early Friday morning for 2 loo emergencies and brekkie around 0600. Minion tried to blow off the intrepid gangsters but to no avail. Resistance is futile. So we had brekkie and minon took a couple of snaps of a rare clear morning. March finds our trees flowering but no leaves. But real soon ow, there will be green on the trashy maples. Overnight was crisp and calm but we missed frost, just barely. #Today

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