Jennifer McIntosh
@jennifermc.bsky.social
An Alaskan living in Barcelona | Here mostly to learn and amplify | mom of twins | lover of snow and mountains | pharmacist and public health by training
I'm just going to keep screaming this until I'm hoarse, but until Trump the norm -- for 50 years -- was that sitting presidents had their taxes audited by the IRS and released to the public to show they were clean. But Trump refused repeatedly, and sued when his return was leaked, and now ... this
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
Democrats - just run on the, “We are not the creepy pedophile” party. Seriously - easy layup.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
I have no words for how creepy and gross this is. And of course it is only for girls.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
I’d love to know what people outside the industry think “data centre” actually means, because no one I know expects them to contain any jobs at all. As someone who has built several: any employee is a design flaw.
Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.
Anyway back to my ongoing theory that women use AI to get more done and men use AI to get out of doing more.
in Kinsale, they're more eye catching. (I think this was a global thing by the way...for Earth Day...not just in Ireland)
If you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.
“What seems to be important,” wrote scientist James Lovelock in a 1966 memo to Shell, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.”
Rebecca John@rebeccajohn.bsky.social · last wk.As Shell faces a landmark climate lawsuit, "confidential" documents from the 1960s show British scientist James Lovelock warning executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels. See his June 1966 memo published in full for the first time with my latest for @desmog.com
Would be more than a bit awkward if two hosts of the 2030 men's World Cup—Portugal & Spain—boycotted the event. And it would be a downright crime against joy if the 2027 women's World Cup was sacrificed on the altar of FIFA greed.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 7d agoUEFA has just unanimously decided to boycott both men's and women's World Cups over FIFA's attempt to sell the global game to private equity. Damn.
Maria Franck Marc German, 1876–1955, German Expressionist painter (and another female artist often first referred to as "the wife of..." #WomensArt
If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.
Uncle Fuzzzy 🦆@unclefuzzzy.bsky.social · 4mo agoFunny, that’s what we thought about pocket calculators in 1974
And then class, humanity poured all its resources, its water, its books, the very air they breathed, into making the magic money machine and as we all know this started the second dark age as the machine did in fact, not do anything useful
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Fun fact (not) : after the 2018 Toronto attack, where a lookist (incel) militant killed 11 and injured 15, Ross Douthat penned an opinion piece where he leaned into incel propaganda and advocated for a 'fairer' distribution of women's bodies among men.
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last wk.' "Ross is one of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today, a thinker of uncommon rigor and a journalist of deep empathy," Bilton said. ' So those are words that have happened. www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minu...
NOW IN TEL AVIV: We’re here, Palestinians and Jews, protesting settler terror! It cannot continue — the occupation cannot continue
Smartglasses are evil perverted surveillance devices and we are NOT a society if we allow them to continue. They need to be outlawed completely
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2w agoBan the fucking smart glasses!!!
You don’t have to agree with a woman’s opinion but you do have root your disagreement in something that isn’t misogyny
Austin, TX - A 17 year old boy was shot 20 times by police - who “mistook” his water bottle for a firearm. The teen was having a mental health crisis and called police from his own phone. He was dead within seconds of their arrival. Now the police are claiming it’s his fault.
Standing by the kettle discussing colleagues' holiday plans, while ...
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.Good grief, this hits home.
