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@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-06-10 00:00:19

I find myself thinking about a long-lost friend a lot lately. Sometime in the late 90s, we both accepted that our friendship had run its course. I had come to embrace fairly low-key socialism and he was increasingly angry about the media's "liberal bias." The common ground we had once shared was gone. I imagine him cheering now, even as I recall his father, a deeply conservative Marine colonel, remarking that only authoritarian regimes used the military against their own citize…

Pushback against progressive mayoral candidate #Zohran #Mamdani has been fierce.
That includes the mainstream media, which is trying to brand him a socialist to negate his progressive and popular policy proposals.
Stephen Janis and Taya Graham analyze the CNN anchor’s takedown and show why her efforts are corp…

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-27 17:47:33

The challenge of HEPA filters in the classrooms.
h/t @…
source: xcancel.com/kadamssl/status/19

screenshot of a thread by Kathryn @kadamssl: 

A new development in the sociological experiment of denial, backlash, and normalization: The moms are piling on the poor soul who sought suggestions to on how to get HEPAs into the classroom. 

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Jun 26, 2025 · 4:05 PM UTC

Common Criticism 1. We don’t even have air conditioning in classrooms, and you’re worried about HEPAs?! 

Answer: Has it occurred to anyone that kids need BOTH and not neither? 

Common Criticism 2: HEPAs won’t do anything. Ju…
screenshot of a thread by Kathryn @kadamssl: 

Common Criticism 3: Are you going to pay for them?! (They’re too expensive.) 

Answer: First of all, the school boards *should* be purchasing & maintaining HEPAs. With all of the hand waving about absences, you’d think investing in staff & student health would be a no brainer… 

Second: Is anyone considering how expensive it is to have a sick child and/or to be sick themselves? Even with socialized medicine in Canada, it costs 💰 to take time off. I…
screenshot of a thread by Kathryn @kadamssl: 

Common Criticism 4: If the schools were ever going to get HEPAs, they would have done it during COVID. There’s no point trying now. 

Answer: ‘During COVID’ is now & we will need airborne mitigations now and for the foreseeable future. Remember, policy moves slower than science... 

Just because it hasn’t changed YET doesn’t mean it won’t. But it will take pressure from citizens, parents, advocacy groups, and any other concerned individuals to get …
@yachtbar@mstdn.social
2025-06-03 11:06:44

Kiitos Li, kiitos Sirpa.
#LuonnonMonimuotoisuus #susi
areena.yle.fi/1-74269404

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-04 00:31:47

EXPOSURE THERAPY FOR INTERNET ADDICTED DEBATE PEOPLE
1. strap them to a chair, show them a mild take they disagree with by someone who's otherwise 99% aligned with their goals
2. watch them thrash angrily, unable to crash out on their socials, for the next 4 days
3. they settle, and think about this reaction after a week of being stuck there. they sheepishly set it aside in favor of teamwork
4. repeat with bigger and bigger issues until they have reasonable expec…

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-06-13 19:26:06

Do everything you can to protest tomorrow.
If you can't, flood the socials with NOKINGS because the media, petrified of angering Emperor Trump, is going to downplay & minimize the protests to "tell both sides".
#Protests #NoKings