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@benrosstransit@mastodon.social
2025-05-07 17:08:51

Australian Green Party crushed in election after running hard on anti-Israel platform & attacking Labor govt as "complicit in genocide." 1st-choice vote (AU has ranked-vote system) drops from 12.25% to 11.75%, despite gains from Muslim voters. In races where final choice is Green vs Labor, more conservative voters overcome their past distaste for union-dominated Labor & transfers run massively against Greens.
Result: Greens lose at least 2 and maybe all 4 of their seat…

@JorgeStolfi@mas.to
2025-05-02 09:38:35

#ZuckNews Of The Day*
WASHINGTON, DC, May 1st, 2025: White House Leaks revealed that Trump's Birthday Military Parade will break with custom. Soldiers will not march in formation. Instead, each soldier will march singly to before the Leader and shout out why he is the greatest President ever, like "Sir, you brought our covert agent jobs back to the US" or "Sir, thanks to you, c…

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-05-31 11:39:35

Good Morning #Canada
Former privateer, a polite name for a pirate, Martin Frobisher left England on May 31st, 1578, for his 3rd voyage seeking gold and the elusive Northwest Passage. On this voyage, he also held the 1st Thanksgiving in North America when he and his crew landed safely in Nunavut on the shore of Hudson Bay. Ultimately, the ore he mined was not gold, and the Northwest Passage remained elusive, but he had a bay named after him.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
biographi.ca/en/bio/frobisher_

@JorgeStolfi@mas.to
2025-05-02 09:04:53

#ZuckNews Of The Day*
ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND, May 1st 2025: Recognizing that its 131 year old flagship publication has failed to keep up with modern technology, the IUPAC today unveiled the new Periodic Table of the Elements. Notable changes include
Hydrogen -> Solargen
Helium -> Theylium
Boron -> Uncoolium
Bromine -> Bruhmine
Potassium -> Medicalmarijuanium…