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and a shoutout to the two Māori men who travelled to Vienna in 1859, got themselves apprenticed as printers (and incidentally became accomplished ballroom dancers), and finally had an audience with Franz Josef where they charmed him so much that he sent a printing press to New Zealand….which was promptly used from 1861 to print the newspaper of the Kingitanga anti-colonial movement.

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Bueno, siempre se ha dicho que las modas vuelven...

The Warren Evening Times, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1918

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My Bloody Quarantine

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Pues va a ser que los chat bots son el futuro...

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New status by Maese_Richar

Well... Trying to star using again mastodon, let's see if there is more life now than the last time...

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Going for a nap before the first round of the Google #CodeJam. Anybody here registered?

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Pachis, pachis everywhere

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by Nuclear Sharingan

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Cuando la misma "lógica" que has utilizado para meter con calzador el creacionismo en las aulas te explota en la cara...

This Tuesday, The Satanic Temple will be arguing their case in front of the Missouri Supreme Court after convincing an appeals court that the state’s mandatory 72-hour waiting period before having an abortion violates their religious freedom.

The Temple is taking up the case of a member they refer to as “Mary Doe,” who claims the law goes against her religious beliefs. The woman contends that back in May of 2015, she was forced to view an ultrasound of her fetus and required to read a booklet that stated life “begins at conception.”

All of this was forced upon her despite the fact that she “adheres to principles of the Satanic temple and has sincerely held religious beliefs different from the information in the informed consent booklet,” according to her case summary.

“Specifically, her letter advised she has deeply held religious beliefs that a nonviable fetus is not a separate human being but is part of her body and that abortion of a nonviable fetus does not terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being,” the case summary stated according to NBC News.

The Satanic Temple’s Jex Blackmore says Mary Doe’s religious freedom is being trampled upon.

“The State has essentially established a religious indoctrination program intended to push a single ideological viewpoint,” Blackmore said in a statement. “The law is intended to punish women who disagree with this opinion.”

“Missouri’s state-mandated informed consent booklets explicitly say that life begins at conception, which is a nonmedical religious viewpoint that many people disagree with,” his statement continued. “Forcing women to read this information and then wait 72-hours to consider the State’s opinion is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause.”

Although the state disagreed with the Temple’s assessment, a Missouri appeals court found merit in the Temple’s argument and agreed to let the case go the Missouri Supreme Court and even commented on the urgency of the case’s constitutional implications.

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Once to start to oink you will be

treated as a swine.

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Now I need this poster...

Ursula K Le Guin

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ahhahahhhh I keep trying to breathe around the sobs coming up and it’s not working

Ursula K. Le Guin is dead and and and i can’t, i can’t seem to handle it like a dignified adult, i’m curled up on the couch with as many blankets I can reach and wishing she could have lived forever and wishing i could have met her and wishing we weren’t all going to die before we ever get into space and wishing that somewhere out there there was a planet full of people like me

anyway here’s Le Guin on singular they in general use:

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Because of the invisibility of any environment during the period of its innovation, man is only consciously aware of the environment that has preceded it; in other words, an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it’s environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day.

Marshall McLuhan

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