kasweaver

They say mastodons were very social creatures; I'd bet the first four letters of my Twitter handle on it.

@TRBEllis @NoLieWithBTC @ChrisBWithYou While this is true, he did specifically say hanging from a tree... executions done by the legal system were usually done via gallows except for some during times of war. Hanging by a tree is very specifically associated with lynching activity. It was at the least a dog whistle

Holy shit. During a committee hearing on a bill to bring back the electric chair and firing squads, Rep. Paul Sherrell (R-TN) says they should also bring back lynching.

From the latest Private Eye, a sure indication of a government gone both mad and bad

@jeffreybillman @TheAssemblyNC 🎉🎉

@JoshForNY @AdamBienkov I live in the UK, but haven't always. UK has comparatively cheap internet and mobile to, say, the US

@AdamBienkov Perhaps that family was in their local McDonald’s 2-3 times a week to use the internet, which is notoriously expensive in the UK. 👎🏼

Conservative Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson says one family in his local constituency who regularly uses his local food bank, he also sees in McDonalds "two or three times a week." How is this even possible? Does he have them under surveillance?

New report from Tax Policy Associates: publishers successfully lobbied to abolish VAT on ebooks in 2020, costing the taxpayer £200m, but kept the benefit for themselves. Ebook prices weren't cut, and we can prove it. taxpolicy.org.uk/ebooks/ Thread:

@vjpsyverson @weel @btx91 So glad we figured out water treatment before late capitalism was in charge.

Hygiene theater wtf

@weel @btx91 And even current devastating seasonal viruses that kill people every year. Why healthcare settings aren't a masking environment with air quality control, I do not know. That should just be the default!

@btx91 And how are we not installing UV air sanitizers and heat recovery ventilators everywhere even we know full well that COVID-19 as well as a lot of potentially disastrous future respiratory viruses are transmitted mostly through stale indoor air...

Half the cars registered in Oxfordshire last year were electric, the highest proportion in the UK. @OxfordCity and @OxfordshireCC have now secured an £800k grant to install more chargers on-street and in car parks oxford.gov.uk/news/article/2…

@SerfToMogs @RussInCheshire Carnivale is also related. All from places with Catholic or Catholic-lite practices. The oncoming Lenten season meant excess before, using up things that would otherwise possibly go off and having a last big party before you can't. But the UK does pancakes 🤷‍♀️

@weel Wow sorry for the autocorrect terribleness of that. Didn't notice when composing. Bit is gross. Compulsed by an aspect

@weel That 'financial compulsion' but is gross, too. "facility paid to serve a specific role is composed by an aspect of that role" is frankly a ridiculous assertion.

Some of us had opinions about this stuff before Žižek and Rowling and the other complete nincompoops who know nothing about actual trans teenagers decided that trans teenagers were a convenient symbol for their culture wars. And now it's impossible to get a word in edgewise. 🙄

@Desumeb @RussInCheshire It was rather hard to stay on point when truth seemed like an Onion article with the Trump years and the pandemic 🤷‍♀️

@SerfToMogs @RussInCheshire Are pancakes rich food though? I guess some toppings are.

@777nash @RussInCheshire Yes yes haha I'm aware, just in the UK that seems to equate to pancakes and not like, Mardi Gras (which is also shrove Tuesday) Like, are pancakes luxury indulgent things? Why pancakes?

@kasweaver @RussInCheshire That's because it's Shrove Tuesday, not 'pancake day'. 😜

@HeatVision1999 @BoyingtonLaura @RealAogami @AriDrennen Because many know this about themselves as kids, and it's a terrible mental health toll to live with a false identity particularly through the teenage years and puberty. The suicide rate of those in the closet is even higher than those that are out.

@BoyingtonLaura @RealAogami @AriDrennen So they had good parents that allowed them to make that decision as an adult. What's the problem?

In another unhinged rant about Dylan Mulvaney, Matt Walsh says that he would rather die than allow his kids to be trans. Matt says he's entitled to whatever language he wants, as am I: his six kids are not safe with him and he should not be allowed within a mile of them.

We think NHS staff should have: * Access to healthy food * Whenever they are on a shift * That is subsidised as much as the meals MPs get Please RT if you do too

@MingoTango @TamJCobb @emrazz Are you suggesting the twelve year old was on BC? Unlikely. And morning after isn't as available as it used to be, which is part of the whole point of this entire thread.

@TamJCobb @emrazz There is medication for that, she will have taken it so we are left with this horrendous crime by the mom’s boyfriend

He shot two of his girlfriend’s daughters, age 14 & 19, and their teenaged friend, then he raped her 12 year old girl, told her to run for her life, and she ran naked from the home. This is Texas. If she becomes pregnant, they will force her to carry it. khou.com/article/news/c…