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Diana Tom, 70
My Nhan, 65
Lilian Li, 63
Xiujuan Yu, 57
Hong Jian, 62
Muoi Ung, 67
Valentino Alvero, 68
Yu Kao, 72
Chia Yau, 76
Wen Yu, 64
Ming Ma, 72

These are the victims of the Lunar New Year Festival shooting.

They were community builders, grandparents, dancers.

β€˜I want to live’: the Ukraine hotline encouraging Russians to surrender | Ukraine | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2023/jan

Selfie, eye contact 

Figured I'd try one in the mirror, like my heroine Jessica. I cheated and used a tripod though. Yes, that's my green screen in the background, behind my desk.

The Scariest Thing I Heard a Man Say Today. 

The scariest thing I heard a #man say today:

"I'm really uncomfortable with the idea that #women feel they hold some kind of power to #reject men."

He proceeded to argue that any #single woman who is asked out on a #date should accept out of politeness and is only permitted to reject the man after that first date has concluded.

*eyelid twitches*

#feminism

@ceruleanarc
Tell him if he accepts that rule, then he is obligated to say yes to any gay man who asks him out.

@lolennui
I found out I could levitate when I woke up in a hotel on a work trip and the floor was covered with cockroaches. Never got out of a place so fast.

heartbroken entomologist: everything reminds me of him

#Introduction - I'm Congress member Ritchie Torres from #NewYork , The past few days here have been great, I want to keep building our platform here on #Mastodon to make sure we can continue our conversations on a public social media platform.

Can you please BOOST this post and FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same? Thank you.

Sleeping in, brunch and a lazy Sunday afternoon at the beach is God’s way of punishing Atheists for not going to church.

@Spijder @StillIRise1963
That's how I learned about the Holocaust. I stumbled across a book called In The Hell Of Auschwitz.

@StillIRise1963 @ScottSoCal I read it in middle school many decades ago, not as an assignment but from the school library. It's infuriating that there will be kids now unable to stumble across it in their school libraries.

@Nerina
β€œDo not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. ”
― Suzanne McMinn

Establish dominance by ending every conversation with β€œThanks muffin”.

Good news, I visited the sky pillars today, and they're still standing strong.

These very different looking ants are sisters. Their distinct forms are produced not by having different genes, but by the environment triggering different pathways earlier in development.

Pheidole sp, Australia.

#insects #ants #evodevo #Pheidole #biology

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