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@davidnjoku

I get a note for jury duty every two years. Been interviewed for a jury twice, but got kicked off both times.

Have you ever been called to serve on a jury? (I haven't - and I'm really annoyed about it, even though everyone says it's really boring.)

#poll

I remember being in the third grade and there was a math problem that had the wrong answer in the book. And the teacher told me to come to the board and show why it was wrong, so I did. And she was like, β€œYou are correct, good job!” And I was so proud, and told my mom about it when she picked me up. But then also this realization hit me, β€œWait, these books can be wrong???”

@StefanThinks

Don't ask Suzanne Pleshette that question. She still carries a grudge for that schoolyard unpleasantness.

I bet Jessie's girl had a name, Rick Springfield, maybe that was your problem.

@VoxofGod@mastodon.social @terminalimpala@me.dm @actuallyautistic

I have two crows who visit my office and knock on the window, to let me know it's time to put nuts on the sill outside.

MAGAs praised the expulsion of Dem TN lawmakers for β€œlack of decorum” after they loudly protested the murder of children at a Christian schoolβ€”& now after subsequent protests in response to subsequent mass shootingsβ€”MAGAs claim Dems didn’t protest loudly enough when children were murdered at a Christian school.πŸ€”

This is what it looks like when MAGAs politicize the murder of innocent children for cheap political points, rather than activate & demand justice to ensure children don’t die in vain.

The #txlege is trying to sneak in voucher bill #SB8 Mon after attempts to move it without a hearing were shot down. This time, they've added measures for more high-stake testing. This is what is at stake: @TexasObserver texasobserver.org/voucher-prog

I made this poll for important research purposes. Please boost so it can reach a wider audience.

Over on #birdsite, the hate group American College of Pediatricians claims they have been subject to a cyberattack when actually they just left 10,000 private files in a completely unsecured Google Drive. Aka they cyberattacked themselves: nitter.nl/ACPeds/status/165663

Our story: texasobserver.org/monty-bennet

#LGBTQIA #transphobia #HumanRights #transgender #healthcare #news #politics #extremism #USpol

@fidalgo @actuallyautistic

I've watched it from the beginning, and I enjoy it, but hubs refuses to watch it - he says it feels exploitive. I understand why he feels that way.

It is a gimmick, with an overly-broad paintbrush, but just as I identified with The Doctor and Seven of Nine trying to figure out their humanity on Voyager, there are aspects of Sean Murphy figuring out how to "people" well that I relate to.

@neuralex @terminalimpala@me.dm @actuallyautistic

I talk to my dogs, and my parrot, sometimes in English, sometimes in canine/whistling. It's 50/50 which is more effective.
The parrot clearly understands intent, if not every word.
"You want to go upstairs and get some sleep?" A beak bump is yes, preening is no. When I head indoors, she anticipates the direction, with her wings spread and an occasional flap, until we're at her sleep closet door.

@terminalimpala @actuallyautistic

Oh yeah, totally. It’s part of our egalitarian approach to status and hierarchy. Crows and dogs and cats and chickens are all people who just don’t speak our language, and afaict they usually appreciate our lame attempts to speak theirs.

Or as in your example, to speak ours at them unfiltered and vice versa, like Han Solo’s bilingual conversations with Chewbacca or Greedo or Jabba.

#hyperempathy

I don't know if we need AI to filter us out of the universe - distributed mobs of psychopaths will stop us long before artificial sentience emerges.

independent.co.uk/news/science

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