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Breaking news: Brazil makes homophobia punishable by prison 🗞️

In an almost unanimous vote, the Brazilian High Court has ruled today that homophobia can now be punishable with a prison sentence

This is a huge win for the LGBTQ+ community in Brazil that needs to be celebrated 🇧🇷

The 9-1 vote ruled that homophobic slurs and hate speech are a crime, similar to other forms of hate speech, such as racism.

Non-vaccine measures such as social distancing and wearing face masks have been "unequivocally effective" at preventing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, according to a major report by the UK's Royal Society https://www.newscientist.com/article/2388929-lockdowns-and-face-masks-really-did-help-to-control-covid-19/

My level of frustration with the need to report the Republican debate — because it’s a legitimate political party in the United States despite the fact that its platform is a gobbledygook of flat-earthing anti-vaxxing anti-science racist misogynist not-even-up-to-the-comedic-stylings-of-the-Church-of-the-Flying-Spaghetti-Monster ramblefuckery — is large

#ThrowbackThursday
Some years back, woke up to my pooch snuggled with IT. Knew my momma cat had captured IT. "IT" was the body of a poor, departed squirrel -- my Godfather "horse head in the bed" moment.

I got the message. Food was served pronto, well, after disposal.

#CatsOfMastodon #DogsOfMastodon
#SquirrelInDisarray (So sorry)

I would like to enjoy mastodon but sadly my feed is dismal….. if you research, post about, or love, and not limited too, #birds #wetlands #gardens #writing #insects #conservation #R or #stats please say and I will follow you!

It's not a culture war. It never was.
#politics

Are we just going to ignore the fact that Biden let Hurricane Hillary hit California when he could have used a Sharpie to move it out to sea safely?

From brick builder Angus MacLane, if you recognise it, I think it'll make you smile. I certainly had a little giggle. 😁

Professional news! 🚨

Today's my first day @STAT in my new role as a full-time reporter covering everywhere $ meets healthcare.

Dumb $ reason people aren't getting innovations or the best care? Screaming up the wall about ridiculous rules? Labor issues? 🤯⁉️ fees?

hmu: brittany.trang@statnews.com or 231-818-8189 on Signal

#MedMastodon #medicine #healthcare #health #doctors #healthpolicy #insurance

@RickiTarr @AirlockDoc Probably not *the* dumbest thing, but up there: I had a shithead stepfather who was into civil war re-enactments. This meant we had black powder lying around the place. One day, I was at home alone and bored, so I did what any normal kid would do: I made a bomb out of a toilet paper roll, tape, and black powder. Realized I didn’t have a way to close the top of the bomb and fashion a fuse, so I decided to set the tube of black powder down in the middle of our big green plastic trash can and toss matches in until I landed one in the tube. Hard to do, right?

I hit the tube on the second try.

There was a BA-FOOF! and then a huge column of smoke started pouring out of the can. I quickly slammed the lid on the can, but smoke still seeped out of the cracks the explosion had made in the sides.

Didn’t get caught, and that’s what matters.

This is what happens with "family values" when you're a fascist, and this is exactly where the USA is heading.

@bhawthorne
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@brainpilgrim @markusl @ScottSoCal @dpnash @AlisonW @ginsterbusch @Tooden @andrewporter @cwebber @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @pathfinder

You won't like me when I'm angry. But I always check my facts first.

I'm The Credible Hulk.

@ScottSoCal Yes, me too, but I guess intolerance is intolerance regardless of if you're trying to expose sickness and evil. Like I said in a post, I was forced to delete. Words are only as powerful as the reader makes them. If you go through life thinking you're not going to be offended by something, sometime, somewhere, and cry about it. You don't deserve to live in a free world.

Ok folks.... I've received a warning from the c.im moderator. Someone is reporting me saying i'm intolerant of religion. I appealed the warning, but should I be banned, oh well.... it's happened so many times, I really don't care. If I'm upsetting somebody's pet fantasy, I guess I should be banned. Mastodon must remain safe from dangerous people like me...