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Who on earth would ever order this!? 😖

Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly, who studied correlations between heart attacks and cholesterol, and between smoking and lung disease, was born #OTD in 1921. Daly was also part of the team that established the primary nucleic acid bases.

She was the first Black woman to receive a chemistry PhD in the US.

Image: National Institutes of Health

Orion says put down the camera and give scratchies. That's me told. #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #DailyOrionSpam

not to be pedantic, but [is pedantic at length]

Adventures in #beekeeping. Now that Wednesday afternoon’s swarm is settled, it’s time to start moving the #bees a few feet at a time towards the other hives. This is my first experience dealing with a swarm, so learning something new every day.

Please give a warm welcome to my employer, Ars Technica, for joining us here at Mastodon by following them. :) @arstechnica

Four years ago, on this day, I wrote the most important thing I've ever written.

It became the basis for the entire Starship Gender project: https://starshipgender.com/sunday-april-28-2019

I knew I was trans, but there was still so much more I didn't know, yet, about who I am.

The closing words have never lost their magic, for me:

"I love you because you deserve to be loved, and you deserve to have something that can always be trusted – something from inside. You can always trust that you deserve to be loved. And you can always trust that I love you."

May it be so for all of us.

#TransJoy #AutisticJoy #DisabledJoy

Remember, if you enjoy seeing journalists and news outlets in the #Fediverse, support our presence here with your boosts, follows, and your membership/donations.

Here are just a few of our friends in federation: @thexylom
@damemagazine
@gbhnews
@Chron
@TucsonSentinel
@themarkup
@TheConversationUS
@ProPublica
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#Newstodon #news #Mastodon #Feditips #FollowFriday #politics #LGBTQ+ #Science #Local #Texas #Arizona #Mass

https://youtu.be/3Isz0XgBsIg

This is pretty cool

Shake-Weighting To Exhale

#ShakeASongOrMovie
#HashtagGames
#ImSorry

Kate McKinnon was in a little known 1985 movie called Gotcha. She turns 58 next year.

#AlternativeFacts #fakenews #thisisnottrue #imadethisup #KateMcKinnon #Gotcha #80smovies #lesbianvisibilityweek

I was on Twitter for five years and I ended up with 8,000 followers.

I've been on Mastodon for five months, and I already have 16,000 on here.

I think the biggest difference is that Mastodon just leaves me alone to do whatever I feel like doing, whereas Twitter would go out of its way to punch me in the head anytime I tried to enjoy the platform.

We talk about Tucker Carlson , MAGA and even Russia, which has been humiliated by Ukraine, but let's be clear that the biggest threat to democracy in the world right now is the Murdoch family and their vast spread of propaganda

Failing to understand the market for so-called luxury cars these days. In a world where a Honda CR-V has every creature comfort imaginable, people are still paying twice as much for luxury SUVs. My mother-in-law has a new Range Rover and it’s nice, but not twice as nice.

@victoriadecapua Not gonna lie, I had an absolute blast on twitter - until I didn’t - mostly because I’d found people I could tell jokes with and who got me. Sadly, I can’t support what Musk is doing there. I don’t have the mental energy to try and tame another wild tract of land like bluesky apparently is. Mastodon is easy and perfect for *actually* being social, rather than screaming humor into a maelstrom. I’ll stick around.

My wife just booked her (almost) annual trip back to N. Dakota to see her family. I only went with her twice. Once to meet her family after we were married (2006) and once for her Mom’s Funeral. The prairie isn’t really my thing. She dreads the trips, but wants to see her 3 siblings and their families. They spend their days off talking about what’s for dinner.

Their politics are way off the right edge of the spectrum, so they all ... https://hawaiiboy.micro.blog/2023/04/28/my-wife-just.html

I fell in love w this show and I adore Ellie so much. Shes such a baby and must be protected at all costs. I havent drawn fan art in a long ass time and im so proud of this piece!

#tlos #tlosfanart #fanart #joel #ellie #thelastofus #clipstudiopaint #cordyceps #mushrooms #pedropascal #bellaramsey

#DeFascist

- There were 4,000 children lowered into caskets due to firearms last year. Republicans don't care about those.

- There were 4,000 teen children who got breast implants last year. Republicans don't care about those.

- There were 4,000 teen children who got breast enlargements last year. Republicans don't care about those.

- There were over 146,000 teenage children who gave birth last year. Republicans don't care about those.

- There were 4,000 teen children who were diagnosed and prescribed hormone blockers (a completely reversible procedure) by a medical doctor, with the full knowledge and consent of the child and their parents. THIS, the Republicans care about.

Pro-Tip: Anytime you see a headline about a bill dying/passing "in Congress," always think to yourself:

That’s a Both Sides framing.

The ERA bill did not fail in the Senate today, it was filibustered by the Republicans. The Framing that it failed in the Senate is a way to distribute the failure to Both Sides.

The hostage note that K-Mac passed today is another one; not one Democrat voted for it, so the Republicans passed that bill, not The House.

/Rant
#FailedPress

#BothSidesDont