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LittleAlex@chaos.social wrote:
I’m going to slap the next fool who mentions the “summer of ‘76” in my presence
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Interesting experiment. Could you market food by labeling it with a spider? I'd buy it, would you?
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Well, when you put it that way…maybe Clorgath has a point.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/17/dont-fall-for-this-trap/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
So…the only way Democrats can win is if the Republicans give it to them?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/17/spinelessnessconfirmed/
I’m having too many gender thoughts again, I wish this would stop and be settled.
Save the poor anxious bees :( https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/16/bees-are-really-highly-intelligent-the-insect-iq-tests-causing-a-buzz-among-scientists
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
" “It’s controversial, especially in Texas, but the historical profession is coming to a consensus that slavery was an important part of the Texas Revolution,” says Baumgartner."
In 1836, Texas won independence from Mexico and, now an autonomous republic, enshrined slavery in its constitution. Mexico fully abolished slavery the following year. In 1845, Texas joined the United States as a slave state."
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
"The Anglo colonists ignored the law or imposed lifetime contracts of indentured servitude on their Black workers. The state of Coahuila y Tejas responded by limiting indenture contracts to ten years, and guaranteeing liberty to the children of slaves, in a so-called “free womb” law. In 1835, the Anglo settlers, bristling at these and other laws they regarded as oppressive, rose up in revolt..."
