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MariaHill@progressivecafe.social wrote:

In Texas, a fetus is a person when it can be used to punish pregnant woman or prevent her from getting an abortion.

In Texas, a fetus is not a person if it means the pregnant person carrying said fetus inside her body would need to do anything inconvenient or with any kind of minimal cost to the state, such as be relieved from work to go to the fucking hospital.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-fetus-rights-prison-lawsuit-6c4fa19793cd56e5edade436d1392d90

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Having terrible shiny luck in hunting for the 3rd Quaxly I need. Maybe complaining about it online will help.

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

My little one just ran down from upstairs to tell me she could smell I was #cooking something really yummy even while she was in the shower.

This felt really nice :-) And I thought that if your dinners are mainly takeouts or reheated frozen food, you're missing on a whole lot of these happy family interactions…

What I'm saying is, get into cooking! Everyone can do it, and it doesn't take as much time as you're afraid it does.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/wham-and-theyre-off/715755085?i=715755770

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Reporters Without Borders issues a statement about the August 11th police raid on the Marion County Record in which the #Kansas newspaper’s devices and reporting materials were confiscated.

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

gulovsen ("Grant Gulovsen") wrote:

TIL that...

When it premiered in 1921, Shuffle Along became the first hit musical on Broadway written by and about African Americans. It was the first all-black show to reach the Broadway stage in over a decade and included a teenage Josephine Baker among the performers. The musical introduced songs such as "I'm Just Wild About Harry" and "Love Will Find a Way"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Sissle

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

art_history_animalia@historians.social ("Art History Animalia") wrote:

When it's #Caturday but #Superb_Owl Sunday is just around the corner...
[Louis Wain (English, 1860-1939), Cats' Nightmare, c.1890]

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

art_history_animalia@historians.social ("Art History Animalia") wrote:

For #Caturday here are a trio of orange #cat #woodcut prints from Julie de Graag (#Dutch, 1877-1924) in the
Rijksmuseum collection:
1. Drie katten, 1916 https://rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-1935-885
2. December, 1917 https://rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-1935-897
3. Zittende kat, 1918 https://rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-1935-901

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

art_history_animalia@historians.social ("Art History Animalia") wrote:

#WorldFrogDay: Catalina Zunie (#Zuni #Pueblo master potter, 1862-1949)
Olla (Water Jar) w/tadpoles, #frogs, dragonflies, & birds, c.1920
"Much of the imagery...originates from medicine-jar decorations. Toads & frogs were symbols of abundance and healing to the Zuni, likely due to their intimate connections to water & the transformations inherent to their life cycles. The knife-wing birds & dragonflies reflect the traditional themes of water, air, & the cycle of nature.”
https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/4504/Water-Jar/

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

art_history_animalia@historians.social ("Art History Animalia") wrote:

For #InternationalCatDay 😻
Richard H. Recchia (American, 1885 – 1983)
Persian Cat, 1931
Bronze, black patina, lost wax cast
49.53 x 26.03 x 30.48 cm (19 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 12 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1984.746: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/41480/persian-cat

#CatsInArt

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art_history_animalia@historians.social ("Art History Animalia") wrote:

For #WorldElephantDay:
#Elephant masks
Blue cotton cloth, colored beads
Red cotton cloth, glass beads
Bamiléké people (Cameroon)
Field Museum display
#AfricanArt
“Members of secret societies- exclusive groups of men charged with maintaining the peace & safety of the kingdom - wore these elephant masks during rituals.”
“Elephants represented royalty in the sacred or precious objects of Grassfields peoples…objects made from elephant hide or ivory were always reserved for fon (Grassfields kings).

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

art_history_animalia@historians.social ("Art History Animalia") wrote:

#Parrots often turn up as props in European fruit/food feast still life paintings, such as these works by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865):
1 Fruit Still Life with an Amazon Parrot 1824
🆔Turquoise-fronted Amazon, native to South America
https://www.wikiart.org/en/ferdinand-georg-waldm-ller/fruit-still-life-with-an-amazon-parrot-1824
2 Still Life with Fruit and Parrot 1831
🆔female Eclectus Parrot, native to Australasia/Melanesia
https://www.wikiart.org/en/ferdinand-georg-waldm-ller/still-life-with-fruit-and-parrot
(also note the fruiting pineapple plant in both!)

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:

George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write "1984"
https://www.openculture.com/2014/01/george-orwell-explains-in-a-revealing-1944-letter-why-hed-write-1984.html

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I forgot I made this, lo those many years ago… (and I *really* wish RIT gaming would fix the idiotic ‘bad cert’ mis-configuration error one of these friggin’ centuries)

;^}

https://www.igm.rit.edu/~jxs/services/mediaQueries.html

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/fin-de-laffaire/715755085?i=715755401

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhh, funkadelic

https://music.apple.com/us/album/funk-in-deep-freeze/715755085?i=715755358

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

just finished a really interesting book about early web marketing... sounds naive but i hadn't realized how important a role charlotte the spider played

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

via ISW:

“The Wagner Group is likely downsizing and reconfiguring to adapt to financial pressure following the June 24 Wagner rebellion.

Ukrainian partisans claimed to have attacked a Russian military base in occupied Mariupol on August 13.”

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

If Trump and his gang are indicted in Georgia, which is reportedly likely for this coming week, it is entirely possible (though definitely not certain) that the trial could be televised. Unlike in the federal court system, Georgia does televise some trials. Also, note that presidents cannot pardon convicted persons for state convictions. Could be quite a show. Get your popcorn ready, just in case!

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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

Working on a bug fix for the Account Migration feature, once this is out you will be able to move TO or FROM any supported server (Pixelfed, Mastodon, Firefish)

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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

Help me pick the new @pixelfed default app logo!

Like == black background
Reblog == color background

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

haritulsidas@masto.ai ("Hari Tulsidas :verified:") wrote:

Women were not passive gatherers, but active hunters in ancient times, according to a new study. The study challenges the myth that hunting was a male-dominated activity, and that women only collected plants and cared for children. The study also criticizes the gender stereotypes and biases that have influenced the interpretation of archaeological and ethnographic data. #women #hunting #archaeology https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-753954

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

kcarruthers wrote:

This corn eating #cat is hilarious

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”  — HENRY ADAMS

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

8/ "2022 poll found that more than 60% of Republicans would support declaring America as “a Christian nation,” even though a majority also recognized this is unconstitutional. They just don’t care anymore. Jesus, and his gospel of the poor, is weak. The thrice-married Donald Trump who talks of smiting their enemies is strong, the authority figure they truly want to worship from the pews.

How did we even get here?"

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

4/ “These are Hitler tactics and something has to be done,” Joan Meyer, who had worked in journalism since 1953 — those heady democracy days after World War II — told a reporter. She was too upset by the raid — which seemed a violation of existing law, not to mention First Amendment principles — to sleep or even eat. On Saturday afternoon, the nonagenarian Meyer — who’d been in good health — abruptly died, the latest casualty in a cold Civil War already ripping America apart."

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faduda@mastodon.ie ("Gerard Cunningham ✒️") wrote:

"What has remained unreported until now is that, prior to the raids, the newspaper had been actively investigating Gideon Cody, Chief of Police for the city of Marion."

https://dankennedy.net/2023/08/13/kansas-newspaper-publishers-98-year-old-mother-dies-after-police-raid-her-home/

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

How satisfied are you with the state of the fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

gwensnyder@mstdn.party ("Gwen Snyder is uncivil") wrote:

"Lost boys"

No. These are adult men who are making a conscious choice not only to engage in genocidal rhetoric, but to insert themselves into electoral politics to make that genocide a reality.

Stop infantilizing white men to excuse their violence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/opinion/masculinity-right-young-men.html

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘Seth Stern, advocacy director at Freedom of the Press Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for the rights of journalists and whistle-blowers, said federal law allowed the police to search journalists when the authorities have probable cause to believe the journalists had committed a crime unrelated to their journalism. That exception does not apply, however, in a case where the alleged crime is gathering the news, he said. When journalists are suspected of committing crimes as part of news gathering, the government’s option is to serve a subpoena, which can be challenged in court before it is enforced.

“You can’t say, ‘I’m allowed to raid the newsroom because I’m investigating a crime,’ if the crime you’re investigating is journalism,” he added.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/kansas-marion-newspaper-police-raid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare