pivic , to bookstodon group
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https://bookwyrm.social/book/1628641/s/rebel-girl

I've just started reading Kathleen Hanna's autobiography, 'Rebel Girl'. I'm 5% in and it's enthralling, in a few different ways, as you can tell from the quotes.

@bookstodon

I want to tell you how I write songs and produce music. How singing makes me feel connected to a million miracles at once. How being onstage is the one place I feel the most me. But I can’t untangle all of that from the background that is male violence. I wish I could forget the guy who stalked me while I was making my solo record. How he sat on the roof of the building across from mine and looked into my windows with binoculars as I worked. How he told my neighbors he thought I was a prostitute who “needed to be stopped.” I wish I could slice him out of my story as a musician, but I can’t. I also don’t want this book to be a list of traumas, so I’m leaving a lot of that on the cutting room floor. It’s more important to remember that I’ve seen ugly basement rooms transform into warm campfires, dank rock-bro clubs become bright parties where girls and gay kids and misfits danced together in a sea of freedom and joy, art galleries that had only ever showcased white male mediocrity become sites of thrilling feminist collaborations. I also ate gelato on a street in Milan with my bandmates and cried because it tasted THAT FUCKING GOOD. But yeah, there were also rapes and run-ins with assholes who threw water on my shine. I keep trying to make my rapes funny, but I have to stop doing that because they aren’t. I want them to be stories because stories are made up of words, and words can’t hurt me.
I had hair down to my butt in the second grade, but my mom got sick of washing it, took out her sewing shears, and gave me the ugliest short haircut imaginable.
My sister was always in trouble, and not just because she was bullied at school and screamed back at men—but because she had a father who stared at her like she was a Playboy Bunny and not his own daughter. When they fought, which was often, it sounded like cats fighting, if the cats were a teenage girl and a full-grown man. All I wanted to do was escape that sound. I spent a lot of time on our front stoop with my hands over my ears, trying to make a facial expression that was the equivalent of writing “help” in a fogged-up window.

georgetakei , to Random stuff
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Thank you, friends, for making my book MY LOST FREEDOM a New York Times bestseller. It is a privilege to share the story of my family, our resilience, and the importance of staying true to yourself in the face of injustice with a new generation of readers.
bit.ly/3UGatSD

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@georgetakei

Mr. 's Wish seems to come true for you George ( and ) so Keep going on with that.
Best to your !

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EgyptianAphorist , to News from fediverse
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🚨 Please, Help: Need Remote Work!

This happens in cycles & is happening again. Despite 11 books to my name, and 25 years varied work experience — United Nations, HBO, Pearson, etc…

If you know of any creative, meaningful work: communications, copywriting, even marketing, kindly, reach out.

The 🐺 is at the🚪

CV, below:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yahialababidi

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grahamperrin ,
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The surface of Enceladus is sometimes known for its strange, surprising, backlit plumes. Now: Europe could be heading towards Saturn's moon in search of life.

Intelligent life? Who knows.

Closer to home: we have international consensus that no amount of money need be spent on the search for intelligent life beneath the strange, hair-like, backlit plume that is sometimes photographed emerging from surface of planet Trump as it orbits the courthouse.

https://www.planetary.org/worlds/enceladus

https://www.space.com/saturn-moon-enceladus-top-target-europe-astrobiology-mission

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Venus wasn’t always hot and uninhabitable. Scientists think the second planet from the sun could have had as much water as Earth billions of years ago, and may have even supported life if any of that water was in liquid form. But researchers have a new theory as to how our neighbor in the solar system lost nearly all of its water and why it may have happened far faster than initially thought. The Conversation has more on the study.

https://flip.it/bY7VOz

youronlyone , to Random stuff
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The rating of 's continues to plummet in TMDB, IMDB, Trakt, MyDramaList, thanks to the unrelated English title, & incorrect marketing.

They should've translated the Japanese/Korean titles instead, which set the correct expectations.

youronlyone Mod , to Philippines, the Pearl of the Orient Seas
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The movie «The Day After Tomorrow» is a movie I prefer to avoid.

Why?

It was the movie I watched with a daughter of one of the oldest and largest conglomerate clans.

What's the problem?

I turned her down when she confessed.

If I did not, I would more likely be living like the male lead in the .

Someone get me a time machine so I can smack my younger self!

br00t4c , to Random stuff
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The Canadian State Is Euthanizing Its Poor and Disabled

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/canada-euthanasia-poor-disabled-health-care/

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Howdy, all. I understand that "life coach" is a thing now for normal people, not just obnoxious celebrities.

Y'know, I could do that. Let's see...I met a woman with a thumb tat to remind her to live in the moment. I blurted: I mastered that a long time ago. It's not all it's cracked up to be. It's a defense mechanism against powerlessness; me, I'd rather be allowed to live for the future.

If you want /that/ kind of life coaching, HMU. I don't charge money.

SirNameless_1 , to Photography
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“Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.”
James Fallows

mustapipa , to Random stuff
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Unlike its predecessor , Nasa’s rover is explicitly intended to search for evidence of past on .

Jezero Crater was chosen as the landing site because it contains the remnants of ancient muds and other sediments deposited where a river discharged into a lake more than 3 billion years ago.

If there was life in that lake, Perseverance might find evidence of it.


https://theconversation.com/a-nasa-rover-has-reached-a-promising-place-to-search-for-fossilised-life-on-mars-228305

nixCraft , to Linux
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Ah, the sweet smell of a production Linux container image… generously seasoned with sshd and a whole host of unwanted services you definitely didn't need. If only my "if" statements were as reliable as my morning coffee. Lmao.

Seinfeld gif: Not good, I'm a moran.

ScienceDesk , to Random stuff
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Is life capable of spreading from planet to planet? A pair of astronomers recently proposed a detection strategy based on the concept of panspermia, the idea that life can start on one planet and spread to others by hitching rides on meteorites. More from Live Science: https://flip.it/ef13Z0

ScienceDesk , to Random stuff
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For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism.

@popsci reports: "This incredibly rare event occurred between a type of abundant marine algae and a bacterium was observed in a lab setting."

https://flip.it/wmVVv-

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Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°

Study tracks the past costs of climate events and projects them into the future.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/climate-damages-by-2050-will-be-6-times-the-cost-of-limiting-warming-to-2/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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We may think its obvious; that all we need to do is explain the right way then everyone will do the right thing.

But if it is clear that this strategy isn't working well enough, then doesn't that suggest that we are asking the wrong question?

https://vocal.media/earth/carpe-diem-yr1qr40u5y

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    Morning lovelies 🥰 🌍 🤗 🕊️

    appassionato , to bookstodon group
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    Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin by Robert M. Hazen
    2005
    Genesis tells the tale of transforming scientific advances in our quest for life's origins. Written with grace, beauty, and authority, it goes directly to the heart of who we are and why we are here.

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  • mustapipa , to Random stuff
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    The ice-encrusted oceans of some of the moons orbiting and are leading candidates in the search for .

    A new lab-based study shows that individual ice grains ejected from these planetary bodies may contain enough material for instruments headed there in the fall to detect signs of life, if such life exists.

    Even a tiny fraction of cellular material could be identified by a mass spectrometer onboard a spacecraft.


    https://phys.org/news/2024-03-life-ice-grain-emitted-extraterrestrial.html

    CultureDesk , to Random stuff
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    Gig workers around the world often work long days in order to make ends meet, and since they're constantly on the move, they struggle to find places to rest, eat, or use the bathroom. @restofworld spoke to 104 ride-hailing drivers, delivery workers and cleaners in 10 countries around the world about how they meet their basic needs while they're working. "There are close to 435 million gig workers globally, and our survey showed that for most of them, rest is a luxury," writers Lam Le and Zuha Siddiiqui found.

    https://flip.it/PY_mO9

    nightskyops , to Random stuff
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    F-22. Air Superiority.

    That Flare; celebrate your days, my friends! 🔥

    🔥 Join the conversation with my , like, and comment everyone is welcome! 👇

    vetermas

    🎥 F-22 Demonstration Team

    video/mp4

    ScienceDesk , to Animals doing stuff
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    What is the universe made out of? How should we define death? Where did dogs come from? Seventeen astounding scientific mysteries that researchers can’t yet solve, from Vox.com.
    https://flip.it/gn0uiY

    appassionato , to photography group
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    It's not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters. -J.M Laurence

    https://www.tumblr.com/s-usans-blog/744604294706282496/its-not-what-we-have-in-life-but-who-we-have-in

    @photography @quotesbot

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    Continuing from - https://c.im/@youronlyone/112091575379613596

    What to do if someone collapsed due to heat exhaustion/heat wave/heat stoke?

    (This is NOT a medical, nor first aid, advice. It's sharing something I learned years ago.)

    If you know they collapsed because of heat, then any liquid is a must. The objective in the current situation is to replenish their water and cool down their body.

    In a doctor talk show years ago, a caller asked, "What if the patient have certain liquid restrictions?"

    The doctors agreed that in such an emergency, what is important is for the patient to survive, and in such a case, it is liquid and cooling them down. The side-effects can be addressed once they are out of danger. They also even suggested a worst-case scenario wherein only dirty water is available, in that case, use it. The hospital will take care of the rest.

    The point being made was that, the patient will likely die if their liquid is not replenished and their body isn't cooled down. Replenishing the body's liquid is the first step in cooling down the body; moving the patient under a shade helps the outside of the body, but the internal cooling down is the critical part, that's where the patient is struggling.

    It becomes very delicate for those with conditions like diabetes. In a scenario where only soda/softdrink is available, would it be safe to give it to the patient as first aid? More likely not, especially if their diabetes is really not good, and it becomes a big decision if you know, or were informed, the patient is diabetic.

    This is why we should always bring water with us. Buy one or two. It will not only save your life, it can save the life of others too. You never know when the water you're carrying will be needed to save someone else's life.

    And of course, you don't want to be the patient of a heat exhaustion or heat stroke.

    (This is NOT a medical, nor first aid, advice. It's sharing something I learned years ago.)

    ScienceDesk , to Random stuff
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    "A controversial theory posits that life began when RNA spontaneously began to replicate itself — and now researchers are claiming they've replicated part of that process in a lab."

    Futurism reports: "The Salk Institute for Biological Studies scientists worked from the theory that before there was DNA or proteins, RNA existed as the initial ingredient in the so-called 'primordial soup.'"

    https://flip.it/m.CqvL

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