Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

i really am exhausted by all the companies that are profitable as fuck laying off workers and then doing stock buybacks or ridiculous exec bonuses. apparently things are going great, it’s just not something that people who have to work for a living get to benefit from

Anders Celsius, who conceived a centigrade temperature scale where water froze at 100° and boiled at 0°, passed away #OTD, April 25, in 1744.

That's 32 + 25*9/5 = 77... July 10 in Fahrenheit.

(His colleague Carl Linnaeus flipped the scale a few years later, so that 0° was freezing and 100° was boiling.)

“A society which cannot tolerate genderbending or cross- dressing ultimately will not tolerate homosexuality, bisexuality, or any other deviance from sexual or gender norms, no matter how closeted or assimilated.”

- Dagger: On Butch Women, 1994 by #LilyBurana & #RoxxieLinneaDue

https://archive.org/details/dagger-on-butch-women/mode/2up

#Butch #Lesbian #Queer #Gay #GayHistory

I must confess, I haven't played a game that required rolling physical dice in years. But these dice with tiny foxes in them from @cozygamershop@twitter.com were irresistible.

look at them

TINY FOXES

The monster under my bed is a rescue.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is the target of a bar association complaint over his role in undermining the 2020 election results. A group of lawyers says Cruz played an outsized role in the efforts to void the 2020 election results and accuses him of repeatedly making false claims about voter fraud.
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This should be just the beginning of the accountability facing members of Congress who aided the failed coup and Jan. 6th insurrection.
#politics #USpol #texas
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/18/ted-cruz-donald-trump-complaint-texas-bar/

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they
live.
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-94
#library #gop #censorship

The late Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier were friends for more than 70 years. They met at The American Negro Theatre when both were 20 — Poitier was a janitor and Belafonte was a stagehand. Belafonte went on to be the first Black Emmy Award winner, while Poitier became the first Black man to win a Best Actor Oscar. Here's a look back at this deep and enduring friendship.

https://people.com/movies/inside-harry-belafonte-and-sidney-poitiers-friendship-pair-were-closer-than-brothers/

#HarryBelafonte #SidneyPoitier #BlackHistory

I guess I have to repeat this so I don't get @ with "Don't be naive, Canada has problems too, you know:" I'm well aware, but still glad we got permanent residence in BC. No place is perfect, but I feel safer there. So far, no insurrection, no daily mass shootings, and, well, the chart below.

I prefer it to the accelerating fascism here, at least for now. And with that👇

H/t: Ian Bremmer:

% of canadians that follow q-anon theories: 3

#Canada 🇨🇦

https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-north/the-graphic-truth-no-need-to-liberate-canada