My mom slapped my hand once, with the flat of a big kitchen knife. She was used to slapping us, and it just happened to be what she had in her hand. I was trying to sneak a bit of whatever she was chopping, and she was saying "get out of there".

It shocked me then, and it's stuck with me to this day. It shocks me still 🙁

Don't do this, folks. Children take everything in so deeply 😢 ...

nostr:npub1f9al9an68ntfawx5ad8jy9jf3khcpu6k6hac3ynrp57nfqdudq3s2rqyju https://earthstream.social/@LittleSteps2B/110938859606646323

As predicted; 😥

"… the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees ppl the rights listed in the Constitution, + some “fundamental rights” not mentioned in the document. It then quoted Dobbs directly:

To determine whether a right at issue is one of the substantive rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, courts must look to whether the right is “deeply rooted in [our] history & tradition” & “essential to our Nation’s ‘scheme of ordered liberty.’”"

nostr:npub1c9ee8wcja0tpa45gy4l9zqwfhvfpvyc848xusfcxdy2rnx44t9gq93zhes https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110930812750770004

😳😧

Fascism in #Ontario:

"The Mackenzie Health Centre has been renamed the 'Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital' in honour of Mario Cortellucci, a Senate candidate for Italy’s far-right political party  and a top donor to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s leadership campaign"

👀 "candidate for Italy’s far-right political party"?

Wtaf

Via nostr:npub1r5j6fclcqnh78k7cctjzrs7d8f8hqks7fa0v8n9ph5yhe06gd0asz9ky3p https://mstdn.ca/@gemelliz/110879647040220368

A reminder about hashtags:

Please use camelCase when writing hashtags.

It allows screenreader software to properly parse the hashtag so it makes sense to visually limited users.

Don't be lazy and use the all-lowercse suggestions your client app suggests :-\

Like this: #livingWageForAll

Not: #livingwageforall

😳 seriously? 🤦‍♀️

"The UK government has today announced a new building requirement which will prevent gender-neutral toilets in new, non-residential buildings."

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/13/gender-neutral-toilets-policy-kemi-badenoch/

Did you know? I did not :-) #TIL

My ranslation:

"Why you should give your dog a blue toy instead of red:

dogs don't really [notice? see?] other colours than blue and yellow and green.

Green is observed as yellow. So finding a tennis ball in grass is hard.

!"

nostr:npub1f9al9an68ntfawx5ad8jy9jf3khcpu6k6hac3ynrp57nfqdudq3s2rqyju https://earthstream.social/@LittleSteps2B/110836969492822911

nostr:npub1gr8tf3fsdjv33jp4akfu3v089mfd4xvmhm85zxwqu0n60c2dtfjqw9c639 some clients are better for lists. I switched from tusky to megalodon for better list making and list viewing features :-)

(On android)

nostr:npub1gr8tf3fsdjv33jp4akfu3v089mfd4xvmhm85zxwqu0n60c2dtfjqw9c639 I love it. And I think it is important ❤

And when we control our own social media, we are responsible to curate whose slice-of-life we see.

I like the mastodon feature to hide follower boosts. If someone boosts a lot of games stuff (which I don't care about) I can hide it but still see their own posts.

And I use lists to limit what I see depending on my mood. I have a friends list, one for fun, others for canadian news, us news, and specific hashtags. 👍