If you update your iPhone to iOS 16.4, you can make the trans pride flag 🏳️⚧️ out of the new heart emoji colors introduced in Unicode 15:
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The patriarchy is the reason you know the names Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, but you've never even once heard the name Evelyn Berezin.
I am aware that there are many valid critiques for phrenology, but counterpoint: everyone in my house with a cat-shaped skull is constantly doing crimes
my wife's company is trying to convince people to return to the office because one of their executives thinks its embarrassing when clients come by and the offices are empty, anyways, theatre students always need some pocket money and if someone wants to join my exciting new "potemkin village as a service" startup
Or perhaps, just perhaps, the nation’s supposedly leading business newspaper would have better seen these failures coming if they had focused more on market, economic, and business conditions and less on obsessively rooting out the woke menace of women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and veterans(!) gaining token admission to the corridors of power and wealth.
On this day ten years ago I overheard high school students discuss the thrilling tale of a deafblind woman's escape from Nazi-occupied Europe. This turned out not to be some bit of history new to me but rather what happens when someone confuses Anne Frank with Helen Keller and adds a happy ending.
I never got to hear them discuss the results of the history exam they were studying for. I am pretty sure those results were epic.
You can tell when an argument hits home by the number of trolls it brings out on social media. When I recommended Thom Hartmann's article linked below two days ago, posting excerpts from it, a number of trolls immediately came out of the woodwork.
Hartmann's argument is essentially one that anyone who takes what happened with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust seriously doesn't dismiss lightly: It can happen here.
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https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-will-happen-to-everyone-who
I do not know if he intended to share it with me, but our 11-yo shared a Google Slides deck titled "The New Chat Room" that is approximately 500 slides long, where each slide is students in his class posting pop culture pictures &/or memes & using the Slides comments to chat with each other about them—I knew that students used this kind of hack to get around school content filters but seeing it in action is something else
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