A while back, Microsoft, complying with a demand by the US government, locked the account of a worker at the International Criminal Court, because, reasons. Said worker in Europe, was suddenly unable to access his account, read emails, etc. Nice But several EU countries looked at that and […]

Just hit the "Publish" button on a revised edition of my book on Knowledge Auditing. Should be available on Kobo in a day

RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/116137033923793964 I wanted to add a mirror up to this really insightful thread without hijacking the original. The reflection is that something similar goes on with how women select men, and how the more "macho" the more voluble, the more confident, and the more […]

#wordweavers 2.26 — Who in your book is most like a real person you’ve loved IRL? I have a fair number of real people doung cameo appearances in my stories, so, yes, many are "like a real person", because they ARE real They also tell me its a really fun experience

A lot of big US corporations are now staring down a path they picked by bending the knee, and starting to realize that it may diverge from the EU, APAC, and MERCOSUR, and they may lose 70% or more of their markets

You matter Yes, you No, not behind you No, I'm not squint Yes, you You matter ~End of toot~

Marmite Christmas

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you are white- or yellow-skinned, and not living naked on the African savannah, then you are unnatural AF and no amount of raw milk is going to change that. In fact, if you are an adult and reading this, you are unnatural AF, because in our natural […]

Oh, please take this survey https://mastodon.social/@screwturn/115089795975738399

The story about a crying subordinate has me wondering. When I was a manager, I always had a box of tissues handy, but I'm not sure in the age of virtual work what is best. If you've ever cried at work, how would you have wanted a manager or meeting-leader to respond? […]

Oklahoma rolling out an "ideology test" to exclude teachers from NY or CA (and others) from being certified in OK unless they are sufficiently MAGA. Same state that does miserably on international tests, has a huge number of vacant teacher slots, has […] [Original post on med-mastodon.com]

US Arms manufacturers seeing strong headwinds this year, while EU vendors are seeing a strong surge

And on that note, The Husky informs me that it is way past walk time

If I referred to "that pompous shiny-face fat-headed fuck", to whom would you assume I was referring?

You are observed

ABB developed an electric motor that is 99% efficient Nissan created a gasoline engine that is 50% efficient You can see where this goes

Henry Kissinger is still dead

This is worth watching #healthcare and #publichealth people, you will get something from this, especially #emergencymedicine #pulmanology and #oncology peeps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tNp2vsxEzk

Just your periodic reminder TO ADD AN AUTHOR AND A PUBLICATION DATE to all your online stuff. If you don't add an author and a pubdate, researchers like me have to forage through the page metadata hunting for a date, and scrounge around trying to figure out […] [Original post on med-mastodon.com]

So ... the Whitehouse foray into TikTok is going really ... interestingly

Steve Witkoff brought a medal home with him from Russia for a US citizen who died while fighting for Russia against Ukraine. Let that sink in a bit

James Comer 🤡

Little Marco has aged fifteen years since January

Jardiance has the most cringe ads I have seen in decades. Are they trying to be memorable by being toe curlingly bad?

Back in the day, we made little spanners in the USA

Oklahoma has over a thousand unfilled teacher slots on a population of only four million. At the same time that they struggle to retain or attract teachers, they have decided to implement a political litmus test to applicants and existing teachers I guess with all the out of work women they […]

Let's say the US Balkanizes in the next few years, and breaks into blocs, such as Washington, Oregon, and California forming a bloc. Over what bloc or state do you think President Trump would preside?

Just to remind you that organophosphate murder compounds are organic

Eeshh male characters in movies are so pushy with women

And is the all causes survival rate much better than national average? Or not so much? https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/metro/gun-rights-laws-massachusetts-permits-healey-second-amendment/

Looking for writing help from #ob/gyn, ##obstetrics, or #surgery peeps https://mastodon.social/@screwturn/113484762866221629

Thank you to the Sandy Hook families who have enabled Alex Jones' ugly and toxic InfoWars to become a wholly-owned property of The Onion, who will hopefully wrench the brains and burst the bubbles of Jones' followers until sanity and humility creeps in through the tears

Gods help me, but HR people are so damned stupid and incompetent

@rebeccawatson great YouTube on resistance Bottom line, non-violent resistance to fascism. But that doesn't mean being nice to Fascists, it means making things harder for them in every way within your grasp, while being nice to everyone you can on the left For me, that means unblocking the […]

Hello #readers and #booklovers Last day for a free book! Today only, you can get the Kindle eBook "The Screw Turns" Vol-7 for #free Please tell your #book loving friends, and consider writing a review This collection of slightly #noire and occasionally macabre short stories is ideal for […]

@mloxton @pluralistic Pretty much how I feel and why I think scholarship is the best place to adopt the Fediverse, see e.g.: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207 We even started a petition to the German Rector's Conference to leave X and support Mastodon instead […]

Uhoh .. I missed my period I wonder what that might mean

For really no reason at all 😇 here's why I find the user experience on #Mastodon better than in that Nazi Chatroom when it was still called "Twitter": - 500+ characters - post editing - follow hashtags - better s/n ratio - no ads Plus […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Onion bought Infowars. Not a drill. Not a drill. https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/